Patience With Mayfair

The last few days, I have been addicted to all forms of the popular board game we all used to love wasting our Christmas' away with the family every year, as a new version came out every week. Yep, its Monopoly time!

I've found the online version, (Monopoly : World Edition) and also have played the original, (still the best) and I even urged the The Simpsons Monopoly to make an appearance earlier, all for the sake of keeping entertained. Earlier, I had hotels on Park Lane and Mayfair and they just weren't being landed on. "You need a 7 or a 9.." ... 10! Go! So annoying. I don't see why it should matter so much, but I wanted to win that game. I did, eventually. £2,000 paying rent on one of London's most expensive streets will always wipe out your opponents. Any tip for any aspiring Monopoly player.. Get the cheap ones, (brown and light blue), and watch as your opponent lands on them every time! It's great!

Yes, ladies and gentleman, I have gone mad. I'm very glad you noticed. Thing is, with no social life at the moment, (saving for Manchester people!) and no job (still...), I have to find new and inventive ways of keeping entertained during the long and lonely days. Ok, Monopoly isn't top of most people's list and probably rightly so, but if you're desperate, you're bloody well desperate! I've come up with a few more ideas to keep me entertained over the next few days. Watch every single series of Shameless, Skins and Red Dwarf which should keep me going for 6 years and 10 months and if I don't have a job by then - I will commit suicide.....what?

I clicked 'Return' there, and it posted the blog half-baked. There is still a little more to go don't worry.

Jobs. Polish people come and nick them and then even experienced Brits can't get one so what the hell am I supposed to do? If someone said, would you have a triple heart bypass surgery with just local anaesthetic and I give you a £13k p/a job in return, I would say yes. That is how much I need and want a job. I cannot live for much longer sitting here, doing nothing. I'll end up playing Cluedo online next. Monopoly is one thing but when you're trying to predict that Mrs.Peacock did it in the Study with the Revolver only to find out was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with a simple piece of rope... boy... You're doomed. I won't dip THAT low don't worry.. And don't even get me started on Scrabble..

Anyway, I have noticed it's the weekend. The time of the week employed people live for. The time of the week Unemployed people wake up and think, "Hey?" Weekends are a bit different for me though. I'm refereeing tomorrow. 11am kick off, (it's currently 2am), ok.. I'm refereeing TODAY and i've got my usual football sunday to look forward to. Let's hope it's less eventful than last weeks! Or maybe not! I dread Monday morning.. For once I would love to get up at 7.30am on Monday morning and go to work... Yeah.. exactly!

There's not a a lot of point just moaning on here though. It won't help me get work although it will help me release my frustrations in a logical, thought-provoking and non-destructive manner..

Oh hello, I just landed on Bond Street which had a hotel on it. Game over.

Ciao x