The beginning of the festivities, and a moment of appreciation.

Last night was the first official Christmas gathering I've been to. Me and some of my friends from college (Charlotte, Jess, Nathan, Robyn and Andrea...yeah, you got a mention, congrats.) went to Franco's for a nice, civilised meal. And then we realised we were in Wigan. There was what was clearly a work's do on the table next to us (I don't know why we got sat next to them, the restaurant was basically empty. I'm assuming this table scared all the other customers away), who it can only be assumed they had been treating Franco's as their local for the majority of the day, as they were all HAMMERED, and the waiting-on staff clearly hated every single one of them. Understandably. One particular woman's voice plagued our entire evening. I found out that the only underwear she owns are thongs, and Charlotte saw the evidence of this in a gash-flashing incident in the toilets which left her traumatised.

However, apart from that, I loved it. I realised that it doesn't matter how long I haven't seen my college friends in, nothing ever changes and it's like we've never been away when I do see them. I cannot WAIT to spend New Year's Eve with some of them. I love them a lot, and I do wish certain members of the group would stop spending 8 months of the year in a different country (yes Jess, that's you). I also love it when we refer to ourselves as 'the girls', regardless of the fact that Nathan is there. He's an honourary girl.

Now, I'm going to have a moan. Because an entry in my blog isn't complete until I've complained about something. I hate the snow. Like, I can't even put my hate for it into words. I enjoyed it for about 15 minutes while me and my brother played in the garden in the snow with the dog, but then the dog got too cold and wanted to go in, and the novelty had gone. Every train back to Chester today has either been cancelled or delayed, meaning it was basically impossible for me to get a train back to Chester tonight, so my mum has to take me, because I would get BOLLOCKED if I rang work tomorrow and said I couldn't get back to work my shift tomorrow because of the snow. Add to this the fact that it took me two and a half hours to complete a 45 minute train journey yesterday to get home, and you'll understand why the snow is the bane of my life at the moment.