You did it! Enjoy your Apple Spice Cake. 😊 You also leveled up! You are now level 10!

Finally got around to doing some baking!

Pokes board before heading to bed

Night everyone.

I know what you mean! I think that if both you and your friends make an effort to really see each other, it's a friendship worth keeping, ya know? 😊

- I think I'm determined to just permanently be sick (as I sit here with a glass of wine...)

- I'm just trying to keep myself from getting nodules first! I definitely speak lower than I should! Works for me when I'm singing jazz though ;)

- I agree with you! This group is a great idea! I've met some wonderful people and posted much more conversation than I normally do!

- Thanks! I kind of try to keep the freckles as a standard part of my HA. Yours looks so cozy! Ready to snuggle up in a big comfy blanket with a good book, or a cup of coffee, or some awesome Netflix! Congratulations on the baking... I'm at level goes to look 4. I get around to that and alchemy when I feel like it... which is pretty much never.

- Sweet dreams!

Yep. Actually had a very old friend call me up a couple of weeks ago. She'd been cleaning out some old stuff and came across my phone number and tried it. We'd been out of touch for years, but it was great hearing from her again and we've gotten back in regular contact through email.

I actually like the baking process, but I really, really want a pantry or something. Every time I actually do bake, I set up to make about 5 copies of the stuff I'm cooking, and all those ingredients overwhelm my inventory. Makes it hard to do other stuff. So I end up avoiding baking :(

- I'm a little bit crazy and have all of my ingredients sorted in a gallery. I also have a database for myself that I update every time I get an ingredient and what recipes it goes with... crazy

I've debated doing something like that, but it still doesn't solve the problem of taking out the ingredients. My computer and connection are very slow, so opening a shop/gallery takes forever, so I want to get out max stuff in one shot. Doing something like your gallery with categories that hold whole recipes would work well, but I just don't have the spare space to create such a limited gallery. I need my galleries to store all my junk - most of which is still in old shops because of lack of space.

lol yes wine is a very important medicine! i have caught so many more colds since working where i am, it's so annoying. i catch them off other staff, or from customers, you name it! i'd only had a milder version a week ago, and somehow caught something else that made everything ten times worse x_x i just hate having a blocked nose, that's the worst part for me.

Ooh, good point. Take care of yourself and your voice. <3 Jazz, fancy! :o At least the handout should be helpful for you too, hahaha. Voice rest is probably one of the healthiest things in there, but it's hard to do. x)

I love the colors of your HA! Teal/turquoise/aqua colors are some of my favorite colors ❤️

That's such a lovely story - it's so nice hearing from old friends, something comforting knowing that they've been thinking about you and missing you too. Even though there's facebook and twitter and everything it's still so easy to just fall out of contact with people. I'm so pleased that you had a lovely time catching up with them :)

- I think the wine last night was a poor idea. All stuffed up again today with a sore throat. Too soon :(

- It is hard to vocally rest! My daughter just asked me a little while ago to read her a story and I told her "no" so that I could rest my voice.

- Thank you! The colors are hard to work with though because there are so many variations and nothing that I have quite matches that hair.

oh noes! i've had a really dry and sore throat today too. it doesn't help that my nose is so congested that i have to mouth-breathe nearly all the time. it doesn't make eating easy lol! i mixed a good teaspoon of ground cinnamon with about a tablespoon of honey earlier today and i've been having little tastes of that throughout the afternoon which has helped take the edge off. i hate the flavour of off-the-shelf lozenges, so this is my little home remedy :)

What a shame! Hopefully you can make it up to her later. <3 Take care of yourself!

I agree! There's a lot of items that are slightly different shades of teal or mint or whatever on the site, and make it hard to match an HA.

Yep. We lost touch after she moved to another province because her original email got hacked and I'm not on facebook or twitter.

Maybe it'll encourage me to be more sociable in the forums as well. It's not that I don't like to be. It's just that I never seem to get around to it. Plus, all the main "get to know people" or "group chat" threads are already frequented by the same certain people. Would feel awkward to just jump in 200+ pages into an established topic.

[edit]Ay! Got a forum point for this.

I feel the same way! Doing that here, though, on a minor scale. XD

Now if I can stick to it is the real question. D:

Well, at least there is always this group. :D