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December 23, 2005
The Christmas Spirit
I still seem to have a hundred and one things to do in time for Christmas, so I give you my past couple of days in list form.
Things that have helped my Christmas Spirit
1) A winter warming bottle of Glenmorangie I received for a Solstice present.
2) A heart warming package from the Open University containing next years course materials (mmm the smell of new books) which was presented to me by the same man who delivers my OU package every year. I have long decided that he is probably the nicest man in the whole world. The added bonus was that someone had scrawled ‘Happy Xmas!’ on the front of my box, whether it was he or someone at the warehouse, I shall never know.
3) The Rainbow Café’s Christmas Menu, particularly the vegan mandarin ‘cheese’ cake with chocolate shavings on top. *Drool* How much do I want that recipe.
4) The fact that I got an overall 2:1 for this year BUT a First (just) for my coursework. YES my exam mark dragged it down BUT guess what? Next year’s course has NO EXAM! In theory Purple Elephant never has to sit an exam ever again! Whoah!
5) Colin Firth in The Importance of Being Earnest on BBC2 at 8pm on Christmas day. Need I say more?
6) Cinnamon scented candles
7) Is it obvious that I am dragging this section out so that I don’t sound like a miserable old scrouge?
Things that haven’t helped my Christmas Spirit.
1) People in Oxfam Books today who queued in the wrong direction.
2) Someone who almost trampled my daughter and then had the audacity to tut as if it was Littleone’s fault that she had left everything to the last minute and was beginning to panic.
3) The fact that I still have to do a supermarket shop in the morning.
4) As I’m writing this I’ve just realised that this is my last OU course and I shall never see above nice man again.
5) A daughter who is obviously putting on some sort of growth spurt because since she has broken up from school she has muttered nothing but ‘I’m hungry!’
6) The constant reminder from various family and friends that I have less than a week left of being in my twenties. My mother takes the biscuit here for telling someone that her eldest is ‘nearly 30.’ I’ll have you know Dear Mother that I still have a whole five days left. Oh how I wiped that smug smile from her face the other day, when I reminded her that making me sound older shall do her no favours for she will always remain a whole 25 years older than me. Yes mother how does it feel to be nearly 60? Mwwwaaaahhahahahahahah!
7) The fact that according to Tesco Magazine, I should be spending my Christmas preparing my ‘batons’ of carrots into little bundles and tying them together with a sprig of lemongrass. I don’t know about you but my life is most certainly too short.
Posted by purple elephant at December 23, 2005 09:05 PM