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I have, at long last, posted off some Christmas presents. Woohoo! It makes me realise just how behind I am, though, so I'm procrastinating here on my day bed, with Newton dozing under a blanket beside me and Dante twitching in the dog bed in front. Do I fish out the sewing machine and run up silk bags for making lavender sachets for my mum (first promised for her birthday in September), or do I trawl through my yarn stash in search of something decent to make my brother-in-law a hat and scarf, since I not only owe him a Christmas present, but it's also his 40th birthday this weekend? Should I have another go at turning empty wine bottles into glasses, or make bath bombs? Gah! Too many decisions!
I did, however, order some more coal*, since we're down to our last bag, worked my way through more of the laundry pile, and cleaned the parlour fireplace.
It does clean up rather magnificently! I need to get some blacking (blacklead?) for the hood, but it's amazing how much better it looks after a wipe over with a damp microfibre cloth. Hurrah! My father-in-law remembers his father bringing back that fireplace from somewhere that was being knocked down and remembers helping him put it in. Wow!
Writing has been pretty nonexistent. Even with a prompt and a deadline from my dad I stare at the page, at the screen, then go do something else. Perhaps it's time to dig out my old iPod and fire up some Rammstein. For some reason, they make truly awesome writing music! Bach's better for editing, though, go figure. *shrug* I have kept to my resolutions thus far apart from that, though, and haven't had any wine this year. I'm also just over 1kg lighter. There may be some correlation, but around half of that is probably just normal cycle weight fluctuation. Still, it's going in the right direction so I shan't complain. Now if only my bank balance would do the same, it'd be a truly awesome start to the year...
Tomorrow's jobs for tackling: sewing, putting up a couple of coat racks on the side of one of the bookcases for hanging shoes up.
*Since I paid for the coal with the money my parents-in-law gave me for Christmas, I guess I can truly say I got coal for Christmas - must have been on the naughty list!
I did, however, order some more coal*, since we're down to our last bag, worked my way through more of the laundry pile, and cleaned the parlour fireplace.
It does clean up rather magnificently! I need to get some blacking (blacklead?) for the hood, but it's amazing how much better it looks after a wipe over with a damp microfibre cloth. Hurrah! My father-in-law remembers his father bringing back that fireplace from somewhere that was being knocked down and remembers helping him put it in. Wow!
Writing has been pretty nonexistent. Even with a prompt and a deadline from my dad I stare at the page, at the screen, then go do something else. Perhaps it's time to dig out my old iPod and fire up some Rammstein. For some reason, they make truly awesome writing music! Bach's better for editing, though, go figure. *shrug* I have kept to my resolutions thus far apart from that, though, and haven't had any wine this year. I'm also just over 1kg lighter. There may be some correlation, but around half of that is probably just normal cycle weight fluctuation. Still, it's going in the right direction so I shan't complain. Now if only my bank balance would do the same, it'd be a truly awesome start to the year...
Tomorrow's jobs for tackling: sewing, putting up a couple of coat racks on the side of one of the bookcases for hanging shoes up.
*Since I paid for the coal with the money my parents-in-law gave me for Christmas, I guess I can truly say I got coal for Christmas - must have been on the naughty list!
