My girlfriend and I are having our third anniversary next Friday. Hard to believe we've been together for three years. Looking forward to ringing in the the new year with the start of year 4.

I got her the Skyrim cookbook for Christmas. She's opening presents with her family on Sunday.

XIV wise I finished Ranged role quests. Moved onto healer. Taking up SCH to take up SMN at the same time. Actually played SMN in roulettes today because my friend is working on Sage as he rushed and finished Reaper even though at first he was doing them in tandem. Don't know why I didn't make sense of SMN right away. It's actually rather simple now. Kind of glad I didn't, though. The RDM Verraise clutchery in the normal mode raids has been the highlight of gameplay for me this expansion, thus far.

Got SCH/SMN up to 83 tonight before GF time. Also started working on Culinarian. Got it to 85, slowed down a bit to do the Studium quests with it. Actually gathering the ingredients etc. Finally ran out of rested bonus EXP.

Work has been soft since I returned, though I managed to break the pool pump by switching it off. It sounded like it was dying. Could hear it screeching from the other side of the building. Apparently we were under corporate orders to let it run in spite of that until the new parts for it were in, because it will compromise the pool. *sigh*