Birthday Celebrations

Today I turn 26. Yesterday I made my first appointment to get my hair highlighted. I am so sick of it just getting darker and darker. I used to be a blonde! I guess I must be getting old.

Well today is my last day at work for 12 days so I am very excited! But I have to work the whole day (even though I was hoping I would be able to get away a bit early).

J&I are driving up to the Christmas cottage this evening and then the rest of the fam will join us tomorrow. It is going to be a great Christmas!

Hope you all enjoy your holidays.

All our love and best wishes, love K&J

12 Days of Christmas

Sorry I missed a week last week, I came down with the death plague that has been going around. I missed 3 days of work (shocking!) and cancelled my driving lesson. But started to feel better towards the end of the week. It has left me with a gross smoker's cough though. Lovely!

J and I have decided to join an amateur dramatics society in Upminster. They needed a pianist to play for their panto this year, so there we are. We are performing "Dick Whittington" the last week in January. We have been to 3 rehearsals so far and it has been amazing how welcome we have been made to feel by the other members. As I have always found in these types of things, the pianist plays an integral role and I think they are so happy to have the commitment from the two of us. Looks like we'll make some really nice friends and memories from it.

Christmas came early for me this morning when I got into work and had an email saying that the litigation proceedings I had been working on like a dog had been settled last night at a mediation! There is still a lot of work to be done to finalise everything, but that just made my year! Plus we're taking my other case (which we lost in the Court of Appeal) to the House of Lords - the equivalent of the Supreme Court in the UK. Little ol' me will be marching up to the steps of the Houses of Parliament with our pleadings in just over a month. Fantastic!

Well, I have sent out our Christmas cards, but didn't have everyone's address. Email me your address if you want one. Otherwise, I wish you and your families the Happiest Christmas ever!

Christmas is coming....

Well, I decorated our flat for Christmas today. Usually it's a struggle to get Justin to help (why are men such bah humbugs?) but this year I didn't even bother. You can see he was a real help while playing the Wii....... Anyway, I put the tree and lights up, decorated everything and then wrote out all our Christmas cards! Very productive and nice to get into the spirit of things.

This year we have booked a cottage in Norfolk with Justin's family for a week. We will be gone the 21st-28th Dec and I am really looking forward to spending time together. It will be the first time we have gone away with Justin's family but I'm sure we're all going to have a great time. Watch this space!

Work was hard for both of us again this week. Not fun getting back into it..... but at least we know we just have 3 weeks to go before a nice long break again.