I'll get back to blogging again real quick (I pinkie promise)!
Well, I haven't been doing much these holidays except working, so this blog will be a bit higgledy piggledy all over the place...
It was my birthday on Monday [23rd December] and I was so surprised that Google did this:
Amazing!!
But yeah I didn't really do much for my birthday because I had to work so I just chilled with Diwan for a bit before work started. Oh and thanks for everyone who wished me happy birthday on Facebook. As much as I'm against birthday wishes on Facebook it was all very lovely to see those messages (even from some people who I didn't recognise... awkward...)
[Edit: Oh yeah you should sign up to San Churros because they give you free churros for two on your birthday or on the day before or after your birthday!]
Also my brother had to go in to the Supreme Court because he's starting a new job as a tipstaff to one of the judges there and so my mum and I went to the city to have lunch with him that day as a mini celebration for him getting the job.
Anyway, while we were walking around, I bought this amazing leather-bound journal with parchment paper and a little metal lock!
It was $45 for this one because the leather was a bit different so it was a bit more expensive than the others, but I love it so much, I can write heaps in it and it'll last so long because it's so thick!
I got it at some stall/kiosk called Last Minute Gifts at Pitt St Westfield on level 1 near one of the escalators. It's such a tiny stall but it also sells things like candles, leather bags, wallets, etc. and it's a really nice shop. They have other journals that are smaller/bigger, cheaper/pricier and with different patterns as well. So if you're interested, check it out!
What else is there, I had a Christmas Party with some friends from my family's church and we played the Kris Kringle game again! I'm not too sure if I've blogged about it but it's a really fun and hectic and tiring and LONG game where all the Kris Kringle presents are piled in the middle, then everyone draws from a hat. The hat will have pieces of paper with numbers from 1 to [n-1] (omgsh lol mathz) as well as a Joker on it.
So for example, a game with five people will mean there will be papers with 1,2,3,4 and Joker.
Person #1 starts first and whichever present in the pile they FIRST touch (either by clothing, hair, hand or whatever) is theirs (to prevent someone picking up a present and shaking it or feeling it to determine what it is). They open it in front of everyone, then Person #2 continues and so on.
Now, anyone (except Person #1) can choose to take a present from the pile, or they can choose to steal a present that's already been opened if it's a really good present or something they want. A present can only be stolen three times. The third time a present is stolen, it's locked in with the thief. Someone who has had the present stolen off them then needs to choose a present from the pile, or steal another present (but they cannot steal the present that was just stolen from them).
The Joker can come in after any round has finished (so if someone's present has been stolen, s/he needs to pick a present before the Joker can come in).
Anyway, as you can tell, it's pretty hectic. Last Christmas I think we had like 12 or so people and it was pretty crazy, but this time we had around 20 people and it went insane. Everyone was ganging up on everyone else, people formed alliances in groups of three with promises to swap presents after the game ended, couples formed a team of their own and sorted out tactics, best friends backstabbed and stole from each other, it was insane!!! But super fun!!
I ended up with a Mr. Happy bottle:
I'm fairly proud of it because at first I got 4 small Nerf water guns that I knew I would never use, and I didn't really want anything else, and it's practical! I've already used it like 5 times since I take it to work with me! =]
LOOK AT THIS HUGE ANT!
And lastly but not leastly, I went fishing!
We went to Gosford. Diwan found some deal on Groupon for a 4 hour hire of an 8 person boat and we went here for our anniversary date.
It was a rocky start, especially whenever some bigger boats and ferries came by close to us, but eventually I calmed down a bit. It was only two of us and the boat fits 8 people, but I seriously thought we would capsize.
This is the lovely view from in the water:
This is Diwan looking cool, calm and collected:
And me being a paranoid tourist with a life jacket:
And the fish we caught! He's so mad that we caught him, but we saved his life! There was a pelican that knew we caught a fish and just waited like a metre away from our boat, staring expectantly at us, but we threw the fish over the other side of the boat far away so the pelican couldn't get to it.
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