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yay 2019!
Hello, hello, how are you all?
I did survive the holidays, but 2018 was nasty right to the bitter end, with an unexpected repairs to my van (to the tune of $800), standing water (AGAIN, ARGH) in the basement the morning we were leaving for Disney World (costs still to be defined), and in the literal eleventh hour, I managed to knock over (and shatter) an entire tray of champagne flutes at 11:45 p.m. Fortunately, the server who has taken care of us for the last few years swooped in, hugged me, told me not to cry, and shooed me off to watch the fireworks. I am generally a big tipper but that one might be my all time record.
So now I'm back and the Real World is staring me down with its best January face. At least it stopped raining?
In a fit of apparent insanity, I am making myself a bullet journal. It will be the ugliest BuJo out there, because I'm not at all artistically inclined, I get no satisfaction from prettying things up, and I have no time to spend on that sort of stuff. (I am totally cool if people do actually get satisfaction from it all and find peace/joy from creating the pretty thing around the bones of the system—I would rather spend that extra time in the kitchen. Or with a book. Or writing. To each their own, YMMV, etc, etc, etc.) I like the concept of intentionally carrying things over (and thinking about why it's happening), and I'm a little ashamed the index concept is so exciting to me (and that it never occurred to me to do it in all my years of carrying around composition books with my various lists.) I sat down and started playing around with that over the weekend (when I should have been dealing with the tree, etc, but that clearly wasn't happening so at least this is progress?) I will keep you posted on my results (and since I'm thinking about writing this up for the mom blog I write for, there may even be pictures, wheee.)
In more fun news, I managed to beat the Disney system and get FastPasses for 12 to Flight of Passage over the busiest week of the year, so we started off 2019 with that bit of excitement. Happily enough, it is actually as good as everyone says it is so the hour or so in October that I spent wrangling tickets and reservations and MDE technical support was totally worth it.
Also in fun news, I was inspired by all the recs people have been posting (yuletide, snowflake, favorite stories of the year, etc) and my enjoyment of them all to go back and work on fic recs again (for the first time in years, oy.) Hopefully by Friday I should have a set to share. I think I'm going with a few old and a few new in each set so, uh, get ready for a whack of post-Winter Soldier angst.
Thanks for sticking around; I really enjoy having all of you in my life. ♥ ♥ ♥
I did survive the holidays, but 2018 was nasty right to the bitter end, with an unexpected repairs to my van (to the tune of $800), standing water (AGAIN, ARGH) in the basement the morning we were leaving for Disney World (costs still to be defined), and in the literal eleventh hour, I managed to knock over (and shatter) an entire tray of champagne flutes at 11:45 p.m. Fortunately, the server who has taken care of us for the last few years swooped in, hugged me, told me not to cry, and shooed me off to watch the fireworks. I am generally a big tipper but that one might be my all time record.
So now I'm back and the Real World is staring me down with its best January face. At least it stopped raining?
In a fit of apparent insanity, I am making myself a bullet journal. It will be the ugliest BuJo out there, because I'm not at all artistically inclined, I get no satisfaction from prettying things up, and I have no time to spend on that sort of stuff. (I am totally cool if people do actually get satisfaction from it all and find peace/joy from creating the pretty thing around the bones of the system—I would rather spend that extra time in the kitchen. Or with a book. Or writing. To each their own, YMMV, etc, etc, etc.) I like the concept of intentionally carrying things over (and thinking about why it's happening), and I'm a little ashamed the index concept is so exciting to me (and that it never occurred to me to do it in all my years of carrying around composition books with my various lists.) I sat down and started playing around with that over the weekend (when I should have been dealing with the tree, etc, but that clearly wasn't happening so at least this is progress?) I will keep you posted on my results (and since I'm thinking about writing this up for the mom blog I write for, there may even be pictures, wheee.)
In more fun news, I managed to beat the Disney system and get FastPasses for 12 to Flight of Passage over the busiest week of the year, so we started off 2019 with that bit of excitement. Happily enough, it is actually as good as everyone says it is so the hour or so in October that I spent wrangling tickets and reservations and MDE technical support was totally worth it.
Also in fun news, I was inspired by all the recs people have been posting (yuletide, snowflake, favorite stories of the year, etc) and my enjoyment of them all to go back and work on fic recs again (for the first time in years, oy.) Hopefully by Friday I should have a set to share. I think I'm going with a few old and a few new in each set so, uh, get ready for a whack of post-Winter Soldier angst.
Thanks for sticking around; I really enjoy having all of you in my life. ♥ ♥ ♥