Christmas Day Fun(?) (Blog 490)

As my brother is celebrating Christmas with his family far away without me, that means I’m alone with my dad as I blog about the day. Not to worry, I SHOULD be going for a lovely pub lunch on Boxing Day with everyone. To lighten the mood even further, here’s an incredible statistic: You know when I said I witnessed a one in 4,000 event? I miscalculated and didn’t count the days after my last computer update properly. Actually the odds in getting a consistently normal background on my computer for the last few days were more like one in half a million! Do I want a healthy computer or do I want a super unlikely situation? Tough one. After getting out of bed and checking my computer for updates at around 8:35 (God I hate doing that) I checked my mobile phone for text messages. I really was hoping for a happy Christmas, especially as I spend £10 a month on next to no activity (other than calling my own house to check if my phone still works) but I guess no news is good news. I tell a lie, I did get a text message offering me a free top up or something like that, but what’s the point really?

At 8:50 I checked one of my email accounts (I have a few, but most serve no real purpose as at the time of setting them up, I was slightly confused) and for a brief moment I was thinking to myself ‘what’s a pass sword?’ Of course I was asked what my password was. I must have been asked for my passwords many thousands of times now and I’ve never been asked for a pass sword even the one time, which is why I was so scared after realising my error.

At 9:10 I was finished with all my obsessive multiple email checking, joke posting and such. 80% or so of that time was a bit of waste, but what gets to me is I waste about 30 minutes of time every single day! That’s how much peace of mind costs you: A good 30 minutes. No, it’s more than that, isn’t it? Because where the flip do I get peace of mind when it comes to the correct wallpaper on my computer? No time or money can give me peace, there. :(

At 9:15 I left to get food from the local petrol station! How did I know they were open? I asked a member of staff, the day before! What’s more impressive? My planning abilities or the excellent and concise response I got? Many will point out neither is THAT impressive, but it is something. I like to compare it to a small bite of a festive Yorkshire pudding.

At 9:30 I was back with a samosa and crisps. I didn’t buy any chocolates like I usually do, as I was looking forward to some Ferrero Rochers bought previously. However, I would soon find that my dad hid them somewhere and then he said he didn’t remember buying them. After seeing my food, he asked if the shops were open, on hindsight, I should have said ‘no’. Before eating my food, I walked the dogs with my chocolate hiding dad. I’m convinced he didn’t eat them, he would have had to got through about 20 in one go when I was out the house…

At 10:00, I was back home and ate my food to Youtube videos! A fairly typical 10 AM, but actually a day highlight. After everything was eaten I brushed my teeth and washed my face. I have a new soap that says to use it once a day, which is something I ignore. First up, since when has soap come with instructions and secondly, what will happen if you overuse it? You become too clean? As my soap has acid in it, maybe it could melt my face? Needless to say, a soap that’s way too powerful.

I fully got to work on this blog and started to type my notes up at 11:00. A bit late, but come on, it’s Christmas! I was wondering what to call the article. ‘Extreme’, ‘Intense’ and ‘Mega’ didn’t really seem appropriate, but surely the day would at least partly fun, right??

At 12:10 I had mostly finished typing up the prior ideas! Call me a perfectionist. Time for more chilled out Youtube, I guess! The first video I watched was one where a convict got mad and swore at a judge. Wow, I wonder how the judge took that… Probably badly. I’m glad that kind of stuff gets recommended to me, it’s very entertaining.

12:25: I’ve watched another video of the same judge and he keeps handing out sentences of 93 days to people! Does that sound funny to you? It’s funny to me. Other people would be like ‘oh you’re not facing THAT judge are you? Whatever it is that you do, he keeps giving people the same exact and specific punishment!’

12:30: I’m back to work whilst listening to the last of three albums I bought in Kingston. Yeah, I bought some good stuff! I don’t like ALL of it, but £30 well spent! I kinda wish I had some Ferrero Rochet, though. It must be somewhere…

13:00: It took me 30 minutes to come up with the Ferrero Rochet line, I hope you enjoyed it. Now I’m going to watch ‘the drunkest guy in the world’ also on Youtube. I wouldn’t say I have a sophisticated viewing history, but hey.

13:30: That’s enough chilling out, let’s go for a lovely walk in Chobham Common!

(Somewhere between 13:30 and 15:15): Before getting to the excellent scenery, I bought a Pepperami and some chewing gum from another petrol station, on the way. What product would end up creating the most blog material? Read on… After a few minutes of driving I reached Chobham where I did some walking and that was basically it for a while. So I didn’t get muddy trousers, I rolled them up to my knees and consequently with every step I took, my knees got a nice massage! Call me pretentious, but I may have stumbled upon a new invention, that basically being shorts that have very bulky bottoms. They may not look stylish but if people think wearing their trousers about a foot too low in effort to mimic rappers looks cool, I think my look could catch on eventually. Speaking of trousers that are too low, aren’t there like… laws against that?

Anyway, eventually I got bored walking and began rambling back to my car. However, with my gum I started blowing bubbles and all of a sudden I was having a good time again. Annoyingly though, I ended up with bits of gum all around my mouth. I’m glad no one saw that, as they’d be like ‘this is a person who doesn’t know how to eat properly…’ However, I’m sure those who were not too far in front of me could have heard my various popping and raspberry noises. Hopefully they realised I was blowing bubbles and not acting like a toddler, but to be honest, I’m not optimistic about that.

15:15: I’m back from the walk and I can’t get the gum off my mouth. Let’s watch more Youtube!

15:30: Back to writing, now about my walkies! Let’s put some more music on, this time some instrumental guitar music by Rusty Cooley!

16:05: Kinda wondering what to write about, now that I’ve finished the Chobham stuff. I’m still listening to Rusty, who ironically has a very good technique. This isn’t irony, but I’m sure he’s a very cooley person, too. Even so, it’s not one of the best guitar albums I own, but much better than sitting in silence which coincidentally is how I spend much of holiday period when with my dad. I think I’ll listen to the end of the album then clean my room. After that I can admire my ever growing CD collection in a slightly nicer overall environment!

16:15: Actually let’s go walking the dogs with my dad again, might as well!

16:50: I’m back and listening to the remainder of the cool album. Nice walk, I guess! No Pepperami or chewing gum anecdotes this time and no further ideas for my special shorts, but I did enjoy the literally cool weather!

16:55: Ooh, there are two tracks with singing in. They’re arguably the best songs on the album (technically they’re the only songs as there are no songs without vocals, but you know what I mean) but on the whole a perfectly reasonable CD!

17:05: Ok, the CD’s finished, NOW I’ll clean my room.

17:20: Oh that’ll do, I don’t really think my room needs too much of a clean, so… let’s proof read and post!