Christmas Eve...

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24th December 2007

1 Day to go till Christmas!!!!!!

tlm fact: Christmas rocks my socks!

MERRY CHRISTMAS BOYS AND GIRLS!

Twas the night before Christmas, and through the blogsphere
Not a blogger was sirring, not even our Veer.

Many posts had been made with care,
In hopes that readers would be there.

(I'll stop now before I do any more damage.)

Christmas No. 2

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21st December 2007

4 Days to go till Christmas

tlm fact: I was sicked on by a toddler today. It wasn't pretty and was over the only pair of jeans I've got at the moment.

I'm shattered. Today has been a noisy affair to say the least. We visited missbliss's 4 nieces and nephew. The accompanying troop of adults (made up of missbliss, her parents, brother + girlfriend and of course, me) took the tally to 10.

Many presents were opened on what is christmas number 2 for the kids and for us, much screaming took place, and there were plenty of barbies among other things. The youngest, 2, summed it up quite well, jumping on the spot at the sight of presents screaming "Cris...miss" staccato-esque over and over whilst waving his arms around frantically.

We gorged on mountains of food which included 3 joints, 45 Yorkshire Puddings (YEAH BABY!) and lorry loads of roast potatoes. More playing ensued, racing tractors up and down the corridor using our hands as gates. Missbliss was off bathing the youngest, who following that, promptly threw his stomach full of chocolate, matey bubble bath and goodness knows what else over me. missbliss just sat there laughing, and being happy that his jammies remained clean, pfft - just you wait.

We rounded off the day by tucking them into bed with made-up stories, mine being superior as it involved fairies and more audience interaction. Missbliss maintains her brief was more difficult (christmas, mermaids, and sleeping beauty) By this point, I was tired and could have done with being tucked in myself.

Bring on Christmas number 3.

Things that rock about Christmas

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2nd December 2007

23 Days to go till Christmas

tlm fact: 2 weeks before starting university in 2003, I almost wrote off my brand new car. Since then I've driven 75,000 miles which is the same as driving round the world 3 times! During this time I've spent about
£9,000 on petrol and £6,500+ on car insurance. Despite that, I still enjoy driving and I've spent most of the 3000 or so hours i've been behind the wheel day dreaming (not the best idea whilst behind the wheel I admit), all sorts of things go through my head when I'm driving including lots of blog ideas, unfortunately I tend to forget them when I get out.

1) Christmas cake - quite possibly the best cake ever. Especially when there are huge amounts of icing and marzipan all over it.

2) Clementines/Satsumas - best fruit ever. They are always on offer in ASDA or Salisbury's and we buy them by the crate load. I don't even know if they're particularly christmassy but its a good enough excuse for me to binge on them.

3) Mince pies - oh my god, why don't they sell mince pies all year round. In previous years I have pretty much lived on mince pies from late November to January. Missbliss has tried to put a stop to that but I can often be seen munching on them. The thin ones from Salisbury's are my current favourite.

4) Presents - well it wouldn't be Christmas without them would it? It is always an excuse to buy presents for yourself too!

5) The Christmas cheer - it usually starts on the first of December, people can be heard humming Christmas songs to themselves, and most people just seem to be happier than usual. We went to a Christmas market last week and EVERYONE was smiling and generally being happy.

6) Christmas markets - mulled wine, dutch pancakes, mince pies, and hog roast, oh my god hog roast! *drools*

Leave a comment and tell me what you like about Christmas (if you don't like Christmas then go and watch the "Holidays are coming" advert until you've changed your mind!

"The Holidays are Coming"

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1st December 2007

24 Days to go till Christmas

TLM Fact: On Christmas eve 1997 I was running down
the stairs and I tripped and fell, I spent the evening limping
around in pain. My mum and I spent Christmas morning in A+E
and later that morning, I came home in plaster having broken my foot.
What a way to round off the worst year of my life during which my parents broke up,
I had to move house, and my nan died.
(I promise not all the TLM facts will be as miserable as this one)

Its true, its the 1st of December and Christmas officially starts now. (I'm not even going to say how long our Christmas tree has been up!) I've already seen the Coca Cola Christmas ad on TV once or twice which made me ridiculously excited so I thought I'd share it with you all. Whether you've never seen it at all, or just not seen it yet this year, watch it. I promise it will stir up the Christmas feeling inside you. (If it doesn't you must be some kind of anti-Christmas monster)

December also marks my 1 year blogiversary and to celebrate this momentous feat, (I never expected to still be blogging regularly a year later, nor that I would ever get any readers) I'm going to try my hardest to write at least a short post every day during December. Will I manage it? Probably not, but we'll see. Also, in the spirit of Christmas, I will also be running my very own advent calender with a new Christmas picture each day, and rather than a chocolaty treat to go with it, there will be a TLM fact of the day (which will probably be exceedingly boring but we'll see how it goes)

My Second Favourite Thing in The Whole Entire World World

Second I hear you ponder? Well I didn't want to leave missbliss out and no, its not my new eee PC (although I do love it lots).

CAKE! - Fortunately for me, one of missbliss's finest attributes is making fantastically yummy cakes of all shapes and sizes. This goes hand in hand with one of my best attributes, the ability to gobble cake like no other living human!

This post is to celebrate the wonders of cake (particularly the chocolate cake I have waiting for breakfast), missbliss's ability to make said cake, and to rejoice in the chocolaty goodness of the world.

The amazing 'chocolate splurge' cake. (Or as I like to call it - breakfast)
The icing got a bit messy but hey - any mess involving chocolate can only be good right?

My birthday cake - made with 2 of my other favourite things - cream and raspberries.



CHRISTMAS CAKE! - one of the best things about Christmas (and missbliss doesn't even like it so all the more for me!)
This was last years wonder - decorated by none other than the little medic himself - with edible, gold painted holly made from icing

Its getting to the Christmas time of year which can only mean more cake - YIPEE!

UPDATE: After breakfast: