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

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

I am doing well. I cleaned the fridge yesterday! Today there is more cleaning to be done but also some spending time with a friend and boxing up parcels, so I'm feeling happy-busy. My major accomplishment of whilst you've been gone is to decide that after I've done the flat-tidying that has needed to happen for a bit I shall institute a 30-minute-on-alternating-days writing block. Because I haven't written much lately and I'm wanting to write and I actually have the time at the moment, if I set it aside all official-like.

I am glad you had a good conference, that is wonderful!

I don't have any fiction links to drop your way, sorry! But please do pass on my best wishes to major_jim and his thesis.

As for banana bread recipes, this one is quite tasty: http://codenamebacon.wetpaint.com/page/Harvest+Bread but it also takes a while to prep, so I don't make it too often. But I have carrots and frozen bananas and some free time this evening, so maybe I'll make it later... You can also make it into muffins just by pouring into muffin tins.

Sorry to have nattered on so much, I'll blame the caffeine :)