Half an hour since this post.
Slow b3ta is slow.

It was fairly good, I got very upset in the days leading up to it as I missed an old friend desperately, but I'm ok now. Who did you escape from?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 18:44, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

parents-
really, I forget how it is there - we do nothing but eat and watch telly. The whole time it seems like parents are constantly getting at one another, being all irritable and shit. I hate it, it's just nasty. I think this makes me a bad person.

Anyway, I got a new computer, did you get something good?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 18:48, Reply)

I made an off-hand comment about how I left my eyeshadow brush in London
and come Christmas day my dad has brought me a MAC brush set. I'm so happy :D Other than that, some jewellery, some money, some gloves and a russian doll hot-water bottle. Not bad at all.

Family have been fine, actually. Apart from sister, who is stressed out over jobs. But it's not TOTALLY ruined Christmas.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 18:51, Reply)

russian doll hotwater bottle?
is that a hot water bottle in another hot water bottle, etc...? Which one does the water go in?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 18:54, Reply)

No, it's Russian doll-shaped.
With a cute cover.

I'm ace at present buying, though. Sister, mum and dad all loved theirs. Went shopping for my friend's 21st present- it's a joint effort, but so far she's getting: Sobranie Cocktails (super-posh fags), Absolut Vodka, a baby rhinestone-studded bottle of Moet, silk knickers, a silver locket, posh chocolates, a Kath Kidson mug and some things from Ann Summers.
I'm jealous of her :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 18:57, Reply)

woah! I'm pretty bad at it
I have great intentions then I just go to waterstones
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 18:58, Reply)

I love books. Didn't get any this year.
Have been reading Beowulf. Have to write an essay on it. Contemplating moving to Denmark when my degree is over.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 19:00, Reply)

I had the Seamus Heaney translation of that, it was pretty cool
I didn't get any books this year, either, people never know what to get me, I think. Having worked in a bookshop, once, makes people assume I don't want books
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 19:03, Reply)

It's motherfucking parallel translation.
I'm thinking of starting old English next year.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 19:04, Reply)

oh yeah, I forgot that
that was fun, too, reading through the old english
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 19:05, Reply)

It's fun, trying to work out which words are which
I'm finding all the references to God a little disconcerting, though.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Dec 2010, 19:08, Reply)