:: Merry Merry!

Hello!

Mike's was closed today. I know. Crazy are we..! The thing is, that really lovely people like you (and us) have moved on from 'the shopping' and are practicing 'the gathering' or 'the preparing' or 'the enjoying' (or 'the hysterics') on Christmas Eve. And that's what we like to do too!!!

So today, I was SO EXCITED that I woke up at 4am. I know. Silly. But I really LOVE Christmas! So I woke up, went into the lounge room and flipped on the telly. I tried to keep it quiet. I tried to read 'My Sister's Keeper' but my eyes were sure that it was in a very special Doctor Who type text, and I could not QUITE make out the letters. Darnit. Also, a mosquito was jousting with my blanket and was pretty super-keen to bite me. So that took a good 15 minutes of fending off and un-successful focussing, making it about 4.15. Sigh. Silly.

At this time of day, my neighbour was making some sort of noise against the wall. A repetitive hammering noise. Perhaps he was putting up his Christmas decorations? A wee bit late, but still, good on him. It's never too late to switch over to the 'nice' list, I say. Also, there were lots of people being very merry on our street. So I listened to that for a while. And then it was 4.30!

So at 4.30 I flipped the channel and found out that a plane had skidded from a runway. That was not very festive. I thought about that for a while. And how cosy and safe we are. And how lucky and blessed we are. And then it was 4.45.

At 4.45 there was a sound like a gunshot. I'm sure it wasn't. But my windows were open and I kept my head down! I hoped everything was okay, and it was. So I watched a tiny bit of Wifeswap and looked at a Christmas Tree which was flashing in the flats over the road. I hoped that those Christmas lights would not backfire or skid un-festively. And then it was 5.00!

At 5.00, Cam came in and said 'It's time to go to the Market!'.

So that's what we did! Holy cow. It was so busy, even at that early hour!! We drank coffee and filled up our trolley with things for tomorrow's lunch. Then we came home and cooked and went for a walk and saw Shelley and had some visitors and dealt with the HUGE Melbourne down-pour and Tweeted and generally had a LOVELY time!

I'll tell you what we are eating next time... but I really popped in to say a very big thanks. Thanks SO much for checking in on me this year. Thanks for 'getting' the sorts of things that I like. Thanks for every comment, email, giggle, link or chatter about us. Thanks for not caring about my messy hair, my dirty fingernails and my penchant for un-sexy nighties! Thanks for being a really ACE blog-buddy. I am so lucky to have friends like you.

Merry Christmas YOU.

xx Pip

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