Standing still is a nuisance

[sovay]

I am extraordinarily tired, but I do not regret any of the fruitcakes for which rushthatspeaks and I chopped the traditional quantities of dried and candied fruit tonight, nor the Christmas tree that I got with my parents earlier in the evening, nor the bagel with sturgeon on it that I ate for lunch, which was indeed better with butter than with cream cheese. I spent a decent amount of the day moving around in the sunlight: I was particularly fond of the apricot-bronze of the late afternoon. I had onigiri and lemon cookies. I ran into someone I had hoped never to see again and was not recognized because I was masked at the time. I am three or four chapters into Dick Francis' Enquiry (1969) and feeling more than a little mentally AWOL, but it has been an objectively good day.

Comments

[selkie]

Do you need me to eat someone? I was going to go to bed but for you one always has time for a midnight snack. As long as it’s high in blood, bones, protein, you know.

[kathmandu]

The many fringe benefits of masks!

[gwynnega]

It sounds like a (mostly) excellent day! (At least the mask rendered you incognito.)

[nineweaving]

The mask should have been Venetian, but it did its work.

The rest of the day sounds lovely.

Nine

[davidgillon]

Yay for good days and going incognito!

[a_reasonable_man]

I am very glad you had a good day. Masks are proving to have many side benefits.

[minoanmiss]

FRUITCAKE. I must discuss fruitcake with you and rushthatspeaks. I used to make and send fruitcakes in my 20s and 30s, and you two may get me back into doing so yet. (It's too late for my fruitcakes this year, though -- I always start in October, to give time for resting and basting and more basting.)

[asakiyume]

Somehow "bagel with sturgeon" conjured you eating bagels *with* a sturgeon, rather than *spread* with sturgeon, and I may just have to draw that. Fruitcake, Christmas tree, and onigiri all also thumbs up.