mathilde’s Neighborhood

Ah I'm bloody knackered after all that Christmas stuff and I'm straight back into work so here's a very lazy look at my top five YouTube moments of the year.

The countdown to the end of the year starts here. Are we ready for some lists dear blog readers?

First, as a man of the internet here are my top five discoveries of 2009.

Five: Guaranteed to get you through any dull day in work, laugh at other people's misfortunes on TFLN.

Four: A cheeky plug for my own site but all this deadonmusic stuff has been a labour of love this year.

Three: Inspiration, distraction and envy all readily available on ffffound.

Two: OK so I was a little bit late to the party but I'm sure by now most of you have found me on Twitter.

One: Last but not least. I was there grabbing an account when it was still free to do so and now I've got access to millions of great tunes, taking them on the move and occasionally resorting to the phone app when all else fails during a DJ set. Oh yeah, at number one it's Spotify.

What's the hardest, most embarrassing or most inappropriate question you were asked this holiday season? Who asked it?

"Who do you want to kiss under the Mistletoe?" - VOX

 

JK, I don't know how to answer these things anymore.

It's St Stephen's day in the year when the boyband and gay community lost St Stephen Gately and the rest of the world said fond farewells to art-legend Tony Hart, Michael Jackson, your man from the chickflicks, Natasha Richardson, Farah Fawcett, Brittany Murphy and the truly irreplacable Maggie Jones!

Oh yeah and that fucking annoying non-celebrity bint who got her baps out on Big Brother. Why didn't a Daily Mail columnist rip her to shreds?

Better luck for the celebrities in 2010.

Happy Birthday to Annie Lennox, Sissy Spacek, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Buffet... *yawn* oh yeah, you too Dido.

Belated birthday greetings to Jesus that historical character who was actually born earlier in the year and has made some people very happy, some people very smug, some people very violent and made one woman push the Pope over at mass last night.

And last but not least best wishes to Shane Magowan you big fuckin' mess. One last Christmas song?

Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday.  Santa was very generous and got me a Coach Sabrina satchel this year. 

Yesterday was Pat's 22nd birthday.  It was a lot of fun, and by the end of the night, I was having WAAAAAAY too much fun. All I will say is that a.  I will probably never drink Crown ever again and b. I did shit last night that my family will taunt me about for all of eternity.

I'm very glad to be here at home, spending this Christmas with my family and closest friends. I hope that you all are just as blessed wherever you are.  <3

As I start the day off paraphrasing from Shane Magown's greatest Christmas song ever written "it was Christmas Eve babe in the drunk tank, workplace? shithole..." Yeah that's the one. It's Christmas Eve in the shithole. Am I bitter about being in work on Christmas? Not overly. It's just another day. Am I bitter about sleeping in until 6.20 and not having time to have breakfast or make a backed lunch before braving the sub-zero temperatures outside. Out of the 40 or so regulars who hop on the train at my stop each morning there were six of us. As always no one spoke, no season's greeting or any of that, eyes down, headphones in, deathly public transport silence. That's how we like it best. I've griped enough today. Much like the Allied forces and Nazi troops in 1945 I'm declaring a Christmas truce. And so from the lyrics of a great Christmas tune I leave you with a clip from a great Christmas movie. Enjoy whatever it is you get up to tomorrow.

If you could kiss anyone under the mistletoe, who would it be?

 

Your mom.

I got given another bottle of wine again today by someone in work which was basically just redirected from a box that was delivered from my own client. That makes three bottles of wine that I've brought home this week. Three bottles of wine are all I have to say thanks for all the gruelling work and overtime and shit put up with through the year...

Three bottles of wine which I'll more than likely give to my mum and she in turn will give them to someone else as a gift! Are we possibly the only people who don't drink at Christmas and New Year?

Ahh when will this whole Christmas thing be over and done with so I can go back to some form of normality...

Day: Twenty Three
Positive Outcomes: None... I'm just rambling... and tired and urgh...

After a few really bad attempts, the crochet thing is finally working for me.


The lil heart was made with the wrong type of yarn, with the wrong sized needle, and I kept losing count. So I'm happy that it isn't completely crap.

I'm very happy with my little Alien dude. Yarn where you can't see the stitches (or mistakes) FTW!

Both are done from RoxyCraft patterns.

Currently working on a Lochness monster, hopefully he'll be finished before Xmas!