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[castalie]

From what I could see on the flist, looks like many of you had a lovely Christmas. I did too :-)We had a great time with the cooking first - homemade appetizers, foie gras, stoked salmon, then stuffed capon with veggies to go with it. Cheese and salad and then the bûche/Christmas cake to end it all. We all took turns in the kitchen, as usual, and my godfather and cousin Rémi were quite inspired when they dressed the foie gras plates - doesn't it look pretty?



We savoured our dinner and when midnight struck it was time to open our presents. We were all spoiled: doubly in my case as I had gifts from the whole family, of course - Kaamelott Livre V! Pushing Daisies! A Starbucks mug! Duma Key etc. - but also from yami_tai, aswanargent and angeliksmall, so THANK YOU to the three of you again for the wonderful pressies. I'll have a nice book to read thanks to Tai and the shawl I got from Karen is absolutely gorgeous! So warm and cozy and just too pretty for words! And, Cookie got me Merlin, dude! That is, the DVDs, we all know Merlin belongs to Arthur :-)

So, anyway, Christmas was awesome. Also, Julien's reaction when he read my sister's card telling him Henry and her wanted him as a godfather for Chiara's? Was even better than expected! He started with a heartfelt 'hell yes' before reading the card to us and then he started to choke up and he cried. Next thing you know, my aunt and mother and cousin Emilie and sister and I were all crying. So we're a bunch of saps, so sue us! We were all so happy for him because we knew he really wanted to be Chiara's godfather... that was just lovely. Afterwards we kept calling each other marraine and parrain because we're not just saps but dorks as well.

Of course each time I called Julien parrain, my own godfather would be 'yes?' and I would be like, no I was talking to Juju. Fun times! lol

I slept at my parents' with the rest of the family and we all had a lazy Thursday together. Then I got back home and lazied some more. One needs peace and quiet to wind down from the Christmas high, you know?

Oh! And on Thursday we ate the Christmas pudding yami_tai had offered my parents when she came last month and they liked it, Mom especially. I can't say the same, but I was happy someone got to appreciate the English food lol So thanks, Tai :-)

And apparently I'll keep with the lazying today as the two friends I was supposed to meet bailed out. So I'll stay home and watch the Doctor Who Christmas special instead *nods*

Comments

[nicelyobsessed.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked your present.
I'll watch the Christmas special too, I'm impatient to see Tennant and Morrissey *squee*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I most certainly did :-) I might have squeed a little when I saw it, even! It's just that I wasn't expected it at all, like, 'unexpected Merlin DVDs for Christmas' you know? lol

My download just completed so I'm gonna watch it now!

[sockich.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a wonderful day, I'm glad you had fun. :)

And yeah, the food looks very pretty. And yummy. ;)

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I'm glad too lol Thank you *hugs*

I love how it looked, I think they did good :-)

[simonesa.livejournal.com]

LOL. Your food is too pretty to eat.

*pout* I think it is going to be ages before Merlin is available in the US. They will wait until the series airs on whatever channel if finally airs on. Then we have to wait until suitable time has passed. then they will offer a US DVD package. I don't think I can wait. But will it be worth the wait. If I get UK version, I can only play on my region free DVD player and that player is not the best.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the compliment :-) I'll pass it to the guys!

Waiting for the DVDs will be hard, I agree, but at least you managed to get your hands on the episodes... let's rejoice in that!

[turlough]

It sounds like your Christmas was just as awesome as mine was - lots of good food and happiness all around!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I couldn't have summed it up more perfectly :-)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

That food looks amazing! But dude, christmas pudding is icky. It's one traditional food I could do without.

In fact, your whole Christmas sounds amazing.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

They did a great job with the plates, didn't they? We all took pics because we were kinda smitten with them lol

The Christmas pudding really didn't make a good impression on me. But Mom is a fan of what we call weird food so of course she loved it...

I had a wonderful Christmas, yes :-)

[aswanargent.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had such a lovely Christmas, and I'm glad you liked your gift.

My sister gave me a gift card at Barnes & Noble bookstore; I'm going to use part of it to buy and rewatch Lost Season 4, because Season 5 starts here on the 21st of January!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love my gift, I'm wearing it right now, I'm so cold that I do welcome the warmth! And you chose the perfect colour, thanks again :-)

I'm so out of the loop re: Lost! So s5 starts soon? I might ask you for a quick recap one of these days...

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

Oh, I never did tell you about cutting a hole in the top of the pud, filling it with brandy and setting it alight, did I? *fails* I'm glad your mum liked it. It's not something that I can eat a lot of myself actually, as it's very rich.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

You mean there should have been more brandy in it yet? Wow lol Don't worry, Mom loved it anyway :-) She said 'thanks' again!