I was away visiting my mom's family, which went pretty well. No major drama, always a plus. Had fun playing games with my cousins, who are pretty cool to be around now that they're not annoying younger children. And I got to meet my baby first-cousin-once-removed. He was fussy the whole time, but still cute. Apparently he doesn't like too much activity with too many people. An introvert after my own heart. {= )

~Neshomeh

Been a pretty good day so far. Feeling much better today than I was yesterday, got to hang out with Mum's relations for a bit, ate entirely too much Christmas dinner, then caught the better part of Rio Bravo on TV for the first time. Was good film.

Very happy with gifts, too. Mum knitted me a lovely scarf in Hufflepuff colors, got the first Republic Commando book (which I've been meaning to read for ages. Plus, Republic Commando covers some stuff that's useful for one of my potential agent's background), Dragonriders of Pern (heard more than a few recommendations around here), and Records of the Medieval Sword (quite looking forward to getting a slightly more in-depth source than Wikipedia and YouTube).

All in all, good day. Very good day.

Very cramped. Hard to laze around in the holidays. And to make things worse(better), I had to return to universoty to do my works. Hopefully my siblings be more industrous, since the house is easily cluttered.