Christmas Update

[thessalian]

So Christmas Eve was the traditional thing of watching "White Christmas" and watching dodgyhoodoo enjoy it just a little bit more every year. Also, I let dodgyhoodoo lie in until half-eight before bounding into the room like a sugar-hyper five-year-old, bouncing up and down and going, "Presents!" I was good. *g*

What I have received for Christmas so far:

From dodgyhoodoo
* "Lord of War" on DVD (the Christmas Eve gift)
* "The Dresden Files" graphic novel
* "Nightingale's Lament", book 3 of the Nightside books by Simon R Green

From dodgyhoodoo's family
* "Fight Club" (book)
* A pashmina (green; I honestly don't know what to do with the thing but it'll go in the "potential LARP costume items" pile)
* More chocolate than I feasibly know what to do with

From nezumi_sama
* Strawberry Pocky (eee! Arigato gozaimasu!)

dodgyhoodoo got a nice black jumper, a salt and pepper grinder set and home-made bath oil from me; I was going for inexpensive and useful this year. He also got a biiiig stack of books, "Blood Diamond" on DVD, garlic oil, wok sauces and socks. More forthcoming on the 28th, when I go to visit Mum and David and have dinner over there - I got Mum a copy of FFXI (full set of expansions) and David's getting "Down and Out in Paris and London" and anything else I can dig up that I think he'd like book-wise.

Cooked my traditional Christmas duck - it came out well, despite the lack of Worcestershire sauce in the glaze this year. I substituted some of the A1 Sauce Mum brought back from the US for us and that worked fine. So it was Muppets in the morning while opening presents, followed by reading and napping for most of the afternoon, and then watching "Blood Diamond" and "Lord of War" back to back over dinner. (*omnomnomnom*) Now we veg, and Boxing Day will be dodgyhoodoo-made pot roast and the cake he forgot to take out of the freezer this afternoon.

So it's been a very low-key Christmas, but a good one, I think. Happy Holidays, all!

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[nezumi-sama.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked the pocky, but that's not all yet: dodgyhoodoo should be bringing something extra back after watering my tree today, too :-)