Wow, its been so long its safe to say I basically gave up blogging for 6 months but I'm back on it thanks to the demands of my crazed fans (Thank you Charlotte!). As you could predict, one of the reasons I haven't blogged in so long is because I have been very busy getting on with life. I think the best way to catch people up is with one line reviews of each of the interim months:
June: I got a crap job, Hurray! and a real payslip, double hurray!!
July: Joni & I got on a strange, highly middle-class holiday in Bournemouth before....
August: I get a real job!! Using my degree and my ability to talk the hind legs of a donkey! HURRAY!!!
September: For a week I think I might be dying on a rare African disease and Sally comes to visit (2 unrelated facts I promise).
October: A wedding is coming
November: A wedding happened. Kate & Charis came to visit. And then Christmas started.
That's pretty much all you need to know about the last 6 months, so on with the main event...
CHRISTMAS IS NEARLY HERE!!!!!
I feel like (what may to some observers seem like) my slightly premature excitement about Christmas 2012 deserves a little explanation. Without wanting to sound too self-pitying (because I did quite enough of that in the first half of this year) the last 2 Christmases for myself and Joni have been crap. in 2010 we had just moved to Scotland and we were so broke I got Joni a 10 year old cookery book from a charity shop and Joni got me a hug. And my parents bought us both train tickets home. It was delightful. But its ok, we thought, next year will be much better. Roll on Christmas 2011 and we have just run away from Scotland, we are both unemployed and our debt level is so high its actually a calculable part of the countries deficit. I still haven't actually paid for the present I got Joni, and he hasn't paid for mine.
Roll on January and we said No. Enough is Enough. We love Christmas, I love Christmas. Christmas is the only holiday I care about, its my favourite time of year and I refuse to have another Crap Christmas. When Joni and I came back from Scotland we promised each other Christmas 2012 would be different, and its exactly what both me and Joni have been working for all this year. When we picked our house we talked about how we could have Christmas dinner here, we put 2.5% of every penny either of us earnt into savings to pay for decorations and presents and we have been dreaming of our big Christmas party since August. For Joni and I, Christmas 2012 at our house is our way of saying Yes, it got pretty bad back there but its ok, we are finally on the way to better things and it really was all worth it in the end.
So on to Christmas this year! Woo Hoo! Almost all presents bought, all most all party invites sent and the menu for the first ever Christmas Day Dinner at our house almost finalised! I literally couldn't be more excited!
Hope I haven't peaked too early.....
