January 24th

I went to the hospital again, but took a trip to see Nan Kelly before hand. I don't think there's many people I love more than Nanny Una.

January 23rd

I was here at the hospital today. Nan Finnigan isn't doing well, but she's being very well looked after and she's had lots of visitors.

I'd be so bored if I was in ill health. There's not even any squares on the ceiling to count.

January 22nd

I've been making some time up at work so I get to go home early. Not too bad a trip, though it did take 20 minutes to move the tiny dot on google maps just down the road.

January 21st

Another boring post, but I'm keeping my good habits and brought something to work.

I'm actually really surprised this didn't give me food poisoning, because I bought the chicken the day before and forgot to put it in the fridge.

January 20th

Today marks the first day in the year I had breakfast, lunch and dinner that I made myself. It sounds like nothing, but it'sreally quite an achievement.

This one was actually suggested by Vince, on discussing what I should have for dinner. Cheers, bud!

January 19th

I never have a Thursday off but where I swapped my day off, I got to hang with my buddies!

Simon managed to ruin a pizza from keeping the plastic on the bottom, but we had a few good games of Avalon and pandemic. We won!!

January 18th

While I was in town today, I found these for 5p each in Poundland! I initially went in looking for a teapot to match my cup but this is a bit of a bargain!

I went back for a second set for Liam Kirby, it seemed like the kind of thing his girlfriend would like.

January 17th

This day sucked. I'm an angry crier so being frustrated left me a bit tearful.

Luckily, Simon, Elise and Mirchi's were on hand to cheer me up.

January 16th

I spent my evening with Mel after a long overdue catchup. Apparently she gets hangry, I thought she was about to order the entire menu in Yo Sushi!

January 15th

Curse the Playstation sale, curse it!

I wound up buying a bunch of games, no telling how long I'll be hooked on the PS for, I was supposed to go running!

January 14th

Today's cooking adventure went marginally better. It's KFC with a load of cheese and sour cream. Duffield added cumin to the mix which to me tastes of curry, but I still ate it. I probably wouldn't have added it but it was still good!

January 13th

So... I got up at 6:45 trying to follow this recipe my Team Leader not so subtly hinted at... aaaaaand it was pretty woeful.

I binned it, because heaven help me I'm not subjecting anyone to eating that, but it's not going to stop me from perfecting it. I'll probably tweak the recipe into oblivion though, pretty much nothing went right. Just realised I made it on Friday the 13th. In not superstitious, but maybe it was a sign.

January 12th

Excitement incoming, I got my tickets for Bianca Del Rio's Not Today Satan tour!

I can't wait! This year is going to be my theatre/entertainments year.

January 11th

Today marks a whole week since my haircut. I wish it would grow faster, it's terrible what a dodgy cut can do to your confidence. At least I can be cute in a cartoon.

January 10th

I got my present from Ivan today! He picked it out especially and joined it with a bunch of chocolates.)))

Reasons Ivan is awesome:

• Whatever he has, he'll always share it with me. Food, wine, tea, always shares!
• He's introduced me to a whole range of new foods. He's the reason I now have everything with a big dollop of sour cream.
• We can hang out in the kitchen and talk crap all night. #ScottyDoesntKnow

January 9th

For the first time in ages, I went back to Urban Tap House  Tiny Rebel for board games. Here's a picture of all of us losing the will to live during an exceptionally slow game of Dead of Winter.

January 8th

After work, I went round to Elise's to play some games. Simon and I don't usually play Risk due to intense rage at losing dice rolls, but we decided to play. I managed to take South America, which crashed and I lost everything before my turn, then the same again with Africa. I was not a happy bunny.

In other news, it turns out I'm woeful at stealth horror games. Pro tip: don't try to stab someone who has a massive axe.

January 7th

Today was brought to you by: Lucozade!

Perfect for poorly people and the hungover.

January 6th

Work was work, nothing too unusual, but I went round to a friend's house for a catch up and a glass  bottle of wine.

I managed to lose playing scrabble because I was helping everyone else. Honey isn't in this picture as he prefers to generally be behind the camera.

January 5th

After work, I met Ben for a few drinks, where we had a grand old time talking crap. A lot of gin and a few portions of chips later, it's time for my first scoot home of 2017. The damn thing still won't fold.

Second more unflattering photo here in case this one is too low quality to print. Three cheers for no frontal flash. #MyspaceSelfie

January 4th

Today I got my hair cut. It was cut far shorter than I wanted it, I told the hairdresser I'd like to keep it feminine but now I've got to make a conscious effort to look like a woman.

On the plus side, I've got brilliant friends, so even if I look weird I've got these amazing people by my side.

Simon opened his Christmas present today, he's chuffed to bits with his gundam.

January 3rd

Yesterday's picture is my home-made curry with my nan's recipe who is unfortunately not well and won't be getting better. I remember calling her up one day while at university completely forgetting the recipe for the spice mix. It comes out perfectly every time.

Spice mix:

• 1 tsp garam gasala
• 1 tsp ground corriander
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp garlic
• 1/2 tsp chili powder
• 1 bay leaf
• Salt

January 2nd

January 2nd's picture comes from dinner with Elise. Elise fancied steak so we went to go shopping which was cheap as chips!

"You couldn't have got cheaper meat at a 2p brothel!"

Our dinner was brilliant. We managed to pick up a 25p veggie bake that we accidentally burnt. Whoops.

 

Overview + January 1st!

It's my current goal to take a picture of somrthing going on in my life every day to turn it into a picture book at the very end of the year to look back and reflect on.

Here's the first picture:

This is of me and the guys! We brought in the new year at Bunker. Ivan and his friend Dennis aren't in the picture, they're probably at the bar, considering they were sinking drinks like you've never seen. I think he should have bought like ten, because the pair of them barely moved.