-d-: On songwriting, the perils of (reprise)

So

Gads - a year has passed since I wrote this and would you believe the fucking thing stil isn't finished?

Someone please check to make sure that procrastination isn't in the 10 commandments or anything like that otherwise I'll be heading down to the place where the heat comes from all around instead of a nice warm sun suspended happily in a calm blue sky and people scream all the time rather quicker than I might have already imagined.

Okay, so it's the first entry in ages, and it's not much (see comment re procrastination above) but to be fair I did have rather a lot of wine last night at the annual Secret Santa Christmas Dinner thing which we've done for the last couple of years and I'm feeling it a little this morning. The wine was a dubious dry white which other -D- found, one of -M-'s dessert whites, a sketchy bottle of faux champagne (alcohol free, aka Grapetiser) and my rather good, rather lush Landskroon Cab Sauv 2006, the last one of those on the shelf at PnP in Plattekloof.

I was a little worrried since there were hundreds of the 2008 Cab and one single, solitary '06, long since out of production and out of stock. Although I pounced on it, there were no prices on the shelf which makes me think it had been out for some time and the pessimist (you mean panic-pants haha -eND-) in me immediately wondered if someone had poisoned the bottle and snuck it back onto the shelf like ill people sometimes do. So it was with some trepidation that I opened the bottle last night and had a sip, trying very hard not to spill any on my uber-wow! nice new white pants. Hey, they looked good. And I got to break out my white undies to go with them, since I never wear white undies unless I'm wearing white pants, since they don't stay bright white for more than about 4 wearings anyway.

So I'm not dead yet; nor is anyone else who had some. I guess perhaps my worry was a touch overzealous. We'll find out for sure later on when we commence the 19th Annual Christmas Movie in silly hats (#1 being Hot Shots! back in 1991; other classics have included LotR: FotR; Titanic; The Nightmare before Christmas and others; duds have included SurvivingChristmas, Deck the Halls, Elf and other similar "family fare") which happens to be Avatar in 3D which I am looking massively forward to. Still, fact remains - the song isn't finished.

Bah and humbug. Oh hey - it's Christmas!
-d-