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So, Christmas has come and gone. It was once more and enjoyable experience.

Wednesday afternoon we went to my parents for a Chinese braai, whereafter we handed out presents and opened them. It’s been a tradition with us for years on years now, does anybody else also open pressies on Christmas Eve? From my family I got a nice radio for the office, and an awesome Star Wars LEGO spaceship from Gwyneth (photos to follow eventually…)

On Christmas day we went to church with my family, and then drove to Vanderbijl to Gwyneth’s parents. More presents were handed out there, we got a CADAC braai skottel, and sweets, and Gwyneth gave me another present, a Ghost Busters t-shirt (Who you gonna call!). For lunch we had a cold lunch of gammon, salted beef and chicken, with assorted salads.

We slept over at Gwyneth’s parents last night, and this morning we met my parents in Kroonstad to go visit my gran at the home. It’s always hard to see my gran like that, she’s never been the same since the stroke. I can’t believe it’s almost three years since it happened!

On our way back we stopped at my inlaws again, and had lunch, which comprised of steakrolls. Then we came back home, and have been chilling around the house. I built my LEGO, which took me a good two hours, loved every minute of it!

Yeah, that’s been our Christmas. I’d say it was quite good all around!

Oh, our little doggie’s doing okay, you’d never say she’s just been fixed!  Hopefully her wounds will heal nicely!

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I spent a bit of time with me blog again. I messed around with the theme templates, modified it a bit to suit my tastes for the main page.

I notice that I’m posting a little bit more regularly at least, I guess that’s something to be proud of. This spurred me to see if there’s a way I can feed my blog entries into my Facebook and Livejournal. So I went trolling for WordPress plugins. There’s a Facebook updating plugin for WordPress, but it’s not particularly up to date, so the new Facebook redesign breaks that one, so I put that on the backburner for now. Next up was Livejournal.  I found a WordPress plugin that allows your updates to get posted onto LJ as well, and it works a treat. So if you’re reading this on my LJ, it means it really is working!

If I don’t get a decent Facebook plugin anytime soon, perhaps I’ll dive in and see about developing one myself. But then I’d have to figure out both Facebook’s API, and delve a bit deeper into WordPress as well. I wrote a plugin for WordPress that pulls my Xbox Live gamercard throughh as a widget, and that wasn’t too hectic, did learn quite a bit about the inner workings of WordPress as such, which has come in handy in doing some cosmetic modifications to the themes and such.

In other news, new Metallica album’s pretty damn good. Harks back to vintage Metallica, and that’s only a good thing in my book.

Our puppy’s growing up fast now, but she has discovered a new favourite past-time: snail hunting. She goes and finds them in the garden, and then brings them into the house to chew on her pillow. Then she leaves the bits all over, and that’s just gross! I guess that’s just one more joy of being a pet-owner.

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