It's Chriiiiisstmas!!!

In the immoral words of Slade... "So here it is merry Christmas, everybody's having fun..." - and its true, we've had a great day here today, so here's a quick rundown :)

First things first and despite fighting the excitement of getting pressies through out the night we resist the temptation of getting up early - that was until the neighbours decided that they couldn't wait to see what Santa had brought them and to celebrate the coming of the present giver decided to play what sounded like the Beatles at full blast at around 8am.

Shame really that they woke us up, after all what were we suppose to do...? Might as well get up ourselves and open up our gifts as well! :) hehehe

And it appears that I must have been a very good girl this year ;) I'm now the proud owner of a fantastically super Links of London sweetie charm bracelet and charm to match courtesy of Phil along with a game for the PC which I've been pining over for ages, wormz3d. I also get the latest Lee Evans DVD as well, and since I'm a big fan of the man himself its a brilliant present to get :). I also get a variety of goods from my family including some very fancy garden ornaments from my sister, and a gorgeous pottery horse from my mum and dad along with a fruitful goodie bag from my friends in the states.

Phil also gets plenty of presents, including some more "recapture your youth" items such as new steering wheel and pedals to use to play racing games on the pc, and the beginnings of the model railway that he has been contemplating putting together. I reckon the pictures I got him went down well too, along with the levi's and jelly bellies :)

So after we've cleaned up the remnants of packaging and wrapping we get some breakfast and then have a leisurely afternoon, playing our new games, watching dvds and generally mooching around. I get on with Christmas dinner later on in the afternoon, which this year is prawn cocktail followed by lemon chicken served with roasted new potatoes wrapped in parma ham and glazed in honey and finally steamed chocolate pudding with melted Belgium chocolate center served with fresh double cream. Very nice indeed!

After tea (which we spread out over time with about 20 mins between each course) I then do the usual round of telephone calls, especially to my family since this is the first ever Christmas that I've not been at my parents house for the big day. The repercussion of that is that this is the first Christmas that Phil and I have spent together, and it's been lovely since last year we had to have a delayed Christmas whilst each of us spent the 25th in Wales and Shropshire respectively.

And when I've rung up my phone bill to extortionate levels I then get around to having a go on Worms 3d, in particular the tutorial section to re-learn how to shoot, maim and generally blow things up after being spectacularly beaten by Phil far too many times to count. Unfortunately I get a little carried away and forget the time and eventually fall into bed at around quarter to midnight - but by god, I can now blow a hole in a pin head from 100 yards!

I've had a great day, and I hope everyone else has too!

Posted by Abi on the December 25, 2005 11:34 PM