december is all about two things

-State of Christmas music: who even knows. I feel like as it has turned out there are a lot of moving parts that I'm unconvinced will all come together, but if it does, I think I have an outdoor instrumental program that lets people have a bit of some reasonably competent Christmas music while doing our best not to put anyone at risk? If our family or the other musical family in the ward turns out to have to quarantine during that time, maybe I don't have a program? As for the video part, I have pretty much given up on that, I have sent a lot of harassing emails and now it's up to them, I'll make a little video with the kids and everyone else can just make a little video or not, and anyone who does will post them to the ward Facebook page. What we really needed was someone who would string all the videos together so we could have a group watching experience, and no one including me was willing to do that. (This is also So Not My Job. This is the job I said no to last year when it was in person and *less* work.) But, like. What are they going to do, fire me? (...which... I would super not mind, except that it would probably mean being slotted into another calling that required more work or at least more work I was unsuited for. :) )

-State of Yuletide: ahahaha. I laugh. Honestly it is overall pretty low stress because this year I am writing short fun things and not trying to figure out ambitious or long ideas. But now I have somehow been sucked into helping out with a rather ambitious idea, so I am actually spending quite a bit more time than I'd anticipated on that. On the other hand, it is not my ambitious idea, so I don't actually have to be stressed about it. :) I'm really invested now, but it's great for me because I can do mostly the fun parts, lol.

-bonus bullet point: A chance remark online got me googling reusable menstrual pads, omg I was skeptical at first but I love these things so much, the best thing I've bought all year. I am using primarily ones from Tree Hugger Cloth Pads from Canada which, have I mentioned, are so great. I'll do a proper better review of them later... probably in January. But I have now finished my first month of using solely cloth pads and I am so happy.