Merry Christmas

[prosodic]

Me with my Christmas haul - DVDs of Golden Girls (season 1), Friends (season 10) and Sex and the City (all seasons), all given by Lance.  Madonna's "Confessions On a Dance Floor," given by my sister-in-law.  I'm wearing my new sheep pajamas that I got at Target while we were in Minnesota, courtesy of my father-in-law and his wife, who gave us a monetary gift. We got a lot of monetary gifts, which we'll be putting into savings toward the house we plan to buy in the next 2 years.

Lance with all the goodies I got him. 

Our dining room window with the pinecone lights and the pointsettia I'm desperately trying to keep alive.

The ugly hutch we have on loan from Schinnen, decorated with my reindeer, an angel candleholder that I got from my mother-in-law two years ago, and a Yankee candle.  The placemat is part of a set I got in the IWC gift exchange from a lovely Italian lady.

Not Christmassy, but I just wanted to show off the tapestry I bought to cover up the fuse box, and since I was taking pictures anyway...

My snowman display in the entryway, underneath the spiral staircase.  The snowpeople at the bottom have feathery wings, so I guess you can call them snow angels.

O Tannenbaum!  Before we opened gifts, of course.  I actually took this in the dark and did not retouch it.  My flash is good.

The living room, with our stockings hung by the radiator with care (Lance's is on the other side, out of view of the camera).

We had a pretty good day.  We woke up later than I usually do on Christmas.  We can hear the bells from the village church very clearly, and they rang repeatedly for morning masses, so we eventually decided to get out of bed since our sleep kept getting interrupted.  We wandered downstairs and Lance found the movie channel, where we caught the end of Miracle on 34th Street and then watched The Santa Clause. While we were doing that, I made Pillsbury Cinnabon cinnamon rolls (which had no difference in taste from the regular Pillsbury rolls).  Halfway through the movie, we opened gifts.  We spent the rest of the day alternating between watching the classic television show marathon on AFN (all with a Christmas theme) and the DVDs we had on hand.  I got Lance a boxed set of a bunch of Christmas shows, so we watched Frosty the Snowman. I made ham, mashed potatoes with cambanzola cheese, stuffing, and crescent rolls for lunch.  For dinner, we nibbled on leftovers from last night's party.  Once it got dark and I turned on all the Christmas lights and turned off all the other lights and lit the candles, we kicked back and watched The Muppets Christmas Carol

Football is on now.  So Lance is going to be up all night watching that.  I might actually get some sleep tonight!  He's been pretty noisy the past couple of nights with his sinuses all stuffed up and stuff.

Funny - Lance's friend had to "cook" a Black Forest Cake from scratch (he said cook, not bake...oy vey).  But anyway, he called me twice today with cake emergencies.  The first one was easy - he didn't have wax paper to line the cake pans.  So I told him to butter the pans and then dust them with flour.  The second time he called, he couldn't get the heavy whipping cream to turn into whipped cream.  I told him to just keep whipping.  I don't know how things turned out, but he never called back, so I assume things turned out okay.

I'm going to go shopping on amazon.com now with the two gift certificates we got.  I'll have to save the shopping cart though, because Lance needs to pick out what he wants before I can make the purchases.  It's just easier if we order everything together.

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I am still mad about not getting my Pampered Chef stuff sooner. My mini loaf pan came with a recipe for mini cinnamon loaves that looked really good and would have been perfect for Christmas morning. If I didn't already have the Pillsbury cinnamon rolls in the fridge, I would've made the Pampered Chef recipe. Oh well.

Hope your day is good. It is now Boxing Day here, and I need to get to sleep. I've been up browsing amazon.com.