Haphazard thoughts……
Things have been fairly quiet on the blogging scene over the holidays. That’s not surprising to me as everyone including myself seems to have spent the holidays with family and friends. I just hopped over to Buffy and read an entry she made. She commented about the volume of food that was consumed by her family over the season. I thought to myself that it seems like its a common feature whichever country you are in when you celebrate Christmas. Can you imagine a Christmas dinner without the spread?? Certainly not in this house.
As I’m on the topic of food, let me share a little joke. I was chatting with one of my bredrens a few days before Christmas. I asked him whare he was going for Christmas dinner. Actually he said he was unsure. Now what I need to tell you is that he is not exactly a favourite of his Father-in-Law, and the feeeling is quite mutual. So, I said to him, “Well, I suppose you will not be having dinner with your Father-in-Law.” He replied, “Damn right bout dat. Before me eat at him yard, I woulda prefer go buy suppem at blood cleat Burger King!”
Having said that, I told him that he was welcome to come up by me.
I suppose you all can surmise that once the jubilation is behind us that I will need to put the thought of food out my mind and shed some weight by getting back into an exercise programme. I won’t bother to call it a New Year’s resolution…..(I’m sure if you were to check my archives I said that I wanted to lose weight near the end of 2002! Man does history repeat itself.) If I said that I lost weight this year you probably would say that me unda the influence of nuff nuff VX!
Anyway, despite the fact that many people I know seemed to have a nice time over the season….albeit mostly family and bredren type affairs (nutten wrong wid dat stilll), there were unfortunate happenings. The one that really hit me was the Iran earthquake. 30,000 people is a hell of a loss. I feel for them. Hope they will be able to rebuild, but the human loss is tremendous.
This likke article blew me away….(for want of a better expression)….. I know that people can fall in love and go to great extremes in order to try to win the affection of a mate, but trust me, this man is crazy! I wonder how he would have felt if his friend had misssed the ‘target’ and ended up shooting off his family jewels??? So much for the future of the physical expression of the love!
Last night I sort of decided to unwind before returning to the walls of the hospital today. I watched (or more like stumbled upon….as I missed the first few minutes) a movie on STARZ which I found very good. Dragonfly with Kevin Costner. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it. I won’t go into details as I hate to watch a show and then go relating the whole story to a potential viewer……that just screws it up for them…nuh true?
Anyhow, that’s about it from me now. In case you don’t come back before the year changes, all the best to you and yours for 2004!
December 29th, 2003 at 8:26 pm I read that article about the man, and I thought that he was a stupid asshole, especially because of the fact that his girl left him “because of his violent nature”. Sounds to me like the likkle bastard deserved to have had his jewels shot off. I appreciate the tip re the movie Dragonfly. I will try to catch it on Starz or I will rent it on DVD. Try to catch the movie “The Last Samurai” too, its pretty good. The Iran Earthquake was a wicked thing, I agree
December 30th, 2003 at 12:40 am Ohhhh my mama turned me onto that movie when it first came out ~ I recommend watching several times as you miss certain key issues during the first viewing great show!!!!
December 30th, 2003 at 5:01 am …the iranian earthquake moved to top spot on the news bulletins yesterday (after having driffted off the top spot sometime ago)…the headline is now …”one englishman and 30,000 iranians killed as figures are released” :^(…it’s headlines like that that make you wonder about people’s priorities in life :^(…
December 30th, 2003 at 11:38 am I have just gotten into reading blogs and I must say that I like it. It is nice to read others thoughts. How do I get one started?
December 30th, 2003 at 12:45 pm Happy New Year, Dr. D. Glad to hear that no disaster befell anyone I know of, but still it is horrible to hear of the earthquake that in Iran. That man that arranged the shooting… well, it is too bad that he did not arrange the shooting to be of his other head… oh.. I watched “Meet Joe Black” lastnight, different kind of movie… and thoughts went to you and Mad Bull when the woman, who seemed to be Jamaican was talking with ‘Joe’ in the hospital… the lingo that I read here was heard!! How ‘Irie’!
December 30th, 2003 at 7:00 pm Trish, I sent you a short e-mail. BTW, how did you find my blog? Just curious. Keep coming back. Thanks for the greetings Desiree and nice to know that you felt very much a ‘yardie’ while watching the show. Irie vibes to you!
January 1st, 2004 at 6:47 pm I’m sure the idiot who got shot is still not sure why the girlfriend has left him!!! I agree that he should have gone to jail, and even the 16 year old get some kind of punishment, after all .. 16 had a chance to rid the world of this jerk and missed!!!
January 3rd, 2004 at 9:47 pm Thanks for the link, sweetie! We’re still consumed with food now that the holiday has passed, but I’m happy to say that we’re approaching it with cooler heads…..and not stuffing ourselves with goodies any longer. It’s time to eat light and make up for all our excesses! The toll in Iran is growing, still, but today they saved a 97 year old woman. Someone gave her a cup of coffee and she chewed them out because it was so hot! Oh, to be so strong!