Bit drunk at the moment, so pardon the grammar. Got a message from cousin Tanya today. If you've been following along here for a while, you'll know who cousin Tanya is—that's provided I haven't fucked up the aliases. Anyway, she's the one who met her current boyfriend (from Thailand) over the internet. They're in town today, and wanted to know if they could crash at my joint tonight—or whatever ungodly hour of the morning they rock in tomorrow.
They spent the afternoon here, having a few "social" drinks, in preparation for going out tonight. And yes, Tanya asked me if I wanted to go, but I didn't. A few quiet beers in the evening is more than enough excitement for me these days. I'm simply too old for big nights of drunken debauchery. Never mind the fact that Tanya must be nearly 10 years my senior and she's still going strong.
Oh, the boyfriend, you ask? He seems polite … I guess … but he spent the entire time doing … something, on his phone. Talking to his family? Messaging other women? I dunno. Couldn't get more than two words out of him. Quite the looker though, and fit too, so I guess I know what Tanya sees in him.
Anyway, looking back on the year, it was kind of crap, I guess. I mean, last year I did that drawing per day thing, in an attempt to kick start this place as an art blog, and this year, I don't think I did a single drawing. Pathetic! Also, I never designed a new template like I wanted. Actually, I got really, really busy in the last half of the year. Busier than I've been in ages.
Which brings me to this next point. I wasn't going to mention this, but I've had—like—six beers, so what the fuck. I've had abdominal pains for the last three months. It hasn't been super bad, but it hasn't gone away either. I was trying to convince myself that it was probably stress induced ulcers or something, and it'd go away once work slowed down; but after Squib's shocking news, I'm kind of shitting bricks. I think I'll definitely be making a doctor's appointment sometime in January.
I do have some cute nibbling related news, but that can wait until I'm more sensible and coherent. What are youse fellas doing for New Year's?
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I hope you've made that appointment Alex!
What's going on with squib??
Happy New Year everyone, I hope all well
X
Yes, get to the doc at once. It will hopefully be something minor (and if not, the sooner the better) Happy New Year, Melbs & everyone X
Happy New Year guys. Just got home from a month away and taking a day to recover from the flights and unpack and do washing and just hang around the house doing less than I've done in weeks.
Had a great trip. Japan is THE BEST. I want to live there amongst their neat ordered society. There's no litter, no graffiti, everyone is generally polite and considerate, everything runs on time, and BTW their airline is AWESOME. (Japan Airlines)
Britain and visiting the fam-bam was great too, but the sprogs had the plague which of course we both caught and I was sick for the last two weeks of the trip - still feel week and feverish if I exert myself and am trying to rest a lot in an effort to avoid developing CFS/ME because that shit is bad and with my health it would be Just My Luck. We were super lucky with the weather - almost no rain and not REALLY cold - though let me tell you that a down jacket is best piece of clothing you will own, it's water-repellent and warm and also you can stuff it into any tiny space when it's not needed to wear. Just the BEST. Though not at all flattering, especially if you are fat already, as I am. Some of the photos hubby took of me are just UGH.
Glad to enjoyed it - bummer about the plague
Forgot to say I saw an HBO doco called Swiped about Tinder etc, all these young people sitting around at parties swiping their dating apps. Interesting times
What is the cute nibbling related news, Alex? Also, is there some way to fix the pinned post 'So, Watta yiz mob bin upta, ay?' cos now it's two pages and really awkward to navigate and impossible to see the latest comment while replying
Squib, I couldn't see a simple way to allow more than 200 comments per page (maybe if I edit the template), so I unpinned that post and pinned a fresh one. Nibling news has also been posted.
Suze, glad to hear you enjoyed your trip. Sorry about the health issues. Cheers for the tip on down jackets.
Speaking of young people and dating apps, my understanding is that the Japanese economy is in danger of collapse because their youth have stopped breeding. Which reminds me of something I heard the other day regarding global population size and climate change; but that probably needs its own post too. Interesting times indeed.
Thanks, Alex. Not breeding is the smart thing to do; if only everyone would follow their example
Yeah I'm all for people not breeding or only having one kid. Oddly though, a significant number of my friends have three and one couple even has four and I'm not convinced they are done (she's Catholic). I mean, I know it's more than possible to find yourself preggers by accident, but that excuse only holds for me the once.
Anyway, it is true that I only saw a handful of children in Japan. But it's also worth noting that there were millions of young people walking around who could conceivably do what happened to GenX and realise their chance is almost gone and start breeding in their late 30s. Who knows. All the Japanese kids I saw were gorgeously behaved - super cute and almost never disruptive. I mean, there were TWO babies on our flight to London, and I didn't even realise until just before we landed.
I remember when our society was also focussed on making sure we didn't affect anyone else and it was safe to go out to restaurants and you could sit in a cafe without being surrounded by a mother's group with a billion huge jogging prams. I spat my dummy once at someone who left a review of a local bar on FB, complaining that they were not welcoming to their children. It's a BAR, FFS. Of COURSE they are not going to welcome your children. They are just going to mess the place up, not drink all that expensive alcohol they have behind the counter, and also discourage real adults from walking in the door.
Anyway, I can be complacent, since - though it was not be choice - I have done the best thing I can do for the environment by not breeding.
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