{"id":1474,"date":"2008-12-29T15:46:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/its-been-a-good-christmas\/"},"modified":"2008-12-29T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:46:52","slug":"its-been-a-good-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/its-been-a-good-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Been a Good Christmas.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and you know I don&#39;t say that many years!!! But I have to say. the past 12 days or so have been bloody great. Mostly because&#8230; NO DRUGS!!!!!! So I&#39;ve actually felt like me again. <\/p>\n<p>Ok, so I&#39;m a whopping 13 stone &#39;me&#39; at the moment &#8211; yes, I know, its a complete shocker, the steroids plus my enormous innate greed have had me eating like the proverbial Horse (of Troy) for 3 months and I look like a huge barrage balloon\/ the Vicar of Dibley after the 6 Xmas dinners &#8211; and am soon to be more like the fat bald round one from Little Britain once the hair goes in Jan. If you have a camera, keep it to yourself for the next year, because I will be running (rolling) like hell to get away from any evidence of my largesse!<\/p>\n<p>But apart from that &#8211; it&#39;s felt SO good to feel &#39;normal&#39; again for a bit. No hospital trips, no drugs and actually feeling just like&#0160;it&#39;s a normal day and all the poo has gone away&#8230;. its like waking up from the mother of all horror hangovers and feeling okay again the next day &#8211; you kind of feel &#39;super-OK&#39; because you&#39;re so relieved that the bleurgh feeling of the previous day(s) has finally buggered off..<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; what did we do?? H and I went to Holland for 4 days, Mum stayed for a few extra days and somehow managed to get herself back home in one piece (remember last year when we left her behind after&#0160;a musical at a dutch theatre, near skateboarding hoodies&#0160;in the dark??!), we&#39;ve just been down to the boat for 2 nights (hey, it&#39;s not Dubai but apprently there&#39;s pooh on their beaches at the moment, so unlucky Sheiky-shakes), Hawksey is in delirium as he got a huge bargain on a very shiny chrome microwave combo oven thingy in John Lewis, the kittens broke a vase in their efforts to escape the kitchen at night and I am enjoying the peace and trying to get stuff together for hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Now tell me, why is it&#0160;SO hard to find decent pyjamas that don&#39;t have these on them??:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; embroidered cute motifs, from penguins to pussycats<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; scratchy lace bits right next to your skin<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; spaghetti strap tops that you just KNOW will let everything spill out when you&#39;re asleep<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; foul material or patterns&#0160;that&#0160;a Merseyside pub&#0160;curtain would be&#0160;proud of???<\/p>\n<p>Oh by the way, here&#39;s my brilliant three line poem&#0160;- meant to be funny&#0160;rather than sad &#8211; &#0160;this is the sort of weird dross that goes through my head when I&#39;m awake at night wondering if its better to get up, make tea and lie on the sofa or stay in bed (is it true that&#0160;resting in bed&#0160;counts half as much as actual sleep?) Anyway, here it is (dedicated to <strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 15px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">Mikey Martin<\/span><\/strong>, who I think will get it). Read each syllable slowly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #0060bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">My &#8211; el &#8211; oma<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #0060bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">&#0160;Medical Misnomer<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #0060bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">&#8230; For Shite&#0160;&#0160;x<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #0060bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: #111111; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">Happy Christmas to you all, may the inevitable mince pies, chocolates, yule logs&#0160;and brandy butter settle on your mother-in-law&#39;s thighs rather than your own&#8230;.<span id=\"fck_dom_range_temp_1230565584203_974\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and you know I don&#39;t say that many years!!! 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