Christmastide thoughts and ponderings...

[annwfyn]

It's 9 am and I appear to be awake. pierot is not, and so I am down here, surrounded by lights and presents. I managed to have a nightmare, which has left me with an odd sensation. Damnit! I want to feel christmassy.

So far my Christmas has been made up of the following:

• One dinner party featuring vaguely festive food, and a brightly lit tree in Cornwall, followed up by a mass exchange of presents between everyone who was there - being pierot, ksirafai, wraithwitch, anysbryd, molez and castorlion. I think some people were celebrating the winter solstice, others were enjoying the food, and I was in an odd and mournful mood, which I think I regret more than a little, because it was such a nice place, with a collection of very nice people.
  
  I can, however, attach a picture of the said gathering.
  
  



• One Christmas dinner with pierot and his family in Porthcawl, which also featured presents, an inordinate amount of food, and a lot of christmas music courtesy of VH1. Jez's mum and dad, his sister and her boyfriend, and his cousin and his cousin's wife were all there. According to jez I also got to encounter Real Welsh Attitudes while chatting about Jerry Springer over Christmas dinner. We were talking about the case in the US where someone was actually shot and killed after appearing on a US chat show to tell his straight best friend that he was actually gay and fancied the friend. The friend freaked out, and went and got a shotgun. Both jez's cousin and his not-quite-brother-in-law agreed that they would have been right there, pistol in hand, had they been in that situation. I sat there looking terribly bemused and mentally whimpering 'you know I read the Guardian!'.
  
  We won't even talk about the sniggering when I mentioned the Swedish Au Pair I had when I was younger. You know, I could suffer psychological damage from having my childhood memories tainted with quite that level of smutty innuendo!



• One mini-Christmas upon our return to London - molez dropped over to Goblintown to deliver presents for me, pierot and ksirafai. There was a small orgy of materialism, as we exchanged presents, and I got books. They were good books. They made me very happy.



• One Smorgasboard with my family and extended family on Christmas Eve. We've always had a smorgasboard on Christmas Eve since I was eight, when Annika, our first au pair, spent Christmas with us, and wanted to cook us a proper Swedish meal. In Sweden, the main celebrations are on Christmas Eve, with Christmas Day being more of a religious/spiritual celebration (I think), and so we started celebrating Swedish Christmas on Christmas Eve and it kinda stuck.
  
  I discovered that the latest dubious Lib Dem to get involved in a scandal (the one who's doing a Cheeky Girl) was one of my uncle's students at Bristol, once upon a time. This amused me. I was also deeply touched to discover that my sisters and Dad had made me a replacement stocking for the one I lost. They had made it from one of the old christmas tablecloths we've got at home, to make sure it had some memories attached which was even better. I felt very loved.



• One Christmas Day. So far it has featured me, pierot being asleep upstairs and two somewhat manic cats who seem to be trying to eat the Christmas Tree. The worrying thing is that they are making remarkable progress. So far they've got at least two of the lights (which are shiney, and therefore apparently taste better) and one of the decorations. There are also fake pine needles everywhere.
  
  The plan is to wake jez in a little while, bring him tea and affection, and then let him know that Father Christmas has come, and we both have stockings full of presents *does the happy dance*
  
  Then there will be a massive brunch of special Christmas food, I shall possibly drag jez out for a wander, and then this afternoon/evening we are heading out to see wildrogue, imnotagoth and isalani for goose, goose and more goose.

I hope everyone else has a wonderful Christmas, and I shall see you all on the flipside.

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[edit] cos i made a mistake

[vireton.livejournal.com]

i sit here listening to evanesence and enjoying the muusic and the quiet time to myself. i am thinking of all my friends old, new, those that have died and i am thankfull that i have my health and good people around me. otherwise i would have went mad a long time ago,,

merry christmas.

to you and yours

may your house be one of joy and happyness

and may nothing ill befall those you love dearly

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

have yourself a merry little christmas...

~hugs~

[melsner.livejournal.com]

"The friend freaked out, and went and got a shotgun. Both jez's cousin and his not-quite-brother-in-law agreed that they would have been right there, pistol in hand, had they been in that situation."

Good thing I never told Jez how I really feel about him.

Happy Christmas!

Don't forget to check the post.