The Wild Life and Times of a Botanical Geek

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.