Christmas Eve was nice and I had quite a surprise. I thought that I was invited to Rod's house for New Year's Eve but the invitation was for Christmas Eve. Luckily he stopped by to tell me what time I was expected -- otherwise I would have missed it. I was wondering what I would do for Christmas Eve since the local church seemed not to be doing anything (what???!!!). Also I didn't want to get caught up in the luminaries tour down in Old Town. We had a nice time with tons of food to eat. I took a bottle of wine and some homebrew. I met Rod's family .. including Rod II and Rod III... and his daughter and the whole family ....minus one grandchild who was working. All families have a few quirks or oddball members but they all seem to get along great and we had a good visit. Rod III is attending UNM and lives and works close to campus...and is majoring in History.
I made French Toast for breakfast on Christmas. I put off opening my presents until Christmas Day....most of them. I got several good books to keep me busy for a while. Santa (me) brought a Petanque set and a table-top telescope. Jill got me a Beck dvd which I will really enjoy. Also, Santa got me a literary crossword book.
Christmas dinner was a large ham steak and oven roasted vegetables (broccoli and leeks) and mashed potatoes with apple crumble for dessert. It was all good but I overdid it on the broccoli and paid for it later. I watched one of my Beck stories and was in bed reasonably early.
This morning I woke up at 4:30 in pain.....too much broccoli. I finally got up at 5:30 and read for a while (Henry Hudson book) then went back to bed about 8 AM for a while. I was considering having an open house on St. Stephen's day but I'm really glad I didn't.
Lunch was at Flying Star -- a free bagel and cream cheese and then off to the grocery store.
Uneventful evening watching DVDs that have to go back to the library tomorrow.
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