12/31: with Chris

...baking pecan sandies, making a kind-of pizza with a no-yeast dough, and reading aloud The Dangerous Journey by Tove Jansson.

12/30: halving

 ...an egg.  I had enough ricotta and citron to make one more stollen loaf (we've already finished two!), but the recipe is written for two loaves and calls for one egg.  I used a vegan egg replacer, which made it easy to halve.

12/29: reading

...Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell. The third story--"An Important Failure"--made me cry.

12/28: reading book reviews

In the static of the semester I stopped reading the NYTBR each week, so I have a bunch of them stacked up.  It makes me feel like me to be reading them again.

12/27: taking advantage

...of a non-rainy morning to go to Woolly Hollow.

...of a quiet afternoon to finish A Rome of One's Own by Emma Southon.

...of an evening which 3 friends had off to play Yahtzee via conference call and a dice-rolling website.

12/26: sipping a shirley temple

...(kind of), at lunchtime, using a sparkling grapefruit mixer as the base.

12/25: a variety

...of quiet good things.  Eating stollen, seeing bluebirds, taking a walk, collaging with Chris, making some donations, drinking wassail gifted by a neighbor, texting with family, reading a NYTBR and a novel, enjoying the company of the cats, generally relaxing, and not feeling like I had to do anything in particular.

12/24: just a little

 ...quiet writing, after a nearly 6-month hiatus.