Hooray, the exam is over so no more studying! Friday went OK I think. It was a lovely sunny blue skies morning so I walked over to Hampden with Claire which helped clear the head. The exam lasted 3 hours, and apart from my wedding day, it was the quickest 3 hours of my life! We had to choose 3 case studies from the 6 in the question paper and answer 2 questions on each case study. I think I wrote about 16 pages of A4 in the time allowed so my hand was killing me by the end! The questions I answered were about culture change, financial controls, gross profit margins, leadership, customer relationships and information management. I did the best I could and felt positive afterwards however I am now starting to doubt myself and waiting until December for the results is going to be a killer!
Immediately after the exam I went to the pub to celebrate with 4 colleagues who also did the course. But, because I hadn't had a drink for 2 weeks the thought of drinking didn't appeal at all - but of course I managed! We had a few drinks in Battlefield (The Mission and Buddha) before I walked home for a nice relaxing bath. At night time Ross and I caught up with about 10 or so folks from my work at the dug racing in Shawfield. It was a good laugh even though I didn't win one single race... Mind you, I just picked the ones who had the best names (or the one which had just pooped before the race - they say that's a good sign!).
On Saturday I had a long lie while Ross took my car to get serviced (thanks Ross!) then we walked over to my friend Eilidh's to give her tickets for my upcoming show. The walk took about half an hour and we used it as an opportunity to check out some nice houses in the area. We really want to move house soon, and seeing Eilidh's lovely house confirmed this. We really want our own garden and space for a dining area (and ideally a walk in wardrobe!). Donna popped over to ours in the afternoon with a copy of the local paper Ross-Shire Journal as our wedding photo was in it. Then we went through our wedding album mock up and chose the final photos we wanted. Hopefully we should get it in time for Christmas.

At night time Ross had booked a table at Cafe Gandolphi to celebrate exams being over so it was lovely to relax and eat good food (sea bass, mmm) and drink pink champagne (double mmm). We caught up with Donna and Neil afterwards for a couple of drinks in Merchant Square but were home by midnight because 2 heavy nights of drinking after being off the booze had caught up with us!
Sunday was cleaning day then I had the first rehearsal for Fiddler in the theatre which was good. All in all a lovely weekend and a hige weight lifted off my shoulders in prep for the big week ahead!