Friday

Outside - cold, freezing cold. Hail. Thunder and lightening. Inside - warm, big crackling fire.

Despite the cold outside there is a bottle of Sparkling Burgundy chilling in the fridge - it's our wedding anniversary today so we shall have a glass tonight and sit in wonder that we have survived another year.

Then we will have another glass to celebrate Tom's new job. YES! A new job!! More about that next week. But for now I will say he is delighted.

This Sunday we have a special mass at the school. The girls each have a part in the mass and this is Aislin's first official school mass, she's thrilled to be carrying the eucharist candle to Father John. I shall take photos. This mass is being held in the school hall instead of the church because it's a special celebration for the school being (amost) The Feast of St Dominic (it's a Dominican school). So I should be safe enough from divine bolts of lightening as I enter (something I'm always wary of when entering the real church - so far so good, but you just never know). Who says I never have any fun.

Tomorrow I start my 'Simplify Your Life week' jobs with some decluttering and reorganising. I shall share, in tedious detail I'm sure, how that goes.

Last week I .....

• continued to 'enjoy' the school holidays - ahem
• entertained a house guest for two nights - Tom's youngest brother came to stay, he buys good wine
• got a little bit tipsy on Thursday night (see previous)
• had a slight hangover for the first time in a long time (some of you may recall this episode)
• wrote some stuff then presented it to a potential 'associate' - nerve wracking
• created a new household budget and stuck to it (time will tell on that one)
• ate way more chocolate than is good for me (but within budget so that's ok)
• missed my favourite blogs because I was too busy and distracted to read them
• didn't post to my own blog
• turned down the opportunity to interview for a very nice, very interesting, very important and very well paid job.
• in doing so also turned down a life of stress, pressure, exhaustion and parental guilt because my children would have to spend so much time in childcare
• beat myself up as to whether I'd made the right decision (ok, I'm still doing that one)

So tell me what you did last week....or I could just go and read your blog (if you have one..... if you don't you should......I'm looking at you Imelda).

Is there a doctor in the house?

Today I woke up feeling unwell, it was a strange kind of exhaustion with a pounding headache and mild nausea. I struggled through the morning becoming increasingly concerned over the way I was feeling. A couple of times I felt a bit light-headed and started to think I should call the doctor for an appointment. All sorts of things were running through my mind, what could be wrong? Flu? Gastro? Something more serious? Brain tumour? Bubonic plague?

Then it hit me. The gin and tonics. I had two of them last night and what I was now experiencing was a hangover. Good grief how can two gin and tonics give me a hangover? Admittedly Tom pours a mean (and very large) gin and tonic. But still, it used to take gallons of alcoholic beverages to generate one of this magnitude...now it takes two gin and tonics. Pathetic.

So I had a very un-vegan greasy lunch and was right as rain after that.

And by the way, this is my 50th post to this blog. My golden anniversary of posting. I'd have a drink to celebrate but I might end up needing my stomach pumped.

Like I said. Pathetic. Pffft