a note for first-timers

If it's your first time here and you're new to blogs, the first post you'll see is the most recent so that's where you should be ending, rather than starting. Otherwise, carry on...

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"singing" and everything

Should I be worried, do you think, that I can hit all the same notes as Justin Hawkins (from The Darkness) when singing along to Permission To Land? I have a fairly deep voice when speaking normally, but it concerns one of my friends that I can hit those high notes. I wonder if he thinks I might try to chat him up. I wouldn't. He's not my type.

I had a bedtime story read to me at lunchtime today. Actually TWO bedtime stories. And I even got to see the pictures in the book and everything.

Let me digress for a moment. Isn't it strange how we add "and everything" onto the ends of sentences? And we always seem to place such emphasis on it. I mean, what message is it actually supposed to convey? That I saw the pictures in the book and then I saw everything else? Everything? Really? Jesus, that's a lot to see!

"He was upset - he'd lost his job and everything."
Well of course he was bloody-well upset! On top of losing his job, he's lost everything else as well. That's got to be a bit of a kick in the teeth!

"She told him where to go and everything."
Okay, so she told him where to go. Under normal circumstances that would mean that she didn't especially like him and didn't want him around her anymore. So why on Earth did she then proceed to tell him everything? That must have taken aaaaaaaages!

Right, end of digression. Let me regress. Is that the word? I'm not sure but I'll claim it is. If it's not, shush.

So, bedtime stories at lunchtime. It wasn't my bedtime but it was the bedtime-story-reader's bedtime. So she told me a couple of bedtime stories. How cool is that?! I'm going to see if I can make that a regular thing...

Also, I've wrapped everything all the presents I've bought for people. That's worrying me too: I'm sure such things should be left until the very last minute, by which time it's too late to go and buy some Sellotape when I discover I have none and have to resort to using either masking tape or electrical tape. A couple of years back my father used surgical tape. And it wasn't sticky - probably because there were no hairs to cling to and the tape knew it wouldn't hurt anyone when it got ripped off.

The Christmas spirit has, I think, taken hold.