christmas-new year

[seldear]

Christmas Day was great. We don't have the family issues that others do, so it was great fun and celebration and catching up with cousins. The really delightful part is that my next cousin down has two kids - a daughter of five and a son of two.

D5 was adorable in a mermaid dress with a mermaid Barbie and biiiiig brown eyes as she went hunting for her little brother. "S2! S2! You've got a present! You have to open the present now! Come on, S2, open the present!" S2 was a bit nervous at first, and all the people got a bit much for him, but he was doing pretty well.

Scarily, my youngest cousin is now 18 and a young lady. Both she and her sister are Eurasian (like D5 and S2), and gorgeous. The boys are handsome, but the girls have all the benefits of mixed blood. Lucky for them!

I finished the pinch-hit for the sga_santa on Christmas morning at 10am. Didn't get a beta for it, just read it through a couple of times, then mailed it. I thought it was pretty good, all things considered.

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Boxing Day - also great. Had four friends over and watched the highlights of three seasons of Dr Who. From The Empty Child through to the finale of S1, School Reunion, the last two eps of S2 where Rose ends up in the alternate universe, and the last three eps of S3, where the Master comes into play and takes over the world before they turn time back.

It was good. And made a lot of things I'd heard about the show a whole heap clearer. Plus, I LOL'd at Jack towards the end of S3. "Hello." "Don't even start." "What, I can't say hello anymore?"

It was good to watch and discuss with friends. To take a marathon and put it all together to make sense of everything. I miss that.

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Sunday. I'd had enough of people by this stage, but the parentals were having a 'family Christmas lunch' at their house - for family friends rather than the relatives. I didn't really have the energy to exert myself much and spent far more time than I should have hiding out in the stepbrother's room.

The big crash happened Sunday night and it's left me reeling for the last few days. Someone unloaded on one of my fics in a less-than-tactful manner, and it was painful - especially since the story wasn't particularly well-received in the first place. She realised it was out of line and deleted the comment, but not before I'd seen it. Which left me with a great weight that nobody else can see.

Since then, I don't feel like doing much of anything. I don't feel like much of anything, either.

I was going to start writing my YA novel these holidays. Right now, I'm not so sure I have it in me.

Comments

[imaginary-iby.livejournal.com]

It's terrible, when people unload on fic - it can really hurt. It's good that she deleted it, but she should have just commented appropriately in the first place.

Glad you had a good christmas! It always gets a bit too much, after a few days.

[amenirdis.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a wonderful time with your family!

Both she and her sister are Eurasian (like D5 and S2), and gorgeous. The boys are handsome, but the girls have all the benefits of mixed blood. Lucky for them!

My daugher is Eurasian, a quarter Japanese, and while I realize all mothers think their daughters are beautiful, the combination of dark, dark lashes and almond shape with blue-gray eyes makes her look like an anime character. It's startling, and truly lovely.

[saramund.livejournal.com]

misses you! *hugs*

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

You guys survived the last night, I take it? :)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Hee.

I had a friend who was Chinese, with one-eighth Hispanic blood in her. Her Chinese great-grandfather had two wives - a Spanish one and a Chinese one, and when the man died, his Chinese wife took the oldest Spanish son back to China, where he married a Chinese girl, had her grandfather, who had her father, who had her. And you could see the difference in her bone structure. Slight, but there.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

It really gets to be too much after a few days. You just want to curl up and hide away...

*hugs*

I hope yours was good too!

[amenirdis.livejournal.com]

My daughter is tiny and fine boned, with broad shoulders like her dad and my pointed chin. Her hair is brown and her eyes are blue, so most people assume she's white. Except Asian moms. Who always ask me. There's something in the shape of her face that's very clear if you know what you're looking for. Well, and her size and bone structure look exactly like her five foot nothing Japanese grandmother.