Feels funny being in the suburbs, just went out to get some milk from a gas station and the driving environment is like nothing I've experienced lately, broad, empty, well-lit streets. My parents' subdivision is particularly spacious having been designed before the city sewer extended out this far, code requirements for septic systems dictated at least one acre lots.

Feeling pretty tired and kind of sad, lots of activity, lots more tomorrow, complex cookery, gift exchange, probably dog excursion, hope I can sleep, those visions of sugarplums dancing in my head are making me kind of agitated.