Earth and sky have their own holiday lights here.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

Sunset, Christmas Eve. Plain little white lights around the deck. Purple, pink, and yellow sky. Earth and sky have their own holiday lights here.

We're keeping the day as low-key as possible. It's warmer, per the thermometer, but there's an icy wind; you can feel and smell the snow it carries, although that's not supposed to be here before Wednesday. We exchanged gifts this morning (I'll post photos of mine in the days and weeks to come, because he made three absolutely extraordinary pieces for me), and we'll have a nice dinner this evening. Some months back we scored a duck, and it's been sitting at the bottom of the freezer waiting for the holidays; it's been brining since yesterday, and it's going into the oven shortly. Beyond that, we're enjoying basketball and football while we go about our work (no, there's no such thing as a day off here). Our best gifts are each other, our love and our life together, and nothing else will ever come close to that.

And I'm trying to put the days and weeks to come out of mind for a day, at least. Because there's still endless work to be done in terms of chasing sales; January is always a bad month financially (January and June or July, one- and twice-yearly stuff that can only be handled then), and we need the respite between Christmas and New Year's to gear up for all that, but we also need to being in more income now. 

I'm also hoping that we don't need to leave the house again until well after Christmas, but the financial issues are still keeping me awake at night. I'm still trying to keep all the balls in the air right now, because if they come crashing down, everything shatters. And I've still got to get us out of this month and this year in one piece, and I can't do that unless our sales rate increases dramatically and immediately (except we're out of time now, so apparently this year is going to end with us in a very big hole). Nothing else matters (to the outside world where these things have to be paid, and so I have to behave accordingly).

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