Tired and yay and squee <3
Tired, so tired. Got to bed at nearly 2, the doggies woke me up at about 7:00 AM, and from that point on, I decided to stay awake. Clearly this was not the best idea ever, and I plan to take a nap shortly.
This year was kind of tight financially for us this year (George got no year-end bonus, and the insurance snafu we experienced back in November FINALLY got rectified (the bad news is that we got hit for the whole month of December anyway, and the month lump sum got taken out of George's last paycheck before Christmas, sigh). So I think gifts were extra meaningful this year. I got some teas, some books, some long-coveted kitchen gadgetry (omg immersion blender!!!), but my favorite gift by far wasn't even under the tree this morning. Back in '99, I did a summer study abroad program -- six weeks at Trinity College, Oxford. As a part of the program, we got to go to a summer theatre series at the RSC theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and Jonson's Volpone.
George found the poster for that season's presentation of Othello. OMFG.
Once it gets here, were going to take my theatre program and the poster and get it framed, and I am not even kidding, when George told me about the poster, I teared up, dammit (which thoroughly alarmed him, heh).
SO YES, there was much squeeing.
AND? AND. I received my yuletidestory this morning, and it was wonderful. I'm a bit too tired to gush appropriately, but I am just thrilled to bits with what I got, and have read it several times over this morning. So, if you're a fan at all of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey series, go read The Bleak Midwinter. The characterization is so very spot-on, and it's a lovely slice of life, post Busman's Honeymoon.
It... actually made me go back and re-read gifts I'd received during earlier years, and I'd like to link to a couple of my all-time favorites, because they made me smile this morning:
Ducenti Quinquaginta (Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey series)
Quiet Companionship (Samurai Champloo)
Art of Love (Pride and Prejudice [novel])
Do Wa Diddy (Jennifer Crusie's Faking It)
I've enjoyed all of the Yuletide stories I've received, but these seem to be the ones I go back to and re-read most frequently. ♥
This year was kind of tight financially for us this year (George got no year-end bonus, and the insurance snafu we experienced back in November FINALLY got rectified (the bad news is that we got hit for the whole month of December anyway, and the month lump sum got taken out of George's last paycheck before Christmas, sigh). So I think gifts were extra meaningful this year. I got some teas, some books, some long-coveted kitchen gadgetry (omg immersion blender!!!), but my favorite gift by far wasn't even under the tree this morning. Back in '99, I did a summer study abroad program -- six weeks at Trinity College, Oxford. As a part of the program, we got to go to a summer theatre series at the RSC theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and Jonson's Volpone.
George found the poster for that season's presentation of Othello. OMFG.
Once it gets here, were going to take my theatre program and the poster and get it framed, and I am not even kidding, when George told me about the poster, I teared up, dammit (which thoroughly alarmed him, heh).
SO YES, there was much squeeing.
AND? AND. I received my yuletidestory this morning, and it was wonderful. I'm a bit too tired to gush appropriately, but I am just thrilled to bits with what I got, and have read it several times over this morning. So, if you're a fan at all of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey series, go read The Bleak Midwinter. The characterization is so very spot-on, and it's a lovely slice of life, post Busman's Honeymoon.
It... actually made me go back and re-read gifts I'd received during earlier years, and I'd like to link to a couple of my all-time favorites, because they made me smile this morning:
Ducenti Quinquaginta (Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey series)
Quiet Companionship (Samurai Champloo)
Art of Love (Pride and Prejudice [novel])
Do Wa Diddy (Jennifer Crusie's Faking It)
I've enjoyed all of the Yuletide stories I've received, but these seem to be the ones I go back to and re-read most frequently. ♥