{"id":94,"date":"2005-12-22T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/3-days-and-counting\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:20:35","slug":"3-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/3-days-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"3 days and counting&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally getting into the christmas spirit!!!<\/p>\n<p>After spending the last 3 days doing stuff with friends and for the most part behaving like a child the christmas bug has FINALLY bitten me. I&#8217;ve finished 95% of my christmas shopping (the rest will wait till next week having postponed christmas and all that) I have put a couple of decorations up (still no tree though because THAT is a waste of time this year) and I&#8217;m consuming record numbers of mince pies (will be the size of a house come January 1st).<\/p>\n<p>Things are all good, nobody to argue with, nothing to worry about and I&#8217;ve decided that the best way to deal with the &#8220;real&#8221; christmas day (not the pretend one I&#8217;m having New Years Day) will be to lock myself in with a couple of bottles of Baileys (well it is christmas) a couple of books and a few DVD&#8217;s and return to civilisation Boxing Day!!<\/p>\n<p>So 3 days to go and I&#8217;m refusing to stress anymore about it!!<\/p>\n<p>[edit]&#8230;..Just because I&#8217;m proud of myself I&#8217;ve added this bit for the world to see&#8230;..I MADE GY BLUSH he actually went red and all coy on me&#8230;However I bet I could embarass him a whole lot more if I started talking about my 15th birthday party&#8230;mentioning no names *wink wink* cough cough Becky Shimmans!!&#8230;HA<br \/>Just remembered even more details about that night&#8230;I was the only person in the whole school to hold a birthday party that the police were called to I state AGAIN for the record&#8230;&#8221;It wasn&#8217;t my fault!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally getting into the christmas spirit!!! After spending the last 3 days doing stuff with friends and for the most part behaving like a child the christmas bug has FINALLY bitten me. I&#8217;ve finished 95% of my christmas shopping (the rest will wait till next week having postponed christmas and all that) I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/3-days-and-counting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3 days and counting&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-1w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":93,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/yawn\/","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":0},"title":"*YAWN*","date":"December 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Twas 4 days before christmas and all through my house........IS BLOODY GLITTER, STICKY TAPE AND RIBBON!!!!Never let a six year old help wrap the presents, I will be spending my evening once he's in bed re-wrapping 90% of what we've done but it was fun!!I've had a hectic couple of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WBIAGW&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":98,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":1},"title":"2006&#8230;.","date":"January 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"...2 days in and its just as bad as 2005. Great!!!New Years Eve got totally fucked up and in the end there was NO meal with friends there was no dressing up and going out! Ended up down my nans with random family members and the Londoner to which we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WBIAGW&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":96,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/27\/i-just\/","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":2},"title":"I just&#8230;.","date":"December 27, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"....drank away the last 3 days of my life, and all things considered I feel surprisingly well today!!CHRISTMAS EVE....Was in work at 6 bloody AM and started the day with the traditional coffee laced with Baileys and that pretty much set the tone for the rest of the day...and night!!!Drank\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WBIAGW&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":62,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/08\/i-cant-do-this-all-by-myself\/","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":3},"title":"I cant do this all by myself&#8230;","date":"November 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"...cause I'm no superman,Sorry during a conversation with Paul just I suddenly remembered how much I enjoy Scrubs!!!Anyway back to me...I've had a quiet day really, went to work, still in the process of getting all the christmas prep done, Good news is hopefully this will be the last weekend\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WBIAGW&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":194,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/tis-the-season-to-become-obsessive-compulsive\/","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":4},"title":"&#8216;Tis the season to become obsessive compulsive.","date":"December 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas is once again upon us and amid the annual rush to the shops and the seasonal sense of having to enjoy yourself, a madness creeps upon me that I am desperately seeking a cure. 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