Rambley-Woo
Dec. 11th, 2007 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
r_scribblesI am Keeping Busy, which is much more productive than the way I dealt with my last bereavement (namely drinking a lot, arguing a lot and making myself very ill). Our windows have been cleaned (on the inside, anyway), the tree is now up, the Chrimbo cards are written, two short Christmas present fics are written and posted/emailed and I intend to clean the oven this evening.
Went to the Post Office today to get some nice Christmassy stamps, which was Hell. Massive queue, two cashiers, both taken up with elderly terminal ditherers. Was there for 5 mins as the queue grew, and failed completely to move as both ditherers dithered, struck up conversations with the cashier, counted out shrapnel, forgot what they'd come in for, etc, etc. Gave up and went to the 'main' one (now shoehorned into the least accessable end of Smiths) instead.
Also going through my annual vague irritation at the lazy Journos and equally lazy readers coming up with their annual 'OMG the PC Brigade have cancelled Christmas!' urban myths without actually looking at the evidence to the contrary with, y'know, their own eyes. Plenty of nativity scenes and official uses of the word (or, Brand Name, depending on which way you look at it) 'Christmas' last time I looked. Most 'PC Gone Mad' stories are just unresearched heresay (otherwise known as Bollocks) overhyped to create an 'Us vs Them' hysteria that handily sells papers, anyway.
Ooh, I've gone all ranty. Didn't mean to.
Bought the Chrimble RT today, and have been ringing what we're going to watch in traditional Obsessive-Compulsive manner. Hopefully we'll have some fun toys to play with, because apart from Harry Hill, Dr Que and Extras there's not really much on that I'm bothered about. We should be just about back from the Community Carol Sing-Song with the old Archbishy in time for the traditional Blackadder's Christmas Carol, which is nice.
Oh yes - best PG Based dream ever this morning... PG Boys Boy Band! Yay! Can't remember what they were singing about, but it was very funny, and I think some of my male friends were in the band too, because Jools was there. And La Reynolds and Hubs had merged into one (I know this because at one point I shouted 'Husband! To Heel!' and along he trotted... this would never happen with Real Hubs) - oh the possibilities! Sadly, I woke up and they were left unrealised :(
Oh, finally watched Friday's HIGNFY last night. Rrr! I don't like liking Russell Brand, but he is actually rather charming on the panel shows I've seen him on. His excuse for "going to the toilet" ('Enoch Powell used to need the toilet before his speeches and I think it made him Racist') was joyful. Charlie Brooker's still best, though. And looks like Kenny Phillips' Evil Twin Brother!
Went to the Post Office today to get some nice Christmassy stamps, which was Hell. Massive queue, two cashiers, both taken up with elderly terminal ditherers. Was there for 5 mins as the queue grew, and failed completely to move as both ditherers dithered, struck up conversations with the cashier, counted out shrapnel, forgot what they'd come in for, etc, etc. Gave up and went to the 'main' one (now shoehorned into the least accessable end of Smiths) instead.
Also going through my annual vague irritation at the lazy Journos and equally lazy readers coming up with their annual 'OMG the PC Brigade have cancelled Christmas!' urban myths without actually looking at the evidence to the contrary with, y'know, their own eyes. Plenty of nativity scenes and official uses of the word (or, Brand Name, depending on which way you look at it) 'Christmas' last time I looked. Most 'PC Gone Mad' stories are just unresearched heresay (otherwise known as Bollocks) overhyped to create an 'Us vs Them' hysteria that handily sells papers, anyway.
Ooh, I've gone all ranty. Didn't mean to.
Bought the Chrimble RT today, and have been ringing what we're going to watch in traditional Obsessive-Compulsive manner. Hopefully we'll have some fun toys to play with, because apart from Harry Hill, Dr Que and Extras there's not really much on that I'm bothered about. We should be just about back from the Community Carol Sing-Song with the old Archbishy in time for the traditional Blackadder's Christmas Carol, which is nice.
Oh yes - best PG Based dream ever this morning... PG Boys Boy Band! Yay! Can't remember what they were singing about, but it was very funny, and I think some of my male friends were in the band too, because Jools was there. And La Reynolds and Hubs had merged into one (I know this because at one point I shouted 'Husband! To Heel!' and along he trotted... this would never happen with Real Hubs) - oh the possibilities! Sadly, I woke up and they were left unrealised :(
Oh, finally watched Friday's HIGNFY last night. Rrr! I don't like liking Russell Brand, but he is actually rather charming on the panel shows I've seen him on. His excuse for "going to the toilet" ('Enoch Powell used to need the toilet before his speeches and I think it made him Racist') was joyful. Charlie Brooker's still best, though. And looks like Kenny Phillips' Evil Twin Brother!
