Well peeps, I sincerely hope you had a better Christmas than I did this year! Christmas Day wasn't so bad... after starting with a row, coming home to find my Dads garage lock had been vandalised so he couldn't put the car away, a fight over the road from where I live - complete with shouting, an ambulance and the police and being unable to sleep! My only solace was that I finished the day by watching 'Scrooge' with Alastair Sim again. I always watch that film at some point during Christmas and left it rather late this time. No matter how many times I see it the film always makes me blub and helps to make my own life , which is far from perfect at the moment, seem better.
Boxing Day added even more misery to the pot though and was like one of Jeremy Beadle's pranks! After working for half an hour on a review for Amazon.com I was just checking it out to make sure the wording was fine when BOOM! the Internet went down... To add to my misery, the telephone connection was also down and so I was left with no way of contacting anyone, writing a blog or doing ANYTHING pretty much!
As is traditional for me on Boxing Day, I then turned my attention to the Racing and the King George at Kempton. Now I know that having a bet at Christmas time is asking for trouble but I used to gamble EVERY DAY and now only allow myself certain days on the calendar to 'have a go' so its actually quite a source of excitement and pleasure for me to 'take on the old enemy' on Boxing Day. To be honest, I really fancied my chances this year (always fatal!) and was quietly confident of a win. Well, to say that things didn't work out would be an understatement! My nap of the day ran in the first race at Kempton and I rushed home eager to watch it...only to find that Channel 4 were not showing that race!
When I heard the result my horse was nowhere! What made it even more annoying was that the 'main danger' I had made a note of WON and at 12/1! HA HA
I tell you, whenever as a gambler you get a start like that you just know its not going to be your day. In the end I failed to get a single winner. One of my horses bolted and was withdrawn at the start, one made a bad mistake at the last and threw victory away and two others were pulled up - it was just one of those days!
Add to all this 'jollity' my Dad constantly going on about what he'd like to do to the person who keeps vandalising his garage ( this is the 4th time they have damaged the lock) and my Mum whining about stuff and you have an idea of how CRAP yesterday was! It really does tickle me sometimes how my luck at Christmas always seems to run out. I guess thats why watching 'A Christmas Carol' is such a tonic because it puts all these minor - but INCREDIBLY annoying things into perspective. It seems to me that the more you love something and are determined to enjoy it the more life does to kick you where it hurts.
Today though I will get to see how TRULY lucky I am in spite of another dysfunctional Christmas. I am going to 'Surviving Christmas' this afternoon to entertain the homeless people. My voice is not likely to be that great to be honest as I haven't sung for quite a while but all I can do is do my best. My friend, Sally, goes every year and has roped me in today. I have genuine fears (realistic ones too!) of ending up homeless myself in the near future so I will be facing a few fears by helping out today. Still, I am sure the experience will be character building and if I manage to make even one persons Christmas a bit brighter I will be fulfilled. I really shouldn't complain about my lot but it would be SO LOVELY if just once I managed to have the kind of happy Christmas I so wish for...
Oh well, roll on 2014!
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