We were made to feel very welcome by Amy, Francis and the rest of the staff, the restaurant was very busy, and we had a brilliant meal! Ray eventually made an appearance just after midnight, after cooking all evening. Steve, Les and Sam enjoyed their evening, Steve had us in fits of laughter, because after our starters and crispy duck pancakes, we gave him a menu to choose his main course, and he thought we were choosing pudding!!! He was stunned that we still had to choose a main, bless him!!!
At midnight Amy provided us all with pink champagne, lots of delicious puddings, and she put out lots of licquers for people to help themselves! They really are very generous! We left there at about 1 a.m., and then came back and had more champagne, mainly so that Rich could join us in a drink as he had been our driver, and the youngsters played on the Kinect!
We all surfaced at around 10 a.m. this morning, and Richard cooked us all a 'full monty', which was very much appreciated and hit the spot!!! Delicious!!!
I am feeling very positive today, which often happens in the new year, but if I am honest, January and February are my 2 worst months, because as well as having Fibro, I also have osteoarthritis, so the cold and damp do not do me any good! Roll on the Spring, which I actually prefer to the Summer!!
This month is quite busy for us, as we have 2 birthdays, Abby will be 22 on 11th January and Rich will be 54 on 20th, and I already have Abby's gift, but what do you buy for the man who has everything? Apparently he needs new trousers, so tomorrow we are off to M & S at Fosse Park to buy him some!
This morning I managed to do my exercises, which I have not managed to do for the last week or so because we have been busy, and it made my movements a lot easier! Although doing them sometimes causes me pain, it does loosen me up and makes the simplest of tasks easier to do! I have also been busy looking on line at registering for our visit to America in April! Instead of filling in a card on the plane, you now have to do it before you go, and you have to pay!!!!! Another way of getting money out of travellers, bit of a cheek when we are going there to spend our hard earned money (well not mine!!) in the first place and the holiday itself has cost us nearly 6 grand!!! Still, we promised the boys a return visit with just the four of us, as the last time we went with friends and it was not a success!!! Never again is all I will say on that one!!!! The boys are looking forward to going to Universal and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, as am I, I love the books and the films, and I am in fact watching the Prisoner of Azkaban on TV right now as I type! How strange is that!!
I have spoken to Aaron today, which always eases my mind, he got home safely after his New Year celebrations, although he can't remember getting home, and when he called me he had just got back from collecting his coat, which he had left in the cloakroom of the night club they went to! What is he like!!!!!??? He had also been out and found a shop that was open and got himself some fish fingers and potato waffles for his tea, sounds about right for Aaron!!!! Bless him, I really miss him so much!!!
Well enough of me waffling on, I am going to go and get ready for a dip in the hot tub I think before I get showered, it is 5.45 p.m. and I am still in my nightie, talk about a lazy mare!!! lol Still it is a bank holiday, and that is what they are for, having worked so many of them in years gone by, it is nice now to enjoy them with my family! I am adding some pics from last night, I hope you will enjoy them!!
Sam (at the back), Steve, Les, Abby, Me, Rich, Luke
(and the Buddah!!!)
Rich and Me
Abby and Luke
Leslie and Steve
Sam and Leslie
I have just been onto my Facebook account and my wonderful friend Sara has put a piece on her page about two of her friends suffering with Fibro and there is a link to a page with information about it! Thought I would add this to my blog for today so people can look at it if they want to:
http://chronicfatigue.about.com/od/whyfmscfsarelinked/a/overlapping.htm
It is a very interesting article, and there are more links at the bottom of the page that you can look at to try and understand this chronic illness more!!!
If you want to pay this page a visit, you will hear about the trials and tribulations of one of the kindest, inspiring, awesome, lovely, warm and funny people I have ever had the good fortune to meet!!!
I have found myself coming back to this blog quite frequently today, probably because I am trying so hard to get through a tough day, and coming on here is making me put it into words! My wonderful friend Sara has come up trumps once again (and not the windy kind, lol!!!) and put my blogspot on her facebook page, and has become my first follower and left a comment! That really pleased me! She also has friends who have the illness, and they have been commenting on her facebook page, and oddly it gave me great solace to know that I am not alone in my fight! I also felt really chuffed with myself when I remembered a little saying I had made up during the tough days before I was diagnosed - 'little by little, one bit at a time, life may be tough, but at least I'm alive'! I used to say this to myself over and over when I was fighting the pain, struggling to peel a potato, cut up an onion, or just make a cup of tea! I used to sit then and write down my feelings of frustration, so I will tomorrow look for the notebook I used to write all my thoughts in, whether I will find it is another matter!!!! If I do, I will put some little bits of it on these pages! What I find strange is that Sara keeps on coming up in my life, yet 2 years ago I didn't even know her, and I have only met her once! I now truly believe that karma put her in my life for a good reason, because it was literally just a couple of months after I 'met' Sara, that my condition took me to a real low, and yet it was thinking of Sara and the fight she was going through that made me grateful every day that although I was in pain, as far as I knew (I thought the pain was from my osteoarthritis) my condition was not life threatening! For that I was extremely grateful!
Sara was also the person who when I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia was the first one to say 'well, at least now you know why you are in so much pain, and I know you will fight this Sharon', so she made me positive, inspired me, and made me feel that I could conquer the world! So I will definitely finish this blog with this question 'If there really is a God, why oh why does he make someone who is such a good person go through what he has put Sara through'?
Me and Sara when we finally met! Pickles is looking on hoping to get some Strawberry Meringue!
Me, Sara and her lovely boy Joseff!
Me, Sara and Joseff, it was such a fun night!
Although it was our first meeting, it felt like I had known her for years!
Aw, glad I have found your blog and thanks for the mention! Glad to hear you had a good time and the pictures are fab, I love your dress. Keep blogging, keep spreading the word.
ReplyDeleteSara xx