It's so great to be home, it has been quite a first term at uni! After an enormous and ongoing dilemma involving only myself (as strange as that sounds), I have decided to keep going as it is all pretty fab overall. The course is fantastic so far, the place is lovely and I have friends, so I'm just going to keep going, at least for this academic year.
We have our usual crazy Christmas tree (it looks even more wild this year, I swear...) with many presents building up underneath. It's our youngest doggy's first Christmas, so there'll even be a couple of little presents under the tree for both him and the other dog. :) (I saw a Christmas card the other day; specifically to give to a dog... yeah, I wouldn't go that far!) There were some fantastic deals in the Black Friday sales, so I managed to get some really special gifts for "next to nowt", as my mum would say. Perfect!
I have started wrapping, and whilst I've bought a couple of sheets of new wrapping-paper, there's lots I possess which have been used before: instead of throwing them away, I've held onto the nice bits and will reuse them. Okay, I'm a [PROUD] tree-hugger, there is no denying that, but take a moment to think about it if you don't already: as well as less energy being used (as the paper isn't recycled or whatever after only one use), it saves money too. I've also kept a few of those paper bags which gifts are sometimes placed into when you buy presents in shops, and I intend to have a go at using the paper for giftwrapping. (Ahhh, I also have these cute Christmas stickers, from Paperchase, to stick onto the 'gift wrap' too!)
(*Pondering* Perhaps I'll talk a bit about consumerism in a later post... it's an interesting idea we've looked at in Sociology which I'd always taken for granted, I think.)
Anywho, bringing this to a close, I wish to blog a little over the next three weeks. However (alas), what I wish myself to do and what I actually do is an extremely different matter. We shall see. Farewell for now!
