happy new year and all that

Hello chums.

I just got back (well it was actually nearly 2 hours ago now) to chez orange after my new year's festivities.

NYE at Barrow Hill (near chesterfield) was very lovely. present were tomb_bat, marquis (the hosts of the event), metzkass, wesley, marconi, amy, lee and his two women whose names I didn't actually catch of lost due to drunkenness, bikerfaerie, twokan, miss_corinne, chewie and of course fuzzygoth. there may have been others - I may have been drunk. unfortunately corinne was already a little worse for wear when I got there - that'll teach me to arrive at 8:30. Sue and John's house is absolutely beautiful - the living room is panelled! I got a bit over-enthusiastic about it :D I found myself playing with a cat on one of the beds then another then another until I was playing with 4 cats. woo! cattopia! then I realised it was 12:15 and I'd missed new year. ah well! marvellous.

woke up on a sofa with a duvet over me - no idea how that happened - don't really remember that much of the evening apart from playfighting with the boys and swapping bras with Fury in the middle of the living room - without flashing any boob. we finally left about 3pm ish or something the next day after ligging around watching fuzzy drink another crate of beer.

Was getting a lift back to birmingham with corinne to see eddy_ and on the motorway there was an information sign saying 'vehicle fire ahead' blimey we thought, that's oddly specific... when we got closer we could see a column of smoke. and flames. it was a complete inferno! we were glad to see the driver standing well back looking a bit shell shocked - as were the police who arrived at a similar time to us. we could feel the heat from the fire as we went past. blimey - the WHOLE thing was on fire or already charred. I was a bit too shocked to take photos - but it was very impressive and scary.

Birmingham was ace. we played singstar for *hours* and did every song (from singstar 80s and 90s) at least once I think. got better at singing as I got more drunk (as proved by the scores) - it was quite evenly matched though and me, corinne and eddy seemed to take it in turns to win on the duels. marvellous fun. there was pizza too - can't argue with that... Finally managed to catapult eddy from his bed at about 3 today and have mostly being sitting round staring and going 'graaa' due to reduced brain function. I got to meet the delightful toxicpixie properly too, although the poor fluff was still a bit under the weather from his xmas flu. had a bit of a panic about the over-running train works affecting my journey back to leeds but in the end it was all ok and I was back at 11.

so now I'm here in a freezing house with nothing but an over-affectionate cat for company. bah! oh well. happy new year folks - I hope this year is significantly better for those of you that had a bad one last year. I can't begin to guess how mine will turn out - several potentially bad things are looming on the horizon as ever but life often throws in patches of unexpected good stuff too. I know the 2 things I want from this year - one I really need and the other I really want. who knows eh?

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snoooooooooow!

turned you into someone new.

I'm not really one for new year's resolutions but I like to have the opportunity to try to reign myself in occasionally. so.

• less booze for a while. this is not *no* booze - just *less* booze - I'm going to try and limit it to one heavy night per weekend. I'm also going to shift from cider to vodka and diet coke at the club to reduce the calorific impact of boozing. I still can't stomach spirits prices elsewhere though so will stick with cider in the real world.



• I need to go back to my default state of not buying chocolate. it's not the same as not *eating* chocolate but given how rarely people randomly offer me chocolate it's not far off.



• I need to knuckle down with my taekwondo more - not having a specific goal in the foreseeable future (2nd dan grading won't be any sooner than september 2009 - if I still have knees by then) means it's kinda easy to slack off and rest on your laurels. I need to start feeling and acting a little more like a black belt.



• I need to be better with club admin stuff - stuff like stopping hoarding piles of letters in my bag when they should be living in the box files at the club, doing the NI and PAYE returns in good time (ie as soon as the week with the 5th in it is over not on the 18th each month!)



• I need to do more housework and house fixing - the place is falling apart! I did fix the toilet cistern leak at 1:30am last night - now I have to do the bathroom light, clear out the spare room, get someone in to mend the giant holes in the kitchen, touch up the holes in the paint work and tidy my bedroom properly by throwing out a ton of old stuff.

I could record my intentions to be less needy, annoying and clingy but hey who am I fooling..?