Yule

So tonight's the Big Night. Its one of the few nights of the year that I'm willing (if not able) to stay up for the whole thing. Watch the sun go down, watch the sun come up. I really love all the different holidays, but the solstices I think are particularly wonderful. There's this amazing physical change in the world -- longest night, longest day, extremes of cold, extremes of heat.

So. The plot for tonight.

* Bake cookies.
* Open presents.
* Rituals (I like having a beginning, middle, and end, however small they may be)
* Laundry (nothing like running through the cold to the laundry room to wake you up)
* Probably livejournal updates too

Still need to go to the store and get the candle (one of those long lasting ones -- we unfortunately don't have a fireplace anymore), snacks, cookie-makings, and plane food (since we're getting on the plane tomorrow, and if I don't have snacks I freak out even more).

I really wanted to stay up late last night and then sleep in today. Doesn't seem to be working. I woke up at nine, and even though I'm really tired from being up, I can't sleep. Ah, well.