a list

It is not quite 7am, and I am awake and dressed and my hair is about halfway dry, which means I've been up for a while, and yet strangely I am not as distressed by this as you'd think. Thus, a list of Good Things.

• I will relatively soon be retrieved by a sanj. Road trip!
  
• My living room is -- no fooling -- tidier than probably any living room I have ever lived in since leaving my parents' house. (It doesn't hurt that I have more square feet to myself here than I've had since -- ever. Wait, almost. I did have more space in my Ivory Tower apartment, I think, but that was a Giant Studio, so even then it couldn't be the same kind of put-away as this 2BR.) [basks]
  
• I also did the dishes, sequestered the old hand towels in my room with the laundry and put out new ones, and left a check for my half of my parents' Christmas present (we had the home movies transferred from Betamax to DVD, which meant some of Christmas Day was spent looking at the antics of darthfox ca. 1978, no doubt fun for all) on the coffee table, where my brother will be able to see it.
  
• In the past 48 hours I've got more comments on my yuletide fic than in the previous four days put together. This pleases me very much. And it's happened without any recs that I'm aware of, which means people are finding it on their own! ... eventually. :-)
  
• Related to this (really!), I screwed in a couple of screw-eyes on the back of the standup-only picture frame that drove me to tears two Sundays ago, and strung some picture wire between them, and that sucker is now hanging on the wall where it belongs.

You see, it's little things.

sanj will be here soon! Better finish the coffee. Happy new year, y'all!