Asakiyume mita

I haven't made New Year's resolutions in quite a few years--like, since even before the pandemic--but this year I have a couple! I am sharing them. Accountability!

One is to try making croissants. It seems impossibly hard. But so rewarding!

The other is to make a more consistent and frequent effort with my writing. I have the Tales of the Polity novel that I'm working on, but for the past year or so, I've only been sitting down to work on it once a week, with rare exceptions. And/But also, I think I need to write some other, shorter, different things, because I have an urge to share. I have stories to tell, but if I can't share them, then ... well it's frustrating! I'm greedy--I can't wait however many years it'll be until I finish the novel; I have to share some other things. So I'm going to make writing a daily thing and see if that helps.

Eh bien, mes amis, and now I'm going to decorate some gingerbread for my next-door neighbors. The bougie neighbors are getting cats (they have two cats), bees (the mom loves bees), flowers, butterflies, and a guy on a snowmobile (I have no clue what the dad likes, but he does have a tow thing that Wakanomori is pretty sure contains a snowmobile, so I made a gingerbread guy on a snowmobile for the dad).

For the fun-music-playing, knife-throwing-training, rock painting family on the other side, I made mainly Gen-one Pokemon figures (Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Gengar, two each: one for the son and one for the daughter) because I know the son at least loves Pokemon. Also two squirrels and some snowflakes. The daughter likes wearing pretty dresses ("the garment should be flowing when the knives you're throwing"), so I did a gingerbread girl in a flowing dress, and the boy I just did as a gingerbread boy in an embrace-the-world stance.

ETA: I am ruining these by trying to frost them -_-

My neighbors to the right, the mom dresses her two little daughters in matching clothes, they have fleets of dolls, and for Easter they got armfuls of plush peeps. The neighbors to the left, dad and little daughter bond over knife throwing. SO METAL.

Throwing (that's my laundry you can see hanging up in the background)



Retrieval



The next toss hit the target. My neighbor looked up at me, beaming with pride--as well she should! Little heroine. You will definitely want her in your D&D party.

(How handy that I already have a tag called "knives"!)