The Importance of Being Idle

Take A Picture, It'll Last Longer

And so here we stand again, on the precipitous edge of another year...
Actually Christmas has been pretty fun this year. Health wise I was feeling okay until we spent Christmas Day at my parents, or more accurately I felt fine until I spent the evening trading shots of Jagermeister with Stu and playing endless hours of Guitar Hero (which, incidentally, is quite possibly the most fun video gaming experience I've ever had. Although the downside is that I'm oddly addicted to lots of 70s prog and stadium rock with excessive twiddly guitar pieces, 'cos I now have some inkling of how much fun it is to actually PLAY those things!). I don't know if it was the huge stretch of video-gaming, or the alcohol reacting rather badly with my meds, but frankly I've not been right since and have foresworn alcohol as a result, which isn't exactly a big loss, is it?
We stayed at a hotel Christmas night (which would've been fun, except I was clearly reacting badly to something 'cos I spent pretty much the whole night uncontrollably shivering), then in the morning we came back home to P'boro and went to spend Boxing Day with Ronnie's folks. That was also fun, although I was tired and pretty incoherent for most of that.
Since then we've just been foottling about, staying in bed late and enjoying having nothing very much to do. We've also shopped rather extensively and spent lots of our Christmas money, but then that IS what it's for, right?
And so we come to tonight, New Years Eve. Sigh.
Ronnie's working, so if I want to spend the evening with her then I have to go to where she is, and I do want to spend it with her so that's a kinda foregone conclusion. Whether I want to spent eight hours in a pub, in Carry On themed fancy dress, or not, is another question entirely (the answer is : I really don't). Plus my feelings on New Year are well known, stupid arbitrary holiday that it is. At least MY new year starts on my birthday, which makes sense from a personal perspective. I half wonder how long New Year has been where it currently is, but I really can't be bothered to do the research required to find out, no matter how minimal it may be.
So say good-bye to 2006, 2007 is nearly here. The future eh? Ain't what it used to be.

posted by BadMonkey @ 2:24 PM