checking in super-quick

Still haven't looked at the flist (that's since, like, the 27th, so I may never see what you all have been saying in there).  I'm coming to you live from Chez NoRMaNs to report that they are both still preposterously cute, it is 40 degrees here in ORLANDO (!), and the yuletide authors have been revealed.  The author of my lovely present was wickedgameff, of the first of my treats was melanie_anne, and of the second of my treats was mtgat; thanks again, guys!

mtgat was also, incidentally, the first person to comment on the story I wrote, which was Other People's Battles, written for Vix (whom I spent the whole yuletide period believing was uschickens but turns out, apparently, to be someone entirely else.  [g])  The request was for Willow, Madmartigan and Airk, with the prompt "You know they had a history.  Were they stable lads laughing together until Madmartigan impregnated someone's daughter and got kicked out?  Was one of them the son of a wealthy man, and the other the stablemaster's son?  Why did Airk leave him in that cage?  I ask you."  And this turned out to be really hard!  I think I wrote a good story; many thanks to those who left lovely comments on it, and to the ever-loyal sanj, through whose grace I have still never gone un-recced at yuletide time.  :-)

Off to wake a baby from her nap.  See y'all next week, if I don't get back online sooner --