If ever there was a period of the year to go full goblin mode, it has to be during those few rather confusing days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It’s the perfect moment to have some time off work and limit one’s social calendar to me, myself and I. Though to be honest, I might be going a little too strong on goblin mode all year round, apart from workdays on which I’m the slave to a corporate bitch. Nevertheless there’s always room for improvement and on these in-between days I take it to another level. It’s all soft baggy sweaters and sweatpants and indulging in the kind of crime series that makes me feel fuzzy in a good way.
You know what I’m talking about, right? That thing BBC is so good at. Like Shakespeare & Hathaway or the more recent Ludwig. If it wasn’t for the fact that I think the expression “guilty pleasure” is being used by lily-livered individuals who lack the courage to confess they enjoy this kind of entertainment without feeling the need to quantify it with such phrases as ‘I know it’s rubbish, but sometimes I just need to watch something that allows me to switch of my brain’. I vaguely class them in the same range as those who feel the need to still use the term ‘chick lit’. I’m too old now to bother with trying to sound more intellectual then I am and certainly too old to start manefesting an urge to appear more masculine by using sexist terms. I’m also too old to pretend that I really should be doing something special for New Year’s Eve. For me, that’s just another in-between day and I’ll select myself something mellow to watch, albeit with headphones to cancel out the firework blasts.
I’ll wish you all the best for 2025, but let’s be honest, wishful thinking isn’t going to stop the next year from being another stinker. You may think a new year comes with new opportunities, but why should it? As far as life is concerned, there is no calendar. It does what it bloody well pleases. You can’t drop off your troubles at the end of 2024 and hope they won’t follow you into 2025. Troubles don’t respect the social construct of that particular partition. Let’s not be glum about it though. Let’s approach it with that little something Kate Winslet’s character in The Holiday finally got near the end of the movie: gumption. Here’s to another one! Cheers! *sips of his hot cocoa*
Credits
- Noche Scott Sweater Fatpack available at the Alpha Event until January 17th
- Noche Miguel Joggers and Fluff Slides
- Birth Carter skin for Lelutka EvoX and the matching body skin by Birth for Legacy
- Eaglelux Sammy hairbase
- Volkstone Paco HD brows
- Blaink ‘Losing My Mind’ tattoo
- Avi-Glam Erudite eyes
- Legacy mesh body
- Lelutka Quinn mesh head (includes the HD facial hair worn)
- Billy Beaverhausen Conrad shape for Lelutka Quinn
- Apple Fall
- Fulwood Sofa
- Jar Candle – Sapphire Musk, Open (group gift)
- Aspen Fluffy Slippers – Chocolate (a gift from a small Christmas hunt this year, so I don’t know if these will be available for purchase)
- Coffee & Muffin
- Grimes Central – Retro TV
- What Next Toasty Space Heater (group gift)
- JIAN Kitten Pillow from Kitten Collection
- Consignment Groves Modular Bookcase
Billy Beaverhausen 
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