On the road...

I *think* I've got everything packed that I need. (And at any rate, if I don't, it's not like I'm heading into the wilderness. I know I have my tickets, my ID, my dress shoes, and medication I take...all of which would be things that would be harder to replace if forgotten.)

And I have books (multiple): A Georgette Heyer mystery, one of those Beatrix Potter themed mysteries, the book on math theory I was reading, one of Georgette Heyer's "historicals" (We'll give it a go; I'm not really a fan of romance but Heyer writes dialog well enough that I may find it entertaining) and an enormous biography of Beatrix Potter that I almost left out at the end because it was so heavy but decided after all that I really want to start it after I finish that maths book.

And an embarrassingly-great number of potential projects, or projects-in-process. But so many days during this last push at the end of the semester, I heard Twilight Sparkle in my head going "This is MY book and I'm gonna READ it!" or "this is MY yarn and I'm gonna KNIT it!" (Okay, the actual Twilight Sparkle never said the second phrase, but whatever. I can tell I've tried to do too much all at once this semester).

I need to learn to be more protective of my time, I guess.

I admit I kind of groaned when my dad called last night and remarked that there were "a couple things he'd (and my mother) like my help with over break" but he was mostly joking as one of those things was putting up the Christmas tree. (The other was sorting through canned goods and any with too much sodium for him, gather up to take to the food bank).

But yeah. I need a break. I have a few last things to do (water the plants, refresh the mint oil under the sink in the desperate hope of keeping mice out) and then I can take off. I do have some pre-written posts that will show up over break, so the blog won't be totally shuttered. I'll be back early in January.

Oh, so many things I want to do over break:

Knit
Bake cookies
Make candy (I only do it once a year, at Christmastime, partly because that's the only time the humidity tends to be low enough for the sugar-syrup based ones to work, and it's about the only time I have time)
Drive around my parents' town at night and look at all the lights people have put up
Go to the Winter Farmer's Market they're having. It's not QUITE the Christkindlmarkt, but it should still be fun.
Read
Help decorate my parents' house
Go window-shopping in some of the little downtown stores just for fun - I don't have any more Christmas shopping to do so the pressure is off.