jadesfire

Is there anyone still out there? LJ's been pretty quiet, and I've been even quieter, although I have been lurking in various journals over the last week.

So what have I been doing, since I haven't been here?

~ Last Wednesday, miss_zedem and I had a nice day out in Bristol, which isn't somewhere I'd thought of visiting before (it just happens to be more or less halfway between us) but I'd go to again. Lovely, lovely day.

~ From Friday lunchtime to Sunday evening I did 7 lots of singing, which was fun if exhausting.( I feel like I'm still hungover from it! )

~ I have been crocheting more than I knew was possible, although that's partly because crochet grows at a brilliant speed. It's definitely a craft for impatient people! I have 4 projects on the go right now, and I think they'll all get done by Christmas if my fingers hold out. And I thought writing by hand made my muscles cramp *ow ow ow*

~ I had a few days off last week and wandered round Oxford looking at the lights, the Christmas tree and the giant Menorah on Broad Street. It has lightbulbs rather than flames, but it's ten feet high, which probably makes up for that! Will try to get a picture of both at some point when the city isn't shrouded in fog.

~ I dropped out of reel_torchwood and the Podbang at amplificathon, due to lack of time and creativity, ( and am trying not to feel too guilty and useless about it )

Speaking of writing, is there anyone who could give me a super-quick typo-check on an SGA fic this evening? I won't have time for major editing, but I'd feel better if someone else made sure I haven't committed too many crimes against the English language!

The journal-silence has been down to a combination of the ridiculous busy-ness chronicled above and a continuing mental wobble, in which I convince myself that no one wants to hear what I have to say anyway, that writing in my journal is making a fuss about nothing and that if I enjoy it, I shouldn't do it. ...yeah, those last two don't even make sense to me. IDEK. I'm rather bleary and still slightly ill at the moment, so it's hard to know what I think, if I'm honest. But whatever it is, I'm fairly sure more coffee will make it better.

And just 6.5 work days to go before 2.5 weeks off \o/ It's going to be a busy holiday season, but as long as people let me sleep as well, it should be a good one :)

How's everyone doing out there? Hanging on okay?

I officially all carolled out. 3 concerts in as many days is Not Good for the voice. But it was much fun, sounded lovely and we hit 99% of the right notes. Can't ask for more than that.

And if anyone wants to know what we sounded like, try Radio 4 at 6pm - it's the 300th anniversary of Charles Wesley's birth, so a very nice man with a microphone came to record us. Heaven only knows what we're going to sound like, but it's the thought that counts :)