I cannot stress enough how good the food and my book haul were

[spindizzy]

Hey sweetpeas! I have actually slept, hurray! (And then got up, stayed awake for like an hour, and dozed off on Lex's shoulder while he was playing Stellaris. Adulting!) We survived Christmas Without The Family, and it was pretty nice????

• MVP goes to sithe, who cooked this amazing beercan chicken with oyster sauce? And this brownie recipe that had to be started five days before you wanted to eat it, because it needed to spend best of a week in the fridge/freezer until it was done? It was all so good! Like, I don't know what he did to the carrots beyond "oyster sauce" but they were fantastic.


• We watched so much Disney stuff as background noise. Seems appropriate! And sithe got new Red Dragon Inn characters, so we cracked that out for the first time in... Quarantime...? (Wrench the Kobold Inventor and Wizgille the Gnomish Tinkerer are BFFs and I refuse to be convinced otherwise.)


• I made things for people! LexGarrett's mum got a squirrel, Favourite Nibling got some fabric letters because I'm pretty sure they're up to spelling now, and jilliferium got a constellation shark! The patterns for the stuffed animals came from FunkyFriendsFactory, although I don't know if I recommend them because some of the instructions were mystifying.
I was gonna make present bags for everyone because wrapping paper feels wasteful, but I was on the minutes so I only made one. FEAR ME AND MY POINTS IN CRAFTING!

• (Yes I still have half-finished projects that I need to do, shush, it's the apocalypse.)


• My present haul was SO GOOD. I got so many books! ... And just realised that I accidentally crossed my christmas twitter thread with my crafting twitter thread, oh no. ANYWAY, book haul! Mum got me The Dark Fantastic (Exploring race through fandom and blockbuster specfic canons), Georgian London: Into the Streets (Georgian history, useful for my romance reading ways???), Gentleman Jack (Because historical lesbians), and The Ghost Map (Uhhhhhhh it's about the 1850s cholera epidemic in London, clearly I thought this present through.)
  
  Frustratingly, Kobo don't let you buy ebooks for other people (why???????), but does let you give giftcards, so I got to inform Lex that he succesfully gave me eight books! A Hope Divided (Black spies vs the confederacy), A Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow Vol 1 (Awkward schoolgirl lesbians), First Test (KELADRY!), Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-san Vol 1 (Selling books is WILD), The Girl From the Well (HORROR GIRL), Wotakoi Vol 4 (nerds in love), and a couple of volumes of BL manga to take me back to my roots. :D :D :D
  ... Also got an ungodly amount of chocolate, because it's christmas and that's what you do!


• LexGarrett got 40k rulebooks because that's what he wanted! Pretty sure they're the ones that he wanted, yay! And him and sithe got so much booze and non-chocolate snacks, because our friends love them. CONVENIENTLY(???) The People Who Had The House Before Us didn't install any insulattion or heating in the extension they built onto the house, so at this time of year it works pretty well an expanded fridge space, so we have don't have to worry about fitting it in the fridge.


• I was expecting to feel weirder about not going to my mum's for christmas, because this is the first one I've been away from home for, but... I was fine? Like, possibly I got all of my overthinking it out of the way at the start of the month, but it was just... Nice? Got to cuddle Lex and open presents and have delicious food and read and play boardgames and not have to do any emotional work regarding my siblings, and... It was restful! It was very different, but in a good way! Apparently not seeing anyone is more peaceful than I thought. ALTHOUGH I've not called my mum yet, because I don't want her to tell me how many of my siblings broke lockdown restrictions to go and see her, so there is still time for sibling-induced headaches!


• Oh no, Yuletide happened, didn't it? Do I dare go rooting around to see which of my fandoms actually got nominated AND had fic?

So... Yeah, it's been good! Quiet, but in a good way. And now I'm tentatively roughing out plans for next year, so I'll see you when I'm done! ♥

Comments

[oracne]

Oooh, THE DARK FANTASTIC.

[spindizzy]

I'm not very far into it yet, but what I've read has left me going "YES, THIS PERSON GETS IT!" so I'm hopeful!

[swingandswirl]

Those sound like awesome books! /makes notes for after her book ban is done/ And boo Kobo, I hope they add it soon.

[spindizzy]

Ghost Map and The Dark Fantastic have been fantastic so far, so I hope you like them if you try them!

I do too, it seems really weird to only let you buy books for yourself, especially in this apocalypse.