Georg and I had a great Christmas. We did the latin show on Christmas Eve. Well to be honest, Georg did all the work. He knows so much more about the music than I do. We ended up playing a lot of rock en español, plus some fun latin christmas music that Sylvia had left us. It was a fun show. Afterwards we came home and had a veal stew that I had set up in the crockpot, and watched Holiday Inn on cable. Actually Georg watched it; I fell asleep.
The next morning the dogs woke me up early, which they often do, but I was glad because it gave me a chance to sneak out and fill Georg's stocking. We exchanged our presents in the morning. I gave Georg a molcajete shaped like a pig, and a swanky shirt. He gave me both of Richard Cheese's albums, volume 2 of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the hat!! I was so surprised. It's funny because we had been at Untidy Museum last weekend looking at that red/pink dress, and I had that noticed the hat was still there. Well Georg went back the next day and bought it for me, and I went back later the same day with Sylvia and Lisa for the dress. Lisa and I noticed that the hat was gone, and she even suggested that Georg might have bought it for me, but I poo-pooed the idea because he and I had been there the day before, and I didn't think he had had time to go back. He thought all week that I had figured it out, but I had no idea. He even put a couple of extra bathroom tiles in the bottom of the gift bag so it would be heavy and I wouldn't guess. What a sweetheart. Yay! The hat!
I know you're not supposed to wear black with brown, but the hat looked so perfect with my polka-dotted dress. So I wore it to our Christmas dinner at Irregardless Cafe, where we were by far the most dressed up people, except for an old lady in a fur coat who looked to be twice my age. A lot of people were there in jeans and sweaters or sweatshirts. To Christmas dinner! Anyway, it was a really nice meal. Georg had prime rib and I had lamb, and we split a fabulous yule log cake for dessert. I must say, the service was remarkably problem-free considering how crowded they were. A bit slow, but not even that much.
After dinner we had a couple of hours in which I watched Since You Went Away, a classic WWII weeper starring Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple, and took a nap. Then it was time for Divaville! We had a great time, although Georg only stayed for the first hour since he had to come back for the 10-12 show. I managed to do two hours of swinging Christmas tunes without too much repetition. I got a tape of the show and listened to part of it this morning. It sounds good, although I need to work on the levels when I'm talking over music. I potted down the music so low that I can hardly hear it at all on the tape. On the headphones it sounded much louder.
Today I'm having a slow day. Tried to run a bunch of errands, most of which were fruitless: went to Costco, which was so crowded I drove away without even going in; and to the library, but it was closed; and to the station for a couple of CDs I seem to have misplaced, but they weren't there. I'm a bit alarmed about that actually. I thought for sure I had gotten everything last night after the show, but this morning when I went to unpack them, "Merry Christmas from the Space Age Bachelor Pad" and "Christmas with the Rat Pack" were missing. I was hoping they had been put in the Christmas box, but I went through the whole box this morning and they weren't there.
Well at least I managed to feed Sylvia's fish, refill Thirteen's cosequin and deliver cookies to the vet, so the errands weren't a total bust. I hope they like the cookies. I baked them on Wednesday but they had already closed by the time I got there. They're peppermint sugar cookies, I got the recipe from Good Eats. I used a bone shaped cookie cutter so they were like little peppermint sugar doggie bones. And (maybe for the first time ever) the recipe actually made as many cookies as it was supposed to. Baking cookies for local businesses is a bit "happy homemaker" for me, but they've been so good to Lina and Thirteen over the past year that I wanted to do something nice for them.
Well coincidentally, Georg just came home early and told me that he has those two CDs. He took them to his 10-12 show last night. Thank god! I was so worried that I had lost them. I'm still bummed about the library being closed. At least I was able to check the online catalog and confirm that they have the two books I wanted: Noel and Cole, a biography of Noel Coward and Cole Porter, and The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter, the basis for the BBC miniseries (which I adore) and the recent movie (which I haven't seen yet). I'll go back next week and get them before we leave for NY.
Now I'm watching Bluffmaster, a Shammi Kapoor movie. I loved his movie Junglee so I'm really glad to find this one. Black and white, unfortunately, but it has subtitles! I should be doing housework actually, but I can rationalize that I'll do the dishes when the laundry is done, because the spin cycle makes everything in the kitchen shake and it's no fun to be in there while the machine is running. Our friend Kevin is coming to stay with us tonight, but I'm not sure yet if he's having dinner with us or coming over later.
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