I'd have to say that the highlight of my year, this year, was our trip to London, where we spent ages and ages wandering around an awesome christmas market, seeing the talking moose (which my brother and wife (his not mine)) did actually see (!) and browsing wonderful Christmassy stalls.
We'd not been back 8 hours before we were up again, on our way to Gainsborough as always, and that was nice too.
At our traditional Christmas Eve food shopping, I had to go back to the car to fetch the forgotten shopping list, and took my ickle nephew with me. As a result, we more or less ended up split into two parties each doing our own seperate shopping, but we got back together in time to pay.
Christmas day itself was great fun, and though I didn't get a single thing on my Christmas list (I did write one, and indeed left it on the fridge for 6 weeks beforehand), I was only mildly annoyed, becuase I got lots of other cool stuff.
More importantly, everyone seemed to like the presents that I got them, which always brings a smile to my face :-).
Christmas dinner was great, tasty, yummy, and though I took ages, I actually ate every single thing.
Boxing day was another fun occasion, with almost everyone coming round to share in our awesome little banquetty buffet thingie which we have, and again it was nice to get together as a family.
I can't remember too much of the two or three days after that. A few days ago I made some nachos with the awesome nacho dish thing that my brother and wife (his not mine) got me. With it, I bought some beer. After the beer ran out, I started on the Mead.
Awesome nachos, nice cold beer, tasty mead, awesome Skyrim (there is no other kind), and awesome music (that fits quite well with Skyrim, and has almost become its surrogate soundtrack), well that sounds like my idea of a good night in. Which is awesome really because it's exactly the night in that I had.
I'll do it again soon. This time round I'll be able to get into the spirit of things a little more authentically hehe (Image is not my property but I'm stealing it anyway because it hasn't arrived yet).All I need now is a few steel ingots placed around my room, some wolf pelts on my bed, and I'll be all set.
So yeah, that's about it. I've got to reinstall everything on my PC because my awesome shiny solid state drive, having spent too much time hanging around on street corners with dysfunctional Xboxes, is now in the habit of giving me the shiny orange finger, a surefire signal that something is not quite right.
At least I managed to pull my Skyrim saves onto another drive before the SSD went skyward. I would have been annoyed had I had to restart.
That said, I will probably have to restart again anyway. It's a continuing source of consternation/mirth, depending on how seriously you take your gaming, the first thing each patch for Skyrim does, is to fix the damage the last one caused.
Seriously, one game patch made the dragons fly backwards. No, the video is not playing in reverse, the waterfalls are flowing the right way. See?
I can't watch that video without giggling. In the game, dragons are bad news, no matter how long you've been playing, but they look slightly silly wobbling around in a rearward fashion.
This bug is even more awesome.
But hey, tomorrow, today in fact, is going to be fun. 5 hours of absolute crazyness, wobbling around on my pizza scoot, swerving to avoid drunken idiots in the street, getting silly string squirted at me, etc etc etc. Fortunately, I'm back in time to celebrate the new year with my family.
Can't do much drinking though, I'm back out tomorrow night. Then I've got my semester 3 exam on wednesday. It's all happening! Yikes!
But, once it's done, I shall get some more yummy mead, make more awesome nachos, buy extra awesome beer, and have another big lad's (singular) night in. Woo!
Oh well, I'm off to relax and suchlike. I've been studying most of the night :-\.
Have fun!
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