The 31st of December 2019

I can't believe I'm only just posting again after having so many days off - and wondering if I'll manage at all to make my now-traditional (*g*) new year's eve post. Twelve whole days off I had, and I didn't even manage to reply to all the lovely people who talked to me last time I posted... I'm sorry! Again... Where does my time go? Come to think of it, maybe it has been a bit of an odd'un this year. I suppose it went something like this:
- finished work, hurrah, 12 days off!
- desperate dash to write fic for my discoveredinalj day
- attempt to do chores, shop, re-decorate Christmas tree (don't ask...) and all that
- more food saving stuff/people to meet etc. (new application is in!)
- desperate dash to finish Yuletide story properly, after submitting only something that would do at the deadline. Thank goodness for edits! Interspersed with Skyping Australia (no, not all of it, just family... *g*) for their Christmas on my Christmas eve. I finished the story at 5.30am on Christmas morning, and it's been a long time since I pulled that kind of all-nighter! Even for work I'm usually done by 4am-ish. Queue eep-worry-etc., but it seems to have gone down pretty well, so phew. My first time writing entirely for a fandom that isn't Pros, too...
- Christmas day. The rest of it. Landlords had invited me for drinks, so I'd set my alarm, woken up before it went off, ate a banana and finished off my breakfast with a glass of red wine... Not sure I've ever done that before! Then just had a quiet one, including fab things like the new Gavin and Stacey. *g*
- Crashed day! I did nothing on Boxing day. Which is when I could have got my manners together and replied to people...
- I was a good girl the next day, and gathered together my accounts for January taxes day... I always swear I'll do it early...
- various other chores
- watching all the Star Wars films in order, ready to go and see The Rise of Skywalker last night - wheee! It took ages (obviously!) but I did it, for the first time ever, and it made a huge difference when I saw this one, so I was really glad I'd done it. Also, wow - spin-offs etc. to come notwithstanding, that's the end of the three trilogies, end of that era... it took almost my whole life so far!
- and then it was today, and I went to see a mate (and listen to her partner's practice forensics lecture, which was fun and took me back), then shopping and laundry. I have a feeling that I'm going to see the new year in surrounded by bathmats and knickers, cos my dryer just isn't that fast, and I have no radiators to hurry the process along...!

( Books 2019 )

( Pros and Fanfic )

( Village life... )

Anyway - by the time you read at least this sentence - happy new year! Here's to 2020 being better in sooooo many ways.