hope everyone has had [or is still having for those of you in the US] a fabulous and merry christmas. It truly has been a family christmas for me for the first time in a few years. My brother, sister-in-law, neice, nana, grandad, mum, dad, and numerous aunts and uncles are all staying at my parents for a hectic but fun christmas dinner. a joint effort thankfully or my mum would have collapsed with the effort I think.
so whereever you are and whatever you are doing have a great time.
whilst I was christmas shopping in covent garden – wandered into neals yard and it started to snow – made me feel all christmassy – or whatever 🙂
also went to the national film theatre to see the wizard of oz today – kate and paul were very suprised that this was the first time I have ever seen it. Well it was and I tell you had I seen it as a child I would have had nightmares abot the munchkins I tell you – scary was not the word.
then off to david and andrews for a christmas party in sydenham which was lovely met lots of pauls friends [well he claims not to have known most of them] which was nice and I’m feeling happy and lovely.
gotta take his pressie back to the BT shop though so he can have a dect phone with an answer machine – I mean not content with patrick cox shoes
anyways feeling really festive now with my tree and the snow so I added some snow to the site too [only on IE and AOL I’m afraid not NS] so off to walk jack and then to bed to dream of nice things.
tomorrow is jacs party with mulled wine and minced pies and then monday – thursday at my folks in liverpool so less blogging than usual. so in case I don;t log on before then – if you celebrate it – MERRY CHRISTMAS – and if you don’t – have a good few days!
aol australia have a tasteful flash animation for the festive season – not sure why they have snow though since they are in the middle of summer at the moment. Anyways play at your own risk 🙂
free bar on a thursday night is just plain evil! and never ending champagne glasses are the gift of satan!
Now normally it is me who has to apologise after getting drunk and making a complete idiot of myself. [I’m sure I do still need to apologise to a few people – but less than after scally‘s birthday party] So it was quite a suprise to have 2 emails when I got in this morning apologising for things from last night, both from directors too – so I must have been either doing something right or something very very wrong!
I was made to blush last night – and that is normally a very difficult thing to do.
After getting fairly wasted and generally merry scally, rick, andrew and I hit McDonalds Drive Thru in wandsworth for munchies. 4 queens eating Maccy D’s [well only 3 actually as rick quite sensibly refused the evil food] in a car park is not the best look I can tell you.
Note to self: don’t get drunk
another note to self: don’t take glitter sticks to work parties
yet another note to self: don’t talk whilst drunk it only gets you into trouble
last night in the pub we managed to discuss how shops are cashing in on christmas to the point of being absurd. Spence noticed sainsbury’s selling christmas scented bleach and then we decided in the style of turkey and stuffing crisps they could do turkey flavour condoms for when you are being stuffed with cranberry flavour lube. marketing mans dream us lot you know!
well okay it was only a lunch but it went on for a while. eep I’m an ickle pissed.
Sunday night I dreamt that jonathan & marky, scally & rick, spence & glen, nic & vianney with andrew, dave and myself in tow had gone to the supermarket to buy supplies for christmas as we were all spending it together at my parents house.
we were all arguing which spirits and champagne to buy and whether to fly to liverpool or get a train.
and then somehow we were already in liverpool and had ended up at a bowling alley playing in the dark with glowing bowling balls and lots of semi naked staff with there tops off with dodgy elevator muzac versions of christmas carols but with a distinctly almighty records kind of beat. the bar had a viewing gallery overlooking us and loads of my family were there watching us all play but they all had evening wear on and sipping champagne.
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You know sometimes you feel like the world is dumping on you from a great height. Today I have decided to get some of it off my chest as it is starting to eat away inside me and I’m sure that isn’t good for my karma.
A while a go a work colleague was stuck at very short notice for somewhere to stay over Christmas and New Year so I naturally offered my spare room until they got sorted [no rent or anything as this was a guy kicke out of his home] and the offer was until he found somewhere to stay.
So this was fine until he decided rather than look for somewhere to stay he would like to just rent the spare room from me. He was planning on leaving the country in June anyway so wouldn’t be able to get a lease for such a short period. By this time I was kind of used to him being around so we agreed a nominal rent [after all he had just had a child and needed his cash].
All ticked along with me not charging bills or anything as I would be paying them if I lived alone anyways and I was sure the extra gas and electricity would not amount to much. Now call me a mug but when he bought himself a new ?2k laptop I figured he had a loan or something or his folks had paid – as he was supposed to be broke. We did however revisit the subject of bills [especially as by this stage he had stopped contributing to groceries] and he agreed to pay towards [not half but an amount towards] the general bills in addition to his rent.
Now you may think I earn too much or something but he never contributed to the bills ever or the groceries since April and I never considered checking his rent was paying each month – what with travelling and expense claims and erratic payments into my account I just presumed he was paying. Now he moved out on Sunday and on the Friday I discovered he had not paid rent for basically the last 3 months – so now I am left feeling that you know he bought loads of cool new stuff whilst staying – new laptop, loads of new scuba gear and has now fucked off to work in the carribean leaving me out of pocket and depressed.
I keep thinking of all the things I could do with the money – like pay off credit cards or go on holiday or buy new sofa’s [since I have been without sofa’s since May]. I feel I should write him a mail but then think well fuck it it’s not like he is going to worry about it now he is in the carribean is it? I just feel completely drained and used and abused and wonder if I will ever be as welcoming into my home again.
🙂 well had a nice night – didn’t actually make it to the gym. The lovely spence hadn’t managed to get his passport photo done. Which is good as it gave me the perfect excuse to back out of going along. I have managed another day without bowing to peer pressure.
One down side is I didn’t get to go for a drink with him either. Instead I was entertaining andrew and sprogg with a lovely fish casserole and a few very stressful games of Jenga – well actually a very cheap Czech version bought from one of the lovely christmas markets in the old town square a few years ago whilst visiting ff. It is made up of coloured blocks and has dice so you have to take a colour according to what you roll. We spent a very traumatic night playing it whilst drinking very cheap Czech vodka with lots of people. Anyways it was no less traumatic tonight – just easier because the thirteen year old always tends to lose. I mean they just go for the blocks no one else would try in a million years 😉
Looking forward to the burns supper tomorrow night at scally’s – my dad would be proud. Well actually he wouldn’t but then that’s another story. I wish I had continued to learn the bagpipes now – it would have been a great party trick. Instead I’ll just have to try and drag some tartan out the wardrobe and make small talk!
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