It's the season to be jolly

I have not updated this blog in some time. All the blame goes to a very busy schedule at work. Luckily my schedule will get calmer in the coming weeks so I'm slowly will get my life back.

Christmas spirit is slowly seeping in my life, what with all the snow we had last week and Christmas presents shopping. I always get excited when we set up the tree. The past few years I started buying real Christmas trees. Back in Malta nearly nobody got real trees (although it seems that Giselle was lucky enough to do this when she was young) so I really love to go and pick a tree to set up early in December.

We decided to pick up the tree on a day in which a weather warning was present because of the black ice on the roads. Picking the tree on this day meant that there were no queues and fighting over which tree to pick up with random people. What this meant though was that 3 hours later our tree, once heaved up 3 floors was leaving water puddles everywhere on the floor. Now water is definitely something parquet floor doesn't like!

The water problem was soon forgotten once I put up the decorations.

Note: We did wait to set up the lights until the tree dried out!

If you want to be green you can actually rent a real Christmas tree during December.

[Image Credits: LoadTr]

It's time for gloves

I think it's time to search for my gloves. This morning the temperature was around 4°C. I was expecting a layer of frost on the car. A layer of frost which will surely put a smile on my face.

Coming from a country which never gets snow I still act child like when I see snow at the beginning of winter. The excitement usually dissipates after less than a week when I rediscover that snow is cold and wet, very slippery (and somehow there is never enough salt in this country) and all means of transportation is usually affected.

What's the worst however is that early every morning I have to scrape of the ice of the windows of my car. It's a tedious process and it's very painful to my delicate hands. Doing it without gloves usually is nearly unbearable.


So as a Christmas wish to the weather man I'm asking for snow just for Christmas week and New Year weeks.


[Image Credits: Promotional Ice Scrapers]