Well... it's that time of year again. Time for the Christmas Round Up that is functionally the same as the last however many Christmas Round Ups.
We start out with the Krampus inspired warlock I came up with earlier this month after being inspired by an Instagram reel. She came out pretty well actually, just as a thought experiment. And then I realised that a good use for her was for today. So here we are.
Today, like always, wasn't terribly exciting, but it was, relatively speaking, very laid back. It was also, because I am contractually obligated to mention the weather, it was a pretty mild day. I wore jeans the whole day.
I'd already said to Ma that I wasn't going to rush down for breakfast, also so that she didn't need to rush in getting herself organised this morning. So I basically got up at my regular time and then went for my walk.
Then I came home, had my usual breakfast and pottered around a little, got ready and headed down to Ma's about 9:15. The downside being that I didn't walk into Ma's place to find goodies fresh out of the oven, the upside being that Ma was fully organised by the time I got there.
We threw on the MTV Christmas songs special on the TV, while I pottered around Ma's place doing some prep work, setting the table, organising the kitchen for me to use, that kind of thing. Once I was done with that, we did presents, such as they were, relatively early.
It was a very DnD Christmas...
- Dice Advent Calendar (from Mr and Mrs)
- 2024 DnD Players Handbook
- Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun book
We haven't done Friday Night Christmas yet. So, there's at least that to look forward to.
Once we were done with that, I started on the cooking and whatnot.
I chose to do all the cooking and tidying up and whatnot today, for a variety of reasons, but also just to let Ma chill.
While watching a couple of movies I brought down (that I'd already watched). More on that in the Mini Media Review on Saturday.
I was unsure whether or not everything was going to actually be ready on time and work out properly, because Ma's oven is smaller than mine, and we had turkey and sausage meat and potatoes all to cook at the same time. And I just shoved the potatoes in raw and let them cook the entire time.
I had a little bit of a... not meltdown... let's call it a crisis of faith about how I'd organised things, reorganised them, also didn't like that, re-reorganised them and then went back to the first version.
In the end though it all worked out. And after I pulled the turkey and the sausage meat I let the potatoes keep cooking for a little bit, and was a little lazy and instead of cooking the haloumi, I just threw it in with the potatoes for a bit. That actually worked. What I didn't do was read last year's round-up that told me to take the sausage meat out early. Ah well. Worked out anyway.
I also didn't read the note about putting the basil in the bowls either. I should remember to read last year's advice.
But it came together well. I did my usual trick and just threw together a salad dressing with what was either in Ma's fridge or pantry. And a little mustard and some cranberry sauce goes a long way.
Then afterwards, I cleaned up the kitchen, put the leftovers away, all that stuff, before we put another movie on. And we did the usual thing of having dessert midway through the afternoon. I didn't take a photo of that one though, because, honestly, it was less visually appealing than previous years. Just go look at last year's version. That.
Once we were finished with the movie it was about 5pm and I packed up my stuff and headed off.
So, you know, relatively normal, relatively boring, relatively the same as every other year.
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