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Merry Christmas to those of you who are Christmas-having types! I am a Christmas-having type and mine was very merry, with family and food and Yuletide (THREE GIFTS! All Murderbot :3)and so on. But I'm sick, that's less awesome...

But A good day and a week off work, so I am not complaining!

Also it snowed a LOT in the past few days, which was lovely as I don't have anywhere to be and get to walk the dogs in it but not actually shovel anything.

Wooh!

I'm being eaten by Christmas and Yuletide. ON the point of the latter, I have written over 10k this season @_@ Probably that's all? Maybe some drabbles? I dunno!

Work continues bananas cray, and will be until... forever. We are merging wth the museum, which was supposed to happen in a year and a half and instead is happening in May. So yeah. I'm lucky it wasn't pushed to Jan 1 @_@

Meanwhile: alllll the yuletide flailing! OMG!

But for now - December meme! Another drabble for naryrising :D

( Christmas in Ashland )

I have many things I want to write about and do!

( Mostly this is rambling about my trip )

I know I haven't been posting much lately - not even to-do lists! Partly because I haven't been doing much :V Christmas was quiet - I went to lunch at Taz with Catherine, and we went by the empty dog park to play with Jola's new ball-chucker thingy (so awesome!) Other than that, I have been mostly writing fiction and reading it, for yuletide! I got some really cool stories this year, in the 'fandoms' of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser and Arkham Horror (the board game). So hooray! There is a ton of other really cool stuff there - Oglaf, Old Spice Man, Philadelphia Story Zombie Apocalypse, A Softer Word, Greek and Norse Myths, lots of books and movies and all kiiiinds of stuff! I'm not really organized enough to make a post, but look around if you're at all curious and you won't be disappointed, I'm sure :) I won't promise that everything is amazing, but there is a lot of stuff that is! Leave commets or kudos if you see anything you do like! I'll post a list of what I wrote after New Year's, when authors get officially revealed.

Meanwhile, I have stuff I need to do today! Dad and Jennifer will get here sometime tonight, so it is mostly finishing up house cleaning. I also want to try and make fudge if the weather stays good for it - today is sunny, clear, and cool, which should be perfect. Anyway, have a list! I'm sure you've missed them ;)

-shower
-dress
-lunch
-dishes
-clean kitchen
-target for shampoo, water filters, cookie cutters, something else I'm forgetting?
-fudge? (possibly before target, depending on time)

Jola is off at the Crismans' s I don't have to worry about walking her, at least.... but I'd still better get going :x

Made it to Montreal after only an hour delay leaving Houston. Hooray! had an amazingly wonderfully delicious dinner, and opened presents last night. Good times abound :)

Or happy Yule. Or Sol Invictus. Or Whatever :D

*loves to everyone*

I got my Christmas present from Julie :D It is awesome :D I can't say what it is until I know if C got hers though, and she's away this week :/ But once everyone's is accounted for, all shall be revealed :D

*Someone* (I suspect Mr. Cat) sent me a box of dark ambient/neo folk stuff from Strange Fortune... I'm just listening to the fist cd, and it is pretty wicked cool :x

So, thanks mystery person who is probably Mr. Cat :x

In other news, there are young animals frolicing together at my feet <3

My dad and Jennifer got in a little earlier than expected on the 24th, but luckily I was at least dressed after getting out of the shower minutes earlier :V i took them to Rudy's for lunch, which seemed to go over pretty well! I hadn't been in a while, so it was nice for me too. Afterwards, they wanted to see if they could find some cooler clothes (shorts!!!) because it is supposed to be warmer (it was 20 today - supposed to be ~25 tomorrow) for the rest of their trip. After a Christmas eve excursion to Walmart (D:), we came home, and chilled out. We were all pretty full from a big lunch, so we chilled out for most of the evening. I baked some gingerbread cookies that I'd made that morning, and we decorated that later that evening, afetr we watched Love Actually (A movie I've owned forever and never seen before). It was cute, but I'm not sure what dad and Jenifer thought of the couple who met because they were lighting models on a porn set ;) I think I'd need to watch it again to catch all the connections between the story lines. Oh, we also went to the 6 pm Christmas eve service at the church around the office. There was fire, and a lot of Christmas ties. We had a snack during cookie decorating of pita and carrot sticks with hummus and Greek yogurt (mmmm, fage...). And I think that is all! belryan may be in danger of losing his kitten to Jennifer though :o! Oh also, walking Jola a couple of times to show peeps around the neighbourhood and look at birds. No bunnies though :/

Today was Christmas! I walked Jola and opened presents! Jennifer and dad had a few little things here - a card from me, and some fruitcake from Hazel, mostly. I got a Playmobile set from B, a hodgepodge of things from C, including some amazingly awesome cookie cutters that I can hardly wait to try out :D A ring from tethys123 and a steampunk bee pendant from longpig (both from Cognitive Creations etsy store <3). Also a tea pot (yay!) with a pirate tea cozy :D And some cookies and other assorted stocking bits. It was a nice morning! After we got our butts (okay yes it was mostly me) moving, we went up to campus to look around the empty department and see the empty empty campus. Oh, yes, fellow NAP-ers, guess who *was* in on Christmas day :p Oh, you know. I can hear you sighing from here, earis! We came home and it was time to start preparing for duuuuuck! Only we didn't so that. I had a nap, other peeps made lunch, which we ate around 2, meaning that we didn't have duck until super later. After lunch, I made the pie (choc. pecan), and cards were played while the duck was cooking. I called a bunch of peeps - family, plus rob, and J&S earlier in the morning, and chatted to Hazel <3 over the internets.

Dinner was late, but soooo delicious! I made crispy duck (slow roasting for the win, thank you Joy!), with an improvised orange ginger sauce, a rice mix, and dad made a salad. It turned out very well - we quartered the duck for facility of serving, and ate most of it. What's left is stewing in a pot now with some veggies, to make soup :) The pie was also delicious.... and now we are digesting. It seems like there was more to the day, but I don't think I am actually forgetting anything, hmmm... now I'm chilling out on the couch watching STTNG :D

Good times, in any case! I think tomorrow will be more shopping :x