Here's what I made earlier

Been a long time since I did the blogging thing, so time for a catch-up!

Firstly, I've been on holiday over the past week - a welcome "staycation" with a couple of fab day trips which I'm hoping to blog about very soon (my version of 'very soon' at the moment is any time between 4 to 7 weeks...)
 

I finally took the plunge and bought a Galaxy SIII mini smartphone four weeks ago.  I am surprised that I have not gone bald since then, as I've been tearing my hair out over even the most simple aspects of it.  It's a good enough phone, but why are these bloody things not supplied with a manual?

Talking of hair, I have made several attempts to lighten my too-dark brown hair, and now I have some kind of half red, half brown dip-dye-in-reverse thing going on.

After weeks of outrageous weight gain, I managed to lose a few pounds by sticking to WeightWatchers Online.  Then proceeded to undo all the good work over the past 9 days.  Oh well...back to work tomorrow and back to the discipline of counting daily points.  I feel I'm in a good position to lose a few more pounds/inches for our big summer holiday, which is just 11 weeks away.   Croatia is calling - but there are so many options that I'm getting a headache just deciding where to go!

So I believe there's some football tournament on at the moment?  Yes we are in the midst of the World Cup, but if I'm honest, the first phase has pretty much passed me by - too many matches, too little time, and no prime time highlights programmes.  I'm trying to keep up with the knockout phase though. 

At long last I managed to post my Eurovision 2014 reviews over at EuropeCrazy.  Hoping to post the Copenhagen holiday diaries pretty soon too :)

And so, ladies and gentlemen, that concludes the Christmas shopping for 2009.

Yes they think it's all over....it is now.

Today I took some time out of work to go and do the last 'loose ends' of my Christmas shopping for this year. As usual, I've gone into control freak mode but it's been all very relaxing so far and the one thing I refuse to do is panic, unlike some people I could mention!!

In other news, I'm still feeling slightly under the weather, although finally getting better.

Being a Libran, 'indecisive' is of course my middle name, but once I bring myself to a decision it is set in stone and no going back. Last night I made a decision: I'm going to get a new mobile phone at the start of next year. One of those nice touch-screen ones, which do everything from taking good quality pictures and playing mp3s to possibly making the tea (well you never know.....).

As a tortoise would probably beat me in a texting competition, I wonder if a touch-screen phone would make me text any faster???? (Ummm.....probably not)