Christmas Time!

Hello again! Yes, I am still alive and well, I merely became lazy which caused a lapse in my posting of blogs. It’s the end of what’s been an awesome day and I’m sat on the settee, sniffing a lot and rubbing my eyes thanks to the cats. Why oh why must I be allergic to my number one favourite animal in the whole world?!

Over the past week, I’ve been working 8 hours each day at Waitrose in the car park. It’s been…really fun. Yeah, ok maybe not. It was made much worse of course by snow. Everyone was walking around saying things like, “Oh, isn’t it beautiful?” about the snow. However, when you have to grit the entire car park and all of a sudden it becomes 10 times harder to push trolleys, snow quickly becomes something you despise. The one good thing about working in the car park though is the lack of customer interaction and the little giggle you can have to yourself when a customer arrives 5 minutes after the doors have been locked and walk up to the door with a confused face when it doesn’t open. I felt like shouting, “For goodness sake, it’s Christmas eve! Go home! Do you really not have anything better to do?! It’s your own stupid fault for not arriving early enough.”.

Christmas day was good indeed. I thought I’d be tired, but I woke up at 7 nevertheless and dragged myself upstairs. I got plenty of very nice FCUK wash and shave stuff, plus plenty of chocolate of course! The main gift was an electronic shaver so I don’t have to do wet shaves anymore! Rachel will NOT be pleased!! ;D

Christmas dinner courtesy of my mum was amazing and definitely the highlight of the day. Everything was cooked to perfection and, most importantly, I got my hands on 3 pigs in blankets! Yum! We all ate too much, so we’re saving the Christmas pudding for boxing day. Later in the evening, everyone except myself and my brother, Chris, went for a walk on the hills. Chris was asleep and I’d managed to wreck my left ankle through wearing shoes at work that are a size too small (I left my own black shoes at university). Once they’d returned, we decided to release the fire lanterns we’d bought. Basically, they’re big paper lanterns that you light, allow to fill with hot air and then release and watch as they float up into the sky like a hot air balloon. They were brilliant and worked really well! Except, of course, for one which floated, but not high enough, almost hit the roof (which is made entirely from cedar wood) and became snagged in a tree on the other side of the house. Luckily it quickly burnt out and the tree didn’t catch fire.

I don’t go back to work until Sunday since Waitrose is closed on boxing day, but I’ve got a couple of 9 hour shifts in the coming week. NOT looking forward to those at all. As long as it doesn’t snow and I can avoid any customer interaction, I’m happy though.

Merry Christmas to everyone!