Eurovision

I never watch Eurovision and I don't understand the purpose behind it, not when the world has become such a global thing and we don't need shows to bring us the music from other country. I'm not against it, though.

My co-worker is watching the Eurovision regularly and she has shared her favourite with me. I must say that I quite like it. 

Happy birthday to me!

Happy birthday to me! :)

Today I was quite busy. In the morning I have made more than fifty cupcakes to share with my co-workers tomorrow. I made chocolate ones, coconut ones, apple ones and oatmeal ones with bananas. The latter are my favorite, they are really yummy. The coconut with white chocolate didn't come out the way they should since even though I add a cup of coconut I can't taste the coconut at all. 

They are quite rustic looking aren't they? I like rustic and I don't want to waste my time on decoration since it would get destroyed in transportation.

 

Recipe for oatmeal cupcakes:

250 g flour

130 g oatmeal

1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp soda bicarbonate

1/2 tsp salt

130 g sugar

1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg

2 eggs
80 - 100 ml olive oil
400 ml yogurt (you can use regular yogurt or fruit yogurt)

2 bananas

You mix the dry and wet ingredients separately. Flour, oatmeal, baking powder, soda, salt, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in one bowl and eggs, olive oil, yogurt and bananas in other. Then put them together. (You can also add chocolate if you want. I divided the batter on half and baked one as it was and add the other chocolate.)

The batter should rest at least 20 to 30 minutes so that the oatmeal swells. In the meantime preheat the oven on 180 Celsius (if you have a fan-oven like myself than on around 150 C) and you bake the cupcakes for around 25 to 30 minutes.

The day itself was nothing special and out of the ordinary. I spend it at my friend's place like usually, but it was okay, I got presents, birthday greetings, ate a lot and sunbathed.

A tough cookie

I have been at the dentist today. My tooth couldn't be saved so she had to pull it out. I was afraid that the tooth, since it's hollow, might shatter while she pulls it out, but the removal actually went quite well.

The other thing is, just today on my way to work I was thinking about the reason I created this blog. I liked the idea of blogging and I wanted to share my thought on writing, but all I seem to be doing is fan over Uriel. *gets all mushy* I really like Uriel. *snaps out of it* Anyway, I decided that I'm also going to blog about my real life, no matter how boring that is. Yeah.

Well, now I'm going to go any have some ice cream. My dentist recommended eating ice cream and I love, love, love ice cream, especially the one that I make myself: I put pieces of fruit into a freezer (banana is the best), then take them out when they are still only half-frozen and blend them. It's so yummy.

Where's spring?

It's still cold here and we have snow even though officially the spring has already begun. I'm consoling myself that is going to get warmer soon. It better be since at the end of April I'm going to spa. Spa. Yey. I can't wait. I'm so tired lately that I often nap after work.

Well, anyway, this entry is so short even though I planned to write a long entry (but I always plan a long, rambling entries and then I always end up with something short. Don't know why.) and to share little things that are happening to me, like having to deal with a tooth inflammation, about how I'm lately into smoothies and that I'm thinking of making one from green tea and strawberries, hoping that it will taste good. That I'm lately re-watching Advent Children at least once a week (how I love this movie). And that lately I hear the Birdy - People Help The People almost everywhere. Such an awesome song.

Read an Ebook Week March 3–9

Smaswords is having a Read an Ebook Week Specials that starts today and ends on 9th of March  and since I'm always participating in this kind of things you can get some of my stories for free or for 50% off.

Free:

Precocious is a (13,000 words long) fantasy with fairies.
The 13th: Ineluctable Fate is a (15,000 words long) paranormal romance set in Victorian.
Red Moon's Reflection (Moon's Reflection Series #1) is a (68,000 words long) paranormal urban fantasy.

50% off:

Short Story Collection contains five stories:
Heart Strings (5,000 words long) is a fantasy romance.
For your entertainment (8,000 words long) is a slow-building contemporary high-school romance.
This Feeling (7,000 words long) is a paranormal with shape-shifters.
Lost (5,000 words long) is a fantasy romance.
Together Forever (9,000 words long) is a horror story
Blue Moon's Reflection (Moon's Reflection Series #2)  is a (61,000 words long) paranormal urban fantasy.
Silver Moon's Reflection (Moon's Reflection Series #3) is a (63,000 words long) paranormal urban fantasy.

Release of Precocious

I uploaded another short story on Smashwords and Amazon US, UK, DE

Precocious is a 13,000 words long fantasy about fairies and it uses Cinderella story as a guideline.

(The cover made by The Book Cover Designer)

Summary: In the world of fairies, seventeen-year-old Rue's days consist of farming, cleaning, selling her crops at the local market or in the human world above, while her stepmother and stepsister attend dances, parties and any society event her stepmother manages to get invited to. Rue never cared for dances and never wished to go to one until Andrew, one of the Prince's friends, invites her to a ball that Rue's stepmother doesn't want her to attend.

The sample can be read here.

At the beginning, this story was titled Precarious and was suppose to be happening in the backstage of a concert tour, but since I haven't found enough of information about concert's backstage to get a feel of the backstage surroundings and dynamic, I used the characters for this fairytale. The title Precarious defined one of the characteristic of the roadie Rue, but because the fairy story called for a different character arch and conclusion, Rue in this story isn'tt clumsy. So replaced Precarious with Precocious, which I believe identifies the fairy Rue much better. 

Precocious an adjective with two meanings: 

1. Manifesting or characterized by unusually early development or maturity, especially in mental aptitude.

2. Botany Blossoming before the appearance of leaves.

 

Little bit of everything

I have been working on the 9th chapter of Crescent Moon's Reflection for this whole week now and I'm not even half way though it. I'm writing around 100 to 250 words per day instead of usual 500 to 1000. I blame this awful annoying cold because of which my nose is all clogged and I have a headache and my gum and teeth hurt. It doesn't help that I had to (due to work) cruise around the county. I have some pictures:

It was good to see some sunshine and to go sit outside and have coffee while enjoying  in a fresh sea breeze even though it was cold.