so my apologies for a week without posting. monday - i brought everyone up to date on a rake of stuff that had been going on in glorious technicolour detail. and then something went wrong and i lost the entire post. £*&^)%$^&
so. here's the black and white version (hence the title, which i realise will mean nothing to those below a certain age and from outside the UK):
sufjan stevens at spring & airbrake: marvellous show. thoroughly enjoyable. whole thing was infused with a delightfully geeky warm genuine-ness. highlights: peoria, jacksonville and metropolis.
Pádraig's 30th birthday. utterly marvellous. thank you for the votes for the madonna hair. for reasons far too dull to enter into here i ended up going not with the FM magazine look as all but one you suggested but went as "desperately seeking ally sheedy" with some rather dramatic twists to my hair. despite my skirt trying to fall off twice on the dancefloor the outfit worked well and i didn't remove the gloves even after i got changed into my pj's.
apparantly some bright spark is gonna make a blog page for all the pics. if anyway comes across it - post a link in the comments.
everyone looked fab, music provided by yours truly seemed to go down well on the dancefloor and we danced our leg warmers off and the live performances were amazing with a very supportive and encouraging audience.
highlights: 50 or so guests being led by the fabulous jenn 'flash dance' clark in the choreographed dance moves to "thriller". stunning. and getting to perform "i've had the time of my life" with phil (guitar and vocals), chris (harmonies) and tim (harmonies and accordian) with Pád and Dani playing Jonny and Baby on the dance floor and then every other guest spontaneously leaping up and recreating the closing scene. it was a.w.e.s.o.m.e.
oh, and i managed not to totally cock up an acapella version of 'manic monday' with keli t. we did pretty darn good. or maybe that was the rather large number of smirnoff ice i'd consumed blurring my sense of reality.
but boy, did we have fun.
went back to Pád's for post party debrief and watched top gun. went to bed after 5.
hangovers were nursed over a very "sex and the city" brunch with the morning papers with dani, keli h., and gail.
sweet.
sunday night saw a viewing of 'the aristocrats' at QFT. skip it. really. do not waste your time. b.o.r.i.n.g.
rather more exciting was phil harrison offering to conceive, design, birth and host a website for me. a design board is currently in progress to help him come up with a fitting design. i am very honoured that he is doing it and we got quite excited. you can see his work at the ikon site (see right).
monday saw me turn 32. 1am saw gareth hand over fabulous gifts form london and from his good self as we supped a late night cuppa. bless him. i have spent my birth-fest (which isn't over yet) wearing a rather chic cream woolen cloche hat from jude. very Parisian.
after a rather work lite day and lunch with Pád and a load of work colleagues, Monday evening saw a little gathering of folks for pizza, wine and chat at the cottage. a nice evening with some fabulous gifts. highlight: keli h reading "my vagina is angry" from the vagina monologues. beautifully. what an awesome crew of friends.
tuesday group continued the 'fest with dinner, more fab gifts (including the new boards of canada album - can;t wait to discuss that release with the little bro.)
rest of week has been a bit of a slump. not feeling well at all and didn't make it to work for wednesday or thursday. i slept a lot and lay about feeling sorry for myself.
hence no posts.
today was an improvement and featured a very mourishing therapeutic ::2 hour:: IM chat with Pád, followed up by more IM self esteem boosting therapy and laughs with Jude, from here-on-in to be known as Gabrielle. don't ask.
lots of confessional stuff about where i'm at and it was all very supportive and helpful. thanks to you both.
::you rock. my world::
tomorrow night sees cocktails at a new swanky paris style drinking establishment in belfast at which i shall be wearing a new glam wrap-around dress. shoes (with heels!) and stockings need to be bought in the morning. eek!
sunday sees Pád throwing a dinner party in my honour on sunday night to top off the birthfest. i got to pick the menu and the guest list. niiiice.
so, all in all, despite not being well for a couple of days ad an emotional blip or two along the way, the past week has been great. i feel very cared for and so far am loving being 32.
as i've scrawled on my new chalk board in the kitchen (thanks to brian and jennie),
::one day at a time, sweet Jesus, one day at a time::
blessings to you all. have a great weekend. and whatever you do, be fabulous.
Xena.
p.s. by the way, has anyone seen the ads for Bleak House? it starts on the beeb next week. ooh it looks good. and its been adapted by andrew davies, who did the fabulous adaptation of Tipping the Velvet.
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