May I offer you a cup of festive joy?

23 December 2006

Today I’m starting a little experiment with a few “real-life” friends who are also on Flickr. Much too lazy to attempt the 365 days selfportrait challenge, we’re trying a 7 day version over the Christmas period. Now let’s wait and see if any of them remember … seeing as I was dreaming about it last night, I wasn’t about to forget. At least not today. If it’s a success, I’ll repeat the experiment sometime and bully all my internet friends to join in – because they’re all very pretty. Especially Mike.

Work is now off the cards until the new year and the spirit of the season is beginning to infiltrate my soul at long last. I wouldn’t have minded a weekday off work before Chrimble, but I’m not in charge of the calendar. Apparently.

Anyway, tonight I’m off to Suzy’s to spread a little of my joy over there and to give her ~~a black eye~~ a plentiful bounty of presents. She will feed me casserole and I will ply her boyfriend with wine. And probably scold him a lot. I do that.

Lauren’s coming over tomorrow on Christmas Eve to bestow what I can only assume is a cartload of gifts upon me. I was ultra-organised as far as Lauren was concerned this year and was able to give her my card and present when she was here at the beginning of the month for the picnic. However, this organisation came back and bit me on the arse when I later wrote her another card and kept wandering around the bloody shops coming up with great ideas for what I could buy her. Bad for Lauren, I guess, that I never actually got as far as buying any of these additional things.

Tomorrow is also the start of baking and cooking ahead for Monday. I’m not sure what I have to do, but I’m trusting in the power of Mum’s lists. In the past week I’ve made a fabulous chocolate orange cake which came out of the oven looking (and tasting) so perfect that I should have been given some kind of prize. Or perhaps just a cash alternative. I also made some yummy cranberry and white chocolate chip cookies. All my blog-reading friends are welcome to come and try them. Even you lurkers.