Be Excellent To Each Other

Costuming up and drinking Perrier.

Happy new year, fuck buckets.

I woke up the girl so I wouldn't be on my own this year


midnight 2012 by Learnin' Curve, on Flickr

Happy new year everyone

All the best, turd burglar.

Four more hours of 2011 left here. Am at a house party with my in-laws. They're OK, but the only booze here is fizzy American lager and some fourth-rate wine. This is a very Un-British experience, I can tell you.

Shot gun the cans and bang the techno on.

The UK needs more Hooters bars.

And the upset I put money on was Fulham beating Arsenal. Great.

HNY everyone!

OH FUCK I FEEL AWFUL

Stupid drink. Happy New Year thing.

To be honest, they were never likely to pull that one off unless they got lost on the way to Norwich...

This is why I shouldn't gamble.

Racist.

I might be a little bit dying....Just got home from the in-laws, I left my family behind; I had to get out of there. Peppa Pig on the portable dvd player, plus youtube videos featuring retarded policemen through the PS3, plus too much food and being too hot, was making me feel ill. The hangover didn't help, admittedly.

Going to bed at 5am, then waking up in someone else's bed at 12:30pm to find I was supposed to be at the in-laws, 20 miles away, for 1pm, was a great start to 2012

Now I'm doing some laundry and changing bedding so I can at least say I've done something productive today, before I climb into my lovely, freshly made bed to play Skyrim/snooze.

A sexy start to 2012.

Driving Toledo -> Chicago (4.5 hours) today!

It's not real American driving unless you're going further than it's possible to drive in the UK without ending up in the sea.

Hah, if only! Ramsea was at home, babysitting.

and you woke up in someone else's bed have you seen the The Hangover?

It was planned, I stayed with my friend A taxi would have been something like £70-90.

MrsP's aunt died suddenly this morning. Not a good start to the new year. She was 45

Commiserations to your family Davpaz. That's a rubbish way to start the new year indeed.

Oh man, the service plazas, did you stop at Hardee's?

Sorry to hear that DavPaz, 45? What a shock. Love to the family.

Really sorry to hear that DavPaz, thoughts with you all.

My phones keyboard has updated, and provided a new option that seems to be up down on the amount of Bruno Shit it talks.

I'm not entirely sure if I like this change.

2012: already a year of ups and downs.

Just went for a walk and take some pictures, on the way back to the car there was a dog running around the car park. As I got back to the car some old bloke was saying that a young lass just turned up in a car, ejected the pooch and drove off.

Unsure what to do next I thought I'd see if the dog was approachable but it was skittish, just kept running off. Anyway after we had been standing around for a while the lass came back, in floods of tears but by now the dog had legged it. Eventually after about half an hour and a brief car chase we had reunited dog and silly owner.

So... What? She tried to dump the dog and had a change of heart?

Yeah, I assumed that's what she'd done. She seemed a bit messed up, I asked her if she was ok and she said yes but as I drove off she was sat hunched over her steering wheel sobbing. Seemed very regretful though and happy to have her dog back so I don't think she'll do it again.

the landlord replied to my email. He doesn't wish to renew the tenancy, our moving out before is fine. We will get deposit back. It was a very defensive communication.

My mum did that to my sister and I once, it was probably the school holidays or something and we'd bee arguing and antagonising each other in the car on the way over the mountain. My mother had obviously had enough of our constant fighting and pulled the car over and told us both to get out We did. She came back 15 minutes later...I remember my sister saying "That's your fault, dickhead" and we proceeded to spend the next few minutes shouting at each other by the side of the road. I was no older than 10, so she was about 9, I remember being bloody freezing as well, we only had tshirts on and no matter what time of year, it's always windy and chilly up there.

Sorry to hear about Mrs. Paz's auntie DavPaz, always shit losing someone but that's an awful start to the new year

Flis has a sister. Interesting.

Sorry to hear that.

Me, my youngest son, and 6 hours...



Malc

No. We stopped twice, once in Ohio (for the loo and to clean some iced-up freezing rain off the windscreen wipers) and once in Indiana (for a coffee). The Indiana one was filthy and rubbish. We didn't eat -- I'd already stocked the car up with jerky and salted caramels from Trader Joe's beforehand.

I do hope so. I just can't imagine anyone doing that to a pet

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/yayoi-kusama-obiliteration-room/

This is what happens when you give thousands of stickers to thousands of kids.

It's not art though.

Does that mean you two didn't end up going hours and hours and hours out of the way for more of Zingerman's?

Also, hello again everyone! It's only been a year or so, right? *blush*

Hello, shoes

Ticket to Ride: Nordic Edition is fucking brutal.

You mean you lost?

Welcome back

Look at the board. There are a few one card links which are really quite pivotal. And ferry crossings require wildcarda or more cards, and there are tunnels like in the Europe one. It's now a lot more strategic, and the reward vs the risk is huge.

Hello, shoes. Hope all is well.

I had a nearly year long bout with stubborn kidney stones that prompted me to throw an existential hissy fit, defriend nearly everyone I know in a fit of pique, and drop off the internet almost entirely. I would like to blame the narcotics I was on for pain, but those actually mellowed me.

But the stones are gone and I'm done with my tantrum. I'm trying to be less feral and join society once again. Maybe I should re-read a few of those Berenstain Bear books my mother tried to use to shepherd me into polite society as a child. You know, "The Berenstain Bears and The Shittiest Year Ever" or whatever one that has Sister Bear becoming withdrawn and playing too much Call of Duty.

Sorry to hear that. Still, it's 2012 now, and we've got the, um, Olympics to look forward to. That'll be super fun. Only we can't go and see it. Still, there's the F1 on the BBC and a royal pregnancy to come.

Welcome back, shoes. Feel free to keep up the mentals, you'll fit right in

Just seen it. That looks nasty - I hate doing tunnels in the Euro one.

Hello Shoes. Glad you've returned!