Christmas Preparations
So, merry christmas everyone.
I suppose that part of you won’t get their presents until tomorrow, but we do celebrate christmas tonight, so I’m all excited and knee-deep in preparations. It’s only going to be Pi and I tonight. My parents asked us if we would like to come over and celebrate with them, but we decided not to. It wasn’t so much a decision against my parents but more because we wanted to have a cozy christmas with just us two.
We’re having dinner at my grandparents tomorrow evening anyway, so we’ll see them then. We’ll also see my aunt Judith, although Claudia (her girlfriend) is not coming. Meh. I’d have loved to see her. But that’s all tomorrow.
About today:
We’re going to have a four course dinner that I put together from my favorite cooking magazine. The courses are:
1. Gorgonzola-Creamcheese-Cream with Sweet Pepper Salad (yeah, I know how it sounds, I’m doing my best to translate that here)
Gorgonzola-Creamcheese-Cream with Sweet Pepper Salad 
2. Wintersalad with Peppered Honey-Apples
Wintersalad with Peppered Honey-Apples
3. Roasted Duck with Chestnuts, Cranberries and Grapes (and Croquettes)
(I don’t have a picture for that because we couldn’t find a recipe to match exactly what we wanted, so we made up our own thing from different recipes)
4. Gingerbread-Panna-cotta with Stewed Oranges
Gingerbread-Panna-cotta with Stewed Oranges
Are you hungry now? I hope so.
This morning my last presents arrived. I ordered something from amazon.de in the evening of the 22nd, so I was afraid that it wouldn’t get here on time, but everything is here now.
I also treated myself with the DVD of ‚The Muppets Christmas Carol‘ that I will force Pi to watch with me. Again. And I found all our three christmas CDs, so nothing can destroy my spirit now.
I still have to giftwrap everything and stuff, but even now a kind of relaxed mood has kicked in. I guess it’s coming with the certainty that I’ve got all my presents.
Apart from that I started playing The Sims 2 again, and I built the last four contestants from the Apprentice as well as Donald Trump and his Melania (they live in a different house though). Up to now Donald and Melania are already married, Donald is pursuing a career in politics and Melania in sports.
At the Trumpee’s home, Kevin is married to Kasimir and Sandy is deeply in love with Babsi. I also managed to hook Kelly up to Jen, so if those two get married I won’t get another Sim to control. I will report if something important happens there.
So, since I don’t think I will get to post again today I wish all my blogreaders and their family and friends a very merry christmas! Enjoy it! And count yourself lucky if you get a white christmas. It’s something I’ve been waiting for since approximately 1980.
Current mood: Finally the christmas spirit got me. I caught myself singing tidbits of the Muppet Christmas Carol songs on my way to the grocery store.
Listening to: The End Of A Love Affair by Stina Nordenstam (But I will play some christmas tunes VERY soon)