Crunch Time

For those of you celebrating Christmas, its crunch time.  I am still trying to catch up and finish multiple things.  Gifts for family.  Special orders that are bordering on, if not already, overdue.  To those of you I am so sorry if your orders are not finished.  This is my first year balancing business with personal, and even though I don't get nearly as much business as some of my most favorite artists, I feel like I was scrambling the entire time.  I give them all so much more credit.  I hope as the years go on, that my business will blossom, and I will have to scramble that much more :)  I am really thankful for the scrambling.  I just had no idea what my custom orders would have in store for me.  Hopefully, if I am as fortunate next year, I will be able to balance it all out better.  :)

With the lunar eclipse tonight for all of Northern America, I have decided to stay up to see it.  Tomorrow is Yule, also known as the Winter Solstice, another holiday I like to celebrate.  So with it being the longest night of the year, it will also be the darkest.  They say that the moon in the total eclipse will be a red color.  I just have to stay up to see it.  I'm not good at going to bed and then setting an alarm to get up to see it.  When I'm asleep, I have a hard time pulling myself out of bed to do that sort of thing.  I'm way better at just staying awake.  I plan on working my buns off on the last few orders and presents.  I might also start my stew for tomorrow and wake up starving because my whole house will smell awesome.  :)  Might have to run to the 24 hour grocery store and get a couple more potatoes though.  Mine seem to have turned against me.  :X  Should be a fun night.  :)  Then I wont have to get up at 8 or 9 in the morning to make the stew.  It should be ready at lunchtime, but I think I'm still going to let it stew till dinner.  :)

So if you are in the U.S. and you want to see the moon, here is some more information about that. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/20/132199769/during-tonights-lunar-eclipse-moon-will-turn-into-a-reddish-ball?sc=fb&cc=fp