A happy end of year to everyone ❄
Dec. 28th, 2024 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaI went home for the end of the year. Z came with me for the first few days, but he left the day after Christmas and has been sending many, many pictures and videos of our cat. Our place is undergoing renovations by our landlord, so they've been cuddled up in the basement, and our kitty has many blankets to laze around in.
I've been babysitting some Very Important Code for work, but other than that, I took off all this week, and it's been nice to not do much of anything harder than cleaning up after dinner. Z had been on a big organizing binge before we had to move half our furniture for the renovations, so he also had a good break. We enjoyed a relaxing Christmas especially - my favorite moment was when Z opened the last card, which said something like 'Oh my! This gift wouldn't fit under the tree! A special delivery is incoming' and then I wheeled the box in on my parents' handcart because the box was a little too bulky to keep in the room. The look on his face was amazing :D Z also did a great job of picking out the Christmas mead for my mom, which we've been having at dinner.
On our drive down, I read most of a novella I had an ARC for (it was good) and I've also gotten through Captive Prince, which was a breezy read and certainly iddy in a lot of ways. My holds for the next two just came in this morning, so I'm looking forward to reading more of the story. I did wish it had been give a better edit to excise the repetition and the telling us that this is a deadly decadent court with schemey schemers, and maybe rework the action scenes, as I found them hard to follow. Still need to finish Frankenstein as well.
Overall, while I haven't read quite as many books this year - part of it was everything that happened over the summer, and part of it is that I'm spending more reading time in Japanese, where I'm much slower - I did a better at picking books that I really enjoyed this year compared to last year.
Z and I brought our Switch with us, and I've picked up Fire Emblem: Three Hopes again and am working on the Golden Wildfire route. Just needed a bit to remember all the game mechanics and controls! My dad likes watching me play it and seeing the very OTT battle scenes. And I've posted the first chapter of my Morrowind WIP; it's a little nerve-wracking to finally start posting it after keeping it to myself for so long, but I'm also glad to have part of it out there for people to read.
I've been babysitting some Very Important Code for work, but other than that, I took off all this week, and it's been nice to not do much of anything harder than cleaning up after dinner. Z had been on a big organizing binge before we had to move half our furniture for the renovations, so he also had a good break. We enjoyed a relaxing Christmas especially - my favorite moment was when Z opened the last card, which said something like 'Oh my! This gift wouldn't fit under the tree! A special delivery is incoming' and then I wheeled the box in on my parents' handcart because the box was a little too bulky to keep in the room. The look on his face was amazing :D Z also did a great job of picking out the Christmas mead for my mom, which we've been having at dinner.
On our drive down, I read most of a novella I had an ARC for (it was good) and I've also gotten through Captive Prince, which was a breezy read and certainly iddy in a lot of ways. My holds for the next two just came in this morning, so I'm looking forward to reading more of the story. I did wish it had been give a better edit to excise the repetition and the telling us that this is a deadly decadent court with schemey schemers, and maybe rework the action scenes, as I found them hard to follow. Still need to finish Frankenstein as well.
Overall, while I haven't read quite as many books this year - part of it was everything that happened over the summer, and part of it is that I'm spending more reading time in Japanese, where I'm much slower - I did a better at picking books that I really enjoyed this year compared to last year.
Z and I brought our Switch with us, and I've picked up Fire Emblem: Three Hopes again and am working on the Golden Wildfire route. Just needed a bit to remember all the game mechanics and controls! My dad likes watching me play it and seeing the very OTT battle scenes. And I've posted the first chapter of my Morrowind WIP; it's a little nerve-wracking to finally start posting it after keeping it to myself for so long, but I'm also glad to have part of it out there for people to read.
