Wednesday, 19 December 2007

All I want for Christmas....

(Ridiculously high female voice)

........IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS (Pause) YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!

Me? What's so good about me. Does Mariah Carey not know the majority of people into this kind of happy clappy Christmas song crap are ugly ming type people. Why she'd want them is anyone's guess. Perhaps they're all incredibly wealthy.

Cliff's pissed and STILL on about Mistletoe and Wine. Slade are still mental and The Pogues still sound ridiculously pissed. Band Aid really don't give two sh*ts about poverty and just want to improve their image. I could go on, because I'm 20 going on 70 wanting to whinge and whine at anything.

But yeah, Christmas started 3 months ago apparently. All be over in a week and then people will be crying that they've spent too much money and wonder why they're a singleton living in a council house with 3 kids under the age of 4 with nothing but a tacky "Santa Stop Here" sign and a heroin addiction for company. All funded by the government...

Anyhoo. I've not opened this thing up for a month or two so cobwebs have needed to be dusted off. Two months is a long, long time and a fair bit has happened. Lovebites, lesbians and being thrown out of nightclubs for being too drunk. Rock. And. Roll.

So I'm back home from uni for the festive frivolities. University is an incredible experience, the people met, the things I've done (good and bad) and suchlike - it's a style of life I'd recommend to anyone. The private jokes, the piss-taking, the banter - c'est magnifique. It's such a shame that the work sometimes gets in the way. I've learnt a lot about myself already in 3 months. I can cook for myself and look after myself, my confidence around the opposite sex is slowly growing for the better (takes a couple of pints) and my general attitude towards various things has changed dramatically.

The coaching opportunities I have are excellent and working for Cheltenham Town has been a great springboard for other things - I'll be on various community projects in the New Year and doing my FA Level 2 in due course. I've learnt lots of new drills and have been complimented myself on my way of coaching, which is always nice. Getting into CTFC games for nothing is a nice little perk as well, now officially my 'second' team and are going to stay up in League 1 this season!

As for Palace. The rollercoaster ride continues. More wunderkids than Kev could shake a stick at and a 9 game unbeaten run under Mr Warnock has reignited my optimism for our fortunes this season. Playoffs are a distant, but reachable possibility. Roll on Saturday when I get my first visit to Fortress Selhurst in 3 months. Woop woop!

Really can't be arsed to write anymore as I'm watching something funny about learner drivers on ITV1.

I WILL blog after Christmas, hopefully more regularly than the last 10 weeks or so.

Laterinos....