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A low-key birthday today …
no parties or dinners or prezzies or trips,
but very glad to be here, even if 54 seems a bit meh
55 though – that’ll be fun!
07 Friday Jan 2011
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A low-key birthday today …
no parties or dinners or prezzies or trips,
but very glad to be here, even if 54 seems a bit meh
55 though – that’ll be fun!
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…
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?
25 Saturday Dec 2010
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Christmas is love in action.
Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
24 Friday Dec 2010

Last year I received a most wonderful “pop-up celebration” book from my friend Teuchter – The Twelve Days of Christmas by Robert Sabuda – which I featured over on this post. And then a couple of weeks ago another pop-up popped up, again sent by Teuchter. This one called The Night Before Christmas. And since this is Christmas Eve I’ve taken some pics of the book that I’d like to share with you. Hope you enjoy it…
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