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buddy

16 Sunday Jan 2011

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This is Buddy.

A couple of weeks ago Sledpress warned me that an Amazon birthday prezzie was coming my way. I immediately thought she’d checked out my wish list and expected a book or dvd to arrive, so imagine my surprise when I picked up a massive box on Saturday and found this inside. A percussion massager with four different attachments (soft, medium, firm … and HEAT!). What an amazing gift, which I can say after having tried it out. It feels sooooo good that I can imagine it becoming quite addictive. Haven’t tried the heat attachment yet but I’m sure that is going to be awesome.

Have to say that I had quite a chuckle over the WARNING on the device which says:

Caution: this product was designed for use on broad body areas only. To avoid pinching keep smaller body parts such as fingers and hair away from heads and the gap between the heads and housing.

Thanks again, Sled. A truly fab gift.
And you’ll be happy to know that Azar and Loki like it too…

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epiphany

06 Thursday Jan 2011

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…aka Los Reyes Magos or Three Kings Day

This celebration typically marks the end of the festive season in Spain, though I always extend it one day more to include my birthday (natch). Last night there was the cabalgata, a parade featuring Los Reyes Magos who ride around on floats tossing sweets out to the hoards of children that line the route, and at midnight the Christmas lights were switched off. Today there will be family dinners with gifts (giving presents on Christmas Eve/Day is a relatively new practice here), then tomorrow kids go back to school and normal life begins again. Though I’m actually working today and have a biz meeting at 5 o’clock – beats just sitting around waiting for my English students to come back from their holidays.

Planned to have an epiphany today but, you know…

more gifts…

05 Wednesday Jan 2011

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It was a very non-materialistic Christmas at casa az this year – mostly because I’m broke. So I wasn’t able to get gifts for anyone, although I did get myself some Elixir perfume early in December and also made a couple of nice festive meals for me and Nog (though we didn’t end up with bogavantes).

But I did get a few nice gifts from friends, including the amazing Night Before Christmas book from Teuchter and these two surprises – some fab Simon’s Cat fridge magnets from Sara & Steve and a lovely set of Japanese toiletries from dragonqueen in a happy green box (she also threw in a stripey catnip sardine for Loki – click on the pic to enlarge) which I opened up in a neighbourhood octopus bar, as you do.

Last but not least, I also received Paypal gifts from Sledpress and Mudhooks, which I was told to use on anything special I wanted. Thanks guys – you covered this week’s vet bills and helped me take care of Azar, which was a very special gift indeed.

I actually think this was one of my best Christmases ever.
How was yours?