Thoroughly Festive

We are hurtling towards 2010 and things just get more hectic…

It’s been three months at my job now and I’m enjoying it so much, it’s hard to believe there is just four months of the contract left, but generally people at work believe I’ll be kept on. Hope so!

Also work related, i’ve managed to get a 10 day break at Christmas. It falls in such a great way this year, I get a week and a half off – magic. The past few days has also seen me get invited down to stay at Iain’s place in London for four days. Aleks and her sister are back in Bulgaria for Christmas, so there’s a spare room going. Didn’t need to ask me twice, though there was some frustration getting the travel down there sorted. I managed to settle on the coach down there and a first class train ride back home. Nice!

There’s plenty of birthday celebrations, Christmas parties and Christmas dinners going on these next few weeks – it’s hard to keep a tab on everything. It’s also more added expenses, so the advance of wages that work are offering me does seem attractive.

Forest are showing their promotion credentials. As of today, Sunday the 29th of November 2009, we are 4th in the Championship, tucked in behind Leicester. I make a note of this now because, with Cardiff and Blackpool still to play, we could end up down in 6th come Tuesday. Despite all that, we’re still doing amazingly well – come next season we could be serious challengers for promotion. Can’t believe it’s been 10 years since we last graced the Premier League! It seems as close as it’s ever been.

Finally, I re-jailbroke my phone. Apparently Blackra1n makes jailbreaking ridiculously simple. It does. My phone was jailbroken in about 30 seconds. Such a simple process, and no farting about with re-syncing apps and all the music. Plus I get the camcorder back, which is what I really missed.

Exmas excess

Christmas has hit us, wether in the shops or at work – and I couldn’t be less christmassy! It’s not that I hate Christmas, it’s just that you don’t have much time to enjoy it when you’re working all week. It also doesn’t help that I’ve still to buy any Christmas presents yet…

Of course the shops aren’t missing a trick, enticing people in with these 20% off days, persuading hard up people to spend more cash they don’t have. We’ll remain in a recession do long as the high street shops reduce prices to crazy levels. makes you wonder how mad the January sales will be!

I haven’t shaved in nearly two weeks now, a record probably! I normally grow a goatee when in the mood for a beard but decided this time to just let it all grow. It’s a bit ginger though, which is a worry. I’ll see how long I can pull off the scruffy look before getting bored of it.

The iPhone has truly become the gadget I couldn’t live without. Jailbreaking it made it even better, with the 2.2 update smoothing out the edges a little – hopefully making the Internet more stable, but otherwise fine tuning a damn fine phone, I’m using all day every day. Marvellous!

I’ve also discovered Twitter in this last week or so. A social networking site with similarities to Facebook, it goes one step further by having actual real famous people using it. Maybe not incredibly famous, but certainly people I know and like – such as Robert Llelwellyn (Red Dwarf’s Kryten) and Stephen Fry. Twitter apps on the iPhone have also helped this become a little addictive.

Merry Christmas!

Well, no sooner has the new school term started, three days into September, I’ve managed to spot the first piece of Christmas crap for sale.

Working my way through Primark I could see numerous Santa’s propped up near the escalators. Primark weren’t advertising them, but barely into September and shops deem it acceptable to sell Christmas goods!!

The changing of the month – and season, apparently – has also annoyed me as I walk through Nottingham. I thought I might go and buy some items I’ll need when I go to Malta. Things such as a sunhat, sandals and maybe even some new sunglasses. It soon became evident that most shops are now stocking autumn/winter stuff, I’ve left it too late! Superdrug are still selling suncream though, so all is not lost.

I’m currently sitting in the Espresso bar of John Lewis, drinking an Americano and generally being fancy. Watching all the envious eyes look at me as I tap away on my iPhone.