Well the Christmas season here at my house can be very stress-filled to say the least. If it's not chaotic enough add into the mix my daughter missing her flight to Cambodia and trying to get another one at the very last minute... She arrived last night in Phnom Penh so three of my older kids are there for the holidays. My oldest daughter must be very happy. I talked to her yesterday. It was my mid-day and she was still up baking in preparation for her sister's arrival.
December was a very busy month for me work wise. I love both of my jobs that I work during the week time. It's just made it very hard on the days that I worked both then getting home at close to 6pm. If I had it together and had a meal in the crock pot all was well... If I didn't then it was left overs or pizza... So I was left with odd bits of time writing and editing . I felt what I did get done was very good just long breaks in between.
My knitting has been slow and I am working on a present for a dear friend of mine so hopefully I can get done this week because then I have yarn I know is sitting at the PO for my son's hat. He wants it done in Rasafurian colors or the colors of the Jamaican flag.
Reading, the last time I wrote here I was in a funk for what to read. Well I now have an abundance of reading material, mostly historical or Memoirs. I am reading at the moment "Lady Macbeth" by Susan Fraser King and it's fascinating. Was going to read her book "Queen Hereafter" about Queen Margret of Scotland but saw how I really should read Lady Macbeth first. Susan Fraser King paints a very vivid portrait portrait of the lady and her times. As I said before I love Scottish history and it's in my blood since my Great Grand Mother was a Boyd . Her mother was born in Scotland where as her father was a third or fourth generation Scot.
I also find it fascinating due in fact to it being the time period I am writing about but instead of Scotland I am writing about a country in South East Asia and about another equally strong woman who was queen. No more spoilers on my book till my son says so. This is a project near and dear to both our hearts. I was at a Christmas cocktail party of another dear friend and her husband showed me a Christmas card from his ex who was standing at the gate of Angkor Thom which is part of the Bayon and was built by the king Jayavarman VII. He handed me the card and I just got so choked up. I can't imagine what it will be like to actually stand there and see those places in person. Anyway I was standing in the group besides my friend's husband and told them what was in the pictures and Henry said "I sounded homesick." One woman in the group said "wow, you pronounced it all right..." well yea, I lived there for 11+ years. BUT this last year I have lived and breathed that area and the ancient time period of the Angkorian Kings.
I will close this with a wishing all who read a very Happy New Year!
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