Goodbye 2006, I'd like to say it was great, but....

Well I am writing this as my Kodak photos from the wedding are being downloaded from my camera to my computer, which for some reason takes about 4 hours (14% at the moment), but I'll get onto the wedding shortly. In the meantime I hope you had a fantastic Christmas and Santa bought you all the things you don't really need but asked for anyway, as the person who bought it for you saw it half price in a shop!

My Christmas was really nice. On Christmas Eve I reaquainted myself with Magners at my local, and as the pub's last orders were at half 12, much was drunk and I found myself floating at one stage, which was the cue for me to just stop drinking! (what, a 25 year old who knows when to stop drinking!? Its true!) Anyway a good night was had by all who attended and that was pretty much it for pre-Christmas, which leads nicely onto Christmas Day, woohoo!

I love Christmas, I'm sure I've told you in the previous post but I really do like this time of year (27%), its the one time of the year that everyone has to enjoy themselves, whether they've had a good year or a bad one, no excuses. If theres one kind of person I really have no time for, apart from ignorant or 'lets pretend we're stupid to get everyones attention' kind of people, its people who either don't like Christmas because no one should be happy if they're not, or only celebrate it on Christmas Day, and then thats it. But gripe over, back to me! Our Christmas is always spent at my Aunt's house (as Christmas is a time for families), where she will cook the equivilent of 3 times our own bodyweight in food, of which we will only manage so much, so we'll then have the remainder to eat on the in-betweeny bits before New Year's Eve, where she will do it again, bless! Anyway we love it, its all free food and plenty of booze, just what Christmas is all about! So onto the pressies, of which, most of the chocs and edible stuff has been demolished in the last couple of days! I had some Guiness Slippers, which are really nice, even though I don't drink Guiness (possible New Years Resolution!), a Wallace & Gromit Calendar (Cheeeeeese!!), The Chris Moyles autobiography, of which I have started to read and is brilliantly funny, and a Robert Goddard book, amongst hundreds of other things that I can't remember at the moment (48%). So Christmas Day, and most of Boxing Day was spent eating and generally having a laugh (sometimes at other peoples expense!)

Anyway the 27th and 28th was spent trying to slim back down to get into wedding outfits, coz we were going to a wedding on the 29th, although part of the fitness regime was trudging 7 miles around Birmingham City Centre in the throngs of people fighting to buy everything in the sales. I swear to god, if someone set up a stall selling 'Air in a can', with a Half Price sticker on it, it would sell out in seconds, I mean how stoopid do u have to be to be a sales shopper!? Oh well, it helps the economy and it gets people away from the Weird Auntie or Uncle staying at their house, so its not all bad!

Anyway onto the Wedding. We were worried that the weather would put a dampener on things, but it held off all day and the wedding went without a hitch (get it? oh never mind!) It was held in Tanworth-in-Arden, surely one of the most quintessentially English villages in the midlands, untouched by commercial hands and will stay that way thank god. The Church formed the centrepiece of the village, as it should be, and was called the St Mary Magdelene, which should spark up all you Dan Brown freaks out there! But alas, no scriptures hidden in messages on the windows or walls, just a beautiful church in a beautiful village, marvellous. Now, I'm not the most religious person in the world, but I do believe in God, and do feel, as we all should, very humbled when I go into a Church or religious building, in fact the best building I've ever been into, and would love to go again when I'm rich enough (i.e never!), is the Vatican in Rome, which is just stunning. Anyway back to the wedding, now the vicar was our local one (apparrently), but I have issues to grind with him. If you know me (69%), you will know that I've been to more weddings, christenings and funerals in the last few years than most people have in a lifetime, so I know what happens in ceremonies of this kind, However this chappie was a preachy kinda guy, with such utterings as 'Do you know God is all around us?', bad move boyo, you are not on the God channel so cut that right out! He didn't even give the Lords Prayer....at a wedding for heavens sake! Anyway suffice to say he made no impression on me but the wedding went really well and the reception afterwards was held at Hogarths in Solihull, which is just beautiful any time of the year, and as the wine flowed with devilish intent, the guests were ensured to be well oiled for the evening entertainment, which consisted of a chap with a sax to play us through dinner, which was great and so was he, then later on he turned into 'man with sax and disco beat', which was odd but surprisingly worked, apart from when he forgot some of the words of some songs and just played his sax! (83%)

Well its that magical time of the year again, when everyone looks back at the year just gone and wonders what next year will bring, and for me, 2006 was a really crappy one. I'm not gonna go into details, mainly as it will bore you to tears unless you are inside my head, which I wholeheartedly do not recommend, but suffice to say, 2007 has to be a good one, otherwise the killing spree may have to be brought forward somewhat!

But, whatever resolution you make (I have 46 and hope to keep at least half of them!), just try and stick to the ones that make you a better person, lord knows I gave up on all my resolutions last year and ended up, typing this post with no self-confidence, so if thats not an incentive I don't know what is!

(100%, woohoo, rock on!)

And, if you are having trouble keeping them, just think about all those poor, sad, individuals who, after the magic date of July 1st, won't be able to give you lung cancer by breathing on you while they smoke in a pub or restaraunt. Ah, I can only wait till winter 2007 hits!

Happy New Ears!