Merry, happy, good cheer

A post on my facebook wall reminded me that I haven’t blogged about this Advent Bookblog recommendation that was posted earlier this week. Mostly just because I haven’t blogged at all since my last day of work. Been working on the novel a bit, but most I’ve been completely submerged in books and Christmas prep for the last week. Taking the extra time off this year really has made a huge difference in my overall hatred of the holiday – I’ve got to confess that last night as we were decorating sugar cookies I actually enjoying a Christmas experience! That practically has never happened in my whole life – starting with the annual parental Christmas tree fights of my youth right on up through my non-celebration of the holiday for the last several years.

Tonight is dinner with B’s brother, and tomorrow we drop M. off with her mother after Christmas morning present-opening and then head out to the ferry to Victoria to do Christmas Day dinner with my family (which promises to be insane this year – my mother invited a lot of people). A few days of visiting on the island and we’re back in Van on the 29th just in time to prep a little new year’s dinner for friends. I’ve got a stack of books that I’m determined to read over the holidays plus I understand that there just *might* be books in my gift pile this year….. so in between the festivities you know that I’ll be curled up in whatever strange beds B & I find ourselves over the next few days rapidly reading in order to get through some of the stack.

I’ll definitely post from the island. At the very least to update on the novel wordcount (61,000 or so at the moment). I am still working on it and I’ve got a goal of finishing in the next two weeks. We’ll see if that happens.

In any case Merry, Happy, and Good Cheer to all out there on the eve of Christmas. Hope to see lots of you during the holidays and in the new year 🙂