Ten Best Presents Ever Given to You.

1. iPod nano that I just got from J today… woot!
2. seeing Zack’s face when he walked into the living room to see all the presents under the tree.
3. getting the last Super Mario Galaxies in Dundee for J’s Christmas.
4. A personalised hoodie that J got me last Christmas - very cool, and geeky hehe.
5. my watch, a very pretty little thing that J got me for my 20th birthday - we’d only been together for a month and he completely spoiled me, bless!
6. being given a lie in without having to ask.
7. the playstation I begged my mum and dad for when I was about 14. Those were the days!
8. the financial help my parents have given us when we really needed it - thanks Mum and Dad
9. flowers when I least expect it… not that I ever expect them! lol
10. a shopping trip with my mum. I’ve not got this yet this year, my main present from my parents. To most people this is a regular thing, but my mum hasn’t kept very well since I’ve been old enough to enjoy shopping trips, so the rare occasion we do manage them I absolutely adore, more for the time I get to spend with Mum than what we end up buying of course

My ‘workspace’… the jumbled mess that it is

Baby’s 1st

Me and my boy before I went to my friend’s do on sunday

Max in his new (read only) toy, his playmat. Poor boy will get hand-me-downs forever!

Last one… Zack reaching for a bauble

Ten New Year’s Resolutions

1. Lose weight - baby weight and the rest!
2. Potty train Zack
3. complete Blog365 by posting every day of 2008
4. pay off some of my student debt
5. be finished my Christmas shopping and writing Christmas cards by Dec 1st
6. get better at photography
7. get Max sleeping through the night
8. organize our flat better
9. throw out all our junk
10. keep on top of our finances more regularly

Ahh back in the day, when I was a student, I lived for the weekend. I loved going out to dance the night away. I was never one to drink much, but I was quite a social butterfly back then! I was one of those people who could walk into our student union and see at least 2 or three groups of people who I could happily party away the night with.

I loved going out and being social, meeting new people, having a laugh - all the things that a new student should do (and yes I studied as well!). If my student funds had allowed me I’d have gone out dancing every night of the week, although that would have been a bit detrimental to my studies I think…

Cut to now, and I very rarely get ‘out’ properly, most of my friends have now moved away as they were only here for uni, and the few people I still see semi-regularly either have kids of their own now and don’t get out themselves, or are sick of the partying that we used to love so much.

Tonight for example… I’ve been invited out to a friend’s birthday night out. Going for a meal and then out for drinks and probably a club afterwards. Back in the day I’d have loved the thought of going out, meeting new people etc, but now… now I feel anxious that I won’t have anything to talk to these people about - they’re all students and with not much (if any) grasp on the whole ‘real life’ thing. Not to mention that I just have no confidence with myself when I’m in the pubs and clubs these days - the thought of it makes me want to just hide in the shadows! A far cry from how I was just 3/4 years ago.

I really miss the all-out confidence I had in myself back then, but I’ve been away from the ’scene’ for so long now that I just feel completely out of place in what were some of my favourite haunts, no matter how many drinks I knock back to try to forget the feeling!

So what will I do about tomorrow night? I think I’ll go to the meal and then head home afterwards… it’d be too long a night otherwise when I’ll have been up all day with the boys. Plus that way it won’t break the bank just before Christmas!

I know once I’m there I’ll be fine, I just always seem to have that pit-of-my-stomach feeling before going to these things…

Thirteen Things I need to do before Christmas 1. write and send out Christmas cards (why do I always leave this so late??) 2. Buy the boys presents and wrap them. 3. Buy parents presents, wrap and send them. 4. Put up the decorations around the house, tree up so far but more to go! 5. Decide on and buy Christmas meal. 6. Clean the oven (in preparation for the christmas cooking). 7. Clean the kitchen. 8. Clean the whole blimmin house! 9. Burn Christmas music to cd to listen to while I’m cooking said Christmas meal. (clutching at straws now, can ya tell?) 10. Get J new shoes. 11. Figure out how to get a table into our living room as the kitchen is too small to prepare a large meal AND eat in it. 12. Look out old Christmas movies to watch with Zack 13. Carry on blogging through it all, and maybe sort out the possibility of a self-hosted site… if i get the time ;)All this with two weeks to go… *sigh* why do I always leave things til the last minute?!

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