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Graven Image
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With only a few days left until Christmas what do you still need to do?
I decided to trim my tree with angels this year. I had 12 to make and I have only made 2. I have a cake to make for hubby and one gift left to finish and wrap. House is neat but needs a good sweep and mop before the big day.
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Lots of food stuff. Prepare candied peel and mixed spice. Make Christmas cake and the almond paste to go on it, then ice it. Make a Christmas pudding. Make mincemeat and then turn it into mince pies. Order a turkey. Make some kind of substitute for cranberry jelly. Try to find somewhere that sells bacon! (Not so easy in a Muslim country!)
Oh and wrap all the presents, send some kind of emailed greetings to friends and family far away. Send some sort of gift to the nephew and godchildren, probably an Amazon voucher to be honest! I suppose I ought to get some kind of present for my husband to unwrap on the day. We've already bought each other something but it is currently waiting to be retrieved from the UK. Along with the other christmas presents we ordered online there.
Hubby was originally expecting to travel to the UK before Christmas to help his mother move house. House move now delayed so we will have to wait, probably to sometime in January for all that. I had also planned for him to bring a load of the Christmas food back, hence my having to try and make it all myself now!!
Did I mention that I'm a bit of a last minute person??? ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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I've finished making the presents I have time to make, now I'm ironing. After this I shall finish wrapping and start packing; we're going to my Dad's and we're taking the small car because we don't take the dog in the big car so it'll be like playing Tetris.
Tomorrow I need to deliver the presents to my in-laws and hopefully I'll get time to finish the curtains I've been making for Dad since his birthday.
How do people do all this with children and jobs?
Cattyish, disorganised.
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Wrapping. And one last present to pick up. Aside from that I think I'm done. Well, I could decorate the house more, don't know if I will or not.
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I have about 11 or 12 cards left to send. I still need to put up my Christmas tree and decorate it. I have various Christmas readings (Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", a couple of stories by Damon Runyon, etc.) and some seasonal music to enjoy as well. There is a Christmas Eve service to attend.
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Nothing much. Produce stunning lunch tomorrow. Sunday, do major Costco shop, accurately foreseeing our domestic requirements for the next 6 months, produce gourmet dinner. Monday, collect pre-orders from butcher, sneak in some pressie-buying, conjure up exciting nibbles/drinks, make excellent cheesecake, produce another stoating dinner. Tuesday; party. Wednesday; recover from party, provide succession of exquisite meals. Thursday; ditto. Rinse. Repeat.
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1 card left to send. Not sure if recipient is still alive. 1 e-card to make.
Some presents to wrap. Some can be done tomorrow morning to take with me to deliver later that day, the rest can be done the day before they're due.
Food will be bought on Christmas Eve depending on what's available and what I fancy. Just some vacuuming and tidying to do, but that can be done at my own pace.
And I need to go through the Radio Times and make a note of the various things I definitely don't want to miss.
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I can't afford to buy presents for coworkers this year (although I'm not sure anymore who I should be giving presents to, since our structure rearranged, long story), so I'm making gourmet caramel corn to offer everyone instead. I've got a lot of the popcorn popped, but could probably still pop some more, and then I have to make the batches. I still haven't narrowed down exactly which flavors I'm making. I have today and Monday, really, unless I also do some of the work on the weekend evenings (I work on the weekend).
I figure if it doesn't turn out well, I'll just keep it and eat it. No harm done. Plus it's pretty much all made with ingredients I have around the house (I eat popcorn a lot, and use brown sugar on my oatmeal). Not much extra shopping has been involved. I have a good basic recipe around somewhere (oh, yeah, that's one more thing - finding it; it wasn't in my recipe box, and it's different from the recipes I'm finding online), which I just need to tweak by adding flavors in.
First I need to clean up some clutter in my tiny kitchen...
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Thanks - I was going to ask.
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Oh crap, I still have choreography to learn before solemn midnight Mass on Tuesday. I'm the guy in Yellow this year.
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Welease Woderwick
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Most pressies bought and many already given - e-card is prepared but now needs sending, which always seems to be a chore but I know won't take long. Have to go into town to find Equal™ sachets so the diabetics don't all gang up on me for having nothing to put on their porage. Also have to arrange to meet an old friend [we haven't met for 2 years] who is back in the country for a short time BEFORE he heads off back to his job in the Gulf.
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Gosh you're all so organised. I haven't written or sent a single card yet and still have presents to buy for quite a few folk. Wrapping will appen on Chistmas Eve.
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A lot of family gifts were done for last weekend when we had a meet for lunch at a median pub. Then there were my cousins who came round on Wednesday for coffee, mince pies and bag swapping.
I've a friend coming round today for a dinner with all the trimmings, for which I have done mince pies, trifle, stuffing and put the small turkey to thaw. No gift yet.
I'm about to do cards for people I can't deliver to - I don't know why this gets left so late, as I have no excuse like end of term doings to keep me from such tasks. I think it's the absence of prompts like classroom decorating that doesn't trigger it - despite Advent services.
I haven't decorated yet - the past few days I've had a complaining back which has made moving around a bit thought provoking, but I might be able to get the trees and wreaths out later, in between setting up the automatic settings on the oven, getting the veggies ready, and putting the pudding and the giblets on to slow cook (not in the same cooker!)
Next I'll have to do local cards, a gift for a nephew, and get the makings of proper trifle and pudding icecream to take to my sister's place where she is squeezing me in somehow between her sons and their girlfriends. Possibly in the cellar on an airbed. Which is brilliant of her, despite my saying that I quite liked being alone now* - the first year after Dad died when I wasn't doing Christmas for him, and no-body rang was a bit grim. (*True.)
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Wrapping. That's today's job, after coffee with a friend this morning. I'll then be able to see whether the number of stocking fillers are pretty equal for each person or whether I need to have a little foray on Monday to get a few more bits. Also thought of one more gift for Nenlet1 which I may buy this morning.
Food is purchased. I'm always relieved when that's done.
Nen - stocking fillers, anyone?
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
If it's not done it's too late. On train heading north.
John O'Groats again, eh? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Cards mailed a week ago. All presents shipped to my daughter and her family in Texas. All presents wrapped for my daughter and her family in Washington.
I take the bus up to Washington tomorrow, and today I'm doing laundry and packing.
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Got the presents. Sent the cards. Bought the tree.
Polish the silver, she says. I know my place- and it's in the kitchen, covered in Silvo.
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E cards sent to friends and family round the world.
Flowers ordered on internet for my elderly mum.
Money transferred to my daughters' bank accounts.
Tiny tree we squashed into our bags last year up
Tomorrow we'll buy a chicken to roast.
Christmas Eve, I'll attempt baking in tiny kitchen.
We're ready here in Kenya but missing our UK home!
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I had family pressies sorted ages ago, the only one missing is my eldest's main present which my husband ordered and the shop messed up so he is buying a replacement tomorrow. The tree went up last weekend.
Now the main thing that is left in the frantic cleaning before we entertain guests later in the week ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) I'm looking forward to some baking too. Today we have been making stained glass biscuits and tomorrow we'll be making homemade jammy dodgers and a chocolate log. I've also decanted some liqueurs for friends.
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Should be finishing the carol sheet for Christmas Eve in time to get them printed out, instead I'm sat here reading SoF. It's the perfect work avoidance tactic.
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Nenya
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This evening I thought of someone else I probably need to buy a present for. Otherwise I am done. Presents all wrapped and under the tree.
Nen - pleased to report that the stocking filler situation is satisfactory. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Feeling very virtuous ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
E-cards all sent - took about 20 minutes to get the lists done and all posted and gone!
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for me: Three different lessons to teach today. Cookie dough is chilling, ready for slicing and baking in between lessons 2 & 3. The major holiday cook-fest begins tomorrow.
For Mr. Cliffdweller: finish renovating bathroom and put together new futon probably minutes before dashing to the airport to pick up daughter and son-in-law.
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Costco a suburb of Hell this morning and Sainsbury's another. The only refuge is knitting - but for that I needed to bus to the only shop stocking the Peruvian alpaca which I MUST HAVE. I am not now currently planning to step outside the door for the next 51 hours.
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The weather forecast is set to be terrible from tomorrow on. I'm assuming that most of the shopping hell will have taken place today, so the next two days should be safe to go out.
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Writing loads of Christmas cards as we type, while chatting away in the Ship Cafe. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I've got myself about 50 stamps this year for various destinations around the world, some cards of course will inevitably be late, or finally be sent as e-cards... - a somewhat traditional procastinatious habit, I'm afraid. But I like designing the cards myself, with pics taken in snowy, festive times, and printed out at home. Much more satisfying I find than buying stuff off the shelves, so I hope recipients will be only moderately miffed at any delays...
Most presents traditionally sent for after Christmas only, silly me. Just too hectic before, as others here have observed. But then it's like it's Christmas twice. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Wesley J
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Ah! And I've just put the original soundtrack to 'Tim Burton's Night Before Christmas' in the CD player. Refreshingly unsentimental.
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I'm finally sitting down and planning all the meals… and making a shopping list!
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Penny S
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Tomorrow is local cards, taking two defunct fibre optic trees to the the dump, looking for possible replacement, getting the makings of trifle, bread sauce and icecream to take to my sister's. Packing. Finding the timer plugs for the decorations that have not succumbed. (Not one fairy light bulb gone this year.)
Finishing copying stuff to VHS from my TV decoder recorder which BT are going to wipe - hopefully I'll get it all done. (Fuming that they can do this - at least they gave me 28 days warning.)
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Penny S
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And bagging up the turkey stock (did the meal for a friend yesterday) for the freezer. And finding out if my car can be fixed before my run down to my sisters' through the weather. (The seat belt refused to come out of its housing on Friday, the part needs special carriage because of the attached pyrotechnics, and I have a courtesy car. It's very lucky that what had been intermittent and resolvable went permanent then, close to the garage, and not while I was on my way to Gloucestershire.)
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Wesley J wrote. quote:
Most presents traditionally sent for after Christmas only, silly me.
"NO NO NO not silly you. You are just being faithful to the celebration of the 12 days of Christmas. " says, graven image who always spends the evening of Christmas day preparing her cards.
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We're just about to go out in gales and driving rain to buy the booze and a couple of other bits an bobs .
All a bit crazy really.
PS. Is it just me or are some people calling Christmas "Crimbo" this year ?
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Epic fail. Sat down with Mr Nen yesterday evening, after going to the local Nine Lessons and Carols service, to enjoy a glass of wine and a few savoury nibbles. Only to realise that the number of bags of such nibbles chez Nen is precisely zero - apart from pretzels, which Mr Nen dislikes.
Nen - off to the shops today after all.
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Originally posted by rolyn:
PS. Is it just me or are some people calling Christmas "Crimbo" this year ?
That's a blast from the past. I remember that from the 80s.
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I had 2 late Christmas cards pushed under my door yesterday. I know who sent them but have no idea in which flats they live.
Early this morn I went to the communal laundry to book a spare slot and luckily their names and flat numbers was on our rota sheet.
Phew!
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Originally posted by Ariel:
The weather forecast is set to be terrible from tomorrow on. I'm assuming that most of the shopping hell will have taken place today, so the next two days should be safe to go out.
If anything it was TOO HOT in the Big City today and the crowds were horrendous! Still managed to meet up with a friend I haven't seen for a couple of years and made some new friends at the same time.
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It's blowing a hoolie outside our office. I set out just now to walk into town, which is across the local park, and gave up before even getting halfway. Not worth it for a box of herbal teabags: I'll make do with the regular stuff if the weather's no better tomorrow.
Went to Haskins (garden centre) on Saturday and it was a scrummage as their sale had started early. Still, I managed to get some lovely glittery plants to give Mother and Mother-in-Law.
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Both my little fibre optic trees having given up the ghost (bulb gone, and not replaceable, and cover gone from the transformer) I had to add replacement to the trip today. The only place with any was a DIY store, where the small green one was battery operated (which rather defeats the "I'm actually here over Christmas" plan) and the larger mains one was only available in black. I've got one of each, and when I find some, I'm going to spray the black with glitter, fake snow, whatever, to stop it lurking in the corner like a Presence from Dr Who.
Got home to a phone call from the garage - my car was ready to be picked up, so I won't be going to Gloucestershire with the courtesy car. My own is a Skoda, the other a SEAT, both offshoots of VW, and weirdly similar, but not similar enough. I'm glad I chose Skoda when I got my new one. (It turned out the guy in the garage felt the same, and had moved his job from SEAT.)
Some time this evening I'm going to make the custard for the trifle at my sister's so I don't have to use her cooker during the busy time. Or maybe tomorrow morning.
I've still got to do cards for the neighbourhood, but I don't fancy going round at the moment. I can hear the wind through the double glazing.
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I still have to shop for my wife, which I shall do tomorrow. I also have to finish clearing off the dining room table so I can put up our small stained-glass nativity scene. It will stay up until at least the sixth of January.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by rolyn:
PS. Is it just me or are some people calling Christmas "Crimbo" this year ?
That's a blast from the past. I remember that from the 80s.
When we lived in England (1990-1993) Jimmy on "Broadside Close" mentioned "crimbo prezzies" and we thought it was amusing and have been saying it ever since. That's the Twilights, keeping alive British traditions that were over before we got there.
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Succeeded in baking an impressive-looking cheesecake for a Christmas Eve dinner party at friends. I think there are about 7 or 8 guests; cake could comfortably serve a dozen.
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Can you email us some or at least the recipe?
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It's best not to be overly organized. I had the decorations up and the presents all wrapped weeks ago and yesterday I did a meticulous cleaning so that today I could bake and tomorrow cook for the big day. -- At six this morning the cat banged on the just washed front window with his muddy paws, someone opened the door for him, the dachshund got out of bed to exert discipline, they rolled together under the tree, messing up all the ribbons and wrappings, then the cat jumped on the freshly brushed dining room chairs and grabbed at the tablecloth. He's in the garage now, waiting for me to get it all straightened out for his next pass. I haven't even started baking.
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Wesley J
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Back from visiting some friends in Big City, have decided I shall forego all own Crimbo festivities for today. Phew...!
So no evening or midnight service, just some relaxed shopping for food (when most people have gone home), and a quiet and peaceful evening with Radio 4 and Carols from Kings and comedy, and doing stuff around the house. Should be good.
Graven Image, thou hast spoken well - why all the rush and fuss for one single day indeed! The period of 12 Days of Christmas sounds rather more alluring and actually quite refreshing.
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Originally posted by rolyn:
PS. Is it just me or are some people calling Christmas "Crimbo" this year ?
That's a blast from the past. I remember that from the 80s.
I had never heard it until my brother joined the Navy in the early 70s and picked up some very odd slang! Crimbo was certainly one of them.
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Ariel
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Apparently, "The OED cites the first printed usage to 1928." I don't have a copy to hand so can't confirm this, but it's obviously a lot older than we all thought.
And digging around on the internet, of course it is. Here it is in Dickens:
"In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered — flushed, but smiling proudly — with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Crimbo holly stuck into the top."
And indeed it even appears in Shakespeare:
"Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth Crimbo carols all night long."
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