’tis the season to eat too much

Another flat out week.  I’ve had more people crying in my office this week than I have had in the last couple of months.  (It’s actually my job to sort out people’s work-related problems.  Yay for an interesting but frustrating job, hey?)

It’s been a blur, really.  I had training on one day, which wiped that day out for anything else.  In fact, it wiped me out, too.  I came home and fell asleep instantaneously.  I also had a number of meetings with various people, which, while it’s an integral part of my job, prevented me from getting paperwork stuff off my ‘to do’ list.   Still, it’s gone very quickly, and it’s now a week closer to our holiday.  Woohoo!

We had our Christmas dinner celebration with my mum and brother, and Mum’s boyfriend, last night.  It was at a swanky restaurant, with Mum picking up the tab (always a bonus).  We ate, drank, and enjoyed ourselves.  It was really lovely.  It was also the first time SO had met Mum’s BF.  I asked him what he thought, and he agreed with me; he’s a really nice guy.  Definitely a step up from Mother’s previous choices.

Yes, it’s early in December to be having a Christmas dinner with family, but my brother flies out to Japan next week, so it was really the last chance with everyone in the country to get together.  And it was very enjoyable. Despite the fact both SO and I had also been out to Christmas lunches for work earlier in the day, we still ate plenty and had the energy to have fun.

Other than work and Christmas functions, not a lot has really been happening this week.   Three evenings out of five, I’ve come home and fallen asleep.  I suspect I’m still not really recovered from this infection; I’ve had a nasty throat which doesn’t seem to be really improving, and I’m more that normally tired.  However, there doesn’t seem to be anything that the medical profession can do that hasn’t been tried, so I’m just going to take it easy and see how it goes.  Maybe I should even try the whole clean-living, fruit and vegies thing.

We’re slowly getting ready for our trip to Singapore.  As we leave in a week or so, that’s probably a good thing.  Both our passports are organised.  I just need to finalise our travel insurance.  This is fiddly, as we need medical reports from our specialists to say that we’re not a risk to insure.  I guess I also need to make sure all our laundry is clean for when we pack.  Eh, I’ll worry about that closer to the time.