All Is Calm, All Is Bright...

Well it is Christmas Eve, and for now I have our little flat to myself. Carl is at work and will be until about 3:00pm. I have the Christmas lights on, and the television off. I am being serenaded by Bing Crosby, and have wrapped up all my gifts, and between sneezes (a cold, just in time for Christmas!) have put them all in bags ready for when we go visitn family this evening.

I want to have a long hot bath, watch The Bishop's Wife, and paint my toe nails read. Then, I think I am just about ready for Christmas! Although there is a little pottering in the kitchen I would like to do if I have time....

I hope that wherever you are, you are bathed in the lights of the Christmas tree, and are feeling peaceful and serene too. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Living in a Snowglobe

We haven't had any actual snow here, but I feel like I have been living in a snow globe none the less. You know, when all is calm, and then it is shaken up and down and suddenly there is a swirl of glitter and commotion? Well that feels like my life at the moment.

There have been things that have made me glum...such as a favourite aunt having a very painful operation, and an uncle being rushed into hospital and not being expected to make it...and wonderful things, such as a job interview which resulted in me being given a library all of my very own! In between it all there have been Christmas cards to write, Carl's birthday, and a Spa Day too. oh, and a trip to Bury St Edmunds...

I have finished work now until January, so I hope to have a little more time to blog...I feel awful for letting things slide here for so long. Other news though, Carl is having a new laptop for Christmas, which means that I will have his old one...which means more internet time for me!!

I hope that all is a-shimmer and a-sparkle in your house, with mince pies in the oven and Bing Crosby on the radio...