Now 1 of 3 people in the whole building for our last hour.

We just arrived in Yardley at my sister's house after successful hugs and gift-drop at my nephew's. I have to wrap presents, but we're having takeout Indian first.

We’re having fancy tea at the Drake and debated asking the carolers for Fairytale of New York.

We took an emergency trip to the Apple Store to get my friend a new phone after she (entirely sober!) dropped hers in the hot tub last night. But other than that we’ve been snacking on a charcuterie board her fam sent, and hanging out by the pool. Now she’s puzzling, the rest of us are reading, and we are going to get ice cream and drive to a Christmas lights neighborhood later. Maybe watch some “Finding Mr Christmas”, an amazing hallmark reality competition to find a new leading man (the winner was awful and his movie terrible, but we liked the show and want to share with the friends who got here after we watched it!)

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msbelle, I highly recommend this gizmo for Mac and his boot.

the boot makes your leg longer than ever, and unless you have a shoe that can already match the height. So, you have an imbalance that can be awkward and painful.

This gizmo was a game changer for me.

The sugared cranberries went over ok with the larger crowd. But my great nephew loooooved them! His parents ended up doing the “two bites more of your chicken, and you can have another cranberry” thing, which is as flattering a review as any of my creations has ever received. So that’s in the holiday rotation going forward.

Ooh. I had meant to try sugared cranberries this year but made so many other sweet things I didn’t get around to it. Maybe next year.

We are having Christmas tacos today (is our plan). Just cooked up some potatoes and pickled an onion and we will have eggs and such for breakfast tacos, then later we have some ground beef and will make dinner tacos. It’s a California Christmas (which is a song we have adopted as our theme song and play and sing frequently these past few years that we’ve been doing this)

Merry merry to all who celebrate.

This fourth day of Yule I have opened presents, only a few, we don’t do gifts anymore.

My boss gave me an Amazon gift card and I have not bought anything off Amazon since 2021. I thought I’d get the audiobook for my bookclub current book since the library does not have it, but since I am not audible member they have it to me friend with a 30 day trial, so maybe I’ll spend the day looking for inexpensive things to get.

Now to knit and watch the Ravens later.

I walked the dog and ate a mini fruitcake and started laundry. Gotta get dressed and brave Safeway: I need an extra couple zucchini for the lasagna today.

Seasonally appropriate greetings and much love to all of you. It's a quiet one here, and I'm definitely ok with that.

Thanks to everyone who helped me get through this year. Take care of each other when you can, folks.