fleurrochard, posts by tag: christmas cards - LiveJournal

So, cookie sort #4 is cooling in the kitchen (my very own kitchen! No this isn't going to get old for quite some time. *g*) to be iced later. There is also a cake.

I might have baked pretty much every eving during the last days? I didn't bake on Saturday, because I went to watch Faust by Gounod - live from the Met - with a friend and OMG, was it ever FANTASTIC! Especially Marina Poplavskaya, who sang Marguerite, she was so AWESOME, I don't even know. Such a good singer and wow, such a good actress as well. I absolutely loved her. (The German title of the opera is actually Margarete, which I think is even more fitting than Faust, because seriously, that opera is about her, not him. Well, ok, more about her than him, anyway.)

But I've baked every other evening (even yesterday, when I went to the Carmen soirée of out theatre, but that only went for one and a half hours) and I love it. :)

I also love all the Christmas cards I've gotten! Thank you to james, bettina, chalcopyrite, pennyplainknits, pensnest, turlough and sky_dark - you have sent all such beautiful cards and they brighten my room. <3! <3! <3!



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Reasons to be happy today:

• Having the day off!


• Getting to shower! (One of our baths - the one with the shower - gets renovated right now, so we don't have a shower, but we can shower in the janitor's bathroom. I usually just wash at the sink, but today I enjoyed a hot shower. Bliiiisssssssss.)


• Finding a nice, thin pullover that I can pull under my purple sleeveless knitted dress - and it was a business of getting into the store, having a short look around, getting a changing cubicle right away and only one person before me at the checkout. \o/


• Mailing the whole rest of my Christmas cards (er, some of you might get them late. I'm very sorry!). When I got to the post office it wasn't actually that full, but there were some lines. But! There was a little stand where they sold only stamps (and you couldn't mail parcels and the like) and since that was what I needed, I didn't have to wait at all. :) Ok, there were some problems when I wanted to pay with my cash card (apparently all the lines were full and they've had that problem all day) and they had the same problem with my credit card and I didn't have enough cash with me. Following dialogue ensued:
  
  Me: Well, then you'll just have to hold my letters hostage and I'll go and get some cash.
  Post Office Clerk: Oh, would you do that? Wonderful.
  Me: No problem, I'll be right back. (I went and got some cash at the atm and then got back) I'm here to pay the ransom. *smile*
  Post Office Clerk: Great! *takes my money* And here are some gummybears for your patience!
  Me: Thank you - and such a coincidence, I have some chocolate for you to help with the stress! *smile*
  Post Office Clerk: Oh - thank you! *smile*
  
  Seriously, I know retail at that time of the year and the post office can't be much better - and then having technical problems? Not. Fun.


• Watching a movie! (I thought I had missed it because it should have come out in November, but then I saw it in the program of this little cinema here and was all Yay!) It was good. :)


• Free popcorn! (They had some problem with the tech and the movie stopped playing after about 20 minutes and when we (we were only two people in the cinema) went on search for an employee, nobody was there, only a note to call this other small cinema right around the corner if there was an emergency. So I did that, they send someone right away and then we got free popcorn for the inconvenience. :)


• A wonderful new long Brendon/Spencer story by passe_simple!

Ah, no more work before Christmas! The last days were a bit tiring, even if most of our customers are really nice (but so many of them, yikes!).

The Christmas party of our store on Wednesday was very nice and much fun - there was much laughter and very good food. (A carrot-orange cream soup, a very good salad, goose with roesti (hash-browns?) and a berry sorbet. Mmmmmmmm. Well, that was what I had.) Also, I got nice presents: a very nice cassis vinegar, a wooden holder for tea candles and a little writing set (writing pad, pencil and eraser) with angels on it. (Plus a Christmas bonus from my boss. :D)

And mail! Mail! *bounces*
Thank you, izsabella, for the card - so beautiful! (It arrived already on Thursday, but I forgot to say thank you immediately - oops?)
And eleanor_marx, your card is so gorgeous as well! (I have really no problem with getting new ideas for cards - I already knew in January what cards I'd make this year, and I'm pretty sure what I'll make next year - also, I have book which gets filled with ideas for cards.)
betra and tygerseye - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh! So cute! Little Miss M is just adorable - thank you for the picture!

I admit that I'm a bit worried about my own cards, though - I have the slight suspicion that none of my overseas cards did arrive and I've sent most of them early enough. *shakes fist at the mail service*

Also I am gleeful because I went to look for some new trousers yesterday and not only did I found two (well, I found three, but my account told me to only buy two), no, they were the first ones I did try on.
The first pair I tried on fit perfectly.
The First Pair.
It bears repeating.
*GLEE*

And tomorrow is Christmas! Yay!
Yes, yes, I know, for lots of you it's only the day after tomorrow, but for us it is tomorrow. :D
And only five more days, then I'll fly to Vienna for a week!
Life is good.

I got another very lovely Christmas card today - thank you _bettina_!

The first bunch of my Christmas cards got out today, the rest should follow tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Also, I've now baked three kind of cookies, that means 'only' five more. *pets the lists that help organizing*

What does it say when my voice teacher (who is an alto) gives me her version of Schubert's Ave Maria so I have the Latin text and tells me that I shall just copy the text on my own version, because this one's much too deep for me - and I look at it and think: "Huh. That looks like a rather comfy height."
It's really not that deep. It doesn't get deeper than d', that's well in my usual range.
I guess she just thought it'd be deeper.