Hatch # 21: Once more...

...in the lifetime of my New Year's Calendar, I'm late... I apologise a little, and blame it on being busy talking to people, instead of typing up stuff. Had a nice day with work, cleaning and dinner with my doll Linn (she was one of the awesome girls I travelled with in Oz last year), and the bottle of wine we shared...:) I proceeded to chat with friends far away and finishing the bubbly I bought for the last day of the year... A tad sad, but celebrations wait for no one - sometimes u just need to enjoy the bubbly before it gets warm;)

Anyhoo, a short listing of the great pressies that awaited me under the tree this year:
- 4 beachtowels (love these big things...so comfy and wrappable)
- a big painting (matches the ones I've already got decorating my apartment)
- a necklace, matching earrings and bracelet
- another (not matching) bracelet
- two travelkits with assorted shower gels/body lotion etc.. (for the girls who can decode this - Cliniderm and Dove)
- a Biotherm set of lotion and moisturiser
- an external hard drive for my laptop (YEAY! the only thing I told my family I wanted...Now the aquiring can start again...)
- a scarf, a shawl, gloves and a hat (really nice, but still unnecessary seeing as the temp yet has to drop below zero during the holidays...)
- money (gots to love unoriginal peeps - they DO give something I really need!)
- 3 pairs of long socks, one of them being beloved 'toe-socks' and a necklace
- a pen with a blinking heart on top that says 'I love u' and lights up when u write with it and a plastic rose
- a bottle of white wine
- a set of 4 chandeliers and vanilla scented candles to put in them

Obviously my peeps think I need to shower more and moisturise more regularly...lol;) It was another great year, but I do wish they'd stop buying me soap/lotion stuff! I still have some leftover from last year! Otherwise - these are really nice ones, so my complaint is halfway withdrawn... Fully even, when I remember how many people are struggling in one way or another!

Hatch # 15: Lullaby for the wrapper

Song of the day: The Cardigans - "Live and Learn" & Sia "Sunday"
The shopping for presents is now completed - all that's left now is to wrap and label them before shipping them to their rightful destination - that being ALL over the place, literally. An otherwise quiet day spent navigating through annoying crowds and finding fascinating solitude among throngs of children at the world's biggest city made from ginger cookies, is drawing to an end.

Since I seem to have misplaced all of my Xmas music somewhere gnomes have gnawed it to bits, soundtracks are the hit of the day. That and watching movies while wrapping stuff - I used to love that section of preparations - now it's just boring. Margareth Olin's new movie 'Lullaby' is out to be viewed for free and I think it's a real treat. It's about a guy known as Hawk and his seeking out of four women during one freezing night in Oslo's 'underworld', and since it has very little dialogue but focuses on pictures and how connections between people are shown in physical movements, it's worth the 33 minutes of not understanding what the characters are saying.

Hawk - the guy in the pic used to go to school just by my uni and I've the pleasure of knowing him as a good customer and company at afterparties:) He also part-took in the writing of the script for the movie.

Hatch # 14: Equality and gadgets to all!

After having gotten most of my 'issues' out of my system yesterday, it was really nice to go out with Alexandra and the rest of her girls - haven't talked to some of them since high school, I'm sure... Anyhoo, Alex managed to crush three of her toes a couple of weeks ago and is going crazy over having to stay still so we decided to do a 'quiet' night out at one of the many venues where she works, aptly named 'Venue'. Due to this the drinks were extra cheap and the staff superfriendly:)
That would also be the reason for feeling a tinge hungover and tired today...lol

Anyhoo, the afternoon was spent looking for pressies for my brothers and purchasing a much desired gadget - I've finally aquired a webcamera so that it's possible to see all of you darling people in the Southern hemisphere when talking to youse. It's a fabulous little thingymadoodle and it has a few extra features - looking forward to putting it to use so that my money wasn't wasted completely frivolously;)

The tiny wondergadget looks like this:

Me likes!:) I think I might be beginning to understand why guys are so in to gadgets - they're kinda awesome...