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ok i've been getting soooo serious lately, i must chillax, whatever the hell that means lol and get excited about christmas yay!!! the coming of our lord, the spreading of goodwill and love, watching the kiddies faces light up when they open their gifts, not watching the bankmanagers face go bright red and steam coming out of his ears when he's see's how overdrawn i am...no no i'm being cheery 'deck the halls' and all that 'fah la la la la la la la la!!
oh and i can see the guilt ridden christmas day now, my parents were gonna spoil themselves this year and go on a cruise for christmas, but just as they were about to book it, they realised that they couldn't bare to spend the holiday without me and my siblings and all the chubby faced little grandkids, so what did they do??
book us all on a luxury cruise????yey!!!!!!!!
noooooooooo don't be silly, they're pensioners guys, but they have booked us all into the poshest restaraunt in town for christmas dinner..............oh thats not to bad i hear you cry!
well, there's 9 of us, its gonna be around £100 a head, and its posh food....urgh you know posh food, its normal food with really really rich sauces poured all over it, ahem sorry...marinated in said sauces????
urgh.... pheasant and cockril, ummm ummm duck and fox?! no not fox ummm veil maybe, christmas dinner is designed to give us belly aches for a few hours, but rich food like that will disable us for days! my other half is really excited, being a farmers son he misses the odd pheasant bloody peasant! my god so basically, food that none of us particularly like at 5 times the cost of a normal roast followed by Christmas pudding and a big serving of polite guilt...and a happy new year
i don't mean to sound ungrateful, i guess it could be worse, my brother and his family could be coming to and that would bring us up to 14, i don't know how my parents can afford it, they're supposed to be being selfish at this time in their lives, spend on themselves, thats what retirement is all about isn't it? yes they enjoy spoiling the grandkids and spending time with us all, but i love the mad xmas' all of us crammed into one of our houses, the girls, or the boys, depending on turns, are all in the kitchen, having a few glasses of vino whilst the dinner is cooking, nagging the others into setting the tables, never doing it right and having to do it ourselves anyway, the kids, literally killing each other for the last or first crackers ahh sigh..thats christmas, me and my sister usually go christmas shopping together oand buy our own gifts, then swap and wrap and re exchange them again christmas day, buying the vouchers for my brothers lot, who really can't come up with anymore excuses not to spend christmas with the rest of us...so tough its vouchers or soap hampers??!!? your choice bro! i love it, but i've moved and cant go shopping with my sister, and we live the furthest away so we have to travel to them on christmas which means my other half can't even have a drink :( ah he can't handle his beer anyway, packet of wine gums and he's telling dirty limerics ha ha but then theres the charades..my nephew said to me, 'how will we play charades in a busy posh retaraunt? i just smirked, looked into his big blue eyes and said ' are you forgetting who your talking to..oh we will play, don't you worry mwahahahahahahahrr' so he's happy, until i get thrown out by the faux french waiters....bloddy posh sods grrrrr
anyway...looking forward at least to seeing my family and spoiling them rotten i absolutely love buying pressents, yes i would sulk if i didn't get any, but its the best thing for me, especially the glare i get from my mother, you can see her totting up in her head how much i have spent on them all, which is why she usually gets her pressie last, to wipe the look of worry and anger of her face, and hear the 'ooh look dad, look i really wanted this thankyou' kiss kiss kiss, then everybody is happy!
but its the 6th today and i still haven't bought any christmas cards, or anything else for that matter, i'm scared...town is the most terrifying of beasts this time of year..there is no christmas spirit when everyones at it! i walk into town, smiling almost skipping..feel the spirit take over me, hearing the distant sound of christmas boogie coming from the shop with the biggest sound system, strangley its usually the smallest shop..wont be going in there then , unless they sell ear drums, anyway, so i'm humming happily to myself, know exactly want i'm going to buy, i've written my list...then i see this thing...it looks like its alive but..but its monsterous..its huge...i can see its breathing...i can hear it sort of buzzing, as i step closer to this gigantic unidentified beast the buzzing gets louder..am i too afraid to go on..curiosity gives me the strength,,then i realise, i can almost see it aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ITS CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS..NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
do i turn and run?? no i have to face it i can conquer the beast, i can do this i really can, and i will, as soon as um as soon as the ummmmm no i will i will give me a minute...maybe tomorrow.
anyway la la la la la so then the next scariest thing, going into the loft, braving the cobwebs and spiders..rumaging for an hour and hoping that...yes yes there they are last years decorations..or were they the year befores, i dont know, now then the untangling of tinstle and lights, every year i say, this year i'm going to put these away properly, no tangles, and do i? do i hell, so do i untangle and dust? or do i take a little of my pressent budget and buy more? hmmmmm no i'm pretty poor so it'll be untangling for me, fighting the dogs so they dont poisen themselves on tinstle....it might look like fun my little doggy friends but it will either get stuck on the way out (eyes watering) or it'll kill ya before it even see's the exit lights so leave.....Leave...LEAVE IT ALONE!!!
any way i must get back to my list writing....pressents..christmas cards...done!
by the way i wont make any more excuses for my spelling
BON NOEL and YUEL TIDE FELICITATIONS i know what bon noel means, but i dont know what language the others in xx
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Posted by missmarie on 2007-12-05 12:02:02 | Rating: | Views: 107
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I love the way you talk! LOL, anyway, you better go shopping now..it only gets worse you know...I have never heard anyone use the word posh unless they were talking about that twit spice girl...anyway, u could shop on the internet! I don't untangle the lights either, I get them out every year and shake them until my hubby gets mad and says I will break them and sits down to begin...LOL
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Posted by Rajah1116
on 2007-12-05 12:28:38
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what word do you use in the U.S for posh? that stupid stick girl grrr i mean spice girl!! ha ha well you're stuck with the old spices at the moment, they've abbandoned their roots thank god!
i'd love to shop on line but first maxed credit card, and second, huge fear of pressies not arriving on time!
aghhhh christmas ho! ho! ho?
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Posted by missmarie
on 2007-12-05 13:58:28
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Well, if you like to buy for people you are going to need my shirt size aren't you?
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Posted by Pauligan
on 2007-12-06 07:26:31
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You sure have a Beautiful Christmas Spirit.
You make me want to decorate!
You also make me want to find some new recipes for Christmas dinner.
Peace.
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Posted by DifficultSoul
on 2007-12-11 13:10:39
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Paul, if you like i can send you a lovely christmas jumper...it might reach you by next christmas lol
DS, if my complaining spreads christmas cheer then i will keep it up he he no really i love christmas i'm like and excited child!
Scarborough, thankyou, i hope you are out of the doghouse by christmas morn xx
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Posted by missmarie
on 2007-12-16 10:28:01
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