So This Is Christmas ...

Christmas has come and gone and I'm already missing it :( But there's still about 9 days of Christmas left and I'm going to make the most of it :D I've been doing nothing since the Christmas dinner but vegetating at home and it is so much fun to the point that I didn't even bother logging on to check on my blog until today which is a record of sorts as Gypsy said in her comments on my earlier Christmas eve post ... LOL!

I knew I wouldn't be able to resist the pull of my blog for too long and true to form, here I am back with a post! I've been making the most of my Christmas leave by spending time with wifey and also taking naps quite a bit that wifey asked me this afternoon:

'Hon, are you going to be sleeping all day? Wake up already!' (LOL)

She know I just love to sleep. It's one of my other favourite hobbies besides blogging that is :) Anyway, Christmas was fun and I know a lot of you had fun this Christmas too judging by what I've read on some blogs out there. It's great isn't it, to know that everyone has been having fun. That's the way the world should be like always :)

My fun started from the 23rd where I attended by best buddy's early Christmas party. It turned out to be great like it always is. He prepared such a mouth watering feast that I ended up eating non-stop and by the time the night was over I was looking like a little baby hippopotamus! I'm going to have to do some major work out sessions after the holidays, that's for sure. The only sore point to my buddy's party was our other best buddy couldn't make it cos he was working and that made it the first time ever the three of us were not together during the Christmas party. What a bummer!

Then on Christmas eve, wifey, the kids and me attended the midnight mass, well not really midnight though cos the service started about 11.00pm but it did end around 12.45 am so that made it a midnight mass all the same ... LOL! After the mass, we went over to my cousin's place which is near my house for supper. We had some pies, the kind that I posted about long ago that my grandfather used to make. And once again I stuffed myself silly. By 2.30 am, we were all dead tired and called it a night.

The next day was pretty hectic for me cos we had loads of stuff to do for the Christmas dinner at my place. Our day started real early with the kids banging on our door as early as 7.30am insisting on opening their present. So wifey and me groggily woke up and went down to join the boys to open the presents or there would have been a riot that's for sure. My mom also woke up with the din of excitement the boys made and we all opened up our gifts. They were so excited with the stuff they had, especially this radio controlled car my buddy gave them that played with it all day! Thanks for including the batteries buddy ... LOL!

Later in the day, wifey and me had to go and pick up the roast pork and get some stuff for the dinner later at night. We were running up and down doing stuff, preparing the dinner, cleaning and arranging the place and it rained cats and reindeers on top of that that by the time the guests started arriving for the party, we were already beat. But the show must go on they say and it did go on cos we all had such a great time. The kids were running and screaming all over the place. The adults were huddled in groups all around chatting about this and that. I had my two best buddies there and we had our own group chatting about the usual rubbish we always chat about ... LOL! The atmosphere was livid with excitement :) The only drawback was my mom just had to go and invite our Neanderthal neighbor to the dinner. If it wasn't cos of the Christmas spirit and all, I'd have poisoned his food for sure ... LOL!

Well, the dinner finally ended and the cleaning up was a killer. That's one thing I hate about parties, the cleaning up bit. But it's something that cannot be avoided and once it was finally done, all I had the strength to do after that was take a quick shower and drop dead in bed. I was totally out of it. The next day was spent recuperating from the past few days excitement. We didn't do anything but just stayed home and ate left over food all day and adding pounds to that ever increasing festive waist line of mine!

I've still got a few more days of Christmas leave left and I intend to spend every second of it doing absolutely nothing, I'm even going to try and stay away from my blog (like as if I can) and just plain relax cos I don't know when I'll ever get the chance to take leave this long. Overall I would say that I've had such a great time for Christmas and I'm hoping that everyday could be Christmas, but I guess Santa, Rudolf and the elves would go on strike if that was the case ... LOL! Now, I'm just looking forward to what the New Year is going to bring me. I hope it's loads of money ... LOL! Have fun folks and in case I don't get the chance to wish each and everyone of you personally on your blogs, I wanna wish you all a Happy New Year :D

ps.
I've found out what happened to my missing neighbour I posted about a few days back and I'll fill you guys all about it in my next post ... hehehe ...