Happy New Year!!!

To all xstitch fans and friends, I would like to wish a wonderful 2007, filled with stitching, laughter and warmth!

(me and my dad's wife)

I am back from Christmas at my father's and back from the airport, H. is now on his plane to Oslo. Christmas was nice, really, just that both my father and his wife had a bad cold so the main topic was illness, coughing and running noses, doubled with sinusitis and fiever ;-) and well, yes, despite all protective measures I and H. got it too. With the zillions of bacterias flying in the air there we knew it would happen. We spent the last 3 days in bed, the greatest part of the day, but it didn't help. Today is the worst (hopefully, I mean, I really wish this won't continue), I cough with bad sounds, my nose is like a leaking pipe, oh well, you know how the story goes. We've been taking medicines since many days so we hope this will end soon.

Christmas... well. No snow, no hopes of snow, and up till +6 Celsius. Warm. It did NOT feel like Christmas and I almost have the feeling there was no Christmas :(. My brother, wife and kid couldn't come this year from Switzerland because my SIL couldn't get days off around Christmas and they only arrive tomorrow for a week. Somehow I got used to having Christmas with my 4,5 y.o. nephew, with the laughter, joy and all the Santa-seriousness. And I think for my father it just isn't the same when he doesn't have his both kids around, and now also his grandkid. But don't get me wrong, it was a lovely time, very relaxing.

H. spent a lot of time installing Windows XP on my father's computer, we also drove to buy him a new HP cheap printer and he got a Skype phone and a bigger hard drive from us - and he's thrilled. He immediately started calling acquaintances in various part of the world. And he is sooooo happy to have his computer modernized!!!

Their doggie is not going to live much longer, his heart is very bad now and he was out of breath and coughing terribly....

During H.'s stay, we threw out my new couch :( from last year. It was an expensive one and really beautiful but the system didn't work well for extending it daily, I think it just wasn't meant for such an intense use and some wooden elements broke, making it very hard to extend. We drove to Ikea and got a new one and I just looooooooove it! My cat and dog love it too LOL!

H. also helped me to sort what seems almost the last batch of old stuff, I threw some and we drove twice to the storage, where we repacked it all into boxes. H. insisted and pushed me to do that job while he was here, saying it would be so nice, clean and empty in my tiny flat and that I would gain so much space for storing stuff. And it is true :) Now I just need to wash and clean here and there and I can rediscover a neat flat after several years of having it clogged completely. It is such a great feeling! I worked 4 months by bits to get to that result and yes, it was worth the bone aches LOL!

So now I will just go to bed to help my body get rid of that %$#%#%^# cold and in some hours I will upload more pictures+++.

Happy Saturday, everyone! :)