(As is so often the case, I'm generally up to date on reading my DW circle, but not doing at all well with commenting.)
I guess at this point we're well into the liminal last bit of the year. (I said to
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try to hold "Christmas is twelve days, dammit" in my heart, but it's hard, especially when our observance of the the holiday at all is
so low-key.) We had masked visits with both sets of parents (mine on Christmas Eve and
scruloose's on Boxing Day), and in between, Christmas Day was just the two of us and the cats and the Netflix fireplaces. My mom sent us home with Christmas stockings and some gifts (also very low-key; we still keep nudging for just not doing presents at all), and the latter included a hard copy of the most recent edition of
Garner's Modern English Usage, which was a delightful surprise.
We actually had a white Christmas, which has never been a sure thing and is getting rarer and rarer at terrible speeds, but now ice and rain are arriving, to be followed by a cold snap, so I'm really glad we don't need to leave the house anytime soon. (See also: will we lose power? Very possibly! >.< But we're pretty well-equipped to deal with it.)
I'm feeling like I should be looking ahead or setting small goals or trying to find specific things I want to focus on, but so far I'm not really scrounging the brain for it. Anyone want to tell me about how you're approaching it?
(I do think I'll sign up for a GYWO wordcount goal again, despite having written almost literally zero words this year, but at this point I have the grim suspicion that the words may stay gone until a new full-on fannish obsession hits me, and that's
so infrequent for me. ;_; I have
so many Guardian WIPs and fragments. [And while I'm enjoying
seeing all the fannish glee over
Heated Rivalry, I don't currently feel fannish about it myself {which, honestly, I'm okay with}.])
Recent media, mostly books:
All Is Bright, Llinos Cathryn Thomas' "read over Advent" novella, which was lovely;
The Dark is Rising (book), which I'm glad to have finally read; I don't know if/when I might read the books that follow it;
Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher;
Widdershins by Jordan L. Hawk; KJ Charles'
Masters in this Hall (which I should've checked the series info about first, as it's the third
Lilywhite Boys book and I haven't read the second. Oops); and Brigid Kemmerer's
A Curse So Dark and Lonely.
scruloose and I finished listening to
System Collapse, so we're out of
Murderbot books. Yesterday (?) we listened to the four-minute audiobook sample of
The Thief, which I might be able to work with? But wow, the voice sounds
so much older than Gen to me. (Also, Kobo, four minutes is a reasonable sample length, but it literally cuts off
mid-word.)
I watched the season finale of
Heated Rivalry pretty promptly on Friday morning, for fear of being spoiled, which meant
scruloose, who hadn't seen any of the show previously, pretty much watched it too while feeding the cats and having their own breakfast. (I did give them some background info first.) As noted above: not feeling fannish, but I thought that was
really well done overall, and the actors seem like an absolute delight.
And we've watched two movies since starting vacation (
Wake Up Dead Man and
Sinners), which brings me up to a whopping four [4] movies this year.
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