🎶 Work's out for the Winter... 🎶

At least, for me. My vacation started as of 3:30 p.m. today and I don't have to go back until January 8th of the new year. Seventeen days off. I've been waiting for this for months.

I don't have much planned for it. schoolpsychnerd has the same two weeks off as I do, other than having to go in for a half-day tomorrow, but we don't have any major plans. My parents live out in the suburbs, so we're going to use some of the time off to go visit them, and we have a couple event invitations, but other than that I'm going to play a ton of video games, watch a couple movies (currently planning on Captain America: the First Avenger and Warcraft), go to some delicious restaurants, listen to podcasts, tinker with RPGs, and otherwise just relax for two weeks. I guess I could add "study Japanese" in there too, but since I'm currently playing Twilight Princess and plan to jump right into Phantom Hourglass when that's done, it's part of playing video games.

To celebrate the winter solstice, I made some amazake. I took a picture, too:

It's just made from a freeze-dried mix I ordered, so it doesn't taste quite right. It's a bit thin, and the grains of rice don't float properly, and it's a little sweeter than real amazake. But I can order amazake and have it delivered to my home and make it whenever I want, so how I can complain if it doesn't taste like the amazake with ginger that schoolpsychnerd and I drank at the Komori household after climbing down from Fushimi Inari?

And now, off to clean the kitchen. schoolpsychnerd is making beef Wellington tonight for dinner and, since the usual order of things is that she cooks I clean, my time has arrived.