My friends are undeniably the BEST people on the planet.

Fer realsies.

I had the most fantastic day ever, I really did.

I slept in this morning and decided not to go to school at all, then put on some Florence + the Machine and Christina Perri, and cleaned the house for a few hours; my room is SPOTLESS and I'm incredibly chuffed with myself.  Erica invaded my house for a bit after that, because we were waiting for Taylor to get back from her doctor's appointment.  Sarah and her showed up a bit later, and Erica and I piled into the car, and off we went to Taylor's for a lazy afternoon.  Ordered pizza, opened prezzies, and put Sherlock Holmes on to while away the day.  Not my choice, actually, since I wasn't really terribly impressed with it, but it was fun yelling at the screen with Sarah whenever anything displeased us.

So, my day in lists.  From the darlings, I got:

• 1 box of Twining's Lady Grey tea - Sarah
• A Study in Scarlet, BBC Sherlock Tie-in (Moffat's preface is fantastic!) - Sarah
• A photo frame - Taylor
  
• A bracelet from Hawaii - Erica
  
• A bottle of handcream from Bath & Body Works - Erica
• A honeypot - Sarah
• A Starbucks giftcard - Kevin (le boyfrand de Taylor)

And I don't think we've ever had a better gift exchange.  It was nice to get little presents from them, that actually meant they'd been doing some thinking, and not just gotten giftcards to wherever (I hate that!).  By the end, we'd all ended up in a pile on top of one another (well, not Taylor and Kevin, but us three loners did), and it was just a wonderful way to pass the day.  Gifts and cuddles and ridiculously fatty foods.

We've got Mum's family coming over tomorrow for dinner (I need to think about what I'm going to wear, yikes!), and Father's... well, his parents, since everyone else in across The Pond, on Christmas Day, so I'm thinking we're going to be doing an awful lot of housework tomorrow.  Hooray.  On the plus side, that does involve cooking, which always puts me in a good enough mood.

Cheers and love to you and yours for the season, hope everyone gets everything they asked for!