Happy holidays (whichever you're celebrating)

( NZ twelve days of Christmas )

So this is the must un-Christmasy feeling Christmas ever. We--no, I take that back--I decorated our Christmas tree. Yesterday. The day before Christmas.
Slept in until ten thirty this morning when Iain said I should get up so we could go over to Dad's. I was up maybe five minutes before he called to say he'd be around to pick us up on the way back from visiting his friend Carol. So I mucked around 'til then, talking to Kara-May and lazing in Iain's hammock.
So.
Presents.
Thankfully, my worst fear didn't come true: I'd told both Iain and Dad the title of a book and then worried they'd both buy it. Neither did. From dad I got a mobile phone (like I asked; it's soooo small but awesome), and make-up (again, I asked, since I brought none with me), for no reason whatsoever I got waterballoons, and he also got me a Canteen bandana. (Canteen = teens with cancer; an awareness/charity type thing) Iain got me this journal, and the reason it's so cool is the covers. They must be ceramic or something, but it's made to look like stone and there's a celtic design on the back piece and a bloody intricate and awesome looking dragon on the front cover.
Mum got me a crab decoration. And a pillow sign for my door... one side says, "The Princess is awake" and the other says, "Shhhh... the Princess is sleeping." She also got me a journal and a book centric to Leanne Womack's song "I Hope You Dance" (the book had the CD single in it, too). My aunt and uncle in Australia sent me lipstick. According to Iain it's a nice shade although I'm not partial to pink.
macjinx sent me stripey toe socks that are v. cute. *grins* And a homemade xmas card. Got one of those from peaseblossom03 as well that was cool. Art from miyumiyu and a card some time ago from Jess.
My best friend Andrea gave me a little Buddha charm, a fridge magnet that says, "If assholes could fly... this place would be an airport." She also gave me a book titled "To my Sister" and has all these inspirational quotes and the like. She and I are like sisters, though.
The biggest surprise was a brown paper bag containg things that used to belong to my dad's mum. There were two of those wall things that hold teaspoons. I saw those and went, "Great! I collect teaspoons!" "Do you?" Dad asked, and as I investigated further, found I also got a shoebox full of teaspoons. Fancy that.
And of course we got candy. Yum, chocolate. :D
Merry Christmas!



Fin.