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Have been reading random things on my parents computer since it grew dark enough that there is no longer glare on the screen. Mostly PotC fic that I haven't read for a while (there is no new fic, where is the fic?), but also random HP stuff, and the occasionaly FFVIII piece, all of which I've read before.

Was up around eight or so, since Mum wanted to go to the supermarket before it really got busy. As it was quite bsuy enough at nine o' clock in the morning, I didn't mind too much. Ever since I went shopping by myself on a Saturday afternoon at the Wakefield St. New World, I find that my tolerance for crowded supermarkets has lessened some. It's easier when I'm with another person, so today wasn't too bad.

Oh! I have finished the first quarter of my dragon crossstitch! I said I wanted to have that pattern piece finished by the end of the year, and I've gotten it done by Christmas, which pleases me. The quarter I've done is all the none-blurry stuff you can see in my icon. So I made my brother and Mum admire it, and then I pulled out the next pattern piece, which I'd had the foresight to bring with me. And gah! The amount of stitching on it is amazing, and I have no idea where to start with it! I almost wish I'd been organised enough to have stuff for the blackwork sampler I want to do. I'd also like to do a Tree and Dragon crossstitch or blackwork piece, but the pattern making software I bought a few months ago won't install on my computer, and I don't have the patience to work that particular one out by hand. One day.

The weather here has been - interesting. Mum calls it blustery with showers, but really, there isn't that much wind, although it's been winder earlier in the week. Branches on the ground, and the like.

There is a new (been there for a year) second hand bookstore on Grey St., with the largest SF and Fantasy section I've seen in a second hand story outside of Bizzy Bees for quite a while. Mum left me there for ten minutes or so while I scanned the shelves rapidly, and I eventually walked away with three Charles de Lint books for $26. De Lint isn't enormously high on my priority list, but there was nothing there that was, and I had either read or owned quite a bit that was there, since it was a lot of the older stuff. It was a nice discovery, and depending on how much time I have to spare tomorrow, I may go back there with my wallet and check things over more thoroughly. Or not.

My sister has obtained herself a new (and good) job at the Hamilton City Council HR department. She's really stoked about this, since it's the area she wants to work in, and it was a long shot, but she got it! I'm very proud of her. Around 37k to start with, which will be very nice for her. She can (and will, since she has more willpower than me) save a lot of money.

I have really enjoyed today. No relatives, no travelling, no stress.

( Christmas details )

Plans for later are along the lines of dinner, watch The Sound of Music, since Mum got it for Christmas. Sister's boyfriend might come over to watch it too. We were going to watch it this afternoon, but lazed around instead. I'm going to do more blackwork and make a scarf. My sister and I both got scarf kits for Christmas. Silk and wool and stuff and you sew it together and then the dissolvable plastic comes off and you have either a scarf or a pretty wall hanging.

But today, wow. The most relaxed Christmas ever.

And I want to write more of Reintroducing Magic and I don't have it here with me. *sighs*