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Peeing on the toilet seat... a definite no-no.

I haven't been around Vox recently as I have been concentrating on my new domain - thealice.co.uk. Hooray!

I love that stage of being a little bit tipsy and talking to your friends about how much you think of them; "you're so great Alice", "no you're the gretest Laura", "I think you're a really good friend", "I think you are too", "ahhh", "ahh", "shall we have a flaming 'buca?", "yeah".

And then an hour later when cleaning cigarette ash out of the DVD player dropping your kebab-shop pizza on a rug covered in dog hairs, brushing it off and eating it.

So Saturday night was pleasant, yet I'm feeling more than a little incoherant this morning. I have awful memories of getting so frustrated with trying to put my clean sheets on the bed that I called Will (who was at Fabric in London) and sobbed down the phone asking him to come home to sort it out. And then opening all the windows upstairs in the house because that would help get rid of the stale smoke smell. In the Lounge. Downstairs through two solid wood doors. At least I remembered to lock the front and back door.

As I was saying, last night was very pleasant.

I seem to spend most of my life at the moment tiiiiired.

I will get off my bum soon and write here more, I miss having a place to talk about things.

New Year's Eve was so good that I am still getting over it.

Kylie Minogue's Best Friend and Stylist kissed me on both cheeks and Olivier Martinez aint all that. James Zabiela is, however, lovely.

I will leave you with pictures until I gather the strength to type more:

Show us something that you really treasure. 
Submitted by An Olympic Dream.

Christmas Dining Room

What were your New Year's resolutions for 2006?  How did you do?

I can't even remember what my resolutions were in 2006, which does not bode well. All in all, it was a pretty crappy year in many respects, but then it was a wonderful year in others.

So according to my livejournal, my resolutions were:

...to be healthy, stop smoking socially (yuck), get fit for the half marathon and try to be a happier person overall (i.e. less moody)

I would say that I am a little more healthy since we got the dog, although I still smoke a little socially (a habit I detest but seem to have no control over after a couple of glasses of wine) and I do enjoy my food a lot. I have lost weight though. The half marathon didn't happen (hah, who saw that one coming) and I would say that I am happier overall. Will and I are more and more in love everyday; we have our own little family with Oscar and bought our own house this year, which was a massive achievement. I also bought my very own car, which I am very proud of as well.

Resolutions this year will be:

• Be a better housewife - more organised, vacuum at least twice a week
• Strip the horrible textured wallpaper in the lounge and dining room, paint a lovely relaxing colour
• Buy a plasma tv for above the fire
• Plan the best wedding in the world
• Visit my mum and dad more
• Budget better
• Go to New York again
• Use my Vox more, because it is brilliant
  
• Buy a Canon Digital Rebel Xti and learn how to use it
• Excel in my new job
• Cook more for friends at home rather than buying expensive meals out

I could go on but think I may exhaust myself!!

Tomorrow Will and I leave for London - Will is working and I have wangled a VIP ticket to see Kylie Minogue at Wembley Arena. Expect many pictures.

+ Will came home on Sunday! I drove down to Heathrow (via my Parents house in Buckinghamshire - they babysat Oscar) to pick him up and it was so lovely to see him again. He was a little delayed when coming through baggage so I was stood at the gate with butterflies in my stomach for an hour, but it was wonderful. I cried.

- Stopping off at mum and dad's on the way back, I got mum to have a go in my car as the brakes seemed weird. We had to call out the RAC man who confirmed that the brake pads had fallen off, and we couldn't drive anywhere. They could have towed us back to Nottingham, but not til 2am. So we had to stay over at their house and get the car into the garage first thing in the morning;  both of us missing a few hours of work.

+ We got to have a lie-in and take the dogs on a lovely walk whilst we waited for the car to be fixed.

- Work this week has been intense and HARD. I have had 7 Client Meetings and 6 interviews alongside getting all my usual work done. Thursday we had a Sales Blitz day which was a national thing within the company. It involved walking round businesses (in the rain), cold calling in on them and trying to speak to their decision makers to gain information about their recruitment. It was hard. It was tiring. I got blisters.

+ Thursday night I went to see Grease... the Musical with my friend Danny, who had a spare ticket. We were right in the middle, 15 rows from the front and I had a ball.

- I had a doctor's appointment yesterday to check out a mole I have on my back which appears to have changed recently. I have been referred as an Urgent case to a Melanoma (Cancer) specialist, my appoinment is a week and a half away at the QMC and I am a little bit scared. Trying not to worry, as I know how routine these things are but still... you never know.

+ I will probably have my mole removed and I always thought it was ugly anyway.

+ We are probably going for a short break to New York in a couple of weeks! Just waiting to get the go-ahead from Will's boss, but fingers crossed.

- Oscar is poorly... he has been up all night with diarrhoea and vomiting. We think he ate a bad snail :(

- I am lazy and have posted the exact same thing both here and at my Livejournal

Share a photo of something that comforts you.

Willme

Although the thing that comforts me (i.e. Will) is in my bad books as he went off to Shanghai this morning and left his phone on his bedside table. After him coming home from Serbia, having him back for just a day and a half  and then him jetting off again, I'm starting to get a little bit lonely. Evidently still filling that void with shopping though; I signed up for a new phone and contract (mmm pink phone!) although the telephone salesmen really hit me when I was down. 1) They caught me on my way to the sandwich shop (hungry) and 2) Told me how beautiful I looked in my new Primark wrap dress (flattery will get you anywhere). However they were trying to get me a manly silver phone but I would not be swayed; if I was gonna sign my life away then I would get something pretty and pink out of it.

Had to take Oscar to the Vets this evening, poor boy has a small Hernia :( He will be fine, we have to keep an eye on it but I was worried. He was very worried about all the big dogs in the waiting room and was the only one barking and making a fuss, but everyone thought he was very sweet.

Work today was hard. I felt like I worked and worked and worked and didn't get anywhere, but on the flipside my Filofax arrived and is beautiful! And that's all I'm going to say about work because I don't want to get the sack.

I was going to go to bed and read my wedding magazines but I stayed up to watch 'Princess Nikki'... HAHAH. Hilarious. I hope it's not all for show because it is funny!                         

What I hate more than anything are those weekends that I plan to spend 'relaxing', when in reality it's more 'watch-crap-tv-drink-wine-surf-internets', but I feel like I need one every so often because of my so-called hectic life. And  then when I do think it's time for one of those relaxing weekends I return to work on Monday morning feeling cheated because I spent the whole weekend doing nothing but sit on my bum.

This weekend I feel like I've had a proper weekend; my days have been filled with different people, chores and things to do. In a way I'd planned this to save my melancholy over being a loner with Will being away, and I'm glad.

There was Sarah coming over on Friday for Pizzas and Wine; she was driving so we didn't drink a great deal (as it's no fun getting wasted on your own is it?). Saturday I met her in town to see a possible flat, before going shopping, walking the dog, napping and pampering myself. Saturday night I went for cocktails with my friend Holly and a workmate of hers and then today was spent doing hangover-recovery, 3 loads of washing, dog walking and driving out to Arnold to get some McDonalds (I feel bad - and fat - but just had to).

I was supposed to meet Holly at 8.30pm last night but got suckered in to some bad Saturday night TV and then had an outfit crisis so I didn't get there until nearly 8.50. Anyone who knows me will know how I severely dislike being late so that put a downer on me. I felt so terribly guilty about being late that I bought the first few rounds of overly-expensive cocktails to compensate. It seemed to do the trick. Pujah is Holly's acquaintance, she's the placement student where she works. She was a lovely girl but seemed to think it was necessary to announce to me after she'd visited the bathroom that she'd "done a big POO and feel much better now!". Is this what people are doing these days? I was baffled. She also insisted on going dancing somewhere; she wanted to go to Lloyd's (really) but we would have rather died, we compromised and went to Market Bar where I paid £5 to get in and £1 to put my jacket behind reception, yet got £18 change from a £20 note. Thank goodness for that because I couldn't stomach staying longer than half an hour or so. My feet hurt.

I reckon I spent about £60 that night which is not ideal; I forget that when I go out with Will he knows so many people that we normally drink for free. Last weekend I think I spent £20, and £10 of that was on Taxis.

Ebaying today, and I managed to get a lovely Filofax for £50 (worth £77)... I have been lusting after one of these for work for ages (okay... since Wednesday). I am so impulsive with money and I hate myself for it but I do have a lot of nice stuff. This week I am planning on putting a lot of my old clothes on Ebay so my financial situation will hopefully be not so dire at the end of the month.

Talking to Will tonight (who is still in Serbia and had just eaten a meal of Pickled Cabbage and Goat. Yes really.) we briefly discussed The Wedding and have both been thinking about it. I cannot wait to marry him but it's a question of whether we will have our finances in place by next August. I think it's doable, and evidently so does he. So it looks like we will have to start planning (and saving) hard. Effective now (as soon as I buy a Canon Powershot A620 anyway, which will be September 25th if all goes to plan). We have got a venue booked and I am having my dress custom-made, but those are the only things organised so far. Oh, and I do have a killer wedding scrapbook. It sounds like a silly thing to say, but I am very much looking forward to being a 'young' bride (at 22), and even more so looking forward to having one of the first weddings out of all of our friends. It will be a good one as well.

I had better get some sleep, seeing as Monday Morning is now a mere 7 hours away...