another day in paradise(?)

and the second day back at work after Christmas. yet another useless day! nobody's at work in town yet, thus we have no clients to go help. yesterday we had 2 calls. 2.

in other news....friday braai at the farm kathryn's looking after was good, met some new ppl, and recognized someone else i'd met years ago. ended the evening desperately seeking shooting stars and polishing off or homemade cape velvet dom pedro (and no, i still have no clarity on the correct spelling of it!)

saturday.....worked for the second last time and made a little bit of money. customers get the ugliest over Christmas time it seems. spent a little time at mark's place that evening, gareth, aran and siobhan too. the last two picked us up some mcdonald's on the way there. nothing like that to stuff your face with!

sunday, my last retail working day ever (i damn well hope!). most ppl didnt actually know it was my last day. ah no matter. still made some cash, so at least i'll have a little pocket money next month! went to the midnight service at kathryn's dad's church (on their property). very different for me, haven't been to a proper anglican service before. fine though, nothing strange at all!

monday....Christmas. well that was err...entertaining. family came over. that means sisters and gran. always good to have family over, just Christmas seems less and less fun each year. dad couldnt stay sitting up for too long, gets tired really easily. everyone sort of petered out towards the end of the afternoon. i got woken up at 8:30 by my mom asking me to go rescue my eldest sister on the side of the n1 whose car'd broken down. not exactly what i envisioned doing on Christmas!

tuesday.....hmmmm.....ah yes, went to kathryn and shared a picnic, later went to her parents house and played 30 seconds with them. good way to guage people's reactions, play something competitive. was all good. stayed for supper and then went with the whole family to watch flushed away in stellenbosch. surprisingly much better than the preview made it look!

yesterday was completely and utterly uneventful. dead like today's gonna be!