:) Merry X-mas everyone :) we had an early xmas, opened presents tonight, and i've got my cam right next to me (it's sleeping in my bed tonight... Harold, I think...) Nice little thing, HP. :) I'm just gonna start uploading pics when I'm done this. Got a lot of chocolate, too, no pratchetts for the first time in like 5 years but a couple of other books, a REALLY NICE headset for the phone i don't have at the moment (we'll see what happens with carol tomorrow), a leather notebook with cellphone pocket (of course...), socks with my name on (YAY! daddy can't steal them!), picture frame, lots of underwear (did you know isotoner made bras? i didn't. be nice and warm, anyway.), makeup, 2 scarves and gloves and some earrings from granny, and other odds and ends. little things, bird magazines and stuff. hair stuff. yay! camera! :) got a great pic of daddy looking like a praying mantis (he as actually on his way to pulling a face at me.)
heh, we had fun in church, daddy and i had a $10 bet as to who could make the little kid in front of us cry first. And we had half a hockey team behind us (ararghghghgh... hockey boys...) That was fun. The new priest whose name i don't care about, the one who looks like a gay Nazi, had to do the children's service- daddy and i were expecting the Trial By Fire father mike had to go through, but no, the new one had the kids already prepared for any questions he was going to ask. sensible, but cheating. This year we got nothing more exciting than "who's birthday is it today?" "Santa!". heh, when father mike first joined st. anselm's, it was Little Christopher's birthday, and Little Christopher was very hyper, and Little Christopher attacked the baby Jesus with his stuffed teddybear, and then attacked father mike with said bear, and the altar broke out in pandemonium with screaming kids and running parents and daddy and i just sat there and LAUGHED. Heh, tonight there was this dorky little kid a few rows in front of us who was for sure going to grow up to be Mr. Bean, or at least Mr. Bales, and he was hyper too, and was running down the aisle before mass and nearly slipped and fell on his face, and i just broke out into this loud guffaw and his mother shot me the dirtiest look of all time for about a minute... Priest was like "Who else is important in the Christmas story? Yes, Jesus... yes, Mary... yes, Joseph... but who else? Someone really important!" and i'm singing "Jesus' Brother Bob" as loud as i dare, daddy's cackling away and mum Isn't Hearing, wasn't i lucky. [he was looking for "angels", btw.] Oh yeah, and the priest was like "why did they have to sleep in the stables?" and one kid's like "cuz they hadn't invented beds yet." wasn't bad laugh-factor. So yeah, it was a pretty good service. had a good year.
Tomorrow we have cleaning and candle-making and party, but Boxing Day will be the list of Things We Have Learned This Year. X-mas is always the yearly marker for me, not New Year's.
:) Merry Christmas everyone. Sleep well. Santa likes port.
Port... as in USB port... camera..... >:)))))
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