{"id":1042,"date":"2009-12-29T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2009-12-29T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:25:03","slug":"christmas-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously do not know if this will be my last Christmas in Seattle with BH\u00a0\ud83d\ude41 I feel that i&#8217;m leading a wasted life here.. but going back to work means it&#8217;s lifeless once again.. i really don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, BH and I had a <strong>&#8220;Messy Christmas&#8221;<\/strong> instead of a <strong>&#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; <\/strong>We needed to move out of our old apartment by 30 Dec &#8211; so we did the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1025\" target=\"_blank\">moving <\/a>and things were like lying ard in every inch of the new place. We also didn&#8217;t deco our new place or have any X&#8217;mas tree , unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=92\">last yr<\/a> \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 The first is always the best ( erm&#8230; just like 1st love? heh)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The day before Christmas Eve &amp; Christmas Eve were spent baking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n1) Cookies &#8211; cheated and used a ready made bake. heh.. turns out nice! okok.. i seriously wanted to mk my own cookies BUT all the rolling pins were OOS!! can u believe it??? man&#8230; muz stock baking supplies early here<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1046\" title=\"christmas1\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas1.JPG\" alt=\"christmas1\" width=\"414\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2) Chocolate Eclairs\u00a0&#8211; baked from scratch&#8230; together with the pastry choco cream \ud83d\ude42 added some x&#8217;mas candies as deco for x&#8217;mas feel<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc3\/hs126.snc3\/17379_219612192798_664092798_3307427_2205819_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Christmas Eve<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1048\" title=\"DSC_0099\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC_0099.JPG\" alt=\"DSC_0099\" width=\"362\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(above shows our potluck x&#8217;mas bake and the gifts for White Elephant Game aka gift exchange)<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nDenny and Sam invited us to their friends&#8217; Christmas party \ud83d\ude42 We had fun, made new friends\u00a0( though it was sad tt Sam was sick and cldn&#8217;t mk it)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>erm&#8230; spent packing and moving stuff from old place &#8211; our old neighbours saw us and he was like &#8221; you guys are moving on Christmas day?? &#8221; manz&#8230; we have no choice \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BH &amp; I exchanged gifts&#8230; I think our <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=133\" target=\"_blank\">presents<\/a> from each other were better? haha..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1047\" title=\"christmasbh\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasbh.JPG\" alt=\"christmasbh\" width=\"431\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BH was a happy boy upon receiving the watch &#8211; coz i told him i didn&#8217;t get anything for him this yr.. hehe<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1043\" title=\"Fullscreen capture 12282009 53307 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12282009-53307-PM.bmp\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 12282009 53307 PM\" width=\"336\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t snow in Seattle this yr&#8230; so BH gave me a snowflake \ud83d\ude42 It was sweet BUT <strong>can someone pls teach BH how to be romantic? <\/strong>heh.. he figured out tt i was happy with the little blue box <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=690\" target=\"_blank\">last time <\/a>and decided tt the blue box will mk me happy again&#8230; geez&#8230; it did but something fresh will be <strong>niceR<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>BH also\u00a0made us this!! A calendar! manz&#8230; I thought this was the sweetest thing he\u00a0did after soooooooooo long!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1044\" title=\"P1060210\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1060210.JPG\" alt=\"P1060210\" width=\"378\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every page in each mth was filled with great memories for the year <em>(and I can see how much weight i gained each mth thru&#8217; the pics.. thanx ah..)<\/em>\u00a0Anyhow, it&#8217;s still a cool and sweet gift!! Shall take pics\u00a0of it\u00a0mth by mth and put it up!<\/p>\n<p>yupz&#8230; tt&#8217;s all for our X&#8217;mas weekend&#8230;. stay tune for my next entry\u00a0for pics of\u00a0our new place! okok.. give u a pic to lead u on 1st.. haha ;p<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1045\" title=\"sneak preview\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sneak-preview.JPG\" alt=\"sneak preview\" width=\"436\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously do not know if this will be my last Christmas in Seattle with BH\u00a0\ud83d\ude41 I feel that i&#8217;m leading a wasted life here.. but going back to work means it&#8217;s lifeless once again.. i really don&#8217;t know Anyhow, BH and I had a &#8220;Messy Christmas&#8221; instead of a &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; We needed to move &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}