oooooh my gosh. You know when it's been nearly a month since your birthday, and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, someone leaves you a presant (present? preasant? prezint? God I never know!) outside your bedroom door? Anyways, I got a gift (gift is so much easier than that other word, the p word) from my lovely Italian deckhand and it's one of the most thoughtful (and completely unexpected) things anyone's ever bought me, I was so excited I could have just kissed him, but then his Italian girlfriend might have gone all Italian girlfriendy on me, un peu en colère, in South Africa we'd say she would go a little bos, get a little woes, you know, open a big ol' can a whipass on me (American?) and we don't want that now do we, so I settled for a hug and a kiss on the cheek, which turned into one of those awkward European "kiss on both cheeks" moments, you know when you (the normal, non-European) kiss them on the cheek and then you lean back (because one kiss on the cheek is ENOUGH) but then they (the weirdos) go in to kiss you on the other cheek and end up awkwardly kissing you on your nose and then you think "oh hell, let me kiss them on the other cheek too then" and then you end up kind of kissing their ear... god I love those moments. Anyways, we acknowledged how weird (and really funny) it was and moved on.
So yes.. the box of awesomeness... a Moleskine Gourmet Box filled with the most exciting things; recipe journals, where you can fill in all sorts of cool stuff and recipes and make notes and stickers to label things and expandable pockets and tasting notes and conversion tables and a cocktail and wine section and OH MY GOSH IT'S SO COOL, I've been playing with it and filling it in ALL day, the captain realised that this was a "Cary Thing" and let me be. It's one of those things that you know you'll have forever, it's going to be FILLED with all my favourite recipes, handwritten and marvelously (marvellously? marvilislea? whatever) organised.
I love it.
So, to those of you that have yet to buy me a marvilis birthday present, you can get me something in a month's time, nothing like a surprise TWO months after your birthday is over...
jokes (but not really)
