Home for the Holidays
Originally published at tansyrr.com. You can comment here or there.
The great thing about having a houseguest (especially the awesome kind that you want to talk to all the time), is that it has all the benefits of going away for the holidays (especially ‘I can’t possibly get any work done so this is enforced leisure time’) but with the comforts of home. Yesterday we had the girls around for a sewing circle for them to meet or catch up with GJ. I haven’t been able to go to sewing group since I had Jem, so that was rather lovely. I finally dug out my needles and yarn to start making the iPod cozy I desperately need, after spending most of the session trying to demonstrate to Raeli how awesome French knitting is (mostly she likes unravelling it).
Today, we capped off the main part of girliejones’s visit with a trip to the Mt Nelson signal station, in order to watch the boats come up the river for the Sydney-Hobart and share some more lovely Tasmanian scenery with GJ.
Then we put her on the bus and sent her off to the land of dodgy internet (aka Flinthartsville) for the second half of her holiday. It’s sad to see her go (”I miss Alisa,” Raeli said sadly, two minutes after we had left her at the bus station) but we are looking forward to the weekend at which apparently flinthart will be bringing her back early and setting up an overnight camp in our garden with his kids. House party!
It’s hot and the house feels empty without Alisa, so we are zoning out in the living room, inhaling a Christmas DVD of Justice League Unlimited. The belated turkey is cooking in the oven (we got distracted!) and there’s still plenty of chocolate in the house. Life is really not that hard.
Back in the world of the living (which is to say, the internet), Justine Larbalestier wrote a blog post post in response to my review of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, confirming my theory on the book appealing to a different (though overlapping) audience to Scott’s other YA books. Definitely worth a read!