You're slipping

[jadesfire]

I only made it to skip=400, people. Have you all been away as well?

It's so nice to be back, although I have a head full of STUFF that needs dealing with at some point, and a flat full of STUFF that needs putting away, tidying up, washing or filling out. As long as I don't get them mixed up, I should be fine.

How's everyone doing? Not that there's ever anyone around on a Sunday, but still. *waves* Y'all alright? Anything exciting happen while I was gone? I'll give you a full report of the conference later, but suffice it to say that I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would, and have enough food for thought to see me through the long summer.

Please do link me to stuff - yours or other people's - that you think I might like. major_jim is still up to his eyeballs in thesis, so I need distracting.

Hope everyone's well! Do drop in - I'll keep the coffee coming and am making banana bread for whoever wants it (actually, if anyone has any good banana cake recipes, I'd love to know...)

(Thalia, Hllangel, I got ALL the emails and will be in touch once the flat no longer looks like it was attacked by a small, messy whirlwind)

ETA: Shopping has been achieved! Tidying is next, but I need more fortifying first. Also, I've discovered that one of my Tweets was re-tweeted on a 'good_education' Twitter account (the one about spelling that did nasty things to my blood pressure). I've never been RT'd before. It's a very odd feeling, especially when you only find out 2 days later.

If anyone's listened to any good motivational music/programmes lately, I'd love to know about them. It could be a long day *rolls up sleeves*

ETA2: For three days, someone has presented me with food of some form and all I had to do was eat it. The fact that I'm now bursting out of my 'fat' trousers is testament to this. But I appear to have forgotten how to prepare my own food. The kitchen is a baffling place.

ETA3

Things achieved so far:
- Menu plan for week
- Shopping
- Lunch
- Unpacking
- Tidying of bedroom
- Large pile of recycling
- Changing MP3s around on player
- Clearing all the stuff I just dumped on the sofa
- Tidy the kitchen
- Hoover everything
- Ring Mother
- Cooking for the week - Burgers, bolognese, chilli. Jambalaya can wait til Wednesday

Things yet to be achieved:
- Dust everything - BWAH yeah right...
- Fill out insurance forms - To do when major_jim gets home
- Baking
- Stuff for work tomorrow
- Anything that needs doing for tardis_bigbang/emails
- bau_bigbang stuff
- Fic decisions
- writers_lair links (needs to be done this week, but I've only just remembered about them and need to write it down somewhere)

Comments

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE BACK
*twirls you*

Feels like you've been gone a g e s!

I have nothing.

Thalia has been an absolute ROCK for me, by the way, this week (and last, come to that) - a rocking ROCK with added awesome!

(I only have a bog standard Woman and Home type banana bread recipe - I am told it is nice - I wouldn't know, I can't eat it, I don't like the way it smells...)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*twirls* It's so nice to be back properly!

Thalia is more or less the definition of awesome, TRUFAX.

I have too much and don't know where to start!

(heh, well, when you sell it to me like that... ;) I've dug out some recipes from the internet, so will report back!)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

My father was an incredibly good salesman - I am totally pants at it - I probably couldn't even sell water to a someone dying of thirst:

"You want this water? It's not very good... It tastes 'chalky.' You'll find better water three miles in that direction - just take a left at that next sand dune..."