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I went back and added the mood indicator to a few posts. I had forgotten to do so, and I didn't like that, so I fixed it.
In other news, my Yule&Christmas baking may very well become my New Year's Eve & January, 6th baking. Someone I do translations for called me and asked if I could take on a part of a big batch of documents to be translated. I don't really have the time - not with 4 dissertation drafts to collect on the 21st of December and to return to the students as soon as the Holidays are over - but I do need the money badly, and so I said yes. I'll make time somehow, but I'm not going to cancel plans with two very dear friends of mine re. pre-Christmas visits, so something has to go out of the window - and that will be the candy-making, and very probably next week's knitting class too.
I haven't given up hopes entirely, tho. I have a convoluted plan brewing in my mind that involves going through the first phase of the preparation of candied orange peels with chocolate while I'm awake through Solstice night as a midwife to the Sun - I can't have a Yule log since I've no fireplace, I can't chant since I live in an apartment and the neighbours will not be pleased, I don't really have anyone to throw a Yule-slanted party with since I'm mostly a solitary practitioner... I might as well do the only festive thing I can do and make some yummy treat. Then I could enlist Mom's help and we could dip the candied peels in chocolate the following evening. This way we would have at least one kind of wintery treat ready. But I'm afraid the two-chocolates husk cherries and the rest are definitely out of the picture till after the 27th - that's the day I'm to turn my finished translation in.
As a recovering perfectionist, I'm pleased with myself that I'm taking this rather calmly and not getting in a tizzy about not having everything absolutely ready on schedule - it's definitely progress.
In other news, my Yule&Christmas baking may very well become my New Year's Eve & January, 6th baking. Someone I do translations for called me and asked if I could take on a part of a big batch of documents to be translated. I don't really have the time - not with 4 dissertation drafts to collect on the 21st of December and to return to the students as soon as the Holidays are over - but I do need the money badly, and so I said yes. I'll make time somehow, but I'm not going to cancel plans with two very dear friends of mine re. pre-Christmas visits, so something has to go out of the window - and that will be the candy-making, and very probably next week's knitting class too.
I haven't given up hopes entirely, tho. I have a convoluted plan brewing in my mind that involves going through the first phase of the preparation of candied orange peels with chocolate while I'm awake through Solstice night as a midwife to the Sun - I can't have a Yule log since I've no fireplace, I can't chant since I live in an apartment and the neighbours will not be pleased, I don't really have anyone to throw a Yule-slanted party with since I'm mostly a solitary practitioner... I might as well do the only festive thing I can do and make some yummy treat. Then I could enlist Mom's help and we could dip the candied peels in chocolate the following evening. This way we would have at least one kind of wintery treat ready. But I'm afraid the two-chocolates husk cherries and the rest are definitely out of the picture till after the 27th - that's the day I'm to turn my finished translation in.
As a recovering perfectionist, I'm pleased with myself that I'm taking this rather calmly and not getting in a tizzy about not having everything absolutely ready on schedule - it's definitely progress.