I am feeling ugh!

I normally love this time of year. I get all excited and start clapping hysterically at the mere thought of all the shopping, presents, songs and turkey. I run around the house cheering and jumping for joy and generally behaving like a kid at, well, Christmas. But this year is different, it is only a week to Christmas Day and I have just started steaming my christmas pudding, thus filling my house with Christmas-y scent, and I feel a bit ugh.

It is very difficult to put a finger on why I am feeling a bit down at this time of year. Normally I like to spend the majority of October being depressed but felt OK duing that month this year. I normally put this down to some disorder that affects me during the changing seasons. (Not the change from Autumn to Winter but from Cricket to Football) But this is December and it's Christmas!!!

And I still feel ugh. Of course it hasn't helped that the first thing I have done every morning for the past three weeks is wake up to that shambles "Down Under". And our football team has broken it's long running unbeaten streak, that included my first clean sheet, and have lost two in a row. At the moment, it looks like we couldn't even beat Manchester City let alone the league-leading Jurassic 5s who we face in a top of the table clash on tonight.

As I normally very health eater, it doesn't help when people keep constantly bringing chocolate into the office. Why don't people buy healthy treats? I mean people would be just as grateful if you turned up with a bag of grapes instead of a 35 tonne box of Tesco's own brand Quality Street - called "Value Street". What about some nice health chicken? Even those kids in the Jamie Oliver program were happy to be given chicken. The campaign for health work based snack treats starts now!!! Well actually it starts on Friday as I've baked some brownies for lunch on Friday.

But what better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to go on a "works-do". Those are always fun and are never two hours spent wishing you could stick a chop stick through your ear and into your brain just for something to do. And they're even more fun if, like me, you don't drink. You can just observe people's behaviour, take notes and blackmail them later! Although the one problem I do have is that I can't sing and after last years debacle where we were sitting on the fourth table and had a whole 8 verses of the 12 days of Christmas to join in with, I have taken lessons from the Sugarbabes and decided to just mime along this year.

So this is the first year in recent memory where I've been feeling ambivalent to Christmas. I am worried this means I am getting old. The next logical step is to get slippers for every present and to appear on "Grumpy Old Christmas".

Anyway, Merry Christmas you lot - I'll be back in a week or so when we'll try and decide what New Year's Resolutions I should have.