Breakfast Math and Season Consumerism

Friday night!

Ah~

I literally wait for Fridays during the rest of the week. It's the climax of the week. It's basically the ad lib day of the week. The night in which I don't have to worry with the next day. I usually spend the afternoon of Saturday translating, but I don't worry with that on Friday because I know that if I fail to translate on Saturday, I can always compensate on Sunday.

Another reason for my Friday elation is nonetheless the fact that it's Big Bang Theory night! And also the day in which I reward myself with a dessert. I love Friday. I can slow down the mental pace and have some peace of mind.

But, I actually want to write about something else. I might even get back to the "good feeling fridays" afterwards, who knows.

Today I noticed, not for the first time, that I am very methodical when I'm making my breakfast. This because I want to save time to read online while enjoying my breakfast.

2 slices of bread with butter

1 "galão"

Since I know the bread is what takes longer (5 minutes to toast) I prepare it first. Then I heat up the milk and then move to preparing the cup. It takes around 1/2 minutes for the milk to be hot. I mix it with the coffee and then rush to washing the sauce pan where I heat it up so that I can have everything clean some seconds before the bread is done. Is this crazy?

If I were in Portugal, I would have my breakfast at my favorite cafe and it would look like this.

AND ALSO!

We finally got to the best season of the year! I can't even properly describe it. I'll try.

The pre-christmas time of the year, when everyone is happy.

Going to the mall shopping with your BFFs, buy brand new warm clothes, buy that new game, buy those shoes, enjoying the Christmas carols all malls play, going to some place to have coffee and a nice long and slow talk, go out and see the streets filled with christmas lights. Seeing friends and lovers holding to each other because it's cold. Singing like crazy people with with your friends

Going home with friends or cousins and play videogames and watch movies and watch tv series and eat popcorn. Or, if we were in my hometown, eat one of these hot "tripas" (you can chose whatever you want inside - simple chocolate, brand chocolate (mars, twix, after eight...you see where I'm going right?), ovos moles, etc etc).

More than ever I long for these things.

Not only I've been discovering and understanding myself, how I feel. Thus making me realize I don't feel myself with most of the wardrobe I have. Thus again, making me wanting to change it 100%. Actually, for the first time in my life. I never really worried about appearance, but it indeed does make a difference in yourself and in other people.

Not only because I miss my friends with whom I could do this. Actually, if I were in Portugal I would spend most of my day with friends (and even night) and at night go home. Somehow I can't make it happen here (for so many reasons, being the most obvious, money, always related to everything, clothes, confidence, going out, etc).

And also because I don't have the monetary freedom to buy. Heck, I have to ration so much here I bought apples for the first time in two months, last week. I am eating tofu (1 square 4 meals, around 80yen) instead of meat because meat is so expensive! Expensive and in really small quantities! I can't even remember the last time I ate meat. lol! This is so sad that I actually need to laugh otherwise it would be depressing. We Portuguese eat a lot of meat, so this is kind of "painful" for me. I get so energized with this rationed food (I mostly eat - the cheapest - ramen (or spaghetti) with an egg and tofu), I can't even imagine how I would be if I were eating meat and veggies more often. I would be Super Woman!

And lastly because, I have been studying...well. ...Brands. How ironic.

When one can only buy in order to survive, these wishes, these urges to buy get stronger. So, I seriously can't wait to have a job with a stable income, so that I could "feed" the mind.

Have a good weekend! And beware, it's getting really cold.

Now I'm going to eat while watching one episode of "Two and a half men" and then...one new episode of The Big Bang Theory! :D