With only a mere two weeks of 2012 having passed us by, there's plenty for us to look forward to. Here's five things that I'm waiting on this year.
Christmas
So what if we've just had it? I miss Christmas already- it goes too quick. It's my favourite time of year- a time to eat, drink and be merry, to meet up with friends and family and to chill out and simply do nothing for a few days.
I love waking up every day for a week after 10AM, eating turkey, pork pie, sausages rolls and trifle for two out of my three main meals and playing games until my eyes bleed. It's great.
The World Ending (Or Not)
Congratulations- if you're reading this now, you're alive because the world hasn't ended. Yet. However, as of today, 4th January 2012, there's still 361 days (+1 since it's a leap-year) for planet Earth to go belly up in accordance with an apocalypse predicted by the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar- or the "Mayan calendar" according to anyone who has seen the film 2012.
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| This is for you, Voni. |
But honestly, unless the good Lord above Jesus Christ has planned to make his glorious appearing in 2012, then the likelihood is we'll be fine.
Oh yeah, and Kim-Jong Un could end up nuking the Earth in an early, I'm-in-charge-now display of posturing and chest-beating.
The Hobbit
I can't believe we basically have to wait a year for this! Whereas I watched Lord of the Rings before I'd even heard of the book (and then tried to read the book and subsequently failed), I read The Hobbit back when I was at primary school aged ten or eleven; I loved it, and I've been waiting for a feature film ever since.
Not much else to say about this one other than I wish I would hurry the heck up so I can watch it.
PlayStation Vita
Surely portable HD gaming is the future, right?
Well Sony sure as heck better hope so, because they've given it a price tag of £220- not exactly a drop in the ocean for me.
It looks great and I love the idea of being able to play Uncharted and all other kinds supposedly console-quality titles on a portable system such as the PlayStation Vita. I'm loathe to get it at release, however, because I hear it's not doing so great in Japan right now, and my spider senses are telling me that a price drop is waiting in the wings.
I think they're going to need one to compete with the Nintendo 3DS- which I really don't care for right now, because it has like two games I'm interested in (Sonic Generations, which I own on PS3, and Super Mario 3D Land) and the 3D messes with my eyeballs.
Getting a Car
Well, I passed my driving test back in August, but other than a week of riding around in my mum's car, I've not done any driving- and it's really bugging me. Why?
Because car insurance is freaking expensive.
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I've ranted about this kind of thing before, but being a freshly-passed twenty-one year old male with ambitions to hit the road means that no one wants to insure you unless you basically pay in blood. I can afford a car just fine, but the cheapest insurance quote I can get on like a 1.1 litre three-door hatchback is around £2,400 a year (and if the spare couple of pints of blood I do have going spare are worth that then I'll gladly hand them over to Direct Line).
So yeah, if anyone is feeling generous and wants to lend me like three grand for insurance then that'd be great, thanks.
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