December 27,  2003

      Christmas has now officially become another "Christmas past".  And we survived it.  It's been a REALLY long time since we had so many people in the house at once!  After the busy-ness of the past few days, Himself and i finally crashed by 10 p.m. last night, and slept until 8 a.m. this morning.  i'm not sure how He kept going through the whole thing, since He did all the cooking - 3 days straight of it.  And did the bulk of the dishes - i was surprised at that part as it's really not fair to Him, but He insisted because of my hands.  We did pitch in and help Him though, including my friend M, who was over with her partner last night.   

      It seems like it's going to be a bad winter for my bones.  Although i suspect that last year's was better because i was taking an aspirin a day for the blood clot.  Now that i've stopped doing that (blood clot gone!) my mornings have become all about waiting for my hands to stop hurting.  Once i get them moving (albeit slowly) then the pain eases somewhat and i can function.  But the first hour is always brutal. And the ache never goes away completely.  So i type really slow in the mornings.  In spite of the potential side-effects, i may go back to the aspirin a day routine.

      There hasn't been any time for scening *pout*.  Well except for a bit of cane/sex play the other morning (good morning!) - but we've been staying hugely connected with each other.  Himself has made a very concentrated effort to stay cheerful this year, and it's been wonderful.  How He did it with canker sores in His mouth is beyond me, but the rum probably helped.  Heh.  And Christmas eve it was just the two of us.  He prepared a meal of decadence - jumbo shrimp, scallops, small steaks and asparagus.  Weight scales?  What are those!?

      Okay, off to play with my new art stuff.