Holidays always seem to go by in a blur.
Another Christmas, come and gone. :) My parents had arrived on Monday afternoon and were able to let themselves into my house since Mom had a key and the code to the alarm system, so I arrived home to Very Large Boxes in my front hallway once again. (In this case, they were Christmas decorations, which I had asked Mom to bring.) The first couple days of the week were pretty quiet for me; work was fairly low-key and then we made dinner at home and watched TV or Mom and I did fabric crafts while Dad did sudoku or read his book.
Christmas Eve was very busy for the first half; I put lights on the tree and then rounded up the paladin to decorate his first-ever Christmas tree, and then went on a variety of little errands to buy makings for lasagna and, later, to get the various and sundry Things that one uses to stuff stockings. Mom wrapped all the presents, because she is good at it and likes doing it, and I am neither good at it nor do I enjoy the process.
We went to bed relatively early and then got up on Christmas Day, which started with our traditional sticky buns. We opened presents (I got a bunch of kitchen stuff, a beautiful crocheted blanket from my grandmother, ornaments for our tree, a Sur la Table gift card for the taking of cooking classes [this is funny because husband and I bought Mom the same thing!], and a pair of fancy gloves I can wear whilst still being able to use my phone. Also, ebooks. So many ebooks.) Then the cooking started.
Paladin made his Bavarian apple torte, which is more or less a cheesecake topped with an apple pie, and Mom and I made a really excellent glazed ham, from-scratch scalloped potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, and lima beans. I've been eating the leftovers for the last couple days and they're great. It was a good day, although the miserable eye-stabbing headache that showed up at the end was something I could've aggressively done without.
Yesterday I went in to work (in exchange, I get next Friday off) and it was a very quiet day in which I got a lot done, because it's amazing how much I can accomplish when people aren't interrupting me all the time. I met the family at a local shopping center for dinner (mmm, bison) and tried to get a copy of Fantasy Life at GameStop, but nothing doing. Which is just as well because lolsob Steam Sale, my wallet, my backlog.
This morning paladin made us eggs Benedict, which were delicious, and then Mom and Dad set off for parts east. I fell asleep for a couple hours on the couch while paladin worked on his NG+ of Arkham Origins, and then went upstairs and promptly motored through the last of the plot of Final Fantasy XIV with help from
rabbitprint. (No, rpgfreak, I haven't watched the cutscenes yet, I was hitting ESC as soon as possible to be polite.) Then I figured I ought to do something productive, so I came downstairs and worked on the sewing, which I had neglected a fair bit during the week. I'm getting there, though. Slowly.
And that's about it. I've been doing a lot of thinking about goals and resolutions for next year and am kind of surprised at what I came up with, but I'm pleased overall, I think. more about that in a later post because I want to get back to sewing while I've got some momentum.
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Christmas Eve was very busy for the first half; I put lights on the tree and then rounded up the paladin to decorate his first-ever Christmas tree, and then went on a variety of little errands to buy makings for lasagna and, later, to get the various and sundry Things that one uses to stuff stockings. Mom wrapped all the presents, because she is good at it and likes doing it, and I am neither good at it nor do I enjoy the process.
We went to bed relatively early and then got up on Christmas Day, which started with our traditional sticky buns. We opened presents (I got a bunch of kitchen stuff, a beautiful crocheted blanket from my grandmother, ornaments for our tree, a Sur la Table gift card for the taking of cooking classes [this is funny because husband and I bought Mom the same thing!], and a pair of fancy gloves I can wear whilst still being able to use my phone. Also, ebooks. So many ebooks.) Then the cooking started.
Paladin made his Bavarian apple torte, which is more or less a cheesecake topped with an apple pie, and Mom and I made a really excellent glazed ham, from-scratch scalloped potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, and lima beans. I've been eating the leftovers for the last couple days and they're great. It was a good day, although the miserable eye-stabbing headache that showed up at the end was something I could've aggressively done without.
Yesterday I went in to work (in exchange, I get next Friday off) and it was a very quiet day in which I got a lot done, because it's amazing how much I can accomplish when people aren't interrupting me all the time. I met the family at a local shopping center for dinner (mmm, bison) and tried to get a copy of Fantasy Life at GameStop, but nothing doing. Which is just as well because lolsob Steam Sale, my wallet, my backlog.
This morning paladin made us eggs Benedict, which were delicious, and then Mom and Dad set off for parts east. I fell asleep for a couple hours on the couch while paladin worked on his NG+ of Arkham Origins, and then went upstairs and promptly motored through the last of the plot of Final Fantasy XIV with help from
rabbitprint. (No, rpgfreak, I haven't watched the cutscenes yet, I was hitting ESC as soon as possible to be polite.) Then I figured I ought to do something productive, so I came downstairs and worked on the sewing, which I had neglected a fair bit during the week. I'm getting there, though. Slowly.
And that's about it. I've been doing a lot of thinking about goals and resolutions for next year and am kind of surprised at what I came up with, but I'm pleased overall, I think. more about that in a later post because I want to get back to sewing while I've got some momentum.
I've posted this at http://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/1103003.html and you may comment there or here. On Dreamwidth, this entry has
comments.