December Things

[vivien]

• I can't seem to put my mind to reading this month. Not even wonderful fic! I know this is not a permanent thing, but it's annoying.
• No Christmas tree this year because of kitten, which I thought would make me sad, but turns out it's good to take a break sometimes. I have a card tree of sorts - some of my childhood cards - on a greeting card rack. It has nothing dangling for Miss Mouse to play with and I can see my Baby's First Christmas card from here. Sweet.
• I lost the Little Drummer Boy game the weekend after Thanksgiving and as a result, I've been listening to more Christmas music than usual. I have never been a huge fan of continuous Xmas tune-age, but  I dunno, this year it is hitting the spot.
• I've done some creative projects for Christmas gifts, but it hasn't been enough. However my craft room is a wasteland of clutter right now, and I don't have the energy to tackle it. Like, none at all. Maybe next week when I'm off - I have a charity pick up coming up on 12/30, so I can get more things purged and maybe, just maybe, organized.
• I'm in dumpling season. Pierogis are so good.
• Despite having the attention span of a fruit fly, I'm almost to a one year streak on Duolingo and I am making slow progress with more complex level 1 Spanish. I'm understanding conversations at stores! It's pretty cool.
• If I don't take a nap with the kitten after work each day, then she is a wilder thing than usual. So darn, I guess I gotta keep taking naps.
• I'm leading the theater group for Fairmount Heritage Foundation and I have a planning meeting in January with my cemetery friends, and I'm stupid excited about it. A goal for 2023 is an Edwardian afternoon dress/gown for cemetery event purposes.
• I'm sleepy so I guess that's it for now.

Comments

[camwyn]

Heh. I had a teeny little tabletop tree my first year in Hoboken because there was no real room in the apartment for a big one... and the cats still found a way to bowl it over anyway. Miss Mouse may eventually relent and let you resume tree usage, once she's older.

[apisa_b]

Naps are good. If they calm your kitten, all the better.

Now I'm rather curious about your cemetery friends. Care to explain, before my imagination gets the better of me?

[vivien]

Ha ha, I'm okay with your imagination getting the better of you, but here is what's what. I'm part of the Fairmount Heritage Foundation, Fairmount being the historical cemetery that I live next to. We do historical data entry projects, historical tours, and other presentations. So for the theater group, we have two summer tours about notable people who lived in Denver and were buried at Fairmount - parts of the tours are actors interpreting the notable people - to add some flair and connection for modern audiences. So my cemetery friends are a couple of the ladies near my age who all love the same dark, Halloweeny things I do.

[apisa_b]

Ah, that sounds rather cool!