Today was the start of ten days off of work. I suppose I really ought to have tried to do some writing, shouldn’t I? Ha, we all know how well that went.

I did, however, get some important shopping done, spending several hours camped out on my computer, pinned down by a slowly revolving cast of sleepy kittens and cats, working my way through wishlists and spreadsheets of ideas, firing emails off to people to double-check and confirm. The end result – a majority of the December holiday/birthday shopping is now done. It’s not complete, of course, because alas, my very favorite online shopping site does not yet offer *everything* (personal note to Amazon.com, please hurry up and finish taking over the online retail world, m’kay?), but considering that prior to today we hadn’t done a single bit of Christmas shopping, today counts as a success.

Aside from the shopping, mostly today I just read books and knit. And then, just about one minute after Richard walked in the door, I finally headed out, off to a friend’s house for another Buffy marathon. She had made pizza dough from scratch and we all stood around in her kitchen and chopped veggies and rolled out dough and assembled dinner. The pizzas and the bread salad were absolutely delicious (also, I now need to get the recipe for the salad!) and there was much talking and laughing, and by the time we finally all migrated to the living room to knit and watch Buffy, several hours had passed. So for a Buffy ‘marathon’, we actually only made it through two more episodes (we’re working our way through season 2 now). But it was a whole lot of fun, hanging out with friends new and old, eating delicious food, doing a little knitting and sharing the Whedon love.

Nanowrimo update: La la la I can’t hear you.