12 daze of chrissmess

Twelve good things about Christmas:
1) it`s finished at midnight on 25th December
2) ...
...d`you know I swear I dreamed this list last night but now can`t recall any more of it. It must have been a very truncated dream, as I was asleep for only two and a half hours last night. I went to bed very tired, then lay like a log staring at the ceiling for an hour, then got up, had some milk, mooched from room to room downstairs trying not to see mice ( they`re BACK!) brushed my teeth again, then lay like a log staring at the ceiling till about 2.30a.m. There then followed a period of rolling from my left hip staring out at the night sky, onto my stomach, then over to my right hip, and then onto my back to stare at the ceiling again. I think I became an expert at this sequence after a while and was revolving pretty much in one smooth manouvre for quite some time. Last glance at the clock before oblivion = 4a.m. The alarm went off at 6.30 and I couldnt open my eyes properly for about an hour which made getting dressed rather interesting.

At noon today, in my ill-matched socks and back-to-front jumper, I fell asleep in a lecture ( ah it was so cosy!) at least ten times. This is how drivers kill themselves.

Back to Christmas :
2) decorating the tree - but yesterday searching for my tree decs I found I had none, and sort of half remember last year having a fit of `ban it! I refuse to play` which involved giving all the tree baubles and tinsel away to a charity shop. I did what I could with a bargain bag of chocolate decorations. There were ten assorted chocolate snowmen, Santas , little forest scenes, and pretend glass globes. Whilst tying the decorations in place two of them suffered rips to the tin foil which meant they parted company with the gold string, and dropped to the floor. I had no choice but to eat them. Rather nice for cheap chocolate too. After a quick rummage in the attic, trying not to see mice, (they`re BACK! Did I say) I discovered I`d kept five beautiful sequinned stars from the old decs, presumably because they were Nice Things, plus the pom pom Christmas pudding with felt leaves and berries Vanessa made when she was about six. So that`s my tree. And I`ve put it up early, yes. But the incessant rain and darkness has made us feel a bit stir crazy, and the tree helps brighten things up. I dont give the chocolate decs very good odds for surviving till Christmas Day though.

n.b. Two things you should NEVER leave in my care; Ritz crackers, and chocolate.

So ... that`s my twelve good things. (Obviously, the other ten are secret.)