Post-Christmas, pre-New Years

It is that in between week, the fun, family and presents are all over and the mad panic of "what are we doing for New Years?" starts.

There is no question what me and M34tb4LL will be doing for New Years this year, staying home and chilling with our homies (don't ask us why i just referred to beloved friends as 'homies', i'm very sorry about that!)

Need post Christmas wrap-up here i think. There was much visiting of relos, Christmas day drove to the parentals house where we had lunch with the paternal grandparentals and an aunt, and uncle, two cousins and two cousins once removed.

Then drove to M34tb4LL's family do (about an hour away) where there were multiple rooms full of people, some i did not even know who they were, and a MFL of food (more food, after the major nosh up for lunch, more food)

Got home about one in the morning and then got up on Boxing day to go back to the parentals house for the maternal side of the family!

I gave M34tb4LL a shock machine for Christmas - you get a few people to hold a handle and press a button. A light flashes red for a random amount of time and when it goes green you have press a button. The last person to press the button will get an electric shock - who would know that this gadget could be considered fun, but it was a big hit on Christmas day with M34tb4LL's brother and random children in the house. But it does seem to be a boy thing (sorry to be sexist, but there were no females stepping up to give the toy a try!!!)

M34tb4LL gave me an uber kewl keyboard, which i am typing this post on right now! It has blue LEDs under all the keys and a screen that cycles through clock, email connection, CPU usage. It also has 18 keys that i can set up macros for gaming (yet to do it at this point) and it has volume control so i don't have to lean over to the speakers anymore!

There were of course other fantastic gifties given and received and when a certain Amazon order arrives i will be able to complete the hand out (been waiting since mid November when it was shipped!)

So i have finished up at work - and got a bestest pressie from them. A gift voucher for gold class movies!!! So M34tb4LL and i can have a bit of pre-bubs luxury, i thought that was a really kewl prezz!!!

Now i am just playing the waiting game - why did i not buy hungry hungry hippo for M34tb4LL for Christmas!!!! Bugger, another good idea that just came too late!

(: G

Christmas - AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

The silly season seems to have snuck up behind me and taken a great big bite out of my sanity! No way, when did it get to a week and couple of days to Christmas?

I did notice all the decorations going up in the shops a few months ago and remember thinking, yeh yeh, plenty of time...

And i did get started on the Christmas shopping and have nearly bought presents for everyone that needed to be bought, but it is more the whole doing what with who and when!

It seems since the start of December there has been something on and there are still places to go, things to do and people and see!

*** Amazing, seriously, i am like just half way through typing this and one of our pre-chrissy commitments has had to cancel - I'm not kidding!!! ***

So anyway, it was my works Christmas party two weeks ago. 80s theme night - there was karaoke - i sang "Papa Don't Preach". Tomorrow is M34tb4LL's work Christmas thing, we will need to park in Richmond on a Saturday night - could be interesting. Sunday night have a friends Christmas dinner thing, looking forward to that - chilling out and stuff. Then back at work for a week (last week which is going to be chaos). Then have girlie night with a bestie at work as a "w00t! goodbye nine to five, hello great unknown". Then it is only a couple of days till the big X-mass day itself and have to prepare food type things to take to various places.

Then after Christmas there is boxing day with more family stuff, friends birthday and friends post chrissy BBQ - then it is new years!!!

So after all this is over, i think i will start to think about having a baby!

(: G