25 Things

So, there's this Facebook thing going around, where you have to write 25 random things about yourself and then let other people know, and then hopefully they'll do the same and so on.. I quite liked mine, so I thought I'd reproduce them here... Feel free to comment on any or all of them! (Sorry if you're a Facebook friend and have seen these before!)

1. I worry too much about what other people think of me, and hate myself for doing it.

2. I have trouble finishing things I start (so I might only get to 19 things).

3. I wish I had gone to art school, instead of doing what my Mum wanted me to do.

4. I am glad I went to Swansea to study, because I wouldn't have met my wife otherwise.

5. I love eating Ambrosia Devon Custard straight out of the carton.

6. I wish I'd travelled America more than I did, and hadn't been such a wuss.

7. I don't like it when people I think are friends suddenly decide they aren't.

8. I'm was incredibly surprised and happy that someone I only vaguely knew at work has become a friend (or at least I think they have...!)

9. I've noticed that as I've grown older, I've started to like dark chocolate a lot more (especially on digestives).

10. I'm so incredibly proud of my son.

11. I hate how life and death can be so incredibly unfair, and why bad stuff happens to good people.

12. I'm probably more addicted to Diet Coke than I would like to imagine.

13. I can get a little obsessive at times.

14. I'd love to visit Australia.

15. i want to achieve something worthwhile before I'm forty, like climbing Mount Fuji, or cycling Cuba for charity.

16. I love the Manic Street Preachers, but don't get The Holy Bible.

17. I have a fetish for women's high-heeled boots.

18. I like blackbirds.

19. I sometimes think I should be gay, but don't actually fancy men.

20. I don't understand why people would choose to use Windows (especially Vista).

21. I think women speaking in German is extremely erotic.

22. I miss my sister every day.

23. I think M*A*S*H is the greatest TV programme ever made.

24. I'd like to apologise to all the women I pursued between the ages of 16 and 22.

25. I'm sure I'll think of umpteen cleverer and funnier things to have written here as soon as I publish this!

Friday-Night Blog!

So, as I'm doing a big (well, medium-sized... OK, small) push for this website on Facebook, I thought I should give you all something new to read. So, here it is, the first of hopefully series of Friday-Night Blogs, where I generally have a round-up of my week.

So, what;s been going on? Well, I've been off work all this week, which has been great. It's been so good just to spend time with my wife and son, instead of seeing them for a couple of hours every night. We've been to play parks twice, we've been swimming, and generally hanging out with each other.

It was my birthday on Wednesday, I turned the big 35. Genuinely chuffed to get a lot of best wishes on Facebook, and a decent amount of cards. Also got some blinking good gifts, like Doctor Who Season One on DVD (Good old Eccles-cake!), Stardust, an intriguing book called Death and the Penguin and a Cookie Monster t-shirt from my son. It's Em's birthday tomorrow, so we're off to the zoo! (Birthday cake has been baked and is cooling!)

Finally got to catch up on most of my stories on TV - two lots of Lost and Battlestar Galactica. I'm getting impatient with Lost, I just want it over and done with, especially with all the time-flipping stuff. Just tell me what the whole thing's about and let me go! Battlestar, on the other hand, is quickly running out of shows and I don't want it to end!

My current bandwagon is Twitter, with which I'm becoming quickly disillusioned. I get it, I just don't think I care what all these people are doing every minute of the day. It seems that a lot of people on there are sycophantic, working themselves up into a frenzy because they're following Stephen Fry or whoever. I'm sure it's good for all these people trying to sell you something, but I think it's crazy when you now have a Dr Pepper Twitter feed... Still, I've made a new friend on there, but I'm friends with her on Facebook, so that's OK. Hi, Claire!

Wendy Richard died, which was incredibly sad. (She'll always be Miss Brahms from Are You Being Served? to me, all those years as Pauline Fowler couldn't erase those formative memories!) Jade Goody's dying, which is even more tragic. Whatever you think of the girl, no-one deserves to lose their life in such an horrific, slow, painful way.

I'm sure there are lots of other things I could talk about, but you're probably tired of reading them now. From here on in, I'm going to keep notes in my nice new leather diary (thanks, Jonathan!), so I'll be able to keep up with my own thoughts!

Twitter

As there seems to be a huge media thing about Twitter at the moment, I decided to join up.  If there's a bandwagon, see me leap!

At the moment I'm following Graham Linehan, Phill Jupitus and a model called Apnea (who's very cute).

I'm annoyed that I can't Twitter from my mobile, like I can update my Facebook status, but there you go.  

If anyone wants to follow my feed, you can find it at twitter.com/MrFraig