Christmas Festivities

Merry greetings dear reader,

I meant to blog a little more frequently since the last post but, oops, I was caught up in christmas fever. Let's catch you up on my merry merry christmas festivities!



Sooner than anyone had expected, christmas time crept up on us. How had a whole year passed already?! Well, it didn't matter because christmas happenned to be my FAVOURITE time of the year. The food - white christmas, rum balls, rocky road, turkey oh stop me now. The music - classic christmas jingles and trendy pop remixs. Most importantly, the great time spent catching up with family friends. I attented numerous christmas parties to the point where I wasn't sure which one was ACTUALLY christmas. Santa is pretty busy lately.

Speaking of santa, I had a month to find the best presents to spoil my family and partner. Let the challenge begin!

I'd like to say shopping for presents was hard, but it just wasn't. Each morning I would sit down with my laptop and search Ebay for neat little gifts. You see, I have this problem. I have great difficulty buying anything for myself but when it comes to spoiling others? . . . well.

I couldn't resist. You know how they say not to press the big red button? I did! Multiple times. It just never ended, glass tea pot, square egg rings, milkshake cups, cufflinks, rainbow whiteboard pens. Everything! I bought it all.

The absolute best part of shopping online was the waiting. Everyday you'd watch the mailbox and leap up when you heard the doorbell go. Parcel after parcel arrived until the point where I could genuinely not remember what was going to be inside. I think the postman hated me by the end of christmas, I kept him very very busy.  

Finally my favourite day of the year arrived. CHRISTMAS DAY. It was even better this year because I attended my partner's christmas celebrations too. DOUBLE PRESENTS DOUBLE FOOD DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY. It was this glowing haze of joy where I had to alternate between eating cake and opening presents. Ultimate spoilage. Sadly, christmas wound up and ended all to soon for my liking. Oh well, my bank account needs to rest for a year before another spending spree.

Interestingly enough, one aspect of christmas remained with me. All that spoiling and indulging didn't dissapear the next day with santa. I. GOT. FATTER. Come new years eve when I'm squeezing into a little black dress, I looked into the mirror and thought to myself, "Is that me, or a wild buffalo ready for hunting season". Somebody should put me down! I aquirred tuckshop lady arms and a lady pooch belly. Dark Dark days were upon me.

Determined not to let it get me down for that night, I drunk the most of a bottle of rum and celebrated what had been a hard but great year. As the fireworks alarmed the change of a year, I struck an epic pose and toasted my new determination. At that very moment, three new year resolutions formed in my brain.

It's simple and rather mainstream. However, upholding these resolutions will make me a better and happier person. No more alcohol will directly help resolution # 2. The only exclusion being the wild party I will throw when I am accepted into veternarian science. I know goals are meant to be quantified and precise to be more succesful, but losing weight for me isn't about numbers. I just want to look in the mirror and be happy to see toned guns, flat tummy and long pins again. The last resolution is self explanatory, and I'm proud of how happy I was last year. If this year can be any better, then it sounds good to me.



You will be impressed to know that I have already made progress on my resolution goals. I go to the gym for a killer cardio workout every second day and do muscle toning excersizes on the inbetween days when my legs feel like jelly. Support me and spur me on readers!

I hope your holidays and festivities were great and you use new years eve to re-invent a better you. Don't forget, new years eve is just a day like any other, there's no excuse not to do what you dream of, today. Or maybe tomorrow if you already have plans today.

Thanks for seeing it through to 2013 with me readers.