When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other

[oloriel]

I’m jumping on the bandwagon of “5 things that made me happy today this week”. Because even though that means leaving out “10 things that annoyed me/ made me unhappy today/this week”, it’s still keeping track of things. And focussing on the positive, what’s more! Since memory tends to be selective and only keeps a vague sense of “not good” but a detailed sense of “awesome”, I suppose I’m just cutting out the middle man anyway.

So!

1. I got an incredibly kind offer of help that made me (and Jörg, too) feel all mushy and gooey inside. You know who you guys are. I’ll reply to the e-mail as soon as I can get any planning-like things done, I promise.

2. A new (well, old) Anglo-Saxon hoard has been discovered in Staffordshire and it is even bigger than Sutton Hoo and I can’t stop looking at the pretty and squeeing and adoring those crazy Anglo-Saxons and all the time they must have put into crafting these artefacts and look how beautiful they are, more than 1300 freaking years later. (I cannot even put into words how much I want to be able to create stuff like that. Alas to be born with the dreams of a jeweller and the hands of a clutz.) Thank you fileg for the heads-up.

3. It’s my favourite time of the year (late summer/early fall) and it is currently as beautiful and sunny as anyone could wish for. I’m a little scared of winter because this hasn’t been such an awesome year on the whole so I’m not sure I’ll manage to pull through the long dark teatime of the soul without falling into the good old emo trap, but just now it’s fairly early in the morning and I’m at work already so feeling all diligent & accomplished and the day is golden.

4. I had a great weekend at this year’s autumn LARP although it was quite different from usual: I was very lazy this time and missed half the important stuff because I was too exhausted to stress myself, so I used it as a relaxing short trip rather than a proper LARP. Felt kind of strange and just occasionally like I was wasting chances, but two mornings of sleeping in and two days of non-working are not to be sneered at either way.
I took the amazing number of a whole 20 pictures, like in the old days before digital photography.

5. The pipes and shafts for water and electricity have been delivered so maybe, just maybe, we can start building things up this weekend instead of tearing things down, won’t that be nice.

6. (because I can and I think 5 is a minimum, not a maximum)
I’ve almost finished a sewing project that’s been on my desk for weeks and in my head for years. It’s not perfect, but it’s still turned out all right, yay. I am not getting more patient, but I am getting better at forcing myself to do it properly. \o/

7. Friday! Which only really makes a difference between work!work and house!work, but at least house!work has more purpose.

Comments

[barbardin.livejournal.com]

Wow, die Fundstücke sind ja wirklich umwerfend! Ich hatte bisher nur darüber gelesen, das sind die ersten Bilder, die ich sehe. Wirklich beeindruckend.

[independence1776]

Oh, that's awesome about the hoard! It truly, truly is. And the metalwork is gorgeous.

I don't see anything wrong with what you did at the LARP, either. Relaxing is wonderful. (As for photography, I gleefully still use a film SLR. :P)

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see the hoard in a special museum exhibition or a smiliar context, since I loved the Sutton Hoo gallery at the BM!