Who's A Good Girl? You Are! Yes, You Are, Yes You Are...

Tons of food. 2 sets of parental units visited, siblings included. Heeps and heeps of presents. No way I was this good of a girl. Hundreds of km:s traveled. Grandparents hugged, 2 sets. Elve caught red-handed (I'll post a pic of it later).

That's the short version of our christmas. The long version includes ham at his parents, and a smoked turkey at mine. 6 different dishes of fishes (teehee) and lots of other great stuff like different casseroles and moose-meat-balls. We both ate and drank like it would be the last time we saw food again.  But then again, Sami lost 1,5kg by just sleeping 8 hours, so the food was probably much needed...

I got a ton of stuff. I didn't wish for practically anything but people got me piles of things for christmas. Sami gave me a pair of skis (blue ones!), ski-socks, ski-underwear, ski-shoes. All as blue as they come. It was a really great present, because I used to love to ski as a kid, but then I grew 15 cm in a year, a few years in a row, so there was no point in buying new stuff, and then it kinda just went by. I probably don't know how to ski anymore, but I'll sure as hell try!

When we get some snow.

Mom gave me useful advice when I txt-messaged her (because we spent the 24th at work and with Sami's parents). She told me to be careful not to fall in yellow snow. I <3 my parental unit.

Sami also gave me some fluffy slippers and a book that was titled something along the lines of "how not to kill all your houseplants in a week". Because that's something I rule at. Right now our houseplants consist of 2 dried-up cactii and a masochistic Gardenia I've had for about 6-7 years. It just won't curl up and die no matter what I do. Although after spending the summer camping in the gentle care of my mother, it has started to show signs of letting go. You should never have taught it there are such things as fertilizer, Mom!

Finally, Sami gave me long, red underwear. And a matching shirt. In case the Frostman remembers to do his job sometime.

His parents gave me 3 books and a pair of pink gloves. My parents gave me a steam-iron (funny ha ha), tickets to Cirque du Soleil, a tankful of gas for our new car and a digicamera. The camera's awesome, although I didn't get to it for the first half hour after unwrapping it: my dad also thought it was awesome.

It has a touch-screen and tons of programs  have no clue how to use, but the coolest thing is a travel-guide. You can pick a country and they have the most visited places, say China -> Beijing and then get some info and a few choice pics about the place. It also recommends good sights to see and has some info about those too. I thought it was a great idea, since you're gonna take your camera traveling with you anyway!

My sis gave me a cd full of christmas-music and some chocolate santas. They're incredibly skillfully made, but they're not gonna survive a week in my care. No matter how much I'm gonna try to restrain myself, I know I'll just accidentally inhale them after a maximum self-control-period of 2 days. Joni got me the first season of American Dad (incredibly funny, go watch it. Now.) and a pot of Phish Food. Happiness!

Finally, I got Roman Schatz's Euro. Twice. I thought it showed how well my near and dear ones knew me, but Mom thought (probably more accurately) it only showed that I had mentioned it enough times.

Before christmas I didn't think I'd really need anything, but I loved everything and it's all coming to good use. Especially the phish food.

All in all I was really impressed with the thought people had put into the presents. Like for instance Sami hunting down all of Helsinki just to get a pair of blue (!) skis. My parents gave me a black camera, because black kinda runs in the family as far as the coloring of anything goes. The books, the chocolates, everything! We got selected teas from Tapsa, and he'd gotten us some white tea which Sami loves, Jasmine tea that I love, and finally those flower-tea-things that open up in the cup. Everything I got was something I really loved and was really happy to receive, and the colors I would've chosen too!

I really hope you had a good one too.

Right now we're preparing for tomorrows extremely-late-housewarming/birthday-party. The master of the house turns a quarter of a century (yeah, I refuse to say "25" because that sounds way older) and we're having about 20 people come over. Only family, but apparently ours is a big one.

After that we're traveling to Düsseldorf to celebrate new year, so if any of y'all are in Germany, give me a call and we'll have some Bolly! Or something cheaper.