post-Christmas

I'm sitting in Jeff's home office, which I'm sharing until we move in a couple of weeks. It's nearly 8 pm and pretty dead outside in downtown Toronto. White Christmas lights drape the trees in Metro Square, and I can see the lights of the Paramount Imax/Chapters corner beckoning. I'm half-considering going to see a movie tonight, but I'm more tempted to stay inside where it's warm and cozy, curl up on the couch with a good book (Ruth bought me Jonathan Stroud's The Golem's Eye) and a cup of licorice tea.

A Christmas compilation CD is playing on my laptop (thanks, Parki!) and I find myself a bit melancholy this evening, looking out the window and knowing that no matter what house we end up buying, we'll never be able to have a view of the city like the one we have now.

At the same time, I'm looking forward to the change of a residential neighbourhood, a bigger home office, maybe even a small garden where I can inadvertently torture innocent herbs and occasional flower.

I had a good Christmas, enjoyed familyholidaystuff. I've uploaded a few photos to Flickr, and you can also click on the photos today for more info. I'm enjoying reading over blog reports of other people's holiday weekends, finding out about different family rituals.

I am way behind in e-mail, by the way, thanks for your patience. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!

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