Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Santa Baby on her trustee sleigh

The 2 SWMBOs

It only took 3 hours to open Leahs presents

Where's Leah?

Fuddle
Is this even a word? I hear it every day at Christmas, and today, was our fuddle at work.

Every christmas time, our token IT Bird Laura arranges a "fuddle" and secret santa. Today must have been one of the best feasts of all time, we admit we're goot at I.T., but we're bloody brilliant when it comes to making food, we are bloody great

Food from all over the world (and Burton) were brought in, we started at 12.00 this afternoon and almost all felt like sleeping by 2.00 as at 10.30 tonigh,I stillhaveno desire to eat, we didn't manage to finish all of the food which means we can carry on tomorrow (Damo eating Veggie Samosa at 8.30am for the second day running).

One must do these things and I got a lovely bottle wine of from my secret santa too...... Thanks Steve !!!!.

Present today were;
Damo 'Fajitas' Byrne, Luke 'the Cake' Johnson, Laura 'Cheesecake' Smith, Ash 'Banoffee Sister' Earp, Dave 'Ninja Dip' McD, Ade 'Chilli' Hyomes, 'Fiji' Keith, Kosher'ief 'Ainsley' May, Colin 'Welshy' Ward, George 'The Greek' Makasis, Anthony 'Red Bull' Lort, Rob '' Gamble, Andy 'Ramsay' Rooms and Amerjit 'Desert Storm' Singh.

Office Party - Follow Up

The Office Party went very well, no fights, no falling out, no drunken behavoiur, Not that I saw anyway, Even managed to get a Most of I.T. Group shot. (which I'll update when I find it).

The Office Christmas Party

Do you know how much radiation a photocopier gives off ?

Tomorrow is our Office Christmas party and I most certainly am going, although only the "first drink is free" I am sure we of the I.T. department can manage a couple of drinks (Read Rounds) out of the Directors and Senior Managers.

I have read up the "Office Party Do's and Dont's" which are listed below

1. Don't Drink Too Much
2. Don't Treat the Office Party Like a Singles Bar
3. Don't Flirt or Act in a Sexually Provactive Manner
4. Don't Wear Suggestive Clothing
5. Don't Let Your Guard Down
6. Don't Tell Dirty or Off-Color Jokes
7. Don't Use Foul Language
8. Don't Talk About People Behind Their Backs
9. Don't Bring Uninvited Guests
10. Don't Underestimate the Importance of Your Guest's Behavior

Looks like I'm not going after all, Rules (1) and (5) rule me out.

EDIT :- Recently added by the Cookster, of which I can only account for... erm, all of them

1. Don't add extra peppers to a colleagues Subway*
   
2. Don't fall down the stairs going to the bathroom.
3. Don't poor Jack Daniels down a colleagues face when he refuses to drink it.
4. Don't suggest that five pint pitchers of Stella are a good idea.
5. Don't drink your colleague under the table so that they get off their train to Coventry too soon, end up trying to walk home and fall into a ditch in a park. Then have to call their Father-in-Law to try and find them and get their sorry ass home.

Although Cookster, you forgot.

Don't buy the Director a Cement Mixer and take photos while he drinks it.

Cement Mixer - He no like it

And I forgot...

1. Don't challenge the Vodka drinking head of the I.T. Department to a Vodka drinking competition, YOU WILL LOSE (If you're lucky, if you're not, see below).

Altogether now.

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It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmas (in the style of Slade)

a Noddy Holder

It's that time of year where the world goes mad, spends a fortune, gets drunk, gets pregnant, gets fat, has a lot of time off work. In other words, the festive Christmas period, it's also a time that SWMBO hates as she has to think of things to buy me that I actually want, normally I am forced into doing a list, but this year we are having a year off from buying each other as we are

a - skint
and
b - are concentrating of buying baby SWMBO presents instead.


This means I can now put a guide to my perfect Christmas present list without fear that it's too expensive or impossible to get.

For Him (ahem Me!!!)

Digital Photo Frame - (£30 - £200) The basic ones aren't too bad , they do exactly what they should do, show photos stored on a memory card, the advanced ones, also play movies, play music and stream photos wirelessly, I have a Samsung SPF-72V and love it

Digital SLR Camera - (£300 - silly money)
The next step up from the "point and shoot" digital camera, add lenses, flashes, tripods and you'll look like a Pro, you wont be able to take photos like a pro but you'll look like one, I want a Canon EOS 400D but can wait until I know what I'm doing.

Nintendo Wii (£280) Perfect gaming for all the family, just avoid the injuries, even SWMBO is interested in one of these and she hated it when I got my Xbox

Xbox 360 (£200+)
Get the Elite if you can afford it, you'll soon be playing movies on your XBox 360, if you can't afford an Elite at least get the Premium, and be online with your mates till the early hours, making your days drag as you'll get no sleep and anno your work colleagues who haven't got an Xbox as you'll spend all day talking about them.
Games to buy - Assassins Creed, PGR4, COD4, Halo 3

Playstation 3 (£300+)
Im yet to be convinced as they have yet to bring out Grand Turismo, I'd be tempted by Singstar but can play it on my PS2 at a lot cheaper.

T-Shirt (£10 ish)
You just have to have a T-Shirt from T-Shirt Hell, virtually every shirt is offensive in one way or another, my favourites are this one and this one, oh and this one for the kids.

NAS (£180)
If you don't know what a NAS is, (and I don't mean the rapper who married Kelis), skip this bit. Freecom FSG-3 is great, 500Gb of storage, email server, web server, media server, torrent client all built into a little box the size of a book. A bit noisy for the bedroom though.


For Her

Erm - I'm not so good at that, so I'll be very very brief

Underwear from M&S Not the cheesy stuff that us men really like from Ann Summers, but the "nice" stuff that they'll actually wear. (See what I did there with the "bried leading to underwear - Genius)
Gift Vouchers River Island, Oasis etc,

Ipod Fill it with music and they'll ignore you all day, the bigger the drive the more they'll ignore you.

Beauty makeover Better still a Colour Me Beautiful session. This may backfire however with you being accused of thinking they need it...

Book
Buy them one of the Sophie Kinsella books, they'll love it (SWMBO did)

To be honest I don't actually think females (apart from my mum and mother-in-law) read my blog anyway (correct me if I'm wrong).

For t'baby

Babys Laptop

Thats enough of that, I know for a fact babies don't read this blog (correct me if I'm wrong)