Century's no longer a teenager

Some highlights from 2019:

--Seeing the Sailor Moon musical in DC and having a near-religious experience over it
--Planting new trees in the yard, including a dogwood and a fig that I hope will survive!
--4TH ST I LOVE 4TH ST SO MUCH
--Growing turnips for the first time!
--Trying many new recipes, including apple butter (which included actual canning for the first time like for leaving on the shelf and everything WHOA), umeshu, fig jam, and minne di sant'agata.
--I got a new computer!
--Getting back into short story writing, at least some. Enough that I actually submitted a short story to a writing contest. Didn't win anything, but I'm still proud of myself for trying

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And in more direct news, I've had the past couple of weeks off and I've been using it as much as possible.

I'VE BEEN BUSY.

Among other things I have:

--Knitted on a lot of things, including starting a MASSIVE shawl that's basically a rendition of the northern hemisphere night sky and this thing is insane and might kill me.
--Cleared the leaves off the deck (FINALLY)
--Started work on going through my music collection to clear out things I don't listen to anymore
--Restarted playing VA-11 HALL-A because it's on theme for this time of year and I love it.
--Made the epic Christmas Eve lasagna, complete with 2 days' worth of cooking sauce. It seemed to go over well!
--Made the Christmas Day CHEESECAKE BEAST, a massive 10 inch white chocolate peppermint cheesecake. I make it only once a year for obvious reasons.
--Started making furoshiki cloths to use for wrapping gifts.
--Knocked a significant chunk out of the herbarium specimens I still have to annotate.
--Started writing and got through a significant chunk of the first draft of a new short story.
--Did more yarn dying experiments! I messed around with dry kool-aid and learned things.
--Sent out the yearly soap boxes of love to my internet pals to express how much they mean to me. <3
--SLEPT. A LOT. I KNOW IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT BUT HOT DAMN HAVE I BEEN SLEEPING.