My family talking about Christmas decorations and scents excitedly. Me walking through the room, “Got anything that smells like a pine tree fucked a holly bush while a reindeer shit on it?”

Alone - Heart (cover by Floor Jansen) youtu.be/1fu-yP6q6Gk via YouTube The Valkyrie Metal Goddess!

open.spotify.com/track/0jVrsPeP… “In your eyes I see a light It's your emotions glowin' bright So keep the fires burnin' And let it warm me through the night. You can be a part of me 'Cause you're what love was meant to be You and me, baby We'll set this flame inside free.”

There isn’t a feeling in the world like the cold fresh wind blowing across the open miles running through my hair and across my face with golden sunlight warming my back. I could stand in this all damn day.

“The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster.” -from A Kiss of Shadows by Laurel K. Hamilton

I was expecting more Beast in Black than Amaranthe but yeah this feels right. #2020Wrapped open.spotify.com/wrapped/share-…

open.spotify.com/track/3y4Uza6K… “Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns Come in, she said I'll give ya shelter from the storm”

My traitorous brain’s response to the alarm this morning was a liberal use of the snooze button. Stupid warm comfortable bed.

open.spotify.com/track/4rfVhfxk… “Someone to protect and be protected by When that certain fury would come Someone to respect and be respected by When deprivation took its toll on you”

Today is absolutely a Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson/Powerwolf Friday. Throw in a little Ghost and some Beyond the Black and my musical aura for the day is complete.

open.spotify.com/track/2bL2gyO6… Music to listen to while writing the heat building, consuming them, devouring each other, lost to reason, passion igniting the tempest. “Baby I'm preying on you tonight Hunt you down eat you alive”

Best line in tonight's RPG session. Bard is being grappled and held hostage with the party nearby. Bard says to his captor, "Hey, so, uh... maybe could you choke me a little bit?"

The plan was to relax in the nice warm bed this morning. That plan has failed.

"Baby, all your words, they kill And I've run out of all these pills I'm getting thinner, getting tired I give an inch, you take a mile And I can't keep going back and forth Real love ain't no swingin' door" Hollywood - Ruston Kelly Show of hands for all those who've felt this?

And here we are at 2 AM and my brain asking my subconscious “Why you have to be such an asshole?”

open.spotify.com/track/1B5tiGNc… “Don't break character You've got a lot of heart Is this real or just a dream? Rise up like the sun Labor 'til the work is done”

open.spotify.com/track/17VqlqPm… “Time Goes by as day and nights are turning into years But I'm lying in your arms It's the place Where I know that I am closest to your heart When the dark is torn apart”

open.spotify.com/track/7uOJu8oh… “Unlimited sin, unlimited power Just a whisper away Unlimited sin, unlimited power One with pleasure and pain Unlimited sin” Christmas Eve grocery shopping music.