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altariel ([personal profile] altariel) wrote2009-01-02 10:05 am

Happy New Year!

We are back from our Christmas visit to K&J&R where we ate and drank and were merry, saw the wonderful and brilliant [livejournal.com profile] toft_froggy, played many excellent games, including hide and seek with a tiny person and the highly addictive Zeus on the Loose, and OF COURSE watched Ghost Watch.

While I was away, the cover art to The Never-Ending Sacrifice was released: article about 2009/2010 Trek releases here or cut straight to big image here. I think it's smashing.

Last year I wrote a novel and a short story or two, read many books and essays, became a godmother, and I have landed in 2009 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Today I'm going to do the washing, finish Anne Enright's The Gathering, make a planetarium, and perhaps catch up on some email. Happy New Year to you all, may your eyes too be bright and your tails extremely bushy.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-01-02 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Jaded and bedraggled here, but I'm glad some people had a good year. :-) The best of mine was the kittens.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, well, I spoke too soon about the bright eyes and bushy tail - I've been jaded and bedraggled myself since last weekend.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Another cold, huh? I hope you've been migraine-free. I have three this week; probably the high heat and humidity.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You poor thing :-( No migraines at this end - an extremely cold snap in the UK at the moment.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
At least I have something to take for them. A few hours' misery is vastly better than three whole days in bed in a dark room which is what it used to be.