make a list of the ups of each day for one year

1. Having a hot shower at J&S’s while they were still away. I so need our shower to get fixed
2. Feeling attractive for the first time in ages… new skirt, nicely done hair, make up, new top too… And now my period has started I don’t feel so emotional or bloated, which is a bonus!
3. Buying a pair of pin-striped baseball boots. They are GREAT! I was eye-ing up the quite delicious high heels in the show shop too, but decided that for today the baseball boots were sufficient. Oh, how fab they look with my new skirt!
4. Going to Bonsai the Japanese restaurant for dinner with R. Her birthday supper. It was lovely food and great service and friendly and cosy (and half empty which is how R likes it). I really like having her as a friend, and as a friend who is now able to do things independently. It’s so good having her less dependent on me now. Yay!
5. Playing with Z in the garden.

1. A delicious long lie in
2. Wearing the skirt I bought in Sainsbury’s last night. Crazy what you can buy in a supermarket these days.
3. Pampering – doing my nails an amazing dark purple
4. Cleaning the bathroom. It makes such a difference! Particularly to newly painted nails. Grrrrr… who wants nail polish on their right hand anyway?
5. Driving back from Cumbria with R after a nice enough meal at the restaurant. R had a lovely looking tomato and basil soup (I had a naughty cheese and bacon burger)

1. A fun monthly meeting, followed by drinks in the office
2. Making progress on the integration of PE and RE; on the possibility of buying memberships online and of processing memberships. Oh, and the membership cards arriving! yay!
3. Chatting to Viv on the phone. I was meant to be meeting up with her tonight, but was having an emotional episode. Fuck, it’s been a hard week. So, after tears and the phone call with V I decided all I could muster was a trip to the supermarket

1. My Book Group! I set it up and this was the first meeting. We had 10 people and everyone seemed chatty and eager to make it all work. We managed to choose 12 books, and set dates for meetings every month – so we have books for a year! Yikes!

1. Not going to the sparkle party after all…. I should have gone, but at the end of the day, when else was I going to get all the raisers edge work done?
2. Take away pizza. Sometimes a pizza is the perfect supper.

1. Getting the new leaflet off to the printers. It will be ready next Tuesday. eeep!

1. Cracking through so much work, since the phones were hardly ringing (it being a bank holiday)

Can’t remember anything else – am writing this on 27/5/07

1. Waking up in yet again a different bed – this time, my Mum’s spare bed. Such peace in that back room, which nestles into the rockface.
2. Making fishcakes with the left over salmon
3. Reflecting on the previous day’s success!
4. Chatting to Jen on the sofa. Mostly about R, which was a bit difficult, as my family think we are still together, although we aren’t. For bizarre reasons, too complicated to go into here, I want my family to continue to believe we are together for a bit longer
5. The drive back to Edinburgh. Again beautiful. I love Scotland
6. Seeing Zeik, the cat. He’d missed company, and I do love the wee monster

1. Waking up and walking through for my shower and seeing J sitting there, reading. I love being with my family.
2. Cooking, cooking, cooking: kisir; meringue mess; pasta salad; rice , avocado and prawn salad; sausages; salmon; ham; crudites; four different dips; two tomato salads; potato salad; carrot salad…
3. Arrival of Andy & family; Joyce, Katy and Jen; Alison and family; Mary, Lois and John; Peter, nancy and family; and Emma and Edouard – my new cousins to play with! yay!
4. The photocall! the four sisters sat in the sunshine, on the bench with their family around them, and the garden blossoming behind them.
5. Finding out about Mary’s girlfriend.
6. Down to the beach with Katy and Caroline and Arthur. the wind was blowing, and it was beautiful.
7. Drinking all Mum’s slivovic. And some of her sloe gin. Collective drinking, not just me! I love M’s home-made hooch!
8. Playing cards with the cousins. Shithead. A great game, taught by katy.
9. Feeling so at home with family. Blood IS thicker than water.

1. Lying in again!
2. Driving to Kirkcudbright and Castle Douglas with Astri. Easy, lazy shopping
3. Chattering, chattering, chattering with Ast and Mum
4. Walking down at the beach with Mum and Ast and Tikka (a whippet)
5. Picking up those teeny wee pink shells, shaped like children’s fingernails.
6. Everyone arriving at coffee time all at once. Cousins, cousins!
7. Sitting down with Mum to make a list. It’s what we do: we have coffee and make a list. We never got the list done, but it didn’t really matter
8. Seeing Mum being the Big Sis with Ast. Very funny
9. Making food. So much food. Lunch for 39 people tomorrow. And probably supper for quite a few too.
10. CHB and family arriving. Cousins, cousins!
11. J & the boys arriving! All having supper.