i’ve just realised that three weeks from now, i’ll be spending the weekend in asia.

ASIA!

even better, i’ll see my dad for the first time in three years.

THREE YEARS!

i am very, very excited and happy about this.

but sitting here in my dressing gown after a long day of work and period pain, looking at the piles of clothes i have yet to wash/pack/try on and send back to online retailers, it all seems a little hard to believe.

EEK!

er, that’s about it.

happy birthday to meeeeeeeeeee!

perhaps because i’d seen a lot of his films and found him devastating in monster’s ball, this has really upset me.

like me, he was 28, born in australia, and had a lot to look forward to. unlike me, he was a talented actor who probably would have won an oscar one day, and he leaves behind a little girl who won’t remember him.

it’s ironic that some sickos have been counting down the days ’til britney pops her clogs (there’s even a website) and here heath ledger has quietly, and possibly accidentally, slipped away.

yes, you get two today as i wasn’t here yesterday! first up…

christmas wreaths. for a loooooooooooong time i wanted a christmas wreath on the front door, but my mum associated wreaths with death and felt it was far too morbid. slowly, she changed her mind, and last year we went to buy our first wreath a couple of days before christmas. but we were thwarted! the shops were close to closing and we took a disastrous wrong turn and although we had a nice long chat, we didn’t get a wreath. so this year i was on wreath alert and yesterday, after comparison browsing to an exhausting degree, i bought what i believe to be the best christmas wreath in at least a five-mile radius. i hung it on the outside of our little porch-y area, and can see it from the kitchen, which makes me very happy. FINALLY a wreath of my own!

the tree

at LAST we put ours up on monday night, and it’s looking gorgeous. proof you don’t need to be real to be beautiful. it’s basically back-breaking work getting it all assembled and lit and tinselled and trimmed and moved into the right position, but OH so worth it.

i wish i could show you pics of the tree and the wreath, but 2007 has been the year of camera malfunctions, so just imagine them, will you?