High Holy Days mit Uberreiniger
Dec. 30th, 2011 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uberreinigerI don't think I've really posted what I've done this holiday season so here goes:
Christmas turned out to be very nice despite me having to stay up well into the morning hours madly finishing a freelance project that was due. This was aided by M. having given me her Christmas present a few days beforehand: a new office chair. Much better than the secondhand (and who knows how many hands before that,) dining room chair I had been using up until then. Lower back pain is now gone and sitting at the computer is pleasurable once again. We did the rest of our gift exchange just after midnight and had a nice time with it.
Christmas day itself we went to my parents' for the Christmas meal which was also a very nice experience. My mom stuffed us and left us pretty well incapable of doing anything until after a nap which we took as soon as we got home. There can be something blissful about having it be dark when you wake up. After waking in darkness and opening the path to nightmare, (sorry, Silent Hill reference,) we drove up to the Plaza to look at Christmas lights. We talked about finding a Chinese restaurant to eat at just for the hell of it but by then it was getting late so we headed back home. It doesn't sound like much but it was a very relaxing holiday and just what we both needed.
Last night I did another mad dash of freelance work, interrupted by going out for a few hours. We had planned to go to the Nelson museum but by the time we left the house it felt like a little too much work so we ended up going to both Half-Price Books locations following a wonderful meal at New Peking down in Westport. I think we have a new favorite Chinese restaurant. Super yummy and enough leftovers for multiple meals. Can't beat that. The book store outings were profitable too since Half-Price was having a 20% off sale. I came away with an omnibus of Naomi Novik Tremeraire novels and Brandon Sanderson's first Mistborn novel. These are two authors I repeatedly hear good things about from people I trust so I think it's high time I found out what the fuss was about. Then again, I heard the same thing about Douglas Adams and that didn't turn out well. But Douglas Adams wasn't handpicked by Robert Jordan to finish the Wheel of Time so in Sanderson's case if nothing else I at least feel a little safer.
Now I have to rush out the door to go to work. Happy New year if I don't see you.
Christmas turned out to be very nice despite me having to stay up well into the morning hours madly finishing a freelance project that was due. This was aided by M. having given me her Christmas present a few days beforehand: a new office chair. Much better than the secondhand (and who knows how many hands before that,) dining room chair I had been using up until then. Lower back pain is now gone and sitting at the computer is pleasurable once again. We did the rest of our gift exchange just after midnight and had a nice time with it.
Christmas day itself we went to my parents' for the Christmas meal which was also a very nice experience. My mom stuffed us and left us pretty well incapable of doing anything until after a nap which we took as soon as we got home. There can be something blissful about having it be dark when you wake up. After waking in darkness and opening the path to nightmare, (sorry, Silent Hill reference,) we drove up to the Plaza to look at Christmas lights. We talked about finding a Chinese restaurant to eat at just for the hell of it but by then it was getting late so we headed back home. It doesn't sound like much but it was a very relaxing holiday and just what we both needed.
Last night I did another mad dash of freelance work, interrupted by going out for a few hours. We had planned to go to the Nelson museum but by the time we left the house it felt like a little too much work so we ended up going to both Half-Price Books locations following a wonderful meal at New Peking down in Westport. I think we have a new favorite Chinese restaurant. Super yummy and enough leftovers for multiple meals. Can't beat that. The book store outings were profitable too since Half-Price was having a 20% off sale. I came away with an omnibus of Naomi Novik Tremeraire novels and Brandon Sanderson's first Mistborn novel. These are two authors I repeatedly hear good things about from people I trust so I think it's high time I found out what the fuss was about. Then again, I heard the same thing about Douglas Adams and that didn't turn out well. But Douglas Adams wasn't handpicked by Robert Jordan to finish the Wheel of Time so in Sanderson's case if nothing else I at least feel a little safer.
Now I have to rush out the door to go to work. Happy New year if I don't see you.
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Date: 2011-12-30 04:39 pm (UTC)It's always good to find a bookstore that... exists. :/
Funny you should mention Douglas Adams. In high school I thought he was the Funniest Thing Ever. Many years later, after I was married, I heard the Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Show, laughed my ass off, and went to read the books again and... couldn't finish the first chapter. I guess I still think he's hilarious since he wrote the radio show but I can't get into the books anymore and I've been feeling like the Worth Fan Ever ever since. I feel better now.
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Date: 2011-12-31 02:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-01 02:30 am (UTC)People always want to analyze why someone doesn't like something or claim they don't "get it," when really everybody has their thing that nearly everybody else likes that they don't like. For me it's "Labyrinth." I love David Bowie, I'm terribly fond of muppets, and I really hope I never have to sit through that movie again.
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Date: 2011-12-30 08:13 pm (UTC)(Hope you liked the virtual cookie I sent you for the holidays. Silly I know, but it was a free one, so I thought, "Why not?" =^)
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Date: 2011-12-31 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-31 03:20 am (UTC)I don't get his books at all
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Date: 2011-12-31 04:24 am (UTC)