Wonderful Christmas Day. Got to spend it with family on both sides. Ho-Westins in the morning, and Heinichen-Virta's in the evening. And now I'm tired...which of course has me worried right now that I'm coming down with the sickness that has afflicted this trip. Not...

One of the clan still sick today, but it all went off without a hitch. Got to exchange Secret Santa gifts with the Heinichen family in the morning, including Seth and Lena and Henri (plus Lena's parents!) all the way out in Germany. That was wonderful. I got a lamp...

Couple main tasks nicely took up pretty much my entire day today: I helped Lin get his new computer all set up, and I went over to Scaddie's and wrapped my presents for tomorrow. Yes, indeed, we are doing our secret santa gift exchange tomorrow morning this year...

We have a few Christmas traditions round here...and one of them, unfortunately, is that someone always gets sick 😂 I won't say who since it's not me (yet), but yes indeed, one of the Ho-Heinichen clan is under the weather. Le sigh. Hopefully nothing too...

We're in the Land of Port! It was an EARLY day of travel, considering we went to bed last night at 1 in the morning. Got up at six. It's late, so I'm going to make this one short. Travel was pretty smooth. Got in and took a nap. Walked the pups. Watched the Niners...

Home late from a concert with bear. We watched the one-night-only reunion concert for My Chemical Romance. It...rocked. All packed up and ready to go. It's time for the holidays, yo!

I think I may have figured out a way to do these author info videos in a way that's not suuuuper hard to memorize and practice. I mean...we will see. Still figuring it out, but I'm optimistic! Pups went to the doomers today and got shiny clean. Not cut, except around...

And just like that, I had a great writing day. Like, really really good. This is how I did it: I got to work on time. I didn't do anything once I got to work except take off my jacket, grab my lap desk and headphones, and go to my little spot to sit down and meditate....

Coco is snuggled under the covers up against me. Liz is out in the living room watching The Office. And I am in bed, having wrote today. I wanted to find a 'switch' today for the writing. To have it just kind of pour out...but now I remember that's not how it happens....

We watched His Dark Materials tonight. It was...not great. Liz really didn't like it. I was more ambivalent about it. What it made me want, actually, was to read the books. I remember a long, long time ago reading the very beginning of The Golden Compass. The first...