So this year Bill’s christmas present to me involved… a plane ticket to NC to see my mom and sister. I hope to god he doesn’t try to top this next year, ’cause I have no idea how anyone *could* top that. Four days wandering around Asheville, Forest City, and the area in between, and just having a lovely time of it.

I do miss the days when my whole family lived within an hour and a half of me, but if nothing else, the trip forced me to *not* work for a few days. Seems I have a problem with the not working thing. Yesterdays project involved scrubbing out the bathroom. Today I dusted and re-organized my bookshelves. Both projects have been staring me in the face for weeks, but the daily grind of wake up, go to work, come home, work on pieces for the march show, go to bed…. repeat on waking - I never find the time to do those “little things”. The last few days have given me the breathing space to not just “not work” but the get some of that “other work” done. I’m loving it.