• socks - ankle socks with cute designs and stripes
• underwear - any, i've lost some weight and they keep falling down.
• owl jewelry
• hair slides
• storage boxes

• ✔ Aunty Beebee and Nick
• ✔ Abbie
• ✔ Nanny Penguin & Grandad Steve
• ✔ Nanny and Grandad Beebee
• Dad and Maryanne
• Alec
• Jim & Sam
• Steve
• Dave
• Kei
• Shirley & Dougal
• 4 penpals who will get festive suprises!

• download my couch to 5k playlist onto my mp3 player
• start walking every day
• read through all my recipe books and start making sensible shopping lists
• cut down my coffee sugar to half or none
• get up at 5.30am every day
• be in bed at 10pm every day
• stop being afraid to contact people and ask for help

• deine lakaien
• manic street preachers
• my chemical romance
• rammstein
• panic! at the disco
• the white stripes
• suede
• the cure
• sahara hotnights
• hefner
• helen love

• Whip It
• Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
• Sommersturm
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Reine Geschmackssache
• Shelter
• Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The History Boys
• Roman Holiday
• Juste Une Question D'Amour
• Nick And Norah's Infinate Playlist
• Juno
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Were The World Mine

• English
• German
• British Sign Language
• French
• Welsh

• photos with santa
• handmade christmas cards
• deciding on the christmas menu
• making paper tree decorations
• making paper chains
• decorating the table with nuts and oranges
• baking a gingerbread house
• non alcoholic mulled wine
• writing letters to santa
• singing silly versions of christmas hymns
• listening to punk rock christmas music
• making christmas candy and chocolate
• learn a christmas poem by heart
• leaving a carrot for santa's reindeer and some juice for santa himself
• visiting christmas markets
• sugared almonds
• the smell of icing sugar and cinnamon
• the day the christmas menu board arrives ...

• Disney Princess thingumy waffle. (PS2)
• Final Fantasy IX (PS)
• Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (MD)
• Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets (GC)

multiplatforming weekend and it's not even sunday.

• Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle
• JK Rowling - Harry Potter series
• Sarra Manning - Lets Get Lost & Diary of A Crush
• Ai Yazawa - Paradise Kiss (manga)
• Nick Hornby - High Fidelity & Fever Pitch
• Terry Pratchett - Discworld series
• Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers, Famous 5, St Clares and the Magic Faraway Tree
• Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
• Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
• Thomas Hardy - Jude The Obscure
• Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice & Sense And Sensibility
• E Nesbit - The 5 Children and It, and the Psammead

• only a bit european
• cupcake queen
• crazy cat lady
• single mother
• glittery
• happy
• prone to pondering

• anything harry potter
• stationery
• amelie poster
• cinnamon candy
• coffee powder
• recipe books

• get Abbie's fringe cut
• sort out money for christmas presents
• write my christmas list
• buy a new mop bucket (there's a hole in my bucket, dear liza dear liza)
• repay £10 each to Dad and Trevviata
• replace my shampoo. flaky itchy tight scalp is not fun at ALL
• have a one person dance party while Abbie is at school.
• tidy up before Nan comes over for lunch

• waking up half an hour early and having a quiet relaxed coffee
• singing along to music
• people smiling at me
• post arriving
• TBC

• ✔ listen to lots of ISIHAC (copy Humph In Wonderland for Dad)
• finish emptying the kitchen for renovation
• sort out the coffee table and my bedroom
• ✔ catch up with post (partially, 3 letters went out this morning, 1 being written =)...)

• Flibbertigibbet
• Androgyny
• centrifugal
• onomatopoeia
• skewer
• ambivalent
• distinguished
• honorary
• amalgamation
• supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

• People who expect favours, especially with a track history of take take take.
• Homophobia and judgemental attitudes in general.
• Waiting forever for things to be done.
• People who moan about subtitles despite not being able to speak the original language...
• The crud at the bottom of my kettle. Naaaaasty.
• My own lack of self-discipline
• stubbing my toes.
• Ingratitude re gift giving - It's the thought that matters not the brand/status/cost of the gift
• People swearing around young children.