Scrooge-ness... and a Rant about family thrown in for good measure ☺

Yeah, I'm a bit of a Scrooge. But what d'you expect, when you start learning Christmas songs in September for a December performance? Of course you're gonna be sick of Christmas by the time it actually arrives...

OK, maybe I'm taking it too far. I do like Christmas... for me it's a time when you should be with the people you love, and enjoy yourself, and be happy... and I'm really happy for my cousin and his girlfriend, who have been together for well over a year now, and good for them. I really hope they stay together for a very long time. And you can see that they're enjoying themselves... but at times I just get sick of their constant snogging in the middle of the hallway, or on the other side of the dinner table or whatever. I think there's a time and a place, and at the dinner table isn't one of them.

I say I get sick of it... maybe it's just my jealousy of my cousin. I wish I could be like he is with his girlfriend, with a boyfriend of my own. I want to spend Christmas with a guy I love. Don't get me wrong, I still love my family and all that. It's just, occasionally they can get a bit boring when you're stuck in the same house as them 24/7. So yeah, you do start to get a bit sick of the family, but in a nice way.

Or occasionally, in a not-so-nice way. Like my Aunt. She's a laugh, and she's good fun to be around for, say an evening. And then you go away, speak on the phone to her every once in a while, and show up again two months down the line. But then the novelty starts to wear off, and you begin to see just how annoying people like her can get. Everything has to fit into her routine. It's an obsession of hers. She even dictates when the dogs need to go in the garden and do a shit, and if they can't, then she demands they go round the block for a walk. OK, admittedly she's not quite that extreme usually, but we're more or less snow-bound at the moment, so the only opportunity these dogs have to go to the toilet is in the garden, and if they don't then she orders the dogs to go round the block in minus.

That might seem petty.... but it just annoys me.