Trying not to gloat

I intend to spend all of next week doing exactly what I please.

This includes reading, tidying our home office, shopping both the pre- and post-Christmas sales, watching the birds at the feeder, restarting a workout scheme, sorting the sewing supplies, maybe a little brewing, making a Christmas Eve dinner, catching a movie or two, all that.

I haven't had a vacation that wasn't attached to either paid or volunteer work (conferences, Pennsic, OES) in a year and it shows.

Knitters

(Signal boost - it's not a commercial if I don't get compensated)

For my many friends who knit, or who have people on their gift list who knit, and need to count their stitches -- allow me to suggest these bracelets from editrx.

Planning Syndrome

There! Hotels booked for Twelfth Night and Birka.
(Note to my fellow Birka travelers - if you qualify, ask for the AAA rate.)

ETA: And if the Birka staff see this: you should know that the hotel is not acknowledging the existence of any SCA rate, if indeed we even were supposed to have one.