Hi lovelies - all ready for the holidays yet?

i am.

Got all the gifts bought and everything.

Eat your heart out.

 

Me too...Sent my mum some flowers and paid for a book my girlfriend wanted...that's it finished for me.

Bah! Humbug!!!!

Edit: Oh, and toys for the dog...which he will destroy in minutes.

 

Ha! I've still got obscene amounts of Christmas shopping to do. I'm going to to broke for weeks.

 

usually i leave it until like the 24th, but I'm already sorted for everyone except my sisters boyfriend (unless my mum picked something up for him last night as she and my sister were going shopping specifically to find him stuff lol)

I've even got most of the stuff wrapped! (well I say that I have, the girlfriend wrapped most of them so I've just got to wrap hers now =p)

 

forgot to say, I wish you all a happy holidays (whatever you celebrate - there are all kinds of peeps here so I will just say happy holidays) and I hope you get everything and that the season is all you wish for.

Your friend Jacklyn (aka blade)

 

Did our food shopping on Tuesday.
£250. :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

 

Presents bought, mostly arrived and mostly wrapped.

Cards bought...one written...need to work on that.

Christmas cheer stored in the wine rack or liquor cabinet as appropriate and ready to be applied as needed.

Emergency food in case of sudden, unpredicted snow attack ready.

Giant Christmas hat applied to huge **** with the help of guerilla knitters - done.

(No, really, and it's not even rude - http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2125946_santa_claus_comes_to_town_in_shape_of_dorking_cockerel)

Yep, I'm ready.

 

Nice! I've just found out that the whole "no presents" rule, which is common here for adults, has now been changed to "buy presents for everyone"!!!

 

we had our Japanese class xmas party last night, lots of japanese food while watching anime, which means there is only my jujitsu clubs xmas party to go (which we don't usually do until February... don't ask =p)

xmas was generally a bit cheaper for me this year, the gf and I set a much lower limit on what we'd spend than usual ^_^

 

Christmas gets a bit mad. Quite glad I don't spend them in the UK anymore. It's a bit more about family, food and time off work here. Less stressful IMHO.

I do miss the desserts though...:cry::cry:

 

Gifts bought, food bought, wine bought - job done bar the cooking!

 

Hope you claimed the tea back


I'm all done with the Christmas shopping, just hoping the rain stops before we get flooding affecting the trains again.

Either way, Happy Winterval, folks!

 

ugh, the holidays. i love my family. but when we're all together, god, they're annoying.

 

The other thing that could prove interesting for me this year is that the mother usually arranges my feeding for the day, unfortunately this year she is still recovering from fracturing the ball joint in her shoulder...

Therefore I am most likely cooking my first Christmas Dinner . . .

 

http://www.takeawayfoodcolchester.com/

Done.

 

Not quite sure how well that would go down with the parents . . .lol

 

For me similar to Frodocious, got some more food to buy over next day/two then go into hibernation until 31st. Someone asked me ages ago about xmas day dinner but I'd rather not really, family type dinner gatherings are often just like funerals without the dead body: enforced gathering, arguments, disappointment, happiness/sadness, drink. It might be sad to say but I know few people well enough to buy an appropriate gift and the same applies with me. Xmas day tradition includes the next installment of Peanuts

 

I just started my shopping yesterday.I'll be done by tonight.