Loser

Today I suffered the humiliation of getting thrashed at uno by my nine year old sister!!! :o( Not happy!! To begin I let her win a few games cos I felt mean beating her and how does she repay me?!! In one game every single card she put down was a +2 or a +4, and she was dealing...a bit suspicious if you ask me!
I think my problem is I take this game way too seriously, I should really learn to be less competitive, or a better loser!

Merry Christmas!!

Joyeux Noel!!
God Jul!!
Frohe Weihnachten!!
Buon Natale!!
Feliz Natal!!
Prettige Kerstdagen!!
Iloista Joulua!!

I have no idea what half of those languages are but I think it looks quite impressive to be able to say Merry Christmas in 8 languages!!

Mince pies

Just realised I haven't posted anything for quite a while so thought I'd better give people something to read!! Today I helped make over 40 dozen mince pies!! (thats...erm...a lot of mince pies!! over 480...I think, I'm so bad at maths despite having an A level in it!) I don't like mince pies anyway but I now never want to see another one in my life!! I also got to decorate chocolate yule logs which was fun!! Especially sticking little plastic robins in them! (Just realised how sad I sound!)
Anyway here's some random things I found when I searched "mince pie" in google, they're probably not very interesting to anyone but have a look anyway!!

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/24/usb_mince_pies_for_c.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1402645,00.html
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/3371.php

YAY!!!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Today I had 2 exams (which went ok I think!) and have handed in all my coursework so I've finished everything I had to before christmas, I'm so happy! I can get excited about christmas without worrying about work now!! We also had our hall christmas dinner tonight which was a really nice festive occasion, with great entertainment from the jokes in the crackers such as:
Why did the baker get an electric shock?
Because he stood on a bun and a currant ran up his leg!!!
You've no idea how hard it was trying to explain that to a non native speaker of English!!

Winner!!

Yay, Matt the champion is finally defeated!! Last night me and Derek beat him at the cities game (variation of the animal game with cities instead of animals), woohoo!!! I'm so happy I've found something I can win!

My favourite french word

The best word in the french language:
sac de couchage - the word for sleeping bag which literally translates as bag of sleepage!!

Happy!

I'm very happy today cos 1. its the weekend, 2. it's nearly christmas (22 days to go!!) and 3. I got the most amazing letter today, thank you so much Em!! I think its the only letter I've ever recieved that was started 6 months before it was sent! and comes in 5 parts! I think all letters should be like that! Although maybe not the being started 6 months earlier thing cos that wouldn't be very useful if you wanted to know recent news!
So thanks again Em! Expect a reply in June sometime...

American language....

Here's some advice for anyone travelling to America:

Never go into a shop and ask for any of these items:
swede
mangetout
courgette
hair grip
strimmer
surgical spirits
waistcoat
diary
curtains

Cos you won't be understood!!

Instead you should ask for:
rutabaga
snowpeas
zucchini
bobby pin
weedeater
rubbing alchohol
vest
calendar
drapes

So remember this if you ever need to buy such random items whilst in the states!!