Forgive me my friends, I did not write after New Year ’s Eve. As of Tuesday, I had been coming down with the flu, struggling to carry on with work by and basically sleeping at night. Thursday I felt like death, with cold shivers, sore throat, and a headache so bad I was thinking straight. But still I had to go to college in this state for an exam, of which no idea of which if I passed or not.

Friday, went to the Oswestry doctors and it turned out I had a base case of Tonsillitis to add to the list. Had some pills with a complicated name, and took the rest of the day off from work at that point.

Saturday was spent mostly in the sitting room, reading, avoiding anything IT or phone related. My voice was awful too, but today on the Sunday, I feel a lot better. My throat now remains the main battleground, with flare-up and more fluid coming out every so often.

I will go back to work tomorrow, and hopefully can carry on as business as usual with whatever I need to do, but really it’s hasn’t been a fun start for me this year as it goes.

Now the rest of this I had written Monday Night, but I never posted it so here it is;

As it goes, we had a lot of jolly fun over New Year in Shrewsbury, where we came, we saw, we sang badly on the singstar. The full suit with matching bow tie came out in force, while others were in more usual attire. Highlight of which was Natalie in Hot pants.

I know I said the gorilla costume was going to make an appearance but after the fact that it was a 007 “theme” (I use that loosely as it turns out) at the nightclub, people would fail to see where James Bond fought the gorilla in any of his films. Admittedly I was going to go for the gorilla costume as a surprise up in Manchester but of course as we all know the plan changed.

We met three lovely ladies who had flown over from Estonia for New Years, who were staying at Steve, and I must say, shazam again boy! These other countries have quite a few attractive women it must be said. Hmm, New Year’s Eve with 2 men and 5 women. Oh well it could be worse….

After a few rounds at the singstar, munching on some carrots and having a jolly good natter about a few things, we headed out onto the town, the wind and rain only beginning to beat down on us. We got into Liquid and Diva at around twenty to eleven, and proceeded to get down and boogie. The music was crap but what the hell, eh? Even if all we could do to the Baywatch theme was move very slowly. I don’t know, it didn’t seem like new year somehow. It just seemed like another Saturday night, and we didn’t last long, Natalie’s feet gave out about 1:30 and we made our way home.

The next day, the total time I spent in work was 2 hours. What a waste of time it was too. Not even worth the extra money or effort of travelling to Telford. Afterward well spent some more time with Nat, and that was that really.

Not terribly exciting reading granted but there is not an awful lot to tell. New Year and Christmas 2006 has passed, with well, a complete lack of impact. It felt like a few extra days off nothing more. Perhaps that is what it has reduced to; a few days off where we eat far too much and spend too much on crap for people that in truth you have no real idea what to get them, just what you think they would like. Feels empty.

There have been some highlights to 2006, some of the best were;
Seeing in the new year with my old friend from school.
Spending time out and about at numerous events with people, best ones were Alton Towers and the V Festival.
On that note, seeing one of my comic idols, Dylan Moran in the Flesh in Stoke.
Went to London Town again, wooo!
Meeting lots and lots of lovely ladies, and proceeding to go out with one of them for a long time. Hint at whoever that could be? 🙂
Starting a blog and actually keeping it relatively up to date
Doing two jobs which have been a hoot on one way or another.
Meeting up with absent friends who for one reason or another, I had lost contact with.

Some of the downsides;
Some of the absent friends would still prefer me dead and never show up or talk to them.
A relationship ended from last year.
My sister, showing that despite all attempts on my part to show what was wrong, she will never change.
Going to Spain (beginning to despise that country)
I have lost true contact with people back in Sunny Wales (being realistic now, I don’t see them that often).
Have repeated myself in blog posts, I found.

And last but not least the list of things to try and do in 2007:
1) Try and get more of the book finished.
2) Complete year 2 of the foundation degree
3) Go to another festival
4) Go somewhere else other than just f**king Spain again.
5) Learn more of a creative trade, don’t know what though
6) Carry on saying hello to people from time to time, even if just to annoy them.
7) Be me. Seems daft, but if I wasn’t who I am, people would be disappointed.

And here’s a good 2007 folks. 2006 was a great year for me personally, life keeps on rocking and so should you. Till next time campers.