Sunday 20 December 2009

The one with not much awhine.

[Foreword: If you're into drinking games, I suggest you have a drink whenever I say 'Christmas' in this post. I do it a lot. And I don't feel like editing now.]

Yo yo yo!

There are like SO MANY blog posts that need to be written but I'm a LAZY ASS blogger so you can wait for them forever. Well, maybe not forever but for a long time. I've been making loads of nice foods now that I'm living at my parents house and have unlimited access to their kitchen, which while may not be perfect, is pretty damn much closer to perfect than any of the kitchens I've been cooking at for the past 4 years. (Such a LONG time!!)

Anyway, this post might as well be called 'Why I DO kind of like Finland' because it's not about whining at all. For the past week it's been cold. Like down to -15C cold, and it has been awesome. It would only be more awesome if the boy was here to cuddle up to, but I'm not going to whine. I can wrap up in flannel and lambswool (courtesy of Uni Qlo from my recent trip to see the boy, which was awesome btw) and I've got woolly socks too! Whilst these things obviously can't substitute the boy, they make life a wee bit better and the cold weather awesome.



Perhaps because of the actual wintry weather, I'm also sort of looking forward to Christmas (and I'm not going to mention here how much I'd like to spend Christmas with the boy because I'm sure it's self-evident). This hasn't really happened in the last few years and I'm sure as the days go by and it gets closer to the 24th I'll start feeling suitably annoyed and moody about yet another one of these parties which stopped being fun the moment I got younger cousins and stopped getting the biggest load of presents and made further worse with the realisation that most of the presents really don't matter as the person receiving them won't show any gratitude unless it's something they had specifically wished for. Nevermind if you spend a lot of time and effort in coming up with a really great personal gift for someone. (There's the whine!)

To get back to business I am actually looking forward to Christmas this year and in my futile attempt to make Christmas eve and the present giving (and opening) situation slightly better and enjoyable I've decided to help myself. In a flash of shopping mania I bought myself a Christmas present and as opposed to the usual (ie. saying it's a Christmas present for me, taking it home and instantly consuming whatever it is) I wrapped it up as soon as I got home and put it in the Santa's bag to wait to be handed to me by Mr. Claus himself.

This Christmas I also got the best present from the boy, which was handed to me on the 1st of December as I was there at his place then. It was originally sort of unwrapped and we both opened our presents there and then and have been reading our things (I got him a comic and he got me a comic) but I decided to wrap my present (as in his present to me) up too so that I can be mega happy unwrapping my presents on Christmas eve. Here's a picture of the wrapped present too. If you're interested after Christmas I can tell you what it was. I can tell you it's awesome though.

Merry Christmas to you all! Hope you'll be having a lot of fun in good company and that it isn't stressful or anything like that.