Tags: Christmas, incense, church, wedding
Date: 24 December 2007 16:34:56
HD and I have been remarking for a while how calm we are considering that in 5 days' time we will be married (eek!). However, I am feeling distinctly uncalm thinking about a certain well-known online retailer whose site is still insisting on telling me that the delivery (that was dispatched a week ago) that includes the MP3 player which will hopefully be providing the toons for our disco has an estimated delivery date of the 22nd. It didn't arrive. And didn't today.
I phoned them up earlier and they were very apologetic, but said that they hadn't expected the volume of online orders they had got and were a bit overwhelmed. I'm sorry, but as I've already said on facebook, that's like British Rail (or whatever they're called these days) saying they hadn't expected all those trees to shed their leaves.
All is not lost, I can still put all the tracks on iTunes on my laptop so hopefully it will all be OK, but it is a right pain nonetheless. If not I may have to get Kerensa to do an impromptu set - I'm sure the choral soprano bits from the Verdi Requiem will go down a treat as an alternative :)
In other news, we had hoped to get to the cinema later today - Glasgow Film Theatre for the last few years has started a tradition of showing "It's a Wonderful Life" in the week or so leading up till Christmas, finishing on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately we were not very organised (no surprise there then) and when I checked this morning all their showings for today are fully booked. We'll have to try and be more organised next year. We are still on schedule to make it to Midnight Mass though (which is lovely at St Frodo's - Lots of incense :D), and I did just remember to take the veggie haggis out of the freezer so tomorrow's Christmas lunch shouldn't be too disastrous.
I'll probably post tomorrow as well, as we're around for a few days more, but for those of you who are departing to the offline wastelands, have a great Christmas and a peaceful and relaxing holiday for you and yours.