We have been at Lakeside all day to buy the last bits and pieces for the family. It will be hectic in a few days since our diary seems to be fully booked with visits here and there. Friday we are invited to a house warming and xMas party, organised by friends of A. who luckily live right around the corner. Saturday we will be going to J. and S. in Addlestone, Surrey, to admire the new born, the rest of the family came over from France yesterday and are staying with C.’s family. C. and I promised to cook dinner for all of them, C. will prepare Chicken Curry and basmati rice and I will prepare Chicken Rendang [and sweet potato noodles].
I found a really cool Chinese supermarket in London, where I can find all the fresh ingredients to prepare a proper Indonesian dish. I’m so happy with this since I don’t need to ask my friends to send the stuff over. The Chinese supermarket doesn’t have many things but most of the important ingredients. I found my Rendang paste, which is cool. My aunt sent me more pastes and sambal badjak and a lot more. I didn’t receive the parcel yet so I have no idea what will be in there. I found the sweet potato noodles at the supermarket too, along with lombok and fresh lime leaves. It will be nice and spicy! *YumYum!*
Sunday we will have a pre-xMas day with I., C. They will cook a real English old style xMas dinner including stuffed turkey, sprouts, parsnip, Yorkshire puddings, gravy and a lot more. I’m looking forward to this meal! Won’t have any big portion though because I’m not going to spoil the results from yesterday… We will open our presents that we bought each other then. The ones A. and I bought for each other will be opened on Monday morning, along with a traditional dinner: our own stuffed turkey, cranberry sauce, Yorkshire puddings; the whole shebang. I will be eating turkey till the end of the year… Lovely!
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xMas Shopping
I’m getting tired of xMas shopping. We have been out all evening on Tuesday and tonight wandering around a big shopping mall called Lakeside. I found most of the presents and only need to get a few bits and pieces here and there. 14 People that we need to think off and I didn’t even include the extra people that I bought some things for… It’s always a drag really unless you know the person so well that you don’t need to think of things to buy.
I ordered stuff online, did research online most of today so I could pick it up in the evening. I found cheaper and much better deals online so had to take back stuff to the store and try to get my money back to go buy it elsewhere. I found a nice gift set for the same amount of money and wanted to get this instead of just a tiny little box with one gift. The woman who helped me on Tuesday was very grumpy anyway so I was glad I could take it back and make a scene to get my money back. Unfortunately she wasn’t there and two other most extremely kind women helped us out and gave us another good deal.
Next year I will do things in a different fashion. I will buy stuff when I see it and hide it till it’s xMas so the stress will be less. Just put it in a box and leave it there till it’s time to wrap. It could be nice because you will probably forget what you bought over a period of a year anyway, so perhaps it’s better to wrap it straight away. Surprises would be bigger when it’s time to open them. I think this would be a good strategy. Let’s see if I can get it to work…