So, I had a very nice Christmas celebration with my family on the 25th. I got two presents (one from each of my uncles and their wives--my aunts), since I won´t be seeing them again for a few months at least. I´ll post pictures later when I do my "Christmas and Three Wise Kings" haul post on the 6th of January, I think--mainly because they´re currently packed away in the car and unavailable for photographing. I´ll just say that one aunt got me clothes (and totally got it right, as always) and the other got me some sort of wierd technogadget that´s to make short video messages and leave around the house (that is totally a gift I´ve never been interested in, and they got completely wrong.....as always. But since my Dad seems to like it and will probably use it, at least there´s some happiness out of that gift.).
Not to sound spoiled or ungrateful or anything, but they always seem to get us what looks like leftover gifts that they must give my uncle--because they´re nothing that I´d ever like (and in this case, the battery was inside the device and nearly dead....which means someone used it. *rolls eyes* . (At least change the batteries, uncle....) They even gave my brother a modeling kit for building a house with adobe.....and he´s never indicated interest for anything house or model-building or adobe-making related (but their daughter has..... =.=).
I´ve come to expect it for myself (uncle and aunt are that stingy), but he´s my brother´s Godfather, and the only birthday present he´s ever gotten my brother was a keychain (for his birthday. *sigh*). Just that one present, no other in 23 years. He gives his son bottles of wine, a netbook, a cured ham and one of those special cabinets to store wine in. He gives his daughter an ebook reader and videogames. And he gives his godson a mini-lantern keychain. In front of the whole family. He should be ashamed.
Anyhow, I had fun with the rest of the family, pretty much, since I get along well with my cousins despite everything (and one really being a spoiled brat, but it´s hard to avoid it if you´re raised to be one....and when she´s not being spoiled she´s a decent little girl). I gorged on Christmas food--this year we celebrated at one of my uncle´s houses (the stingy one) so instead of setting up the whole meal, he told his brothers to bring food as well (the fish and meat courses) so he only had to prepare the canapés. Oh well. I´m glad that my grandmother enjoyed it; we celebrated it at "home" because it´s the first Christmas she celebrated without my late grandpa and she was worried about breaking down in the middle of the restaurant.
We usually have paella for Christmas, because my grandfather loved paella, but I think that this year my father and uncles thought it´d be too much, too soon. We were in charge of the "fish course", so my Dad made this really delicious salmon with sourcream and dill sauce inside a puff pastry. I don´t usually like sour cream, but this was delicious. My uncle Javier was in charge of the meat course and he made a scrumptious (and drool-worthy) meat stew following a turkish recipe that he got...somewhere. I´ve never understood the whole "put dried plums with your meat" idea, but it tasted really good (even though I didn´t eat the plums.). They were smart not to make it with couscous in the end, though, because by then we were nearly bursting.
I feel a bit frustrated--I didn´t think to make any coord pictures of what I wore on Christmas day. I decided to go with something black-and-white (because it´s the first Christmas without grandpa and I wanted to go with those colors). I ended up sneaking "loliable" (ETC and BTSSB! : D) into my coord, without my Mom noticing (or realizing it, as she approved). I will make an outfit snap when I´m back at home for the New Year--I´m proud of the fun I had with polkadots and my Hello Kitty bisuterie. Here´s are two of the few snaps I have of the party (taken by one of my cousins); you can´t really see the outfit (or rather you can only see parts of it) but oh well. Also, both were taken after my grandma stole my pretty headband (it had a sparkly black star on it....XD).
My lovely BTSSB watch is shiny! It also needs repairing--it´s clasp broke. Boo. : (
.....you can see the three (or two) presents that I got, though. But not as well as they should be showed off, hahaha, so expect more pictures (even of the technogadget! I expect I´ll find some use for it...maybe daily blogs? The sound isn´t good...).
I´d also like to send out a question: Where do you buy your Gothic Lolita Bibles? I´m currently looking for the one that came out for autumn and any that have been printed since then (not sure if one has, but just in case). I was going to buy it through J-Box like my last one, but they´ve sold out, the same as Tokyo Rebel!
