Mark's gone over to his parents house for the morning. He offered for me to go too but I woulda been all pouty grr on their sofa, so I didn't think it would be a good idea.

So yeah, Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you all had fun. I did. :D Shit I love opening prezzies, and I'm always the first one up (although, I did nap from 8:15 - 8:45 after waking up at something stupid like 6:30ish...). So, swag is under the cut...

( I should really get to know my RL friends better, cause they know me too well... )

So Chrimbo day I sat with Mark and we watched tv. We missed the first 20 mins of Doctor Who! (We were watching X-Files at the time...) Dinner was good - we had beef, cause I can complain for Wales if we have turkey, cause I hate turkey (except for mini kievs, otherwise turkey's dry and horrible), and then we had loads of pudding (Christmas pud and ice cream). Mark was telling me how his appetite had exploded, but we soon brought it back down again.

Boxing Day, me, Mark and Ruth went out town, to see what was happening - bugger all. So we went to Somerfield, and I got Happy Feet, The Dark Knight, Wall-e and Rugrats Go Wild on DVD. Mark got Sky High (the one about superheroes in school), Wedding Singer and something else... Then we came home and watched Finding Neverland (I cried, even though I watched it on the 23rd on tv), Wall-E (I really liked it actually), Rugrats Go Wild (I loved Wild Thornberries as a kid), The Dark Knight (which wasn't as good as I expected, and a guy movie that tried to hide it's guy-ness but didn't) and Happy Feet (I hated it when they were nasty to Mumble, poor kid).

...

Seriously, Dark Knight? Good acting (not just from Heath Ledger, but from Gary Oldman as well) and some good costumes (yeah, I know they're only normal clothes, but they looked good) but overall? Didn't do it for me. We watched it all, Mark quite happy, and I was there thinking, 'Wtf is with the voice? If he doesn't want people to know who he is, he shouldn't be bloody throwing gala fundraisers for people who might recognise him!' And we started talking (over the movie) about how much I liked Cat Woman in the tv show (not knowing properly that Eartha Kitt was dead, even though dad had told me that morning - yeah, I know, I'm a doorknob!) and that Batman was better than Superman, cause he was doing all this without superpowers that he got from being an alien or what have you.

So yeah, movie fest yesterday, food fest the day before, and today? I get a few hours without him, before getting him again before taking him to the train station and not seeing him again for ages. :( But we will survive. We'll get through this, because we always do, because we love each other.

So now I'm gonna go on an Amazon splurge. Wish me luck. :D

Rach xxx

Ugh. I hate feeling ill... And this isn't the sort of ill that comes after stuffing your face full of food... This is the sort of ill that kinda lingers and makes you suffer. I'm ok eating meat and Cocoa Pops, but anything else and I wanna chuck... I had a sip of Pepsi Max and I almost hurled... I'm tired and achy... I woke up at 3:40 Christmas Day... In the fucking morning!!! 3:40am!! And I had woken up before that at 2:20, and only just got back to sleep when I woke up again... I feel like utter shite, and I have to work tomorrow. I don't have clothes that fit me! My trousers press in, and they hurt, my jeans are too short. :: Cries :: Mum says I should be walking more, cause that will make me feel better, but wakling today made me worse. I was holding Mark's hand down to the shops... I think I almost broke his fingers!

I've been feeling like this on and off since about Thursday. :(

Christmas was ok. Gonna watch Duckula.

Rach xxx

So... Not actually told anyone here what I got for Christmas... Well, here's the haul.

*** CSI: Miami DVDs for season one!!!! *** <--- well happy when I opened that one cause I was like, 'OMG CSI: Miami!!!!!!!'
* A Doctor Who Regeneration Sticker guide thing. It's cool, and it has David Tennant on the front (which adds to my geek boy love! :D)
* Donnie Darko DVD
* Vampirates (It's a book, about vampires who are pirates... I think. Still not started it)
* Money
* Vouchers
* A pink tool kit (I mean how rocking is that?! :D)
* Make up
* A little jewellery purse holder thing (yeah I have no idea, and it makes me sound really bad, but it's seriously something I don't need and I just wish she gave me the money she used to buy that so then I could go get something I'd want)
* Sudoku for the DS (from my lil bro)
* A gift set of just random funky things from twisted_badger, and a book
* This belt thing that's too big!!!!

So with the money (and my wages), I got three pairs of shoes with big heels (well, two pairs of shoes and a pair of pointy boots), Pokemon Blue Dungeon Rescue Team (it's really addictive!!!), undies (but nothing racy - for once), Firefly (all of it), Pirates of the Carribean, and a satiny nighty that looked so preddeh!!!! :D

Christmas was great. We had beef and fun and no going over to my grandad's so I finished my VAMB secret Santa fic (fucking A!!!! :D). Went to Carms on Boxing Day and got some good things in the sales (like my gorg shoes!!!), but Next and Boots weren't opened so I'll have to wait until I go to Carms again before I can use them (cause the Boots here is like shite!!! And I always get weird looks when I buy the things I need from there).

Mum got the Shan Cothi CD. She has such a great voice. It's so full and yummy and controlled... The voice I wish I had really, cause she can sing opera and pop and jazz and it's stunning!!! Go here and navigate the site (it's in english) to hear her stuff. And she's local! I know where Farmers is (to an extent... :D) and if it wasn't for the snow last year she woulda been in Brondeifi and I woulda sung in front of her... Do you know how amazing that would have been?! Hell, she can sing Phantom of the Opera stuff cause she's a soprano, and gods I wish I could. :: Pouts ::

I think it's best I go change in a little while. :| Still not changed!!! :D

Rach xxx

I need your addresses for Christmas cards. I moved recently, so I've mislaid/lost your posting addies, so send them my way, and you'll get something in the post this christmas! :D

(Comments are screened, so you can leave your addy there. :D)

Rach xxx

:: Looks for the advent icon/banner then realises that she hasn't got it uploaded cause parents kept her away from computer all day ::

Song of the day: Holding Out For A Hero - Frou Frou

Rachel's Christmas haul

*Season 6 of Voyager on DVD!!! Kate Mulgrew talking about Fair Haven... And Kate talking in FRENCH!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D I will get the sound byte, cause omg KM in french? Divine!!!
*Endgame - the novelisation (which has 4 chapters of Homecoming at the end of it... I flicked to the end of the book, cause I always do, and I saw this bit about the Tevlik moon base, and then the whole, 'You'll always be captain to me'/'I hope not' bit which makes all teh J/Cers weep cause KJ wants him!!!)
*Equinox - the novelisation. Seven looks majorly pissed off on the front!
*Carmen Girls hair curling tong thing. It's bit and pretty and a shared prezzie from my aunt to me and my sis.
*Photo frame (thanks Steff!!) with preddeh feathers! :D I love feathers!!!
*A cup
*Earphones (from mum and dad, along with the Voyager stuff)
*Make up (omg Las gave me a really nice mascara that I love!)
*A Star Trek cup (which will find a nice safe and SECURE place in my room where it shall be on display cause it looks too preddy to be used as a day to day cup. :))
*2 Trek t-shirts
*A lil red clutch bag from Las (omg ♥)
*A book that used to be Japanese that was translated and is actually kinda good but I'm only on the second chapter and there's something to do with Hard Boiled Wonderland in the title... Anyways, I love it!!!
*Chocolate (yuck!) and £10 from Frances and Daf
*Bath stuff and a braclet from Mark and Kate
*Cranberry bath stuff and make up from Mari and Alun
*Money and socks from Gill and Ed
*A little sequined purse, watch and atomiser set from Mattie
*Necklace from Al and Dai
*Books (The Happy Prince and other stories - Oscar Wilde, Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, Figures of Speech (or something like that) - Mervyn Peake) and £5 from Grandad
*Purse and lipstick holder thingy from Chris and Winnie (and £10, but can't remember)
*£10 Amazon money from Luke and Sarah
*£10 from Ben and Sally (as well as a huge box of chocolate covered Fingers to share with Jake and Ruth)
*The Philadelphia Story from Las (which again, omg ♥)

Went to my Grandad's to get a few prezzies (left my house about four o'clock ish and didn't get home til about 10pm) and Catrin (Frances's daughter) was there, being spoiled (omg they had spent so much on her!) and for some reason, she liked the glasses, so she was constantly taking them off me and coming over for hugs and sticking er hands in my face and generally acting like a one year old, and she was lovely!! She's a hellion at times, pulling my hair, but it was nice to be hugged by this little kid who's dad always gives me eeeeeeeeeeeeevil looks (seriously, I think Dafydd hates me!)... And Al took a pic of the two of us together. She's a barrel of eels though, always moving.

Doctor Who... fucking rocked!

Tomorrow: Boxing Day sales!! Yaaaaaay! And I might be able to finish a prezzie I was gonna do someone but didn't do cause my muse has escaped.

Rach xxx