1. Have you ever had the experience where you get your yuletide assignment, you think "oh no, why did I offer that, this is worst-case", then "wait, I think I know what I'm going to write," then "this is such a perfect prompt for me that I'm pretty sure everyone will immediately know who wrote it" in the course of about five minutes? Because that happened.

2. Final to-do list postmortem:
I got all but one of the highest-priority things done, and exactly half of the high, and a few of the medium, which is just about what I thought I would do! Hurrah! That sill leaves 1 highest-priority, 10 high-priority, and nearly all the rest, but c'est la vie.
Also I do still have baskets of: art & craft supplies; electronics; clothes in need of mending; useless knick-knackery; paperwork; and assorted-that-I-was-to-tired-to-deal-with to deal with. But I have high hopes for this weekend!
In terms of testing out a routine if I wasn't working every day: on the downside, I did not manage to do most of the things on my routine list every day. I also somehow had something major I needed to do outside the house every single day, despite trying to keep the week clear, which made it tough. Upside, I did manage "take a long walk" and "write a dreamwidth post" every day - and I didn't have any days which were entirely lost to staring at a screen and Not Doing Things, which is what I was mostly afraid of.

3. I kinda want to go see Venom this weekend. It sounds like gooey fun, the problem is ever since they started showing up on Pinboard, this has been stuck in my head:

Venom and Eddie were still going
Steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would
Be at the end of the July
Everyone said they were crazy
Venom you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that
Kind of life
But there we were wavin' Venom and
Eddie goodbye

and I would like it to stop, please.