A day of doing stuff

[desperance]

I lay in bed in the empty hours, remembering all the stuff I had to do, and felt my heart sink catastrophically: wasn't I supposed to be having fun now?

Then I remembered the other thing, that all the stuff I have to do now is fun...

So: I have written a thousand words of a Clive Barker tribute album story set in the Hellraiser mythos, for an antho. Hee. At the moment it's all dark Oriental seastuff shopping; soon it gets to be pretty boys and typhoon. After that, who knows...? Cenobites are expected.

I have shopped, and come home with a pig's trotter and clams. Palourdes, carpet-shell clams. Many, many clams, for non-traditional Christmas dinner (steak tartare; spaghetti vongole, with many many vongols; maple cheesecake).

I have pierced an orange with many many cloves, and put the Christmas ham on to boil. I have rummaged in the dustbin for the wrapper that showed the weight of the Christmas ham, to calculate how long it needs (another non-traditional tradition, in this house; I always forget to look, and have to rummage). Four hours, apparently. Coo.

I have not yet split the trotter and set that to boil with herbs & veggies to make the jelly for the capon-and-ham pies; I shall do that after lunch, because I need to keep space on the cooker to heat soup and crisp bacon. To go with my capon, stuffing and cranberry pickle sammich, oh yes. Soup and a sammich: what could be nicer?

Also, I should do some dedicated cleaning this afternoon. I thought that a couple of days ago, and so far I've managed to clear half a kitchen counter. A small kitchen counter. The easy half. Um. It's not impressive.

Oh, and I have to collect my Christmas veggies. And work out what's for dinner. And write some more of the story. And glaze the ham, and make the pies, and and and...

Comments

Still...

[theaarauth.livejournal.com]

The way you say it all, it sounds impressive enough... :-)

Have Merry Christmas to you and your family!

---THEA RAUTH

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

OOh. A Brenchleyverse/Hellraiser crossover. That sounds like lots of fun. Now, we just need Luke visiting Dunwich or Innsmouth...

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

It does sound like a busy day so far, and it's not even over...

Here much thing-doing, too.

L.

[fatbaldguy60.livejournal.com]

I have got to try to avoid reading your posts around meal times. You are killing me!