Christmas and Bits

Hope everyone had a delightful holiday. Mine was quite lovely; though we mostly lazed about all day, me drinking gads of tea and watching my brother play this game..

Side Note: The game is called Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and it is very, very good. Not so much for the single player campaign, which, if you are familiar with the series, is just more of the same, but for the multiplayer game, which is ridiculously addictive. Let's just say there is sneaking, backstabbing, chasing and customizable avatars involved and leave it at that.

Also, there is definitely a character that looks strikingly like Mr. Darcy/Matthew Mcfayden

I got some lovely things for Christmas. A little tea wallet to store the copious amounts of tea that my parents bought for me from England (My favorite is the Yorkshire Gold, in case you were wondering) and a little plug in electric heater that you can just toss into a mug of water and zap into a boil. I am, as I mentioned to someone the other day, practically a walking tea shop. Which suits me just fine.

I also got a sweater and a dress and some nice long socks to wear with boots, and a bunch of really good books (as usual, Sean has been doing much research in this department) I really enjoyed Hunting and Gathering. Like really. It's catapulted itself into one of my favorite books of all time. The characters are so good and pitted with real flaws. Just so lovely. I'm reading Shipbreaker right now, which is by the same author as The Wind-Up Girl, which I mentioned before. I think for now, I prefer the latter, but we shall see.
Today is Abbie's Birthday. We are planning on going out to a bookshop all morning and lazing about there. And hopefully dropping by the grocery store. I am seriously running out of cream and I find that a little bit daunting. How is that even possible. I swear we had an extra cartonful.
My little cow creamer has an empty belly for now.

And one last thing, I wanted to show everyone. We celebrated my birthday here a couple weeks ago and I got such lovely gifts and I wanted to show two of them, because I wear them everyday.


The first is a locket given to me by my aunt. You can't see obviously but there's a very beautiful picture of my mother and her in there. I carry them around with me, and I know it sound terribly stupid, but I makes me feel better.
The bracelet was given to me by my mother. She has a very similar one that is gold that her father gave to her when she was about my age. It's blends in perfectly with the ranks of other bracelets on my wrists. But the important part is that she got it engraved at the little stand in Portland, "The Stars of Each Night," which is part of a poem she writes in notes to us when we go away, or some boy breaks my heart, or I have an audition or something.
Anyway, it was just beautiful and it made me cry and I'm a wuss.

Hope everyone had a lovely holiday and has a good new year. Try to keep warm!