Aarrrrrggghhh I've got a week left until Dad Giftmas. Cleaning tomorrow and Sunday and then shopping this week for food. I'm going to leave work a bit early on Friday afternoon to come home and get things ready, and probably do some cooking in advance ( Read more... )

Productive weekend! Last weekend was all shopping and going out, this one has been home home home home. Gave the kitchen a big clean, swept and mopped the floors, and I've just finished cleaning up the entryway. Evicted a couple of spiders - one was a fatty boombah who, from the looks of all the dessicated husks around it, has been getting a decent ( Read more... )

And thus begins my Last Gift Shopping Day for Giftmas ( Read more... )

So last night we went and saw Sir David Attenborough. (Who I refer to as Granddad, because who wouldn't want him as your granddad ( Read more... )

Giftmas tree is up. I was thinking about making some little matchbox "gift" decorations but, (unsurprisingly) in a house with piezoelectric ignition on the stove and regular bic cigarette lighters for all my firelighting needs, I don't actually have any matchboxes, and I am not making tiny boxes from scratch :P ( Read more... )

The theatre room has been tidied and vacuumed and I even cleared the corner to put the Giftmas tree up, in a few weeks. I figured I may as well make the space now. Also got stuck into the mermaid bathroom and did a bit of rearranging. The truth is I've got too much stuff in there. I may have a cull in a few weeks when I finally decide that "other" ( Read more... )

I have been pissfarting around making decorations all evening. I don't feel tired. I probably am, and could sleep, but I just want to sit in my nice office and make things ( Read more... )

This weekend is one of about 3 I have completely free between now and December 25. That's right. 3 weekends. I did a rough count the other night and I have about 12 days with no prior commitments between now and Giftmas. That doesn't leave me a lot of time. I haven't done any spring cleaning, which I wanted to get done since we will have guests ( Read more... )

I'm a menace to my own sanity: I've just been jotting down some ideas for Boxing Day this year (D's extended family are all coming here, this year) and rather than do an EASY menu where I don't have to do much, I've ended up with ( Read more... )

M and E's wedding is tomorrow. It's going to be a loooong day. Need to leave here at 8. Which means I need to be up and in the shower by 7. Which means I'll be turning my hot rollers on before I jump in the shower, so they're hot enough to put in before we leave, then I can leave the bastards in while we travel, and I'll just pull the rollers out ( Read more... )