dear heart

Fannie Schiavoni

❅ last night we had dinner at the charming turkish restaurant 'galipoli', with our friend gio from work and his lovely wife fannie (who we were meeting for the first time) and our good old friend abas (who also works there) joined us later on.
we had such a nice time! the food was scrumptious as usual, and we completely stuffed ourselves with it.

abas is love-struck with a girl he's forbidden to date, who happens to be a psychologist of the crazy paranoid kind, who keeps psycho-analysing him and accusing him of recording their conversations to blackmail her with! its all quite amusing. even more amusing was gio with his razor sharp-wit, especially when his jokes were at abas's expense! i was roaring with laughter all evening!
and fannie is the sweetest loveliest thing, a gorgeous swedish blonde who happens to be the most talented jewellery designer! her jewellery is sold by dolce & gabbana (among others) and worn by celebrities like rhianna and lady gaga, who she follows around the world on tour to do their costume design. for all her success, she's the most humble and sweet girl! how much i admire and envy people like her who manage to make such a successful career out of their hobbies and passions.

i received a message last night that my mum's unwell. her heart problems have come back again, despite the stents and the medication and the healthy lifestyle and diet and loads of natural medicine that she doses up on daily. the doctors put it down to genetic weakness. how unfair that seems, to be so powerless in it.
i just can't bare my mum being ill, and even worse being so far away from her when she's ill. i dreamt all night of being home again, and couldn't help crying to jerry, who sweetly offered to send me home to visit her, although she protests it's not necessary to spend the money.

ive been told i should start getting my heart checked as soon as i turn 30 because there's a high likelihood mine will be similarly weak.... i never really believed it to be honest.
What a strange concept- the human heart...we refer to it constantly and link all our most amazing feelings and experiences to it; but how bizarre to actually imagine your own!

♥