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[delga]

Somewhere in the interim, I forgot I had poems to post here. Oh, tumblr.

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Guys, Christmas happened! So, on Friday I had to brave town for essentials such as PYJAMAS (capitalised because I bought an amazing pair at a discounted rate, booyah) and A Nice Thing for Christmas Day. Then I had to wrap shit, and clean my room, and fold clothes (...um. My sister mostly did the latter) AND THEN IT WAS CHRISTMAS.

Went to Uncle #6's house; cousin made some mulled wine. Baby Cousin hung around past her bedtime and then was excited because she'd left out mince pies and a carrot and what have you. IT WAS GREAT. Cousins ate the pies; Sister make teeth mark in the carrot; I wrote a letter from Santa in my middling cursive. Chatted a lot aboout nothing specific - it transpires that one of my cousin brothers has a jumpsuit to wear around in the house. I— I mocked him. A lot. I was like, it's basically a onesie, dude, and he did't get why everyone was laughing. A onesie with grip marks on the soles. Yeah. In age-old tradition, came home at around 11, drank Baileys, stayed up til 7am talking about everything, and then had to do Christmas Day.

(...ahaha, and that was her on the phone. Another cousin has ditched on NYE plans, so girl is one her onesome. She might turn up! Hope so because otherwise it's just me, the immediates, and Jools Holland. Again.)

Christmas Day started off moody, but I gave my YT gift a once-over (it is so great; recs soon) and got into the mood once people stopped asking me about food and started plying me with drink. Santa brought Baby Cousin a Wii, so that day got eaten by that until we opened up the Jenga. Presents happened (I got some random stuff this year; mostly proof that no-one has any idea what I am into, but it was lovely giftage all the same), and crackers, and then I spent about half an hour trying to explain to Uncle #4 why the words 'sheet' and 'shit' do not sound the same in English. That was...interesting. I honestly sat that and made him say 'shit' over and over again. I just— it, hit, sh-, shit; eat, heat, sh-, sheet. And repeat.

Went home, played blackjack until 1am; accidentally stayed up until 2.30am, then started coughing so badly that I didn't sleep properly.

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Boxing Day: worked in the shop for six hours; everyone left. This is also the day when daygloparker's plans - and subsequently mine for Tuesday - got shitcanned due to some serious snowfuckery in the States. (UGH. LADY. SO SO SAD OF FACE. Am saving pennies for a trip, I am, I am.) After having two days of absolute madness, felt a bit like day-old undies. Was disappointed by the lack of wine.

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It was good having two days off after that to just pull myself together and prepare for the rest of the week. I've been working from the suboffice, so I get in about 7.30, and leave just after 3.30. The building closes at 3 tomorrow, so I could be home by 4.30, holy damn. Pretty much I have no plans, which I am more than okay with, and more than used to, and I might just marathon a few films. Any other Friday night, frankly.

Work has been an odd boring and contented because we're doing paper checks (checking info has been properly scanned to the system; yaaaaaaawn) but I'm with admin people, and I don't have any commute stress. Am going to miss it when 2011 starts up proper.

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Guys, I hope your break time was similarly great! I have a handful of Christmas things to send out still, a) because I do not write Christmas cards, and b) because a lot of stuff is still in transit to me. But everyone enjoys belated gifts, I know, so: happies yet to come.

Plus: I found my letter jotter! As I bombed spectacularly on the postcard exchange last year, I am...trying again? Or something.

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Finally: have booked my rooms in London for the plays I'm going to see January-end and March-top. EXCELLENT.

Comments

[belantana.livejournal.com]

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, M!

Your little-cousin-related Christmas shenanigans sound delightful. Christmas is always so much more fun with little people getting excited.

Also, happy yuuuuuletide! I started a rec post on Boxing Day but going by history will probably never finish it. Your recs list reminded me that I must catch up on Fringe, though! I sort of forgot about it after the series 3 opener, whoops.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

MERRY CHRISTMAS, J!

To be honest, Christmas is always pretty excitable at ours, but Baby Cousin's glee did trump a lot of things.

Ahahaha, dooooo iiiiiiit. Do it anyways. I KNOW that you have guessed mine, and someone else's (who we have both guessed, lol), but I also know that I probably haven't even read yours :((((

Fringe S3 is pretty boss. Huge improvement on S2. Read all the Astrid stuff; it is GREAT.

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Are you telling me you haven't picked mine? ARE YOU SERIOUS? This makes me feel much better about having NO IDEA about yours! Have I read yours? Now I'm going to have to go back and read them all again and try to pick it... I remember last year when you wrote like all of the Spooks fics and I didn't pick it, so I'm not surprised I'm oblivious this year too.

(I did guess that one that we both guessed, though, because yeah, that one was obvious! And lovely!)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

HEY THAT MADNESS FIC WAS FROM YOOOOOOU! *jumps* I didn't guess! I never guess! LADY. AMAZING. I am all happy and blushy now; you gave me pretty much what I asked for. <3

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I thought I was the most obvious author EVER! Equally happy and blushy that you liked it, though. :D Thanks so much for the opportunity to finally get that ridiculous cracky fic out of my head!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU wrote Colin and Malcolm! I never, never, never would have guessed, I have no idea why, because I actually honest to god bookmarked that fic as "anon (who ARE you omg)" because I thought I've read everyone in Spooks fandom and cannot match a single one of them to this amazingness. For some reason I thought you didn't even offer Spooks this year - no idea where I got that from. Anyway, IT WAS FABULOUS. ♥ ♥