It’s Christmas eve and I’m writing a quickish blog before the festivities begin.
There isn’t a great deal to update you with to be honest, I’ve mainly been Christmas shopping.
Carl and Jo are back from uni for Christmas, we all went over to wetherspoons on Monday for a few drinks, it was good to have all the gang reunited again.
On Thursday my aunt phoned me asking if I could help with some decorating. My cousin had the brilliant idea of arranging for her to have the lounge decorated in time for Christmas but decided she could do it all herself, I came over to lend a hand before the carpet was put down, after hours of sanding and painting it reached midnight and we realized that even if we did finish in time the paint would still be wet so the carpet got put back until the new year.
My dad came over yesterday, he’s here until after Christmas. Before he came here he’d been having a few problems with his computer, not only would it not work but when he went to get it repaired nobody could put their finger on why it wouldn’t work, so he was given a £730 voucher for a new one.
Today he decided to have a look at some computers at PC world…only to find ourselves going back for the voucher and buying one, his computer looks really good, it’s still all boxed right now but it beats the pants off any other computer I’ve ever seen.
After delivering a few cards and presents I got home to cook the tea for the family, I cooked a lamb crumble served with carrots and little roast potatoes…nobody has fallen ill so far which is good.
Anyway, I just have a few things to wrap and then I’m all set for Christmas, I’ll update you as to how the day went. Until then here’s a festive video for y’all…
…I bought these gifts for you they're up in my bum!
So I’m slowly getting the hang of my new phone, I’ve had it just over a week now and considering my old phone was like something from the Flintstones I’m adapting to the change pretty well.
One thing bugged me though…when I ordered it I also ordered £10 worth of credit, but when I got my phone and checked my balance there was no sign of it, I decided to phone Orange and have a word, however when I got to speak to somebody and tell them my problem they put me on hold, at this point I noticed that Scrubs was just starting so I switched it on…
“Could you just hold the line a second Mr Robinson?” “Sure!” *music starts* (This is where I switch Scrubs on) *music stops* “Mr Robinson?” *Turk farts on TV* “…Shit!…um…hi!…” (Struggling to mute the TV) “Could you just tell me your order number please?” *Turk farts again on TV* “Bollocks!…um…yeah hang on…that was the TV not me by the way!”
I could hear the man laughing to himself as I read the number out, I think it taught me to always mute the TV before phoning somebody, it also taught me to check my credit before complaining that it didn’t go through as it went through about an hour before I phoned up…oh well, was worth a try I guess.
On Friday I went ice skating with Gaz, Marcus and Jenny. I hadn’t been ice skating in a few years so I was just hoping it was quiet in case I ended up on my arse. When we got there it was pretty packed and we even got frisked by a security bloke, I think we were the oldest people there because most of the people looked like they came straight from school.
After getting our skates on we got onto the ice, luckily I got the hang of it pretty quickly and was able to go all the way round without falling over. Just as I was doing well though I could see a big black man holding a woman’s hand and they were both coming towards me, the woman went one side, the man went the other and they didn’t let go of each other’s hands which resulted in me being clotheslined to my arse, I got up, looked round to make sure nobody saw and carried on skating.
After a while we all built up an appetite and headed next door as Adam joined us for a Chinese buffet. As always with Chinese buffets I can never remember what I ate but I can guarantee you that I tried nearly everything they had there, the only thing I can remember eating was duck - which I very gracefully flipped over my shoulder as I tried to pick it up with chopsticks.
My weekend was pretty dull as always, so dull in fact that I don’t even remember it…I’m sure it’ll come back to me.
On Monday me and Gaz went round Adam’s house to play Gears Of War on the Xbox 360, after a while we decided to take the game over to Gaz’s house so we could do the 2 player mode and try it online. The game was pretty amazing, a bit difficult to control at first but when you get the hang of it it’s hard to put down…we never did get round to playing it online though.
Yesterday we planned to go and see Jackass 2, now this had been the plan before but it got changed due to Cineworld in Solihull not wanting to show it, so we had to venture over to Rubery to see the movie.
On the way there though something happened which I’ll never forget…a car which was a few cars ahead of us had stopped and put on it’s hazard lights, we thought it had broken down at first until it came to overtaking it and we saw a boy lying down in front of the car. I went cold as I saw this kid lying there, I should have been more worried but I forced myself to block the image out of my mind for the night.
The film itself was hilarious and yet enough to make you vomit at the same time, I’m pretty sure you could be arrested for describing half of the things they did let alone copying them. Just in case you’re not squeamish…here’s a trailer for you…
So I’m making a promise now, I’m not going to backdate this blog any longer…and if I do…well…um…you have the right to slap me right in the face.
So to go on with have this trailer for some film coming out later this year…
Yes I know this blog is backdated too, but enough about that, lets get on with the blog shall we?
Okey dokey, last Tuesday I was bored and needed to get something to eat for lunch, this however meant that I needed to get some money out of the cash point and as always the one by me wasn’t working so I took a walk up to Sainsbury’s.
Impulse buy #1 - As I was starting out though I remembered what my mum was telling me about seeing some Freeview boxes for sale there for only £25, this got me thinking about how crap the signal in my room way, and about how (because the aerial from the cable box downstairs was connected to my TV) I had to walk downstairs every time I wanted to change the channel. In the end I decided that for £25 it wouldn’t exactly be me spending my money…more like…investing it.
I got home and set it all up, it was pretty easy apart from getting all the leads to reach, straight off I watched a double bill of Scrubs while eating my lunch, this was £25 well spent…er…I mean invested.
Anyway that evening we’d all planned to go and see a film I’d been looking forward to for over a year…Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. Here is the trailer…
…Looks good doesn’t it?…actually it was rather disappointing, it wasn’t as funny as I’d hoped plus the storyline was really predictable, I did like it…just not as much as I hoped I would.
On Thursday I decided to do the weekly job centre visit and do a bit of Christmas shopping, I also needed a longer scart lead, some gloves and some stuff for the photo restoration. After bumping into Adam and a few minutes later bumping into Luke I picked up everything I needed and decided I was tired and wanted to go home..
…Dammit! I forgot the scart lead!…
…So as I turned round to go back towards Woolworths something caught my eye in the window of the Orange shop, I ignored it and carried on to Woolworths, on the way back I decided to have a second look at what it was that caught my eye in the window of the Orange shop, it turned out to be nothing but seeing as I stopped right by the door I decided to have a look inside. While I was in there I saw a pretty cool looking phone going for £45, but you had to buy £10 of credit with it making it £55...nice. Then I went home.
Impulse buy #2 - When I got home I thought I’d take a closer look at that phone online, it looked pretty good, it was the Motorola L6 and had Bluetooth, camera, video…it could make phone calls, but best of all it was £10 cheaper to buy off the Orange website. I looked at my old phone and decided it was time to press it’s off button and buy this phone.
When I had that cold a few weeks back it seemed to clear up all of a sudden, I had a feeling that it would be back with a vengeance…and on Friday I was proved right, my throat felt like I’d swallowed a pine cone and sure enough it was the start of another nasty cold and a return to my deathbed.
Over the weekend I didn’t do much, although I did watch Zoolander which was brilliant, if you haven’t seen it yet here’s a quick clip…
On Sunday my mum needed some money off me, but I had none, the only money I did have was in the bank so I had to walk up to the cash point at Sainsbury’s (full of a cold) to take some out. While we were up there we decided to buy a few things but who should we bump into but my nan, she’d just picked up a few things too so we told her to wait and we’d get a taxi back with her…we raced round really quickly and went back where we’d left her but she was gone, we checked the taxi area but she wasn’t there so we looked all over the shop. After an hour of looking for her we asked the woman at the enquiries desk who said she ordered a taxi and went home, this really wouldn’t have bothered me but now it was raining and we had to walk back in the rain which only made my cold worse.
Today was my signing on day again, now after last time I signed on and barely had to even speak I was expecting this to be a walk in the park…
“Mr Robinson please!…” “Hi” “Hello…” “…So where do I sign?” “Aren‘t you going to tell me what you‘ve been doing to look for work?” “Oh…Um…Well I’ve not been well and…er…” “Where is your proof?” “My proof?” “Yes, to prove that you’ve been applying for work” “What?…er…I don’t seem to have it on me today…damn!” “Oh, and you should be signing on at the Kingsheath branch, not the Solihull one.” “Er…ok…” “…Sign here and if you have no proof next time you sign on your JSA will be stopped”
So I got my money…just about, I think this taught me not to just presume it would be as easy as it was the time before. I think I’m also lacking motivation when it comes to looking for work, I’m not sure if it’s the time of year or something but a part of me just can’t be bothered with it all.
Anyway, I left the job centre and headed home in a bit of a bad mood about the whole JSA situation, I was in a bad mood and needed something to cheer me up. As I walked through the front door I saw a package on the table waiting for me…it was my phone.
I’ve not long unpacked it all but it all looks rather sexy and about a million times better than my old phone, I still have my old number just in case you were wondering, although not all of the numbers are on here yet so if you phone me at all and I ask who you are at least you know why.
I’ll try and update my blog a little faster next time, until then here’s a little video for you…
Today he decided to have a look at some computers at PC world…only to find ourselves going back for the voucher and buying one, his computer looks really good, it’s still all boxed right now but it beats the pants off any other computer I’ve ever seen.
