The quietest busy week ever

The dizziness evaporated on Saturday morning thankfully, which meant I had the bonus of a free weekend when I thought I was going to be in bed for 2 days.

The Catster and I, very energetically, made it to Ikea Croydon on Saturday afternoon, where we bought exciting things such a curtain pole and herrings. (Herrings much more exciting that curtain poles, of course). It’s quite a long round trip on the bus so it was definitely evening by the time we got home.

We accidentally drank 4 bottles of red wine between us that evening, accompanied by Trivial Pursuit and Skip Bo playing. Oh yes, we are so cool. Saturday night in playing board games…It also accidentally got to nearly 4am before it was bedtime so Sunday was a wipeout until…

4pm I suddenly got a massive burst of energy, partly motivated by having visitors (family and old friends) on Saturday and wanting to have my room lovely and finished by the time they arrived. So I enlisted the help of HD and his power drill to put up the curtain pole, whilst I faffed with altering the length of double layers of sheer curtains. One thing I have to say is – bugger Ikea! They make you think that it’s going to take 2 seconds to cut the curtains to the correct length and easily iron them into place using the clever iron-on strips, but in reality it is no where near that simple. Especially when the curtains are very slippery material and there is no where in the house big enough to lay them out flat. But eventually, with fab advice from The Catster, I managed to get all 4 done and up. Along with some very cute pictures of “duckies?”, and finally hanging the beautiful painting/picture/collage-thingy that The Catster bought me for my birthday 4 months ago.

So, I was anticipating very busy/drinky week this week, with plans for excess every single night, including Monday. I arrived at work yesterday and in confirming the evening’s plans with my work colleagues, got many a cancellation due to illness. So the festivities (brought about by bars in the City deciding to offer 50% off the food and booze bill until the end of January) were cancelled, and I ended up having a fairly sensible evening out with one colleague.

Tonight I was supposed to be meeting up with Alex but she has tonsillitis (more illness!!) so that’s been postponed. Tomorrow was supposed to be drinks with a friend who is notoriously terrible at forgetting plans and who subsequently I haven’t seen since the summer, has again cancelled on me as his “work are taking him out, planned at the last minute”. So I suppose it’s better for the wallet and the liver that all these plans have been cancelled, but it’s quite boring. Although I was slightly worried that I might be a bit of a wreck by the end of the week, I was quite looking forward to it after being somewhat of a hermit during January.

At time of going to press, Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday lunchtime plans are still there, so the end of the week will be more exciting than the beginning.

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