December! 01.12.2009

It’s now winter, something that’s quite easily discovered unless you’re particularly good at not noticing extreme cold. My radiator doesn’t seem to be working or maybe the heating is just off in general. This is when it’s quite obvious that the building is rather old, no double glazing or anything. I’ve digged up my long johns and been sleeping under several layers of duvets, pillows, blankets and stuffed animals to keep warm. I’ve also started wearing at least two pair of socks per default. However, apart from the cold it wasn’t really so bad over the weekend. Instead of the endless rain we’ve had frosty nights so the muddy grass outside isn’t as wet as it was last Friday when Martin and I went for a walk at Belisle.

Saturday night I went with Martin’s family to see him in some Drama Corner thing (you had to be there, I think) and Sunday he was all busy with Centrestage again as they were switching on the Christmas lights in Kilmarnock. It was an insanely cold day and I was practically frozen to my core under my three layers of clothing, winter coat, gloves, scarf and boots so how on earth they made it through the performance in t-shirts I’ve absolutely no idea.

Yesterday I went to town to get  a couple of Christmas presents and decided to go by bike for once. It was so cold I could hardly breathe but I got there alright and even found a bike parking place, go me! It got dark pretty quickly as I’d been a bit slow to get away but the streets were all pretty with Christmas lights so that was nice (too cold though).

Today is the first of December which you might have noticed and gone “Yay!” about. I got a big parcel from home with advent presents and got a lovely Toms chocolate advent calender, how lovely. Also, Martin is giving me a present every day till Christmas this year (aww!) so I’m just getting presents and presents. Just now I’ve added all my Christmas songs to my iTunes so it can all be a bit more Christmassy.

(By the way, that last paragraph is absolutely hilarious when put through Google Translate)