On the other side
Dec. 25th, 2008 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lectrix_lectiI'm back from four days in Ye Olde Hometowne, and I'm perhaps a little less exhausted despite Ye Olde Family Celebration. Granted, it doesn't take much to be less exhausted than I've been the last couple of weeks.
The husband gave me a gorgeous silver bracelet and Alexis de Tocqueville's The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, he really is wonderful at picking presents. He seemed quite happy with receiving a leather bag (well, ecstatic about that) and a collection of interviews with Tom Waits (who's the most wonderfully entertaining liar in all interviews). One of his nephews gave Kitty a rat-like toy which scared her shitless. A friend of mine gave me a tiny dark blue glass bowl stamped with the name of an ancient dynamite manufacturer, of all hilarious and marvellous little things.
The mother-in-law shaped hole in Christmas was very much present, but apparently bearable for father-in-law.
I have the cutest nephews. Whenever I've met them I feel this odd urge to learn how to make a little heart in an LJ post.
Now I'm all alone, blessedly alone, until husband and cat return tomorrow. And I am blessedly off work until the 2nd, which was also supposed to be a day off, but still.
The husband gave me a gorgeous silver bracelet and Alexis de Tocqueville's The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, he really is wonderful at picking presents. He seemed quite happy with receiving a leather bag (well, ecstatic about that) and a collection of interviews with Tom Waits (who's the most wonderfully entertaining liar in all interviews). One of his nephews gave Kitty a rat-like toy which scared her shitless. A friend of mine gave me a tiny dark blue glass bowl stamped with the name of an ancient dynamite manufacturer, of all hilarious and marvellous little things.
The mother-in-law shaped hole in Christmas was very much present, but apparently bearable for father-in-law.
I have the cutest nephews. Whenever I've met them I feel this odd urge to learn how to make a little heart in an LJ post.
Now I'm all alone, blessedly alone, until husband and cat return tomorrow. And I am blessedly off work until the 2nd, which was also supposed to be a day off, but still.
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Date: 2008-12-25 11:54 pm (UTC)Take care of yourself and enjoy the quiet moments. Always take time to smell the roses.
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Date: 2008-12-26 06:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-27 05:36 pm (UTC)Nice to hear about your presents, we don't do presents for Christmas.
Can't help you with a manual for a little heart :( I'd like to know how I can make them!
It's sometimes so nice to be home alone, isn't it? I like that.
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Date: 2008-12-28 02:32 pm (UTC)merry christmas! (ok some days late but still)