Well, Christmas is just around the proverbial corner and what have I done? Another year almost over and a new one almost begun (apologies to John Lennon). It has been an eventful year and for a change instead of spending Christmas Day at home with the dogs, getting drunk and full of good food, we are going to spend Christmas Day with my brother and his 3 little girls (8, 4, and 3) in Canberra. Dad is there already having arranged a cat sitter for his beloved ginger cat Monty, and he will spend several days with his granddaughters. This is the first Christmas without Mum so there were no cards sent as she always took care of that sort of thing.
As usual, I was told to go and buy my own gift. God bless Matthew, he always wants me to have something nice but at this time of the year he is working such long hours that he can't get to the shops. So, as I have a naked ring finger on my right hand thanks to a slight re-arranging of my current collectionof finger jewellery, I went to the local jewellery shop and bought myself a lovely garnet and diamond ring. Funny how all the ones I tried on were my exact right size. I have small fingers. So I chose one and said "wrap the little bugger up"! Now it is under the tree with the other gifts waiting to be released and on my hot little hand Christmas Day. Fortunately there are 6 other gifts under the tree that I don't know what they are (from Marilyn in the USA and my in-laws) which will be a nice surprise when we open them.
I bought Matt his favourite Darrell Lea chocs and a pack of Christmas candies for me. I love them. I wanted to buy him a "Casey Jones" train driver's hat (he has started playing with toy trains and creating a huge layout in the shed) but couldn't find one online large enough for a man's head. Oh well, might have to look overseas.
We have had some rain which has been marvellous although our dam is still only 14%. That is a lot better than 3.2% which is what it got down to early this year. The grass has come back and the garden looks a lot better.
This will be my last post for 2007. I can't believe that this year is almost over. They certainly fly by when you are over 50 so be warned!!!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone whether you read my blog or not. Peace, health and happiness to all. Enjoy the chocolate and we diet in the new year bwahahahahaha - :-D
Linda
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