Obligatory christmas post...
A bit long due to me not having been updating regularly.
So on xmas eve I was working, it had been an astoundingly long week overall, but there's just a buzz around retail at Christmas, everybody is getting excited about presents and stuff, sadly I'd.. umm.. accidentally failed to sleep on the night before, so I was positively exhausted. The day took forever to finish and I was getting somewhat cranky with people by the end, which I didn't think bode well for xmas as a whole, when we shut the shop I got out as quickly as possible, leaving many workmates behind playing Pro Evo 4.
Got the train back to the flat, and staggered in with the vague plan of getting my stuff together quickly, wrapping presents, and heading to mums.
This, like most of my cunning attempts to organise myself, didn't quite happen. Phonecalls, IRC conversations and sitting down to enjoy a cup of coffee and finding I REALLY didn't want to move again all conspired against me.
I finally gave up on the idea of wrapping presents, decided I'd do it at mums, peeled myself off IRC, and headed into central london. Got into mums around 10:30ish. Had to have a bit of a serious chat with mum about new year stuff, but got that out of the way pretty quickly, and moved on to christmas.
Wrapped presents, curled up on sofa and watched steptoe and son, then kinda passed out till 8am when I moved onto the sofa I was meant to be sleeping on, and dozed for a bit.
Was awakened by a dog kissing my nose... never the best of things to wake up to :)
So there was much ambling around the house on christmas, whilst mum and granny panicked over turkey related incidents, silly chats with barry (mums fella) and repeating myself over and over again to my granny who's memory is really going badly now. Opened up prezzies, I knew my main present from mum is my flight to edinburgh early next year, so wasn't expecting anything else, but she kinda put me together a stocking so I'd have something to open on xmas day, which was nice. Lots of little silly mostly useless shiny things of amusement, including a piggy bank, some icing animals (because she couldn't find the traditional sugarmouse) and some incense. Got some money from barry which I know what I'll spend it on if I can, and lots and lots of virgin vouchers.
Then, I ate way too much turkey, then a little more, then christmas pud, so was sat on the sofa feeling rather large and exceptionally tired, but finally managed to get myself moving again to go see Gareth (the manager of my old store), where I partook of some beer, and watched shaun of the dead.
Got home mildly sozzled, was fed more, don't remember much else of the night except trying to put mums new digibox together and get it to work (this I forsee as an ongoing saga...stay posted for updates).
Boxing day, I rejoiced in the "not having to work"ness of the day, ambled around the house a bit, fought an epic battle against the digibox (and lost) and then went out to see faerierhona at cafe uno, or bar uno, or something unolike.
Got there to see vampwillow settled, and rhona just arriving, so didn't feel horribly late. Then shortly after puddingcat arrived, who it was lovely to see because it's been far too long.
So much random natter occured, I became their "token gay guy" for the day, but didn't complain because I got breasts flashed at me for it, and then Mr_eleganza turned up too. Some food was had, some beverages partaken of, and then shopping occured....
Well... whilst it's fair to say that purchases were made, it was somewhat more of a shoe-fest than a shopping trip, as vampwillow,faerierhona and puddingcat bounced from shoe shop to shoe shop, and back and forth between shelves and mirrors and boxes with looks of manic glee. I found the new-rock boots I wanted for only £60, but they only had them in piddly small sizes, so I moped most terribly.
Then we wandered into Black Unicorn, or Dark Unicorn, or summat like that (one of the "underground" shops in camden). vampwillow found herself a dress, and puddingcat found a skirt, that I think the manic grins and drooling from myself and mr_eleganza convinced her that it was a worthy purchase despite not being what she'd been looking for. Looking forward to going clubbing with her now *grin*..
Then back to mums for trifle, then back to flat, where I again managed to accidentally not really sleep, but that was mostly self inflicted. Off to work I went, had a long day there and spent much of it not really paying attention or doing much, but given how much I'd done over the last few weeks I don't feel too guilty about that.
Then back to flat, pack, and hop back on train to inquis's, where I remain at this time, spodding on her laptop which I don't think really likes me.
So on xmas eve I was working, it had been an astoundingly long week overall, but there's just a buzz around retail at Christmas, everybody is getting excited about presents and stuff, sadly I'd.. umm.. accidentally failed to sleep on the night before, so I was positively exhausted. The day took forever to finish and I was getting somewhat cranky with people by the end, which I didn't think bode well for xmas as a whole, when we shut the shop I got out as quickly as possible, leaving many workmates behind playing Pro Evo 4.
Got the train back to the flat, and staggered in with the vague plan of getting my stuff together quickly, wrapping presents, and heading to mums.
This, like most of my cunning attempts to organise myself, didn't quite happen. Phonecalls, IRC conversations and sitting down to enjoy a cup of coffee and finding I REALLY didn't want to move again all conspired against me.
I finally gave up on the idea of wrapping presents, decided I'd do it at mums, peeled myself off IRC, and headed into central london. Got into mums around 10:30ish. Had to have a bit of a serious chat with mum about new year stuff, but got that out of the way pretty quickly, and moved on to christmas.
Wrapped presents, curled up on sofa and watched steptoe and son, then kinda passed out till 8am when I moved onto the sofa I was meant to be sleeping on, and dozed for a bit.
Was awakened by a dog kissing my nose... never the best of things to wake up to :)
So there was much ambling around the house on christmas, whilst mum and granny panicked over turkey related incidents, silly chats with barry (mums fella) and repeating myself over and over again to my granny who's memory is really going badly now. Opened up prezzies, I knew my main present from mum is my flight to edinburgh early next year, so wasn't expecting anything else, but she kinda put me together a stocking so I'd have something to open on xmas day, which was nice. Lots of little silly mostly useless shiny things of amusement, including a piggy bank, some icing animals (because she couldn't find the traditional sugarmouse) and some incense. Got some money from barry which I know what I'll spend it on if I can, and lots and lots of virgin vouchers.
Then, I ate way too much turkey, then a little more, then christmas pud, so was sat on the sofa feeling rather large and exceptionally tired, but finally managed to get myself moving again to go see Gareth (the manager of my old store), where I partook of some beer, and watched shaun of the dead.
Got home mildly sozzled, was fed more, don't remember much else of the night except trying to put mums new digibox together and get it to work (this I forsee as an ongoing saga...stay posted for updates).
Boxing day, I rejoiced in the "not having to work"ness of the day, ambled around the house a bit, fought an epic battle against the digibox (and lost) and then went out to see faerierhona at cafe uno, or bar uno, or something unolike.
Got there to see vampwillow settled, and rhona just arriving, so didn't feel horribly late. Then shortly after puddingcat arrived, who it was lovely to see because it's been far too long.
So much random natter occured, I became their "token gay guy" for the day, but didn't complain because I got breasts flashed at me for it, and then Mr_eleganza turned up too. Some food was had, some beverages partaken of, and then shopping occured....
Well... whilst it's fair to say that purchases were made, it was somewhat more of a shoe-fest than a shopping trip, as vampwillow,faerierhona and puddingcat bounced from shoe shop to shoe shop, and back and forth between shelves and mirrors and boxes with looks of manic glee. I found the new-rock boots I wanted for only £60, but they only had them in piddly small sizes, so I moped most terribly.
Then we wandered into Black Unicorn, or Dark Unicorn, or summat like that (one of the "underground" shops in camden). vampwillow found herself a dress, and puddingcat found a skirt, that I think the manic grins and drooling from myself and mr_eleganza convinced her that it was a worthy purchase despite not being what she'd been looking for. Looking forward to going clubbing with her now *grin*..
Then back to mums for trifle, then back to flat, where I again managed to accidentally not really sleep, but that was mostly self inflicted. Off to work I went, had a long day there and spent much of it not really paying attention or doing much, but given how much I'd done over the last few weeks I don't feel too guilty about that.
Then back to flat, pack, and hop back on train to inquis's, where I remain at this time, spodding on her laptop which I don't think really likes me.