Eve

I end up mentioning the "Christmas Eve gift" thing practically every Christmas (look in the comments here for more into), but Rob and I have been married for, what, 33 years now (!!) and he said it to me today without any prompting whatsoever - I'm pretty sure it's the first time he's ever done that. I guess he's heard it an awful lot over the years, though - he was around when my grandma and my mother used to go around saying it every year, after all. (Then I looked at my phone and my sister had already texted me to say it, as well. If it's a contest to see who can say it first, then she won.)

We had our "Christmas dinner" today and are just going to have leftovers tomorrow. It was nothing fancy, though - lasagna and apple pie. And we watched While You Were Sleeping, which I hadn't seen in years and years. (I remembered who Sandra ended up with but I couldn't exactly remember how it all worked out.) We enjoyed it. And it's sort of a Christmas movie - basically in the Die Hard sense, where Christmas is just going on in the background but isn't really that integral to the plot. -- Disney+ has it in the holiday movie section, if you have that and you want an easy way to find it.

Our original plan was to drive to San Antonio tomorrow, and that's a really long drive and I can't say I'm sorry we didn't have to do it! I did get to see my sister briefly last week, and in a few months they'll be here (15-20 minutes away, that is) full-time. I haven't lived that close to my sister since we lived in the same house, a million years ago.

Merry whatever

Hope you're having a good day celebrating or staying in or whatever you're doing today. (We talked about going to the movies - which is why I put the Wonder Woman icon up - but we decided to wait. Maybe tomorrow. The WW84 reviews are decent but I'm not expecting anything as good as the first one.)

It occurs to me that this is my Covet anniversary. It's a game I've been playing for two years today - a fashion game, of all things. Part of me doesn't like to think I'm girly enough to play things like that, but clearly I am. I definitely would never have started playing it on my own, though, or even thought about the existence of such a thing. The reason I know I started playing on Christmas Day was that my sister was playing it and she showed it to me and encouraged me to try it, on Christmas afternoon when we were bored. (We had dinner reservations so we were basically just waiting around for it to be dinner time!) We were both playing for a month or two, but she slacked off on it eventually and I didn't. It's the gamer in me, maybe! I'm now level 69 and this is not a game where you level easily. It's fun, though, I always describe it as dressing paper dolls, although I guess I'm aging myself by saying that. The scoring is on the value of your closet, which is kind of comical to me. You dress your dolls and the scoring is at least partly by other players' voting, although I think it's also partly an algorithm. And you get prizes (more clothing to dress your dolls in!) according to how good your score is. Like I say, I would never have thought to play this on my own - I am not a person who dresses fashionably in real life - I like to be comfortable too much. But I have a little fashion habit (if you've ever looked at my Pinterest boards, you probably know this already) where I just like to look at clothes. So I guess it's an outlet for that. But however it happens, apparently I'm pretty good at it.

ADDED: I was trying to post a picture here and I can't get it to work, so I posted it on my little Covet blog that I've never done much with - so that's here. (It's my perfect score that I got the other day.)