I am a copycat

1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?

I tasted marujana butter

I tried belly dancing

I stood in waist high snow

Sang karaoke in public

Had an orgasm from oral sex

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

Give up smoking - check

Don't drink so much - check

Give up caffeine - I cut down

Give up mcdonalds - I think I went 2 or 3 times

Stick to the 5 date rule - hmm.

My new ones

Go to the gym - or at least cancel the registration!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No. I don't know anyone who's had a baby

4. Did anyone close to you die?

No. And I'm glad.

5. What countries did you visit?

UK and Spain. Boooring.

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?

A pay rise. To be in credit. A nice place to live. A new coat. A driving license

7. What dates from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
3rd June - The day Loco and I first kissed

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Falling in love - properly.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not getting the job I wanted.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Yes - I felt shitty for the first half of the year and had various tests only to show that there is nothing wrong with me. I'm feeling better now - must've been the fags and booze.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

A portable hardrive.. random but true

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

Mine?

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

V's - fucking bitch. (bitter? me?)

14. Where did most of your money go?
Paying off credit cards :(

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Christmas! Loco's Birthday

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?

Besos - Canto del Loco (ha! just got how ironic that is)

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder?

Happier - Last January I was really low

b) thinner or fatter?

I would say the same - perhaps a touch on the porkier side

c) richer or poorer?

Poorer. Always poorer

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Saving.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Spending.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

I think I'm doing this too late.. It's too early to say

21. Did you fall in love in 2006?

Yes - totally and utterly head over heels

22. How many one-night stands?

5 - no comment

23. What was your favourite TV programme?

Lost. Prison Break.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

Hate is a strong word. Am dissappointed in. and Yes I do.

25. What was the best book you read?

Life of Pi - (I was late reading it I KNOW)

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Panic at the Disco!

27. What did you want and get?

I wanted to be loved. I got it!

28. What did you want and not get?

a payrise. The job of my life

29. What was your favorite film of this year?

Volver

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I spent a week celebrating culminating in a big party. I was 24.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

An exotic holiday to see new places and things

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?

Null and Void. No money = no clothes. Fashions 2006 = bleugh.

33. What kept you sane?

My work colleague Maria, my friend Maisy and Loco.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Wentworth Miller (Prison Break)

35. What political issue stirred you the most?

Elections in Catalonia and the fact non-Spanish residents can't vote. grr.

36. Who did you miss?

Ireland. Roy.

37. Who was the best new person you met?

Loco! (what a surprise)

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.

Don't tell lies.

My last post ever.........................................NOT

One hour to go before I get to leave work and not return for three whole days :) I do like the part of the December bank holiday I am actually allowed to have.

Today it is even colder than yesterday, maybe it will snow after all and lots of happy little catalans can scurry up to the mountains for a cheeky bit of skiing. or not.

Speaking of Nots, I went to see Borat the other day with Loco. As much as I try to get Loco to enjoy some anglophonic humour, perhaps Borat was not a good place to start for a beginner. "Yo what up Vanilla face" doesn't really translate well in subtitled Spanish. I did find the film amusing although there were moments where my hands went over my eyes and I cringed in a "oh please god he cannot have just done that. oh he did. oh no" kind of way.

Loco thought it was funny in places but that in general he had crossed the line too many times. I was also unsure as to whether Pamela Anderson knew about it - I have now found out that she did - how much funnier it would have been if she didn't know.

Apparently the police were called a total of 91 times during the filming of Borat. It doesn't really surprise me to be honest.

Anyhoo happy holidays shoppers

Let it snow...

It's so cold! Winter looks like it has finally arrived in Barcelona, after months of abnormal warmness today it is cold and rainy and a bank holiday. Alas not for me, some of us unfortunate guiris are slaving away in offices, hotels and restaurants all over the peninsula while many Spaniards have also been given tomorrow off and have gone away for a few days.

Normally the December bank holiday sees Spaniards flocking to the hills (mountains) to start the ski season. This year there is no snow, all the ski resorts are closed, so many have headed for the coasts. A friend of mine who has gone abroad to France for the ski season informed me that he is also short of work due to lack of the white stuff. Poor little ski workers - what will they live off?

Last year in November I froze my little... ok medium-large.. bum off in November so this year I had my mum bring all of my ski gear over early only for it to lie unused in a box in my wardrobe.

I at least have Friday off and am as yet undecided whether to go somewhere with Loco for the weekend or hang about here. Hmm.

So things kind of came to a head last night with some shouting, crying, stamping of feet and long heaving sobs.

I told the loco one that his jealousy just couldn't be.. it causes arguments and stresses me out. And I don't like being stressed out.

So, he had a little think about that and we shall see how it goes.