7th December 2014
Never look back, it distracts you from the now!
Short blog today as I’m barely awake and I have to go to work for an
area meeting!
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I stopped after that sentence and decided to go have a shower and get
dressed first to see if that would help and also to make sure I am ready when
my lift arrives! I’m starting to feel
barely human, it’s going to take a coffee though I think as that mug of tea
didn’t cut it. Back in a minute….
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Aaahhhhh now that’s starting to hit the mark, I’m good to go once I’ve
drunk this coffee and maybe followed it up with a second, my eyes tell a
different story so as long as no one gets too close to them, I’ll be fine, I
always thought I had greeny browny grey eyes, I didn’t realise there was so
much red in there too!
Manchester Christmas market was a huge success, two coaches, the only
glitch was they dropped us off at different places once we got to Manchester
but in fairness to them the city was crazy busy and the drop offs weren’t easy
to find. However the market was lovely,
everyone returned to my coach with lots of bags full of shopping and when we
arrived back at Bloxwich those getting off the other coach seemed to have
similar quantities of shopping too!
It was fabulous to have an entire day out with my bestie, we haven’t
managed to get too many this year so we’ve made the most of the ones we have
had. Yesterday was not different, it
started with hot chocolate, we were too early for a drop of something in it as
they don’t start serving till 11am! What
can I say, we felt like we’d been up for hours at 10.30! We then proceeded to sample our way round the
markets, mmm cheese in every flavour you can think off included toffee cheese
and my favourite of the day was caramelised onion and rioja, there is a chunk
of that now residing in my fridge, it will be eaten in moderation I promise. I enjoyed a mug of Raspberry liqueur
flavoured mulled wine, of course only because I wanted the mug to bring home,
we ended up with 3 mugs, I needed on of each design and Lynne had to make sure
that the hot chocolate with the cream and flake tasted as high in ProPoints as
it looked! It did…
By 2ish the place was really starting to get busy and I have to admit,
these day apparently I’m a shopping lightweight, I was done it and ready for a
sit down, luckily Lynne agreed so we went for some lunch in one of those all
you can eat buffet’s, thankfully neither of us were particularly hungry so we
just had a bit of Chinese which meant my craving for a takeaway the last couple
of weeks was now satisfied and we both got to sit down for an hour! I love people watching so couldn’t help it
in a place like that, let’s just say people were getting their moneys
worth! It served everything from carvery
to Italian to Indian to Chinese and they were piling it up, the were mixing sweet
and sour with roast dinner! Each to
their own but if I wanted to try a bit of everything I’d just go up a lot of
times because my gravy will never be mixed with my satay sauce! We resisted desserts as we’d had plenty of hot
chocolate earlier in the day. I never
did get any marshmallows, I might get a bag of those for Christmas and we can
have a nice mug of chocolate Christmas Eve maybe.
We had an interesting conversation with a lady in Harvey Nicholls, she
had whisky tastings, and I picked up a leaflet and she suggested I try, now she
didn’t know this but me and whisky have a strange relationship, it’s always been
my mission to actually find one I find palatable neat and as yet all of them
make me pull a really strange face when drunk.
This one was actually the best I’ve tried yet, but it still made me pull
a face, I told her I wasn’t a great fan of whisky and she started to explain
how the smells and tastes would bring back memories of something deep down and
if I didn’t like it, then it was because those memories were associated with
something not quite so nice and it was probably time to admit defeat and move
on to a drink I do like. How bizarre, I
could not disagree, whisky does bring back many memories, all of my dad who’s
no longer with us and as much as now I can say I loved him, when he was alive
for the best part of my life I didn’t!
So I guess she was right, the whisky is a memory and maybe one day I
will taste one and think mmm nice, when that happens I’ll know I’ve finally put
all those memories to bed and moved on completely.
Well I managed to buy a few gifts I wanted yesterday and slept like a
brick last night, maybe a little too heavy because I feel a bit heady this
morning, I’m sure I’ll soon wake up once I’ve downed another coffee or maybe I’ll
just take a couple of painkillers. What
I do know is that once I get home this afternoon, I’m chilling out with my mom,
the poor love hasn’t had a decent meal since Friday! I did leave her a couple of ready meals in
the fridge but they’re still there so heavens knows what if anything she ate
yesterday when I was out.
Here’s to a fabulous Sunday whatever you have planned, and enjoying
this time of year with all its cheer, I absolutely loved soaking up that
Christmas atmosphere yesterday even if it has worn me out completely! Ho Ho Ho….
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