It’s the first of December and so time to make my triumphant return to the blogosphere. So what’s happened in the Hughes household since you saw me last? Time for a lazy bullet list I think.
- Amy had her fifth birthday and two separate fifth birthday parties.
- Evan had two late night visits to A&E with breathing problems and one two night stay in hospital with pneumonia. I really don’t know where all these lung problems with our children are coming from.
- I brought my guitar down from the attic and re-learnt the same 5 easy chords I used to know, then gave up again when it started becoming too hard.
- I discovered that walking round Ikea the wrong way gives me travel sickness.
- I lost another 11lb in weight, bringing the total up to 51lb lost since July. I crave big greasy pizzas.
- I nearly finished nearly all our Christmas shopping.
- I gave up on Battlestar Galactica half way through the third series.
- I forced my next door neighbour Eric to go to the doctors after noticing his foot is so swollen he can no longer get his shoe on.
- I haven’t got round to getting my laptop screen fixed yet
- Evan developed a Peppa Pig fixation, while Amy’s obsession with high School Musical has grown into almost religious proportions.
- Kerry continues to do project 365, although has tended to update her blog in sporadic bursts rather than day by day.
- I tidied the lounge. It took me two entire days.
- The final total raised by the Dales Walk has come in. It’s over six thousand pounds. Thank you to everyone who donated.
- I fluctuated wildly from missing blogging desperately to vowing never to blog again. I think that I’m going to try and strike a happy medium between those two poles.
So now I’m back, and as it’s the first of December I thought I might as well reinstate last year’s advent colander. Unfortunately I haven’t yet given any thought to what the theme of it should actually be. Last year I focused on Kid’s TV merchandising, any requests/suggestions for this year?
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 1:06 am
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 1:18 am
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 1:23 am
Seriously, though, I can’t believe that country-livin’, SAHD, vegetarians that line-dry their laundry let their children warp their impressionable, fungible, malleable little minds with HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL! Don’t you know that crap is evil?
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 1:54 am
How about focusing on excessive consumerism? It *is* the true meaning of Christmas, after all.
What? It isn’t?
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 3:05 am
Hmmm, advent calendar. What about cheesy Christmas songs?
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 5:01 am
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 5:48 am
They rebelled. They evolved. And they have a plan. And all you care about is your neighbor’s little foot problems? For shame!
(oh, and welcome back).
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 8:49 am
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 9:12 am
Of course we shouldn’t ask..but how skinny are you by now?
Do you have any non-tv related toys from ‘back in the day’ (advent thingie)?
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 10:30 am
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Sorry to hear the small ones have been poorly – hope they’re feeling better.
Re the advent colander – how about a diet based theme in honour of your successful weight-loss? There are enough faddy diets around to fill a years worth of advent colanders let alone a month!
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I did have 1 suggestion for the colander – 80’s toys & gadgets, simply because I saw this hilarious book in WHSmith recently full of stuff we played with back then. My kids now think I’m as old as a dinosaur!
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
James – Blogging burnout was an imminent risk towards the end of October. I’m hoping i’ve done enough to stave it off.
JJ Daddy-O – Every child needs a little evil in their life.
Rattling the Kettle – I thought it was drinking until your liver bleeds?
Jo – A good idea but I’ve settled on something that doesn’t require me to think about stuff too much. Not thinking is good.
Whit – Thank you sir.
People in the sun – I’ve switched allegiances to watching Babylon 5. I challenge anyone to say that BSG is better than that.
Brandon – For some strange reason that makes me feel rather seedy.
Arjan – I’m still not skinny, but I’m definitely skinnier. Just another 28lb to go
Oli – Sorry i missed you when you were in Hudds this past month, but as you know various things came up.
Helen – I was tempted to sneak a blog now and then, but I remained strong.
Rol – Blimey, give me a chance!
Little Brown Book – I think i might come up with a faddy diet of my own. The gravel and chick-pea diet.
Holmes – Many people throughout my entire life have often asked “what the hell happened to Dan”
Penelope – I came very close to doing an 80’s toy thing, mainly because I wanted to wax lyrical about how wonderful Big-Traks were.
Avitable – As I said to Casey, life’s just too short and my LoveFilm DVD rental queue is just too long. Kerry’s still sticking with it though, so I do catch the odd glimpse of it periodically.
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I’ve been really enjoying Kerry’s blog so carry on bigging it up.
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
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on Dec 1st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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on Dec 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Vegas – Thank you sir.
Sam – Really, i thought you used blogger?
Kevin – It’s always good to have a bit of a cull.
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on Dec 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
AMAZING job on the weight loss! I was thinking I should get back on track and the vids are good inspiration/motivation but I seem like a fraud doing weight loss themed video segments when compared to people like you. I have lost 20 net from this time last year.
Rock on!
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on Dec 4th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
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