3 weeks!…3 weeks and no blog, I should be ashamed I really should but I can explain…2 days after my last blog I suddenly developed a tickly cough out of nowhere, I thought nothing of it until the next day when I realized that I had a chest infection and my temperature was all over the place. As the day went by I just kept getting worse, I was aching all over and I knew that this wasn’t just a chest infection but proper flu. I needed to act fast and do what I needed to do before I started to get worse……so I got online and ordered a bunch of DVDs…no wait, there is a logical explanation for that - you see once again we forgot to pay the cable bill and we knew that if it wasn’t paid by the Monday it would be cut off, therefore with no TV, internet or phone I needed something to watch while I was ill. I ordered Garden State, Sin City and Chasing Amy, they were all going for about a fiver in the play.com sale so it would have been stupid not to really.As I battled with the flu and with boredom eventually the cable was back on and I got lured into the world of Celebrity Big Brother. I’m not ashamed to admit that sometimes I do like to watch Big Brother…but it’s not such a good idea when you watch it all day with the flu…especially when you can be delirious.I can’t explain exactly what happened, I went to bed and dreamt that I was in the Big Brother house and Ozzy Osbourne was going to be coming in…but that’s where it gets a bit weird and everything just went on a constant loop, I ended up having the same dream about 100 times and woke up in the morning thinking I’d gone mad, I came downstairs to have a drink and take my mind off it only to find my mum sat in the lounge watching Big Brother on TV, I so very nearly screamed.After about 2 weeks the flu started to go but my chest infection still lurks, I should really see the doctor I guess.Anyway, what else has happened?…Oh yeah, I needed a new game to play on Xbox live so I decided to go for a game I was good at…something I’ve hardly ever lost a game of…Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland! I’ve only ever lost a game of that once and that was due to the control pad, not me…honest. When I got the game I had a bit of practice and then had a go online, straight off a managed a 35,000 point combo - brilliant! By the end of the round I checked my score, I had about 150,000 I was dead chuffed until I checked everyone else’s scores…2,000,000...8,000,000...12,000,000. Maybe I’m not as good as I thought but I will beat them, oh yes, I WILL beat them!I think that’s about it for this blog, I won’t leave you with a video this time but with a couple of blogs to check out, make sure you read Gemma’s blog and when you’ve finished reading that, have a look at Lank’s blog.I’m going to eat now……What’s a Nubian?
Happy Christmas!…yeah sorry about the slight delay there, I guess I should tell you all about the past week.Well Christmas morning came and we all got up at about 8ish, I say all of us - my mum was working that night so she didn’t get home until about 8:15. After a quick cup of coffee we started unwrapping presents, I had a new stereo for my room because I had my old stereo when I first started Woodrush, so when I say old I really mean old. My dad got me a nice big bottle of Jack Daniel’s in a leather box, the only problem was that the security tag was still on it. Luckily everyone was quite happy with their presents, I got my mum a George Foreman grill, my dad had an MP3 player and my sister had a box of various different perfumes.Because my mum was working the night before she then had to go to bed which meant that me and my dad were in charge of the turkey, all we had to do was turn it down at 1:45……2:20…“The turkey smells nice…shit!”
Yeah, we forgot all about it but luckily it was still edible. When my mum got up that evening she did the vegetables and we eventually had our Christmas dinner at about 7pm. After the dinner we all sat down to watch a bit of telly, my mum fell asleep while I spent an hour getting the security tag off my Jack Daniel’s and my dad and sister settled down with something to drink.My dad went home on the Wednesday, I think he looking forward to setting up his new computer, in fact I’m surprised he hasn’t phoned me yet asking for help, I might give him a quick rind after I write this.
On Thursday Gareth rang me to say that they were all going to the Lickey hills to fly his kite and if I wanted to come along, I quickly had a shower and got dressed and got over to Gareth’s house. When everyone turned up we headed off to the Lickeys, we set up the kite and attempted flying it.
It went about 2 feet off the floor, flapped about and dropped again, we tried every angle and technique you could think of. There was definitely a lot of wind so it couldn’t have been that, if fact it was so cold and windy that after a while we gave up and went to the pub.Yesterday was new year’s eve, I’m not such a big fan of seeing the new year in anymore, firstly to get in at most places you have to pre-book and pay £10 to get in anywhere, then once you’re in you have to wait half an hour at the bar before you get served, then once you’re served you don’t even get a seat, all this on top of the shite music (Europe - the final countdown, Right Said Fred - I’m too sexy, Scissor Sisters, etc.), the crowds and the taxi home which costs nearly £20…and yet people say that it’s ‘all part of the fun!’…that’s certainly not my idea of fun! I prefer to just spend my new year’s eve at home with friends and family, although saying that my mum got drunk and started calling the year ‘nineteen-hundred and six’, then when my phone went just after singing Auld Lang Syne my mum says ‘Perhaps that’s Chloe’, despite the fact that I haven’t spoken to her or even spoken of her in over a year, good to see that the words of Auld Lang Syne had some effect then.So now it’s 2007, I’m hoping it’ll be a lot better than 2006, I’m hoping to look back on this post in a year’s time and be able to laugh at how much things have changed since then.…Should auld acquaintance be forgot and…what are the words?
