Wednesday, December 27, 2006

...and I'm back

Clearly I haven't posted much recently. This has been because there's been a fair amount of personal upheaval which has led to me doing my usual thing and trying to hide from the world in whatever possible way! So I apologise.

The long and short of it is that my partner and I split up a couple of months ago now, for many reasons. He has been my longest relationship and I felt I owed it to both of us to end it before things were unbearable. So as a result, I still like him as a person, so we are curently working on building a friendship in the place of our relationship. He came down for Christmas, to see me and the cats which offically are his but live with my dad and brother. The week he was down wasn't easy, but wasn't as bad as I thought it could be, and I plucked up the courage last night to tell him I've been seeing someone else.

For those of you interested, the new relationship is going rather well, and I'm very excited to have been invited to stay with him and his family in the new year. I'm trying to get as much work done as possible to ensure I can have a proper holiday then. Goodness knows I could do with one.

Christmas was good. I managed to get around to see everyone (my Christmas is usually rather complicated, so I thought I'd repeat it here).
So Christmas day started early-ish. I washed my hair and helped sweep up in the pub, whih was covered in paper streamers and glitter from the Christmas Eve celebrations. Dad, Zander, Charley and I opened our gifts from each other (I got rollerskates, a t shirt, a bottle of rum, yo ho ho, a box from Lush and chocolate) and then had breakfast.
Then make up and over to Mum's to open gifts from her, which included a lovely teapot and purfume (Karma from Lush, the only one I wear), and then home to work the lunchtime shift in the pub, and cook lunch. We closed at two and ate lunch, and then Zander and I went to my Nan's new house to hang out at the family do. My Nan's house is perfect for that kind of thing, it has a lovely big sitting room and a big hole looking through to the kitchen from the dining room. My cousin has four children now, and I had a good time helping set up and then shamelessly playing with their toys...they had some seriously cool stuff, like that Thomas the Tank Engine thing where you draw the track on and it follows it, and the truth or dare hand thingy game.
After that we came back home and helped Dad run the pub. We stayed open longer than we were going to, so it was a nice evening.
Yesterday was very busy in the pub, we had a 65th birthday celebration for our uber-fab barmaid and everyone had a good time until way after closing when a fight broke out over stupid things...I've never seen trouble like that in the pub. So we were up very late and I had to be up early to drive Charley back to Bristol.
All in all I haven't got much sleep over the last few days and am looking forward to an early night...if possible! Sorry this isn't a terribly interesting blog, it's just a catch up for those who are interested. I'll be back soon, hopefully posting some better content soon!