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A couple weeks ago, we stopped in at our in-town tiny grocery store for some snacks, and the employees were all 'hello! welcome! would you like to put in your order for a CHRISTMAS QUICHE?'

Of course, we had no idea what they were talking about, but the basics seemed to be as follows:

*there's an employee who makes quiches for the store at the holidays
*they are very popular
*they sold out last year and people were sad
*this year the store is taking orders
*they are excited about it

So OF COURSE we put in our order! And it's supposed to be available to pick up today? Maybe they will call or text us? They have my phone number, but it's not like we got any actual instructions about this process. And yet I'm very excited about it!

WHAT AN EXCITING NEW THING TO LEARN ABOUT THIS TOWN!

I lucked into taking this entire week off from work, so I've been trying to celebrate a little bit each day. A series of small celebrations feels like it takes the pressure off the Actual Christmas Day to be super special and perfect somehow (a goal which is neither reasonable to want nor possible to achieve, to borrow that phrase).

Yesterday I went to the grocery store for the Final Shopping Trip (hopefully!) before Christmas. I had bacon for lunch! I caught up on the craft advent calendar! I went for a walk I've been meaning to take all month! I used one of our holiday-themed paper plates! I stayed up late reading!

And now it's solstice! Time to light a candle! (okay, time to find a candle? I'm sure there are some around here somewhere)

Thank goodness we're now required to go to the office two days a week, to do Very Important Office Things like everything on today's schedule!

1. drink the free coffee at work instead of home coffee

2. breakfast (enjoy the fact that they're still bribing us with free breakfast on Tuesdays)

3. end of year team meeting with the team we've been temporarily loaned to (okay, it was more like 'take these people off my hands I can't deal with them right now,' but you know, think positive)

4. end of year holiday lunch with new team

5.Yankee Swap with new team (apologies to the old team which is not getting a party)

6. go for a walk with any office folks who want to go outside

7. hour-long meeting about a thing none of us want to talk about and which could have been an email

8. wrap up the day, because that's more than enough productivity for me!

*Shoutout to the business along my commute route with the Giant Christmas Inflatables. It's your brontosaurus eating a candy cane that's motivating me to get out the door this morning!

Honorable mentions to the following, also providing me workaday motivation:

*I'll be starting the hockey boys audiobook this morning, carplay willing. After an entire day of thinking about it, the anticipation is really building!

*It's holiday lunch day at work. So, free lunch! Hooray! In honor of the event, I'm wearing my cozy holiday sweatshirt. (It has Christmas trees on it.)

*IT SNOWING

*which means it's a SNOW DAY! (totally a snow day even though it's just a few tiny flurries)

*time for the VERY IMPORTANT snow day accessories!

*PAJAMAS

*COZY BLANKETS

*and the VERY IMPORTANT snow day snacks!

*COFFEE

*FRENCH TOAST STICKS

*and the VERY IMPORTANT snow day activities!

*CROCHET

*AUDIOBOOKS

Ahhh, nothing like the first day of a month -- so fresh! so new! so full of potential!

my Musical Victory this holiday season:

*After literal YEARS of thinking I had the song 'We Need A Little Christmas' sung by Johnny Mathis, and being disappointed that I didn't, I have PURCHASED THE SONG!

*This is a lot harder than it used to be? I do not want the three-month trial period of cloudtunes or whatever, just take my one dollar and twenty-nine cents and give me the song, please!

*Since I managed to figure it out, I also purchased 'Driving Home for Christmas' sung by Chris Rea. That should cover me for new Christmas tunes for another few years or so!

1. In a final celebration of Halloween, here's that dragons carving pumpkins comic I was talking about yesterday (I had all the names wrong, lol): "I did Rin eating her pumpkin,", by pocketss

2. LET'S WRITE!!! I'm going for a half-nano this year (25,000 words), and so far I have... ::checks file:: 183 words. Okay, that's a start!

3. Tis the season!

This has been all over my tumblr dash, and luckily know your meme came to my rescue with the source.

Originating waaaaaay back in 2004, from the cartoon "Homestar Runner." (A thing I had never heard of, but apparently it was extremely meme-able.) Big 'early 2000s i can haz cheezburger' energy. (PS: wikipedia says that was 2007)

Video on youtube!

Happy Birthday starandrea!!!