Now that I am on board with spending calendar Christmas in Sofia, I have a new concern. How will Santa find me? I mean, he must be looking for me. I've been a good girl this year.

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Then I realized that apartment life makes things more difficult for both me and Santa because without a fireplace where will I hang my stocking? And without a chimney how will Santa get into my apartment to leave me gifts. Finally, without a proper stocking which of my regular socks should I hang-up?

Luckily these are my current concerns. It could be a lot worse.

In fewer than 24 hours, I've lined up plans for both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  I am making a yogurt cake. In fact, it's French: <a href="http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2005/10/yogurt_cake.php" target="_blank">Gâteau au Yaourt</a>. How fancy is that?! I'm also throwing together a spinach salad/side dish for dinner tonight.  Tomorrow, I am also going to whip up a batch of sugar cookies for Christmas Day. Then, fingers crossed, on December 26th I'll be boarding a plane home.

Ideal? No. But these things happen. <!--more-->

I ended up having a pretty great day yesterday. Aside from the crying.

I checked out the <a href="http://www.foreignartmuseum.bg/en/archive/temporary_exhibition.html" target="_blank">Dali exhibit at the National Gallery of Foreign Art</a>. It was great and totally worth seeing. The one strange thing was that the rest of the museum was closed and unheated. It felt colder inside the museum than outside. Only the Dali exhibit was open and heated. I wonder if the museum is having money problems.

Then I did some window shopping. I found a really great coat, silk shirt and skirt that I would love to have but they were out of my price range for impulse buys. It's probably a good thing too. I might not actually need any more clothes.

My afternoon wrapped up at Memento on Vitosha. It was buzzing and extra cozy feeling. I had a cappuccino and sparkling water and started reading Lady Chatterly's Lover. It's our February book club book at school.  I've read it before and while I like re-reading, there's not the pleasure of discovery in reading a book for the second time. I also found myself annoyed with DH Lawrence's treatment of female sexuality.

I picked up some groceries after throwing what was left of mine on Wednesday night. Yep, that was when I thought I was still flying out on the 23rd.  Funny how that works.

I rushed out to met a friend for dinner at Pizza Ugo. Where we chatted, bemoaned winter travel, and laughed generally about life, service in restaurants and traffic in Sofia. I got home to find another offer to go out with a friend and ended the night at a party in downtown Sofia.  The space was a deconstructed (or maybe under-construction) office and the atmosphere was laid-back cool. I met a couple of ACS grads (<em>hi!</em>) and we chatted about my blog and blogging more broadly in Sofia.

All in all, not bad for a day I'd previously planned to spend flying back to the States.