First off, Jelly Babies are kind of weird. I thought they would be like Sour Patch Kids; gummy and covered in sugar. Obviously Jelly Babies are, well, jelly, and only lightly dusted in icing sugar, at least the kind my friend bought for me were. Also, this brand names the Jelly Babies; each flavour has a name, which was a bit disturbing. It seemed, though, that everyone else liked them. My sister liked them and so did my mother.

But yay! New Doctor Who! My sister likened me to a crack addict as I waited for it. Hey, to be fair there hasn't been a new episode of Who since July, "Time Crash" notwithstanding.


Plus I went Boxing Day shopping and found the Doctor Who Visual Dictionary at Chapters. :-) With gift cards it was nice and cheap. Nothing like a Doctor Who Christmas. :-D

A friend got me jelly babies for Christmas. Hee! Now I am so tempted to find those little white paper bags and run around saying to people, "Would you like a jelly baby?" Actually, I'll probably crack open the bag on Christmas and eat them while watching "Voyage of the Damned".

Funny thing is, I only mentioned them in passing while we were at the mall. We walked by the British candy store and I was all, "Look, jelly babies," and my friend didn't know what those were. I quickly explained about Doctor Who but my friend doesn't like sci fi (and has admitted that she tried to watch an episode and didn't like it!), so off we went.

Nothing like having friends who put up with your idiosyncrasies. :-D

A Muppet Family Christmas has got to be one of the best Christmas specials ever. I used to watch it every year for what seems like forever. It got to the point where me or my sister could say a random line - like "Watch out for that icy patch!" "The heck you say," and "Gobbla-gobbla humongo!" - and we would burst out laughing. A couple of years ago, though, YTV stopped showing it in favour of other, newer, but suckier Christmas specials. A DVD was released of the special but some scenes were cut due to music rights.

Thank goodness for YouTube. You can watch the whole unedited version and it's still as good as I remember. :-D


The links to the other parts if you're interested:

Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five