Exotic yet ordinary

Someone (read me) has thought all day long that there were still fifteen days left until Christmas because someone (um, also me) forgot to update our cutesy little Count Down to Santa blocks this morning. Someone (me) should really rely more on a calendar and less on countdown blocks. Someone (me again) figures that fourteen days still provide enough of a buffer between now and Christmas to put off shopping one more evening in favor of reading another chapter or so of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.