Post-Christmas Update
Christmas seems to have got very samey for me the past few years, for me it just wasn’t what it used to be. Not just because it was overshadowed by the foreboding thought of a pile of project work that I really should be getting on with, but also because it just seems less and less exciting for me. Nonetheless the promise of seeing family and friends as well as having a few solid meals was enough to get me to go back home. Christmas Day was good, my brother visited from London and so he insisted on taking control of the kitchen for the day as, well it’s his profession to cook good meals. Unfortunately for me he enlisted me as one of his chefs and continued to give me Gordon-Ramsey-esque tasks to complete. Luckily the dinner was not a disaster, despite me having prepared some of it and Christmas Day proceeded its usual course throughout families through history of poor T.V., games which noone understands the rules of and relatives falling asleep. That all sounds pretty negative, but I guess the shows on T.V. were bearable and the game (DVD Sudoku avec Carol Vorderman) was good once we understood it and noone cheated.
For Boxing Day my mum, brother and I went to the cinema, my old workplace, to see Narnia which I’ve already seen (reviewed on here previously) and was absolutely great the second time round. Even better with the advent of surround sound and lack of intervals which the Futurist doesn’t have. However the mandatory annoyance during the film was provided by a family who insisted on going in and out of the cinema a lot, forcing us to stand up and sit down when they wanted to move. To top it off when they were sitting in there, instead of watching the film, they chose to talk without care of other people. This annoys me above everything else even more than intervals and the parents were doing it and not the children, so there’s no excuse really. I just don’t get it, why do people go and pay to watch a film and then just kiss goodbye to that idea, urinate on it and throw it out of the window? Instead of watching the film, they choose to talk loudly through it, go in and out of the cinema and cause an annoyance for everyone else. Geeze those Odeon holiday staff, that wouldn’t happen on my watch.
Apologies to those friends who I was unable to see over the festive period, I only returned home for a week and a half, and even then I spent 3 days in London visiting my Dad and my other brother the rest of it was seeing other family and friends. But all in all a good Christmas, but next time Santa, more time spent with friends and less project work. P.S. Stop advertising Coke by wearing red, please.