Well, we’re back.
We’ve been there and back again and it was a lovely holiday all around, and at some point in the next day or two I will get some actual blogging done about it because this is where I put my stories so I don’t forget them but for now I’m still just sort of lazing around in a holiday-filled cheese-induced haze.
We got the house at least somewhat decorated for Christmas before we left, collected all of the people who were coming with us, and then went to Chattanooga for the holiday to spend some time with my side of the family. It was a far less ad-hoc experience than the last time we did this a couple of years ago, but what it lacked in buccaneering spirit it more than made up for in just being a good time with good people.
We got back late Saturday and have been enjoying doing not much of much at all since then, though today Kim and I were both working from home and Oliver is working on a project from last semester that he has to finish by the 9th. The cat has been very glad to see us and at some point soon she may actually detach herself from us physically. She was well cared for while we were away, but she definitely wants her people around.
We’ve been there and back again and it was a lovely holiday all around, and at some point in the next day or two I will get some actual blogging done about it because this is where I put my stories so I don’t forget them but for now I’m still just sort of lazing around in a holiday-filled cheese-induced haze.
We got the house at least somewhat decorated for Christmas before we left, collected all of the people who were coming with us, and then went to Chattanooga for the holiday to spend some time with my side of the family. It was a far less ad-hoc experience than the last time we did this a couple of years ago, but what it lacked in buccaneering spirit it more than made up for in just being a good time with good people.
We got back late Saturday and have been enjoying doing not much of much at all since then, though today Kim and I were both working from home and Oliver is working on a project from last semester that he has to finish by the 9th. The cat has been very glad to see us and at some point soon she may actually detach herself from us physically. She was well cared for while we were away, but she definitely wants her people around.
As a welcome home gift yesterday Wisconsin presented us with an inch or two of powdery snow being blown about by 30mph (48kph) winds such that when I went to shovel out this morning about half the driveway was bare and the other half was a handsbreadth deep but the joy of powder is that you can just sort of shove it along with only one hand on the shovel.
I had to get some errands done this afternoon but tomorrow my goal is not to leave the house at all. We’ll see how that goes.
This is the lawless part of the calendar year – the timeless part in between that nobody really tracks. You can sit around in sweatpants eating pie and watching irrelevant sporting events or reading whatever comes to hand, listening to whatever you want on Spotify since it won’t show up for next year’s Wrap until January, and generally not paying attention to the world for a bit. I feel I should be doing more bacchanalian things but then I have always felt that way, even when I was much younger, and I am old enough now that my definition of bacchanalian is mostly about books and tea anyway, so perhaps I already am.
It's not a bad way to spend a few days.
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