Disaster of the highest order struck on Christmas day. The Yettie made a balls up!

I figured to myself that I'd be smooth and get all my veg and stuff preps on Christmas Eve after opening pressies. Not that this would take very long, it was just mom and me, but still it's always been a crimbo tradition to open our gifts on Christmas eve. I guess as kids we were just too impatient to wait till Christmas day!

So yeah, I pealed the spuds, sorted out the greens, organised the carrots and then went to bed. Up nice and early to make Volcano Pudding and then at about nineish I figured it was time to whack the meat on. I popped into the kitchen only to find to my horror that the damn roast was still in the freezer!

OMG. We had volcano pudding and ice cream for Christmas lunch!!!

Ah well, I got to have my roast and eat it. Yep, i did it today. And Omigosh what a fine damn piece of pork it was. Crispy crackling and tender as......... erm I was going to say a babies bum, but NO that is just WRONG!

It was just nice and tender. Yep that's it! haha

I think the Christmas food has always been my favourite part of Christmas Mom used to make the Canadian Fruit cake. I tried to make it last year and well, it just didn't stay together. I guess if you enjoy eating your Christmas cake as crumbs off a plate then it wasn't too bad! I've steered away from baking since then, although I do make a mean banana bread.

So Boxing day was pancakes for breakfast, and then nothing till dinner. We were out for dinner, and oh boy what an experience. We sat next to a woman that had clearly had one too many sherry's and was rather merry to say the least. She was flirting rather blatantly with the waiters, and making pretty brazen passes at the bar staff. Singing rather unconvincingly to Celiene Dion and frequently getting up to have a quick twirl to some song or another, until eventually totally disorientated from a rather vigorous twirl, she plonked herself down, landing half on and half off the chair and promptly bouncing off the chair to park herself firmly on her derrière on the floor at my feet.

I've been solicited before, but never in that way!

I finally got to finish my rework of Breathless, which i feel rather proud of to be fair. I am going to leave it for a while and go back to it a couple of times to fine tune it before I get to post it. Hopefully I can attract the attentions of an editor and some readers to check it over first as well. I can hope ey!

And then today. MY ROAST.

Um, yeah I am rather proud of myself. Last year I got the damn tin foil stuck to the crackling, and the year before I didn't use tin foil and burnt the whole thing! This year. I got it just right! Even if it was two days too late, clever cloggs!

So now, I'm sprawled out on the couch feeling rather fat and full. I'm watching blooper videos (you might know them as fail compilations) and trying not to giggle too damn much as it hurts my tummy. I have a Strawberry and Lime Kopperberg next to me and some really great music on the speakers.

Good way to end the day. Hey hope you've all managed to enjoy your crimbo so far. Try smile if you can, its good to giggle like a girl.

Thought for today - "Before someone's tomorrow has been taken away, cherish those you love, appreciate them today." - unknown

Song for today - If You Tolerate This by the Manic Street Preachers.