Drafted entry from January 4th: todo, tada; pins

I'm splitting my to-do lists between paper and Google Keep, because if I don't know where my paper to do paper lists is, then I still need to make a list. This approach is helpful. (Lists and Do One Thing A Day is my therapy homework for the past 3 weeks).

I've been getting around to putting my pin collection somewhere visible. I have a thing in the bedroom, and also a felt banner in the living room behind my desk. The pins that have been rattling around on my desk are getting put in the appropriate place as I find them. This pleases me.

Gel nail polish o'clock

I re-did my nail polish on December 28 because my left middle finger's nail had slightly torn a little below where I could have cut it usefully. Gel polish is good for stabilizing a nail, it turns out. So there I went.

( Polish-geeking )

A new year, with cats

New Year's Eve is full of bangy things, and neither of the upstairs cats cares for that particularly. Based on sunset time locally, 3-4 PM is a great time to get the 50mg trazodone inside the cat. This time my procedure was:
* get the pill
* owner holds cat
* I attempt to pop the pill in the mouth
* she spits it out
* While she is making horrified, disgusted faces, I pop the pill in the mouth a second time
* I hold her mouth closed and stroke her throat until it's clear that she's swallowed it

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Steph visited and played Slay the Spire with Belovedest. Later we tuned in to the CBC countdown, because it always seems more friendly and homemade, the acts are Canadian (I relate to Canadian country as a genre much better than American country), and it's good fun. This year I particularly admired Kardinal Offishall's snowsuit, which had rainbowy images, some of which looked like hearts, and I would dearly love to see a better high-res image of the pattern.

Alex made the traditional Lil Smokies with chili and blackberry sauce, and assorted oven-cookable fried foods.

After that we tuned in to the Space Needle countdown. There were various libations. We went for the fizzy white grape for the toast. I also had my favorite creme de violette & rose syrup & fizzy water concoction. I tried to make some bastard version of an Aviation, with the creme de violette. Unfortunately not only were my proportions off and I used maraschino cherry juice instead of the proper cherry booze, but I may have over-ginned it a TOUCH. I eventually finished it, with a lot more fizzy water and some sugar.

The 1883 "cherry blossom" syrup is ... well, imagine one of those jellybean-like cherry sour candies. Now take away the sour. I think perhaps we might be able to use it in the Redpop-like soda, for the "other red fruits" syrup.

Just after midnight, Belovedest and I went out to pop some confetti cannons. Steph abstained.

The Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton concert was great fun. I had somehow missed that Dolly is Miley's godmother! They had an affectionate slapfight towards the end of "Jolene", it was great.