Seasonal Giving, Part 1

This year, I have a little stash of DW points and hence I'm offering the following:

• One year of paid account time to two users
  
• Six months of paid account time to one user

To nominate someone for either of these, please enter their username in the following poll. Other points to consider are:

• I don't need to know, interact with, or have anything in common with your nominee, so please don't worry if they don't overlap in our Circles.
  
• Self-nomination is absolutely OK. I won't know anyway, because the poll is anonymised.
  
• Sharing this entry is absolutely OK.
  
• If you would like to identify yourself as the nominator of a user (e.g. "I put in so-and-so's name") so that, if they're selected, they know their donor's name, you can do so in the screened comments on this entry. Please don't feel obliged to do this.
  
• I will be drawing the three names out of a hat after the poll closes (next Friday 18 December).
  

One caveat: Seed Account users won't be included in this round of Seasonal Giving, as additional account time wouldn't be of use to them.

Poll #17166 Seasonal giving, Part 1

This poll is closed.
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 9

I would like to nominate the following user for 6 or 12 months of paid Dreamwidth account time.

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December Days in Photos: Day 8: Me time

[Me peering over my glasses and grinning whilst holding a beautiful whisky cocktail.]

(I know I'm going off-piste with the schedule I set. My excuse for skipping ahead to this one is that I've been single-parenting for a few days now. That always makes me prize me-time, especially when I have the energy to do something with it other than slowly sink into the sofa and try not to fall asleep with a glass of wine in my hand while Masterchef/Bake Off/Nigella plays on the telly.)

ayebydan asked what I do with my "me-time". In a normal week, I get one night in London. Occasionally I will go out to dinner or to see a film. As I usually work until at least 7 PM and try to be in the office before 7:30 AM the next day, I mostly opt to go to my friends' house and hang out with them in the evening, melting into the sofa in front of the fire before going to bed by 10 PM. I treasure that one night of uninterrupted sleep.

This post, however, is about one of the rare occasions when I have the luxury of using "me-time" to go out and do something I enjoy. Last month, I spent two nights in London. On the first, I went with said friends to a whisky tasting, something I did much more regularly before moving to the countryside and having children, because I loooove whisky. The photo above is from the pre-tasting gathering at the venue, where they serve a delicious whisky cocktail made with one of the whiskies from the distiller (or in this case, blender, as this was Compass Box) that isn't in the tasting. The photos below show my progress through the tasting and, I think, reflect my thorough enjoyment of it.

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