March 8th

I've been telling you in the previous post how hectic that day was. But that was only the beginning of the wonderful International Women's day. At job I had some nice surprises: received a perfume that quickly found its owner in my grandma's person, a beautiful yellow rose (my favorite color when it comes to flowers) and a pizza and cake treat. We even got off 2 hours earlier which turned out to be a great idea. After work I went with 2 of my coworkers to have a coffee and relax a little. I received a tulip from a local VIP. Done my paying the fees round and finally got home only to get ready for the theater.

Ah! I forgot to tell that my brother and his girlfriend offered us some theater tickets for Friday. Only that morning my grandma woke up with fever and we had one spare place. Mom talked to my aunt but she couldn't come. Who else? Then mom suggested my neighbor and things were settled. Time to go. But couldn't get a taxi. It seemed that every taxi company in town turned of its phones and were nowhere to be reached. It took us 45 minutes and some steel nerves but we arrived at the theater 5 minutes before the play started. Surprise, surprise! We were 7 not 6 as the tickets I had in my purse. I only had time to say hello before my brother took me aside to ... buy water. He asked me what about the neighbor and I asked him what about the other person. It seemed that both of them were there in lieu of my grandma and, lack of communication, we were now in an odd situation. Of course there were no tickets left 5 minutes before the play. I gave my brother the tickets and asked him to take care of the ladies and I went having a late walk in the city. Nice, huh!

Still startled by the above events I called my boyfriend. He reassured me he'll be there in no time. Meanwhile, as enough wasn't enough, I call a good friend and find out that she had a crappy day: she was forced to quit. We concluded we need to meet and so I ended up with my boyfriend and my best friend at the restaurant. After reassuring my neighbor in zillions of messages that I was OK and that she should enjoy the play, our little group at the restaurant grew, as after the play my brother, my mom and my neighbor also joined us.

What a day!

  

Recap: those holidays

A fortnight, that long was my Christmas holiday this year. I know, I can't complain. How was it? Great! First time in years I felt it was a true family holiday, at least on Christmas time. I loved the fact we weren't obsessed with shopping like in the previous years and that I did do some nice presents for my beloved ones. Even though I've spent some late nights in the kitchen baking, I felt happy to do it for my family and friends.

Decorating the Christmas tree (with traditional first 2 decorations put on by me and my brother, and Christmas carols listening on the background), making and wrapping presents, having Christmas dinner. Even such a little thing like waking up one morning, no alarm clock, and becoming conscious that for 2 full weeks you're in holiday it is great. Despite the work you have to fulfill as long as you're at home, it's so much different from working at the office.

Now, the pictures I took in a hurry are of my Christmas tree and some of the decorations. What you can see on top of it was a joke of my boyfriend when he decided that because our treetop broke we should put one of the decorations we made on Christmas Eve. We had a full Christmas Eve this year and we had fun. I decided long before Christmas to make Christmas cookies, which I did, and some handmade decorations. Those ended up a little bigger than I imagined them, thanks to my brother and my boyfriend who thought that what I was going to do was fun and joined me in sticking their fingers. I must admit it was really fun making them, put them to dry and admiring our work (feel free to judge the result, I won't mind criticism, no intention on claiming those art). I loved the fact the 3 of us sat on the carpet and felt like kids sticking our hands with glue, playing with balloons, and trying to make our crafts as original as possible. My brother even had enough patience to wrap a balloon with a very thin thread of cotton instead of the thick string I used. His decoration is the most white one of all. :) Like we haven't had enough decorations already. As you can see in the pictures I have a few Santas climbing in my house and so many decorations I haven't taken in pictures. All in all it was a beautiful holiday. I'm a little nostalgic now as last night I took everything off. 11 months to go until next Christmas.

This Christmas

It was a wonderful Christmas this year spend with family and friends. It went by so fast but I've enjoyed it. We begun celebrating the night before, on Christmas' eve. But we kept with the celebration up until yesterday. :)
Here are some pictures taken a few days before. I was chasing Santa.