I've been on an insomnia kick lately. It's not just the usual winter/summer vacation, staying up to chat all night with my west coast friends and getting re-acclimated to their time zone. This is me getting up at a normal time of day and being really tired around my normal bed time and going to bed and not sleeping. Which sucks. So last night I took some Tylenol PM and finally went to bed at 2 AM (which for me isn't *that* late), thinking I'd sleep until noon and get all caught up on sleep and wake up feeling good. Instead I woke up at 2 PM. And it was freezing. And there was snow. Lots and lots of snow. Still is, by the way. And despite the snow and freeze something nevertheless aggravated my allergies so my eye was all swollen and runny and gross and painful. So, bleah.

Unless it warms up enough tomorrow or Wednesday to melt it, the snow means everybody's stuck at home and neither of my sisters or their families will be coming out for Christmas. Nor will we be attending our church's candlelight Christmas Eve service. Nor going out to eat afterwards like we usually do. Perhaps the most upsetting part is that it also means we won't all be going to see The Two Towers on Christmas day. So again, bleah. Needless to say, I was not dreaming of a white Christmas. At least not this white.

Even though it'll probably be days before I see any of the people I'm doing this for, I'm gonna be crafty today and make Christmas presents. Go me. Maybe doing that and listening to some Christmas music and drinking 'nog and with the snow I'll finally get into the Christmas spirit. Maybe.

DL 3.8 is crawling along to a finish. Scenes and parts of scenes are being posted. I really wanted to get it up before Christmas but I in no way guarantee that that will happen. I don't guarantee anything anymore. But I do know they're working on it.

I started working on TIMCTB again yesterday, and that shouldn't take too terribly long to finish.