My Blogvent Calendar

Newsflash time everyone, a little public service announcement for you all. In case you were not aware, Christmas is just around the corner! This year (as ever), we will be celebrating the birth of Jesus by entering into a festival of gluttony and giving on the 25^th, so I thought it would be kinda fun to look at the 25 days of December in a lil bit more detail.

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals (Image Credit: LifeHacker)

1. You leap out of bed to stuff the first piece of advent chocolate in your mouth without even stopping to look at what character adorned it. You listen to exclusively Christmas music on your iPod all day and whine at your parents/significant other to get the decorations down so you can get in the proper spirit.
2. You leap out of bed again, although it’s possibly not quite as enthusiastic as yesterday, and maybe remember to check the choc pic. You complain about the continued lack of decorations and go back to your Mariah Carey and Slade.
3. You get up fairly normally and if you don’t have a look at the cocoa character by now then you’re running out of excuses. Someone asks you what you want for Christmas and you have a minor panic that you haven’t even bought those socks for Grandad yet!
4. What’s that? There’s only three weeks until the big day? Good one friend of yours, it’s not like everyone knows that and has been counting down the days since July hahaha oh wait…
5. Hello first Crimbo song on the radio, now it’s officially noel! Thanks for the reminder Greg James, you’re the best!
6. Hmmm, getting bored of “Last Christmas” now, give it a rest Greg.
7. The decorations have finally gone up and life’s pretty great in your indoor Winter Wonderland.
8. Oh shit! You forgot your advent calendar yesterday! Well, I guess you’d better catch up with double chocolate today, it’s what Jesus would have wanted!
9. Maybe you should watch a Christmas film tonight? Home Alone’s always worth a watch, Elf’s a classic, which to choose?
10. Who’s highlighted all the Christmas TV they want to watch in this year’s Radio Times? That’s right, it’s you!!
11. OH EM GEE IT’S ONLY TWO WEEKS TO GO!!!!!!!!
12. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzz December is dragging, there’s still two weeks to go!
13. It’s officially Christmas now, the Coca-Cola advert’s come on!
14. You go Christmas shopping and only buy things for yourself, but hey – it’s Christmas for you too right?
15. For reals though, can they stop playing so many Christmas songs? You can’t escape them anymore, they’re in every shop, on every radio station – you just want to listen to Justin Bieber’s comeback album in peace.
16. **WELL I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS, EVERYDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY**
17. Wait, it’s December? You completely forgot for a second! Does not feel like Christmas right now.
18. OH MY WORD THERE’S ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT AND YOU STILL HAVEN’T GOT ALL YOUR GIFTS OH NO OH NO OH NO!!!!!
19. Now it feels like Christmas, you’ve just had your work Christmas dinner and you’re feeling like you won’t be able to eat again for a while. Sandra from Accounts had one too many brandies and did a dance on the table.
20. You’d better hope Santa doesn’t count eating chocolate before breakfast as naughty because you’ve just scoffed down five days’ worth at once!
21. That’s it, no more school for two weeks. This probably involved some kind of assembly and/or carol singalong but at least you didn’t have to wear your uniform and the headteacher’s wearing Rudolph antlers for some reason (just wait until you go to University, the academics are even more keen for Christmas than you are so you basically break up in November).
22. What a relief, Christmas shopping is done and you only had to fight three people for that last  handbag for your mum.
23. It’s Christmas Eve Eve, which can only mean one thing: wrapping presents all day in front of an endlessly repeating Love Actually.
24. As if there’s only one day to go! Your day possibly involves some kind of travelling,  maybe a carol service and probably some hefty drinking, which is what Christmas is all about really ain’t it? You settle down in front of the TV and have that age-old debate of whether to open all the presents at 1 minute past midnight or not, but as always you will wait until morning and you wonder why you even mention the midnight plan these days because it’ll never happen.
25. This is it, the big day! No matter how old you are, you wake up at an ungodly hour like an overexcited child and tear into your presents. It gets to 10am though and you’re thinking “now what?” because you got so hyped for Christmas that it’s not really living up to expectations again (especially because it didn’t even SNOW).  But then out comes the bubbly, Grandma gets a bit tipsy and you eat Pigs in Blankets until you need to be carried to the sofa for a lie down in front of the TV (Queenie’s on the box so you don’t even feel bad about it).  After a fair few hours of moaning about how full you are, you’re able to get up and you go for a Christmas walk with the whole family; it’s obligatory to wear all your new clothes regardless of whether or not they work together. You get back and it’s probably time for a Christmas special of something, and if not then hey – it’s board game time. When you get peckish there’s plenty of leftovers and chocolate for you to snack on, but when it’s time for bed you’ll be feeling pretty damn content.
26. Only 364 days to go…