Not Dead

Not dead. Have had and will have a string of nonstop visitors - Ciro's brother, then Val and Acevedo, now my sister, soon Brynt, then Ed and Ash, then Ciro's mom. We're practically hot-bunking in here. Am also working full time and busy with getting presents wrapped, cards sent, carols prepared, etc., along with the things that would make me busy anyway. Have scrawled a few notes of things I'd like to write about, but it's very hard to find a polite way to say "hello; I know you spent quite a bit of money to come from very far away to spend a few hours with me, but I'd like to go type for a bit about what we would otherwise be talking about, if it's all the same to you." The usual trouble of my journal, in other words; if I'm up to something interesting, I probably don't have time to type, so I'm only writing when I don't have much to write about.