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Ghost Writer
2017-01-02 01:30:09 (UTC)

It's My Birthday Today.

Wow! Logged into this website to be greeted with a brand new format. my-diary.org has had a funky new makeover! I LOVE IT. It's really beautiful and simpler to use. I really like the graphic design of this website. Makes me want to write and not stop...ever. Sexy upgrade my-diary.org ;)

As I wrote yesterday evening, New Year's Day was set aside by TMF (The Male Friend) for us to travel to the east coast to my hometown, which we did, and is the third visit since January 2014 that I've made there - and all three times over this holiday time.
It was unfortunate that aunt C. (TMF 's maternal aunt, not mine) passed away an hour after we left. God doesn't work in a timely manner consistent with human convenience. He takes people when He wants to because He is God. I believe babies enter the world in the same way.

I'm celebrating my 54th birthday today with rest and trying not to deal badly with what remains of the huge question mark that was my own birth?

My dreams for the past two nights have not been pleasant. They've been confrontational to say the least and bordered on nightmarish. Now is not the time to elaborate on them. I need to bathe and eat because I just woke up an hour ago, then I'll describe them in montage.

I miss studying formally. I think I've received enough education from the art field to put into practice and find uses for. From script-writing to writing microstories / flash fiction. Wonder if I can make a published trend out of this? A book of microstories / flash fiction? Writing less is no easy feat however one gets accustomed to it...

Had my birthday dinner Sunday at Burger King metres from the Pacific ocean. I had a limited time Barbecued Bacon Double Whopper burger as a combo order with medium fries and Lemon & Paeroa fizzy pop. A 2-for-$5 boxes of Spicy Barbecued Chicken Sticks with barbecue sauce and a Lime Super Thickshake with a pile of whipped cream on top and drizzled with lots chocolate sauce. Lime thickshakes with cream and chocolate sauce are my favourite dessertt flavours apart from lemon.
Ate till I was full and had nearly half the meal leftover. I still ate what was left. I only eat Whopper burgers from BK because they're a decent size. Fast food portioning is so damn tiny in this country because of health regulations and profits. I suspect the latter is more trus than the former. Fast food is expensive here. That Burger King meal cost $25.00. Twenty years ago I could have fed myself and my ten-year-old daughter on that much money at McDonalds!
I love fish & chips. The average price for a fillet of good quality fish like Snapper or Terakihi is $5.00 per fillet at a fish & chip takeaway shop. Shit is right. The prices don't stop there. A fillet of Orange Roughy is $8.00 average at a fish & chip takeaway shop. No shit. In some places, like boutique fast-food joints $10.00 per fillet would be more like it. I don't recommend eating Orange Roughy too often because of the mercury content in it. But whose to know what wonderful technological processing they do to it these days?

To finish. Went past the wharfside flat location where the parents who raised me lived after they just got married and she was supposedly pregnant with brother older than me. The building is no longer there, but my pain is. There'a modern residential structure there now. Thank goodness.
Back soon to write my dream entry. Need another coffee and a cigarette.
(Can hear the emergency sirens gearing up for something unpleasant nearby. Road accident most probably. Hope there's no fatalities.)




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