Happy 2009!

Happy New Year to you all - if anyone is actually still out there reading this! I had a lovely Christmas and New Year - albeit a bit frantic. Thankfully my results came back just fine so I guess I must've just been run down and needing a break!
However I managed to pull myself together in time for the work Christmas party - Hollywood themed - which was good fun even though I wasn't my usual party self. I had a tan, pulled on a LBD and got my hair done (it is now v short!!) and managed a few french martinis and karaoke ;o)
Amy Macdonald at the Barrowlands was excellent - apart from the fact I got the date wrong and almost went a day early - oops!
Just before Christmas we went to view a house for the first time in weeks, mainly because we got a viewer for our flat which instilled some hope! I really liked it as did Ross although he doesn't know the area of Cathcart very well. We are going to go and see it again this weekend when my folks come to visit. The same night we went to Anarkali for dinner (excellent as always) and Zizzi for dinner on Christmas Eve (pretty disappointing). Town was dead on Christmas Eve - we couldn't believe it - so we were home before midnight to crack open some champagne!
Christmas Day was lovely - definitely the best Christmas I've had down in Gourock (last year I was dying with a bug!). Ross's Aunt Mhairi and Uncle Alan came round so we talked about topical issues, sung songs, played guitar, ate lots of food and drunk lots of bubbly!
Boxing day was a quiet one getting organised for heading up North on the 27th for our friend Derek's 50th birthday party in Dingwall. It was lovely catching up with family friends and watching the video montage they had put together for Derek's birthday (with my parents dressing up and doing a comedy sketch!).
Sunday 28th was our second Christmas dinner with the whole family (except my sis in America) followed by the usual quiz and Singstar fun. Everyone was really chuffed with their presents - I got all the boys a ticket to the final day at the Open Championships which they loved. I received some lovely presents also - a gucci necklace, gucci earrings, Alien perfume, Zebra print bag, shoes, CDs, make up, shirt, slippers, Radley passport holder, Skibo Castle golfwear and lots more. We did a lot of walking up North as the weather was beautiful - thick frost on the trees and fences glistened in the sunshine. We give granny her DVD player and set that up for her and I went shopping with my mum in temperatures of minus 8 degrees!
It was a slow drive back to Glasgow on Hogmanay as our windscreen washers were frozen the whole way and we couldn't see a blooming thing! But the night time made up for it as we had a lovely steak pie dinner with our pals David, Elaine, Alex and John, followed by taking in the bells with 200 folk at Bungo in the Bells (back lanes behind our house) and a 5am party at our friends Sarah and John's (wth Trevor, Steph, Russel and Louisa).
On New Years Day we had Ross's folks round for more steak pie and more champagne by which point my body was struggling to cope with the amount of alcohol consumption! I managed a couple more drinks over the weekend at my friend George's flat in Shawlands and then we went to The Bothy for lunch (very good for a G1 establishment). My New Year's resolutions are to walk up the 4 flights of stairs to work every day, stay off the booze until 24th Jan, get back to the gym regularly and eat more healthily. I have also made a promise to get back into my genealogy studies to finish off Ross's family tree! I sense January will be a busy month as I also have rehearsals for my next show (Boogie Nights 24th-28th March), two Burns Suppers and Celtic Connections concerts. I am also planning going to a cocktail night early Feb if anyone is up for it?
Both Ross and my wee sis Donna started their new jobs on Monday so I hope all goes well for them. It was very strange getting the bus to work with Ross and we keep tripping over each other in the mornings!
Anyway, happy birthday to my sister Carrie, mum-in-law Irma, my mum, pals Laura and Vicki and almost brother-in-law Neil who all had birthdays in December. An advance happy birthday to my brother Richard and granny in January (why do they all have birthdays during the 'skint' period?!!). Only a month until my sister arrives back from USA - can't wait! x