A Festivus for the rest of us

I didn't get the Festivus pole in the end. I could have, but at the end of the holidays I would have ended up with a 6 foot aluminium pole and no crawl space to put it in. Plus it's $40 that could be better spent on other things. And by 'other things' I mean 'games'.

It's getting pretty busy at work as expected, but this is still my best retail Christmas by far. I'm only working on the 23rd (that's right, infringing on my right to celebrate new holidays) and then I'm off for the next 2 days. Since there are a few of us English people we're spending Christmas at my place. Should be good, you'll be happy to know I picked up Jingle All The Way on DVD last week. I would have got it on Blu Ray but it's region coded. Shame.

- Greg came out with a classic when we were out shopping. He saw how much I was spending on a Christmas gift for someone and looked incredulously at me, repeating the amount in a shocked tone. I looked at him and said in a smug fashion "Yeah, that's right. You're going to feel guilty about what you got me." He sighed and said "You're the only person I know who would use Christmas to be vindictive".

- Someone in my family thinks there might actually be something going on between Greg and I. This is great. I've been looking for something to wind them up for years and I might have finally cracked it.

- "This game is in English right?". Seriously?

- Avatar was fairly decent. It's not the most amazing film that you'll ever see like some people seem to be saying, to be honest the plot is fairly predictable stuff and I didn't really feel any empathy with the main characters to care what happened to them. But it was better than 2012.

So Happy Festivus everyone. I'm off for the Airing of Grievances.