Seeing him from the corner of your eye and then realizing all over again he's not here? I'm familiar with that. I'm sorry he left you, but glad he made the move with you and Xavier.

I'm excited with how expeditiously you've managed your move, Calli. Your gladness and cheer about the move and your new situation is lovely to witness.

And Laura, I'm so happy for you that your Christmas and B's birthday will now include the man himself!

Hallmark movies--! The year my B was gone all year, managing both his brother's and their mom's final illnesses and deaths, dismantling bro's business and selling MiL's house, I binged Hallmark movies. I even (shameful confession) ordered those Good Witch movies on DVD--I still have them, if anyone would like to borrow--? Moving colors and noise with no emotional engagement whatsoever. Therapy.

Seine cruises and cookie parties and housefuls of friends are joyous and happy-making things to hear about. As are holiday meetings with friends not seen for a while. I used the excuse when I didn't get cards out until after, was that DH's family observed Old Christmas, so I got a pass.

we are going on a river cruise on the Seine

Wait what? I will be watching and following with interest! This is definitely on my bucket list. Have a blast.

Thank you, Beverly. I watch a lot of Hallmark movies, too, because my sister loves them. So it’s become our thing on the 24th. If you want the Hallmark movie vibe in original fic form, Copperbadge is writing a series set in an imaginary European micro state called Askazar-Shivadlakia (sp?). He puts his first drafts up in AO3 and sells the final versions through a self-publishing site. The first drafts are good, if you wanted to check them out.

Krampus Walk was fun! This neighborhood loves a reason to dress up weird and parade through the streets. I put a handful of pictures on Facebook.

Copperbadge is writing a series set in an imaginary European micro state called Askazar-Shivadlakia

Those are on my TBR list, which gets longer every day.

...Copperbadge is writing a series set in an imaginary European micro state called Askazar-Shivadlakia (sp?). He puts his first drafts up in AO3

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I have been enjoying them a lot. Highly recommended.

I watch a lot of Hallmark movies, too, because my sister loves them

Aubrey Plaza did one that's basically a Lesbian Hallmark Xmas movie made for Hulu: [link]

Timelies all!

Tuesday was Gary's birthday and we went to a Japanese barbecue place. We got their dinner for two, which had a variety of beef cuts(and chicken and pork belly). The set up is that each table has its own grill, where you cook the meat. For dessert there was mochi icecream and, because it was his birthday, Gary chose a slice of chocolate cake which arrived with a big sparkler in it. All in all, a good special occasion place.

Yesterday was a busy day. We went up to Baltimore for a concert by the Baltimore Gamers Symphony Orchestra in the afternoon. We then visited Mr. S for a bit, and then went to the monthly Balticon/BSFS meetings.

Sadly that KStew/Aubrey Plaza movie had much more chemistry between the two of them and not so much with the girl who was supposed to be Kstews gf.

If you haven’t seen Love Hard, from about 3 or 4 years ago, it’s solidly on our annual must watch list. Not least for possibly the funniest Baby It’s Cold Outside rendition.

More than half a year ago my desktop crashed and I lost a lot of media on it.

But recently I was able to have a data recovery guy go in and retrieve much of it, though it's all out of order. However, I'm sharing this with you because for some reason I downloaded WorldCrossing Buffy Thread 10, which was when Buffy was brought back from the dead.

So I'm just reading it and, dang, we're a talky bunch! ita and I are having a very long back and forth about the ethics of Willow's act of resurrection, and Victor's chiming in with analysis and Burrell and Emily S. and Rebecca Lizard adding notes.

Also, bittersweet because it opens with comments by ita and then DXM. But also actual Jeff Mejia postings in thread and Madrigal and other lost sheep.

It was fun when we all had something we could dig deep into.

Do we still have all of DXM's zipped up WX threads safely archived?