Anyone know how to make a quick buck?

It's a tough enough month what with the withdrawal symptoms and the lack of atmos about the place, one must fight the good fight to keep sane over the dry month that is January. I have come up with a few free past times that I possibly overlooked in December.

Watching telly old skool; not your Christmas run of the mill stuff, the good stuff...This Morning when you get up carries you through to 12.30, a half an hour to do your "days" chores which consists of making tea mostly, then you have your unpredictable half hour, channel four should stick with one series and go with it, but more often then not its a half hour of Buffy on Sky, Home and Away followed by either ten minutes of neighbours or Oprah. I tend to recommend the Neighbours unless its a celebrity special on Oprah. Then you naturally snooze until The Afternoon Show, then you can nap or watch one of the quiz shows between four and five, bringing you nicely to the surrogate parents of us all Rich and Judy. Now through the years, and there have been alot, involving Richard and Judy I always thought what is he doing with her, as nice as she is she is a tad unstable, the longer I watch it the more I see how patronising he is and in fact, she has the upperhand in the relationship. Then these days its bblb then Hollyoaks and so on and on.

Tea: Hours and hours of catch up with your mates, so much tae if that were we in California you could cause a drought, a good cup o'tae well and truly rocks.

Plan your holidays; so far its Scotland in April, Prague in July and a boat trip up the Shannon with Bresser et al for Paddys day and a big road trip in August/September, destination unconfirmed. Plan plan plan, even if its just a walk up the hills, it brightens up January.

Cooking: now this maybe a regular pastime to ye but it aint in my everyday schedule. The lack of penneys in the piggy bank causes you to eat at home, necessity is the mother of all invention. This week I have been mostly eating steak and chicken black bean stir fry.

Excercise: tis is my schedule but you tend to go that little extra harder at it in January.

Sorting Xmas presents: you know the ones that you don't really need or don't have space for/use , go find them a space, use up those toiletries from last year to make room for these ones.

Organise a sesh for payday: By the time the 25th comes I will not have known a thirst like it. It has been planned since the first day we came back, it will consist of a heavy lunch followed by, after work, darts in the office, possibly another bout of darts in the Palace, frequent a few places on Camden and Wexford street and hope that a bunch of other people are on the same vibe, can't be having empty pubs now. Then a sneaky few the next night.

Work a little: Your attention span in December towards work may have to be made up for somewhere along the line.

Consider your bills; just consider, nothing else.