How to Feel Festive

So we're flying towards Christmas and I have officially started to feel festive.  I am the sort of person who enjoys Christmas.  I don't like the fact that it seems to start in October, but I am more than happy to fully give in to the Christmas feeling from the second week in December.

This year we had our traditional early Christmas Dinner and gift giving with Fra and Jennie.  We do this every year before we all head home for Christmas. I cooked turkey and we ate, drank and felt full rather than merry.  It's a bloody great tradition and I love it.

In addition to this probably the most festive thing we have done in the run up to Christmas has been going to see an Adults Only screening of The Muppets Christmas Carol.  It was awesome!  Mulled wine, drinking games and The Muppets - very festive.

The Bear visited Rina and I last night.  He brought me a Christmas/birthday present - Batman: Noel. It is a Batman retelling of A Christmas Carol and is beautifully drawn.  It was also very kind and unexpected.  He's a good bloke The Bear.

It is Wednesday today and the staff Christmas do is tonight.  That will be fun.  I will partake in the free beer and have my dinner and then head home before it become rowdy.  It always does - the way good Christmas dos should!

Friday sees Rina and I head home.  I can't wait.  It has been ages since I was last at home and it is brilliant to spend time with my family (that and the fact I have two nieces means I get to enjoy having kids around - which MAKES Christmas).

So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and see you in 2012!

November

It seems the weather has finally realised that we are approaching winter as the days have become cold and crisp and my breath visible.

November has been relatively busy - we have finally had the wardrobe installed in our bedroom (although the bed has yet to be delivered) and i had my 36th birthday. 

No Fat Disciples in the month due to lack of finances, a bassist in Thailand and a drummer in Poland.

I went to see Nosferatu in the Prince Charles Cinema with live music by Minima. It was really, really awesome (and the cinema was packed).  The same cinema is hosting an Adults Only screening of Muppets Christmas Carol in a couple of weeks.  That I am really looking forward to.

Celtic seem to have turned a bit of a corner.  Two wins in a row, one of them spectacularly convincing whilst the Huns have dropped points two games in a row.  This season may just have some legs in it after all....

I've been getting round to the last bits of Christmas shopping.  My parents are sorted, as are my brothers and my nieces.  Just my sisters to go.  Rina and I will be paying for a coffee table that extends into a dining table as a gift to each other.... I've always wanted one of those... Saying that, I am now the proud owner of an ipad - my birthday present from Rina!

Just 5 short weeks until 2012.  2011 has been a full-on year.  I am looking forward to Christmas with my family, because after that it is just a quick 6 months to my wedding.

Holy fuck.

Uncle Fail

Today I posted a birthday card to my beautiful niece.

Her birthday was last Sunday.

Uncle Fail.