Unexpected sunset of sorts

Last Friday I allowed a very tired me a day off (are you good at that? I’m not) and flopped on the bed and watched stuff on the computer. It had been a dreary and damp day, the kind where you wonder if the sun actually still exists, so I was really surprised when all of a sudden this appeared outside the window.

Earlier in the afternoon I started watching ‘Booksmart’, which I gave up on after 30 mins as I found it too annoying, then I tried an old Cary Grant movie but fell asleep (see, maybe I already am a napping lady), and finally I watched a documentary about housing in Sweden since the early 1900’s (which I really enjoyed) . Lots of it was filmed in the late 70’s and reminded me so much of my childhood in Stockholm.

Buddy took a nap too, on a pile of my clothes - of course.

I never knew that you could see a partial sunset from our house (I’m not usually in the bedroom on winter afternoons, and in summer it sets much further west). I miss seeing them like I used to in our old home. As it was happening I thought that I would just sit there and watch the whole thing, and really pay attention. It only lasted a few minutes, as I went to get the camera and started taking pictures. It’s a bit of a sickness, this need to capture things, or always asking “What will this look like as a picture?”. There is so much that I miss by trying to freeze time.

Anyway, that’s just how it is. In the meantime, if I remember to go into our bedroom around sunset, I might be disciplined enough to JUST watch it next time.