Santa-san came!
Never made it to Mass last night. I had intended to go but, I could not stay awake after 11. So, with a heavy heart-because believe it or not I really wanted to go-I trudged off to bed. The S.O. stayed up for a while to watch NHK. (Which is what I think put me to sleep in the first place!).
This morning though, an interesting thing happened while we were still in bed. ( Get your minds out of the gutter!). The S.O. began humming a Christmas carol. She does not know the words by heart to most of them, so I joined in and together we sang. And sang. And sang. Silent Night. Jingle Bells. O Come all ye faithful. And my personal favorite, Angels we have heard on high. Her voice is beautiful-mine not so much. But it was fun. With a quick but firm, rebuff to my other advances-we got up and started the day.
Gift giving worked out Ok. She only cringed at one gift-the bright sweater I bought her. I surprised her with one gift-I got her an IPOD. Now I will be spending the afternoon trying to set up an I-tunes library for her and making dinner. The conversation will be all in Japanese since the guests we invited are Nihonjin so my poor brain is going to get a work out.
Merry Christmas!
Hope it is all you want it to be. By the way, what is your favorite Christmas carol? Here is mine (You can leave your answers in the comments):