Dear Yuletide Author,

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Welp, that was a lengthy and entirely unintentional hiatus. Oops!

A combination of doing more stuff IRL and trying out different meds meant that I spent big chunks of last year in a sort of weird exhaustion coma, so most of my online life just fell by the wayside. This is likely to continue to be a problem, tbh, but I miss my life here, so I'm going to try to be more active again, even if it's just a little bit.

IRL I've been doing workshops on ways to manage anxiety and how to not be a complete failure at life, and trying to get fitter and find meds that work so that maybe one day I can actually do something useful. I've watched a few new shows - Hannibal, Sleepy Hollow and Supernatural are the ones that immediately spring to mind. Next up: clones, and people who are really bad at being criminals (aka Orphan Black and Breaking Bad).

I spent Christmas up north at Mum's place. My sister passed her nursing course and has just started her new job. And, uhhh, that's about it, I think. Wish I had something more interesting to tell you, but this is about as thrilling as my life gets atm :P

So how are you guys doing?

So despite my almost complete absence from LJ for the past couple of months, I'm still here. My laptop was playing up while I was up north for Christmas, so I took it into the shop when I got back to get them to have a look at it. And now, 6+ weeks later, I've finally gotten it back. (And they couldn't find anything wrong with it, so idek.)

So yeah, I'm back. Hope everything's been okay with you guys while I've been away. I'll try to make a proper update sometime this week, and get back into commenting and generally being a functional member of online society again. (I did keep up with sorting at westerosorting, because I maybe have a bit of an obsession, but that was pretty much it.)

I've missed you guys. And the rest of the internet, but you guys most of all ♥

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it! Happy holidays to you all - I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season.

Remember if you want a virtual holiday gift, please leave a comment here: LJ | DW

I'd love to be able to send proper holiday cards to you guys, but sadly, postage is prohibitively expensive. One day when I have a job, I definitely intend to, and in the meantime if anyone wants to move to NZ...

Since I seem to have failed spectacularly to post my trick or treats in October, I'm stealing the idea I had for them and using it now. They probably won't be delivered until early January, once I get back home and have time to sort them out, but I want to give you guys something, because you're all amazing people and friends.

If anyone would like a virtual holiday gift, just leave a comment below :)

Hi flist! Long time, no post. I meant to post something ages ago, but I got caught up in being tired and busy and getting ready to go home for the holidays.

I'm currently staying at Mum's place, until just before New Year's. It's great to get to spend some time with her, and my sister's getting some time off over Christmas for the first time in years, so we'll be able to hang out for a few days - yay! It's ridiculously hot and humid up here though (probably not compared to the summers some of you have, but I'm used to the cold).

I've just had my annual try at making pavlova. Mum and my sister have very specific specifications for the perfect pav (crunchy on the outside, chewy in the middle), and I've never yet managed to get it quite right. Tomorrow I'll find out if this is the year...

I've also managed to finish my Yuletide fic, which is a huge relief. It's a genre that was well out of my comfort zone, and I'm still not sure I managed to pull it off. Otoh, I had some really helpful betas, so it might not be so bad. As long as my recipient likes it, I'll be thrilled. And there are currently two gifts waiting for me - can't wait til the archive goes live!

Hope you're all having lovely holidays, or whatever it is that you're up to atm <3

Stolen from sephystabbity and reynardine and hamsterwoman:

Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and you shall be rewarded :) Treats can be anything I choose to bestow upon thee, oh merry trick-or-treater (little drawings, graphics, gifs, maybe tiny fics, or little writeups about you, and so on.) The more "houses" to visit the merrier, so go ahead and open up your journal as well, if you please :)

Dear Yuletide Author,

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