Random Post on a Sunday Night
Nov. 11th, 2007 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_kareliaFirst of all, belated birthday wishes to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
duniazade, and I'm sure there was someone else on my flist who celebrated being a year older this past week, but LJ is not accommodating with missed dates at all. Anyway, I hope you had a wonderful day, and I'm very sorry I missed posting on the day. Happy belated birthday to ferporcel as well, even though you're not on my flist. I love your story and hope you'll update soon.
If you have a prompt, I'll write you a drabble. I will start writing due drabbles as soon as I finish my exchange fic. That is kinda taking over my waking hours right now.
Writing and beta'ing and if it's not either it's driving to and from the dojo. Don't even try to imagine the state of the house right now. I was going to remedy that today, but I woke up with a headache, spent half the day asleep in bed and am not up to doing such mundane tasks as cleaning. Snerk.
Dorkboy left early Monday morning for California, and I'd forgotten how stressful life tends to be without him around. I was spoiled for three months while he was working from home. Sleeping alone in bed is no fun to start with, not sleeping well is even less fun, and having to deal with everything mundane that constitutes life entirely on my own is almost painful. I don't mind making shopping lists, I don't mind browsing shops with DB, but I don't enjoy the actual shopping act unless it's choosing a seriously good bottle of red wine, and believe me, that's nearly impossible in the South, no matter how sophisticated a liquor store might look from the outside. So, yeah, this week has been kinda stressy, and of course, the first day I have without stress, a headache decides to invade me.
But at least I managed to get all the necessary shopping done, all that's left is a trip to Penzeys, which I'll do when I visit Borders next sometime this week as they're just around the corner from there. Their dried herbs are of high quality and their vanilla sugar, with real Bourbon vanilla, simply rocks. The holiday cookies project is slowly progressing. I need to bake the stollens this week.
Found a t-shirt yesterday. It's navy blue and says "I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter". I think it was made for me. *looks innocent*
duniazade, and I'm sure there was someone else on my flist who celebrated being a year older this past week, but LJ is not accommodating with missed dates at all. Anyway, I hope you had a wonderful day, and I'm very sorry I missed posting on the day. Happy belated birthday to ferporcel as well, even though you're not on my flist. I love your story and hope you'll update soon.If you have a prompt, I'll write you a drabble. I will start writing due drabbles as soon as I finish my exchange fic. That is kinda taking over my waking hours right now.
Writing and beta'ing and if it's not either it's driving to and from the dojo. Don't even try to imagine the state of the house right now. I was going to remedy that today, but I woke up with a headache, spent half the day asleep in bed and am not up to doing such mundane tasks as cleaning. Snerk.
Dorkboy left early Monday morning for California, and I'd forgotten how stressful life tends to be without him around. I was spoiled for three months while he was working from home. Sleeping alone in bed is no fun to start with, not sleeping well is even less fun, and having to deal with everything mundane that constitutes life entirely on my own is almost painful. I don't mind making shopping lists, I don't mind browsing shops with DB, but I don't enjoy the actual shopping act unless it's choosing a seriously good bottle of red wine, and believe me, that's nearly impossible in the South, no matter how sophisticated a liquor store might look from the outside. So, yeah, this week has been kinda stressy, and of course, the first day I have without stress, a headache decides to invade me.
But at least I managed to get all the necessary shopping done, all that's left is a trip to Penzeys, which I'll do when I visit Borders next sometime this week as they're just around the corner from there. Their dried herbs are of high quality and their vanilla sugar, with real Bourbon vanilla, simply rocks. The holiday cookies project is slowly progressing. I need to bake the stollens this week.
Found a t-shirt yesterday. It's navy blue and says "I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter". I think it was made for me. *looks innocent*
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Date: 2007-11-16 05:44 am (UTC)Yup yup, I'm with you on the mark-up of French wines, especially in England! And we all know the tax of wine never goes up, since MPs prefer wine over beer...
I'm with you on the individuality of French wines, too. I grew up next to Alsace, spent many holidays in the Lubéron, Provence in general, Dordogne... No year is the same as the previous one, which makes it exciting. And most of them are good. Very unlike any other countries' wines, including Germland.
I wants me some 2005 St Emilion Grand Cru Chateau Le Grave Figeac!!!! I remember about 16 years ago we went for a two week holiday in Bordeaux and stocked up half a boot-full. We really enjoyed those wines as they matured! I doubt I'll have a chance finding any of them here, though...
They started the Beaujolais Nouveau today here. Not too bad, but I think I need to try some more before I can make up my mind.