But hey, the wallowing is over, and all is well again.

Chantelle made some bacon/ham/cheese/onion pasties today – a proper stuff your face yummyfest if there ever was one. My wife is just a culinary genius. It’s almost like she just has to stand and look at the ingredients and they just organise themselves into heavenly goodies! Check out a few of her drool-inducing creations here…

We watched the second Work and the Glory film…it’s based on the novels about the Latter Day Saint movement, and how it affects the lives of a fictional family growing up in the mid west around Joseph Smith and his family. I’m always amazed when I see or read about the pioneers who just gathered their belongings and journeyed across America, often risking life and limb and losing loved ones, to follow their religion. I guess in some way it makes me appreciate the fact that if I want to learn about something or catch up on a lesson or talk I’ve missed, I can just grab a book or go on to the web, without having to journey hundreds of miles across the country.

Tomorrow, Chantelle starts her new role as a Sales Team Leader at Comet, as part of their “Next Generation” programme which puts colleagues through training and preparation for being a Team Leader over the Christmas period, with a chance of staying in the role once the peak season is over. It sucks a little that I won’t see her much during the day – we met through work after she joined Comet and came on to the same department as me!! – but I’m proud of what she’s done over these few months preparing for this, and I know she’ll do a great job leading the team she’ll be working for. Plus she gets a nice pay rise for being a Team Leader, so she’ll be bringing in a few extra pennies over Christmas…

Ahh Christmas. I haven’t even started to think about planning or shopping for Christmas this year. We’re hoping to spend a day at each of our parents’ houses this year, but apart from that neither of us have anything planned or sorted. Unless by some miracle Chantelle has organised everything and bought all her presents and is hiding them somewhere even I can’t find them..!

I’m sure I thought of so much more to say over the course of last night and this morning – I know it started with the desire to learn to dance, but right now my head is blank. I should really start writing stuff down. Like a journal. Ha. That fell flat on its face, just like my previous blog. I often wrote paragraph after paragraph when I was regularly updating my written journal, but I really should start doing that again. It seems that me and journals/blogs have commitment problems. I wonder if they have therapy for that sort of thing?