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I keep forgetting to post here, which annoys me. Um. Anyway, I went to Minnesota over the New Year's weekend, which was nice -- it is always lovely to see my parents and brother in person!

I wrote a Yuletide story and ought to make a proper separate post about that soon.

I got into cross-stitch a few months back, and started with some pre-made kits (purchased via Etsy) that I immediately began modifying both for genuine artistic reasons and also a couple times because I goofed my stitch count. The first two I only modified in very small ways, but I am currently working on one where I changed some color choices, reworked parts of the backstitch writing for the central motto, and drew some entirely new additional flowers on my pattern guide in colored pencil because a couple parts of the field looked weirdly blank.

I am also working up a pattern of my own devising as a gift for my friend Cat, because reasons, so. Begin as you mean to go on, I guess?

Tax season has begun, which so far has meant that I have spent ~9 hours over two days sitting in a Not The IRS office doing basically nothing. (I mean, what I actually did was cross-stitch, but you know what I mean.) I answered the phone a couple times and made three calls reminding past clients it's time to schedule their tax appointments, but if corporate wants to pay me to do nothing, I'm not going to stop them.

And in non-work news, I potted some plant cuttings that had grown roots over a few weeks in water, weeded some old shirts out of my closet, and vacuumed my apartment for the first time in... uh... you don't really need to know how long it's been, okay, let's just move on. I also cleared some papers and whatnot that have been collecting on various flat surfaces.

I think my task for the back half of this week is to continue weeding my clothes so I know if I need to buy any new items, and then sort, package, and actually donate all my collected no-longer-needed/wanted items to charity.

This includes the small filing cabinet I really should have gotten rid of over the summer, but eh. Better late than never, right?

And now to bed. :)

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