wild for to hold

It occurred to me yesterday that Christmas is in less than two weeks (??!) and I have done very little in terms of preparations so far, so today I went shopping for Christmas cards & dropped off my best friend's gift in the mail. I've honestly been feeling quite stressed but I hope that'll lessen once I start sending out these cards.

I'm going to spend the 24th with my lovely roommate! We're gonna do a Lord of the Rings marathon--we'll watch all 3 extended versions back-to-back. That'll keep us busy for sure. Then on the 25th my mom is picking me up for a Christmas lunch with my parents, my nephew, and my parents' BFF. I feel conflicted about it. On the one hand it's ~tradition~, but on the other... stuff that involves my parents is always really hard on me, especially around the holidays. I just hope I'll get through it relatively unscathed.

On Monday night I finished Prey and I just

• What the fuck

That is all. -- At least some of my questions were answered in the end! I've been reading Reddit in an effort to better understand all the subtleties I missed & I think I now have a vague idea of what was going on. I also went into the AO3 tag and discovered to my horror that there's not a single Morgan/Jason fic out there! Now I have to write my thing. I've also got to buy the Mooncrash DLC asap. I heard we're gonna get to know another member of the Yu family & I'm really looking forward to meeting them, whoever they may be.

I've been thinking about maybe making a WIP post where I ramble a bit about the fics I'm currently writing. I tend to be fairly withdrawn and insular about my favorite hobby, which is a bit sad--I'm so envious of writers who can just... talk about their WIPs, damn it. I tried to chat about writing on my Tumblr but that website in general just tends to give me that dreaded AllByMyself.mp3 feeling because I know how quickly posts can get buried in a deluge of reblogs. So I'm hoping that DW is more suited to my blogging style. I have a lot of WIPs so that'd be quite a huge post, haha.

My To Do list for the weekend includes:

• write Christmas cards
• LAUNDRY
• work on some fics
• start replaying Prey as female Morgan
• play Overwatch
• maybe cook
• make birthday plans