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ceitfianna) wrote2025-01-01 07:50 pm
ceitfianna) wrote2025-01-01 07:50 pm
A restful holiday
I had a lovely holiday with my parents with the family from New Jersey visiting on the weekend. It was nice to have time to not do a lot, my dad healing from his back surgery gives us all good reasons to sit and just be. I really enjoyed having money to treat my family and just feel more secure as I had a good evaluation before the holidays.
I even broke the drive down up into two days which made my life so much easier, after work on Monday, I drove through Connecticut so that on Tuesday, I didn't have to do the whole thing. The only annoying thing was it snowed in the morning which was kind of pretty but the roads were covered with so much salt that I actually ran out of windshield wiper fluid. There was one terrifying moment where it ran out while my windshield was dirty, not enough I couldn't see but I was glad to be on a straight road and near a service station. Then I even made it happily in time to have a nice Christmas Eve dinner with my parents.
Yuletide wise, I received a brilliant Saint of Steel fic called Paladin's Lace which led me to so many great Saint of Steel fics. I can recommend pretty much everything in the Yuletide for it, i think there's only one I haven't read yet. Then I spent most of my break rereading Paladin's Faith and various lovely fics. My favorite way to look through Yuletide is the random fics on the main page as I find wonderful stuff. I'll do a proper rec list later as drove home today.
I wrote But we are spirits of another sort, an October Daye fic focused on Chelsea Ames, which my giftee really liked.
Also while down with my parents, I bought a small dresser that's still in the back seat of my car as I didn't have the energy to unload it tonight. But its so cool and when its in place, there will be pictures.
I even broke the drive down up into two days which made my life so much easier, after work on Monday, I drove through Connecticut so that on Tuesday, I didn't have to do the whole thing. The only annoying thing was it snowed in the morning which was kind of pretty but the roads were covered with so much salt that I actually ran out of windshield wiper fluid. There was one terrifying moment where it ran out while my windshield was dirty, not enough I couldn't see but I was glad to be on a straight road and near a service station. Then I even made it happily in time to have a nice Christmas Eve dinner with my parents.
Yuletide wise, I received a brilliant Saint of Steel fic called Paladin's Lace which led me to so many great Saint of Steel fics. I can recommend pretty much everything in the Yuletide for it, i think there's only one I haven't read yet. Then I spent most of my break rereading Paladin's Faith and various lovely fics. My favorite way to look through Yuletide is the random fics on the main page as I find wonderful stuff. I'll do a proper rec list later as drove home today.
I wrote But we are spirits of another sort, an October Daye fic focused on Chelsea Ames, which my giftee really liked.
Also while down with my parents, I bought a small dresser that's still in the back seat of my car as I didn't have the energy to unload it tonight. But its so cool and when its in place, there will be pictures.