Thank God For Good Friends and Alcohol!

Well....
I'm sure you will all be glad to hear that i made it out on Friday night!! I finally got my act together and summed up enough courage to drag myself out for dinner with the girls. The journey was alright, the outside world was wondrous and my friends were so patient and helped me out so much. I nearly gave my friend Sarah a heart attack when i proceeded to slip on my crutches and nearly end up 'arse over tit' (Excuse the phrase). But after a few glasses of wine all was right with the world once again. The meal was very nice but as we commented on, during the journey home, we paid a lot of money for a meal we all felt was 'nice'. Personally i think that when you pay a lot of money for a meal it should be 'an excellent dining experience', leaving you wanting to return, but as you can tell it didn't really!! All in all the meal was good but the company and the fact that i got out the house with my friends was brilliant.

Toady has been a very strange day indeed. My good friend Haycox came round. He arrived at my house at about 10 am. As we both didn't feel the on top of the world, (Due to lack of sleep and the fact that he felt poorly) we decided to just watch some TV. We both fell asleep in front of the fire, while watching the A-Team. My friend Ally came round for an hour or so and cheered us both up a lot (She's a good mate and a made us laugh!!). After she left, the next time we looked at the clock it was about half 7 in the evening. We realised that we had been sat in front of the TV for around 9 1/2 HOURS or so!!! Well after ordering take away, opening a bottle of wine and giving in to the vegetative state we were in, more TV was needed. We ended up watching cheesy American sitcoms until around 2 am. While preparing myself to move away from the telly, to which i had been glued to for approximately 16 hrs, to go to bed, I realised that we had consumed about 2 and half bottles of wine! I have used the phrase "I haven't done anything today!" But never meant in such a literal sense before!!!!! All in all today has been a 'write off' of a day, But has been a good laugh at the same time!!! And i do have to thank Haycox for being a good friend and looking after me although he was suffering himself.

Christmas is only a week away and after breaking my leg and being generally crap and house bound, the old Christmas shopping has been a bit thin on the ground. Thank goodness for friends and family who have offered to get me bits and bobs while they have been out. I am going to have to apologise greatly to my friends as the presents they will get from me this year will have been given little time!! But due to the circumstances i hope that they will understand! I have done a little bit of 'Tinter-web' shopping but mainly books and DVDs. I saw and bought a great book, for Haycox, By Stephen Fry 'The Book of General Ignorance', However, when it arrived i was just flicking through it and realised it was a brilliant book and proceeded to read it myself!! I know this may make me a very bad and quite possibly stingy person but i have been honest with him and explained that i am going to finish reading his Christmas present before he receives it on Christmas day! He seems to be happy with this, although some would say its very wrong of me, but still quite amusing!!
Christmas cards have also been a challenge this year because although they have all been written, the people i haven't seen on my very limited travels won't be getting one due to the fact that my usual delivery trip being thwarted by my injury!! Sorry!

Thank god for good friends and alcohol!!