january

i'm not a fan.

a) it's cold.
b) it's dark
c) it's skint
d) the only things to look forward to involves continuing to be skint due to most of my family seeming to have birthdays between now and bleeding april...
e) i'm on a diet... again...

i heard on the radio in december that some statistic of women put on a stone over xmas - so i decided i'd  enjoy xmas this year & eat what i wanted & then lose the resulting stone in the ny. so now i'm being all good & eating sensible food in sensible portions and not snacking and health health health & all...

it just all goes to make january that little bit less fun innit. & i know i should be all upbeat & ooh it's a new year but i did that 10 days ago already... now it's just january... this blog says we should beat the january blergh. well no actually i'm happy in my wallowing. i refuse to be upbeat. upbeat is for may or june when the sun is sheeining and i'll poss have a job & the world will hopefully be a better place.

maaayyybeeee...

gawd i'm depressing myself even more with this blog. i think i'll go and wander aimlessly round the house until it's time for the sch run.  i need a job...

iiiiiiittttttt's chriiiiiiistttmaaaasssss

(said in noddy holder stylee)

ok yes i admit i've written a blog about this before.

this is what i said in 2007 (i'd link to it on myspaz but i can't find my myspaz anymore. it's gawwwn)

Sunday, December 23, 2007 

happy christmas
Current mood: good

leon got the xmas number one then

they had campaigns on virgin radio, radio one and facebook to get other songs to number one instead but obvs because these were three different songs *rolls eyes* *sighs* it didn't work

fucking simon cowell

grr

he really knows his audience gawd look at him he's like "kerchiiingg"

i know i know it's only a song but grrrr

mind you i didn't download anyone's song so i can't complain haha

ooooooh it's christmas hooray hope everyone who reads this has a goodun

help yourselves to mulled wine... a mince pie...

and a kiss under the mistletoe on your way out heh heh

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you'll have to imagine the pics cos i'm not putting another pic of satan cowell in my blog. i think it sums up my feelings quite well though...

and i only give kisses under the mistletoe to one person these days :)

xmas number ones...

my view on xmas number ones is they should be fucking christmassy. there is one exception to this rule in my mind and that's this *has worked out how to put youtube vids in her blogger blog and is v chuffed with herself*



:) *for my boy* :)

otherwise what the hell is the point of saying "and this year's christmas number one is...."

it's not the same anymore without smash hits & topofthepops anyway *shows age* we used to care. sob. now it's like "another year another hex factor finalist"

and yes last year it was ratm. and we all went fuck you cowell we won't... like... do what you tell us... right...

which was ace and all but i think they've covered their bases well this year. they've got bland matt cardie singing a contemporary already popular song and plenty of time to get to number one and stay there. ok biffy clyro are apparently going to attempt to do a ratm but i doubt it'll work. there's not enough people who care enough. and its not fucking christmassy.

remember when everyone was happy cos cliff got the xmas number one. that's the way the world should work. wheel out cliff every year with a schoolboy choir and jingle bells. actually no that sounds not good. i liked the darkness's attempt it made me laugh. but gone are the days of glam rock so no number one for them...

maybe i'm being too nostalgic & christmassy xmas number ones are a fallacy.  here's a complete list (obvs via wikipedia) of the xmas number ones:

Year	Artist	Song	Weeks at #1[4][8][9]
1952	Al Martino	"Here in My Heart"	9
1953	Frankie Laine	"Answer Me"	8
1954	Winifred Atwell	"Let's Have Another Party"	5
1955	Dickie Valentine	"Christmas Alphabet"	3
1956	Johnnie Ray	"Just Walkin' in the Rain"	7
1957	Harry Belafonte	"Mary's Boy Child"	7
1958	Conway Twitty	"It's Only Make Believe"	5
1959	Emile Ford & The Checkmates	"What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"	6
1960	Cliff Richard & The Shadows	"I Love You"	2
1961	Danny Williams	"Moon River"	2
1962	Elvis Presley	"Return to Sender"	3
1963	The Beatles	"I Want to Hold Your Hand"	5
1964	The Beatles	"I Feel Fine"	5
1965	The Beatles	"Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out"	5
1966	Tom Jones	"Green, Green Grass of Home"	7
1967	The Beatles	"Hello, Goodbye"	7
1968	The Scaffold	"Lily the Pink"	3
1969	Rolf Harris	"Two Little Boys"	6
1970	Dave Edmunds	"I Hear You Knocking"	6
1971	Benny Hill	"Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)"	4
1972	Jimmy Osmond	"Long Haired Lover From Liverpool"	5
1973	Slade	"Merry Xmas Everybody"	5
1974	Mud	"Lonely This Christmas"	4
1975	Queen	"Bohemian Rhapsody"	9
1976	Johnny Mathis	"When A Child Is Born (Soleado)"	3
1977	Wings	"Mull of Kintyre"	9
1978	Boney M	"Mary's Boy Child" / "Oh My Lord"	4
1979	Pink Floyd	"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"	5
1980	St Winifred's School Choir	"There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"	2
1981	The Human League	"Don't You Want Me"	5
1982	Renée and Renato	"Save Your Love"	4
1983	The Flying Pickets	"Only You"	5
1984	Band Aid	"Do They Know It's Christmas?"	5
1985	Shakin' Stevens	"Merry Christmas Everyone"	2
1986	Jackie Wilson	"Reet Petite"	4
1987	Pet Shop Boys	"Always on My Mind"	4
1988	Cliff Richard	"Mistletoe and Wine"	4
1989	Band Aid II	"Do They Know It's Christmas?"	3
1990	Cliff Richard	"Saviour's Day"	1
1991	Queen	"Bohemian Rhapsody" / "These Are the Days of Our Lives"	5
1992	Whitney Houston	"I Will Always Love You"	10
1993	Mr Blobby	"Mr Blobby"	2
1994	East 17	"Stay Another Day"	5
1995	Michael Jackson	"Earth Song"	6
1996	Spice Girls	"2 Become 1"	3
1997	Spice Girls	"Too Much"	2
1998	Spice Girls	"Goodbye"	1
1999	Westlife	"I Have A Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun"	4
2000	Bob The Builder	"Can We Fix It?"	3
2001	Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman	"Somethin' Stupid"	3
2002	Girls Aloud	"Sound of the Underground"	4
2003	Michael Andrews & Gary Jules	"Mad World"	3
2004	Band Aid 20	"Do They Know It's Christmas?"	4
2005	Shayne Ward	"That's My Goal"	4
2006	Leona Lewis	"A Moment Like This"	4
2007	Leon Jackson	"When You Believe"	3
2008	Alexandra Burke	"Hallelujah"	3
2009	Rage Against the Machine	"Killing in the Name"	1

out of all of em only 13 appear to be xmas related.  so i'm prob being completely unreasonable.  it'd be nice if something completely un-satan cowell was at number one this year.  i incl ratm in that because it was cowell backlash & therefore publicity in itself.  look at the last 5 years. bastard.

i'm going to finish this with another youtube & quite poss the bestest xmas song evverrrer. and it didn't get to number one or prob anywhere but it's beautiful & ace :)