Snow is falling, all around me, children playing, having fun...

I can't get that song out of my head, can you believe? There's not a snowflake in sight... last night we had to open the doors onto our balcony as we were so hot. Although the ads on TV still have snowflakes and stuff on them. Christmas this side of the planet just seems all wrong!
So, it's my last day at work before Christmas and the big boss is closing the office at 1pm - escape! - so I'm quickly tapping this in without real thought before I leg it to meet Pete for lunch. What's happened since the last blog entry? Still working. Earning cash to fund my restaurant habit. Pete is working at Bill Granger's restaurant in Surry Hills (put Bill Granger in google and you might just recognise him). He gets free food, lucky barstool. All is peachy in our house, we drink too much and stay up late and it's all good. I've also been catching up with old friends - namely Jane, my bosom buddy from sixth form who I lost touch with at uni... she's out here now with plans to settle for a bit and we got quite squiffy in the Opera Bar on Wednesday. She always was a bad influence (but not gay after all)!
Tomorrow we drive to Melbourne to meet Pete's ma and her partner (silly drive of about 9 hours) .. we have a posh restaurant booked for Christmas Eve - cocktails looking out to sea at St Kilda beach followed by slap-up swanky 4 course meal. On Christmas Day we're booked into a restaurant too so we're probably going to get through the day in a drunken haze as no-one has any responsibilities! Nice. Pete's mam and her partner are at the boxing day test - I tried to get us tickets but gave up when we lost the ashes... so we may be meeting up with Pete's mate from uni. Then a nice 9 hour drive back on the 27th.
New Year's Eve is set to be drunken fuelled. We plan to find a vantage point for the fireworks that allows us to take our own booze, then the gang of housemates will probably drink from stupid o'clock and go "ooooh, nice fireworks". Hopefully it won't be as drunken as the Christmas carol concert we went to last weekend - I ended up trying to throw up and sleeping on the floor all night as movement equalled nausea. Classy.

Anyhow, I'm back in next week so will update the blog with photos of Christmas and stuff. I just wanted to wish everyone back home a very happy Christmas. Sorry for the lack of Christmas cards but here you go... take this blog as your Christmas wishes from me! Love you all and wish you were here (or I was there). Big kisses. XXXXX