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Oh the holidays… For some reason I tend to keep myself freakishly busy when I don’t even like Christmas. But today, today all is right with the world for one second because it is the winter solstice. It’s the first day of winter and the longest night of the year, so I was bracing for full on winter. This week however, we are seeing temps above freezing and it feels – AMAZING! I’m telecommuting today since no critical deadlines are looming, and everyone I work with is out of the office. Good thing too, because I finally finished Ben’s quilt this morning at 8 am, just in time for Jeremy to run both quilts to the laundromat for a wash (rag quilts clog your pipes, but industrial pipes at the laundromat can handle it). While he was out, I made the gift bags and packed some goodies for BIL:

I cleaned up in the kitchen and hit the booze early (like at 8 am) because hot wassail sounded so good with zero degree temps outside. Nicole called it hot sangria. I can see the colonials tanking up on hot wassail while running around in the winter night singing carols to the town. Boozy, warm, and loud – that’s the life of a revolutionary…