Yuletide Assignment Complete!
Dec. 17th, 2020 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedI have just finished a complete draft of my Yuletide assignment, a mere 4 hours and 38 minutes before it was due. It's the longest Yuletide story I've ever written, clocking in at just over 8K words, and at the moment it's the only story for it's canon on AO3. Cool.
In other news, it was also my birthday today. Given the year, and the fact that I needed to finish my Yuletide story, it was a low key celebration. The Sweetie's work had scheduled online cooking and mixology classes for today in lieu of a Christmas party. So we made Peruvian potato salad and ceviche, and mixed up a couple of Kentucky Mules. I haven't had any alcohol for over two years on account of it was giving me migraines 100% of the time I had a drink, but I risked it today. And so far, so good.
The family was very good to me, present-wise. I got two comics trade collections (Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, which has ended up on a number of year end best of lists, and 80 Years of the Bat Family, because I may read a lot of Marvel now, but my first mainstream comic love was Batman) and two comic-related movies (Birds of Prey, because how much do I love Margot Robbie's Harley, and Batman: Death in the Family, because it gives you a way to save Jason Todd.)
Me with a mason jar of bourbon and ginger beer. (All I can say is, you know you work for a software company when they send you pretty good bourbon.)
Me and my haul of pressies! And with my Yuletide assignment done and me being on holidays for two weeks starting noon tomorrow, I will have plenty of time for reading and watching!
In other news, it was also my birthday today. Given the year, and the fact that I needed to finish my Yuletide story, it was a low key celebration. The Sweetie's work had scheduled online cooking and mixology classes for today in lieu of a Christmas party. So we made Peruvian potato salad and ceviche, and mixed up a couple of Kentucky Mules. I haven't had any alcohol for over two years on account of it was giving me migraines 100% of the time I had a drink, but I risked it today. And so far, so good.
The family was very good to me, present-wise. I got two comics trade collections (Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, which has ended up on a number of year end best of lists, and 80 Years of the Bat Family, because I may read a lot of Marvel now, but my first mainstream comic love was Batman) and two comic-related movies (Birds of Prey, because how much do I love Margot Robbie's Harley, and Batman: Death in the Family, because it gives you a way to save Jason Todd.)
Me with a mason jar of bourbon and ginger beer. (All I can say is, you know you work for a software company when they send you pretty good bourbon.)
Me and my haul of pressies! And with my Yuletide assignment done and me being on holidays for two weeks starting noon tomorrow, I will have plenty of time for reading and watching!
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Date: 2020-12-18 11:12 pm (UTC)And also, Happy Birthday! A Kentucky Mule sounds great right about now--as does a mixology class, actually. A few years ago, in the Before Times, I went to a class all about bitters--learning about them, and making them, and most importantly making drinks with them.
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Date: 2020-12-18 11:41 pm (UTC)I have a new appreciation of bitters. I never got the point of them, and then I was over at a friend's party and her son offered to make me a G&T. He'd recently gotten really into mixology and made it with super good gin and one of his huge collection of bitters and it was the best G&T I've ever had.