So, three months worth of catching up to write about. So, in no particular order.

Joined Facebook and that’s where I’ve been half blogging recently. Blogging through applications, it’s the future I tells you. Strip out the games and the parts that rely on other people and you’re on to a blogging platform that’ll get the masses excited again.

But ayway, Christmas came and went. It was good catching up with everybody. I’m even more hugely skint and the fact that January and February are 5 weeks months doesn’t help.

I got lots of good toys for Christmas. I liked my Christmas jumper, I got a HD-DVD player (although that’s going to be getting phased out I guess), DVDs, books and games.

I’ve been to see a bunch of movies, most of which are rated on Facebook.

January was pretty quiet. Nothing immediately springs to mind. It was spent watching a lot of DVDs, reading books, playing games and wearing jumpers. Doing a little on the website front, but not a lot.

This month I’ve been planning a trip to New York, spending more than I have (recurring theme) and going to see plays with my sister. I also have Batty’s stag to look forward to.

So I’ll slow down a little here and elaborate on some of these.

Arranged with work to go to New York for the Search Engine Strategies meeting in March. Get there on the 16th and fly back out on the 23rd, so will be there for the St. Patrick’s day parade, which should be pretty awesome.

The conference only lasts til the 20th but it would have been more expensive to fly back before the Sunday than it is staying there, hotel bills included. Of course I’m not staying in a hotel, but managed to get myself a pimping little apartment for about half the price. So I decided that I’d take my youngest sister with me on a holiday.

I paid the £330 for an extra ticket for her to fly out (although she would only come because I said that our dad had a $500 voucher she could use to pay for the flight, she’s skint too, but wouldn’t let me pay for it. He does have a $500 voucher, but it’s for continental airlines and their tickets were about £1,000) so I’ll have some company and we can do stuff on the days I’m not at the conference.

Not sure what we’re going to be doing there, shows, comedy clubs, museums, shopping and such like, but we can wing it. She’s not 21 yet so we’ll have to sneak into drinking establishments, or go to Mexico or something.

Hopefully due a bit of a bonus at work to help pay for all of this. Anyway, looking forward to it, but it may be a bit dodgy for reasons I’ll explain in a future post.

This week has been all about plays and shows with my other sister who is down meeting agents and such like after her showcase. Her site is here Ashley Smith, lovingly created by yours truly and I’ve spent a bit of time on doing that.

So when she came down on Sunday we went to see Afrika Afrika at the tented village in the O2 arena. I got a sort of 2 for 1 deal with a code in the paper and booked us some tickets. As things turned out we were in the best seats in the house! Royal Box, Row A, seats 1 & 2! The show was really good and there was a lot of clapping throughout.

Monday was rehearsal so we never planned to see anything, although they did finish early and we could have but instead went for some food with my flatmate Neil and some of her classmates, who were all pretty hot

Tuesday we went to see Dealer’s Choice. Which was quite good. Good first half certainly, found it a lot less convincing in the second.

Wednesday went to see The History Boys. Never seen it or the film and really quite liked it. Again preferred the first half although my sister and her classmates didn’t get a lot of the literary refrences, sigh, what sort of an education system is this :p

Thursday, we just got movies and sat in cos she was tired after interviews and stuff. We watched Stranger Than Fiction which I enjoyed, then I stayed up to watch Next which was fairly enjoyable.

Tonight is Prayer For My Daughter at the Young Vic, gives us a break from Leicester Square.

Hopefully tomorrow we’ll get tickets for Speed The Plow starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, but they seem to be sold out. That’s what we get for trying to hang on for cheaper tickets.

So that’s that. I got my 5 free HD-DVDs today which you get if you buy certain players. Full Metal Jacket, The Prestige, Serenity, Children of Men and World Trade Center. It’ll be good to give my HD-DVD player a work out since it’s not been used since I got it.

Next week is Batty’s stag do in Leeds. I’m growing a beard to shave into a moustache for the event and next week I’ll mostly be finalising soem stuff for that.

 And that’s pretty much everything in a nutshell. Back to work I guess.