one thing down...
Yuletide fic posted with 6 1/2 hours to spare! Even edited and everything.
Now I have to write a sermon on the Solstice and wrap the big box o' vacuum cleaner dad bought for mom today. Everything else is wrapped (well, brother's and nephew's prezzies to parents/grandparents have been ordered and will be here "by the 23rd" or so he says; wish I was rich enough to send everything express mail...), baking is done, house is decorated. I need to scrub the kitchen and guest bath tomorrow after church and the Chiefs game as I get my nails done Tuesday and don't want to wreck them. I figure I can dust and sweep with new nails.
Monday I hope to have presents to wrap (I'm hoping the 23rd is really going to be the 21st) and grocery shopping. Tuesday I have the aforementioned manicure and then I have to go to my parents' at 10:00 p.m to watch KU play at San Diego St. on CBSSN which my stupid cable company doesn't get. I hope to be home by one in the freaking morning as I have work seven and a half hours after that.
Wednesday night is our Christmas Eve dinner since Christmas Eve is church. I've been involved in the service for the last several years but not this year, so it'll be nice to just sit back and enjoy. I already sang my favorite carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, last Sunday during our choir's seasonal concert. I'd sung the first verse a cappela at a spiritual group meeting the Thursday before when we were sharing favorite holiday memories, and Friday I got an email and then a call fro my minister saying she'd gotten shivers and found a reading about the meaning of Emmanuel and wanted me to sing the verses between the verses of the reading on Sunday morning. I was a bit shaky at first but it turned out wonderful. Got so many compliments. The first time I ever sang it was at church when I was 13 or 14 and I sang the first verse a capella while walking down the center aisle, so that was part of my happy memory I was recreating.
I don't have to work at all on Christmas Eve which is nice and then I'm off through New Year's Day.
We're going to see Star Wars for our Christmas Day movie. I appreciate everyone for not spoiling it. :)
In not so happy news, while my diabetes is under "optimal control" (and I'm off insulin and only take 1 1/2 metformin and one other pill), I was diagnosed last week with hypothyroidism which explains the recent weight gain, sluggishness and feeling so freaking cold all the time. I'm on a low dose of hormone, the same one my mom takes because she doesn't have a thyroid at all anymore (she had the opposite, hyper). *sigh* But, my kidneys are fine, the other thing the doctor we share monitors in me since mom has stage four kidney disease
I'm going to try to do better posting here in the New Year. We'll see...
Now I have to write a sermon on the Solstice and wrap the big box o' vacuum cleaner dad bought for mom today. Everything else is wrapped (well, brother's and nephew's prezzies to parents/grandparents have been ordered and will be here "by the 23rd" or so he says; wish I was rich enough to send everything express mail...), baking is done, house is decorated. I need to scrub the kitchen and guest bath tomorrow after church and the Chiefs game as I get my nails done Tuesday and don't want to wreck them. I figure I can dust and sweep with new nails.
Monday I hope to have presents to wrap (I'm hoping the 23rd is really going to be the 21st) and grocery shopping. Tuesday I have the aforementioned manicure and then I have to go to my parents' at 10:00 p.m to watch KU play at San Diego St. on CBSSN which my stupid cable company doesn't get. I hope to be home by one in the freaking morning as I have work seven and a half hours after that.
Wednesday night is our Christmas Eve dinner since Christmas Eve is church. I've been involved in the service for the last several years but not this year, so it'll be nice to just sit back and enjoy. I already sang my favorite carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, last Sunday during our choir's seasonal concert. I'd sung the first verse a cappela at a spiritual group meeting the Thursday before when we were sharing favorite holiday memories, and Friday I got an email and then a call fro my minister saying she'd gotten shivers and found a reading about the meaning of Emmanuel and wanted me to sing the verses between the verses of the reading on Sunday morning. I was a bit shaky at first but it turned out wonderful. Got so many compliments. The first time I ever sang it was at church when I was 13 or 14 and I sang the first verse a capella while walking down the center aisle, so that was part of my happy memory I was recreating.
I don't have to work at all on Christmas Eve which is nice and then I'm off through New Year's Day.
We're going to see Star Wars for our Christmas Day movie. I appreciate everyone for not spoiling it. :)
In not so happy news, while my diabetes is under "optimal control" (and I'm off insulin and only take 1 1/2 metformin and one other pill), I was diagnosed last week with hypothyroidism which explains the recent weight gain, sluggishness and feeling so freaking cold all the time. I'm on a low dose of hormone, the same one my mom takes because she doesn't have a thyroid at all anymore (she had the opposite, hyper). *sigh* But, my kidneys are fine, the other thing the doctor we share monitors in me since mom has stage four kidney disease
I'm going to try to do better posting here in the New Year. We'll see...