Ben Shephard

I’ve spent most of the weekend with Janine apart from a few hours spent finishing my Christmas shopping and this afternoon while I got a few of my jobs done at home. We went to a couple of parties last night. One for the kids at a local kid friendly pub then on to a party at one of Janine’s relatives. I wasn’t drinking because I was driving but Janine had a little bit too much and it snowed quiet heavily while we were there and on the way home every time she saw some snow that hadn’t been walked on yet she asked me to pull over so she could get out and walk on it. I didn’t stop until were were close to the house because the roads were pretty bad but I stopped a few doors away from the house since there were no foot prints on the pavement and Janine got out and weaved her way drunkenly up the the front gate. I pulled up along side so she could get Mat out the back of the car and we ran inside to get warm again. I get on really well with Janine’s family and we had a really good night. We got up really late today so Janine could sleep off the booze.

I dropped Janine and Mat off her mums and came home to get my house work done. Since I didn’t have a single thing in to eat I decided I’d better go shopping. I got plenty of stuff in to see me through Christmas but as I was putting it away I noticed the fridge seemed a bit smelly and on closer inspection I noticed it was also warm. Not a good thing for a fridge to be really I had a quick look at it but it seems like the compressor has packed up. I don’t know if I’ll manage to get it going again but I’m going to leave it unplugged for a few hours and try it again. In the mean time I’ve put most of my perishables either in the freezer or in my pressure cooker which I’ve taken out side and buried in the snow in the back yard. Hopefully I’ll get the fridge working aian tonight but if not I’ll be borrowing my parents cool bag until I can get a new fridge. It’s probably best to wait until the January sales now but I’ve really over spent this month since I’ve had to buy Christmas presents and I’ve also been furnishing my dining room. I could have done with out this right now but I suppose it’s just one of those things.

The only thing I’m waiting for now is the results of the Christmas charts. I really want Rage against the machine to beat X-factor to the Christmas number one spot. I was in HMV yesterday while I was christmas shopping and I noticed they had the X-factor single in front of the tills but no copies of RATM. I only hope it was because they had sold out of RATM singles

Ben

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