Leaving drinks...

Hello!!

Yesterday was my 'leaving drinks' with my team in Guildford. It seemed like major stress organising getting there and having somewhere to keep the car and organising where we were going to stay etc. Luckily Yvonne and Stuart helped us out and let us stay at theirs afterwards (Yvonne drove - and drove us back to our car in Guildford this morning...and made breakfast!) so a huge thanks to them!

I was worried that I would be really late, coming from Staines to Guildford at rush hour but it all worked out fine! Doug, Dickie, Joe and Andy (my old team) were all there which was brilliant! and Yvonne and Stuart were there too, and obviously my lovely much slimmer looking husband was there too - so all in all I was very happy!

I got leaving gifts! Apparently Doug and Joe went to get the gifts - I got a creepy looking human finger pen! lol a tub of chocolate sauce from Hotel Chocolat, a water bottle (I can use at the gym) which is also a water filter, which is cool...and a Miss Chatterbox mug! lol. So very cool, thoughtful gifts - I have no idea why they bought me the mug though :-D

It was nice to catch up and have a laugh with the team...I do miss them and the way we all know each other and can take the mickey with each other and stuff...

(my)Andy got on really well with Doug, which doesn't surprise me as Doug is such a lovely nice guy! The both have a lot in common too - being quite geeky when it comes to music and other geeky stuff they were chatting about! Stuart also seemed to get on well with Doug too...to be honest everybody get on with everybody and all was hunky dorey and I had a good laugh and thoroughly enjoyed the night!

The group picture above is me (looking a bit weird) with the team and our Sarge. In the picture from left to right is:

Andy, Joe, me, Dickie (brewing up for the first time ever hence the photo) Colin, and Doug. The other picture is Doug last night! I was grateful to Doug last night because I think he got into trouble with his wife for coming out - and he stayed out quite late too (they have 2 small kids and his wife was supposed to be going to pilates!)

About 10.30pm me and (my) Andy went back with Yvonne and Stuart to their neck of the woods and went to an Indian Restaurant and we basically wrecked our diet with onion bhargi's, chicken curry, naan and obviously alcohol! When we went back to Yvonne's I fell asleep! lol...it was that lovely I'm-really-tired-and-comfy-couch-sleep... I think we went to bed about half one so for us it was quite a sensible night!

In the morning Yvonne made me beans and scrambled egg and mushrooms on toast! YUMMY!

However, I have added up my calories for today (I wrote yesterday off) and I HAVE to go to the gym if I want to eat tonight!

I am sat here writing this basically because I am putting off going to the gym...avoidance techniques...

I might run to the gym... the more calories I burn the more I can eat and drink later and I fancy a glass of red wine! Oh well better get my butt into gear!