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Today's window showed two children on a sledge.

It's been a fairly quiet day at home. Some house jobs, some computer gaming (Valkyria Chronicles 4) and a walk in the local park. This evening we watched more of Agents of Shield season 2.

Current Mood: okay

Today's advent window was a fox. It's turning out to be a real wildlife calendar.

I posted my abroad Xmas cards today; one of many Xmas milestones. And Reeve has climbed onto my lap for the third time this evening. I guess it's cold out there.

Current Mood: sleepy

Today's advent picture was an owl. Not Xmassy, but I really like owls.

The journey on the train home was disrupted and I still don't know why. However, this meant I ran into a former colleague - Adrian - and got to chat about recent events and former work colleagues.

Current Mood: sleepy

Today's advent window was of a full moon at night. We were rather surprised.

Here's a picture of one of the tree elephants. It has a bell.

As you can see, a polar bear and a glass penguin also feature.

Current Mood: okay

Today's window was a rabbit. In other news, the elephants I bought for the Xmas tree arrived today, so we put them up. If I remember, I might take a picture tomorrow.

Current Mood: gloomy

Today's picture is a robin. Walking to and from the station today I noticed that about a third of the houses obviously have Xmas decorations up already. The tree at Waterloo went up some time last week - it wasn't there on Tuesday, but was by Friday.

I'm finally choosing which work Xmas meals to go to this year. I remember the days when there was just one. And I miss that. I've been invited to three and I'm going with two - one I want to attend (the immediate team) and one because it's been incorporated into an awayday, so is really hard to miss.

Current Mood: sleepy

The second window is a woman walking a dog. This advent calendar has turned out to be adding magnified detail to the winter background picture.

Today we put up the Christmas decorations. I may post a picture of the tree at some point. The duo decorated the house, although Ryan was more enthusiastic than practical and several pieces had to be moved because of the likelihood of causing problems (such as the low hanging tinsel over the stairs). Luckily for us, Reeve has never been particularly interested in the tree - although that may change now I've typed it.

Current Mood: okay

I have a December tradition of trying to post on every day in the month. I rarely get all the days (particularly if I'm away at any point), but I tend to get most. This year I plan to put my posts on Fbook as well as other social media (the tradition is from LJ).

Today's advent calendar window was a kingfisher. Not very Xmassy, but the calendar is a winter scene and the windows, to some extent, are trying to fit with that.

My main job of the day was to produce Ryan's birthday cake. It's now finished, other than candles (and Dom did the coloured icing).

Current Mood: thoughtful

I weighed myself this morning. Turns out I've actually lost a tiny bit of weight this month. This is not entirely surprising as I had mild cystitis until Christmas (I finally went to the doctor last Monday and got some antibiotics) and so was cutting back on alcohol and, to a lesser extent, sweet things.

Still feels very weird though.

Current Mood: weird

This is Carter - chosen for me by

bateleur and the twins.

Carter_forLJ

She's named after a The Secret World character.

Today has been a good day. Christmas dinner all came together as hoped, I've been playing my new Final Fantasy CD of battle music (with thanks to

quisalan) and I've been for a walk. I'm a bit headachey now - but it was worth the cocktails.

Current Mood: full

We just watched Her. Interesting, odd and rather slow. We figured they were trying to fit a whole relationship within the movie, but it meant I was clock-watching in places. Nice performances from the cast though.

Current Mood: okay

bateleur and I finished wrapping presents today. With all the stuff for the duo, it's become a big task and we try not to leave it to Christmas Eve. However, now it's done, so we can watch a film tomorrow.

Current Mood: okay

Turns out that The Secret World's Xmas boss is Hel.

Nithate-2014-Hel

Who knew?!

Current Mood: amused

Today is the first day for ages when I didn't have to do anything. So I've been pottering about playing computer games and have bought myself Dreamfall Chapters (which was briefly reduced in price).

I also did a bit of The Secret World Christmas / New Year event. He's a screenshot of my character taken during that.

Thearanda-closeup

My rewards included a carrot nose and a holly broach.

Current Mood: mellow

It was

bateleur's birthday today. We spent the day at Kew and wandered Holly Walk and the Tree-top Walkway. One odd thing - Palm House made me feel very ill, we thought I might have a reaction to some plant or pollen.

I made a coffee birthday cake when we got back. OK, we've plenty of cake in the house already, but it wasn't birthday cake.

Current Mood: okay

And I'm done. My last day went smoothly.

bateleur's parents arrived and we all had a good evening.

Best of all - no necessity for 6:30 starts for a while.

Current Mood: relieved

Today has been a bit of a muddled haze. At work I'm trying to finish off things as my last day is tomorrow. At home I'm trying to finish off jobs and clean things as

bateleur's parents arrive tomorrow.

Glad there's a holiday coming - I'm exhausted.

Current Mood: exhausted

This week on The Secret World we found magic mushrooms.

Nithate mushrooms

Apparently the game designers couldn't resist. Glad we didn't end up in a fight like this.

Current Mood: sleepy

One Christmas Cake finally finished.

Current Mood: accomplished

An odd start to the morning - my train was slightly late and half of it was missing. However, once I got on, it decided to skip the second half of its station list (with a warning just beforehand) so I arrived at about the usual time (although standing all the way).

The day itself went OK. It's my last week of work this year, so is all about getting the last few bits and pieces processed. As usual, there's plenty of scope for extra things to pop up. As for train reading - I've not quite finished Harry Potter but because I had a full bag, today was Eight Days of Luke.

Current Mood: okay

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