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I have to make this short, as I am pretty sure I am gonna get grabbed to join in with the family fun and festivities soon - but I wanted to take this chance to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

If you are feeling festive, help a sister out ;

ttp://www.jpgmag.com/photos/1352010

Its a little christmas competition - pictures with the theme 'fairy tales' - a simple click to vote. :D

Wishing you all the best,

Sam

Pain for Pleasure

Argh!

I have been doubled over in pain today. It was the first time I ever felt any kind of pain that made me wish I could just die from it. Seriously. Its still hurting now, although its slightly subsided and I find if I breathe through it, it doesn't hurt as much.

I am a little bit scared. I don't want to have to go to hospital if it persists as I have never been to hospital before and I am terrified of them. :( Its rubbish. I was curled up both on the floor of my room, the floor of my sisters room, the floor of the bathroom (thinking that maybe if I was sick I would feel better), but nothing helped. In the end I just had to curl up on my bed in a position that slightly helped and close my eyes. It was awful. I was writhing, Actually writhing in pain.

I am just annoyed with myself that its so close to Christmas and I have fought off every infection and illness thats been going, swearing not to get sick before the new year and now this! Grrrrr! On top of that, once I started to feel a little tiny bit better my nose started to run, I had an itchy throat and I was sneezing!

BAH HUMBUG!

I think I am being punished by the *Gods* (not really though, just being dramatic), because I saw Twilight last night. I loved it, and I love Edward... *sigh* He is a dreamy character who is bad but good... I love the complicated ones.

Sam

Fa La La La La La La La

LA!

Goodness me, its almost that day, and I am hardly ready. Although, I finish work for 2 weeks tomorrow (much to the annoyance of my hard working colleagues), I still don't feel as much of the Christmas cheer as I should do. I am going to be working hard on that for the next few days.


Tonight I went to a Christmas carol sing-along thingymagig at the Bridge water in Manchester, it was hilarious. An orchestra, a singer and a book full of the song lyrics. Genius. I sang operatic style for the most of it, and then had to stop when my sister started glaring at me. She even stopped singing herself, at one point, saying 'I am not singing anymore, you are being ridiculous'. Well, honestly! I am sure she just wanted to stop so she could hear me better. I know her game!!


Its getting socially claustrophobic at the moment. I am not good with commitments and future plans - but ALL this next coming week I have plans to do things with people. Grrrr. I want to rest for a bit, I am still fighting off the cold/sickness bug thats going around. No no, don't worry, I haven't actually HAD it, but everyone else has, and i just know I am next. I keep telling myself that I have had the flu jab so I cant get ill anymore. Its the power of positive thinking and so far (fingers crossed, touch wood...), its working a treat! I will allow my body its deserved break from good health in the first week of January. Its only fair!


I don't have time to blog that much this coming week. I really want to, all the time. But I can't! Sucks! I am trying to keep up with everyone else's blogs too. Oh the things we do for our Internet obsessions. *sigh*



Its time to be serious now (come on everyone, rearrange those faces). I think I am a human chameleon (is that how you spell that?!?!?).

It bugs me and makes me paranoid at the best of times. Basically, I am always told that my handwriting is just like everyone elses. And I mean that. EVERYONE elses. Depending on who I am sat with, or talking to, my hand writing changes. I don't know if thats normal or not (although probably not). I don't think I have my own hand writing style. I must do, but I will be damned if I know what it looks like. hmmmm. I also find that I get on with ALOT of people. I mean that... A lot. Its not a good personality thing, because I can be a HUGE bitch. But I change, depending on who I am with. Again, normal? I have different groups of friends, and I am different with each of them. Thats why I don't like to mix friends, as I wouldnt know who to be around them all at the same time, aaaaaaannnnd, I get on really well with loads of guys - majority of the time we seem to have LOADS in common, in a spooky way, and humour very similar. But I don't know if it is actually MY humour, or if I am just imitating them...? Do you get what I mean? I think about this alot, and wonder who I actually am sometimes. I know our friends are infulential to who we are, but I don't know if I am actually compatiable with all the people I know, or if I just pretend subconsciously. Yeah - DEAL WITH THAT! :S


Keep on the look out for ***Christmas miracles****, and do at least ONE good deed this weekend.


Sam



ps. Twilight tomorrow, yeay!

T'was the night of the Party

And...

All through the bar, not a creature was stirring, it all went too far...

Christmas party is over and done with. I probably still feeling the effects from it too. Well, my feet still hurt from dancing, but I can't blame the tiredness on it. I did go out again last night too, so.... oops.

My work Christmas party was everything I expected it to be. Messy! But fun too. Don't get me wrong! I definitely decided that getting drunk is not something I want to do for a looooong while now, anyway.

Tipsy = fun.

Drunk = not

Me and a few of my colleagues went for drinks before we went to the actual party. Genius idea, I know. And I had a couple before I left the house. But the first bar was fun, its a place my brother works, so we get cheap drinks from the bar guys. Connections, you know! 4 shots for £6 when they were about £2.50 each. Niiiiiiiice. That bar is always full of wannabes though, and gets slightly annoying. People like to be 'spotted' there. Snore AND yawn. Don't people have more to do than stand in a bar, waiting for someone to point and go 'ooooh, look who that is!!'??? Well, we won't get into that now. It annoys me to an extreme extent though.

One of these people just so happened to be one of those damned ridiculous Cheeky Girls. Humph. Ruining my night, I am sure all eyes had been on me prior to her entrance! pft. ;)

We left that bar to trek onto the main party. Side note: 4 grown women, and 1 almost grown lad in a mini cooper is not a recipe for fun, but a recipe for 'ouchies' with a light dusting of 'sh!t, I think I just broke my back'... Don't ever attempt it unless you are capable of defying gravity and sitting on windows or ceilings is the norm.

The main party was half in full swing. And then, of course, I arrived and everything was more fun! (I have to tell myself these things, it makes me feel better!). We had a few 'free drink' vouchers as it was all prearranged and prepaid for, for the majority. But to be quite honest, I didn't spend a thing that night, but ended up having more shots than I care to remember.

There was dancing, unflattering photos taken but most importantly, I didn't make a fool out of myself. Oh no. It was my manager. Again! The only thing I have to be ashamed of is the fact that I had to leave at about 12:30. But I don't even care - as my ride was sober (thankfully) and I was drunk enough to leave the party knowing I still had my dignity in tact. If I had stayed I know I would have lost that somewhere by morning!

My manager is a mother of 2, who doesn't get out much. When she drinks, she goes for it. Little shadow of a woman. She is short and slim, and alcohol seems to take her body captive and make her its bitch. She fell off a chair, attempted to break dance, by getting on the floor and spinning on her back. There was all sorts. It was brilliant!

Still, major drinking session - still drunk the next day. The taboo X-mas shopping was done in the afternoon followed by another night out with some friends. I had decided not to drink.. but, hair of the dog. It really does take the edge off! All in all it was a knackering weekend.

The question on everyones' lips last night was 'whatever happened to Alan Parrish'? I found him this afternoon though, so it was all good.

I would love it if at least ONE person who reads this knows what I am going on about!! haha.

Keep it snappy

Sam

**Random question of the day : if you had to be reincarnated, what would you come back as?**

Christmas Parties = Cringe

NO!

Tomorrow is my work Christmas Party.

UHOH!

My work Christmas 'DO' is something we all look forward to. And something we all regret the next day.

Too many drinks drank, too many people groped openly, too many fights, and too many kisses under the mistletoe often lead to people being highly embarrassed for the whole of the next year. A guy last year even got fired just after the Christmas party because of what he did!... and 2 people got caught doing something very naughty on the buffet table...

That pretty much sums up where I work!

This year, I am kind of dreading it. I don't usually do the embarrassing stuff, and I don't really feel like drinking too much (not that I need a drink in me to have fun!), but I am dreading it for everyone else I work for! Ha. Especially my manager, who tends to get herself in quite a bit of trouble.

I love having a laugh, and a good time, but there is always a point where really drunk people annoy me... Unless I am the really drunk person! Ah well, I will just have to watch and see what goes down. It should be fun anyway!

Speaking of the Christmas season (no, I am not going to talk about the taboo Oppingshay!), We gave our secret Santa gifts at work. The guy I bought for, loved his gift. And I mean LOVED it. He was walking around with this 'Dirty old man' Walking stick ALL day. It was brilliant.>> Until it got annoying<<. teehee. As for MY present, which is of course the MOST important thing. I got a Spinning top that never stops spinning and a Where's Wally (aka Waldo for you Americans)

Book. ;)

The person that got me knew me SO well. It was amazing! I spent a good while searching for Wally after I got it. People wouldn't play with me though, because I "found him too quickly". What can I say?? I excel in finding him! Although I always find the girl first, is she called Wanda? and the Wizard is always fun to find, and the dogs tail! Its just amazing! So simple, yet so fun!

I am going to wrap this up now. But I need to get something that's been annoying me off my chest. I have told anyone who would listen about this. I got a verbal warning at work yesterday. For too many emails sent. I was flagged, and I.T had to check my computer out and I have been "abusing my emails". I apologised to Outlook, and explained that I thought it knew that's what my intentions were when I used it. Sending emails. It was honest, and I thought, nobel. But it felt like I tormented it excessively, so... I was told to cut down. I had sent 100+ emails to a guy I work with in the span of a month... he sits about 6 meters away from me. What can I say? we get bored. Also, I type quite fast. So I am not wasting time when I send emails, plus, I do MASSIVE amounts of work. I would love it if they checked out my productivity. I shouldn't be put down because I can multitask! Should I? Surely there are loopholes?!! Circumstances that mean I shouldn't have to get 'a mark on my record' ... Not that I care about that, because I am not a lifer, I am leaving next year and its all completely foreign to me that you COULD actually get told off for emailing people too much... its just strange.

So lets get this straight. At my company you can get in trouble for too many emails, and fired for something you do on a night OUT of work... but its OK for other people to have 'relations' in public, at the same place the fight happened on said night out.... I am confused about the way people operate. There is no logic at all! NONE!

Ah, well. I am just going to let it drop now.

I shall leave you with a picture of me, after I was particularly bored at home, so decided to do alien like makeup...

Sam

Truths are out there

OK!

So I have stolen this from one of the blogs I watch - The English Clergyman - But still. I thought it was a good idea, and what is the world without good ideas that spread like Peanut butter on toast? Exactly!

And so I am brought to the topic at hand. Here are a list of truths I have come to grasp in my time on this Earth.

• Home Alone always makes you laugh.
• Home Alone can be watched at any time in the year, but feels SO much more **magical** in December (this is also true of any of the first 3 Harry Potter films).
• Ideas are worth having, and are what make the world go round.
• Believing is seeing.
• Trying to chop up a swede (the vegetable, not a swedish person), is increasingly hard to do, and you can cut your thumb... twice. OUCHIE!
• Sometimes you can be so cold, you feel hot.
• Missing people you only met a couple of times is possible.
• Some things aren't meant to last.
• Some chances are worth taking, but some aren't. Its up to you to decide whether you are willing to try things - it is NOT up to other people.
• Life is hard (Not original, but a truth!)
• Decisions are hard to make.
• Its easy to learn these truths, and easy to sound wise, but using these truths, and being wise are not easy.
• Being in bed is the most comfortable place I can think of.
• People will be less inclined to shout or complain at you if you speak calmly and are sincere in your apologies.
• You shouldn't have to apologise for being late unless your lateness resulted in a fatal accident.
• You should always apply undercoat to your nails before nail varnish. it DOES make it last longer.
• Friends are worth their weight in gold.
• Cauliflower and Broccoli are some of the weirdest vegetables ever.
• Cauliflower cheese gives a lot of people tummy ache.
• Pocket watches will never go out of style.
• Mustang cars are sex on wheels
• Its never uncool to refer to something as 'sex on wheels'. Unless it doesn't have wheels.

I will probably think of more truths later, and I had more in mind before I wrote this, but these are the ones off the top of my head. :)

Sam

twitterpated

Chirp.

What is with this Twitter thing? I always hear about it, but ignore it. There are far too many Internet things that try to suck you in. Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Blogger, Bebo, WoW and now I keep hearing 'Twitter this, twitter that'. Julia Nunes doesn't have a twitter page, but apparently someone has set one up in her name. Its not her...?


Due to my increasing curiosity, I decided to check it out. And I am so confused by what I found. What is it all about? Can someone tell me? It seems to me that Twitter is pointless beyond all other pointless things. Is it really just a site that says 'Sam is making soup...'???? Or 'Sam is going to try to find another website to waste minutes of my life on'???


Seriously? I mean, come on, you ARE kidding me? Right? please say yes, there can't be a WHOLE website dedicated to I am's.... !!!!!!

Its 'insania' - to quote Peter Andre.


Today I came over all funny, like I was slightly delusional, everyone I work with thought I must have been taking drugs at lunch. I seriously don't know what happened to me. I went coo-coo crazy. But work is work, so I don't care if I slightly make a fool out of myself there. :)


I would love to say I have more interesting things to blog about, but I don't. I am currently reading Brisingr by Christopher Paolini - its the 3rd installment of the Eragon books (aka The Inheritance Trilogy). Its good. I love kiddy books. Something to lose myself in, that doesn't involve real life things. Why would I want to lose myself in something that COULD be real? Make believe is much more fun! Although one day I will read a 'grown up' book...



Keep making peace and spreading joy.


I will leave you with the following images. I hope they change your life:

Sam