Christmas!

It's Christmas, don't you know, Christmas!  With blue roses topping fir trees, and feasts set out that the woodies eat, and giving the best, most wonderful thing you own, all to placate the mysterious spirit of Christmas. 

Whether you're a Moomin or a human, happy holidays!

Christmas evening

Several people I know of got gifts that they were pleased with for Christmas:

• Me.  I got Kirby's Epic Yarn, which I plan to start sometime this week once I go through the end sequence of Crystal Bearers.  (We did put the pink puffball in the Wii briefly this evening... ya know, just to make sure the game worked.)

• Huz was pleased to receive volumes 7 and 8 of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, and a recording of Jenkins' Stabat Mater, which I discovered kind of by accident tooling around recommendations on Amazon, I think

• Our niece got these HUGE eyes when she opened the electronics kit we gave her

• My brother is very appreciative of the check I sent him

• My brother-in-law was surprisingly pleased by the Shaun Tan book we gave him - he said it looked like it was right up his alley, so yay.

...oh, and speaking of Neil Gaiman: He mentioned thinking it would be cool to have a lamp-post to go in his local bit of very snow-covered forest a while ago.  And his family came through!

And me, again: It's not a gift as such, but I will take it: I'm here, at home, with my wonderful huz having a quiet and pleasant Christmas.  Yay!