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Merry Christmas! ๐ ๐ป๐๐
Oh wow. I'm getting off to a bad start if bacon is serving breakfast before I get to bed!
Tree populated. Presents charged and ready to use. treasure hunt prepared. First wave of dishes washed. Santa sacks filled and distributed.
Better sleep a few hours if I can!
Three large Easter eggs please
I'll have one of everything that is not toast please. And a very Merry Christmas to the server.
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Venison stew please
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Rudolph tasty
I'll have the tree happy Christmas
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How good are sandwiches made with leftover Christmas lunch meat for supper? I'll answer that. Bloody delightful.
Decided to cut up the lamb and cook the portion I cut off.
So easy in the airfryer and flipped midway.
Was so delicious!
Iโm staying at home solo today as well. Going to busy myself with a coffee and a Devon toasted sandwich then later on Iโm going to figure out how to cook the lamb I bought and if I should maybe cut it up in half and cook over several days instead.
And now there is blood everywhere from Boyo stabbing himself with his new spoon carving chisels.
Ooh. Found The Hogfather on Prime video. My favourite Christmas watch
It's on youtube for free too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrCjpnghSWw ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89hLpif18RA
My online friends are busy... sigh. I do have things to entertain myself with if only I had the motivation. Things are feeling a bit stale.
One thing I don't like about this time of year is the way it's so all or nothing. Dealing with overstimulating crowds or very isolated. Lots of shopping and then everything shut. Lots of spending and then things are tight. Heaps of food and then diets. A frantic rush vs inactivity. I feel like there should be smaller more frequent holidays broken up through the year so everything isn't thrown so out of whack at the end. (I'm not even Christian.) That might force them to be shorter though and make it hard for people to get together.
Having hot tea with my dressing gown over pjs. Trying to decide if rewatching Buffy will hold my interest.
Having grown up overseas I definitely see what you mean about it being all or nothing in places like Australia. I liked how it was where I grew up, none of the public holidays had the same stop-the-country effect so you could easily enjoy them alone or with others.
It's Amends type weather, I say go for Buffy!
Now that you mention it itโs much the same. Itโs either dead quiet or super busy, thereโs no happy medium of feels like and probably why I feel overwhelmed when Iโm not in the mood to be trapped inside with an entire family who is loud.
Man I like fireworks sometimes, but must there be illegal fireworks set off a street away at 1:16am? Is that really necessary? Can't you wait till NYE ๐๐๐
A Christmas Carol, this one with Fredric March and Basil Rathbone and other huge movie stars of the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5NNa6PEvA Music by Bernard Herrman ๐
