castalie | Happiness is... (Reply)

1. Having a day off after two weeks without any and knowing you won't have any for two more weeks. I sound like a broken record these days with all my 'dude, I'm so tired' but I can't help it! I'm so tired! Work is kinda crazy these days and then Winter Job is trying to kill us all. Yesterday I worked from 9am to 5pm and from 6pm to 2am. I looked like a zombie lol I don't know how my dad does it; he sleeps like three hours a night for most of November/all of December *is tired just thinking about it*

2. Going with my mom to a not!tree farm and getting our respective christmas trees.

3. Having the time to meet with the French Posse in the afternoon and going to the theater with them - we saw The Golden Compass. I quite liked it, twas a nice Christmas film. I think I'll go and read the rest of the series now, to see how it's gonna end. And also see if I like it better this time.

4. Getting home and finding a Christmas card in my mailbox. Thank you,

katikat *loves*

5. Decorating the tree and Teh Flat! Very First Time I decorate my place ♥ ♥ Incidentally, I did a little picspam, which I dedicate to

turps33 since it was #8 in her wishlist, IIRC.

The Christmas tree:

It looks prettier IRL, imho, if only because the lights are what make it shiny and sparkly and add many colours to it... also I think I'll go and get angel hair. It usually makes for a nice final touch. And I obviously still need to get the top thingie. Sadly I didn't found any to my liking, but I'm still looking :-)

And, er, okay so my nativity scene kinda looks bare, eh? I could pretend it's because no-one has arrived yet, but the truth is that I actually bought said nativity scene today and I'm still looking for all the 'characters'. Hopefully I will find it before the 24th *fingers crossed*

Oh and as you can see there're already three presents under the tree. The ones on the right are two books I bought for my mother and the Starbucks bag is, well, is for me :-) Twas my Very First Present *loves on Babycakes*

Some of my decorations come from Norway. This one was bought in Santa Claus' house. In June. Because I like to be prepared!

And another 'Merry Christmas' but in French, this time:

My Christmas village:

My coffee table:

The tree was made by my grandfather when my mom and godfather were little kids. He made six of them and I now have one of them with me :-)

Little box in which I decided to put my Christmas cards. Looks nice already :-)