Christmas

It's been a busy week. Highlights have been:

• The Saturday before Christmas we went to Blast Off. Had a great night out. Saw Fletch and Kate Boardman; Catriona and Julia. It was like a blast from the past. Had cocktails at Toms first. All in all a great night out!
• Christmas Eve, Ellie and I announced our engagement. When I first told Ellie's parents. Alison was peeling the sprouts and thought I was joking. Everybody has since passed on their regards.
• Christmas Day was busy, as it always is I got some great presents; Some polish vodka, Guitar Hero, a new guitar, a black aikido Gi and plenty of chocolate.
• Boxing Day I went over to Auntie Pat and Uncle Noel's in Sutton Coalfield. Went for a walk in Sutton Park with my cousin, Marcus' son (Billy). I also saw my great aunt, who is 92.
• The following day I went to laser quest in Stourbridge. Came second in the first game, but won the second game by over 500 points. That evening I went out with Atton and the geeks (people I did A level IT with).
• Had two curries in the last two days and I'm off for another tonight... I'm going to stink!

It's CCCCCHHHHHRISTMASSSSSSS

No work to be done today. Sitting here listening to Slade and trying to look like I'm doing some work, we are racing wind up gannies in a bit and at mid day I'm going to jump in the car and go back to Wolverhampton.

Another Hardcore weekend

After the Christmas Party on Thursday, I jumped on the bus upon getting home Friday night and went to London.

Met Tom at TCR and we went to see the Sultans at the Mean fiddler, great gig, brilliant to see Mitchiko and Wake up and scratch me live. Bought a Where’s me jumper T-shirt. they played 3 encores which I thought was a bit excessive.

Finished at 10pm so we had a nice stroll trough London, TCR, down Oxford Street, To Regents Street, Down the back to New Bond Street, to Piccadilly, then to Trafalgar Square and then down the Mall to Buck Pal, From there off to Victoria tube.

Afterwards me my cousin Dominic in Brixton and went for a few drinks. Ended up at 3 am playing on his xbox 360 with his housemates James and Tom.

Dom cooked a fry up, which was much needed, on Saturday morning, and we got the tube to Fopp on TCR again. Bought 4 books for £20, one of which was about the architecture of 1930's football ground (Geek).

Then the central line to Shephard's Bush, where we had a pint in what was obviously a QPR supporters local.

Found the ground and then watched 45 dull minutes of football as wolves failed to break down the QPR defence. the second half was much better. We won 1-0 thanks to Michael Kightly early in the second half.

Sunday was a none event despite driving upto Wolves to drop Ellie off for Christmas.

Had my school visit this morning then drove back down and here I am.

Bloodshot eyes and a good night out.

Was the RM Marketing Christmas party last night. Started drinking at 2 and I went home around 10. I am hearing tales of drinking past midnight and I’m thinking that I feel rough (sitting here nurturing a cup of coffee).

Got given a bubble machine for my secret Santa, how cool is that.

Monty did well again last night, he is inspiring me to grow a beard, although I have a school visit booked for Monday, that wouldn’t look too professional.

Our own devices

Just seen Kareem and Dan's Band, Our own Devices, at the Port Mahon. Very good, nice and noisey. Kareem was a little annoyed when I poted out that their new song sounded like it was stolen from at the Drive in's Invalid littler Dept.

Cousin's 18th Birthday

Yesterday was my cousin Luke's 18th Birthday party. Stood in a room of drunken 18 year olds full of hormones and trying to pick a fight for about2 hours. There was quite a lot of extended family there also, I don’t really understand why an 18 year old would want to get drunk and try and pull women with his mom and dad present but it's best not to ask such things.

Drove back to Oxford a couple of hours a go. George, Ellie's brother has an interview at the university tomorrow, so good luck to him.

Also Ellie won't let me post pictures of the car accident, sorry for those of you who it will disappoint. (Sickos)

Exam went OK (tempt fate) questions were very similar to the ones in the moc. Well done Dave – My lecturer. After the exam, on Friday night, I went tout to the light bar with some guys I did a levels with. Good night out.

Exam tomorrow

Well, in just over 27 hours I will be sitting in an exam room up at Brookes and scratching my head. I think I am nearly ready. I've got to do some more research into branding but I am comfortable with CRM now. I have completely covered my question booklet with various diagrams and scribbling (there is no rule against that and you are allowed to take it in with you - so why not). Ellie has been getting a lift in with Tonya the past couple of days which is great for me because I means I can lie in bed for a bit longer.

Ellie's car is a complete write off and I don't know what she is going to do next week. she is thinking of getting a Polo. I wanted a Polo when I got my 206.

Got my Ipod radio dock this morning, it still feeds back when the back light goes off, like the one I sent back on Monday but I guess, what can you expect for £30, I've just changed the back light to stay on.

I've also found another 175R album on the internet and I'm currently downloading it.

RTA

Yesterday Ellie dumped the car I was in in a ditch. We were on our way to Milton Keynes to go to Ikea and to look at ski jackets. On the way between Forrest Hill and Islip there is a chicane at the end of a long straight, Ellie swerved to avoid something on the left of the road, overcompensated to the left and we started to spin. Ellie reckons we rolled but upon looking at the car today I think that is unlikely. I was amazed at my reactions, I curled up into a ball and assumed the brace position as they tell you on planes.

Next thing I can remember is sitting in the car looking over at Ellie and asking if she was OK. I said, “Let’s get out of here”, kicked the shattered window through and undid her belt pulling her out. No honestly, that’s what happened. Next, We stood by the side of the road in shock. Some guy pulled up in a SAAB and was really helpful. We even tried to push the car back off its side onto its wheels.

The police took ages to arrive and the ambulance even longer. Spent 3 hours in the JR hospital only to hear that Ellie was OK to go. I was so full of adrenalin that they didn’t even check me over. Although I have now found that I came off worse. Ellie has a sore neck. I have two bruised knees, cuts on my left shin, sore ribs and keep finding pieces of glass in my hands. But hey it was pretty exciting (not that I’m in a hurry to do it again).

Photos to follow when I get back to work next week.