It’s back with vengeance and seriously cutting into my xbox time. No more guitar hero for a week or so, which sucks as I do so enjoy playing. I guess this is the result of getting old - not being able to keep up with the little whippersnappers who play on live.

Pffft, I’m bummed

I have been so wrapped up in my own misery I didn’t even realize you’d become a grandmother.

He is beautiful! Congratulations my friend, may the new year bring us all peace and happiness!

THE FIRST OF JANUARY, TWO THOUSAND AND NINE!

Had to say it out loud because I really can’t believe it’s 2009.

When M was born everyone and their father told me the same thing, “enjoy him as much as you can, because they grow up so fast”. I of course, poo poo’d the notion that years somehow went faster when you had children, but boy, where the hell did the last 15 years go?

I’ve been living in the States for 22 years and it seems like a really long time, yet 15 of them feel like they passed me by in a tornado taking with it days of memories I can’t recall.

It feels like someone has hit the fast forward button on my life and it won’t slow down. Monday morning I’m dragging my feet at the thought of getting up to go to work, I blink and it’s Friday and I sit and wonder, “what the hell did I do this week?” I’m 45 years old yet I don’t remember being 40.

My time just doesn’t feel like it’s my own. Maybe I’m still down after the death of my dad, but boy, I have to slow down and take in my days so when friends ask me what I did over the weekend I’ll either be able to remember or have something worth talking about.

I think anyone under the age of 18 should not be allowed to play on Xbox live unless approved by me, children are not mentally equipt to deal with defeat - hell, half the adults out there aren’t but that’s beside the point I don’t feel guilty giving an adult a piece of my mind.
I’d also like a universal kill switch  - fashioned after the Staples easy button - which I get to stomp on whenever anyone calls me bitch for kicking their ass thus sending their xbox into the RROD (google it)

Seriously, children, it’s only a game, you won’t die a terrible death if you lose. They’re not real bullets, it’s not a big deal if your opponent isn’t playing GH on expert.

See, on expert you get more notes, the fact that I’m kicking your butt playing hard means you have to be missing quite a few of those notes, so perhaps YOU should switch to hard and practice.

But not by me. Why bother, Dave Barry pretty much sums everything up quite eloquently.

Extract - In october:

• O.J. actually got convicted of something
• Gasoline hit $4 a gallon — and those were the good times.
• On several occasions, “Saturday Night Live” was funny.
• There were a few days there in October when you could not completely rule out the possibility that the next Treasury secretary would be Joe the Plumber.

To open ones purse and find it devoid of any green paper :(