Christmas Eve

Prologue-y Bit: 23:47, on the 23rd...

Well, I'm sat here with my lovely cold 660ml bottle of Stella and my two lovely (too hot) pepper steak slices. The camera battery is on charge, and early tomorrow morning we're off to the supermarket-that-looks-like-a-castle, for our traditional and lovely Christmas Eve shop :-).

I must remember to get some more Mead :-).

So yeah, I've finished for work for this year (apart from 5 hours on new year's eve) so now there's just college, and christmas to concentrate on. Yay!

More to follow. I'm going to finish my supper and have a nap before I do anything else :-).

06:20, Christmas Eve:

Yikes it's cold. Not cold enough to snow obviously, because that sort of thing only happens to people who don't want snow.
But hey, I'm up now, a little bleary eyed, sure, but it'll be nice to go Xmas food shopping again :-).

09:06: Shopping Done...

Well, we've just this minute returned from the supermarket-that-looks-like-a-castle, and we've not had a bad time. I found my yummy mead and bought two bottles, plus some japanese lager and some Hoegaarden which is very nice at Christmas time. I bought another Chocolate Orange because it is the law that you have to have these at Christmas, and I got the ickle guy some Buenos, one of which he kindly gave to the cashier at the checkout :-).

Now I suspect I have tidying up and things to do. Yay, Christmas!

12:06: More Stuff...

Oooh, exactly three hours since last I wrote. Spooky. Well, the christmas cards are delivered, the new neighbours are identified, the rooms have been cleaned, my mead has been photographed, and now I'm in the process of tidying my room so I can have a bit of a nap later on :-).
I might bring forward that nap actually, I'm super sleepy.

16:39: Nap! And Santa!

Well, I eventually had a small nap, despite the best efforts of the dog which would not shut up. I've just been woken up by my cute ickle nephew, and we're going to see santa in 10 minutes, on his van :-).
Aaaand, we're back. I have a very poor quality picture of Santa and his (this year) Land Rover driven sleigh :-). I think the Elves get together each december and buy him a new car as a christmas present.
Yikes, it's become very windy, and pretty cold too. But hey, it's shaping up quite well so far :-).
PS: Wow, my mum's quiches are amazing, as always!

Well Then (23:22)...

Well, nearly time for bed. I've brought all my pressies down to be collected by father christmas so that they can be delivered in the morning (;)), and I'm sitting about with some lovely mead, waiting for the opportunity to finish clearing stuff out of the dining room, so that my services are no longer required and I can retire to bed :-).

Or retire to my lovely mead and ale, it seems. Buying mead is always a gamble because everyone has a different idea of what it should taste like. You never really know what you're going to get.

Fortunately, this Harvest Gold stuff is quite nice, if a little bitter in the aftertaste, and at 13%ABV I picture many happy nights full of Mead ahead.

Today went pretty well, if a little tiringly (no sleep). I went downstairs this morning to find everyone else already up. Helpfully putting the shiny new star on top of the tree, we wandered down to the car and off we went.

Seems that lots of people had the same idea as the place was fairly crowded. We wandered round for a while, finding cool stuff like super noodles, mini mars bars, the lovely aforementioned mead, and some japanese lager.

the lil dude found a pick and mix area, where I managed to catch him on video as he took a cup, compared its size to the cup next to it, then put it back and took the bigger one.. Made me giggle.

We disappeared off to the cafe afterwards, where I had a sausage roll and some juice. After that, off home for some cleaning up, preparing the house, and - for me - delivering the cards.

I had a little nap, and was woken up later on by my nephew, who we took to see Father Christmas. I swear the queue to see him gets bigger.

Ever since, I've been playing Skyrim, as always, drinking yummy mead, listening to cool tunes, eating quiches, and bringing my presents down so they're easier to hand out tomorrow.

So there we go.
I've now no doubt got other stuff to do, but shortly I'm gonna have a nice shower, drink my special Christmas beer (hoegaarden), have some more yummy mead, and go to a warm cozy mead-induced sleep. Some things never go out of fashion it seems...

Ciao.