The ABC of Me

Age: 29

Bed size: Double

Chore you hate: Ironing Shirts

Dogs names: No room for dogs! I always lovely the name Henry though.

Essential start to your day item: Strong Milky Coffee

Favorite color: Red

Gold or Silver: White Gold

Height: 165cm ???

Instruments you play: Piano, Clarinet, Flugel Horn (I tried Bassoon, Sax & Flute too)

Job title: Resourcing & Recruitment Assistant (Not PA!!)

Kid(s): Not quite yet ...

Living arrangements: Sharing with a brilliant flatmate in Clapham Junction, London

Mum's name: Barbara

Nicknames: Lots ... Liz, Lizzie, Lizbeth, Dizzie, Ethel, Peaches, Pfaff, Pfuffle

Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Never

Pet Peeve: I just love peeves in general

Quote from a movie: "We'll never survive." "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."

Right or left handed: Right

Siblings: Nowt

Time you wake up: Alarm goes at 5.30 and I move sometime around 6.50

Underwear: Usually clean

Vegetable you dislike: Can tomato be a vegetable? I hate it enough!

Why you run late: I just don't know. I'm consistently 10 mins late.

X-rays you've had: Teeth, teeth, teeth, teeth, a few more teeth, Ankle, Finger

Yummy food you make: Where to start ... sticky date pudding, cheesecake, banana cake, cookies ...

Zoo favorite: Elephants

No excuses ...

I've just been a bad blogger.

Lots has happened ... including Jackie & Siggy's fabulous Hawaiian wedding and a two month visit from Mum & Dad!!

Ah well ... I'll get back to it soon. I've got t'internet at home now so perhaps I'll be better.

The sky bears had a pillow fight ...

Just found the funniest poem ...

Oh, it snowed last night

It snowed last night.

The sky bears had a pillow fight,

Tore up all the clouds in sight,

tossed down all the feathers white.

Oh, it snowed last night,

It snowed last night.

And snow it did! Still is and it's lovely (apart from the hour long trudge from Waterloo because there's no public transport ... and the fact that half the company is having a duvet day!)

Reminded me why I love walking to work in the mornings!

All my Christmases at once!

I haven't been able to find the words to describe the incredible evening which was Gav & Scott's wedding ...

Since I've known them, they've spoilt me rotten and infused me with more Christmas Spirit (the whole year round!) than I thought possible. Through them I've learnt to love December again and to relish the mulled wine flowing through my veins.

The first Christmas I knew them they got engaged, and finally, three years later they tied the knot in a celebration that was completely them ... right down to the mini Christmas dinner canapes!

I'm eternally grateful to have them both as friends and so pleased to be part of such a beautiful day.

A picture says a thousand words ... plus, I didn't take my camera!

A Reading by Elizabeth Pfahl
An extract from an Ancient Sanskrit Poem by Kalidasa
Look to this day-
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the varieties and realities of your existence-
The bliss of growth;
The glory of action;
The splendour of beauty.
For yesterday is already a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope-
Look well, therefore, to this day.

Snow!!!

First snow of the season!!

Trudged to work in the snow this morning (where did all those people come from?!) and have just spent the past 10 minutes looking out the windows as the snow flutters down ... with sub-zero temperatures for the past week, there's no doubt it's winter!!!

Hooray!

We wish you a Merry Christmas ...

Christmas Lizzie pops up again to wish all 2 of you who read this (and your families of course) a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

This festive season is exhausting but every year I wish I'd thrown myself into it that little bit more ... but I guess that leaves room for improvement next year.

But for now I'm looking forward to some time alone ... I'll get the train up this afternoon after a few champagnes at work, run to Tesco Metro before it shuts to buy myself some treats, then go home, check out the car and start putting up the fairy lights. With a bit of luck the DVD player will work so I'll settle down with a bottle of cheap sparkling wine, some smoked salmon and 'It's a Wonderful Life' before crawling into bed before Santa comes.

It's going to be a weird Christmas Day this year. I'm back to the Henthorns so it's just like old times in some ways, but this year it'll just be Jennie, John, Rob & I for Christmas dinner. I'll go over early morning to see Nick & Vic before they head to her Mum's place and then I'll talk to Mum & Dad (because I don't have a phone in my house!). We're heading the Linda & Geoff's for drinks and then dinner in the very late afternoon. It'll be lovely and I really am one of the family, but I'll still feel a bit like an orphan!

Then over the next few days I'll catch up with Auntie Margaret & Pauline, drive across to Darlington to see Nick & Cat, hopefully drop in to see Nick & Vic in Leeds and with a bit of luck get in some post-Christmas shopping as well!!

But I always enjoy a bit of peace and quiet over Christmas ... waking up early and wandering around the garden with a cup of tea in my pjs, walking to the crem and seeing everyone else amidst their Christmas morning ritual of visiting loved ones who are no longer with us, going home and cranking up the carols while I get ready, driving down the empty roads to Augton ... and then all the chaos kicks in!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Snotmas

I've been rather sick the past week. Partly self-induced, but largely thanks to everyone I know being sick the week before ...

Things are getting better now, but I'm looking forward to a few proper days off come Wednesday afternoon ...

Amidst the hallucinations, the hot sweats and the ridiculous lack of appetite was the incredibly fabulous bright light of Gav & Scott's wedding.

I'll post again once all the photos are in, but Christmas will never be the same again ...