Christmas tally:

1) "The Book of Things that Never Were", beautiful hardback, half artbook half encyclopedia of myths, legends and mythical places, people and creatures from all over the world.

2) Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within, DVD. So I like it,

3) 2 shirts, 1 sweatshirt, 3 pairs of socks. Things I don't go out of my way to buy for myself, so I'm grateful :)

4) 1 chinese dragon statuette for Feng Shui purposes.

5) Driving gloves! The cool, no-fingers type.

6) Dungeons & Dragons movie, VCD. I forgive my father, he didn't watch it but knows I'm writing for D&D games now :)

7) "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce. Delightful little book for the cynic in me :)
All in all, a good balance :).

I miss Nicci. She's only been gone for, what... 2 days? She's with family, celebrating Christmas, but I miss her anyway.

Cause for worry: SMS appears not to work when I try to message her, but the messages from her cel do get here. ;_;

AAARGH!!! I miss her so much!!! ;_;

Happy, joy. :)

I'm not drunk, at least not yet since it's too early, but I wanted to write something about how happy I am this day.

I've been chatting with Nicci for the past few days, and the Nicci-shaped hole in my life is plugged. I love her, and it could be argued that it's an insane kind of love for all the difficulties in our path, but I still do. My heart warmed over with her expressions of joy when she opened my present.

My book for White Wolf is selling amazingly well for an e-book and the utter lack of advertisement and announcements and I'm getting accepted by the RPG freelancing community. I have received notice from the business-minded partner at Mongoose about my contract and Non-Disclosure Agreement being on their way, and I've snagged a small yet meaningful commission for a Mage: the Ascension book.

My family is well and healthy and our tree is laden with the gifts we have gotten for each other.

Yes... this is a good time and I am happy and content.

I shall repeat that Nicci is a great contributor to that happyness, and making her happy is one of the greatest joys I've experienced.

Now... if I could only spread and contagiate this Warm And Fuzzy Feeling to my more depressed friends...