Monday. Christmas Day! Late night because of the carols, but then woke up at 6am. Because that's what I do. Ok sleep in between though. Never turned my computer on all day because of storms coming and going and needing to do All The Things anyway.
When you plant mint seeds and poppies grow instead
Cooked up an epic Christmas Day feast for the two of us.
There was a woollies turkey roast, some sweet potato and sage, a blue cheese potato bake, brussels sprouts with bacon and hazelnuts and onion and sage stuffing.
Just cleaning and Lego after lunch, then headed over to Annie's for drinks and dessert. It's been exactly a year since we saw them all last. We're such slackers.
Tuesday. Boxing Day. Got to sleep ok but then awake from 4am for ages. Spent all morning cooking and cleaning. Stu went to pick up the mother type person. Then everyone else got here. Had snackages and did presents and stuffs.
Lunch was epic roast pork (crackling was great but the pork was a little over done), epic potato bake (there were heaps of leftovers!!), potato and sweet potato, peas, home made apple sauce and gravy.
After lunch David went on a shopping and visiting expedition, so I put up the America photos from my blog (they really need culling for a slideshow though). David was gone for hours haha. When he eventually did get back we put on Mum's Tasmania slide show. Meanwhile, we got a message from Annie (who we saw yesterday and who said when we got there she had a sore throat) that she was covid positive. Sigh. Had dessert for dinner and an early night.
Wednesday. Slept okish I think. Spent most of the morning with Mum looking at Tasmania photos from three out of four of her trips there (1968 with YHA, 1971 with Dad, 2023 with Evelyn and Outback Spirit). Mum went off to lunch with the others. I was going to go to Tony's birthday lunch at Dickson, but decided not to "just in case" stoopid covid (it would have been fine). Instead cleaned up and sorted cables. When everyone got back David told me what all the cables were so I labelled everything. We then had a game of Five Crowns which I won. Put on the news for Mum and made her some garlic prawns with some of the prawns D&K brought up. Then we watched Luca, which Mum even managed to stay mostly awake through.
Thursday. Awake from like 3:45 and never got back to sleep. Sigh. Dropped Mum off at Jolimont and had a full on meltdown on the way home. Too much stress? Release of stress? I dunno, but over half my break was over and all I've done was cleaning and cooking and family and haven't had a chance to relax yet. Man I still miss uni holidays. So. Much. Put on some washing and tidied up the fridge and labelled stuff. Then just another day of trying to get All The Things done. Did I mention I haven't had a chance to relax yet? Finished season one of Mash.. the blue ladies!! They played that episode *a lot* in the eighties. Then The Orville 2.6.
After sorting the cables that came out of this box and putting them all back in.. sigh..
Friday. Slept relatively well. Another day of All The Things. Got heaps done. Rewarded myself later in the afternoon by starting a jigsaw. Stu got pizza for dinner, then Mash, Death in Paradise 7.5 and Twin Peaks 1.7.
Saturday. Slept relatively well. Another day of All The Things. Got heaps done. In the afternoon I watched the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer because I don't think I've ever actually seen it. I actually really really HATE the song. Yeah let's all bully someone for being a bit weird, and only like them if we can use them for something. So horrible. The tv special isn't any better, but Clarice is nice. The Crown 6.5, Twin Peaks 1.8 (which is the end of season one - I thought that would be the end, but it keeps on going haha).
Sunday. New Year's Eve. Slept mostly ok although awake around 4 for a while. Another busy day, mostly catching up on blogging and finishing my year in review post, with a bit of jigsaw as well. We might have had peeps over tonight, but we're still isolating "just in case" we get covid. So will be a nice quiet night with just the two of us.
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