Happy Non-Denominational Giftmas and/or Day Off Work!

[cleolinda]

Lots of sad and serious things in the news today, but I don't really know how to talk about all of that this point. All I can say about the Detroit incident is that I'm going to focus on the positive and be glad that the bomb didn't go off, it's a Christmas miracle, etc.

I was really tense all day, but Christmas went reasonably well.

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[melissa_actress]

I got a Kindle today as well. Which is awesome because I am someone who, while packing for a trip, sits on the floor trying to narrow down the pile of 12 paperbacks down to 5 to take...and will sacrifice clothing in order for more book room in the suitcase. So, squeee!

Played a little golf with my dad and about to put the totally-from-scratch-dutch-apple-pie in the oven for dessert.

Those coasters are gorgeous!

Merry Christmas!

[txvoodoo]

LOVE my Kindle. Hope you enjoy yours!

(P.S I have a bunch of Kindle posts here: http://txvoodoo.livejournal.com/tag/kindle - I also need to make a post about how to convert other formats to Kindle :D)

[melissa_actress]

Wow, I just started paging through your Kindle posts and I feel like I just opened another present!

Thanks!

[txvoodoo]

Feel TOTALLY free to pick my brain, if you ever need to :D I'm completely geeky about my Kindle :D

[friggeng]

Oh, that Ellowyne is CUTE.

My favorite present was definitely my Tonner Snow White, who I would of probably never gotten if I hadn't read SLOD, haha, so thank you for that.

[cleolinda]

Did you get the one in the classic dress, or in the patchy dress?

[friggeng]

Classic. Was considering patchy, though. I'm hoping to buy the patchy one off ebay sometime.

[wenelda]

So: what was your favorite present, and/or what did you do today?

HBP on DVD (knew I was getting that, but I still loved seeing it wrapped and under the tree), and SHERLOCK HOOOOOOLMESSSS. Which is as brilliant (and more than) as everyone thinks. Of course, I am a Guy Ritchie and a Mark Strong fangirl, so I was rather bound to like this movie (hell, I even like Revolver, so what does that tell you?), but OMG IT IS BRILLIANT. Only a great abuse of capslock and exclamation marks will express my true love for this movie, but I will refrain from doing so here.

[cleolinda]

I yearn to see it--huge Sherlock Holmes fan over here, and it looks like so much fun that I don't even care if it's "accurate" or not, which it so obviously isn't--but I didn't get to go.

[wenelda]

Even my mother loved it, and if Alan Rickman isn't in the film you knock your chances down to 40% that she'll like the movie. It's very entertaining, and the banter between Holmes and Watson is great. I think RDJ and Jude Law had excellent chemistry between them. Rachael McAdam's character was cool too, in my opinion. Normally "co-lead" (aka romantic interest) female characters like her annoy me because they're only there as romantic fodder, but she pulled off being a character of her own, too.

[enid_keaner]

I liked it so much more than I thought I would. I did want Irene dead though. I really disliked her.

[kittybacklash]

My favourite gift was a hot water bottle with a russian doll cover. She is adorable and a good replacement for my beloved devil. Now I wish I'd gotten one of your inexplicable cakes as well, though O_O

[caitlen]

I spent it with no family around for the 2nd year in the row, and this year was better than last year. I watched old movies all day, after being supremely lazy in the morning, and cooked a ham (from a piece of pickled pork, a la Nigella Lawson's "Ham in Coke") from scratch all afternoon. We ate most of it in the evening :D It was MADE of win

[7tree_hugger]

OMG my friend got one of those for his birthday last year. They are crazy awesome! We spent about two weeks just watching the windspeed/pressure etc change minute by minute.

I hope you have bucketloads (or rain gauge tipper cups full) of fun with it.

[caitlen]

We're about to hit our Very Hot Period during the summer, so I can't wait to see exactly how hot it gets here (since we had an Early Very Hot Period about 6 weeks-2 months ago now and I wasn't able to tell how hot it was getting). I also can't WAIT for winter (in Australia here) to see JUST how cold the nights get here, like did we really get to -6C this year??? I'll never know! But I will now!!