good day

today was a wonderfully productive day off. first: drawing, reading, laundry and cat-entertaining (look for a tuckered out Boots); followed by gettin' my merry on with the first official present-wrapping session of the season, complete with christmas decor, lights and candles to set the appropriate mood; finally, a lovely dinner that merged Indian and Asian cuisine beautifully, care of boyfriend.

xmas break reading list (a work in progress)

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
2. some John Steinbeck short stories or Cannery Row
3. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
4. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
5. The Dream Songs - John Berryman
6. something magical