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Trying this again.... I wrote a post yesterday and never quite got around to posting it. I was too busy.

First, thank you to everyone who's commented. I still hope to respond to everyone, but I can't promise that I'll manage it.

As of yesterday, I'm over the intestinal bug. As of the dose I took a little after eight p.m., I'm done with the antibiotics for the strep. (For those counting doses, yes, I should have finished this morning. I missed a scheduled dose at the height of the intestinal bug. I missed all of my meds that night, partly due to forgetting, partly due to being too exhausted to cross the house to get them, and partly due to not being sure they'd stay where I put them.)

I can tell how sick I was because I suddenly have energy again. This is not world conquering energy, but it is emptying the dishwasher *and* making Chex mix energy with a little hey-maybe-I-could-write left over. I haven't done any writing yet because I'm too busy trying to catch up on things that should have been done last week. So far, I've done dishes. I've made several batches of Chex mix (three different recipes with one more to try tomorrow). I've made bacon wrapped dates. I've wrapped a few presents.

I still need to do more cooking. I haven't touched Christmas cards beyond the five I sent out about two weeks ago. I'm not sure I'm going to get around to cookies this year. The main thing right now is getting some form of dinner ready for tomorrow evening when my brother visits.

His visit gets us out of part of Scott's family's Christmas routine. Christmas Eve ends up being very hard for us most years because Scott works and has to rush home to shower so that we can rush to his parents' house for dinner and then to church. Then we get home after Cordelia's bedtime with her too wired to sleep for another hour or two. With luck, not going out will make getting Cordelia to bed tomorrow a tiny bit easier. (I can hope anyway.)

Scott has admitted that he was very tempted to ask me not to do Yuletide this year. This came after I melted down and cried on him over all of the things still to be done and the fact that I wasn't expecting to enjoy any of the extended family stuff at all. (That was before my brother said he could visit. I wasn't expecting to get to see him. He supports himself delivering pizza and works odd hours.)

I did point out that, in years when we don't get hammered the way we have this year, Yuletide's not such a terrible burden. That may be partly me being rosy about years past. It's hard to be sure. Well, I do remember last year being awful because I knew I might be writing something that my recipient wouldn't like (I couldn't be sure due to having no dear writer letter and no unlocked LJ entries to look at. For that matter, I still don't know) because it went against trends in the fandom. I really shouldn't have offered Clover last year (I didn't this year). I'm squicked by the most popular slash pairing in the fandom and bored by the tragic het pairing.

I was smarter about what I offered this year. I just got injured and sick and lost time when I wasn't sick to Scott and Cordelia being sick. This is the sort of thing that happens sometimes but shouldn't happen every time. I love doing Yuletide and don't want to give it up. I love the chance to sign up and get an assignment that I never would have thought to write. Scott did say that he knows that and that that's why he hasn't asked me not to do it. He just resents the time it takes at this time of year. If it were in July, he'd mind less.

::laughs:: Cordelia's in bed. She's singing, "I'm so excited about tomorrow!"

I hope I can keep her from climbing the walls while we're waiting for her uncle to arrive tomorrow.