It's good to hear that your Christmas has been working out fine so far!

Nah, Crocky is in Hesse. Who can blame her - the last time I spent Christmas there was eerily like something out of a fairy tale, what with singing together around the tree for hours and genuinely happy people who were all ecstatic about getting to spend some time together. None of the good Christmas traditions of stressed, snappy relatives cramped together in a room, not talking in Hesse, they're all really weird. <3

Hey, my brother got a tripod, too, I'll still be stealing my mother's. :D