Pink, green and cream DO go...

UFO's at the wedding

I guess I'm using this blog as an ideas space for my wedding preparations. Here is a pic of a bowl of lovely fizzy UFO's, which I really want at the wedding but Nick doesn't. I have to convince him that these are both wedding-y and totally appropriate. I really like them and I think they will be a lot of fun. I mean, who doesn't like UFO's? The are edible and can also double up as table decorations, (until they're eaten). Of course if we could get actual UFO's to land in Herm then that would also be cool.

Other ideas include butterflies and bubbles. It does all sound a bit girlie I admit. And becuase it's in a marquis, I want a path of tealights in glass jars leading along the path between the marquis and the hotel (where the loos are) because I remember the last wedding I went to I was stumbling around in my heels in the dark and it was all a bit precarious.

My colour scheme is another problem, Nick needs some convincing. It's going to be chocolate brown bridesmaids and grooms, cream flowers and me with a hot pink bouquet. There will also be a lot of green leaves. It is going to look fantastic but his lordship kicked up a big fuss last night when I told him about this. I KNOW IT WILL LOOK GOOD! He needs to trust me.

Hen nights and evil buckets

Brokeback Mountain? Verrrrry very slow indeed. It was a good film but towards the end I was snoozing in the back row of the cinema. Not much is said by either of the two main characters, the whole way through. But there are lots of anguished looks and pensive glances, and shots of glorious mountainsides. You have to be in the right mood, which I think I was. But had it been on TV I probably would have channel surfed.

Saturday night, we ate at Sawadhi, (a very nice thai restaurant where you sit on the floor on big cushions, hence cramp and backache) then went on a girlie rampage around town, hitting the Albion bar, Laska's, the Red Onion and finally ending the evening in Barbados, (the nightclub, not the island). Catherine was forced to wear a veil, banner etc and we all wore devil horns and badges. I think she had a good time, I'm not sure because I was very very drunk. I know I was drunk because I made it from the taxi into my house but no further. I woke up in the lounge with the cat on my face, coat and shoes still firmly in place.

The next morning Nick woke me up by flicking me with cold water and shouting 'The power of Christ compels you" because apparentely I looked possessed.

Catherine's Mum, during the day before the hen night, was walking past the town Church when a bucket flew off the scaffolding and hit her on the head! So she spent most of the afternoon in A&E but was a real trooper and came out to the meal, but she had to go home afterwards. We all told her she should sue the workman but she's far too nice to do that. What a thing to happen though.

I have been reading 'Diaries of an internet lover' by Dawn Porter, which arrived from Amazon on Saturday. I went to school with Dawn and since then she has gone on to great things and she has recently had this book published. It is a journal of 6 months that she spent living in London where she met different men via a dating website. There are quite a few explicit and naughty stories and its really weird to read it. She always was a saucy minx at school to be fair. I can remember a sex-ed class, being partnered with her when we were made to put condoms on bananas, she really knew what she was doing whereas I was a giggling wide eyed 14 year old.

I did manage to put in a few hours of DIY this weekend, even though yesterday I felt like death all day. I was very dizzy and dry mouthed which I know is my own sweet fault but there you go. There is a depressing amount of work we have to do still and it really got me down. I am going to have to start doing evenings in order to get anywhere.

Gay Porn

I'm off to see Brokeback mountain tonight to get me some gay cowboy action, yeeeehaw. OK I know its not gay porn exactly but its as close as I'm likely to get.

Tomorrow it's the big hen weekend for Catherine, starting with lunch tomorrow then an afternoon/evening of fun with lots of thai food and cocktails I think. As chief bridesmaid I have been in charge of organising it, Cat's flying over from oop north tonight with 2 of her friends. Susan has already said she's up for getting really hammered although Rachel's going to be driving (quelle surprise). Personally I will erring on the drunk side as usual. I have bought table decorations for the restaurant, heh heh, she's going to love it or hate me, I'm not sure which.

I put in 3 hours of DIY last night at the flat (and still have paint up my arm) to make up for not doing much this weekend. I didn't get home until 9pm.

One of the girls I work with has just come back from travelling and she phoned the office to tell us she'e met a man in Thailand and is going back out there to live with him. She's just her to work out her notice period then she's off again. She sounded so happy on the phone it brought on a big lump in my throat. My boss doesn't know yet, I'm not sure if he'll take it that well.

I just got back from going into town in my lunch hour, I bumped into a guy, also called Sam, who I hadn't seen in about 6 or 7 years. I love it when stuff like that happens to you! I also saw a girl in the supermarket two days ago who I hadn't seen since school, that's 8 years. I didn't recognise her but she did me. Cor hang, that's Guernsey eh! Sam is off to New York soon, he's been offered a job there as a tree surgeon or something.

Oh, go on then

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

Barmaid in a nightclub
Receptionist at an electronics firm (zzzzzzz)
Estate Agent (at four different companies)
Telesales rep (for one lousy week)

Four movies I can watch over and over:

SpiderMan
The Shining
French Kiss
Dirty Dancing

Four places I have lived:

Guernsey, Channel Islands
Winchester, Hampshire
Falmouth, Cornwall
Exeter, Devon

Four TV shows I love to watch:

Lost
The OC
Buffy
What not to Wear

Four places I have been on holiday:

Amsterdam
Mauritius
Egypt
Norway

Four of my favourite dishes:

Spaghetti Bolognese with garlic bread
Special fried rice with sweet & sour sauce
Roast chicken with cranberry sauce (I had this last night)
Rare steak with bearnaise sauce

Four websites I visit daily:

b3ta
BBC news
ebay
this one

Four places I would rather be right now:

Tahiti on a beach
Amsterdam in a cafe
At home in front of the telly
San Fransisco, with flowers in my hair

Four bloggers I am tagging:

Cassie
that's all I can think of, I have no friends.

Gerry!

Umm, not much to say as again have to go to a viewing in 5 minutes but Nick says that I look like Margo Leadbetter from The Good Life in the photo that I posted which isn't good.

Tonight I am getting my bridesmaids dress altered and might cook a roast chicken if I have the time.

Last night I dreamed that I really needed a poo and I had to go in this awful public toilet and my boss was watching me from across the room. Ewwwww.

And again!

I only seem to find the time to do this just before 5 o clock. I guess it has been kind of busy in here the last few days. I've just come back from a viewing of a house with a lovely old man but he had the heating turned well far up, to 'old person' temperature which was just gross. The house was lovely though and just a perfect typical grandparents house with well kept rose bushes and a little pond in the garden. Bless.

I went to Claires accessories at lunchtime, ended up buying a ton of jewellery as they have a crazy sale on. I got some long beads, I'm wearing them now. They're blue and shiny.

I've got to go round the parents again tonight for more wedding chats. Seeing as my old man is forking out for the lions share of it it is necessary. I am going to ask Maggie to take in my bridesmaids dress which I tried on yesterday and it's fine on the waist but WAY too loose around the tits. If I stretch I pop out. Well, not pop exactly but I don't have the cleavage to fill it so something has to be done.

Its nearly hometime

so I am speed typing as fast as I can. Just had a pretty boring weekend of kitchen fitting and painting, didn't do a lot else so won't bore you. But did manage to watch Starsky & Hutch on Sky. DO it. DOOOOOoooo it. (That's a Starsky & Hutch reference BTW)

My boss is being really nice to me today. It's been a busy day.

My bridesmaid dress has arrived for Catherines wedding next month and I'm off to try it on after work! Also got to go to Chequers for some groceries. Nick's back on the Weightwatchers so it's all rabbit food I'm afraid. Tonight I will be watching TV and cooking healthy food. Go me.

Another cake idea...

Annoying I can't get this any bigger.

I prefer the other one I posted a month or so ago but what I like about this one is the ivy that they've draped artistically around it. A cheap and very pretty thing to do, I reckon.

Swing Bada Bada Bada Swiiiiiiing

I have just found a wedding photographer, and he seems quite reasonable and nice on the phone. Huzzahs.

And here is a picture of me for Alex! I'm not sure if I've posted it before. I'm normally gurning/frowning/looking like a spanner in photos but this one's not too bad.

To cheer me up

A bit of gratuitous Sawyer.

Come on I need it! For those of you who have missed out on the best thing to come out of the States since crispy creme doughnuts, he is in Lost. How unbelievably pretty is a man allowed to be.

Where do I start?

Grim couple of days. I was thinking of sparing you the awful boring humdrumness of my whinging but then I thought, what the hell is a blog for if you can't let it all out? So here goes, in no particular order of importantness:

1) can't get a wedding photographer. They're all booked up already.

2)have snapped off one fake nail and another one's about to go.

3)Have eaten like a pig the last couple of days. Oink oink.

4)Nick has managed to put me in an awkward spot with my boss here at work. HOW!? You ask. Well, he's managed. First he phones me up at 5ish yesterday to say "Sam I have got you the most amazing opportunity for you. I've got you a free herbal facial peel, they normally cost £250 but you have to have it tomorrow afternoon."
My boss had already gone home so I phoned him to ask if I could beg a couple of hours off in the afternoon to have this thing done. He says no. End of story? No. Bear in mind I wasn't too upset cos although I would quite like it done I find the whole concept a bit scary. Don't want to end up looking like Pete Burns you see.
Me not being able to do it put Nick in a tight spot as he'd already promised I would do it to his workmates. It was for an advert and I was to be the model having the treatment done basically. So then at his work a woman he works with figures out that she knows my boss socially and takes it upon herself to call up my boss and have a go at him for not letting me have a couple of hours off! NNNNNGHHHHH!!! Great going. LUCKILY I managed to get to my boss in time as I had prior warning and apologised profusely and explain it wasn't anything to do with me. And LUCKILY he's OK . But I think it's a bloody cheek of her to poke her nose into what is essentially my livelihood and jeopadise my working relationship. And Nick just sees it that he was trying to do me a favour.

5) This is kind of leading on from No.4. Maybe its because he's a bit pissed at me for asking for a couple of hours off, I don't know, but my boss has this morning told me that I can't have 4 weeks off in July for my honeymoon which is what he'd previously said I could have. 3 weeks is the absolute max. He then went on to say that out of my 20 days holiday I am expected to save a couple of days for Christmas. I pointed out that if I am expected to do this then in reality that only leaves me with 17/18 days holiday, which sucks, and I'm going on honeymoon and also have 3 other weddings in England that I HAVE to go to this year (I'm bridesmaid at one, Nick's the best man at another, and the third is an ex of mine and best friend of Nick and its just important we have to go) that leaves me with minus holiday. He could see I was upset but left it a couple of hours before renegging slightly and saying MAYBE we can work something out with unpaid leave but JESUS how stressed am I today. New job here I come.

Did you like the over-use of capital letters there to emphasize certain words? That's what they do in my new self help book.

Rant over. Anal stupid rant over.

PS I have stomach ache and am tired.

Mammouth Journey

So, I've booked flights for next month and I'm off to my friends wedding. She is getting married on 25th Feb in Worksop, we're flying over to Southampton then borrowing a car from Nick's Mum & Dad and we're going to drive up. It looks like its kind of near Leeds/Sheffield and on the AA routeplanner it looks about 4 hours but you know what traffic is like. Hopefully it will take us about half a day.

If we can borrow Nicks Dads work car that would be so cool cos its a really plush jag and I'll feel like a yuppie. I can wear shades and yak on the mobile while Nick feeds me seedless grapes as we drive up. Just kidding. But it is the kind of car you get funny looks in becuase you're quite young and its a real old mans exec car (no offence Tony).

In other news, I found a pile of dried up cat sick that has obviously been around a few days, I just hadn't noticed it. So I have to clear that up tonight. I noticed it yesterday but figured another day wouldn't hurt. I also have a load of boring chores to do like ironing (but at least I can watch Buffy at the same time) and I have to see my cousin to give her the birthday present and we're really overdrawn in the joint account. Such is my life.

The front page of the Guernsey Press was just stupid today. The headline story is that a child pointed a toy gun at an old person in the town library and the old person got pissed off. Basically. So not a lot going on in Guernsey then.

Chinese stirfry tonight I think and I have to go becuase apparentely I have to be at a viewing 5 minutes ago.

Sober as a judge

Its been a bit hard to keep up with the blogging recently, as work has got 100 times busier over the last few days. But that's good! I don't mind being busy, at least we're selling stuff which is fun. I'm showing Ben some flats tomorrow morning. And I'm doing some posh houses too, one has loads of amazing antiques in it I'm going to late morning.

I got so very wasted on Saturday night, as my friends well know. But I wasn't the only one, Nick was breakdancing and fell over 5 times, apparentely. And I was very proud of being Rachels toilet buddy, and on the way home I decided to stroke a bald mans head. And I was dressed as Felicity Shagwell, you had to be there. So that's it in a nutshell, and I'm still not smoking! Hey hey.

In other weekend news, I put my knee out, it's really hard to kneel down now. I did lots of DIY and also went to the cinema on Sunday night and saw Just Friends, which drags on a bit towards the end but has some very exceedingly funny moments.

Something a bit freaky, from Hot or Not (see my link) a total stranger (or nutcase) has paid $2 and sent me a 'virtual daisy'. I find this nothing shrt of scary and feel a bit rude but I'm not going to email him back. No way.

I have to go to the Toy Shop now and find something appropriate for a 4 year old's birthday. Ooooh toy shops are brilliant.

Also, have been wedding planning some more, and am about to order the invites soon, in a week or so. I've decided on the ones I want which are very tasteful and not at all yucky/tacky/pukesome. They're just plain white card and I think very chic. I hate tack.

New Years Eve Pics

Rachel & Lex looking pensive

Ahhh, I love this one, its of Seonaid (left) and little Katie (right)

A drunken Susan! I am sat behind in the distant background , I have a white top on This is the only one I'm in! The guy whose half a face you can see is Laurie, Sue's boyfriend.

Seonaid and Westy

I'm sorry, we don't DO rentals

Really, that should be my mantra. The amount of times I have to say that to people every day. I should just put a big sign up on the door so that they don't come in and bother me.

What gets me is that after you say it, most people just go 'oh', and stand there and stare at you stupidly, as if we can still help them in some way. OK, some of them aren't too bad but its like go away and leave me alone you slack jawed freak.

Sorry, but I've been selling houses for over three years and everywhere I've worked I've had the same thing happen. Maybe we should do rentals, oh hang on, no. The hassle would be ridiculous. Selling is nice and easy but renting is just a hornets nest of hell. I should know, people in rentals departments are always overstressed and quit.

Ah well, being an estate agent a lot of people hate me anyway. I've given up trying to tell people that I'm nice while on viewings. Some people just look at you with such an evil glare of suspicion as if you're about to suck dry their bank account and force them to buy a beetle-infested shack. I have got thick skinned over the years in my realisation that whatever I say or do, however pleasant I am, the general public will never change.

I've just come back from taking on 2 flats that are so small and depressing, the only good thing I could think to say about them was at least the ceilings are high so you won't have any trouble hanging yourself.

OK, rant for the day is well and truly over. I have to go to B&Q tonight and buy some paint while it's still 15% off, then I have to go to my Dads and discuss the wedding list with them, and then its home to do a pile of ironing and make dinner. But right now I'm off to eat a kiwi fruit. Bet you're jealous of my inspiring life! I was a bit naughty and bought a top in my lunch hour today from Land of Green Ginger. It's a dark brown long crochet jumper and will look good with jeans.

Wedding dress!

Oh my God a swatch has arrived for my wedding dress. I can't say too much on here because Nick might tune in and read it but it is BEEEAAAAUUUUTIFUL in the extreme. I have sent a piece off to Nick's Mum to get her expert opinion on matching it to the bridesmaids dresses. Fun.

Another weekend of hard work at the flat, feeling quite fit though as a result. Went to the Petit Bistro on Saturday night with some friends, nice, a bit pricey but nice. Got a bit drunk and Ben stole some novelty magnets before stumbling to Sinatras for some whisky sours. I glammed up in a dress which was a bit unneccesary but I'd had a knackering day and was feeling very unattractive so I needed a bit of feminine allure.

For some reason I decided I needed a hawaiian pizza on the way back though (this is after a huge meal) and stuffed myself in my drunken stupor. I think I forgot I had just eaten. It was really garlicy. I turn into such a twat when I'm drunk I really do. I think I might have been a bit shitty with the lady in the takeaway as well. But it was a bit weird not smoking I kept reaching for the fags but then remembered. I felt really bad the next day but at least I didn't stink of fags. We got up and dragged ourselves out to Christies for breakfast, I had pancakes with maple syrup. Just call me fatty bom bom. I cringe a bit at myself sometimes. Big fatty slob I have to diet.

There's been a murder! In Guernsey! It's been quite a few years since we've had one but they've already caught the guy, I think it was her son.

Kedgeree

I found such a good recipe and I cooked it last night, it was so good I just have to share...

You will need:
10fl oz milk
3 tblsp dbl cream
knob of butter
olive oil
piece of smoked haddock
brown rice
fresh coriander
coriander seeds
cumin seeds
garam masala
bay leaf
cayenne pepper
3 eggs
red onion
Mango chutney

Put the rice on. When you've done that heat up a large pan, either a saucepan or a really big frying pan.
Toast your coriander & cumin seeds for a couple of minutes in this pan, then take them out and crush them up in a pestle & mortar, if you have one. (Otherwise a teacup and spoon seems to do the trick.)
In the same pan put some olive oil and fry your onion quite slowly.
While doing this, get a saucepan, lay the fish in the bottom skin side down and pour on your milk, a knob of butter and bay leaf.
Heat it up until it simmers then let it cook for about 10 minutes.
Poke the fish and if it falls apart easily it's done. Keep it basted in milk while it cooks.
Turn the heat off when it's cooked.
When the onions are about 3/4 done put in the other spices.
When the rice is done mix it into the onions.
Once the fish is done carefully take off the skin and pick out any bones, then break it up and put the chunks in with the rest.
Add your chopped fresh coriander to the mix
Add the double cream and another knob of butter to the mix, have the heat slow and simmer it all for as long as you want (5 - 20 minutes it doesn't seem to hurt)
Get a small saucepan and boil your eggs for 5 1/2 minutes.
Take them out the pan and run under cold tap.
Serve up your yummy meal, peel your eggs and lay them on top all artistic. They should be a bit runny in the middle still.
Eat with mango chutney and side salad.

YUM! Hope you enjoy it. That was for 2 people so have however much rice & fish you want.

I am in work until 1pm today then its round the flat, the black hole where my weekends just disappear. Today I will be painting the upstairs spare bedroom.

Um Bongo Um Bongo

They drink it in the Congo.

This is a nice day, because I actually have !!STUFF TO DO!! at work today. And it even involves a trip into town at lunchtime - sales sales sales. I may be some time.

My hair is so greasy I have a little shloppy bit at the front I have to keep putting behind my ear cos otherwise it looks disgusting. Talcum powder would've sorted it out but I forgot this morning.

I was quite impressed with the quality of the celebs last night in Big Brother. Michael Barrymore! Interesting. Quite a nice bunch, I think they'll mostly get on. Its only for a fortnight anyway lets see if they can keep their fake grins firmly attached to their faces that long. I like the politician, and Maggot the best.

I have achy period pains today quite low down, not too bad but I know the dam is about to burst. Sorry. that's gross.

Umm, nothing else has happened since yesterday. Nick went to gym and enjoyed it which is good. He wants to force me to come with him but I don't know about that.

G'Mornin

A nun just walked past my shop window. If I look out across the street I can see two african heads in the window opposite staring out at me.

I ran a finger over my desk yesterday and it had a cake of filth on it so I think I may have a wipe-round later on. I never really think how gross my desk actually is. My phone and mouse in particular get gunged up over time with this sort of grey paste which you have to scrape off with your fingernail. This is not something I generally worry about but it is kind of revolting.

Last night I played Chinese Checkers with Nick and beat him 2 out of 3 times. It is a simple and fun game to play and you can even watch TV at the same time. We also invented a new game of 'dragging Sam fast around the kitchen on the laminate while she's wearing skiddy socks' which made me very very dizzy and want to vom.

I was just reading the BBC news website and they are making a partical accelorater at CERN on the French/Swiss border just like the one in the Da Vinci Code. It's set to be tested Summer 2007. It's kind of scary that they're experimenting with dark matter, I hope they know what they're doing. Trying to recreate the Big Bang has got to come with risks aplenty.

Talking of scary things I was surfing the web yesterday about the Yellowstone Park supervolcano. The BBC docudrama about it was just so terrifying I couldn't sleep for a couple of nights but from what the park scientists are saying it's quite unlikely its going to erupt. (If it does erupt we will all die, basically, for those who didn't see the programme, and the world will be plunged into an ice age.)

Also have been thinking about the moon landings and if they were faked. I think they were, definitely. That's one conspiracy theory which just too much evidence behind it.

I am over half way through my Allan Carr book, it is getting soooooooooo repetitive but I am determind to finish it. It's been 5 days with no smoke and I don't intend to slip up.

I made up a dinner last night with chicken, mustard, honey and white wine and it worked and was yummy. I threw all the ingredients in a frying pan. Tonight it's good old spag bol with possibly some garlic bread. Nick really loves garlic bread so I might see if I can make some low fat alternative with M&S 'count on us' bread. I know it won't be quite the same but we both got to lose some weight.

Nick's off to the gym tonight so I'll be home alone and be able to watch Buffy and get some housework done. It's his first session so fingers crossed he enjoys it.

Liz, who sits opposite from me, has just brought a hot chocolate and brownie back to the office and is guzzling it in front of me. I did slip up and eat a mars bar earlier though so I can't have any more chocolate. I have a box of ferrero rocher at home which I was trying to ration but last night I polished off loads. Shit.

Mmmm

Anyone else lusting after David Tennant, the new Doctor Who? Or is it just me?

Tired Tired Tired

Bored Bored Bored

I found some Creaseys vouchers in my bag and bought some Clinique eyeshadow in my lunch hour. And had a session with the saleswoman to discuss which foundation I should use. I briefly met up with Catherine to give her the Monsoon jacket to take back to the UK.

That is my day so far. Apart from that I'm tired and bored. Clearly.

Christmas Presents

Before I forget, presents I got for Christmas 2005.

New Madonna CD (Dad)
DKNY Be Delicious (Dad)
Kitchen Bible (Dad)
Trivial Pursuits Pop Culture Edition (Nick)
Molton Brown hand lotion (Nick)
Leather knee length brown boots (Tony/Denise)
M&S undies (Tony/Denise)
Stripy scarf (Kirsty/Andy)
Dip & Chip whittards bowl (Eli/Ronnie)
Silver bangle (Eli/Ronnie)
Boots mega wicker basket of smellies (Suzi/Simon)
Camille Morton girlie book (Bob)
£50 B&Q vouchers (Bob)
Black cat ornament (Bob)
White/blue ceramic hanging orb (Holly)
Silver M&S oil burner (Penny/Tony)
Crabtree & Evelyn hand lotion (Jean)
Silver/amber stud earrings (Shirley/John)
Goodwill vouchers for poor people (Shirley/John)
Silver/black/purple bracelet (Maggie)

And some more stuff too but that is what I remember right now. Goodness me I did quite well looking back. Normally there's a rather large pile of stuff to take back/exchange/charity shop but not this year. So far the only dud I've exchanged was a really weird magic 8 ball in the shape of a giant fortune cookie that looked somehow like a giant vagina. That had to go back.

My favourite presents are everything from my Dad, the boots and the board game. Who would have thought it would keep us entertained for most of xmas afternoon and also Boxing Day! Utter brilliance, especially the DVD questions and I highly recommend playing in teams of boys v girls. Also, on Boxing Day evening, my aunt Shirley and Maggie devised a wicked and evil game of dare or forfeit involving a lucky dip box and lots of small presents. I had to act out the bedroom scene from Little Red Riding Hood with Nick as the Big Bad Wolf as one dare. I won some glow in the dark jumping beans for that! Wooo!

A Melee of good cheer

Hello my little New Year blinky eyed sproglings. It is back to having my bum on this chair at work and sneaking a few sentances off while my boss is out the office.

I am satisfied today because I allowed myself a wondrous day of tidying yesterday and locked myself inside the house until just after 3pm. I then went out for a cup of earl grey with Catherine & Damian in the afternoon then came home, cut Nick's hair and cooked a carbonara tagliatelli using a recipe from my new cookbook, Tamasin Day-Lewis' 'Kitchen Bible'. It really is a brilliant book and the bestest christmas present ever. I made some peanut cookies on Saturday using her recipe and they turned out lovely too. The carbonara recipe doesn't use any cream or milk, but lots of parmesan, egg and white wine which makes the pasta all gooey and gorgeous. Mmmmm. I am going to try her kedgeree recipe later this week with smoked haddock.

The main thing to say is that I have quit smoking. It was midnight New Years Eve and I stubbed out the last fag for good. I don't miss it, it feels really nice not to smell of stale smoke and not to have ashtrays round the house. What a good girl eh! I am reading the Allan Carr book to help me on my way, it is really amazingly helpful, if a little repetitive but that is what you need, to have it drummed in again and again and again how crap it is to smoke. Nick's incessant morning cough is dwindling as he's also given up. I think he's finding it harder because he isn't using the book.

I spent New Years Eve in the Cornerstone pub, it wasn't too hectic and we could hear ourselves speak, get served quickly and also sing kareoke. Although I didn't get a chance to but Nick managed some Englebert Humperdink. We slept the night in the new flat, even though its not really liveable yet we managed to make the downstairs spare bedroom nice and spent our very first night there. We also ate the most manky hawaiian burgers ever. And got soaked in the rain. But I slept like a log and it was really peaceful there, no traffic noise or anything which is incredible when it is so close to town.

I think I may be going for a meal out tonight becuase it's Rew's birthday plus several people have hinted they want to meet for a drink. Am feeling a bit tired tho becuase the nasty folk across the road made a right racket last night, it sounded as if they were dragging metal pipes across the road. Bastards.

Oh, Molly is back. We collected her a day late as we got our flights wrong and we turned up to collect her sans cat basket as well because we're stupid. So we put her in a small cardboard box which she promptly jumped out of and went mental in the car on the drive home. Its not much fun trying to drive with a cat miowing on your lap. She seems pleased to be home and hasn't been sick once, just very affectionate.

So as far as New Years resolutions go, I think I've got a lot on this year so I don't need to give myself any targets or anything, but I am going to try and lose the few pounds I put on over Christmas and maybe join an aerobics class. We'll see about that though because I am exceptionally lazy.




I'M GETTING MARRIED THIS HEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!