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Merry Yuletide Everyone.
As I write this it has just gone 10:00am boxing day and I'm in recovery mode. Hanging for a strong cup of tea actually, just waiting for the kettle to boil.
I worked a shift on Christmas Eve which made Christmas Day a bit of a challenge to tackle. I managed it by taking naps throughout the day. Wayne was an absolute dear. He'd volunteered several weeks ago to cook Christmas lunch, and though I had some evil fun letting him know that I was working and so he'd be at it on his own he still pulled through marvelously on the day.
The house looks like a brothel this morning. But I'm waiting until everyone is up before coordinating the assault on the kitchen and family room. Followed closely by trying to fit all the new belongings into the kids bedrooms with some sembalance of neatness. Not so hard with the boys room as we worked together to clean it out a few weeks ago. rather more problematical with Kyra's room. I still can't figure out how she can be the youngest and the one who has a bedroom to herself and yet seems to have twice as much stuff as her brothers put together?
Santa has been nice to me this year. :) My inlaws got me a voucher to buy some decent sun glasses, (I usually wear 10$ service station sunnies.) My kids presented me with a bottle of Elizabeth Arden's Mediterranaen which apparently they had great fun picking out at the perfume counter at Myers. The one I'm going to have the most fun with is the one Wayne and I picked for each other and that is a ASUS Eee PC 701. I've been wanting something i can write on ever since my pocket PC decided to go on strike. Truth to tell I wanted something different before then. The PPC is handy to carry around but with a small screen and teenie virtual keyboard made it a bit clumsy to use. Laptops are too big and heavy to cart around (I write on the go like everything else i do :) .) But nothing in the market seemed to fit what i wanted. Then when we were in melbourne last I spotted this in the big Myers store. Wayne was impressed... he'd been looking to replace his own work PPC. So we bought each other one. Mine is sitting chanrged up ready to go next to me though I've decided not to touch it until after the house is tidy. (otherwise the house will never to tidy!)
One nasty Christmas present I could well have done without is the ache and pain that has recently developed in my right arm. It evolved to a new level yesterday when i awoke with the feeling of 'coldness' in my arm and tingling in my hand. Repetative Strain injury anyone. GRRRRRR! No more drawing for Pete for the next week or so to give it a rest. (Technically I shouldn"t even be typing this, though I',m doing it left handed.) The hardest part is keeping away from gaming. We recently got Hellgate London and I sooooo want to play. I've limited myself to generating a character and reading the guide. I don't want to risk having this pain stick around permanantly. (Which also means no WoW :(. ) I hope it eases off over the week so that I can ink the next comic page. That and my new computer still being in the throes of installing all the necceassary applications to complete my comic pages means that this Christmas break couldn't have had better timing.
Friends coming around for boxing day lunch. Must go and doing something about the debri littering the warzone outside the computer room door.
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