What a great Xmas!

Had a great xmas, I think it was the best xmas I have had in a long time. I hardly worked in the pub, had a lot rest and just watched loads of tv (in fact I nearly started back into watching the soaps only I was strong....and read instead)....I read the Da Vinci code from cover to cover and was completely hooked!...a great book!

Not looking forward to having to go back to real life again!

Work Xmas Do's and Don'ts

Do

Drink and be merry.
Complement your boss on what a great year it has been.
Dance with the right person in the right area.
Eat and comment on how good the food is.
Go home and have a pleasant sleep.
Wake up the next day with no regrets or fading memories of horror.

Don't

Get absolutely blitzed and forget your own name.
Throw paper aeroplanes at your boss while also flicking the V sign in his general direction.
Dance on the table to a chorus of 'shake it like a poloroid picture'.
Say 'whats the point of eating when you have fine drink' and spill your dinner all over the person sitting beside you.
Not go home but wake up in a strange house wearing different clothes from those you remember putting on the day before and a pair of fluffy slippers covered with leaves.
Have horrible recollections of dancing with the bosses wife a little too suggestively.

Merry Christmas Everyone

From the lips of the Legendary orange crooner Cliff (will he ever just give up and die) Richard......

'The snow is falling all around us,
Children singing having fun,
This is the season for love and understanding
Merry Christmas Everyone'

p.s. just been told that it was the knockkneed bopper Shakin' Stevens who sang this number.....but i'm too lazy to change the post....

Peacock Suit

Yesterday, hung over as hell I had to crawl out of bed to dress head to toe as a peacock at a childrens community day in St Georges Market. Now once I had donned the costumed designed for me and had discovered that I could move, I had a bit of dilemma. Now this wasn't a dilemma like choose between the brunette or the blonde, or a choclate eclair and the chocolate chip cookie.....more of one requiring creativity regarding movement. How in the name of all that is holy and scared and natural does a Peacock move? Does it wiggle its bum, cock its head or jiggle like a polaroid picture? mmmm I decided that he would take on a gangster walk with a slight joggle once I found that the head wasn't stable enough to do a full on Monty python silly walkesque movement. I think it worked out ok....at least I haven't seen the pictures yet to see.....

Turkeys and Homemade vino

Joined the resources with our neighbours to make a joint Christmas dinner, we offered plates, our oven, table, chairs, bought trivial persuit and forgiveness.....they offered turkeys, food and wine......it all worked out wonderfully! So much so that at 4am I stood up and sang 'Survivor' by Destinys Child only to find that it is impossible to sing unless you are in fact:

a) A Woman
b) Someone who can sing
c) You are black
d) You are Destinys Child

So, I punished their eardrums and they all punished mine with playstation 2's version of Karaoke. I am surprised that we didn't wake up the entire neighbourhood...but it was great. I left about 5am to go home and prepare to be a Peacock the next day.

Snow angels

Crystals
melting like tears
on button noses
leaving
rosy cheeks
warm with joy

Championship Manager

I am now officially addicted to the XBox version of Chamionship Manager. I have played two seasons of the game and spent all day yesterday on my day off playing it non-stop. I woke at 11:30am, had a shower, something to eat and sat down to play the game, my housemate came in at 2pm and had some lunch, said i'd not be playing it later. But low and behold at 8pm I was still sitting playing it, had brought Aston Villa from 17th place the season before to Champions League football. Now you would think having blurred vision and a wierd dream last night would have put me off....but it seems that tonight and my day off tomorrow will be more of the same....i'm thinking of tactical substitutions as we speak.

The Incredibles

If you get the chance at all in the next wee while you should certainly go out and catch this in the cinema before they stop showing it! Make sure you go early as well....cause there is a small animation shown before it starts and it is nearly as good as the whole feature. The wee baby in the family is just amazingly created....so funny! Check it out soon! Ok!