notes from a slow day in New Jersey

I wrote one more Yuletide treat last night, for a total of six stories: three in the regular collection and three in the Madness collection. I have heard from four of my recipients, who seem to like the stories, so that is a bit of a relief. *bites nails over the remaining two*

Yesterday I got up shortly after 9am, but breakfast didn't happen until after 10, due to technical difficulties with the blueberry pancakes. *grin* After breakfast we opened presents, which involves periodically 'helping' the dog open a gift so she will wander off to abuse a new toy or chew on a dried pig's ear and not be constantly underfoot in the wrapping paper.

Around 1pm I took the dog out for a walk, after which my family collectively failed to get our act together and choose a holiday movie to go see, so we ended up sitting around at home reading random books and magazines instead. (Mom and Vicky also took the dog out for another walk, searching for a couple ponds in the wilds of the Drew University campus forest.) Then we had snacks and burra-peg champagne cocktails around 5pm, while playing 8 rounds of hearts and two rounds of rummy -- we had wanted to play Clue, but unfortunately all the family boardgames are currently down in Vicky's apartment in D.C., since she'd been using them as part of her assisstant teaching volunteer internship thingy. But card games are fun too!

Dinner was tasty, dessert was also tasty, and generally it was a good day. :-)