And a happy new year!

Well we're a good nine days in now, but I though I may as well post something welcoming y'all to another few weeks of constantly getting the date wrong!! 2008 will get some getting used to, for some reason I never even realised until now I'm quite fond of 2007, it having a much better ring to it than any other year of the decade, with 2001 being a possible exception.

I digress, the number notwithstanding it is great to be in 2008 and to have a whole year to look forward to. Though for the most part the "new year" period is often taken up with reminiscing over the holidays which already seem so far away. Unlike the great majority of the British public I can still remember what went on over the festive period.

Christmas was early in on the holiday time, with only a few days to cram in a bit of last minute shopping before the big day. I've already detailed Christmas so I won't go into it much other than to say it was a nice day spent with family eating chocolate and watching embarrasing home videos...as always! Immediately after I caught up with some close friends and we went to see I Am Legend which was the well written Sci-Fi thrill ride it promised to be. The next few days were spent "chilling" and catching up with folks.

New Years Eve I spent with Edd, who I hadn't seen for a while due to conflicting work schedules. We set about wasting as much time as we could, bolstered by the fact that work rang to say they'd cancelled his shift and many an hour was spent on his Wii before I realised it was getting dark and I'd better get going before the very inclinous way home became even harder to traverse. On arriving home I got an invitation to have a Bourne Marathon evening to pass the New Year, it was good fun and I got to put my doughnut maker (from mum and dad) to good use. We spent the crossover period arguing about how many seconds there were left as all of our watches disagreed!!

Well I'm now back to work, but I managed to squeeze in a few more catchups, a trip to the much missed Laser Quest (now Quasar) in Chester and even a wedding so all in all a very full and satisfactory holiday period. And that's probably enough from me now, but I'd like to wish all my reader(s) a very happy new year.

Word of the post: Proxy - Proxynoun, plural prox·ies.

1.	the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another.