Sometimes it feels like my days pass buy and even though I’m busy I don’t get anything done. So to get this sorted I bought myself a calendar. It’s not meant to be used in order to remember appointments or such instead I’m going to use it as a kind of diary. Each night I’ll be writing what I’ve done that day. So it can read: –visited GP and picked up prescription, – laundry, – revised a short story, – timed writing and – yoga. So when it feels like I never get anything done I can go back in my calendar and look whether this is true or not.

I’m trying to have two books on the go at all times. One fiction and one about writing. So this time it was time to get a new book about writing. This time I picked The Creative Writer’s Workbook by Cathy Birch. I’ve only read a little over a chapter but it was love at first sight. This book is all about getting your creative juices flowing and finding the fun in writing. Not taking it too serious. Sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming to write as I’m trying to make it perfect. That is a sure way of sucking every little ounce of fun right out of it.

Yesterday I had one of those days when I was speeding around and couldn’t stop. My mind was racing. So I had another night with bad sleeping. It’s a disaster for my writing and for getting things done. I so need to sleep properly tonight. And I’m so putting in an order for a new bed tonight. We’ve been sleeping on an air-mattress for two months now. Enough is enough!

I might also be a little bit cranky today and while sleep deprivation won’t help in that department it’s not the one to blame. I’ve quit coffee. I haven’t had a cup of coffee for almost 24 hours. My head knows it and my temper knows it. I will try so hard to be nice to hubby tonight. There are a lot of reasons for me giving up coffee but the main one is that I feel that it affects me in negative ways. I do love the taste though… well, well I’ll just have to drink more tea instead.

Yesterday I bought a piece of kitchen equipment that we’ve somehow lost when we moved from Sweden.

A can opener. Sometimes I secretly wish that my husband was a bit easier to fool, it would have been nice if I could have made him believe that we somehow had lost our beautiful pink KitchenAid and that I therefore have to get a new one… don’t think he’d fall for that.

Back to the can opener. Such a tiny equipment but one that makes a huge difference. Makes opening cans a breeze. Right. Yeah. Sure. I’m sure that it does… if I only could figure out how it works. :S

After a lot of frustration and some bad language I had to resort to the old proved technique of cutting the can open with a dull kitchen knife. If it wasn’t dull before it sure is now.

I mean c’mon, how hard can it be?

Update: Apparently not very hard at all since my dear husband managed to use it straight away. I swear that next time I will show that can opener who the boss is!

The summer has almost ended and I can’t believe that I haven’t treated myself to watermelon until today. Watermelon is one of my favourite fruits. It’s absolutely delicious as it is but I also love to eat it with crumbled feta cheese. *yummy*

Another thing I love is freshly baked buns. And yesterday I craved buns. Unfortunately our cupboards where pretty empty so I had to make do with what was on hands. But I think the end result was pretty good. The buns are filled with butter, brown sugar and maple syrup. Not bad at all and the best thing was that thanks to the brown sugar these weren’t overly sweet either.

Besides eating I’ve been busy with reading. I’ve finished Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris and I’m now reading the next book in the series Grave surprise. I liked the first book but I don’t think it’s as good as the books about Sookie.

Our neighbours kept us up all night last night so I’m taking the rest of the day off. I’ve already done a bunch of errands, created a budget, written a few critiques, done my homework and blogged. So I think that’s enough for today.

I love tea. I love all kinds of tea. English breakfast tea is a big favourite as is peppermint tea but I’m also fond of tea with hints of liquorice in them. That is another thing I love, liquorice that is. But back to tea. I love tea but unfortunately I kind of forget to drink it… I tend to reach for my other favourite drink, coffee. It’s not because coffee is better it’s just more… hmm… convenient in some strange way.

This is a tea that I’ve bought recently. Yogi tea is a brand that my husband loves but I’ve dissed it because I thought that they would be too spicy for me. What a stupid assumption. I love it This Tulsi Mint tea is amazing. It’s a blend of peppermint, liquorice, cocoa shell, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and black pepper. Lots of flavours.

And I love that you get your daily dose of tea wisdom.

I haven’t had anything exciting to read lately. I tried to get in to some Lovecraft but I don’t really like the way he writes, the stories are great though. So yesterday I visited the bookstore to get myself a few new books. None of the stores I visited had the books I wanted so I ended up at The Works and there I hit the jackpot. 3 books by Charlaine Harris that I have on my to-read list and I got all three for just £5. That’s a bargain!

So to celebrate my bargain at The Works I visited Paperchase where I found these lovely notebooks. I admit that I’m a notebook snob. It won’t do with any notebook, oh no. It has to be A5. It has to have plastic covers and the spiral binding has to be the right kind. Oh, and the thickness of the notebook is really important too. And of course it’s nice if the design is beautiful too. So I found these at Paperchase and I couldn’t decide on just one of them so I bought both of them.

Today I’m working on a piece of Flash Fiction. That is a story with a maximum word count of 1000. It’s something I’ve never done before so it’s pretty exciting. A little bit intimidating but mostly fun.