dream_labyrinth | Christmas!!!!!!

*squeal*
I got my presents!!
*ahem*
Start at the beginning: church service was at four. The pastor was decent, even though she managed to enrage me with several things. She used a more modern translation of the bible, and I just love Luther's translation too much to like that. She also kept talking to me (after the service) as if I was a five-year-old taking part in a service for the first time. Very patronizing, and that I simply can't stand. She even dared to warn me to speak loud enough in the prayer I said. Dammit, I've been doing that sort of thing for all my life, and she, being only a substitute for our regular pastor, has no idea who does what in our church, so she should give us the benefit of believing we know what we're doing. With her "help" counting the money afterwards took much longer than necessary, too, but we got an incredible amount of money for Brot für die Welt and our parish. Yay for all the "heathens" in church at Christmas! ;-)

And then it was time for the presents!
I got a book about Johann Gottfried Herder (my school was named after him, so it's kind of interesting to read), one book that is more like a fairy tale, a CD Stranded in the USA with songs of emigration, really cool, all songs fromt the 20s to 40s. My parents also gave me pajamas (sp? - I am too lazy to look it up), a great warm jacket and gloves. My older brother gave me a dollhouse sofa and the promise to go and buy a chair or sofa with me when I have my own place. Mom told him what I told her last weekend, passing a stand with dollhouse stuff on the Christmas fair in Würzburg: one day, I want to set up a dollhouse all in Biedermeier style.
My sister and brother-in-law gave me cosmetics (bubbly bath, body lotion, soap) and *drumroll* the Best of Bowie DVDs. *squeal* I definitely need to get a TV to go with my DVD player now. So great of them.
I gave my brother-in-law a CD by Shania Twain he had wanted, but he also gave that CD to my sister. As they don't need two, she gave hers to me, but I am going to get them something else in exchange. So now I even have the Shania Twain best of.

Life is good.

Holy crap, I reached a "German" song on that Emigration songs CD. I don't understand a single word!! So funny, it's a mixture of German and English, but German more like the Pennsylvanian Dutch which doesn't have that much to do with real German anymore.

Very little quarreling so far, even though Mom and Dad were given a record player by my older brother and Dad and him were setting it up together. Quarreling while setting up the tree did not occur today because Dad did it alone, everybody else having miraculously vanished in time.

I am very happy, and I hope you are, too.
Now dinner. Simply affair in my family, really. Potatoe salad and sausages. Big food will be served tomorrow and on the 26th, so it's nice to have less today. And everybody has been eating cookies anyway, so we couldn't really appreciate a large meal. And as nobody is too fond of a dead bird or fish, that's out of the picture, too.

Anyway, have a merry, peaceful and joyous Christmas, Chanukka, Yule, Saturnalia, Festivus, [insert name of holiday].

And I am eagerly expecting your Christmas cards, folks! ;-)