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That's me finished work until next Tuesday.
It's a very weird time. I've sort of settled into the fact that I'm going to be alone for the next 5 days and I'm trying to turn it into something positive. I can sit on the couch and binge shows, play video games, eat whatever I want whenever I want, blast k-pop in the living room.
Then random little things will hit me. Like opening presents. Usually my dad will act as Santa and distribute the presents under the tree and making sure everyone gets something before doing the next batch. This year obviously it's just me and that's going to be weird.
This is the first time in my entire life I haven't spent Christmas with my parents. It just feels weird.
I have very much over compensated with the amount of food I've bought. There is way more than I can possibly eat. Even when Jacqui gets back on Sunday there is still way too much food. I just got carried away buying all the stuff my parents usually have at Christmas, not taking into account there's only me :D
We got a Christmas bonus from work and I used that, plus some of the money from the refunded beach apartment, to get myself a new laptop. I've been thinking about it for a while. The one I've got at the moment has been great. I got it free from work because they were going to throw it away when all it needed was a new hard drive and a charger. I've had it for about 5 years and it's started taking forever to boot up, and the screen is a bit scratched (it was like that when I got it) so I figured now was the time. I found one that's got pretty much the same specs as this one. The screen is slightly smaller but it's got a better graphics card. I really only use it for writing and, these days, streaming stuff over Zoom so it should do me fine. It arrived yesterday so I've put it under the Christmas tree as a Christmas present to myself.
I really want to talk about my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sundial_exchange fic but I'm writing such a rare pairing that anything I say will give it away. I'm having a lot of fun doing research for it and I have a pretty solid plot outline. I should be ready to start putting words on the page any time now. I'm not sure it's going to appeal to a lot of people but I hope my recipient will at least like it.
It's a very weird time. I've sort of settled into the fact that I'm going to be alone for the next 5 days and I'm trying to turn it into something positive. I can sit on the couch and binge shows, play video games, eat whatever I want whenever I want, blast k-pop in the living room.
Then random little things will hit me. Like opening presents. Usually my dad will act as Santa and distribute the presents under the tree and making sure everyone gets something before doing the next batch. This year obviously it's just me and that's going to be weird.
This is the first time in my entire life I haven't spent Christmas with my parents. It just feels weird.
I have very much over compensated with the amount of food I've bought. There is way more than I can possibly eat. Even when Jacqui gets back on Sunday there is still way too much food. I just got carried away buying all the stuff my parents usually have at Christmas, not taking into account there's only me :D
We got a Christmas bonus from work and I used that, plus some of the money from the refunded beach apartment, to get myself a new laptop. I've been thinking about it for a while. The one I've got at the moment has been great. I got it free from work because they were going to throw it away when all it needed was a new hard drive and a charger. I've had it for about 5 years and it's started taking forever to boot up, and the screen is a bit scratched (it was like that when I got it) so I figured now was the time. I found one that's got pretty much the same specs as this one. The screen is slightly smaller but it's got a better graphics card. I really only use it for writing and, these days, streaming stuff over Zoom so it should do me fine. It arrived yesterday so I've put it under the Christmas tree as a Christmas present to myself.
I really want to talk about my
sundial_exchange fic but I'm writing such a rare pairing that anything I say will give it away. I'm having a lot of fun doing research for it and I have a pretty solid plot outline. I should be ready to start putting words on the page any time now. I'm not sure it's going to appeal to a lot of people but I hope my recipient will at least like it.