Click the pic for the Lost Diva!
It’s over! The first time I have ever put on Christmas! It’s
8pm and everything is cleared away – we have unintentionally, but happily
acquired the rest of a bottle of champagne, a bottle of port, chocolates,
shortbread, a selection of beer from Mirboo North Brewery, blackberry jam that
my dad made and those are just for starters!! It was a lovely day – didn’t kick off too well – M did not respond well to gift as he hadn’t got me anything – we’d each bought a ticket to the Meredith Music Festival for each other but I thought I’d get him something extra. Anyway – I ignored his little hissyfit and we put on a yummy lunch. I made two salads (Huzzah!!) a potato salad and a bean salad, we ate a few dozen oysters and steamed mussels and then M cooked snapper steaks with asparagus, mushroom and blue cheese. To die for! We finished up with cheeses, cherries and a bowl of apricots from the man over the road. I made us Christmas Cocktails of Midori and Pinapple juice whizzed with ice in the blender – I even got my Dad to have one!

I scored some really awesome presents – got some excellent books from my Dad – two Saint books to add to my collection, the new Ian Rankin novel ‘The Falls’, a Peter Temple book and another book called The Connections which he reckons is pretty good. My Mum? She went all out! She gave me a package of about four things from The Body Shop *swoon* and some Nut Body Butter, some divine wind chimes made with Australian hardwood, a set of wine glasses and together her and my dad got me the best thing – a $150 voucher for Virgin Blue airlines – I’m outta here!! Well…not really…I’m going to put it right here next to my laptop as incentive to get through my course on time and then I’ll flee somewhere like Queensland, Tassie or northern New South Wales. Hooray! M is in seventh heaven because Mum and Dad got him a DeWalt angle grinder – ah – power tools will do it every time!

M is on the phone to his mum up in Hervey Bay right now – I miss her – I’d like to get up there to say hello. He said she has instructed him to tell me to write her a letter – I wrote her a very long one a few months back and she says she rereads it quite often! (Maybe this is the perfect excuse for me to avoid watching the video we just went and ‘picked out’. It’s some action flick, and as my last relationship ended after a trip to the video shop, I opted to preserve the Christmas spirit and said, ‘An action movie?! Wow! That would be great! – LOL)