gribouille | Dec. 25th, 2009

... yet I got to open my presents. Jon had already given me a lovely "Household planner" (basically a calendar with stickers saying like "Doctor", "Birthday", "Holiday", "Important Date" and forget-me-nots and a pen), and tonight I got a very nice frame as well. Now we just have to take a picture of the two of us and print it and it will be perfect.

I was surprised by Joan, Jon's mother. Last year already she had gotten me presents for Christmas and my birthday. But today she gave me even more presents than usual... which resulted into a funny scene as Jon was given one single present while she piled boxes on my knees XD Well, in fact, there were only three boxes, but to me it looked huge. I got a sort of nice thread to be attached to my glasses so that they won't fall down or get lost any more (I have to insist : I do not lose my glasses, they get lost by themselves). I got a purple jumper (and just the right purple, my favourite colour) and a set of body fragrance and washing stuff which is very nice and with a French name XD I really didn't expect to get all that... I know Joan likes me but here she is really spoiling me... Jon tells me she feels that I am the daughter she never had... and this honestly touch me. Great, I'm crying now XD

So that was Christmas Eve for me. But since I haven't posted for so long I guess I should give you a little update XD

( So here comes a little update about pretty much everything and anything )

And I think that's it. Mainly. Well I could say a few things about school and exams and lazy teachers, but I'm too happy to talk about annoying things right now.

Once again, Merry Christmas everyone !

(NO End of Time spoiler in this part of the post, by the way, so no worries)

To make it short, it is very difficult to get to the TV at Jon's parents'. Main reason : Jon's dad, who owns the remote and switches to whatever channel he wants to watch, without asking for anyone's opinion. Basically, the only time Jon and me ever got to see what we wanted - except when his parents were away - were last year, for Doctor Who's Christmas special. We "booked" it a week in advance.

We did the same thing this year, and this year again Jon's dad promised us to let us watch our show - he would probably be asleep after the HUGE Christmas dinner anyway.

So everything was going on ok. We did (well, Jon did, mostly) all the jobs that were asked from us. All of them. We were (well, I was, mostly) kind to everyone. We did not mind getting ignored/patronized by Antony (Jon's mean older brother, also cold the Grouch). All we were asking for was an hour, no, even 50 minutes of TV.

We did get them. Except that at the last minute the Grouch and his wife (who from this moment I might start calling the Goose) decided to invite themselves over for another hour and to cackle away in the sitting room (where the TV was). And when they realized that we were watching something and what we were watching, the only reaction was from the Grouch himself : "oh, fucking Doctor Who..." which was followed later by mean comments from the Goose about how crazy and stupid this show is (well, she did not say stupid, but she did not need to say it).

So the result was that we did get to watch the show, but we did not get to hear half of it, which really upset me because I had kind of been expecting that for a year. Plus I missed great moments which would really have been GREAT if I had been able to hear what people were saying.

Well all we have to do now is to wait till we can watch it again...

( But still from what I could watch there are a few words that I would like to say so BEWARE for HERE COME THE SPOILERS ! )