I'm hanging...

and thats not from a tree.  went to sax's 30th last night at this place and am suffering big time today.  I have to say the place itself is absolutely gorgeous, a lovely old house with a modern bit attached with lovely pool, gym and treatment rooms. Only problem was that the pool was closed for maintenance (they had told sax this - but only after she'd organised the party there), the outdoor hot tub closed at 4pm so I couldn't use it and my treatment booking had been "lost" in a computer glitch.  They did squeeze me in a small facial which i have to say was lovely, and due to the pool closure we got a room for the night at a damn good price - so in all a good experience.  The room for the party was a perfect size and setting, and the outside area really was lovely.  There was WAY too much wine consumed and I have spent the best part of the day lying on the sofa or going abck to bed.  It's 6.30pm and I'm starting to feel human again.  Ouch

wedding talk

spent the evening with friends catching up on the gossip,  Listening to Emma talk about her wedding plans I would have thought i'd be slightly missing all our pre-wedding excitement.  But I'm not really. I enjoyed arranging it, but glad my life is about other stuff now.  We have other topics to argue about!

nearly lost my engagement ring.  It's so cold my hands have shrunk and it must have slipped off whilst I rummaged in my handbag earlier.  When I realised I only had my wedding ring on I felt sick to the bottom of my stomach.  Luckily I found it fairly quickly.

Whew

ooo looooook, I'm famous. (well not really)

be warned

Beware the dangers of taking your husband's surname. Should have checked the net first....

One good thing about working between christmas and new year is the fact that I don't think I'll be hit by the big post-christmas blues that often hits after 2 weeks off. I was worried that it would be tough after Xmas because I would be remembering the wonderful month we had last year in New Zealand, but so far its just been good memories and not too depressing. After such a busy and positive year it would be hard to look back and be miserable about it. It is strange to think that a year ago we were here abseiling 100 metres down into a cave. Fantastic!

happy new year!

Wow, first sober new year since I realised how much fun alcohol can be! I enjoyed it in a strangely sober way! Work was fine, felt much better although didn't each much and stomach still ached from cramping all night, but was a whole lot better than the day before. We headed over to Dave and Eleanors early evening and had a nice meal, caught up on the gossip and put the world to rights.

There was a lot of champagne flowing due to Eleanor's news of being pregnant. I'd offered to drive as I still don't really feel up to alcohol so Paul made the most of it!

He's feeling a little tender now, as I am sure is most of the adult population. I feel quite smug!
We're off to the races this afternoon, it's damn cold!