(birthday/to-dos) A busy Sunday!

Because I had a lazy Saturday. :P

Firstly, Happy Birthday, fennel_fox! Hope it's great!




Nextly, a to-do list. This one should be entitled "The house exploded, again, but this time there are Christmas lights on it."

1. Finish Three Ships!
2. Dishes
3. Sort plastic containers
4. 2 loads of laundry
5. Dinner plan for the week
6. make dinner tonight (pork chops, noodles and roasted maple squash)
7. Vacuum the living room and dining room
8. Wrap Christmas presents
9. Finish decorating tree?

That's enough. I'd like to get my grocery shopping done too, but we'll see. I don't HAVE to shop until tomorrow if necessary.

Okay, onward and upward, as my father would say.

(christmas) metrics!

Something to whet your appetite...

starting count: 1809
ending count: 3643
change: +1834

starting line:
Abby didn’t lower the shotgun until she could no longer see their silhouettes against the swirling snow.

ending line:
“No, stay here,” Abby said. “Jen, go lock the front door, then I’ll tell you everything. I promise.”

darling:
“You’ve gotten harder, though. The Little Bit I remember wouldn’t have blown off a man’s knee.”

“The Little Bit you knew was six when she left the fleet. My mother wasn’t the easiest woman to live with, and I had to learn to protect myself and my sister.” Abby turned the small blue truck into her driveway, noting with pleasure that the Christmas lights on the trees in the front yard glowed in the falling snow. “I did what I had to.”