So, new userpic...

[wiseheart]

It's created by fabelschwester and gakked from songfire3. Isn't stressed out!Mycroft cute? It's just how I feel at the moment. School's been particularly chaotic lately, and even with lots of therapeutic baking - have you guys seen my lovely cookie recepies for Easter? - it was hard to bear.

It's a good thing Easter holidays are coming up, even though it's snowing, which means no or fairly sporadic satellite TV at the moment. But I dont' want to be ungrateful. At least we're not snowed in like the greater part of the country and still have our creature comforts like water and electricity and central heating. Living in a big city does have its advantages sometimes.

I hope you guys are okay. My entire friendslist has been suspiciously quiet lately.

Today, I managed to write a little, after several very unfertile days. (The updates don't really count, as those were chapters already written weeks ago.) No, of course not anything new for the stories I'm currently working on, that would be too easy. Now, the muses suddenly inspired me to finish Chapter 8 of my epic Dwarf saga, "The Book of Mazarbul", which has been on a hiatus for, oh, about a year or two. Go figure. Well, progress is progress, so I'm not complaining.

One more day of school, then a whole week all for myself! Well, and for Mum, of course. All I'll have to do is to prepare the Easter ham, colour the Easter eggs and bake Ischler cakes that I promised Mum I would. The big spring cleaning was done last Saturday, thanks to the hired help - just 2 days before it started snowing again like crazy, isn't that fun? But at least it's over.

Yeah, I'm rambling. Sorry. Really, really tired here.

Comments

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for the approaching spring break, even if it doesn't feel very spring-y. I hope you get to rest and have fun and enjoy the fruits of your baking! Everyone I know seems to be overworked and/or unwell and disheartened by the cold and gloom.

You've been remarkably productive despite the press of other responsibilites. Hooray for you!! :-D (And I like your new icon. Stressed Mycroft is very charming.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

He is. Here, too. I like him in his shirtsleeves - it's such a rare sight. ;)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

We have had a fair bit of snow here in Belfast too. It started on Thursday night/Friday morning. As I was having my breakfast we had a brief (less than five minutes) powercut; in the evening we had a longer one, though still shorter than half-an-hour. It was long enough for me to be pleased that I had put out some tealights and tealight holders in the living room, along with a box of matches. I lit the tealights and then took one of them, in a lamp I made in wood shop many years ago before I was even a teenager, into the kitchen and dug out some proper candles to give me more light. Because it had snowed all day, while being above freezing the roads were all covered in slush, so I had a rather wet cycle-ride home from work. Therefore when I got in I turned on the gas fire that is in my new living room, and was sitting next to it warming up and drying out when the power went. I had briefly wondered if it required electricity to work, and I now know the answer is 'No'. This pleases me, especially since the gas central heating -- very nice -- doesn't actually work without the electricity. So I do have a way of keeping warm even if the power goes. :-) It is something I haven't thought of in years, but when I was a kid we used to have at least one long power cut a year after a particularly heavy blizzard; the house was heated from a wood burning stove in the cellar, without any involvement of electricity so we were always fine in that regard, but some of my family friends had pumps in their heating systems so that they didn't work when the power was out. Sorry, that may have been way more information about heating in my various homes than you are interested in! I am pleased to hear that you haven't been snowed in or suffered loss of basic services like water and heating. Hope it stays that way, and that your preparations for Easter go well and don't tire you out too much! Your biscuits sound excellent as always.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't I be interested in the heating of your various homes? That's why I like LJ: I can learn about the life of my friends here.

The biscuits turned out very good indeed. We baked them with the kids on Monday - 6 full baking tins! - and not a single piece is left by today. *g*

[sammydragoncat]

Love the new Icon! I'm glad you still have all your creature comforts, and you have your break from school coming soon (so jealous). I saw your posting for the cookies - they do sound good.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They taste exceptionally good, too. ;)

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to write for BTME but my brain is frozen in the bitter weather!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is terrible! No wonder the Easter Bunny is hiding in a hole!

But I've finished Chapter 8 of "The Book of Mazarbul", so I'm content.