A curates egg sort of day
having been woken at 5am and not getting back to sleep, it’s been a long day. I took her downstairs for pressies at 7am, Duke deigned to surface at 8:30 once the **** turkey was in the oven and pancakes were on the table. We are NOT having a large beast for Christmas ever again. If one is bought I will give it away and be damned with the waste of over £30, it demanded my attention through most of the morning and I’m now left with a beast that needs me to slice up and freeze then find ways of using for the next however long - we barely dented it at lunchtime.
Aprilia got a good haul of goodies including electronics and Chemistry kits from mum and dad, Disney Princess reading books from an anonymous donor ( we seemed to have a ridiculous number of unlabeled gifts this year) a fab WII game of my favourite paramedic (who has taken rather a shine to Aprilia) and a Glo-E bear from me so she is a happy bunny. I got some money off mum and dad which has been spent on a new vacuum cleaner as our old one is knackered (gee, I know how to live but actually, at least now I can get the job done in a reasonable time without sense of humour failure!) and various random items off Duke including a data stick which I can add to the 2 other data sticks that I already don’t use……
Thre were some good bits, but I can’t remember them just now due to the fact that my body thinks I’ve been awake plenty long enough already and is trying to go to sleep with our without my permission!
Tomorrow we have "round 2" when we go to Duke’s family. Duke finally managed to pick up the phone and arrange for Aprilia to sleep over so she is all excited, I’m wondering if we can get away with going in 2 cars so I can leave as soon as is polite without having to drag Duke away from his family. Why couldn’t I have caught that cold a few weeks later?
