Happy Merry it's over!

And...exhale!
I'm not a big Christmas person so I'm pretty happy it's all over with (or at least, what I consider to be 'the worst' is over). We had a party Christmas Eve which meant me in near-breakdown mode, mulling wine and wrestling with the overly hot oven to heat pies and make snacks. It all turned out well, not a big turn out and all very grown up (complete with 'proper adults' as my friend Pippy says). Christmas day was a little less hectic as I wasn't doing the cooking honours apart from bringing some dips for dinner. It was all going smoothly until I realised that i had lost the stone from one of my rings just after I made a box of salsa. Cue combing through the salsa with a fork and LJ refusing to bring it in case someone chipped a tooth on the wayward stone. In the end I convinced him that my fork-combing had been thoroughly thorough and we brought it though by that time we were late and straight into the main meal so I don't know if my salsa or cilanto cream dip even got opened (a lesson learned).
Yesterday I lay around in various spots and watched Doctor Who in the evening (which was excellent).
Today it's back to PhD application stuff and perhaps a movie later. Though I would much rather see Walk the Line, Brokeback Mountain, Syriana or Munich, I suspect we will see King Kong (which I couldn't really care less about). LJ is difficult about movies and I will have to make plans to see the others either by myself or with someone else. Despite our disagreements over what to see, he is singularly lucky in that I would pretty much see anything, so much do I love going to the cinema.