Happy New Year

Claire January 2nd, 2008

OK, that’s not the most original title for a post, but it’s about all I can manage today – think I feel worse today than I did yesterday. To ring in the New Year I went with my best mate to the Saluation Inn, where I go to on the rare occasions I go out (they do a great rock karaoke on a Friday, and is one of the oldest pubs in Nottingham – lots to do with the Civil War, low ceilings, wattle and daub walls etc) for their New Years’ eve party. We had to be there for 11, and met up with some others in another pub we go to. The Sal was open til 8 am on the posters. Not wanting to spoil a good night before I even went out, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it that late. David didn’t come out as he was tired from working, and his wisdom tooth was playing up (he can’t have it extracted til 15th….).

I ended up getting in just after 4, dropping my mobile phone down the toilet (in case it doesn’t say on the instruction manuals, but they don’t work after being in water. Ever. Don’t even bother trying to try them out drunkenly on a towel from the laundry basket, and muttering expletives at the same time – doesn’t work. Thought I had better let you know..) and then waking up again at 6 with terrible stomach cramps (I have IBS anyway, and this wasn’t good) and throwing up.
I did go back to sleep after that though feeling much better, so much better that I managed to break into one of my old, lesser excercised habits – speed gibbering first thing in the morning. As I haven’t been out much, I don’t get the chance to do it much, but I gibbered at David for about 20 minutes as soon as I woke up and found I didn’t need to have more runs to the loo. We watched Elf yesterday – a film that is definately on my level there, and David kindly pointed out to me that I speak like that in the mornings. I am lucky if David can actually anunciate words at me first thing, so I don’t get interrupted either!
However, today I feel ROUGH! I think I am going to go and see my friend and have a quiet day of it (not back at work til 7th – hoorah!) and be gentle to myself. In case you were wondering, I left my friend in the pub at 4, and she texted us (well, David’s phone that I didn’t wreck) and she managed to make it til after 8 at a party – I have never been able to do that and have infinate admiration for anyone that can make it like that. I am so grumpy if I don’t have enough sleep. Really grumpy. No speed gibbering then!

Anyway, I have decided that I am not making New Years’ resolutions, but I am simply re-starting the things I should be doing that I set out to do last year. Namely
Lose weight (lost 2 stone this year although goodness knows how much went back on over Christmas) as I want to lose ideally another 4 stone before the wedding. That isn’t for any reason other than in the 10 years I have lived in Nottingham I have put on over 7 stone. Enough! I have photographs to look at from the wedding for the rest of my life and I refuse to feel self conscious on my wedding day.
Worry less – I spend so much time worrying, and bottling things up, and it does me no good.
Make Pinky and Boo go where I want it to. Not that I have plans for world domination, but it’s something I feel passionate about and want to make it work. I have craft fairs I would like to go to, and etsy, and my website when David finishes it (that’s one of his resolutions) – I enquired about Not on the High Street, they contacted me by phone twice asking me to complete the forms, but my other problem stood in the way – cash. I simply couldn’t rustle up £450, even when they tried working out a payment plan for me, bless them. One day!
Have a better work/life balance. No matter how many hours I put into my job I still feel like i am only scratching the surface. I don’t think it’s what I am doing wrong, but there is simply too much to do in the hours, and as I am the only full time member of staff, if I don’t do it, it doesn’t get done. However, being ill before Christmas and coming close to burning out showed me that I need to cut back a little, do the hours I am supposed to do and say No more often.
Start getting stuff for the wedding done early. I am going to start making the flowers for my wedding dress (lots of the little crochet flowers I use on the Pinky and Boo stuff) this week. I will need hundreds, and I am terrible for leaving things to the last minute and getting so stressed I make myself ill. Not doing it this time!
And last but not least – work on my blogging. That also means taking better photographs. As my father was a photographer in his spare time,you would have thought that I would have been better at it than I am. Again, it’s about taking time to do it.

Pretty tall order really. Anyway, enough speed gibber typing, I will leave you with a (pretty poor) picture of the the lovely sewing box my best mate’s mum made me for Christmas – the picture really doesn’t do it justice at all.

Happy New Year to you and yours and I will be back again soon! xoxo

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