What? No socks?

There are certain holiday traditions that I've come to depend on over the years. Stress over turkey dinner, getting sick on Christmas Day and getting socks in my stocking. It was one of those things that gave me a secret kind of joy; getting footwear inside footwear. Add it to my fascination with cattle humour and you have my quirky sense of the ridiculous. Anyway, this Christmas, the only footwear I got in my stocking was, well, a pair of stockings. Which actually cover my entire lower body, so I don't think they really count as socks. Has the world gone mad? Or have I just spent too many years going "oh, socks" in a sarcastic tone, only to have it smack me in the ass now when I have to face a winter of buying my own socks?

Bitch, bitch, bitch. Hey, I'm good at it.

Christmas has been very nice. The present present tally is:

24" Sony Wega Television, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon DVD, Star Wars Episode I DVD, Akira Kurasowa Criterion 4 DVD Set (Which includes The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, The Seven Samurai & Sanjuro. Weee!), No Doubt boxed set, home decor for all seasons book, 2 big canvases for painting, new painters easel, a Starbucks gift card I've already finished, this bracelet in black, a make-your-own-sushi set, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, various kitchen implements including a very elaborate pasta cooker, Lyra's Oxford (Related to Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy) and a belly dancing book. Oh and some black stockings too.

Consider me spoiled people. Totally spoiled.

Christmas was a bit of a dark day because I had no access to my Chai lattes. I was suffering from so much withdrawal that I had to go to Starbucks for them twice today and bring home a box of the concentrate to my parents house just in case I can't make it to the one Starbucks in Kingston tomorrow. Clearly I am on the fringes of civilization here people. I hope everyone is having a great holiday and has easy access to their much needed vices.

Today's sing-a-long song: "Time is running out" by Muse (if only for the line "I tried to give you up, but I'm addicted.")

HRH