happy halloween!

may your night be filled with scary tricks and sweet treats, pretty jack-o-lanterns and rad costumes.

and also: happy weekend!

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

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woohoooo, it did come, it snowed today! the very first snowstorm of the season arrived on october 29! there wasn't much of it in my neck of the woods though, melting immediately after reaching ground.

sunday evening

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mood: not a cheery one. uneasy and anxious, though i am not quite sure what's the reason. 

weather: cold and raining. it really is autumn now. must dig up my winter coat asap.

in my mailbox (3)

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well, this week's in my mailbox is a bit scanty, as i did not buy, borrow, or receive any volumes in the past week. in fact, because i have so many borrowed books stacked up on my shelf, i did not even go to the library in the last few days.

the battle of the cookies: the choc chip edition

since i have moved home i started baking regularly again. naturally, the season being autumn also helps a lot: autumn and winter days always get me in the mood for baking, especially at weekends. on long, lazy saturday afternoons i tend to get this sudden craving to find a not-yet-tried-out recipe, get up from the computer, rush into the kitchen, and bake something truly mouthwatering.

autumn weekend in pictures

as we've had a long weekend in hungary filled with a public holiday and an extra day off, i was happy to spend an entire four days with accomplishing my previously presented autumn goals.

friday favorites

here is this week's instance of friday favorites - some of the neat and pretty things that have caught my eyes in the past week.

rush of productivity

do you ever get the sudden urge to create something? your fingertips start iching and you suddenly feel so creative that you just can't sit still because you gotta get something done, gotta do something crafty and creative. stitch, sew, knit, crochet, cut, glue, paint, draw, colour, bake, knead, dismantle, mix it up, then put it back, just to end up with something pretty and nourishing to your soul?

it's coming! it's coming!

as i was walking home tonight from the cinema with a friend of mine, and my cheeks were rosy from the temperature dropping at least ten degrees so suddenly, i realized that there was something different. there was something in the air. you know what it was? winter, i tell ya, that's what it was!

in my mailbox (2)

in my mailbox is a weekly meme originally hosted by the story siren, in which book bloggers post about the books they have bought, borrowed or received in the past week. since it began it has become fairly popular, and numerous book blogs post their weekly in my mailbox meme. you may not remember but i gave it a try in the very beginning of the year with this post, but then it never became regular. here's my attempt of bringing it back to life. 

friday favorites - the saturday edition

i have decided to start off a weekly post entitled the 'friday favorites' in which i mention all the pretty things - books, songs, movies, tv shows, pieces of clothing, recipes, etc. -  that have caught my eye in the preceding week and left me drooling. here's the first instance.

for the love of autumn

"don't you love new york in the fall? it makes me wanna buy school supplies. i would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if i knew your name and address."

 if you don't know where that quote came from you should be ashamed of yourself watch this very movie asap. alas, i don't belong to those lucky who get to spend the fall in new york, but still, the season is quite pretty in my neck of the woods as well.

september in pictures

i do realize that not only september ended, but we are past mid october too, and yet here i am coming up with september in pictures.  but you know, as always, time got the better of me. and better late than never, right? (i guess we can check off today's cliches with that.) anyhow, here's what i was up to in september:

september reads

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it's been long since i last wrote about the books i read,  let alone came up with a proper review. however, if you follow or every once in a while check out the reading list page, you do know that i am still, indeed, reading. there are periods when i find enough time to get lost in between the lines of as many as eight or ten novels per month; however, at other months, i read no more than three volumes. nevertheless, i am trying to keep up with the reading challenge, and thus read at least one volume per week. let's see what september brought me bookwise.

rolling on the river

one last budapest thing  i wanted to write about is the recently revived and restarted bkv boat service.
one of the things i like the most about budapest is the fact that a river runs through it, thus making it even more special and  beautiful with all the many bridges connecting the two distinct sides of the city, buda and pest. it's truly captivating, isn't it? i mean can you even imagine budapest without a river? with no pretty bridges connecting the banks? and has it ever occurred to you that all the decent cities have rivers running through them? london. paris. prague. new york. and have i mentioned that whenever i am walking around erzsébet-híd the view and the entire atmosphere of the spot always always reminds me of london? and it always pops into my head that there definitely should be a budapest eye on the other side of the river. great idea, eh? maybe not very original, but still, a nice one, isn't it?

hitting the nail right on the head

oh, wow, this article (about moving back into your parents' house after having lived away while attending college) was written just for me, only for me, even could have been written by me. it has my name written all over it, that's for sure. yep, i have taken up (again) knitting. will make wonderful christmas presents.

the dog days are here and here to stay (?)

brace yourself for the friday afternoon rant on all of my bad life choices and my current state of utter patheticness which goes as follows:

“Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?” Sylvia Plath

i never used to understand the true meaning of this thought.
alas, i get it now, but i really wish i didn't.