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My family's back from Vienna all safe and sound. They brought me nice things, including a big Advent-calendar-style giftpack of COFFEE!

I kinda forgot to tell them that I quit coffee.

But that was so sweet, eh?

It's now been over a hundred hours since my last dose of caffeine. I lazed the entire day long, after sleeping for almost 12 hours, but the headaches were a little more bearable. Everyone cross your fingers that I won't cave tomorrow.

I think I might try and dig out the "Smoking" episode of Newsradio tonight to cheer myself up. (That's the one, for you laypeople, where Dave tries to give up coffee and Bill tries to give up cigarettes. It includes the immortal line, "I don't know what caffeine does for your body but I'm pretty sure that without it, your head caves in.")

I started working on Gina's sweater from last year again-- finished both sleeves!-- and am trying not to be depressed about the whole Christmas-present thing. I know if I started to knit presents now I'd just drive myself crazy with guilt, because there's just not enough time to get anything worthwhile done for anyone, unless I knit one thing for one person, and then I'd feel bad for giving one person something when I love so many people. So I'm going to go with the ideas of my friends in the comment box in the post below this one, and concentrate on the sights and sounds and smells and good cheer. New York has them in spades. Even the good cheer part. And Gina and I hauled out the decorations tonight and started Christmasing up The Penthouse. I miss Mint Manor especially at Christmastime, but there's coziness to be had in that apartment, especially with the city twinkling like Christmas lights outside every window.

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