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I think the best part of Christmas is that it allows me to eat lots of candy with very little guilt. Calories don't count until the 10th!

Anyway, Christmas went quite nicely. We managed to actually get to Church this year, even though we didn't get a seat, and because we went to hte family Mass, we got to witness the hilariously over-the-top Christmas pageant, complete with a model tower, an angel chorus, and an entire extra "true meaning of Christmas" skit because there were too many kids to take part in the actual Christmas story. After that we stopped by my cousins' house for dinner (and fried yucca, one of my favorite things in the whole world) and exchanging of presents, as well as my cousin and I getting into a debate about the status of hard SF in the modern era now that things like warp drives are more firmly in the realm of fantasy. (Has anyone here read The Reality Dysfunction and the series that follows it? My cousin recommended it as a thoughtful hard-SF piece with excellent world-building, but I wanted to gauge opinions here as well.)

After that I spent most of today in my pajamas, opening presents and loafing about. Christmas swag this year included:

- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which I had heard all the squee about but hadn't yet read, and is an enjoyable enough pastiche so far. Also got Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which I did not know existed and looks to feature a romantic-hero version of Davy Jones. I'm excited, not going to lie.
- A set of slippers, a scarf, and a blue knit flapper cap
- A skull-and-crossbones purse
- Chocolate!
- A mother-of-pearl necklace and earrings
- An Animated!Samurai!Prowl figurine, yes I asked for one stop your laughing
- MOAR CHOCOLATE

My uncle also brought some of his home collection of movies with him, so after reading the first third of PnPnP and cursing a bit while assembling Prowl (it took me far too long to decipher instructions intended for a five-year-old; fancy college degree right here, folks) we sat down to watch Drop Dead Gorgeous and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The first was funny, and the second one was...well, I enjoyed it a lot, but the thing about Almodovar movies is that while I always find them compelling to watch I'm never sure how to feel at the end. This was the same way. Tomorrow we are either going to go to the movies or watch more movies, possibly Brazil because I keep meaning to see that. Oh, and do homework.

So...that's pretty much it for today. Oh, and I did finish the lineart for a drawing, which I'll post later. Hope those of you celebrating had a merry Christmas, and best wishes for the rest of the evening.