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I've just shoveled about seven inches of snow to and around the car, and then down the drive, and off the sidewalk. And it's still coming down like crazy. But I'm hoping that if I tackle it in six inch increments, it won't kill me later. *g*

This is my annual, "I'm not dead!" post. Unless the blizzard gets me tonight. :) The museums were closed today due to weather, and probably will be tomorrow, too, but I'm off for the next two days anyway, so I think I'm just going to enjoy being snowed in and get caught up a bit on Doctor Who and Merlin. And maybe poke around Yuletide. :)

*hugs everyone*

My computer at home has been dying a slow death for a while now, and I'd already been planning to get a new laptop after the first of the year, once I recover a bit from holiday bills. It never occurred to me that it wouldn't make it another two weeks, but the monitor died last night, so it's not good for much now. *sigh* So I'll be computerless, except at work, for a couple of weeks, unless I come up with a good enough excuse to check out one of our work laptops and go home with it. Which I'm very motivated to do. Yuletide is coming up! *g*

I'm also getting ready to abandon my usual email address of cin1 at cox dot net, because it's just a swamp of spam lately. Yahoo's doing a better job of filtering it out, so I'm going to make my cin1485 at yahoo dot com address my primary email account.

It's funny. I hadn't realized until fairly recently (thanks to meri_oddities who reminded me that there was life outside of work) just what an absolute bunker mentality I've had for the last half of the year.

( Cut for museum budget woes. )

( Cut for changes in my job. )

Fannishly, in spite of my "I've been to this war before!" first impressions of Merlin, somehow I got sucked in by the 10th episode of the first season (which up until that point I'd only been casually watching, since it was on NBC this summer) and fell kind of hard. At first I was a bit annoyed with myself, because I wasn't really ready to leave SGA yet. But there was a lull and I'm weak and Jesus, those boys are pretty. Now I've just resigned myself to another fandom where I'm practically old enough to be the main character's mother and have stopped trying to wash the dirty off in favor of combing through people's delicious tags looking for fic recs. :) It's been a great distraction from real life. I didn't go to a single con this year, and I've missed the fellowship and shared squee. I'm hoping to see more of people this winter and Con.txt can't get here soon enough. :)

Deadline from hell has been met and work is turned in for review! \o/ So I thought I'd take the evening off and bake some cookies or something. It seemed like a good idea at the time. *g*

Good: Cookie dough with apricots, almonds and pine nuts looks fab. :)
Bad: Dropped the flour canister when putting ingredients away. /o\
Good: Was almost out of flour anyway.
Bad: Solid black kitty was caught in blast radius.
Good: At least it missed the big rug in front of the sink.
Bad: I got flour on the dining room table in the next room.
Good: I now have a very clean kitchen and dining room.
Bad: Kitty will never speak to me again.
Good: At least until the cookies are baked. :)

I'm working tomorrow--day five of five, finally. I'm absolutely spending Monday catching up on everything I've missed in SGA fic in the last month. Plus, it looks like everyone I love to read is playing kink bingo! Maybe I can get Tuesday off, too. :)