We took a little trip with Sue to the wineries in Solvang. It's basically a 2.5 almost 3 hour trip from the valley. She brought coffee which was greatly appreciated.
She has a membership with one of the wineries up there so we went to get her wine. The weather and location was so beautiful. I wore a short dress with a little long sleeve sweater over it. It wasn't that cold out for December. We ended up buying 2 bottles at that location. The wine is so good.
We then went to another winery that I wanted to try so badly. I'd seen it in October, but we hadn't stopped in. The charming atmosphere really made it fun and the man pouring our drinks gave us more than just a sip. Well, I didn't think another sample would do anything, but it did leave me questionable. We ended up buying two bottles of wine there as well.
I recently opened the wine so I'm drinking it sip by wonderfully delicious sip for dinner.
We then took a walk around Solvang. Every store had a decorated Christmas tree. It was so much fun. I guess there is a Christmas tree burning festival that maybe I can get Emory to drive me up for. I don't know why that sounds like fun, but anything with the word festival or ritual really strikes my interest.
I do want to leave for the Arizona commune in January. We'll see.
I didn't finish my Christmas shopping! I barely bought something for Mr. S that won't come until after Christmas, but he's on a cruise to the other side of the world so he won't be back for a bit.
Writing Update:
Working on a fandom story that I started years ago. I really like how open I was about the story. The editor me hasn't touched it yet. I really love how I worded the sentences.
I had a really great dream that I want to make into a story. It had to do with mermaids or rather maybe "sirens" because sirens kill and I don't think mermaids do. Anyways, I love my dream. It was so different.
Untitled DD: I am working on this. I thought it would be a one shot but it's getting fairly long. I need to break it into parts.
Reading some of my other started stories and I'm so in love with my early works from 2017. I'm a little nervous that my writing is a little too stilted now. I might be getting too serious and need to write a little more true to the inner voices in my head.