Merry Christmas, everyone! My day’s drawing to an end, but I hope all those of you whose Christmases are just beginning, have a lovely day.

It was M’s birthday on the 23rd and I gave him a voucher for 5 laps at Eastern Creek Raceway in a V8 supercar, including training and a video of the event. I bought the present in August, and it’s a very similar present to the one that Steph gave her husband for his birthday - when she wrote a post about it a few months ago I was dying to reply to it and say that I’d got my husband something similar, but I was too scared to in case M read her comments! At the time I bought it they didn’t offer anything like it in South Australia, but they do now of course. Oh well, we get a few days in Sydney, which will be nice.

We went out for lunch for M’s birthday, to a really nice up-market restaurant. We hadn’t been there for a long time, and while it was nice, it’s not our favourite. I think if I’d ordered the beef instead of the lamb, I wouldn’t have been disappointed because the rest of the meal was excellent. Still, the entree and dessert were really nice, it’s just that the lamb was a little rare for my taste.

We had the neighbours over for Christmas drinks last night, so we got nicely drunk on a few bottles of wine, accompanied with some cheeses and other goodies. The only problem with having drinks on Christmas Eve is that I feel slightly hungover the next day, so I don’t really feel like having a celebratory drink. I did manage one at lunch time though. But the drinks went well, and we inflicted some of our holiday photos upon our poor guests.

We got to bed at around 1:30, and had to get up early today because M’s sister was going to call past in the morning, so we had to get up and ready for her, as well as give each other our presents before she came. I got a clothes voucher and a mini model car, and one of those cool carpets with roads printed all over it so I can play with the car (and M’s other toy cars) on it. Yes, I did actually want the carpet! I just think it’s cool, so there.

We went to my parents’ place at 11, and among other things, I got a music voucher, so I’m trying to think of all the songs I’ve ever liked so I can get them. I have 40 songs to choose, and so far I’ve got 7. Not a terribly good effort. I know there’s one I really want, but I can’t remember how it goes or who sings it, which is not helpful at all.

I had a really nice day, though, and was completely stuffed after Christmas lunch. We’re driving to Wallaroo tomorrow to visit my grandmother and uncles, so hopefully the weather will be nice for it. Other than that, it’s lazy holidays as usual until M and I go to Sydney for his car racing early in the new year.

One of the breweries just out of the city has a tradition of putting on a Christmas light exhibition. It’s the same every year, but it’s still nice to go and see it. It used to be just the lights and nothing else, but now people have capitalised on the event, and there are sideshow attractions, and hot cinnamon donuts. So we might head down there tonight and have a couple of donuts, but it depends on how energetic we’re feeling. I’m still feeling pretty lethargic after my huge lunch.