Livre d'Or

cxcvi very endearingly had me roll dice to pick today's date, and asked for Gaming, of a non-computer kind. There are brief mentions of you doing some in the past, but only light whispers.

( yes, I'm a nerd )

[January Journal masterlist. Anyone want the last empty slot?]

kerrypolka asked for my three favourite works of fiction (any medium)! I think it's a bit the nature of this daily prompt meme to encourage people to ask for favourite examples of something, but really when it comes to fiction I find that extremely difficult to do. Still, I'll give it a try.

( stories )

[January Journal masterlist. Anyone want the last empty slot?]

mathcathy asked for an update on all things exercise, which is very appropriate since it was Cathy who managed to get me into a gym three years ago. Without her I'd probably still be dithering about it. Thanks to her helping me establish a habit, I've kept up with regular exercise at least twice a week since then, except for a couple of months this summer / autumn when I was held back by travel and illness.

( exercise thoughts )

In any case, heartfelt thanks again to mathcathy for getting me started, and for inspiring me with how thoroughly you're surpassing me these days with your really intense exercise regime!

[January Journal masterlist; there's still quite a few spaces so do feel free to add some more prompts even if you didn't get to it in December! Or indeed to make a second request if you're already in the list.]

ceb asked for my favourite recipes. I've ended up having to travel across country at short notice for a funeral, so I'm not sure whether I will have internet access to post this today, though I will try to squeeze in the post before midnight. I also don't have access to any of my recipe books or notes or links to online recipes, and I tend to feel more confident cooking with recipes written out rather than from memory. So I'll talk a bit about the category of favourite recipes, and perhaps come back and add the detailed instructions later.

( cookery )

OK, have wifi in the B&B where I'm staying and half an hour before I have to go out for prayers, so I'll post this as is to be able to keep up with my daily prompts.

[January Journal masterlist; there's still quite a few spaces so do feel free to add some more prompts even if you didn't get to it in December! Or indeed to make a second request if you're already in the list.]

hunningham asked about Happiness - what things (activities, people, things, thoughts) make you happy? Do you seek these out or do they just happen? I really like the scope of this question and the precise way hunningham asked it; it gives me an excellent reason to talk about stuff that's important to me but that I don't normally post about much.

( happiness is... )

[January Journal masterlist; there's still quite a few spaces so do feel free to add some more prompts even if you didn't get to it in December! Or indeed to make a second request if you're already in the list.]

2014 seems to have showed up rather faster than I expected. So I'm going to start on my intended daily blogging, and set aside my planned posts about things like what I've been up to over Christmas and my review of 2013 and so on. Anyway, happy New Year to all.

angelofthenorth asked for my Favourite Midrash. ( I'm never good at picking favourites )

[January Journal masterlist; there's still quite a few spaces so do feel free to add some more prompts even if you didn't get to it in December! Or indeed to make a second request if you're already in the list.]