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I have to thank you all immensely: I feel properly human for the first time in several days, and I got through work without wanting to die or kill anyone. It's actually fairly warm, still, and of course I had my magnificently warm and long and completely glorious Ravenclaw scarf that barefoottomboy sent me for Christmas (!!!). I felt not-sick enough to bicycle, which re-affirmed my theory that exercise is always, always good. And work was -- well, nothing very interesting happened -- well, Sarah and Victoria dropped by for a visit (and asked for Twilight puzzles, the minxes), and that was very cosy and wonderful and I only forgot to notice a customer once.

(Although my schedule for next week is not. my. favourite.: I'm working four days in a row again -- no, more, because that's not counting this weekend -- and then I have two days off in a row? Argh. That is what makes one lazy and more resentful of having to go to work! It's like starting school up again after the end-of-year holidays! I like having a day off and then two or three days of work and then a day off; it makes things more bearable!)

I am wearing my favourite little white dress and one of the lovely cameos (black on white in a bronze setting) that Mum got me for Christmas tied on a black ribbon round my neck, and a very whimsical necklace that is a birdcage and a little bird flying above it, and new polka-dot leggings. Pretty clothes make me happy. Also I finally got round to downloading all of the catchy songs you lot uploaded for me quite some time ago, and blared them while making my dinner, and when "You Got Growin' Up To Do" (which is Joshua Radin dueting with Patty Griffin) came on, Leandra, who will be two in February, started dancing, so I picked her up and we waltzed round and round the kitchen: she beamed and shouted, "dance! dance!". When the song ended and I swooped her down, she applauded and said, "yay!". This profound adorableness nearly makes up for her stuffing half of her dinner into her cup of milk and then pouring that all over the floor ...

And, you guys, Solas' newest album is made of awesome and win. (Christmas present from Dad: the one present I was absolutely certain to get, because Solas is my father's and my co-favourite band, and whenever they've got a new album out, whoever's birthday is closest gets it, or if Christmas is closer, I get it from Dad. Patty Griffin is pretty much the same way.) Solas, you guys have been one of my musical mainstays since I was eleven. The fact that you continue to produce brilliant, lively, nuanced, music does my heart good.