Christmas done, New Year nearly here!
Well, it's Boxing Day and Christmas is pretty much over :/ Which is sad, but I had a great Christmas so I can't really complain! Plus, we pretty much get a second Christmas in our family. Tomorrow, we're heading up to York to visit one set of grandparents, plus some aunts and uncles, and then the next day it's on to Middlesbrough to stay with the other set of grandparents and visit all my mam's side of the family. We'll be spending New Year there and coming back on the 3rd, so I won't be around for a few days.
My sister, lovely girl that she sometimes is, bought be the S1&2 box set of Primeval (yay!) and my parents got me a digital radio, so I can listen to music when I'm cooking in the flat, plus a couple of books (Kafka on the Shore, which I've been wanting to read for a while, after reading Murakami's short stories, and Breakfast at Tiffanies, which I'm looking forward to reading having studied In Cold Blood for A level). Plus the usual of chocs and calendars, and rather a nice top from DP. Lovely Xmas dinner (which seemed to be less stressful to make than usual, which was nice; usually my parents argue a lot) and pudding, and Bucks Fizz and wine, which got me pleasantly tipsy - just right for Xmas day. No mulled wine or roast chestnuts this year, but when that's your only complaint, you know it's been a good one. Also, mam's homemade mince pies are always a treat!
Doctor Who Xmas Special was love - the steampunk was great, as was the whole 'Doctor as Santa' bit (weird bit of synchronicity there, too, considering some of the prompts over on b_e) and I liked Kazran (sp?), though wasn't so fussed on Katharine Jenkins (I'm sort of waiting to be kicked out of Wales for that, but ah well). And then we watched Burn After Reading, which is a truly excellent film that I'll recommend to anyone, and made me rather emotional. Although it did make me miss the Blackadder's Christmas Carol, which is unfortunate, esp. as it isn't available on iPlayer.
God, I love Christmas. Neither me nor any of my immediate family are religious, and certainly not Christian, so it holds none of those connotations for me, I just love the time of year. It makes me smile, and I feel content, which considering how :| I've been lately is lovely, and just, yeah. All the cheesy stuff about family is true for me. So, yay!
Quickest of updates re: fics. Next chapter of Golden is currently with beta, and should be posted some time after I get back from Middlesbrough, and the 1st draft of Entanglement is so close to being finished that I can almost touch it :D
Anyway, that was a horrifically rambly post, probably riddled with typos and a surplus of 'which's and 'then's, but I don't care! It's Christmas and I'm happy! Hope everyone else had a good day too :)
My sister, lovely girl that she sometimes is, bought be the S1&2 box set of Primeval (yay!) and my parents got me a digital radio, so I can listen to music when I'm cooking in the flat, plus a couple of books (Kafka on the Shore, which I've been wanting to read for a while, after reading Murakami's short stories, and Breakfast at Tiffanies, which I'm looking forward to reading having studied In Cold Blood for A level). Plus the usual of chocs and calendars, and rather a nice top from DP. Lovely Xmas dinner (which seemed to be less stressful to make than usual, which was nice; usually my parents argue a lot) and pudding, and Bucks Fizz and wine, which got me pleasantly tipsy - just right for Xmas day. No mulled wine or roast chestnuts this year, but when that's your only complaint, you know it's been a good one. Also, mam's homemade mince pies are always a treat!
Doctor Who Xmas Special was love - the steampunk was great, as was the whole 'Doctor as Santa' bit (weird bit of synchronicity there, too, considering some of the prompts over on b_e) and I liked Kazran (sp?), though wasn't so fussed on Katharine Jenkins (I'm sort of waiting to be kicked out of Wales for that, but ah well). And then we watched Burn After Reading, which is a truly excellent film that I'll recommend to anyone, and made me rather emotional. Although it did make me miss the Blackadder's Christmas Carol, which is unfortunate, esp. as it isn't available on iPlayer.
God, I love Christmas. Neither me nor any of my immediate family are religious, and certainly not Christian, so it holds none of those connotations for me, I just love the time of year. It makes me smile, and I feel content, which considering how :| I've been lately is lovely, and just, yeah. All the cheesy stuff about family is true for me. So, yay!
Quickest of updates re: fics. Next chapter of Golden is currently with beta, and should be posted some time after I get back from Middlesbrough, and the 1st draft of Entanglement is so close to being finished that I can almost touch it :D
Anyway, that was a horrifically rambly post, probably riddled with typos and a surplus of 'which's and 'then's, but I don't care! It's Christmas and I'm happy! Hope everyone else had a good day too :)