Relax, breathe

Instead of going to friends' place to watch a movie, I've spend a relaxing evening home alone charging batteries... feeling a bit better now.

I've noticed that my internal clock is so anally accurate that even an hour different because of the daylight saving time means that I wake up at the wrong time... I'm counting on it to pass soon. Good thing about daylight saving is that it's lighter in the mornings, even when it's raining - but the bad thing obviously is that it gets dark sooner too. When I come home it's still dark... and then there's the rain. Summer was so fabulous I honestly had forgotten what the Vancouver weather really is like - rain.

Somehow rain here is different, though. It can be just a drizzle - that's the kind that's good for your skin and only tourists take out their umbrellas... almost like the clouds have come down the mountains and swallow everything. The views can be breathtaking when the soft fluffy clouds hang low. Then there's the pouring down kind of rain that never ends, it can rain for days like this - but it's rarely too cold or even windy. It's just very wet, and then you're allowed to take out your brolly - in fact it's the time of the year now when you don't leave home without it, and I'm wearing my rain-proof shoes almost daily.

I'm starting to feel like a Vancouverite now - I can look back and remember what the weather was like a year ago so I know better what to expect. So now I know this is what we're going to get for the next six months or so. Good for your skin, that's my mantra.

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