Not the worst christmas ever thanks to what's less than an ounce of christmas cheer, but there's some things I would have done differently:
1) I had a cold, I'm not a fucking leper. Family abandoned me for the duration of my illness to spend christmas dinner at a friends house. I was invited, but I didn't turn up. Because if you have eyes so runny, you wish you could go to sleep just to avoid the sore rash under your cheeks, and not breathing through your nose to avoid the soreness, due to days of runny nose. So if you have symptoms like that, the last thing you want to do is be sitting down in a strangers house, in front of a bunch of food you're not too keen on. (pickled cabbage I can cope with. Doesn't seem as bad as that insidious idea of having sprouts with otherwise fine fare. This has involved many days of being mostly asleep, and short of breath, due to malnutrition. Again, partly my fault, but even with bud, my appetite has been near ziltch.
2) So now yes, I would like food, surprisingly enough that's one of the things I really look forward to about winter is feasts. So instead of baking the bacon untill it's hard like some porcine flavoured brick, fry it. Instead of cooking turkey twice or three times over, realise that you won't be able to cook it evenly because you can't (not a criticism as I make mistakes in the kitchen, nearly always when I'm not supervising) then deciding dicing it up and baking it with the bacon would be a good idea, making for leathery squares of meat that at least provided a buffer for ones teeth when masticating the bacon bricks.
I wouldn't mind salad. It's not impossible to get lettuce this time of year, any greenhouse gardener knows that. And parsley. But I'm working on that.
3) The christmas lectures this year were a fucking dissapointment. If you go somewhere really cold, or really hot, that's dangerous!
No fucking way! Get real! Oh wow, I can feel my skull creaking as my mind contents with this new compendium of knowledge. Oh lorks a lordy, will I be able to enjoy any novelity after this COMPLETELY NEW piece of information?
I miss the ones Richard Dawkins would do, about the process of cutting the serrated edge into knives, and why we get into specialisation.
4) A christmas tree, with lights on and stuff. Which we got, and tinsel to. This was good.
5) If I could have hotboxed with my mates, that would have been nice. I got to on christmas eve, so it's fair doos.
6) Seriously, more vegetables. Has the potatoe famine struck again?
7) If there was some lego, that would have been so very cool. I could make a penumatic grabby arm, and then use it to do stuff like move my stash.
8) Would it kill to have a bit more heating? It's fucking freezing in here, and if my calculations are right , it's probably 15-10C
9) I would have had at least two pounds of goosefat roasted potatoes, instead of five tiny potatoes cut up and baked, gratain au finois style.
And another thing. Vaporising this strain hits like a rollercoaster. For whatever reason, two days after my cold "finished" (where I felt I could get away with not smoking to kill the pain) I decided I'd go without, and then I took a few tokes on a half sized, half smoked pellet (this stuff is strong anyways. Previous strain I'd do two or three pellet loads, and not get as high as just half a pellet load of this). And it's fucking cold. First ten minutes, can't stop shivering. Ir eally ought to do this with the blankets on beforehand.
Maybe a bit of kratom would work. I shall have to get some.
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