I spend a lot of time on Twitter and follow some spectacularly funny people. Working from home on your own can be exceptionally tedious and Twitter can certainly help in the fight against cabin fever. When I signed up to this working from home malarky, I thought I could watch Jezza in my knickers all day whilst eating crisps. It's not like that, sadly. I was missold. I WANT MY MONEY BACK. (Or at least the opportunity to interact with humans face to face again. Humans are cool. Sometimes. I miss them).

I am pretty good at 'gold starring' the tweets I find funny/informative so that when people are being shit at Twitter, I can read through my favourite list and see a perfectly curated list of funniness. And whilst I totes understand that I am not in charge of saying what's funny and what isn't, I have taken the liberty to do so to create this post of the best tweets of 2010.

Obvs there are loads of tweets every day that get retweeted by hundreds of people/morons, giving whoever wrote it a semi for the rest of the afternoon as they bask in their shortlived glory. But these are the best tweets (in my humble opinion) from the people I *actually* follow. 

Needless to say, their authors all deserve being followed. Some people appear a lot, but that's because they win at Twitter. 

I've made a handy Twitter List of all the people featured here for you to follow if you'd like. The list is here. Think of it as a Christmas present. (I still want a proper present though, cheers).

It was hard to shortlist an entire year's worth of funny, but I narrowed it down to my Top 100. It's a bit bloody long, isn't it? Sorry about that. Maybe you can bookmark this and dip in and out at your leisure? Please wear swimming trunks.

They are not quite in chronological order, as sorting them by date made me nearly kill myself. Oh and I should point out to anyone easily offended that there are quite a few rude words. I compiled the list though, what did you fucking expect?

 

Over the weekend, I rummaged about in the loft looking for all things Christmassy and set to decorating the house (pics here, innit). In the process of doing so, I stumbled across many other wondrous belongings of mine – mostly art that has been in storage since saying goodbye to my London flat earlier this year. I have some fab prints, including two signed copies of the Mark Titchner print you see above. Mark sent them to me himself, which makes them sit in an even warmer corner of my heart.

Generally, I’m not a fan of anything ‘motivational’. I don’t know what that says about me, I just hate it when people peddle out annoyingly twee life-affirming quotes as their pre-prepared answer to any given problem. It shouldn’t annoy me, but it does. You will never see my fridge covered in cutesy magnets with quaint and soppy sayings. Good lord, if I never read another sentimental message on a fridge magnet again then I’d die happy. I am motivated by the thought of a world where we get motivation from things other than motivational fridge magnets.

I digress.

The point is, I love Mark Titchner. I don’t find his work annoying, and it’s a very fine line to tread between ‘inspirational’ and ‘eye stabbingly irritating’. Mark gets it right, I love his work and I love the thought behind it.

I first saw this print on the tube in 2008, Londoners will probably recognise it, and it seemed to resonate with me. 2008 was a bit mental and I did make some big decisions to have a better life. It would be a bit gushy fangirl of me to imply that I made these decisions solely because of this poster, but the message did seem to be haunting me.  It was *everywhere* on the underground, and I do like to think on the tube. It’s nice and anonymous down there. Claustrophobically busy but nobody gives two hoots about you, I like that.

Anyway, I thought it was a nice message to share on a Monday.

It’s not necessarily easy, but it is true. If you don't like your life you can change it.

 

Video nicked, respectfully, from Tate Britain.

I love decorating the Christmas tree and this is the second year that I've had the sole responsibility of doing it. I'm not very Christmas spirity when I put the decorations up, it's more of a "TRY TO INTERFERE AND I WILL STAB YOU IN YOUR SLEEP" kind of affair. Monica Gellar on speed. When I have children I'll obviously encourage them to join in, but I don't have children. I have every right to be be a Christmas control freak. Yey!

This is the first Christmas in a long time that my family won't be in America, but you can definitely see the American influence to our 'holiday spirit'. Most of our decorations come from the US and this year we seem to be going with a bit of a rodeo theme. Most of these ones are being debuted on the tree for the first time this year and come from Kurt S. Adler and Seasons of Cannon Falls. I love them! And they remind me that I need to get on with finding a cowboy of my own.

Elsewhere in the house are other pretty Christmassy things, again mostly from the US. Some of the decorations are from closer to home though, like the Russian dolls from...errr...Prague.  

I like when our house is full of Christmasness. Just need Heather to come home and force the cat to wear his Santa outfit (really) and we'll be all set :-D