Spreading some yuletide cheer

So we've decorated my parents house, but our little apartment has remained sadly neglected this holiday season. I finally had some time this week though, so we put up our Christmas tree and the whole place is looking much more festive, just they way i like it thank you very much. Because hello, how can we sing O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree to a blank space? For the sake of a-carolling, i had to spruce the place up.

Our blue reindeer (it doesn't matter that reindeer's aren't really blue. creative liberties and all that)

Of all the trees most lovely.

Lights out. Joy to the world.

And its not just us getting into the Christmas spirit. We were out in the 'burbs earlier this week, and lo, we came upon the joy of Christmas every which way we turned....(Christmas lights, it seems, are back in vogue. Everyone is so doing it this year.)

Some of the better houses...

And of course, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Christmas treats. Mince pies, gingerbread men, and of course, the Starbucks Christmas range - the only, and i mean ONLY time drinking drinking anything from Starbucks is even remotely acceptable. If you know me, you know i loves me my coffee. Starbucks is a blight on the whole coffee industry. At any other time of year, go to your local Italian cafe and get yourself a proper cup - please, i urge you. But come December - well, even i can't resist a toffee nut latte.

In other news.....huh. There is no other news. We watched District 9 the other night, which was weeeeeeeeird. I liked it though. And I've been reading like a maniac - highlights were Disgrace by J.M Coetzee, which won the Booker Prize AND the Nobel Prize in Literature...its set in post-apartheid South Africa, which complicates everything that happens in the novel. I gave it to DT to read after I'd finished, cause i knew we'd have some good discussions about the whole thing...read it! Disturbing, but thought-provoking. If you're into mindless chick-lit, i also read Confessions of a Shopaholic, which was very light and fluffy, and just what i needed! And right now, I'm reading an awesome novel called The Gargoyle, which I'm not even going to go into, just TRUST ME and read it.