Today got off to a really good start. At 3AM actually. This is when my mother-in-law's dog decided to get sick and spew all over the carpet in her bedroom.
I decided that I would only get in the way if I got out of bed, so I turned over and went back to sleep.
At 5AM her dog got up onto our bed and was sick again. Over our quilt this time.
Because my previous reasoning was so successful, I again feigned sleep and turned over and tried to go back to sleep. This wasn't so easy with my wife taking the quilt cover off, but I finally managed it.
I surfaced again at about 8AM, fortunately to the sound of my mother-in-law delivering a cup of coffee. Perhaps she felt guilty. The coffee was too sweet. But I struggled through it.
We all went downstairs and opened our presents. We all agreed that we had all received great presents, and that we had done our duty in contributing to fix the global financial crisis by spending so much money.
I then sneaked outside to have a quick swim before getting sidetracked into getting lunch ready. Although the day started a bit dull, the clouds disappeared and the day was warming up to about 30 degrees C. I wondered what it was like today in the northern hemisphere.
This year we tried our first baked ham, glazing it with cinnimon, apricot jam, and brown sugar. It was yum.
We roasted pork, turkey and chicken in the barbeque, and baked the vegetables in the oven. We cooked far too much food for one day, so it looks like we'll be having left-overs for the next few days. I reckon that rather than have every chef on TV present their own Christmas recipes, they should have them present good recipes for left-overs instead.
We all ate too much (a family tradition, I reckon). I decided to have a quick power-nap, Karyn decided to float around the pool in her boat, and Fay had a big snooze to compensate for her 3AM start. Matt, of course, played World of Warcraft all afternoon and got one of his characters up to level 70. Or was that 80? Anyway, he seemed quite pleased with himself. He got a new netbook for Christmas, so he could play WoW on one computer and chat on MSN at the same time on his new netbook. He'll probably want a dual-screen setup next.
I spent a while chatting with Cherie, Richard and Lynne in Sydney while looking at my treadmill and thinking that I really should get some exercise. But everybody said that I should have a day off, so I decided not to. I did some sit-ups and went for a swim instead. I still have 8 kg to lose to get to my target.
Karyn retired to the bedroom to watch some TV, Matt stayed in his study and played WoW, Fay went to bed, and I played a few levels of Far Cry. Just to maintain my lightening-fast reaction times, you understand. Since I've got myself a new quad-core computer, I've got back into playing some games that my previous machine was just too underpowered to play.
Here is Matt trying to show Fay which way to point the camera.
Anyway, its time for bed now. It's 1AM now, and Fay has just come down to rinse out some towels that her dog has just soiled. I took some more old towels up there to find that she's covered the whole floor with them. Maybe in the morning I should get her a plastic drop sheet that we use for painting.
Karyn is excited about the Boxing Day sales tomorrow (or in about 8 hours). So it looks like more help for the global financial crisis.
Bye for now.
It was a bit bizzare evaluating the various speakers. I took my iPod shopping with me so I could check out the various products by listening to how they play what I listen to, so while other people are blasting out their music, I was blasting out Buzz Out Loud and the ABC Science podcast. I had to test them out relatively loud because I want to listen to podcasts while using the treadmill, and I needed to make sure that I could hear it over the sound of the treadmill motor.
