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So I finished a short story I'd been working on for three years, so there's that. I don't know if I like it or not.
Despite the usual anxiety etc, I've gotten a lot done for Christmas. Almost all the gifts bought, menu for Xmas day planned, decorations up. I need to clean the house again tomorrow, then make sure the guest room is clean for the friend who is staying with us next week.
On Xmas eve we usually go out to a sushi place we really like, and on Xmas day I cook a giant fancy meal, so I'm gearing up for that. We're having paprika roasted leg of lamb, with gravy and mint sauce, carrots potatoes and butternut squash in a curry, cold pickled cucumbers, collard greens with bacon and shallots and garlic, stuffed mushrooms, and popovers. Plus a Yule Log cake from a bakery, and a pumpkin pie and chocolate pie my husband will make. It sounds like a lot but we have eight people coming for dinner and we like leftovers.
I finished watching Watchmen, which was excellent, and am about four episodes into the new season of The Expanse. I'm really enjoying it. The story is moving a lot faster now that they're past the first couple of books, and we're getting into the giant-alien-ruins-space mysteries-on-other-planets part. And it's so much better without commercials. And Avasarala is even more awesome.
I'm reading Relative Fortunes, a period mystery set in post-WWI New York by Marlowe Benn, and Rosewater Redemption, the final book in the Rosewater trilogy set in near future Nigeria, by Tade Thompson.
I posted some holiday light photos here: https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1207289847951564800
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Despite the usual anxiety etc, I've gotten a lot done for Christmas. Almost all the gifts bought, menu for Xmas day planned, decorations up. I need to clean the house again tomorrow, then make sure the guest room is clean for the friend who is staying with us next week.
On Xmas eve we usually go out to a sushi place we really like, and on Xmas day I cook a giant fancy meal, so I'm gearing up for that. We're having paprika roasted leg of lamb, with gravy and mint sauce, carrots potatoes and butternut squash in a curry, cold pickled cucumbers, collard greens with bacon and shallots and garlic, stuffed mushrooms, and popovers. Plus a Yule Log cake from a bakery, and a pumpkin pie and chocolate pie my husband will make. It sounds like a lot but we have eight people coming for dinner and we like leftovers.
I finished watching Watchmen, which was excellent, and am about four episodes into the new season of The Expanse. I'm really enjoying it. The story is moving a lot faster now that they're past the first couple of books, and we're getting into the giant-alien-ruins-space mysteries-on-other-planets part. And it's so much better without commercials. And Avasarala is even more awesome.
I'm reading Relative Fortunes, a period mystery set in post-WWI New York by Marlowe Benn, and Rosewater Redemption, the final book in the Rosewater trilogy set in near future Nigeria, by Tade Thompson.
I posted some holiday light photos here: https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1207289847951564800
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