Totally flattened
Aug. 16th, 2018 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWell, we survived the annual carpet cleaning campaign and the subsequent putting everything back to its proper place action... with stormy rain and leaking balcony thrown in the middle as not-so-welcome distraction.
It is abysmally hot again, after a somewhat bearable day yesterday. I originally wanted to go into town today - I haven't gone any further than the church and the grocer's at the next corner for almost a week - but I was too drained of energy. I'll try to do so tomorrow; I have to do some shopping for food (we're slowly running out of it again), and I'll try to visit a few craft shops, just for the fun of it. Perhaps I'll find some more unnecessary things to buy. I really need some cheering up but don't want to spend too much money on it.
Tried to write a bit in the last days, but I'm completely uninspired at the moment. So I returned to the Trekfic I've been translating from the bilingual German/Hungarian version into English. It's tough work; much tougher to write directly in English, but it has to be done because hardly anybody would be able to read it otherwise. I managed to translate a paragraph a day or so, but then the heat got to me.
So my current day was basically spent with watching the telly (and falling asleep in front of it), cooking lunch and trying to figure out how to finish my third pocket letter (no results so far). I watched a bit the "Making of..." DVDs to the third Hobbit film, but it tires me out to read the subtitles and I've got my problems with spoken English. In any case, it was more interesting than the films themselves.
Now I'm going to read more horrible Hobbit fanfic, perhaps it brings back inspiration. A good thing that I've baked the moral-lifting cheesecake last night.
It is abysmally hot again, after a somewhat bearable day yesterday. I originally wanted to go into town today - I haven't gone any further than the church and the grocer's at the next corner for almost a week - but I was too drained of energy. I'll try to do so tomorrow; I have to do some shopping for food (we're slowly running out of it again), and I'll try to visit a few craft shops, just for the fun of it. Perhaps I'll find some more unnecessary things to buy. I really need some cheering up but don't want to spend too much money on it.
Tried to write a bit in the last days, but I'm completely uninspired at the moment. So I returned to the Trekfic I've been translating from the bilingual German/Hungarian version into English. It's tough work; much tougher to write directly in English, but it has to be done because hardly anybody would be able to read it otherwise. I managed to translate a paragraph a day or so, but then the heat got to me.
So my current day was basically spent with watching the telly (and falling asleep in front of it), cooking lunch and trying to figure out how to finish my third pocket letter (no results so far). I watched a bit the "Making of..." DVDs to the third Hobbit film, but it tires me out to read the subtitles and I've got my problems with spoken English. In any case, it was more interesting than the films themselves.
Now I'm going to read more horrible Hobbit fanfic, perhaps it brings back inspiration. A good thing that I've baked the moral-lifting cheesecake last night.
