A little overwhelmed these days. It's prime field weather so I scurried out for a solo collecting day, and it was great, but now it's back to cleaning, cooking, buying inflated goods, etc. for visitors this weekend, but at least we'll get in another day and a half in the field.

My social group has gone all-Christmas-music-all-the-time, and expects everyone to squeeze in Secret Santa shopping to a busy month. I'm just opting out for a while. When I traveled it was easier to just drive away from The Christmas Machine. I'm all for a little celebrating during Christmas week itself, but the 'let's have tons of events and obligations filling early December' routine I just can't get into.