Well with all the Christmas proceedings over, the world returns to normality. Slowly the decorations will be removed, good programming will return to our televisions and here in the UK, we’ll all be bombarded with celebrity fitness videos and adverts for 2010 Christmas Hamper packs (Who even does those?). The festive spirit will be laid to rest for another year. But with that said, how was YOUR Christmas? Was that Panasonic Lumix G1 Camera cosily gift-wrapped under the tree waiting for you to shred the packaging? Was the turkey NOT the best example of some of the driest poultry you’ve ever eaten?
Christmas is usually a pretty “meh” affair around my parts. It’s been that way since I turned 13. Funnily enough despite knowing this from the start, time after time I set myself up for disappointment. Shame on me for forgetting that Christmas sucks as you get older. This Christmas did keep the tradition, however wasn’t so bad because I got:
Chuffed!
A pair of mitts, a hat, and 2 pairs of trainers. Nice.
Edit: Imagine a pair of socks somewhere in that image…I literally just got them as I was typing this! I guess no Christmas is complete without SOCKS!
But moving away from Christmas as it is now OVER, we obviously look towards the new year. This is usually another time of year I hate as it breeds procrastination:
Yes... I searched among my own Facebook Friends for that JUST to prove my point!
You only have to be on the homepage of any social networking site before you’re flooded with these… I mean look at the date on the example above. Talk about “the early bird catches the worm”… yeesh!
Another pet peeve of mine, of which we are all pretty much culprits, is that we get so besotted with the year ahead (whether we say it out aloud like Mr Fail in the above example or simply keep it to ourselves), that we forget the year that we are currently in. “Hindsight is always 20/20″ (Megadeth, 1993). Looking back never does anyone harm, does it? (DOES IT!?) Well I indeed looked back and discovered my year was a’ight:
- I made it through to the second year of university without so much as a hiccup
- I had the longest summer holiday known to man
- I had an epiphany in that being unemployed on the longest summer holiday known to man gets boring…. FAST
- I passed my driving test after 3 attempts!
- I went through 2 tires, lost 1 wing mirror, got 3 tickets, paid 1 clamp release fee and have nearly lost my “No Claims bonus” 5 times
- I cut off all of my hair (“a number one please…keep the sideburns”)
- I got the chance to eat Thai, Lebanese, Tex-Mex, Indian, American, Italian, Japanese and Chinese food (A career as a food critique maybe?)
- I bought lots of shoes/sneakers/trainers and in doing so I accidentally stumbled on what I’d like to do in the future (entrepreneurs FTW)
- Saving the best till last in all its glory of corny-ness and shameless promotion, I made a good homeskillet along the way (read her blog yo!)
Like I said, my year was a’ight… But ask yourself… How was yours?
P.S. I sure did sound like a shrink in those last sentences just there didn’t I?
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