Christmas

I was lucky and was on my own on Xmas eve... I forgot the iPod, but I had my mobile phone and headphones and I sat and listened to Radio 1 while I did my work. It was awesome listening to the festive songs, and heard a reading of The Grinch.
Once it turned 12, I was out of there.

Christmas day we woke up. Opened some presents because we just couldn't wait til we got to my parents house lol



Then I had one big box left over, but of course I'm used to my dad's wrapping and that presents are always hidden, so I opened the big box to find a box of match makers. Then proceeded to quickly dig further where I found a ring box... which was way to fast lol. Poor Gareth was unprepared for me to find it so fast lol. So he asked: Will you marry me?



From there it was to my nan and gramp's house, as gramp had just got out of hospital Xmas Eve. Then to G's parents for dinner and to his Aunt's house for fun and merriment.

lunch break

Here's something quite cool - posting a blog entry from work. Decided to give my Princess Diaries book a short break (It's Princess Present) and I have just checked out my little character on Animal Crossing too - who was still wearing her Witch halloween costume lol. So cool to see all the snow on the game :)

Our official chance of snow on Christmas day is 0% lol. No snow for us, which is a bummer. I think my ideal Christmas scene is being at my parents house for Christmas dinner, then all sat around the fire (when we were little, my parents used to push the sofa to the centre of the room to be closer to the fire to stay nice and toasty!) and for there to be snow outside.

I also find it particularly amusing that the postman read a letter I attached to the door for the courier who is delivering my Twilight books, and followed my instructions lol! So G said I had a nice box from Florida awaiting my return from work! Woo-hoo!

I'm feeling much perkier, dispite the fact I'm possibly the only loser to be working until the official works Christmas break (roll on midday, Christmas Eve!) everyone else has managed to get their holidays used up... Where as I had to use my holidays for when I was sick, otherwise I'd have been in serious trouble on 5 weeks worth of statutory sick pay.
Still, with the lack of people in the building, this year I might just not get told off for playing some Christmas music (ah, note to self: Charge crappy old iPod) as I will be the only one sat in the room. In theory.

So I'd better start sorting myself out to start work again. I should easily get all this stuff done in time :)

Winter in SL

Aww, got some cute winter stuff. I love my colour changing ear muffs :) It's funny that I'm having a really hard job finding some cute winter outfits. The coat was a good deal from "Wrong" a couple of months back.

5 days to Christmas!

I'm up (G is still in bed, but I will have to get him up soon if I am to shower and get ready by 11!) as it's the Saturday before Christmas! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I will grab my camera and tripod ready to have fun at nan's house. I had fun doing some photos last year :)

As for the crash, I was right when I said I didn't see any other cars involved. Both the man who died and the dangerous driver were in the same car. I heard rumours they had stolen the car, had been drinking and were doing over 100mph, so then I didn't feel so bad as I thought at the time it was an regular man going about his business that had been killed... Then I had the realisation that as they were being so careless, what if they would have hit any of us other cars going in the other direction, and it was a story about us on the front page? The whole thing has left me very down and not very Christmassy. I very rarely go home at lunch, I was going home to get my studio Calico kit which as it turns out had been left on the doorstep so it was a good thing.
The car had split into 2, and was unrecognisable from the one angle. Everything was as I had described it - right down to the white van that was in front of the car in front of me that had pulled over to go help, on the front page of the local paper. Only the car had been moved on to the road.

Anywho, less depressing stuff!
I just read the Sims 3 blog, and they already have a "hart" family. Aww, man. I will have to think of a new surname, unless I just play that family in lieu of making my own Legacy. Apart from the fact the parents are insane. Literally.

My mum's present has arrived and it's not half bad. Yay! We got Lips dirt cheap from Woolies. If anyone didn't know already, the awesome shop that is Woolworths is closing down because of the credit crunch. The company has gone under which is so so sad. More info at wiki. It had been going 100 years next year :(
But I sang some songs with G last night. We got a ton of gamer points, and I was sooooooooooooo pleased with myself as I unlocked all the medals and got a really high score (the highest actually - "Big Bang") while singing Coldplay's "Yellow". I will play it later when he's at his Christmas party :)

Bad car crash

I was driving home at lunch time today and I was behind a trail of cars. Everything else that happened after is sort of a blur. I remember seeing something in the corner of my eye and that all the cars in front of me were slowing right down, and then I saw some smoke coming from the green area from something that was on the side.

It was then that I realised it was a car, I remembered all the carnage around too. The car was a mangled mess, a bloke was on his hands and knees with a bunch of other people trying to get someone out of the car. Several trees were a mess and a pole (telephone I think) was broken and the lines were dangling right over the road.

I ended up 10 minutes late back to work, and explained why I was late. At one point I was telling people to turn around one of the roads as the police had closed this little road off on to the road where the accident had happened and people were still trying to get down it, and I was stuck down there with some other people and we couldn't go anywhere until the other people had reversed back up it. While I was home, I rang my mum quick and told her what had happened and to avoid the road on the way home.
She text me at 3.30 ish to say the man in the car had died, and someone else had been arrested for dangerous driving. From where I was back in the line of cars I didn't see any other car involved.

The story is here:
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/news/Man-dies-car-accident-Gloucester/article-558467-detail/article.html

It says they are appealing for witnesses, but I didn't actually see anything, only what I think was the car flipping in the corner of my eye, and it smoking, and nothing else, so I can't really help.

But it's so sad, it really shook me up (I got back to work shaking like a leaf) a week before Christmas, and the guy was only 33 - he might have had kids.

Random conversation...

... Just a little gem from bed last night. We were discussing Christmas presents, and I was thinking about some PJ bottoms for G so asked him what he thought of "Black & White". Sadly, yes I'm generally vague and jump into a conversation I've already been thinking about in my head, so no one knows what I'm on about.

"Black and White what?" He asked. "Y'see I'm not to keen on Black and White TV, but I don't mind Zebras..."

LMAO!

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I've done days 1 & 2, but here's day 1 for now.


Still not done Cathy's class (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!) still have a few crafts that NEED to be done this weekend and no later (double waaaaaaaaaa!) and I have a candle party... and I have to leave in 10 mins so I have to go & get ready.

Why are there not enough hours in the day!