Working woman&communication

Do I work 40 hours a week? I feel like working 24 hours a day! I like my job a lot - teaching students is giving lots of satisfaction, but very demanding, sometimes frustating in the same time to be honest :) There are the moments when I wish I had a day off... Maybe in the end of Noember, will see...

This weekend I was having a workshop for students about communication, and I discovered again how important it is to precise what every single word means and how different meanings it can have for every single person...

Just try to finish the fallowing sentences with a number, then ask your friends to do it, and think about it:
- He is a bachelor... (how old is he?)
- She is a spinster... (how old is she?)
- He earns a lot of money ... (how much?)
- I bought expensive shoes... (how much?)
- He is tall... (how many centremetres?)
- I'll do it in a moment .. (what time?)
_ I'll be a little late (how much?)
- I drove fast ... (how many km/h?)

I noticed that sometimes knowing the theory doesn't help a lot when it comes to my relationships... how often I find myself thinking that someone should understand what I have in my mind, and then realising, that I'd never said what it was exactly! And the other side - I cannot read somebody's mind - if you feel something, just tell me - otherwise I will not know about it, I might suspect it is there, but need to hear it...

And one more thing I have read in a wise book - talking about positives. In good and bad times, emphasising someone's good sides and the positive feelings for that person in general, can save many relationships, friendships...I believe in that so much - I can be angry at someone right now in this partlicular moment, but I like him/her and I care... How many times I wish to hear something like that after an argument, the serious ones and the stupid ones...
Try it out.
Hugs

Babies

This year is going to be kept in my memory as a "baby boom" :) My dear Friends are having babies! Saras, Simone, Johanna, and soon Miia... It made me think about motherhood, although I know it is not my time yet. But it must feel great :) I wish your Angels are getting stronger every day and make you smile more and more. Looking how the little person is growing, learning to comunicate, showing love and affection and getting to know the world around with all the ways possible, must be wonderful. To learn how to explore the world with the Little One, how to laugh about simple things... makes you turn to things that are really important in our life.

Hope to get to know your Angels soon, with all my love for all of you!

Marta's wedding...and the party week before

My good friend got married. We prepared a party for her a week before she put on the wedding dress, and it was lots of fun :) We were laughing, talking, doing funny things and .. it felt so good to spend time with friends. Female friends ;) And then the wedding. Miko came from Germany just for two days, so I though he would not survive this wedding, but he was much braver then I expected... Marta and Piotr looked so lovely and so in love. When you have love written on your face during the wedding, then everyone knows it is going to be just good. I wish you all the best - I wish you to have Love, that with age gets the taste and sweetness. Hugs my Friends!

long-distance relationship

I think now I have the opportunity to see how it feels. Will it be okey? Hope so :) but for the time being I experience "being single", with a little taste of missing someone next to me, but... time to have girls' nights out! Will tell you how it feels, with details or... not :P