Posted: January 2nd, 2007 | Author: Matt Hobbs | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Friends, new years eve | No Comments »
New Year’s Season Greetings to one and all*, welcome to 2007. May you all have hte best bestest bestesterest year ever. And then some.
My hangover has now subsided after another classic Chris party, so I can finally face the loud tapping noise of my keyboard to make a post. Thanks to everyone for a fun evening, and big thanks to my family as usual for stuffing me full of Christmas fare. This of segues nicely into my sole New Year’s Resolution of ‘lose the weight put on over Christmas’.
* Apologies to all religious groups I’ve offended because you either don’t celebrate the ‘increasingly commericalised’ New Years or have a much better date for resetting your calendar. Oh, and a big up to the Mayans as we now enter the last five years before the end of their calendar and either a time of re-birth or the end of the world. Personally I’m rooting for that to be the date the Internet becomes sentient.
Posted: December 23rd, 2001 | Author: Matt Hobbs | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Friends | No Comments »
Yesterday was Lou and Chris’ wedding. I’ve known Lou since the first year at University, now 10 years in the past, and she’s known Chris for as long. Ah, bless. A nice, simple traditional sermon held in a church cold enough for your breath to steam. Bad enough for the congregation but even less fun for a bride wearing an off the shoulder silk number – Lou definately went slightly purple at times, although don’t think her tears of happiness froze on her cheeks.
After the service Jon and I partook of the first part of Lord of the Rings. Wow. An amazing film that kept me entranced for pretty much all of its 3+ hour length. Visually it is stunning, but what really kept me locked in was the quality of the acting. Ian McKellan as Gandalf was outstanding, a wonderful mix of worldliness and caring demonstrated with the slightest of facial movements. The stories been tweaked and trimmed a bit to fit better with film but it’s basically all there. Go see it… now!
Today is the first of many large Christmas meals at home. I feel that I need to get out and go for a long run but it is currently about -100 degrees outside! Ah for a gym in my basement here as well as in Williamsburg! Guess I’ll just have to work harder on my gut in the new year, I’ve lost weight but not from the right places! I think most of it’s due to my hair falling out and my brain atrophying from lack of serious use.