Gründonnerstag
The three Sacred Days before Easter are the time I miss being in the convent most. Nowhere else is the service on these days so quiet and intimate; or goes so deep into one's soul. Well, that's no longer an option, and since I've secularized my relationship with my Maker (for reasons that lie in the very nature of the Church as well as for personal ones), I always feel strangely empty at this time.
The solution, of course, is to keep busy, so I got up at stupid o'clock today (and yes, 6am does count as stupid o'clock in my books, thank you very much!) to do the last grocery shopping before the supermarkets would close their gates. Tomorrow will be tote Hose, as the Germans say, and while they'll open on Saturday, I don't want to take part of the big battle for food before they close again for two days. Today was big enough; you'd have thought people were afraid of starving!
After the battle I came home and did... well, not much, actually. Mum's volunteered to prepare the spinach for my bastardized spanakopita which I'll finish tomorrow (because she makes it taste much better than I ever can, no matter how hard I try), and I've bought Speckkuchen at Aldi, so all I had to do was to make the salad. It was a very good lunch!
Then we watched some telly, took our respective naps, talked on the phone to our respective friends and family (in my case to Heidi), and that was basically it. At least I've started typing up the finished jigsaw chapter to "Charmed into Darkness", so that counts as writing, right?
Oh, and BTW, AO3 is down. :(
The solution, of course, is to keep busy, so I got up at stupid o'clock today (and yes, 6am does count as stupid o'clock in my books, thank you very much!) to do the last grocery shopping before the supermarkets would close their gates. Tomorrow will be tote Hose, as the Germans say, and while they'll open on Saturday, I don't want to take part of the big battle for food before they close again for two days. Today was big enough; you'd have thought people were afraid of starving!
After the battle I came home and did... well, not much, actually. Mum's volunteered to prepare the spinach for my bastardized spanakopita which I'll finish tomorrow (because she makes it taste much better than I ever can, no matter how hard I try), and I've bought Speckkuchen at Aldi, so all I had to do was to make the salad. It was a very good lunch!
Then we watched some telly, took our respective naps, talked on the phone to our respective friends and family (in my case to Heidi), and that was basically it. At least I've started typing up the finished jigsaw chapter to "Charmed into Darkness", so that counts as writing, right?
Oh, and BTW, AO3 is down. :(