Archive for December, 2005

Wait!

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

2005! Come back! I’m not done with you yet!
I don’t understand where you’ve gone! Or what happened, at least over the past few months! I need more time!
I need to take more pictures. I need to stay in touch with more friends (I’m sorry if I […]

Excuse me, can you help?

Friday, December 30th, 2005

It’s that time of year again when my twelve month phone contract is up and my thoughts naturally turn to which shiny piece of technology my life over the next year should become totally dependent on. As my first step towards this I’ve decided that I’m going to switch to Orange from O2 as […]

Post Christmas ettiquite

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Just how many days after Christmas does it stop being socialy acceptable (if not required) to be drinking sparkling wine at 11am? I’m sat here with my second cup of coffee of the day, yet some how it doesn’t have the same kick as a glass of bucks fizz/straight cava/gin and tonic/neat vodka. […]

Turkey day

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

My mum broke her oven about two weeks before Christmas. She was cleaning the oven, and scrubbed the ’self-clean’ off the self-cleaning panels, next time she turned the oven on plumes of black smoke came billowing out and the smell of burning chemicals took two days to clear. She called customer services who […]

Smug

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

It turns out that working stupidly hard since September means I have days worth of Toil to take before the end of the year, which, combined with my left over holiday time, means I can take Fridays off until Christmas, only work one maybe two days the week before Christmas, have all of the week […]

D-I-S-C-O

Monday, December 5th, 2005

I went to School Disco on Saturday night.
There were mitigating circumstances I promise you, obligations of friendship and the like, and in my position I’m sure you would have done the same!
I could sit here a bitch about the bus that changed route on a whim, taking Cat Lady K in entirely the wrong direction […]