07 Monday Jan 2013
No big plans for today. I’d hoped for a day trip somewhere but that didn’t work out, so I think I’ll just take a “day off” and see what happens. Peter has promised to nip out early and pick up the traditional birthday brekkie arabic pastries I like, so that should get things started quite nicely. And after that, well, who knows…
As always, it’s just great to be here.
[update: Birthday Tapeo]
05 Saturday Jan 2013
Posted in animals & pets, cancer, christmas, friends, video
A lovely bright green package arrived at casa az yesterday that had something for everyone! It was from Karin (aka Dragonqueen), who sent us three locally made jams from Sweden (rhubarb, gooseberries and carrot with red currant) and a cute selection of cat toys. At first I thought the mice might be a “swallow hazzard” but what I didn’t expect was that Loki would go totally mental over them. Luna likes them too, but Loki can’t seem to get enough of his little purple mice (Karin’s signature colour).
So then I thought I’d try exchanging mice for string and suddenly the String Game took on a whole other dimension. And it looked eerily real when Loki trotted back down the stairs with a limp mouse in his mouth (well, real except that the mouse was purple).
Thanks so much Karin! Your gifts have really added some extra fun to the holiday season here. So now Peter and I can share the jams at breakfast and the kittehs can fight over their new toys. 🙂
03 Thursday Jan 2013
Continuing the “tradition of hope” started on January 3rd 2009 when I posted my first ever Photohunt entry. The theme that week was “hope” and I put up a photo of my daybook turned to January 3rd 2010 with the words “STILL HERE!” written on it. Since then I have posted a similar photo on this date and hope with all my heart that I’ll be here to do the same next year.
01 Tuesday Jan 2013
Posted in friends, holidays, home, hope, life stuff
27 Thursday Dec 2012
Isn’t this the greatest? You may recall that there was an intriguing prettily-wrapped gift in Sledpress‘s Christmas package, and I don’t know how I did it, but I actually managed to hold off opening it until Christmas Eve… and it was a Corkcicle!
Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Yeah, I know I posted something here about it, but it never occurred to me that someone would actually get one and sneakily send it to me for Christmas.
As you can see, Loki loves it too because it’s orange like him (extra nice touch with Sled picking out my favourite colour). I can’t wait now for BBQs on the rooftop.
What was your favourite Christmas present this year?
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