One week and counting (Anne Stuart)

One lovely week left to go. We haven't gotten our tree yet, but I've baked three-ginger cookies from the Silver Palate Cookbook, stollen (not sweet enough but still good), loaded the cd changer with half my Christmas cds, got a 2-cd Christmas set from CD Japan, and am generally having a lovely time. One kid home from college, the other coming from Philadelphia, and I'm feeling very jolly.Particularly since Yul won Survivor. Man, strip him, bathe him and bring him to my tent!What else? I dragged out my new Dragon Naturally Speaking and got it fired up. Dictated twenty new pages into the computer, and I'm itching to get back to it. Whoever thought I'd find Christmas getting in the way? I'm still going to try to carve out some time to write -- amidst the wrapping and the cooking and the (ohgodhelpme) cleaning, I'm feeling a bit scattered. Isobel and Killian will ground me.So here's my Christmas wish for the world. Peace on earth (and let it begin with me). Enough food but not too much. Health. Bad people turning into pillars of salt until they learn how to behave. Multiple orgasms. Music. Wonderful books to lose yourself in for Christmas (I'm reading THE DREAM THIEF by Shana Abe). Love, love, love. War is over, if you want it.Go for it! And Merry merry Christmas and blessings of the season to everyone!