Christmas
Have to say I didnt want to stab any of my family members this year, which is lovely. Also, I am becoming that uncle who always turns up hungover at xmas and falls asleep in his chair after lunch...
We had an Orphans xmas dinner with the Lesbo-Hippie Colony on the Friday, which was awesome. HEAPS of food, a lucky dip of $2 shop pressies (I got a fireman action set!), much booze, a lollie scramble, some very drunken singing, and more booze.
The girls decided to make a contribution to xmas festivities by spray painting lovely purple phrases all over my van.
So since I didnt have time to repaint it before family xmas I had the pleasure of driving this around town for a day and also of parking it at my parents house where all my rellies could tactfully avoid remarking on it all day... hilarity! I had two near misses where people were staring at my van instead of at where they were driving so its probably a good thing its been repainted now. On the up side, I totally avoided any Talks about kids or where I was going with my life because everyone was kinda stunned into just smiling politely at me and avoiding any topic other than the weather...
My secret santa gift was for my uncle, I bought him a cookbook of bbq and bistro recipes. Steak is the only thing I can remember him readily having an interest in, other than church, and I think he really loved it. I got a collection of BBQ platters and implements, including my first Barbie-Mate™. Owning one of these feels like a right of passage of some kind. Apparently I have a pile of other pressies at my sisters place that I never got round to opening on the day, so I get to go pick those up later. Weeee!
Sunday was a round of boozing with the alcoholics and lessies, where we invented a new game: 'How many lesbians can Calum wear and still walk?' We got up to three fairly easily but after that we kinda start running out of room to hang them. Perhaps with a step ladder we could do more, but I feel that would change the rules of the game somewhat...
Also, Bex was all hot cos one of the guys said he was a little bi-curious, so she made it her mission to get me to pash him. She tried offering $5, then $20, then her master stroke was to set up a drinking game of 'Suck Blow' and to seat the dude next to me... Suck Blow is a game of passing a playing card round a circle by sucking it onto yr mouth and then passing it to the next persons mouth. If it gets dropped you both drink... yup real subtle. I dont think I was pissed enough to fall for that one haha!
After xmas I was back at work for a couple days trying to keep on top of things a bit... mixed success in that department since I was also trying to get my van prepped for paint and organise our New Years trip up to Coromandel. Still got lots to do heading into the New Year but I figure since its the holidays everyones a bit lenient on time frames at the moment.
We had an Orphans xmas dinner with the Lesbo-Hippie Colony on the Friday, which was awesome. HEAPS of food, a lucky dip of $2 shop pressies (I got a fireman action set!), much booze, a lollie scramble, some very drunken singing, and more booze.
The girls decided to make a contribution to xmas festivities by spray painting lovely purple phrases all over my van.
So since I didnt have time to repaint it before family xmas I had the pleasure of driving this around town for a day and also of parking it at my parents house where all my rellies could tactfully avoid remarking on it all day... hilarity! I had two near misses where people were staring at my van instead of at where they were driving so its probably a good thing its been repainted now. On the up side, I totally avoided any Talks about kids or where I was going with my life because everyone was kinda stunned into just smiling politely at me and avoiding any topic other than the weather...
My secret santa gift was for my uncle, I bought him a cookbook of bbq and bistro recipes. Steak is the only thing I can remember him readily having an interest in, other than church, and I think he really loved it. I got a collection of BBQ platters and implements, including my first Barbie-Mate™. Owning one of these feels like a right of passage of some kind. Apparently I have a pile of other pressies at my sisters place that I never got round to opening on the day, so I get to go pick those up later. Weeee!
Sunday was a round of boozing with the alcoholics and lessies, where we invented a new game: 'How many lesbians can Calum wear and still walk?' We got up to three fairly easily but after that we kinda start running out of room to hang them. Perhaps with a step ladder we could do more, but I feel that would change the rules of the game somewhat...
Also, Bex was all hot cos one of the guys said he was a little bi-curious, so she made it her mission to get me to pash him. She tried offering $5, then $20, then her master stroke was to set up a drinking game of 'Suck Blow' and to seat the dude next to me... Suck Blow is a game of passing a playing card round a circle by sucking it onto yr mouth and then passing it to the next persons mouth. If it gets dropped you both drink... yup real subtle. I dont think I was pissed enough to fall for that one haha!
After xmas I was back at work for a couple days trying to keep on top of things a bit... mixed success in that department since I was also trying to get my van prepped for paint and organise our New Years trip up to Coromandel. Still got lots to do heading into the New Year but I figure since its the holidays everyones a bit lenient on time frames at the moment.