Well, what a day !!! Only the one huge surprise...

my dad phoned me first thing- for the first time in 3 years.

Who told him? C'mon. Own up. Or did a collective vibe of 'That's a bad dad' go across the pond for me?
He did say sorry and all that but I actually cut him short as DH had just come home and we had our own thing to do before he slept again.

So here I sit, officially a SUDOKU addict thanks to my new Nintendi thing and my DH. Brain trainer makes me 53 currently

And to my Utah friend, I just tried to work out the time difference to you and I see it's not even christmas with you yet !! Mine's finished, my family's is just beginning and yours isn't anywhere near starting yet. That Santa guy's got HEAPS of time to go round everyone!!

The world's so BIG isn't it?

and no; I haven't had a drink (yet).