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atommickbrane. Which was most enjoyable, & definitely just what I needed. And I got sufficient of the Pete-jumper done that I was able to *finish* it on Saturday, hurrh. And it fits him & everything. I made him wear it to Cambridge so I could go "look! look!" at everyone :-)
Saturday evening we headed up to Cambridge forsimonb's birthday celebrations. Much fun generally had. I was anticipating that I'd notice that I wasn't drinking, but in fact it didn't bother me at all (I did taste a couple of the whiskeys that Pete was having as he spent a happy few hours foraging through simonb's collection, but I don't think 3 or 4 sips total can really count as "drinking"). Which was nice. Although I did feel the need to have *something* in my hand, so went through quite a bit of fruit juice before deciding that I was oversugared & switching to water. Got a v nice massage off simonb, chatted to various people about various things, giggled with the breakaway party on the stairs for a bit (nice to chat to lnr - haven't seen her in ages, & glad to see her bouncy), ate lots of lovely vegan pesto pasta mmm... Top party all round. And very nearly no alarums & excursions, at least from what I saw. Hurrah. Wound up at 3am curled up on the sofa with Pete, kitty_goth, marnameow, & sbp, which was an excellent state to be in. (btw, apologies to _nicolai_ for completely failing to be capable of coherent conversation at around 2am. I think you caught me as I was mid-carb-crash, from which the lovely marnameow rescued me a few min later, bless her.)
Next morning we gradually hauled our various selves out of bed, & were fed toast bysimonb, who is truly a star. Especially as he also provided me with v fine peppermint tea, mmm[0]. Went over to the Carlton for lunch, & to catch j4 who was working behind the bar. She is utterly lovely & had brought me a little bag of assorted fruit/herbal teabags, all with labels attached to identify them with all their ingredients written on, at which I was very bouncy :-) Thank you sweetie![1] V good lunch was had, but sadly we needed to head back to London before Jan finished work, bah. Hopefully catch up again soon?
Good job we did head back, as Pete was very near zonked entirely. He managed to do the bins & defrost some pasta sauce before passing out on the sofa for the next couple of hours, while I did washing-up & washing & made carrot&lentil pate for this week's sandwiches.
And now: werk. Hrm. Am *freezing* - hat & scarf wearing in office sort of freezing. Have ordered a new heater.
[0] Further tea & general detox-related post to follow. I'm sure you're all looking forward to it lots...
[1] Indeed, I did very well indeed with presents over the weekend -simonb gave me a pair of overshoe thingys that don't fit over his boots properly, & his old Treo charger. Thank you! This was clearly All Wrong as it was *his* birthday not mine. :-)
atommickbrane. Which was most enjoyable, & definitely just what I needed. And I got sufficient of the Pete-jumper done that I was able to *finish* it on Saturday, hurrh. And it fits him & everything. I made him wear it to Cambridge so I could go "look! look!" at everyone :-)Saturday evening we headed up to Cambridge for
simonb's birthday celebrations. Much fun generally had. I was anticipating that I'd notice that I wasn't drinking, but in fact it didn't bother me at all (I did taste a couple of the whiskeys that Pete was having as he spent a happy few hours foraging through simonb's collection, but I don't think 3 or 4 sips total can really count as "drinking"). Which was nice. Although I did feel the need to have *something* in my hand, so went through quite a bit of fruit juice before deciding that I was oversugared & switching to water. Got a v nice massage off simonb, chatted to various people about various things, giggled with the breakaway party on the stairs for a bit (nice to chat to lnr - haven't seen her in ages, & glad to see her bouncy), ate lots of lovely vegan pesto pasta mmm... Top party all round. And very nearly no alarums & excursions, at least from what I saw. Hurrah. Wound up at 3am curled up on the sofa with Pete, kitty_goth, marnameow, & sbp, which was an excellent state to be in. (btw, apologies to _nicolai_ for completely failing to be capable of coherent conversation at around 2am. I think you caught me as I was mid-carb-crash, from which the lovely marnameow rescued me a few min later, bless her.)Next morning we gradually hauled our various selves out of bed, & were fed toast by
simonb, who is truly a star. Especially as he also provided me with v fine peppermint tea, mmm[0]. Went over to the Carlton for lunch, & to catch j4 who was working behind the bar. She is utterly lovely & had brought me a little bag of assorted fruit/herbal teabags, all with labels attached to identify them with all their ingredients written on, at which I was very bouncy :-) Thank you sweetie![1] V good lunch was had, but sadly we needed to head back to London before Jan finished work, bah. Hopefully catch up again soon? Good job we did head back, as Pete was very near zonked entirely. He managed to do the bins & defrost some pasta sauce before passing out on the sofa for the next couple of hours, while I did washing-up & washing & made carrot&lentil pate for this week's sandwiches.
And now: werk. Hrm. Am *freezing* - hat & scarf wearing in office sort of freezing. Have ordered a new heater.
[0] Further tea & general detox-related post to follow. I'm sure you're all looking forward to it lots...
[1] Indeed, I did very well indeed with presents over the weekend -
simonb gave me a pair of overshoe thingys that don't fit over his boots properly, & his old Treo charger. Thank you! This was clearly All Wrong as it was *his* birthday not mine. :-)
