Hehehehe...
Dec. 23rd, 2009 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rimturseI found my present! I didn't touch it, but I saw it all nicely wrapped up hidding in a bag in the library behind my piano chair.
I have been suspecting C to get me either one of two things and the size of this one automatically exludes one of these, but then with C you never know what you'll get, as he doesn't give a hoot about wish-lists or price ranges, he has no set minimum, nor a set maximum.
We're having my parents over for Christmas for the first time. Since nothing I ever do is good enough for my mother anyway*, I've decided to take C's advice and for the first time take it easy and not clean the whole house last minute, not do extra Christmas dishes beyond the usual stuff and I've baked just one type of cookies instead of three types like I usually do.
I have not been completely unproductive, though:
Saturday: Shopping, wrapping X-mas presents.
Sunday: Shortened C's new trousers and the bathroom curtains.
Monday: Made cookie dough
Tuesday: Baked cookies
Wednesday: Cleaned living room, including washing the glass in the French doors and washing living room windows, vacuumed and washed downstairs floors.
Tomorrow I'll clean the bathroom, tidy up the kitchen and cook the turkey with side-dishes and make ris a la mande and that's it.
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*Last year for the Christmas lunch, C prepared 2/3 of the home-made food, I prepared 1/3 - the rest was bought and we both worked together to arrange it nicely and heat up whatever needed to be heated up.
I also cleaned the whole house, washed the windows and set the table. The first thing my mother did upon arrival was to run her finger over the surface of our Playstation 3 and annonce that the place (which has been dusted 3 hours previously) needed to be dusted. All year she's also been praising C's lovely cooking and saying how no-one could ever make a Christmas lunch that measured up to the one he held - and what an effort he must have gone through to put all that delicious food on the table. And yes he did make a huge effort, but...
I have been suspecting C to get me either one of two things and the size of this one automatically exludes one of these, but then with C you never know what you'll get, as he doesn't give a hoot about wish-lists or price ranges, he has no set minimum, nor a set maximum.
We're having my parents over for Christmas for the first time. Since nothing I ever do is good enough for my mother anyway*, I've decided to take C's advice and for the first time take it easy and not clean the whole house last minute, not do extra Christmas dishes beyond the usual stuff and I've baked just one type of cookies instead of three types like I usually do.
I have not been completely unproductive, though:
Saturday: Shopping, wrapping X-mas presents.
Sunday: Shortened C's new trousers and the bathroom curtains.
Monday: Made cookie dough
Tuesday: Baked cookies
Wednesday: Cleaned living room, including washing the glass in the French doors and washing living room windows, vacuumed and washed downstairs floors.
Tomorrow I'll clean the bathroom, tidy up the kitchen and cook the turkey with side-dishes and make ris a la mande and that's it.
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*Last year for the Christmas lunch, C prepared 2/3 of the home-made food, I prepared 1/3 - the rest was bought and we both worked together to arrange it nicely and heat up whatever needed to be heated up.
I also cleaned the whole house, washed the windows and set the table. The first thing my mother did upon arrival was to run her finger over the surface of our Playstation 3 and annonce that the place (which has been dusted 3 hours previously) needed to be dusted. All year she's also been praising C's lovely cooking and saying how no-one could ever make a Christmas lunch that measured up to the one he held - and what an effort he must have gone through to put all that delicious food on the table. And yes he did make a huge effort, but...
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Date: 2009-12-23 05:40 pm (UTC):)
*hug*
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Date: 2009-12-23 06:08 pm (UTC)(I don't know if I am. I made a mistake that I may pay for in presents. *sigh*)