go slow-motion, cut it to black

I apparently didn't blog this weekend, which surprised me too - but I've been frenetically trying to prep for the holidays while also dealing with my job getting busier than I expected, which has taken it out of me. Saturday, we celebrated Christmas at my sister's house - which mostly meant getting status updates on my nieces and nephew, while listening to children shriek in the background. There were fewer children than last year and also a new face thanks to some life changes in the group, but on the whole everyone seemed to be doing fine.

After our Christmas celebrate, [censored] and I came home and I made an attempt at kung pao chicken using a spice packet I'd acquired, but neither of us liked it very much, which was a shame. Then we watched some SNL from the previous week, and I attempted to get a million hours of sleep to make up for what I missed last week.

Sunday was a blur - I mostly spent it cleaning and making some feeble attempts to decorate for Christmas, and then I picked up Mexican takeout before watching this weekend's SNL (which was a real highlight thanks to cameos from many former SNL stars/hosts). Today was also a blur - I thought this week would slow down, but my boss takes approximately zero days off a year, and so many meetings with him went on as usual.

So I did a few hours of meetings, took a break to go into town for groceries, and then went back into town for more groceries when [censored] suddenly fell ill and clearly needed some soup to help with survival. Any soup I could make with ingredients on hand is more of a sludge than a soup, so I ran back into town for carrots/celery and made chicken tortilla soup for dinner. This was pretty tasty, and if I succumb to whatever illness has suddenly sprung upon [censored], I'm going to want soup leftovers too.

After eating / chilling for awhile, I came upstairs and did a couple of hours of work to make up for my long afternoon break. And now I need to go to bed and hope I can stave off whatever [censored] is getting. Goodnight!