Bonne Année

Bonne Année mes amis!!!

I spent New Year's Eve snuggled up on the couch with Mr Piggles, wolfing down another slice of the Girdlebuster (will it ever end!?) & watching Breakfast At Tiffany's.

Midway through the film I randomly decided to make another batch of mince pies.  This time I decided to make sweet pastry & although they're still not Nigella's standards, they do taste much better.

In fact, I was making said mince pies when mère informed me it was officially 2012!!!

So now that we are in a new year, it's time to make those New Year's Resolutions:

Numéro un: After spending rather excessively on myself over the holidays, I think it's time to contemplate being a little more selfless & a lot less selfish!  I'll never be Mother Teresa, but every good deed & all that.

Numéro deux:  Although I made this resolution last year & clearly didn't keep it too long, I shall endeavor to make it once more; I want to attempt to try to look after myself.  Eat healthily, get my hair & nails did, that kinda thing.  Keep myself looking so fresh & so clean clean.

To be honest, I think that's about it for 2012.  Why demand too much of myself.  I'm a lazy bugger after all.

 Happy 2012 guys!

x

New year, new resolutions to break

Ah, the dawn of a new year!  I have actually decided that I really like New Year's Day, or at least the day after...Yeah, we'll go with the 2nd of January!  New Year's Eve is always a killer.  There's always such high expectations for the night to be incredible & let's face it, it not always is.

New Year's Day is the new New Year's Eve, so all celebrations will now be held on this day.  The 2nd of January is now the new New Year's Day.  This is due to the fact that all celebrations will now be put firmly behind us & we can concentrate on what it is we may actually wish to achieve in the new year.

This brings in the New Year's Resolutions!  These can be made on the 2nd of January, but never enforced until at least the 3rd!!!  What would be the point in enforcing them any earlier, when you are blatantly going to break them shortly afterwards!  Therefore, you at least stand a fighting chance after the 3rd!

So, I have been thinking about what my resolutions should be & I have come up with the following:

Resolution Number 1, You can never be friends with exes, so stop trying!  It's a well known fact that men & woman struggle to be 'just friends' & this is only further complicated if you have actually bothered to exchange feelings & fluids at some time or other.  I say, just don't bother!  There are plenty of other men (or woman) out there you can choose to be friends with, trust!

Resolution Number 2, Mr Shady is right kids, drugs are bad, mmm'kay!  There really is a limit to my love & my dear friend Mandy & I have had our ups & downs, but I really think it's time for her & her friends to, well, do one!  I'm gonna be a clean freak from now on, if my body's a temple, it's the frickin' Taj Mahal!

Resolution Number 3, Think it's actually time for me to consider looking after myself.  Y'know, maybe get a little exercise (what's that, Mr Piggles wants a walk...), maybe swap the biccies for a salad...The usual really.  It also wouldn't hurt to get my hair did or my nails done.  I'm looking like a throw back over here!

Resolution Number 4, Definitely top of my priority is to get...a...JOB!  It would be rather influential to Resolution Number 3 me thinks.  After nearly three years, I'm going to actually have to force myself to update my CV!  Talk about a drag man!

Let's just be thankful it's still only the 2nd, I got me a nap & some choccy biccies waiting.  Booo Yeah!

Bonne Annee mes amis!

So, the end of the year is nigh & thank ferigno for that!!!  I have come to realise that my Christmas cheer has died a miserable death & along with it, all hope for the holiday season in general.  I shall not be looking forward to NYE, in fact I shall be celebrating on New Year's Day instead.  Celebrating the beginning of a new year, which will hopefully be better than the year before, which was considerably under par!

To save me from myself, I have been savouring Uffie's album, Sex Dreams & Denim Jeans, as recommended by Ellie, via Hous of Belles.  Its electro beats have been filling me with a mild glimmer of hopefulness.  I'll be pumping it into my car on the two hour ride to Brighton tomorrow.

To add insult to my self-inflicted injuries; You know it's bad times when Mulberry let you down!!!  Mr Piggles' jumper arrived today & talk about disappointment!  Not only was it a friggin' vest (I ask you!), but it wouldn't even fit over his head!  A chihuahua would struggle to fit in this thing!  Ruined my stylish snuggle dreams.  [small tears]

Let's all hope for better things come the 1st of January.  'Cause I certainly will be...dag nab it

Finally got round to putting A-Trak's Dirty South Dance 2 album onto my iTunes & have been having an earwig.  Gotta be honest, wasn't fully convinced at the start, but it's growing on me, a bit like leprosy.  Gonna give it some of my precious time, see how things work out.  Think the fact that he's hot to trot is helping him to be honest.  Also downloaded Barbara Streisand (finally!) by Duck Sauce, (A-Trak's collaboration with Armand Van Helden) & it's been boosting my mood no end.  Bring on New Year's Day!

'Tis the season to be...miserable?

Somewhere along the snow edged lines, I have completely unutterably lost my Christmas cheer!  Perhaps it is the lack of gift giving & receiving, or the fact that I am miles away from 'home', but I feel as though Scrooge & I are merely separated by a chromosome or two.

Mère & I were propelled to finally indulge in the Christmas food shop this evening & by God, it's hard!  First off, hunting down a goose at this late stage is très hard, clearly preparation is key!  We did, however, manage to find one, but it was absolutely ginormous & exceptionally expensive.  Clearly didn't think this whole thing through.  As it is just the two of us for Christmas this year, (lonely, who, what, me?) it did seem extortionate to spend over fifty pounds on a gargantuan bird!  We also have family friends who have a pet goose, Gordan (I named him myself, no lie!) & so I felt a little bit guilty looking down at this plucked, wrapped, deceased relative.  Perhaps next year.

Although, I have now made the decision that I shall be spending Christmas & New Years Eve 2011 in Paris!  Whatever happens, I am determined to save up (once I actually have employment again, obvs) & go to my parisienne neighbours to celebrate the festivities.  England is clearly not providing me with the festive cheer I so require.  You would think that the snow would somehow be a plus point, helping to create this picture postcard effect, however, it just seems to be a mega pain in everyone's arse!  I for one shall be quite happy when it finally decides to bugger off!

I would like to think, come the New Year, that I shall at least attempt to be a more organised, healthy living individual, although I expect spending New Year's Day at Ministry with Ellie & our ol' friends James & Jas from Simian Mobile Disco, will not help to get the year off to a clean living start.  Hmmm.

I think I need to obtain new full-time employment sharpish!  One's grooming has gone so far down hill, it's rolled into the next town!  Not only did I have to relinquish my nails, resulting in my new ten year old boy hands, but the brows have lost their shape too.  In fact, in a bid to rescue at least one thing, I decided to do my roots & although I used the same ash blonde as before, my hair is now somehow darker!  I ask you!

Not only do I need a cash injection pronto, but I clearly need a beauty one too!  By the time I get to France, I'll already look like a native with growth in places there definitely should not be!  Oh woe is me!  My pitiful state is only worsened by Ellie's increasing transformation into the UK's version of Kim Kardashian!  She's the only person I know who wears four inch heels to the garden centre & damn it, I admire her for it!  Despite working an average of three days a week, I do not have the enthusiasm or energy to be that groomed, even if I might wish to be!

I'm off to stain some wood...Oh what a glamorous life I do lead!