No, I shan't! It's Christmas!

Mike and I had a very quiet Christmas together for our first one actually together. It was really what we wanted. I had to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. After work on Christmas Eve, I drove over to Turkey Hill and managed to find the bags of gummy bears and chocolate-covered pretzels Mike wanted. I got home around 9:30 and watched him finish playing Uncharted 3. He grabbed a beer, I got some egg-nog and we opened gifts.

I got:

River Song's sonic screwdriver. I have Eleven's, and it keeps guard over my desk at work. I'm carrying River's with me and have currently soniced the cats and a DVD player at Best Buy.

Doctor Who Brilliant Book 2012. This thing is nice.

Doctor Who: Series 4 on DVD

Sherlock: Series 1 on Blu-ray. Do you think we've given the BBC enough money yet?

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. Mike will have this one beaten before I even touch it.

Ranma 1/2: Seasons 1 and 2. Mike's never seen it. We'll rectify this!

8 GB of RAM for my iMac

Mom sent me and Mike $100, so I used Mike's half toward a birthday gift for him and my half went toward getting me a little TV and Blu-ray player for my office. Best Buy had sales on their house-brand electronics, so I managed to get both for right around $200. I picked up their 19-inch LED TV and basic Blu-ray player since about half my Doctor Who collection is now Blu-ray. I can now have the TV on in the background while working on my freelance work and other projects. I don't need a huge screen since it's going on the bookcase next to the desk. The printer's being relocated so I can finally set up the wireless print server.

I picked up Merlin while it was super-cheap ($15 each for series 1 and 2) and have really been enjoying it. I finished up episode 8 the other day and hope to finish series 1 this week. I really need to get caught up.

I managed to catch the jist of the Doctor Who Christmas Special after determining we were not watching "A Piers Morgan Christmas", but mostly just the beginning and lovely, lovely ending since we were on deadline. Julia from work is coming over tomorrow with her brother so we can watch the entire thing properly. Mike watched from the apartment and was appalled at the number of commercials. He said the BBC just has adverts for its own programs between shows, and iTV and Channel 4 only have one commercial break per 30-minute program plus adverts between shows.

Blargh, need to finish the advent stories. They're now just gift fics.

Even if we're just dancing in the dark (1/2)

Title: Even if we're just dancing in the dark (1/2)
Fandom/Characters: Doctor Who, Eleven/River
Rating: T
Word Count: 2,887
Spoilers: If you haven't seen "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe," then this won't make any sense. This story is assuming that "First Night/Last Night" took place after this year's Christmas special.

Summary: He had friends who loved him, and he had a family. He was willing to admit that. But, embracing all the gifts he'd been given meant that he had to clean up the messes he made, and that had to start with her.

( You can't start a fire, worrying about your little world falling apart. )