My goals today are small but myriad. – empty garbages – empty recycling – empty office – get gavin’s christmas present – get a roll of big tape – tape boxes – send a few packages – laundry. ALL the laundry. – make a stab at finishing “Baba Yaga’s Daughter” (i made a stab. i didn’t finish, but i stabbed.) – edit “The Christmas Hollidays” – put up the Christmas tree. finally. – weep in despair at the to-do list
squee!
My other nephew’s book has arrived! Squee! Christmas is sorted! Except one other thing for my brother-in-law, but besides that, sorted! And, er, y’know, putting the tree up and finishing wrapping presents. And I’m realizing just how many copies of the first nephew’s book I should’ve ordered but didn’t–there are a *lot* of kids in the family who are the right age range for it. So I’ll have to get a few more and send them out after Christmas. In the meantime I’ve got all the immediate needs dealt with,…
yeah, like that!
To quote my brother-out-law (my brother-in-law’s brother; we think people of that relation level are clearly outlaws), “Man, I wish there was a proper Longest Night celebration. If only this were ancient alternate fantasy France.” Yeah. Like that. :) Happy Solstice anyway. Today or tomorrow or both, what the hell, it’s the longest night and it’s a damned long one!
thinks so they don’t get forgotten
immediately: – get presents wrapped – get presents in the mail – get photos off camera – put up the christmas tree :) very soon: – edits on “The Christmas Hollidays” – do BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER proofs – write “Ruminations” – get as much as possible done on the ElectriCity script – get Easy Pickings up on Amazon etc house stuff: – replaced the carpet in the living room – painted the living room – bought a new computer desk – bought a new computer chair – bought a new…
Last Year of the Long Calendar
The Mayan long calendar ends a year from today. Well, it doesn’t end, it clicks over to the next–b’ak’tun, it’s called. The 14th b’ak’tun. There’s no more prophetic doom associated with the end of the long calendar than the millennium, and possibly less: lifting from Wiki, we have the commentary that “for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle.” Me, while I’m in no hurry for the world to end, I’d love to see some kind of stunning world-changing…