Fu Zi's first tree

Fu Zi's first tree
Originally uploaded by Alison J. L.

Yesterday I trekked out into the surrounding mountains of Daegu and brought home a tiny tree. Ok, not really. I walked about two blocks to the left of our apartment and bought it for 15,000 KRW at a plant shop. The cat was so excited that she jumped onto the table and sniffed it like crazy. I'm excited to put presents under it next week and have Christmas day a day earlier, here to the east of the international dateline. We get the day off, thank goodness. Plans are: after a breakfast of biscuits and mushroom gravy (hopefully, if we find a toaster oven) and hot cocoa spiked with whatever we find at the "Family Mart", I will go back to bed and read until I decide to get dressed up all fancy to go downtown to the Holy Grill for turkey & champagne dinner with Timber and new friends. This is my first holiday away from family and it'd better be a good one. Fu Zi is getting special kitty wet food and some new toys since she keeps losing them under the sofa and beds and I can only find 1/3 of the toys she started with. But don't tell her. Timber is getting a bunch of awesome stuff that I can't write about because she might read this. And your presents will probably arrive sometime in February, because I'm halfway across the world.