Secret Santa 2020
Context: Every year my friend group and I participate in Secret Santa. We've been doing this for several years now and we tend to go all out.
This year, Elizabeth was in charge of procuring my gift. She knocked it out of the park with a 3 part waiting game. (Thanks USPS.) Part 2–Mastiff by Tamora Pierce–arrived first, several weeks before Christmas. Part 1 was stuck in New Jersey forever, but it was worth the wait. It's a fox bookmark from Curled Up Corners. It arrived proba
NaNoWriMo vs. Heartland
As you can see, I did okay on NaNoWriMo. By the skin of my teeth, I managed to get in 50,466 words in the month of November. I'm not going to lie: it could have been more. A lot more. But things happen, and well...
Okay, this happened: I'm not sure if I mentioned it before or not, but I somewhat recently visited my brother in Canada. (Where the entire household was in quarantine for 15 days and I got to homeschool my newly acquired niece and nephew. And holy shit does it suc
