AnnaKin's journal

That was the theme of Christmas Eve for my family.

Today, I baked Christmas biscuits (which are now decorating the tree, yay) and Yule Log (for tomorrow), which I still have to ice later. My younger sister made garlic and parsley bread, which was OM NOM NOM'alicious. My older sister made cranberry upside down cake, which is also for tomorrow.

Then by the time all that was done, it was time for my mum to start cooking. And today there was me, my two sisters (one back from university), my mum, her boyfriend, my uncle, my Gran, and two friends of my mum, which comes to nine people over all, sooo... lots of food. My mum made just-barely-Greek-style food, which meant chicken and lamb and salad with feta cheese in it, plus vegetables, humus, some other sauce that I didn't catch the name of, and my sister's OM NOM NOM'alicious bread.

AND THEN there was Christmas pudding, because my sister is cooking tomorrow and she doesn't want to make it, with brandy butter, and/or pistachio ice cream (made by my sister) with spiced plums (made by my mother).

I am now feeling as if I want to take a nap. I haven't eaten this much in a while. *sigh*

And then we will do it all again tomorrow. My sister baked cinnamon buns especially for breakfast. Right now I am wondering if I will be ready to eat by then.

We also watched A Muppet Christmas Carol. <3 And we have the most amazing tree - my little sister insisted on getting a six foot tree, because our tree last year was so tiny, so it's huge, and we lost our tinsel, which was a disappointment at first but now seems like a blessing. Asd well as the biscuits, there is two kinds of chocolate. And candy canes. Though they have been in a box with the decorations for a full year so I wouldn't recommend anyone eat them. >_>

I'm a-testing my new icon.
New icon <3. I just wish I knew who made it...

Last night was the giant crazy party to celebrate the end of exams (the Mash-Up), at which everyone was supposed to wear as little clothing as possible. I did not go. >_> My night out involved a pub in my own town (as opposed to the one where I went to school), white wine spritzers, vodka and orange, and eventually scones.
I'M A GEEK AND I AM VERY PROUD OF IT. I love scones. I shall go and have some for breakfast right now. >_>

I checked Facebook and no-one seems to have posted anything about the Mash-Up yet. I assume they're all still too hungover. HA.

I love baking. I really do. *eats scones*
Even if the recipe for scones was in my mum's ancient notebook, which is falling apart and faded and written in awful handwriting, so for all I knew I'd read it completely wrong. Some bits were actually impossible to make out. >_>
But they seem alright.  >_> *eats more*

I made them a few days ago.
They are delicious.
I love them so much I think I may marry them.
MORE MORE NOW. *om nom nom*

Me: *hungry*
Dinner: *is M&S ready-meal*
Me: *puts in oven and waits for the reccomended twenty minutes*
M&S ready meal: *cooks*
Me: *opens oven* Hmm, most of the potatos look really under done... only one of them seems to be browning. I shall leave it for a few minutes.
Few minutes:  *pass*
Me: *opens oven*
Potatos: *are all exactly the same except the one that had browned a little, which has now turned black*
Me: CURSE YOU, M&S READY-MEAL!

All was forgiven shortly thereafter when it turned out to be delicious TO THE MAX.
M&S is, like, the most delicious food stop EVER. Even if the M&S 'simply food' near my school bizarrely also sells clothes.

1. M&S food; specifically, the chocolate mini bite things (like mini rolls, only smaller and with better chocolate and chocolate creamy stuff inside), and cocktail sausages.

2. Firefly. : D

3.This userpic.

4. This image. YAY HARES!

5. TDF.

6. Editing my NaNo, which means I get to further develop all the characters.

7. More specifically, this:

 The Thalman-Bydern Treatise on Magical Creation and Animation, The Thaumological Animation of Metals, vita et momentum, Jackson’s Advanced Spells of Animation, Motion and Alteration

...Which is the string of book titles I spend aaaages coming up with for one scene.

8. Making dolls.

9. Posting dolls and getting nice feedback. : D

10. My awesome new MSN buddy (Britters).

11. All my other MSN buddies, actually.

12. TDF.

13. Studying symbol and myth in RS, which involves reading creation myths. : D I could have compared them all at much greater length than I got to...

14. Getting university offers. From BRISTOL. : D

15. The fact that all the above things make me happy even though there's loads of sucky stuff as well. : DD