Happy New Year, crepey friends. Have tried to post a couple of times over Xmas, but phone/tablet did an update that means MNing on them is almost impossible as the keyboard pops up over the dialogue box. It's very tedious and difficult and led to a small, entirely unwitnessed MN flounce of my own. And no one called me hun or begged me to come back 
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Anyhoo - hope all medical ailments are resolving - so sorry about the shingles Crem, that is pants. Lots of immune-boosting NY resolutions for you then?
Our Christmas was sort of fun, but sooo hectic with all of dh's family at his folks. It's just too many people to really be able to enjoy time with kids and to catch up in any meaningful way. I probably wasn't in the right head frame for it this year anyway, tbh. I felt it was just endless meals being laid out and then tidied away, and as dh's family don't do Xmas telly 
, you can't even just slump on the sofa for a bit with a box of chocs, and after 3 days I get a bit desperate. I have made up for it in the last few days though - dh has been at work and I have just hung out with dcs, caught up on some work, taken things easy and watched tv. Lovely.
So 2014. I have a lot to do, as always, but am determined not to let it all get to me so much. The house is leaking? So what, my bedroom ceiling leaked all the way through my childhood. We will never pay off the mortgage? So what, neither will loads of people. I think I'm too old to embark on the career path I really want? So what, the career doesn't depend on looks or familiarity with the urban music scene (or other topic that Young People know about) so I have as much right to pursue it as anyone else. I just need to be a bit more brave.
Hope you're all having a lovely day 
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