Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Hope all our monthly NaNo thread folks are having all the merry and bright they can handle!
This is one of the first opportunities I've had to sit quietly at the computer in a week. First there were all the last-minute holiday preparations, including a final round of baking, which included iced sugar cookie cutouts, cinnamon bread, millionaire bars and an Irish Cream cake. My brother and his family will be around tonight to help us eat up the goodies. I think I'm safe in calling the baking goal DONE.
Second, the "slight" cold went full blown early in the week. I lost my voice midway through our Tuesday evening performance and missed the following two shows while the cold continued to sit on my vocal cords. Wednesday evening through Thursday afternoon was the worst - I just huddled in a chair by the Christmas tree and blew my nose and coughed and drowsed. Friday I went back to work, in a somewhat abbreviated version of the show (we had to take some tucks in a couple of numbers to spare my voice). We begin our final week in the run tomorrow, and I'm hoping I'll be back at full strength by then.
Since the cold took the mickey right out of me, I didn't get to the first round of edits my editor sent out last week, and did no writing. I finished the second Pratchett book and made some progress in another. I may have found a near-perfect sublet in midtown Manhattan and just have to coordinate when to come up and see the place - probably the first week in January. Hope the weather cooperates.
Start first editing pass on Book #4 in my fantasy series - still on Chapter 1
Go over beta notes on Book #3 (as they come in) - done
Finish the three books I started last month - 2 of 3
Finish David McCullough's The Path Between the Seas - currently on Page 451
Continue with holiday baking - done