( Christmas: or, How I Learned to Stick to Chanukah... )

Back in York, ravenlas and I went sales shopping. I bought: 3 pairs of pyjamas, 4 towels, a lamp and some monster furry slippers from BHS. And then we went to Monsoon, and I bought a pair of trousers. ravenlas bought me a silk skirt and a jacket, and the jacket wasn't even in the sale! He's so good to me, and I don't deserve him. We called into Game, and ravenlas got a computer game, and I did too, only mine was only £1.99, so I'm not expecting great things of it. Then we had dinner at Russell's Carvery, went home, came back into town, gave said monster slippers to a_crow for his birthday, saw his flat - v. envious as it's in one of the Georgian town houses on Micklegate, and it's a gorgeous building - and went out for a drink. Various folks were there, and I got to see Vicky's Peru photos, but all too soon we had to head home as we're at work today. Only... when I got home, I opened a bottle of wine and sat and watched Pretty Woman, which is still a darned good film. So I got to bed at 1:30am, rather squiffy, and though I could catch a later train into work, I'm still tired and a wee bit achey. Meh. That'll teach me... Oh, and I have done No Writing. At all. I will have to rectify this state of affairs.

So far today, I've done no work whatsoever. I suspect that state of affairs will continue until next week... *heh*

Thanks to everyone who came to the party on Saturday night for making it such a special evening. I had a great time, and I think ravenlas did too. Folks appeared to be enjoying themselves, and my sisters came up for it too, so it was fantastic. Yay! I got to see evie_petrol, smorgasbord & clotilde's shiny new baby girl, and my godson, and the projectile spewing was from them and not any of the adults around, so that's alright then. *heh*

I drank a wee bit too much bubbly (yum), and was a tad hungover on Sunday, but not enough to really make much difference. ravenlas and I finished off the tidy-up (a couple of dishwasher loads, a full bin), and had cheese on toast with my twin and her husband, who stayed over and had a long lie-in. We watched POTC 2: Dead Man's Chest, which was great, and I lazed around and enjoyed my nicely tidy living room. st3v3 came round in the evening to talk plot, and brought cake, and then I went to bed.

And today, after some signalling problems, I'm back at work, finally, though I'm not feeling terribly bright. Ho hum. I've got about a week of LJ to catch up on, and some work too, so if there's anything particularly important I should know about (before catching up slowly), please let me know.

Last week? Mostly spent curled up on the sofa with romances, or pottering round tidying the house, or asleep. This week I'm hoping I'll pick up again and get back to my usual bouncy self.

ravenlas took me to Frankie and Benny's on Monday, and then we went to see V for Vendetta. It's very good - I may be going again on Sunday with friends. You know, I think that Parliament is afraid of the people. Why else would it be trying to pass all of these laws to keep people under control and out of democratic processes? Well, processes which should be democratic, but are getting less and less so. Given that there are almost 60 million people in this very small and not so great Britain, they appear to have forgotten that they are in control only while we can't be bothered doing anything about it. If we really wanted to get rid of them, there's no way they could stop us all. Their greatest 'control' over us is our disinterest and disorganisation.

( Comics, maths, making stuff, and making stuff up... Just an update. )

In other news, medains will be along to VJs on Saturday with his beloved and their baby, and will then potter over to my house where they can hold court for the afternoon for anyone who wants to come by and welcome Hugh to the expanding ex-Freaksoc clan. Yay!

Also, there's Darklands on Saturday, and the City Screen late showing is of MirrorMask, so I may have to hop on my bike and head into town. *happy dance*

Apparently they're making three more Highlander films. The first of these, Highlander: The Source, is apparently about the search for their planet.

What planet are they on??? For goodness sake, let it die!