I saw Four Christmases/Holidays today. Verdict? While awkward in the scene with Robert DuVall (who plays the dad of Vince Vaughn), a good film. Although, I went with my friends, and we were doing the usual thing of passing the food to be shared and whispering about whether anyone was missing out or who should take this or no when a woman in front of us turned around and hissed “WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP?“.  My friend said sorry and no one of us dared make a noise

I also went to a sixties themed birthday party and have finally had an encounter with a Shirley Temple (Like a Creaming Soda spider, sort of). Really fun party.

I also watched Tropic Thunder (one off the list!). It. Is. Awesome (really, Ben Stiller made one Hell of a movie) There are a bunch of fake ads/trailers at the beginning, the funniest being the one for the “movie” called “Satan’s Alley”, which they managed to get Tobey Maguire for. I can understand why Robert Downey Jr was nominated. While Tom Cruise was funny, I can’t understand why he was. Other members, yeah, but Tom Cruise’s role wasn’t big enough; it didn’t consist of much character depth.

Okay, I really like Paul Hogan, but there’s one thing I will never forgive him for. He did an ad for Australia aimed for the American market. He famously uttered the line “Throw another shrimp on the barbie”. If you’re not an Australian, let me make one thing perfectly clear; while we call Barbeques “Barbies” for short (BBQ), we don’t call shrimp “shrimp”; we call them “prawns” (yeah, prawn; rhymes with brawn).

I just did Christmas with both sides of the family. It was really nice to see everyone. Of course, I have put on weight (hopefully, I’ll lose it within the next week, which I’m able to do sometimes). Also talked to the neighbours.

I love talking to little kids about what they ask for from Santa. The most interesting Christmas requests I’ve heard were for a flying saucer, a remote-controlled spider and a flying hotdog.

I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and, if I don’t make another post for about a year, a Happy New Year.