For half an hour I thought I'd go insane. There was this annoyingly sweet cloying smell in the air. The same scent Sheila used either as parfum or laundry softener. Everything she ever send was smelling of that scent ( Read more... )

Me thinks I need a holiday. One of the charity's officials asked for contact...

Definitely need that holiday.

Pride for finishing the first sock which is for me and just for me! The pattern is called "Hermione's Everyday Socks" and the yarn is Kos from Woll Butt (60% virgin wool, 25% bamboo and 15% polyamide), knitted with 2,5mm dpns.
When I finished the sock I made the mistake to show it to mom. She exclaimed over it and admired it, but she also asked ( Read more... )

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1807847/1/Prometheus_Bound

I discovered this story in author's recommendations on ff.net and so far managed to read half of it.
Literally the first 600 from 1200 pages deal with Harry being blinded, Harry being tortured and raped, Harry ( Read more... )

Apparently today is the day of break downs.
Internet connection constantly breaking down. LJ constantly refusing to work for me.
My glasses are still not fixed, hopefully the mechanican can repair the lens cutting machine of my opticarian today. Or else I will have to take my glasses to another opticarian, and I rather not do that. I like my ( Read more... )

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Why shouldn't I be?

I'm not sitting at the comp because I'm bored. I'm sitting at the comp to browse the internet, for research and reading.

I'm touchy because I do not like it if you gaze at the screen while I browse. While most pages I look at are perfectly safe I do not want you to know what I'm doing. I want my privacy, as much as you dislike ( Read more... )

Why else could I forget how youngsters, noobs and teens feel when they post on boards and are made feel unwelcome ( Read more... )

Big family meeting this week. Mom, aunties, grandma and her sisters, some uncles and cousins.

They are meeting in a small town in the mountains, somewhere in the middle of Germany. Aunt Monika came with grandma.
Grandma has been grey in the face after the long drive, despite plenty of long breaks. It took some time too for her to adjust after the ( Read more... )

How nice it was of you and your dad, my uncle, to visit mom and me, and bring us our grandma ( Read more... )