A Cheery Christmas Blog

Merry Christmas everyone!
While you are all waking up to a bright and sunny Christmas Day Jack and I are freezing our butts off slipping around on the icy road and trying to see our own hands through the fog.
The past few weeks have been spent working a lot and...working a lot. Over the last two days Jack has worked from 10am till 1am in the morning - that's 15 hours!!! We have been out a fair bit too and discovered an amazing array of clubs in Edinburgh. Each one seems to have its own niche, so when you walk in and everyone is dressed in leather and wearing black make up, you move to the next one.

This evening (Christmas Eve), I realised that we didn't have anything to cook for Christmas lunch and took a 40 minute bus ride to ASDA (the biggest, cheapest supermarket there is) with Shannon and Leila, only to find that it was closed. We then trekked back to Tescos to find that this was also closed. Somewhere along the freezing cold walk home we decided that our parents would be proud of us for attempting to buy a meal for Christmas, but then decided that perhaps we would have done better to buy it yesterday.

Dejected, I arrived home to find that Jack had also attempted to buy us food, with equal results. The lesson for today is - don't leave your Christmas shopping until Christmas eve. Luckily we have a large amount of nibblies, champagne and chocolate courtesy of the Millers and Kye's grandmother is giving us all a chicken.
This evening I made dinner out of the remainder of our shopping from two weeks ago - some processed pork chops that looked suspiciously like they never came from a pig, some mashed sweet potatoes that accidentally turned into sweet potato slop due to a large overdose of milk, and some mushrooms. However it tasted surprisingly good.

My anger over the theft of my phone has sufficiently subsided because today I bought new phone (with money that I will hopefully be able to claim on insurance) and now I have a new gadget to play with!

Tomorrow it will be strange to be away from home, but we are going to attempt to make it as homely as possible. We have bought small presents for everyone in the flat and we have a Christmas tree that we found abandoned on the street.

I am going to try to make more frequent blog entries from now on as I have vague ideas of combining it with our photos and making it into a scrap book when I get home (along with other vague ideas such as joining a gym and saying 'no' to chocolate brownies at work....hopefully one day these will all become realities).

Merry Christmas to everyone, I hope that, wherever you are in the world, it is a wonderful day!