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2003-01-09T21:13:00.000Z

Happy Noo Yeyhar and all that gubbins. Had lush Christmas and very delicious new year which involved champagne, boxing, ping pong, playstation dance mats, strange arm machines, mixing decks, pizza, industrial sized fireworks fired out of large cardboard tubes and South Park - too much for one night. My new year's resolution to not smoke lasted 12 minutes and not to eat anything naughty - 6 days. Felt new year's blues as ever compounded by huge inability to find a nice house and then out of the blue found gorgeous house, made offer, offer accepted and now have mortgage, solicitor, survey and everything else in place which is a fantastic start to the year. Somebody must love me upstairs.

We are very excited about it all - have to go back to work on Monday boo hoo but I'm good to be a good girl and just getting on with the sodding thing. Anyway nice day tomorrow - we are museuming.

Have just spent evening laundering my life - consequently have tonnes of rubbish bags and some for charidee mate.

2002-12-22T15:45:00.000Z

Embarked on the christmas food shopping bedlam that is known as ASDA. Saw a great fight in the car park - peace on earth and good will to all men NOT.

Not an exciting day Joel is at work and I am supposed to be finishing the house work - it's so bloodly bleak and grey outside that I can't be bothered to do anything I wish there was a decent book in the house to read. So far I have done nothing - still got to buy presents for my bro, father in law, sister in law, and my cousin who I am going to visit next Sunday. Spending rest of day on sofa with a brew and lots of fags - lush. Tonight I'm going to the pub lovely.

2002-12-21T19:39:00.000Z

Saturday before Christmas managed to do very little. Got up at 11am with hangover from drinking too much night before.
Spent exciting day doing housework (yawn, yawn) - the flat looks like shit; I have become houseworkphobic. Dear Santa
please bring me a live in cleaner and cook for Christmas. Spent an hour talking to my brother mainly moaning about our
mother and trying to arrange an outing to do the family thing over Christmas. My aunty has just arrived with my cousin
who I've never met from South Africa today - I'm trying to pull various members of the family for a family day on 29 December
four generations of the family together which will be nice (this is the ideal I'm sure in practice it will be a fucking nightmare).

My old buddy Arthur is coming home for Christmas from Shanghai - first time we've seen each other for seven years. This
may prove to be the highlight of Christmas for me.

Exciting part of day was buying a DVD player - have no idea where we are going to put it - the front room is overrun with kit
- stereo, cd player, video, tv, ps2 etc etc. the list goes on.

I need a bigger home - sore point. I wonder if the offer we made on that lovely house will come to anything probably not eh?
I'm getting used to the disappointment of not being able to find my own house. How sad nearly 30 and still living in a crap
rented flat in a grim tower block.

Let the present wrapping commence - I need to get all my present wrapped up tonight and put some of the christmas decorations
up - I've already done some nice things with the fairy lights. See yer anon.