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Firstly, I have to say happy belated birthday to the wonderful

msktrnanny. I hope you had a good day.

I guess I should do a Christmas recap, and shall do so, right under

Christmas Eve was the usual mixture of being busy and enjoying the day. I really love Christmas Eve a lot, it has its own special magic that you can't help but enjoy. There was no putting out of carrots and mince pie for Santa and his reindeers, but that was pretty much expected. We drove round to see various relatives and brought back gifts to our house. Which is still a bit of a novelty as this is only the second Christmas we've spent at home, as we usually went to mam's. So presents were sorted, food prepared for the next day and really we just had a low key lovely night. Mam stayed until about 10:30 then went home, then James and I went to bed about half 12 and got a phone call from Kay saying mam had been texting her saying how lonely she was, how no one loved her, how no one had bought her anything for Christmas and how it was the worst Christmas ever. Kay was so pissed off and said no way was she having Christmas dinner at hers which I could understand. After talking to her a while I just went to sleep. I made a vow this Christmas that mam being a dick wasn't going to spoil things, I mean, it's a case of when you get the calls about what horrible kids we are, what terrible presents we give and all that crap. They're inevitable so really it's easier to accept it'll happen and just move on.

Christmas day we slept in, Corey loves his sleep so we never have to get up early at Christmas. We came downstairs and he ripped into his presents, and seemed to like them all. He mainly got playstation games and books and has happily been reading/playing ever since. Kayleigh bought him a mobile, which I was little wtf?! about because Corey never goes anywhere he'd need to use a mobile, but he loves it so what do I know? I bought James a laptop, a second hand apple i book tangerine which we got for a fantastic price. It's perfect for what he wants to be online for and he seems happy with it, he also got the new Sunderland shirt, clothes and a Dr Who mug that makes noises and is just amazing! So much fun! His family got him various stuff and an amazing amount of alcohol, I swear we've enough to last until next Christmas.

Okay, there was a paragraph here about my presents and it was sad and whiny so it's gone and rightly so. I'll just tell you the highlight, which was mam bought me 200 GB of memory and now Silver doesn't yell at me all the time and refuse to play programmes due to lack of memory. YAY!

Also yay, new Dr Who! So. Much. Love!

But man, remind me never to go to the shops after Christmas. We took Silver to go get his new memory installed. We got stuck in a traffic jam getting to metro center, had to battle the crowds to get to the computer shop, all the while carrying poor Silver who seemed to weigh a ton. Wait for hours for them to format him, then the kicker. It took us 90 minutes to get off the top level of the multi story car park we'd parked on. With us being on the top level people on the levels below were filtering into the lines, which had a knock on effect on the cars above. 90 minutes to move from one side of the level to the ramps, then the car in front let in so many cars in front of him, and yeah I know it's polite, but damn you car! We'd been waiting over an hour at that point, you don't let in two cars in front of you. However, we got home eventually and all my footage was transferred to the new drive and the new mouse installed. No sticking and shooting of the page cursor, it's amazing! And now Silver is home and things are good.

There may be another post today because I've been away from this place for a few days which means I have to come back and spam like crazy ;). There's some SeSa stories I've adored and I thought I'd make like a lemming and share. My recipient liked her story too which was a relief, so yeah.

ETA: People may know this, but I sort of have a thing for Chris/Nick.

seiyaharris wrote me a Chris/Nick ficlet for Christmas that just....they don't want to say goodbye! *sniff* Thank you again, Becca!

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Sorry your mam tried to cause drama - glad you and K have each other to lean on to not let it spoil things though.

My big pressie was a gig-ona-stick that doubles as an mp3 player, as an emergency backup for when Lena wobbles - clearly computer toys are the way to go ;)

*snuggles*

Like I said, it's inevitable. I just wish she'd quit with the drinking because she's lovely without it.

Woo! gig-ona-stick! Are you going to add it to funky dogtags like A? ;)

*snuggles with you*

I was impatient to read your Christmas recap, so thanks for sharing *g*

Also, I was wondering why you weren't talking about your presents and I'm sorry that it might not have been what you wanted, or I don't know - that it gave birth to the sad original paragraph. But I'm glad you and Silver got a new memory - you definitely both needed it lol

*hugs*

And hail to spam! Specially yours *g*

Oh I forgot. Sorry about your mother and the whole drama thing but I'm always happy to hear about your resolutions not to let her bring you down and everything *cheers*

Thanks, sis. I figured it's not worth it, so just stayed home and we had plenty fun on our own *g*

LOL. Well I'm glad someone was ;)

The gift thing isn't sad as such, I was just being a whiny bitch really. You know how James gives me the same things every year? The knickers, nightie, cds and teddy? Well I got them again and they're great you know, I do like them. It's just, it seems he gets them on auto pilot without thinking what I'd really like. I mean, if I said to him I want something different, he'd get it. But just one year I'd like to get a surprise based on what I like and which I didn't know a thing about. Which a surprise should be but he's incapable of buying surprises without telling me about them.

Then I was given two pairs of slippers which I never wear, Chris didn't even get me a card and I was moaning about that when in reality I got some nice stuff and have no reason to moan at all, so there you go. One deleted moan, which you now get, sorry *g*

Man yes! Silver so needed the memory. But remind me, next time I go take him into the shop hide the porn files, especially the ones labelled rough stuff, because dude....

YAY! Spam!

Well between you and me, I completely understand the "whining". I think I would feel the same way if I was/were in the same situation *nods*

the highs and lows of the holidays. *hugs you tight* I'm sorry that your Mam did that. YAY for extra RAM and boo for traffic.

Hide me while my step-dad going through bills and paying them, Mom is at work and she said that she expects him to be having a hissy fit.

Don't worry about the whining about presents, I'm sure it wasn't anywhere near the bitchfest I've had about what I got this year. But last night I made a decision about 90% of that crap and how to keep it from happening again. *grins evilly*

YAY for chris/nick fic! Mmmm.

*hugs and smooches* I'm going to go try to read another SeSa fic or two. I'm moving slow through them this year.

It really is highs and lows, but you get used to the lows you know? And they're way outweighted by the highs so it's not that bad.

Are the bills done? Hopefully there were no hissy fits.

What happened with your gifts? Or do you not want to say on here?

*smooches you*

bills are done, there was much muttering under the breath but no outright snitfits. yay.

gifts... how to phrase this. out of the 6 things I got from various family members...only 2 are something I'll use or wanted. I don't wear yellow gold, don't wear a watch, yet I got another gold watch from my grammaw t. (this makes the 4th watch in the last 6 years -- all gold, all purchased via QVC over the summer and cannot be returned). I'm also allergic to pine, my step-dad's sisters have been told this fact since I was in high school, yet again this winter (and for the 4th time), I got a basket of lotions/shower gel/etc from them that is all Juniper scented. Yeah, that basket is out in the garage right now because we can't even have that stuff in the house because even unopened it was smelly and my eyes started swelling shut. Then step-grandmother got me a jigsaw puzzle (6th puzzle in 3 years), an electronic backgammon game and a gift certificate for a woman's clothing store that only sells "dress" clothing (and pricey women's clothing at that) - I don't like jigsaw puzzles, don't like backgammon either (find them both boring) and I'm freaking housebound 90% of the time, why do I need fancy-dressy clothing? *sigh*

I just do not understand these people. They asked for gift ideas from me, I gave them ideas and they totally ignored every idea. *rolls eyes* I asked for barnes & noble gift cards.. they bought my step-dad 75 dollars worth of them. Hello, he didn't ask for those.

So next year when the box of presents arrives from his family, I'm shaking every pressie. Anything tagged for me that smells, ticks like a watch or rattles like a puzzle, I'm finding the gifts for him that are shaped like giftcards and swapping out the tags. lol.

I know it's the thought that counts, but I really do not think that they gave any thought to what they gave me. If they had, would they continue to give me the same thing year after year that they know I don't like/want or that I'm allergic to?

I guess almost everyone has less than stellar interactions with their relatives at Christmas. It's sad but almost inevitable I think. All that pressure to enjoy things and to be a happy-family-together is bound to bring out the worse in people.

Thank you for the link to

seiyaharris journal. I'm not that fond of Chris/Nick, but I also found a wonderful little Lance/Nick and a crossover with Lance and some guy from a show I've never seen but the story was wonderful all the same. I must remember to write feedback.

Yeah, Christmas has such huge expectations built around it. That's why I was perfectly happy to just stay at home with James and Corey.

Becca is a lovely writer, she really should write more often. The Chris/Nick killed me because I so love them together. I just think of Nick, so big and blonde and Chris, dark and smaller and I melt.

Which reminds me. I must go back to your journal. Your icons weren't loading for me earlier when I was catching up.

I just think of Nick, so big and blonde and Chris, dark and smaller and I melt

Hee! I feel exactly the same about Nick and Lance, except Lance is blond, but the rest is the same :-)

Your icons weren't loading for me earlier

I noticed they didn't for some hours this afternoon. I know the BIL has finally got the bigger-faster-better server he's been waiting for since sometime this summer, so I guess some kind of switching is going to take place soon / is already underway.

Hee! I feel exactly the same about Nick and Lance, except Lance is blond, but the rest is the same :-)

I'm with you there too. I know in no way Chris can be called small, but he's smaller and that hits my buttons so much.

That's great news about the server!

well, in that case I hope you'll like my present.

errr, again with the, when I get off my ass...

Honey, I'm going to love anything you send, just because you actually went out and got something you thought I'd like, and that's just the ultimate cool thing you know?

*smoooch*

i'm sorry your mom was being... difficult and a poop. *hugs*

Yeah, families suck at time, but I still had fun in the end.

*hugs back*

and that's what matters.

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