Happy New Year ?

I hope everyone has been having a happy new year and if not (like me) I hope it gets better soon.

Nothing bad has happened to me so far in 2010, but not much good has been happening... It is all a matter of perspective I guess. My POV has been marred by a bout of glum moods, weepy moments and generally feeling sorry for myself. And No, before you ask, I haven't got a good reason. So soz!

Ogden Family Christmas was lovely. Just my Mum, Dad and I on Christmas Day, but we had present exchange and a delicious Christmas meal as you'd expect. More of the Ogden rotters including mini Oglet niecey rotter turned up on Boxing Day to liven up proceedings. She is very cute, but getting more and more willful as she approaches her terrible twos. It is all about the little children - Christmas Time - and she seemed to be having plenty of fun. So that was really lovely. She calls me JoJo and because I pretty much let her get away with anything, she has taken quite a shine to me. I have been told I need to work on my repertoire of Disney songs though as 4 lines of Akuna Matata is wearing thin. If you look up the lyrics, there are only about 4 lines though... and some spoken bits between Timone and Pumba. I'm doing my best...

Once Crimbo was done and dusted, I had my lovely pal Viccy to stay for 3 days between Christmas and New Year and we had a fab time. We went to the theatre, we went to an art exhibition, we had a night at Party Piece and we went to the movies. A veritable feast of entertainment and fun.

NYE was lovely with Sprogs and Rachey. We had a massive dinner before heading to The Rose and Crown to see in 2010. Becki and I had eaten too much and couldn't drink as quickly as the occasion demanded, but we managed to get reasonably merry by the end of proceedings.

By New Years Day, after so much fun packed socialising I was looking forward to chilling out alone and that is when my glum mood booted me in the face and knocked me for six for a good few days. I'm fairly sure I'm over the worst, only now the cold is making me a bit grumpy instead.

I'm sure we'll all have a great 2010. Or maybe 2010 will be a mixed bag of fun and not fun. Maybe it will be a stonking great pile of shite, but one way or another, there is no point getting in a tizzy about what it may or may not bring.

I am off to Crouch End tonight for a gig at the King's Head. It is very cold, roads and pavements are icey and dangerous and I'm mostly hoping just to get there without seriously injuring myself.

Norm, I haven't got last year's diary to check, but I believe this is gig 67. What are you up to? I'm aiming for 100 by summer ;o)

No time to read through/spell check/triple edit this for niceness. I'm off lads x