Crazy weekend

This weekend did not allow too much sleep again.

The hen-party at my colleague went by very calmly, we had a great Indian-style dinner and talked a lot about our current things. She's pretty cool, kind of a fresh-personality with a healthy approach to things. Although we planned to get drunk, it somehow just did not happen, talked too much and drunk too little :-D I wonder if I will ever be able to drink enough to get drunk? I've tried so many times but never managed to get to that point yet. I still keep hoping :) Anyway, just to give you some idea of what we had for dinner, click on the picsto enlarge them:

To crown the evening, we watched The Last Samurai, one of our common favourites, in English. I slept at her place but in the morning I woke up with a strange feeling: some flue was tickling my nose. Opening my eyes I saw that her black cat was standing on the bed right at my head and rubbed her side against my face. In spite of the early hour, it made me smile :)

After the light breakfast I was off to the Buddhist community to make all the 300 doughnuts they ordered.

There was a crowd there already as the Lama gave public teaching on that day, so while the audience was listening to him I was working in the kitchen pugging hard the raw pastry for the doughnut. Btw it is a good exercise to strengthen your hands, forearms, your shoulders and ab, so guys, come on, kitchen is waiting for you! :-) Anyway, I tried to catch some of the teachings Lama Chopel gave, but I completely gave up when it got to frying the doughnuts. At the end there were 380 pieces, and it took me 5 hours to make it all. I could not stand using my creativity and create something funny from the leftover of the raw pastry. Can you recognize what it is? :-))) And yeah, I fried it too and had it with one bite :-D And yes, you can enlarge it with only one click!! huh! :)

After finishing with the doughnuts I joined a Mahakala ceremony (one of the Dharma Protectors) and then headed over to mom's place.
She was supposed to move to another flat on Sunday and she had no other help but me. So next morning I started moving out everything from the flat into the van, finished with that in about 2 hours and drove to the new place. There was quite a problematic situation there, thanks to mom's "great" organizing ability, so the whole moving to the new place had to be cancelled. Driving back again to the previous flat and carrying everything up again to the 7th floor. I guess I don't have to mention that the best thing was carrying the washing machine with no help. I think I don't need to eat more spinach just to get as big and strong forearms as Popeye had - carrying furniture and washing machines will do the job, too.

Of course I missed the Lunar New Year's celebration, as we finished around 6 pm. Due to the unsuccessful moving and also that I told her to organize it much better next time, mom felt quite down - so to finish that hard day at least with something pleasant, I took her out for dinner - well it was about time as that was the first bite of food we had that day.

Meanwhile got a phonecall from my sister that her child was born, so today I hop on the train and go to Debrecen to visit her and help in the first few days.
I also have my training gear here with me as I am planning join my old dojo for tomorrow's training there. Kind of surprise for them and some nostalgy for me :)

Ahh, this weekend has been so hectic!

I just would like to know two things:

• I still don't know where is the root of the energy that I can turn into helping all the people around me? Sometimes even I am curious how I can go on and on and on without getting exhausted and collapsing.
• Who will help *me* when I need some help? Hmm... probably me. I can't really count on anyone. But it's a good opportunity to work on being my own refuge - a refuge for myself. It's not easy tho, and sometimes it would be good to have a little support.