:gets nose out of book long enough to check thread:  Oooh, lovelies! I see everyone has been very creative lately, me I'm just lazy right now. And I've fallen into an extremely long, not to mention extremely well written Sherlock Holmes fanfic novel over on Archive of Our Own, a.k.a. AO3. Which of course has gotten me searching for more of the like, as well as these other stories I stumbled upon wherein aliens encounter humans and decide we are totally crazy, nearly indestructible "space orcs" who live on a Deathworld that is the alien equivalent of Australia. Very entertaining. Might even be inspiring, who knows?

Did not get much art done over the holidays, frankly my bad shoulder was killing me 3, 4 days in a row and that pretty much drained me. Feeling better now -- though goodness knows where my blood pressure is! -- so hopefully I'll soon get back to business. 

Not even 9:30 here and already the fireworks frenzy has started. No parties for me, just gonna relax with my favorite oldies station on the radio, my ereader full of books and a nice, hot cuppa. Happy New Year!