shopping and yodeling beavers

So it's been a while...I think I have a habit of saying that. The last time I did this was ages ago, before Diwali, which is when Charlie got really sick and I got really exhausted and this felt like the last thing in the world I wanted to do.

The semester's over, and all I've been doing is playing PS2 FIFA (go figure...) and shopping for and wrapping Christmas presents (with hand-made gift tags in the shape of Christmas trees) I was in One Utama five days in a row. I first went with my brother to get presents for our mum, dad and cousins, then the next day we went with my mum to get presents from all of us...then the day after that I went back with my mum to pick up some more stuff (this was after spending the afternoon in Midvalley with Hannah), then the next day my dad came back from India and we had to go with him to pick up my mum's present, and the next day I took my cousins who are here from Switzerland. So yeah, no One Utama for me for a while...

My phone isn't working. I have to take it to the shop later to see if it can be sorted out =/ It went weird while we were at church on Christmas Eve. Before that, we had dinner at home (mushroom quiche and pasta salad) and afterwards we took my cousin, who was with us, to A & W cuz she wanted a root beer float.

The next morning, we did the usual presents and breakfast with my aunty and her family, minus my uncle who was in Ipoh. Breakfast was sausages, scrambled eggs, toast and bacon. The pile of presents was pretty cool :)

I got earphones, Famous Amos cookies and gummies from my brother; The Namesake (the movie), more gummies, a new dreamcatcher and an Aeroline ticket to Penang from my mum and dad; a Fridays/Italiannies gift voucher from my aunty and uncle (mmmm); White Musk Body Shop shower gel and body lotion from my cousins; a yodeling beaver (at least, I think it's a beaver...) from Switzerland, and a bunch of moolah. Ooh and from Hannah, I got a starter pack from this new prepaid service called Happy, which is sort of an inside joke, but you can make calls for as long as 45 minutes and pay only 99 sen :)

Christmas lunch was in my aunty's house where we had breaded mushrooms, salad, paella (which was made by my uncle in a special pan he brought from Switzerland), prawns, wild boar (as requested for by my cousin) and roast chicken. Dessert was a gorgeous chocolate cake, apple crumble, ice cream and Swiss cookies.

For dinner, we stopped by the house of a family friend to deliver a turkey from the restaurant, and later on we went to an open house of a relative.

I don't think we're doing anything major for the next couple of days, except being bored. I'm bored even doing this. Blah.