friday, friday, la la la la la

10lbs off....

hell of a lot more to go but we're getting somewhere....!

so very tired......

It's only monday and I am SOOOO tired. I seem to have rabbit in headlight syndrome at the moment, with so much to do that I seem to be physically incapable of doing anything at all.

Probably doesn't help when the cats bring in a mouse into the bedroom in the middle of the nights. It's still there somewhere, we gave up looking for it and headed back to bed in the hope that they would sort it out - but I have returned home to no dead mouse......

anyone got any suggestions?

start the countdown....

to the holiday!!!! we're booked and ready to go (well, perhaps not ready to go, things like visa, 5 weeks to wait and packing first but hey, let's not quibble over hyperboles).

WE're off on the 27th to Ho Chi Minh City, via Hong Kong airport, then onto Hoi An, Hue and Hanoi, with the odd stop off at palces like the Chi Chi Tunnels, and Halong Bay. All thanks to Intrepid Tours.
We then visit an EcoLodge in the Sapa region for a couple of nights before heading back home.

Can't bloomin wait.

to buy or not to buy

i've got hormonal overload. i'm desparate for chocolate and i NEEEEED to spend money. is it wrong to want to spend £40 on a new bra/knicker set when I have so many already....?

so after months/weeks/days/hours of deliberation we are nearly at the point of actually booking the long awaited holiday and I can nearly start to look forward to it. it's going to be more action-packed than origianally planned, and will be with an Aussie topur company so the only fear is the possibilty of being stuck with Kath and Kim as fellow travellers but it will take us to the key places we're keen to see in Vietnam with a few days at the end for some time to play with too. Roll on October 27th.....

Canoe boy-has a new toy.... a shredder. He's shredding.... for England.

His last words (before I laid down a unilateral post 8pm shredding ban) was " This is great - I'm going to apply for a job at Enron!".

Sometimes I laugh with him, sometimes at him. But I always laugh.

work is more pants that I have ever known it, but am hanging in there by my (very well-bitten) fingernails.

The good part of life is I am reading a fascinating book about the Vietnam War which is SO readable yet to informative too. Plus went to see the Bourne Ultimatum this evening and thoroughly enjoyed it, apart from feeling a little car sick in the car chase sequence. this sobbly camera thing can go a little too far.

Last weekend was a quiet affair, with shop avoidance tactics sucessful on the Saturday but failing abysmally on the Sunday, when I succumbed to the lure of a LBD - which I have now told Paul requires him to take me out to a posh restaurant to justify the expense. women's logic eh!