glinda: Rimmer Zzzzzzz (sleepy)
I am so tired folks. Between the election and post-election shenanigans in London, I've barely been at home, for the last couple of weeks and a sort of bone-deep weariness had set in. I've got a long weekend in compensation and it's so needed. (Otherwise my actual holidays would probably involve me sleeping an awful lot.) I've no energy to do anything at the moment, getting up off the sofa to do anything more complex than making food is still difficult. It's so nice to be home again. I'm super tactile at th moment, loving the fleecey throws I have in my living room, the flannel covers and squishy duvet on my bed, how comfy my slippers are to wear when I have sore feet. I'm dead snuggly at the moment and so is my house. :D

I did mean to do more formal Solstice celebrations on Saturday, but instead I just had a pyjama day, ate comfort food, lit some candles and was grateful that the light will now start returning. Then I found out that apparently yesterday was the shortest day in this neck of the woods, I'm very confused. I thought if I could find the energy to do something appropriate I would but instead I went out for drinks to celebrate a mate's birthday which was fun, though I wish I'd known we weren't eating there (the pub we were into is a proper brewpub but is best known locally for their excellent stone-fired pizzas and excellent upstairs beer garden) because I'd have eaten beforehand rather than afterwards!

So actually, I'm just sending good thoughts out to all of you, and wishing you all a light in the darkness when you need it.

(Also Happy Chanukah to all those celebrating - I didn't realise how much Jewish cultural/religious knowledge I've absorbed from reading list folks over the years, but the new camera guy at work is Jewish and it's made many a conversation less awkward over the last year. I always enjoy reading about cultural differences, but this year it's had a practical element, so thank you to everyone who's talked about the parts of it that are important to them.)
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To all of you, whichever winter festival you do or do not celebrate (and those of you in the Southern hemisphere, celebrating 'winter festivals' in 30 degree heat) but most of all I tip my hat to everyone else for whom the best can honestly be said of yesterday was that 'we survived'.

There was Dr Who on the tele last night - I haven't watched the Xmas special live in years, I think it works better if you do - after days of drizzling insiduous rain the sun has come out this morning, and slowly the build up of stress is unwinding out of my body. (I slept for 12 hours last night, I really, really needed that.)

It feels like there's light in the darkness again and I hope you all find that when you need it most too.
glinda: yellow crocus on a bed of snow (snow crocus)
I was in fact working today. I'm totally volunteering for this shift every year.

My parents sent me a pressie in the post and I did the same for them, so we opened our pressies on Skype this morning. Then I had half an hour chatting to my gran on Skype when she arrived at my parents. And that's quite enough family interaction for Xmas I feel. There was zero drama and minimal sulking!

I made butternut squash and sweet potato lasagne, along with vol au vents, puttering around in the kitchen with candyfloss tele (More4 were showing all the list programmes today) on in the background and a mug of (nonalcoholic) blackcurrant wine, texting back and forth with parents and friends.

And then I went to work for a short shift to put out the bulletin. There were like 7 people in the building all day but it was fun and easy. (Even the weather went reasonably well...well, it was nearly a disaster but I fixed it and R who was OE for the programme and usually does Xmas informed us it was still one of the most straightforward xmas weathers he'd ever presided over. Neither C - the other tech on shift - or me have ever done Xmas before so we were a bit. O_o)

And I have all of next week off on holiday, so I'm away down to my parents. I fully intend to spend a lot of time sleeping, crafting, watching movies and catching up with friends. Also writing things for [community profile] fandom_stocking. (Mine can be found here should you be interested...)
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