Last week before Christmas and the state of play is thus:

Liver Damage
Minimal, surpisingly - I survived the 12 pubs crawl this year. But that’s mainly because I only went to 5 of them. Small crew this year, averaged about 11 or 12 in each pub as people kept coming and going. Been doing well on the Christmas party front also. There would appear to be loads of people around town willing to join me and my bendy arm for a drink or two. More shenanigans scheduled for this week, thank god work is quiet.

Shopping
Have sent out all the Christmas cards, so if you didn’t get one it means either An Post is crap (no surprise there) or I didn’t have your postal address. Alternately you could be some random interweb surfer in which case you definitely aren’t getting a card.
Also managed to get into town for 10 o’clock on Saturday morning and bought all my presents without having to commit genocide, well all bar my Mothers gift. I’m stumped on that one at the moment.

Top tip for christmas shopping: If like me you leave everything till the last minute you will not have the leisure of ‘browsing’ for gifts. So do what I do, go out and buy SOMETHING. It can be anything but once you break the seal on yer credit card the world is your bivalve. I tend to start with wrapping paper. Who cares if you don’t actually have anything to wrap yet. Soon you will be weighted down with shopping, grumbling like a very grumbly thing and kicking the dawdlers out of your way. (Other top tip, wear big boots.)

Quotable Quotes:
‘There is no such thing as Christmas Spirit when it comes to Christmas Shopping, it’s all elbows and anger.’
-Me, on being asked by my father why I was in a bad mood on Saturday morning.

Personal
I haven’t had time to get my hair cut for Christmas this year, so instead I dyed it. Er, this colour:

Port watch
Continues. New entries this week are the Lord Ed, the Clarendon and the Foggy Dew.
Lord Ed - Proper Glass, lemon with cloves, sugar and a spoon. Port was nice and hot.
Clarendon - Regular glass, lemon, no cloves, sugar brought to table. Port was warm, as if they’d thrown a couple of ice cubes into the hot water.
Foggy Dew - Proper glass, lemon with cloves, sugar. Port was warm and a paper napkin was wrapped around glass to ease manouverability.

So the current leaderboard is as follows:
1. Keogh’s of Sth Anne St
2. Lord Ed on Castle St.
3. Foggy Dew
4. Library Bar on Exchequer St.
5. Neary’s of Chatham St.
6. Stag’s Head
7. Clarendon’s
8. Madigan’s of donnybrook

So all in all I’m pretty much ready for the Christmas onslaught. Pretty good, considering last week I had nothing done.