I've been having a lovely quiet holiday mainly involving some cooking, reading magazines and books, lots of Yuletide and then the busy of helping my parents with a New Year's Day party. This has been what I needed, time to be and be grateful to have time with my parents and phone calls with my other family. Now I feel like I can take on the new ( Read more... )

My Yuletide is posted and I'm actually looking forward to having time to read the archive this year. Now I also feel like I can go back to some other things that I'm writing, my Rebelcaptain secret santa and a prompt for the Cassian prompt-a-thon. I hope that this is a quieter holiday, last year was so strange. Most of the holiday was spent going ( Read more... )

I had a good Thanksgiving with my family and today had a long train ride and went from rain to snow. I didn't actually end up online that much this holiday and had a fun moment of my computer thinking it didn't have enough battery and shutting itself off ( Read more... )

On Friday, I had my first colonoscopy, my parents came up to help me with the prep and drive me to and from the hospital. Everything came back clear and I think the worst stress was actually in the run up to it. Now I don't have to worry about that for another five years and just need to keep eating the normal high fiber diet that I'm used to. I've ( Read more... )

I meant to write up this past week earlier since a good deal happened in it but then I stayed up too late watching The Haunting of Hill House and haven't been focused enough for words. And I binged that because it pulled me in and some of the grief felt familiar. Powerful and well done show, I'd recommend stretching it out since its in intense ( Read more... )

I'm only now sitting at my laptop for the first time since I was driving down to Delaware. I didn't really have time from Sunday until Boxing Day and then I was feeling too tired to really pull my thoughts together to attempt writing or putting into words all that happened ( Read more... )

I'm having a wonderful and rather Star Wars' holiday with an Alliance sweater, galaxy necklace and some silly Star Wars' band aids, alongside books and socks, a Christmas staple.

I've also added a new bread recipe to my collection, a sweet filled bread from Smitten Kitchen, that I might try with other fillings ( Read more... )

Christmas with the rest of the family ended up being lovely other than a weird bump in terms of my dad forgetting something. Today was great because everyone was on the same page of let's be lazy. I walked into the cute little town near my brother's placed, had lunch with my mom and we went shopping. We've been doing these things but this time ( Read more... )

I normally love the holiday season but with worrying about my sister and everything that's part of that. It truly took until a few days ago to go, okay, we're all here as a family and there are reasons to celebrate ( Read more... )

I'm home after two full days including a memorial and potluck for an old family friend and spending time with a wonderful couple who are also old family friends. Its good to be home and having a quiet night in as a possible part time job chance might becoming reality later this week ( Read more... )