Merry Christmas? Was it? For you? Who knows...? (Bah Humbug)

Well I don't particularly like Christmas however, I do like the time with the family and my good ol' friend ‘the belly’ does enjoy the food I provide it at this time of year. I was out Christmas Eve with my brother, Ade, Luke, James, (Sarah) James's Sister, James's Girly and Sam.

I met a random pretty 19 year old girl at the bar (Emma, she went to Llanishen though was too young for me to remember) and although I was "the funniest random person at a bar she's spoken too" (what a compliment?) we went our separate ways without any further flirting or talk. Why do I mention this? Well, there are a number of reasons. 1) This doesn't happen to me often - I’m not the most attractive lad in the world, I know this and I’m ok with it! And number 2) it helped me realise what was so bad about Christmas.

For a number of years, I’ve not really enjoyed Christmas. I don't like shopping and I don't like the people that go over the top. However, Sarah had brought a little happiness into my life around the holiday period with her excitement and enthusiasm. This year I am not with Sarah, and don't feel like I want to celebrate religion (I'm agnostic) nor do I want to suck the commercial cock, especially when I have little money.

I'm not getting to a point am I? Well, no, and I don't care, it's my blog - get your own!

Anyway, What I have enjoyed is the family time and generally doing nothing (though I should really be putting right the coursework that I have got so wrong in the first semester of uni this year - what a fool!)

Anyway, I digressed, what I wanted to say is thank you to Louise and my mother for all the help with the presents. I wanted to say I hope you all had a good time with your families and I wanted to say it was nice to see Sarah and speak to her when we haven't talked in so long. I miss you. I love you. And I’m sorry.

What did I get?

Money, food, smelly stuff, travel sets and other random things such as drink holders and a toy mixing deck thing. I have no favourite but the 24 cans of baked beans from Nigel and Nic was a perfect gift for any student.

Thank you to everyone.

See you all soon.

Take Care.