Things are odd.....

[ianuk]

Well, today is the 11th of December...I had a huge meeting this AM that I had to field phone calls all through from daycare. But let me back up. For weeks I've been working this huge, huge issue at work that we had to basically fix a harness, update multiple configurations and get people on two continents to agree on something. Today was the big presentation and international telecon and it was intense. Along with that I've been helping my program with planning a big shindig for today to have a big meal and an end of year slide show. So, daycare called. Benton was leaking gooey stuff out of his eyes and he needed to be picked up and taken care of by us and/or the doctor. So in between things I made phone calls but my portion of things took 1.5 hours on teh phone. Mel ended up over text picking the boy up and I was able to finally leave and relieve him to go back to work. So we had lunch, his eyes were kinda goopy but I gave him allergy stuff and hot compresses and we shall see what is up when he gets up from a nap. If he's still icky I'll put the antibiotic drops in but we shall see. He's been down for almost 3 hours...so he's tired but I think we all are.

Last weekend was pretty fun. Mel and I had been getting the house setup for us to have the Hrafnheim Yule. I was basically on my feet for two days straight cleaning and polishing and cleaning. I did manage to go to the street fair and do some awesome xmas shopping and introduce Asteria to the street fair. But our house is now most awesomely clean. The yule was awesome. Well attended and good food and drink. We welcomed Aeryn as a new memeber and did our challenges for the year. I have to finish up things from last year but my main goal is my new outfit for Crown. There was good times and the clean up was very minimal since our peeps rock. lferion stayed till way later chatting and plotting with us. It was so nice to just sit and not work on projects.

Monday was crazy getting ready for today and I hit the gym. I've been really good and going 3 times per week for a bit now. I've been working on running in my new shoes and I want to get better at the rock climbing wall. I'm going to try to get up to 5 mins on it. Other than that my projects have been working on the blanket for Ed and Candace and working on a raven for a hrafn cloak. I have to finish those up this weekend but other than that its all good. I am looking forward to getting my studio cleaned and back to making stuff. And to clean my studio I need to have a marathon of gift wrapping to get a box sent out to family. Crazy but true. Going to work on that tonight. I'm very glad to be getting off of work soon...I want time to work on my stuff...and enjoy the holidays.

So speaking of holidays...the tree has turned out really well and Benton is in love with it. Every time he comes into the family room and the tree isn't on he asks to get it turned on. He's also been really good with it and only just touched the ornaments. We shall see how he does with presents. But that it tomorrow. Today I leave you with Benton and the Tree: