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dodgyhoodoo going "Presents! *squee*" I am not generally a morning person but what's Christmas without getting up at the crack of dawn and badgering your loved ones to get up and open presents? I got told "You're making the coffee"; no hardship, particularly since it has to be instant at the moment because our coffee machine blew a serious gasket last weekend.
So we got up anddodgyhoodoo and I got to the unwrapping. From him, I got yet more anime (Boogiepop Phantom disc 3; we are getting there with the anime collections), some sci-fi/fantasy Book-1-of-a-Trilogy thing I hadn't even heard of and the new Lynne Truss (Talk to the Hand, all about how the rude people are taking over). For his part, he seemed quite happy with the Etherscope RPG sourcebook, the graphic novels (the last Invisibles TPB, Y: The Last Man and 100 Bullets -- volume three in both cases) and the Doctor Who version 9 and Twilight Zone S1 (original) box sets. He has seen first-hand the Neilson motto when it comes to Christmas: "If in doubt, go overboard. In fact, just go overboard anyway".
For corroberation of this, my mother's gifts were similarly fantastic this year. As well as the Buffy box set, the household got a set of very good Japanese kitchen knives; there's also a RHPS DVD, a PWEI CD and some nice little pieces of jewellery. This was not unexpected.
What was unexpected was getting something other than chocolates and little mad things fromdodgyhoodoo's slightly mad Nan. There was the usual complement of crisp packets and chocolate bars, but when I opened the "tree presents" (presents to be scattered around or hung on the tree) labelled with my name, I found little porcelain cat figurines, a small cat-shaped keychain (someone has evidently heard of Yuki) and a turquoise-and-silver cross pendant with chain. Also a pair of frighteningly Emily-like gloves -- all done up in rainbow stripes -- and of course, chocolates. There's also a fair bit of wine, cheese I can't eat, ale I don't want, mustard that will break me out in a rash and other kitchen-related gear. Mrs Hoodoo has latched onto the fact that we are a household of foodies, evidently.
Fab Christmas. There will be brief relaxy and then I will make breakfast as a sort of a consolation prize to an early-woken Hoodoo (French toast, bacon, coffee). Then I will roast the duck and do the veg and generally we will have 'lunch' of some hugeness while watching Doctor Who.
Hope everybody's having as good a Christmas as I am. Happy holidays, all!
dodgyhoodoo going "Presents! *squee*" I am not generally a morning person but what's Christmas without getting up at the crack of dawn and badgering your loved ones to get up and open presents? I got told "You're making the coffee"; no hardship, particularly since it has to be instant at the moment because our coffee machine blew a serious gasket last weekend.So we got up and
dodgyhoodoo and I got to the unwrapping. From him, I got yet more anime (Boogiepop Phantom disc 3; we are getting there with the anime collections), some sci-fi/fantasy Book-1-of-a-Trilogy thing I hadn't even heard of and the new Lynne Truss (Talk to the Hand, all about how the rude people are taking over). For his part, he seemed quite happy with the Etherscope RPG sourcebook, the graphic novels (the last Invisibles TPB, Y: The Last Man and 100 Bullets -- volume three in both cases) and the Doctor Who version 9 and Twilight Zone S1 (original) box sets. He has seen first-hand the Neilson motto when it comes to Christmas: "If in doubt, go overboard. In fact, just go overboard anyway".For corroberation of this, my mother's gifts were similarly fantastic this year. As well as the Buffy box set, the household got a set of very good Japanese kitchen knives; there's also a RHPS DVD, a PWEI CD and some nice little pieces of jewellery. This was not unexpected.
What was unexpected was getting something other than chocolates and little mad things from
dodgyhoodoo's slightly mad Nan. There was the usual complement of crisp packets and chocolate bars, but when I opened the "tree presents" (presents to be scattered around or hung on the tree) labelled with my name, I found little porcelain cat figurines, a small cat-shaped keychain (someone has evidently heard of Yuki) and a turquoise-and-silver cross pendant with chain. Also a pair of frighteningly Emily-like gloves -- all done up in rainbow stripes -- and of course, chocolates. There's also a fair bit of wine, cheese I can't eat, ale I don't want, mustard that will break me out in a rash and other kitchen-related gear. Mrs Hoodoo has latched onto the fact that we are a household of foodies, evidently.Fab Christmas. There will be brief relaxy and then I will make breakfast as a sort of a consolation prize to an early-woken Hoodoo (French toast, bacon, coffee). Then I will roast the duck and do the veg and generally we will have 'lunch' of some hugeness while watching Doctor Who.
Hope everybody's having as good a Christmas as I am. Happy holidays, all!
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Date: 2005-12-25 10:06 am (UTC)Merry Christmas! Sounds like yours is going great!!!!
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Date: 2005-12-25 03:17 pm (UTC)It's only my favorite series these days. :-D
Happy Everything!