Here’s a guilty post, coming at ya from the day after boxing day (boxing days, boxing day?). I’m sitting trying to get motivated. I did 17mins of work earlier, unpacking my backpack and putting my tshirts (99% of my backpacks contents) in the wardrobe. I know it was 17mins as I was cooking at the time and had to stop when it was ready. Pre-arranging a stop time is a nice technique to stop you being too productive. You don’t want to hit your productivity peak too early, this was a just a mini warm-up the real actions about to begin annnnyyyyyyy minute now. Well soon. That’s the issue, after my warm up and lunch i’m now mentally stretching and limping up to the main event. But currently that main event involves watching “a place in the sun”, a particularly genius show in which about to be retired English people buy a property somewhere else in the world and retire there. When I say “somewhere else in the world” I obviously mean Spain, which is the only place English people have ever heard of and naturally the place they go and retire to. Because its warm and they sell chips and steak. or something like that. On Topgear the other night there was a joke about Germany it went a little something like this (he was talking about a really nice functional, but not overly desirable car):

“Its like holidaying in Germany. When you go there its clean and efficient and everything just works. But you just don’t go there, you go to Spain or Italy instead”.

I thought about this alot over the past year, before I moved there I never had the slightest inclination to go to Germany, it just wasn’t on my radar. No-one ever says anything positive about it, or anything negative (i’m excluded old people here, who do say negative things but then they say negative things about everything except……the queen or something equally pointless, they’re just not reliable sources of information). I’m pretty sure this is why its such an excellent place to live because as a leper country its hidden like the shire away and not corrupted by the problems of other countries. This was not the point of this post, and not an avenue I want to walk down because its time to stop writing and thinking about germany. I have already achieved the point of this post, which is not starting work for a little bit longer.

I’m trying to mentally prepare for the trip now. I think i’m probably the least excited person thats about to go travelling ever. I’m a little bit excited. Sort of “I just found a pound down the back of the sofa” excited. I’m not really sure why I’m not more excited. Maybe because Annett isn’t here yet, so there is no-one to get excited with. Or maybe because I don’t like to hype things because then they might not live up to my hype, so instead im sub-consciously burying my excitement. I don’t think its this. I think maybe its because I’ve just had a great year feeling incredibly happy and free, and stimulated. So I don’t feel I need an escape from the 9-5 humdrum, as I haven’t had 9-5 humdrum for years or maybe even ever as I’ve always been lucky enough to talk myself into good jobs.  I guess it will come in time, or once we’re there and I get into it. Maybe I also have no idea what it will be like, so with no frame of reference I can’t get really excited about it.

Being in Englands nice. I’ve discovered how much fun ps3’s are, and getting my ass kicked online at Call of Duty and Guitar Hero. There’s a ton of family bonding, games and contests to win. English food to eat. Its very relaxing. There wasn’t really much point to this post. But nevermind. Hope your all having a fun, relaxing Christmas!