calm & bright

I am safely arrived and finally unpacked! Weather.com hazards snow tomorrow and promises it Sunday, which makes me pretty delighted; never once in my life have I actually had snow on Christmas. It would be nice, and slightly surreal.

This afternoon it is going to be all tree-decorating and cookie-baking and, if we're feeling up to it, the Unitarian Christmas mass tonight. I am determinedly dressing in festive things (by which I mean a red Irish step-dancing dress, not, say, a sweater with reindeer on) and ignoring the fact that I have my stupid annual Christmas head cold. Basically I am mainlining all the tea in the house. The cookies I bake will taste excellent, and I will have enough voice to sing Silent Night later.

...In between all of this, of course, I am also trying to write a million Yuletide Treats. Will I actually finish any of them? Who knows! I'm having fun anyway.

yeah, still can't write short things

Tree is decorated, slightly experimental cookies are baked, mass was not attended because my head is full of cotton and disease (and also because Silent Night is all well and good when one is healthy, but right now I have I'm Not Okay going on loop through my head and it is perfect), and ... my final Yuletide word count for this year is 27,830 words.

Don't look at me like that. My actual assignment clocked in at over 10,000. And then another fic would not stop and ended up about 16,000. And then I wrote an actual Treat that was about 900. And lo, it was good, and I feel awesome, but oh my god my body hates me right now.

Archive to be read in the morning, with all the tea! I am optimistic this year, because so far the servers are being superheroes.