Current mood:

accomplished

For those interested, Christmas went well. I didn't manage to blow up the house, and no-one bought me alcohol.

I did get a pair of earrings, but they were part of a set that my grandad thought was just a necklace when he bought it, plus it had a bonus bracelet that he didn't know about until I opened it - and it actually fits on my huge wrists, would you believe it - so I'm actually pretty happy about that. I also got given two more necklaces from my Auntie, and a gorgeous-smelling shower set from my Mum.

Also, while I was making plans for making Christmas dinner the week before, my grandad realised that I didn't have enough trays/dishes to be able to put everything in the oven at once, and bought me two medium-sized ovenproof dishes (just the right size to be able to put them side-by-side on the same shelf in the oven, and our oven isn't all that big) and two incredibly tiny Pyrex dishes, which I didn't end up using.

The dinner itself was anti-climatic. I expected things to go disastrously wrong, but they didn't - the only thing that really went wrong was that the Yorkshire puddings got knocked while they were in the oven, and I had to make more. Oh, that and no-one was really used to having roast dinners, so everyone got full really quickly and there ended up being loads of food left over. It turned out that they all felt that there was no point in having a big roast dinner at Christmas if you don't want to - which is a fair point, but I kind of wish someone had said something earlier.

Oh well.