Off the prompt "cuddles."

In the last week I:

--finished my yuletide
--finished a pinch hit
--embroidered oven mitts for a coworker
--celebrated a friend's birthday
--got all my holiday shopping finished
--got all my holiday baking finished
--got all presents handed or sent to their recipients
--worked
--survived Christmas Day with a usual amount of breakdown
--helped a couple of friends get all the crap out of their apartment for moving
--sold them the king size bed
--got them awake and actually heading towards Cali
--went to Ikea for sofa bed
--built, with niq, her giant table and my sofa bed (we have conquered the Ikea!)
--saw Tron
--did not kill my family
--registered for a winter session class

not necessarily in that order.

I did not, however, work on my festivid. I was not expecting the moving and Ikea'ing to be part of my weekend, so.

I am considering going back to Ikea just now actually...

everysecondtuesday TUESDAY DEAR. I want to send you baked goods. I need to talk to you about things that can and cannot go into food you eat and also I need your address. I have emailed! Email me back! PS sorry I haven't been on IM much, work was hell this week.

I've decided, definitively, that I want, and planned for transport of, a tree.

A real live tree, er, real formerly alive tree.

I've been bequeathed a selection of family ornaments, including the glass chili pepper (which is my favorite ornament ever, it looks like the glass blower was making something in this shape and crumpled it up, so, dried pepper!) and I'm planning to make some things--popcorn strands, maybe some origami ornaments, and stuff.

By the way, this is NOT a Christmas Tree, it is a Pagan Tree: I reclaim the tree in the name of the pagan traditions Christianity culturally appropriated in the first place. Just because Christianity won that cultural appropriation war doesn't mean I can't fight it again.

Anyway, if gift-giving is part of your solstice-approximate traditions, and you would like to give a gift to me, I would very much like more ornaments for my pagan tree! Fannish ornaments, handmade ornaments, ornaments that say "this is where I'm from!" (part of the reason I love the chili pepper so much is it's an Arizonan ornament, and I'm a desert rat born and bred and gone and returned) or ornaments that you just think are pretty. Or funny. I like funny, too. My address is in an access-locked entry. Send me ornaments, please! My tree needs love!

I am screening comments to this entry because I would like to invite anyone who wishes to leave me their address and any requests you may have, because I would like to send ornaments out as well, to anyone who wants one. Probably I'll be sending out origami ornaments, though for some of you I might be moved to break out the popsicle sticks.

ETA: a tree is here!

I kidnapped your cat. I should have also demanded the nerf gun, I'm thinking. I'm sorry I gave up on the second ball of yarn, but jesus christ what the fuck did the Monster do to that thing.

The drive over here was an exercise in "GET OFF OF MY FACE CAT," although there was also a hilarious interlude where Monster climbed up on the dash and it was apparent that he hadn't realized the windshield was right there.

After a bit of wandering and sniff hello to my cats, Monster got bitey with me and when I removed my hand, hissed. He's cooling his heels in the bathroom. Which was exactly where he was before I took him on a field trip.

Oh Monster. Never change. And by that I mean grow the fuck up.