Short Week!

Getting back into the swing of things—this holiday wasn’t as hectic as I dreaded. I uploaded some holiday pictures of the kids, for relatives back east. I wish they’d get a Flickr account so I could keep the pics private, but no—that’s too hard. >_>

I’ve been lettering steadily during slow times at work (I have great bosses, I really do!) and even managed to pop out a tutorial over at Deviant Art.

This weekend is going to suck – I have off from work, but I also need groceries (I hate shopping!) and I need some new clothes (again, I hate shopping!). Next weekend is my birthday, so spouse and I will be taking our annual trip into the city, but we may change up hotels this year. It’s been a tradition for us to stay on my birthday weekend, at the OMNI, and every year we’ve caught the Debutant Ball in Austin, because it takes place at the same time. Last year, it was a bit insane—loud girls and long parties—not doing that again. I guess I really am getting old. 0_0

Revisions on Episode One of Femitokon are set to start at the end of February, when production of Games with Me is completely finished, and the book has released. I need to stick to my guns if I ever want to release this series as planned.

Coffee’s done, time to get to the bank!

 

Clementines and Home Made Caramel

I love the holidays!  I have a permanent orange thumb thanks to my overindulgance on Cuties (california mandarin oranges).   Neighbor hooked me up with some homemade caramel which he cut and wrapped himself and it’s delicious.  I’m suddenly reminded of what the wonderful Stephan Rader once said about something he ate, repeating what his daddy used to say, of course:  It’s so good, it’ll make your tongue slap your brains out!

We’ve manged to get 16 gifts for two teens and kept the budget under a thousand. We (family and spouse)  spend $700 on them this year, and I hope they like what they’re going to get.  My son is going to be particularly surprised because he’s getting something he asked for last year, but I was unable to find.  Got it this year, so that’s cool.

I had a holiday party over the weekend, and I made Kracken-Black Egg nog.  It was good; depsite the fact that I cheated and didn’t make the nog base from scratch — I used Southern Comfort non-alcoholic and combined it with Kracken, whipped cream, and fresh nutmeg.  I did get shafted on my order of naked tenders from Buffalo Wildwings; my order was supposed to be enough for 12 people–but I got enough that left me with only two little peices of chicken per person.  0_0  We had to improvise by getting some wings from Little Caesers, LOL!

 

Happy Holidays

No matter what you’re celebrating, have a great one.

This is artwork by my wonderful daughter– featuring some of her original characters.  Check out her Deviant page (she’s thirteen, so no weird stuff!)