Good afternoon, Readers! Image by Ingo Jakubke from Pixabay I don't have a lot of time to write this before I'm off, so I'll try and keep it brief.

I am not quite where I should be this week with my writing. I was hoping to spend the weekend catching up on the 1000 words I didn't get written on Friday (it was the staff Xmas party at work, so my usual lunch hour writing sprint was interrupted). That... did not happen. So I spent lunch today getting to last week's target. I'll be spending tonight catching up to where I should be as of the end of today.

Also, perhaps more pressingly given the season, I haven't even started my holiday shopping. I had intended to make my gifts again this year, but I've done exactly one thing since August. So... I'm going to buy gifts as back-ups, because I'm sure I won't get any of it done. I'm going to try in earnest tonight after I'm done my writing -catch up.

I feel like I don't have time to do anything at all. There were so many things I wanted to get done, but I'm nowhere near completion. Why do I do this to myself?

In any case, I will be up late for a couple of nights in the next few weeks, I suppose.

I'm feeling pleased with myself that I wrote and scheduled a number of blog posts to go up while I'm away on holidays. Go me. At least I did that right.

Okay, I have to go. It's near the end of the day, and I've a long walk home before me.

Ciao!