I could swear I did a post some earlier year not too far in the past about the Russian Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and Snegurochka (his grand-daughter), but I cannot find it.

I can, however, find this!

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It's an excerpt from a Russian "Tom & Jerry" type show, except with a wolf and hare instead of cat and mouse, called "Nu pogodi," or "Just you ( Read more... )

Even if you do not personally celebrate ( Read more... )

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Despite my premature disappointment with Christmas shopping et al as evidenced in my previous entry, Christmas turned out really nice. The main celebration for us, as always, was on Christmas Eve. Usually we just have a family dinner, but this time we had my uncle and aunt visiting, and also some other people, which made for an interesting change ( Read more... )

The annual what-I-got-post:

- Serial Experiments: Lain on DVD (yay!  Alex, I can finally make you watch it).

- a very pretty bottle of black Old English Writing ink for my pen.  It's a crystal bottle!  And it's very fancy.

- Neil Gaiman's Stardust.

- Jane Austen's Persuasion.

- a black bowler hat!  I can finally do the whole Unbearable Lightenss of ( Read more... )