And time moves on

Well here we are on Dec 27th. It has been a nice few days and I am finally getting a bit relaxed and have some time. Alison has been hassling me to keep writing, so hopefully this will go some way to satiating her desire to read my blog. Christmas Day itself was pleasant. We started with our traditional Christmas morning breakfast at our house, which consisted of croissants, home made strawberry jam, moscato and strawberry cocktails and some coffee. The Matt, Jo, Beck's and I went to the beach from a swim. The day was only average and the water a tad on the brisk side, so Beck's decided not to swim, but Matt, Jo and I were in for around 15 minutes or so. It was quite bracing, but very pleasant to have done yet again. I like Jo a lot, a pity she is moving to Aussie in the New Year.

After this it was round to Beck's for Christmas lunch. The day fined up a but, so it was a lovely time eating outside and generally relaxing. In fact, it got so sunny that the white table cloths were too bright and had to be removed. The food was great. The ham went down well, as did my sourdough :-) I have to say too that Brian's trifle, even though it had no sherry in it, was bloody nice too. After this we went round to the Alleyne's for the evening and dinner. I hit the wall a bit and ended up having a couple of power naps. Wayne managed to interrupt one of these by pouring water over me, he is such a joy sometimes :-) We also played 500 as usual and got to use my new card shuffler which I got for a Christmas present.

Boxing Day was spent pretty much relaxing with a quick trip to Sylvia Park to buy a couple of bedside lamps. Man that place is shit on Boxing Day. People were everywhere, which usually does not go well with my temper, but we managed to avoid too much tension by parking down the road and getting in and out pretty quickly. On the garden front I harvested some more Butter Beans, the first Green Beans, and some more Peas. In the evening we watched Batman - The Dark Night, which was actually pretty good. I do have to say though that the voice Christian Bale uses for Batman is bloody annoying!!

So here I sit now on the 27th and have got up this morning and went and had breakfast with Brian down at Nosh. I have a sourdough ready to go in the oven and want to put another on tomorrow I think. I have got to thinking this morning in my morning pages about what I want for 2009 and have come up with a list as follows

1) Do a ham from scratch (would love to actually go and see a pig slaughtered and then get one of the legs from that pig, but this might be a bit difficult)
2) Keep on with the vocal lessons with Caitlin and start performing regularly
3) Work on making different types of bread to expand range
4) Get a year round garden going with a greenhouse
5) Have a holiday with Kat in the South Island traveling around
6) Be much happier and less stressed

Some good things to aim for there I think. I am not usually in to New Years lists, but this year feels a bit different and a good one to start focusing, aiming forward and planning to get to where I actually want to be. Shit, I am half way through this journey, if I don't start now I might never get there!!!!!!