It's Christmas time !

Yea yea !

Christmas came and went. :) It was quite painless really and I feel much more relaxed than I did last year.

Friday I stayed in bed when Olivier left to work. I did get up a few hours later to prepare my christmas dinner. I had already prepared my salty cake (carotte+mushroom), taken the kangaroo out of the freezer and packed it with some veggies. So now for the dessert.

It was pretty easy to prepare, but the layer + filling + layer + filling was a bit more tricky. Took me awhile because I almost managed to destroy all the layers with my clumsiness.

I managed to built the cake and hop, wrapped it up for the road.

When Olivier came home, we still had to wrap the presents. I let him do the honors since I was still struggling with my grub..

We finally left at 3p.m. Now the trip normally takes 1h½ but with heavy snow, bad weather and icy roads (some main roads were closed : too many trucs laying on their sides were blocking 'em) we arrived at 7pm. 4 frigging hours.

Luckily I had taken my brand spanking new Cinema music compilation with me, so we spent the trip guessing to which film which theme song belonged :D

I can't believe I couldn't guess the one from Robocop...

It was nice seeing Olivier's family. They didn't say a WORD about what I was eating when I placed my plate on the table, it in fact gave me the greatest satisfaction: the others ate a salmon in a crust with mashed veggies (the men complained openly) while I savoured my meat. The men didn't stop giving my plate jealous looks :D Muahahahahaaa.

We got a ministereo set that must've cost more than our second hand furniture combined, a bath salt set and a fancy set of 6 huge wine glasses + pitcher. I have no idea when we're supposed to use those (I don't drink wine since I don't like it and they really are HUGE to be practical).

I also got the Nightmare Before Christmas figurine I was lusting for for years and a Wii game

called "So blonde". I've played to PC-version and it was funny :)

We left the following day and were home around 6p.m. It was good to be back...

I bought some Cristal d'arques wine glasses (->) on the internet with the approval of Olivier and reserved tickets to a Sunday showing of Tangled. It was cute.

For our Sunday stroll we took the train + metro till Nation, walked to the cinema at St

Germain and then walked from there to St Lazare and took the train home. I made rosolli and finished my kangaroo steaks in the form of pyttipannu. mmm.

My Finnish friend is coming tomorrow! I can't wait ! I've tried to prepare everything so that his stay will go comfortably and smoothly but I think my buying him plenty of stuff to eat (I have no idea what he likes to eat so I've bought several things) only a) annoys him b) amuses him c) makes him uncomfortable.

Oh well :D I'm a bit of a busybody... hehehe