The office is freezing beyond all sense. This is mainly due to it having been closed for over a week but also due to the fact that it's one, large, exposed-brick fridge and won't reach optimum concentrating-temperature until next Wednesday. I sit next to a gigantic wooden-framed window which has knifepoint draughts whistling in through every corner. We are all in our coats, those of us that didn't have the presence of mind to book today off in advance. I am typing with stiff little fingers (not the band, clearly).
New Year's Eve was a slightly odd event. K, F and I and a couple of other friends booked to go to a local pub which was charging a set fee but which offered free drinks all night and 3am closing. K called and booked it whilst we were at our respective families so it was done without us knowing the details. We turned up looking suitably glam (although I was in jeans) for a normal NYE free-for-all in a pub, only to discover it was black tie. It wasn't K's fault, they didn't mention this important point to her at any time during her three phone calls to organise it. They did let us in but having been geared up for a joyous, crowded, flirty NYE, we had to completely adjust our mindset as we were shown to our candlelit table in view of the pianist and handed a complimentary cocktail by a waitress who was better dressed than any of us. It was low key to say the least but we made it work by doing our best to drink our money back. I think we managed it.
The first task A and I had to perform on New Year's Day was disposing of the live mouse which we discovered stuck to one of Minty the Rat's old sticky traps which we'd (fortunately) left down. Awful thing to do with a hangover. This morning K, who is off work, rang to say she'd found another one so the pest people have been summoned.
So 2007 is upon us. A quick retrospective of 2006, which I originally did whilst very drunk at about 3am New Year's Day, filtered it down to these key events:
- I moved to London (good)
- I was made redundant from the job I moved to London for (bad)
- I got another job but it turned out to be a huge mistake that bought me nothing but stress (bad)
- I witnessed a kidnapping and ended up giving evidence in court (bad)
- Our house was under seige from large, brown rat for over a month (bad)
- I got dumped by The Ex after two years together (bad/good)
- I saw two separate people getting the crap kicked out of them - one of them outside my house (bad)
- I lost 2 stone (good)
- My best friend is moving to New York (bad)
- Turns out she's only going for 10 weeks (good)
- I got a new job I'm very excited about (good)
- I had a few salacious dates one of which ended in sex (goodish)
- I joined a dating website and met S (good so far)
- I appeared on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word and my interview was shown on TV (weird)
It's not as bad as I'd thought looking back although there are obvious events I could have done without. I am not entirely sure what I want from 2007 yet but to put it into one word wishes, I think this is about it: Success, Travel, Love, Education, Friends, Sex, Music. Yep...that'll do.
I had a date with S the night before NYE. We went for dinner which he booked in a pub near where he lives. In the past we've met in central London so the fact that he was dragging me to his neck of the woods (which is nowhere near mine) prompted me to conceal a clean pair of knickers, a toothbrush and my pill in my handbag. Good job I did because as we left the pub at closing time he asked me to spend the night with him. I'm not going to go into detail, suffice to say it was blissfully, completely, mind-blowingly wonderful and I didn't leave until 2pm the following day. I think this could be the start of something very interesting...
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