Now I know how my mum felt at Christmas: exhausted from running around
turning the crank to run the day. Got up at 2pm (after fourteen hours' bad
sleep) and opened the presents. I gave
redcountess DVDs of
Kill Bill vol 1 & 2 and Simon Schama's A History of
Britain, a Giant Microbe bed bug, pink Jack Skellington earrings to
go with the forthcoming hair colour and a Pet Plant (a small cactus in a
keyring); she gave me a stovetop coffee pot, Poppy Z. Brite's biography of
Courtney Love (signed!), the O'Reilly Mac OS X Tiger for Unix
Geeks, a cashmere scarf, a model car (a red 4WD for my mid-life
crisis) and this year's Gil Elvgren calendar. We gave
narnee
three pairs of earrings and
_nicolai_ gave us a box of Lush
goodies.
We ate all
quiet000001's cookies last night. They were incredibly
nice.
I made dinner, successfully mostly cooked a chicken and watched Doctor Who with the girls. We are now sitting here eating and drinking and watching House and wearing silly hats.