On the 4th Day of Christmas....

Continuing on with my Christmas Memoirs..... 

Here's one I plucked from about circa 1988, I was in my very first

serious relationship and learned a valuable lesson about what

to ask your man for at Christmas. 

I was young, just out of school and working at my first job, my 

boyfriend was in the Army; tall, dark and very handsome! 

We started dating after my eighteenth birthday party where we 

had met for the first time, he was a friend of my sister. 

By the time we got to celebrate our first Christmas together we

were very much an item and completely inseparable...at least on 

the weekends, we lived about three hours apart so didn't get

to see each other during the week but would spend hours on the

phone. It was in one of those conversations that he asked 

what I would like for Christmas, I told him to surprise me! 

When I told my Mum about the conversation, she looked at me

with one of those looks only a mother can do, and told me

that I had made a big mistake. 

Whaaat?? What mistake, he was an awesome boyf and I was 

sure he'd get me something fabulous. 

Christmas came around, handsome boyf turns up with my 

gifts and I very excitedly began to slowly unwrap the 

first one which quite honestly I knew was an LP.. you can't 

disguise and LP no matter how hard you try. 

INXS, Kick, awesome... love INXS, how thoughtful... 

now what's in the big present???

I ripped off the paper to reveal the ugliest ceramic 

CAT you have ever seen, white with green plastic

eyes??????? WT absolute F??????

I thanked him politely and looked over at Mother with that 

all knowing look on her face. Instantly, in that very moment my

first lesson in dealing with the male of the species was learned, 

never give them carte blanch at Christmas, be very specific

in what you ask for. They do not have the gift gene, they just don't

get it... and ladies... if they do, they're gay! 

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!  

haven't taken any pics in ages so just rehashing this one to fill in and decorate

my post.... lame I know!!!!!