Friday Feeling

Hi people,
I'm off today, so am showing off by blogging in the day time (I know, I know, the clock's all weirdy on my blog but I dunno how to change it!!) It's 11am, I'm in my jammies, drinking tea, watching Oprah and blogging. GAH! I LOVE being off when everyone else is at work. It's bizarre really, but a day off when you should be at work seems somehow more precious than a weekend day off. Or is that just me?! Hmm....

Well, the weekend draws on apace and with it more than the usual plethora of F-U-N! My beloved husband is off to that London for the weekend with Tranmere Alliance kids for their half term trip sooooooo I get to play in my house all by myself for the weekend.....makes me think of the episode of Friends, where Rachel's in her and Monica's flat all alone....."I'm in my apartment, and I'm naked..." haha. (Don't worry, I'll keep the blinds closed HAHA!)

Tonight will involve pink wine (a nice white Zinfandel methinks), a lovely piece of salmon (which I can eat coz Rich isn't here), Green & Blacks 85% cocoa organic chocolate (from my Valentine)and HOLLYWOOD WEEK OF AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAH! What a crackin night! I am well excited!

Then, Saturday I shall spend a leisurely few hours dans la Gym and then a classy night of sophistication that is Sarah Hayes' Hen Do! We will commence with a few drinks at Alma de Cuba (http://www.alma-de-cuba.com) and then onto Il Forno (http://www.ilforno.co.uk) for dinner. Should be a cracking night, pictures to follow.

This week has been a busy one, sorry for the lack of blogness:we had a fun Valentine's which involved a trip to the Alam Balti for dinner complete with pink champagne and vintage champagne saucers....haha we are sooooooooooooooo classy! Good fun, though I ate FAR too much chocolate indeed. Hey ho, you only live once.

On Tuesday I got to see some of the fruits of my labours, or rather tha labours of the team I work with. We held the Annual Looked After Children's Achievement Awards at the Town Hall. The way it works is the young people are nominated by professionals such as Social Workers, Teachers, Foster Carers, Residential Care Staff, me for example, and every child who is nominated receives an award. The nominations can be for anything that the particular young person has achieved and they receive a certificate and a gift voucher and get to be part of an official awards ceremony - which we tailored very much to the young people, complete with helium balloons and Hersheys kisses on every table, a ridiculous amount of crisps and juice and a lot of pomp and circumstance!! It was fabulous! A lot of the young people who were there I've worked with and it was so, so nice to see them buzzing of being guests of honour for something positive rather than the usual circumstances I see them in, ie- when they're complaining that stuff's not right! (and often quite rightly so, I might add!!) Cheesy to say, but kind of reminded me why I love my job so much and why I do it. Although - If one more set of parents or foster carers had said to me 'Oooh you're a lot younger than we thought you were/sounded on the phone etc', I would have had a full on hissy fit! GAH! Anyways, a crackin' night.....especially in light of recent stats published by Unicef (See Anna's blog).

Anyways, I'm off now to enjoy some more coffee (Bean Around the World, no less) and 'This Morning'...oh bloody hell! Fern and Phil aren't on it this week...DAMMIT!

Happy weekend my lovelies xxXXxxXXxx