Strange holiday season
This has been an odd but nice holiday season so far. My parents and their friend group has become the health care coordinating team for another couple; the wife had a major stroke the week before Christmas and her husband is dealing with the onset of dementia. For all of us its bringing back hard memories of the Christmas that my sister spent in the hospital. Also I drove down early enough to avoid the worst of the storm last week, just had to deal with a good bit of traffic as I wasn't the only one thinking of moving ahead of the storm.
Thankfully my brother and his family took on the major cooking and hosting. I did some baking; a Greek yogurt cake and a gingerbread buche de Noel, which were fun and big hits.
Another bump was that my first paycheck was mailed to my apartment so I don't get to use that money until I'm home. Apparently it take them one round of set up for the direct deposit to work.
In good things, I'm enjoying having the time to finally read At the Feet of the Sun which is wonderful. Goddard is such a good writer. I'm also enjoying cooking with my new Smitten Kitchen cookbook, so far we've made endive salad and a leek and brie galette.
For Yuletide, I received two wonderful gifts.
The Proving Grounds of Coruscant which feels very like the Andor series with all its choices.
Hero is an amazing short October Daye fic that has all the feels and vibes of why I love that series.
And my fic is going over very well which feels nice. At the moment, I have some challah rising and I'm going to finish writing a fic for another small exchange that I'm in.
Thankfully my brother and his family took on the major cooking and hosting. I did some baking; a Greek yogurt cake and a gingerbread buche de Noel, which were fun and big hits.
Another bump was that my first paycheck was mailed to my apartment so I don't get to use that money until I'm home. Apparently it take them one round of set up for the direct deposit to work.
In good things, I'm enjoying having the time to finally read At the Feet of the Sun which is wonderful. Goddard is such a good writer. I'm also enjoying cooking with my new Smitten Kitchen cookbook, so far we've made endive salad and a leek and brie galette.
For Yuletide, I received two wonderful gifts.
The Proving Grounds of Coruscant which feels very like the Andor series with all its choices.
Hero is an amazing short October Daye fic that has all the feels and vibes of why I love that series.
And my fic is going over very well which feels nice. At the moment, I have some challah rising and I'm going to finish writing a fic for another small exchange that I'm in.