I love having time off work, I guess most people do - You can have lie ins, do what you want, eat what you want and promise yourself that the diet starts next year, drink loads and spend time with the people you love.
Sadly Jeff and I are apart over Christmas and even when we were together before, this was the case. His parents and family live about a 6 hours drive away, so he left on Christmas eve to be with them and won't be back until the 2nd January. My parents and family, on the other hand - only live an hour away, therefore I can travel back and forth to see them over the Christmas period without having to spend all my time with them.
It seems quite cruel at the moment - having only got back in contact with Jeff, to be seperated at the moment. We email and we had a really lovely 2 hour chat tonight, however we won't be seeing each other for another few days and when you've not seen someone for over a year and then suddenly, out of the blue, start making contact with them again... it sucks Donkey balls to not be able to continue seeing each other.
I guess in the grand scheme of things, it's not a big issue - it just seems it at the moment as we can't be together. I can do 'perspective' and I can understand that considering some women have to say goodbye to their partners for months whilst they are in the army / work abroad etc, the Christmas period is absolutely nothing - I think it just feels like eternity at the moment as we enjoyed the last month so much, rediscovering each other and enjoying spending time together.
Both of us have had crappy things happen to us since we said goodbye - and what really hurts is that we can't hug or touch each other. I think, when we were on the phone tonight, both of us would have given anything to have 5 minutes with each other...
Still, only another few days and hopefully we will be back together. Until then, we shall email like crazy and enjoy the time with our family and friends as hopefully... we'll have the rest of our lives to spend time with each other.
-Molly
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Carols by candlelight
We had a fantastic time last night at the ‘Carols by Candlelight’ concert in London.
I met Jeff after work at 5pm at the train station and we headed into London – it was quite tight as the doors opened at 6:45pm, with the concert starting at 7:30pm, so we had already decided to grab something on the way. A couple of tube stops and changes and we were in Knightsbridge – I hadn’t been there for ages and had forgotten that it was home to Harrods, Harvey Nicks etc. The buildings looked very festive with all the twinkly lights and I was suddenly annoyed with myself for not taking a days holiday, after all, we could have arrived when the store was still open and who knows what kind of things we could have bought?
Hunting for quick and easy food to eat thankfully didn’t prove too difficult. We found a Japanese ‘takeaway’ place called Wasabi which allowed you to mix and match your own sushi or take away some hot food in a box or tub. Sadly the sushi that they had didn’t look that edible, so Jeff and I got some chicken teriyaki and some katsu curry and hurried to the Royal Albert hall, only to stand outside by a wall and scoff the lot. I’m not entirely sure what the other ticket holders thought of us, stood by a wall, shoving chicken curry into our gob, but hey – it tasted great and was certainly better than going hungry!
We finally got into the hall at about 7:10pm, found our seats and sat down. We were in the arena so the view wasn’t overly great, but as we would be mostly singing and not watching the orchestra or choir, I don’t think it detracted too much from the whole experience. We got to sing LOADS of carols such as ‘Away in a manger’ and ‘Oh come all Ye faithful’ Jeff has a really good voice so it was quite intimidating trying not to sound completely tone deaf next to him – the fact there were loads of other people singing helped a lot. It was really, really nice just listening to classical music with Jeff – he admitted to me that he hadn’t actually been to any concerts since we had split as none of his friends are really interested in it, nor was the lady he had a relationship with this year. It felt really nice that both of us were there and both genuinely wanted to be there – You know in a lot of relationships, someone has to compromise and do things to make the other person happy? Most of the time it seems to be the case that Jeff and I want to do the same thing, anyway.
The concert finished by 10:00pm and we didn’t stay for the encore – I felt a bit mean, however it would take us 2 hours to get back and my cough had started to play up again so I really just wanted to get back and go to sleep. We managed to get back to Jeff’s for 11:50pm which wasn’t bad considering the train was delayed at the station due to it ‘awaiting a train staff member’. I had a thoroughly fantastic night and thought it was a great ‘final thing’ to do in 2010 before we said goodbye to each other over the Christmas and New Year period.
-Molly
Hunting for quick and easy food to eat thankfully didn’t prove too difficult. We found a Japanese ‘takeaway’ place called Wasabi which allowed you to mix and match your own sushi or take away some hot food in a box or tub. Sadly the sushi that they had didn’t look that edible, so Jeff and I got some chicken teriyaki and some katsu curry and hurried to the Royal Albert hall, only to stand outside by a wall and scoff the lot. I’m not entirely sure what the other ticket holders thought of us, stood by a wall, shoving chicken curry into our gob, but hey – it tasted great and was certainly better than going hungry!
We finally got into the hall at about 7:10pm, found our seats and sat down. We were in the arena so the view wasn’t overly great, but as we would be mostly singing and not watching the orchestra or choir, I don’t think it detracted too much from the whole experience. We got to sing LOADS of carols such as ‘Away in a manger’ and ‘Oh come all Ye faithful’ Jeff has a really good voice so it was quite intimidating trying not to sound completely tone deaf next to him – the fact there were loads of other people singing helped a lot. It was really, really nice just listening to classical music with Jeff – he admitted to me that he hadn’t actually been to any concerts since we had split as none of his friends are really interested in it, nor was the lady he had a relationship with this year. It felt really nice that both of us were there and both genuinely wanted to be there – You know in a lot of relationships, someone has to compromise and do things to make the other person happy? Most of the time it seems to be the case that Jeff and I want to do the same thing, anyway.
The concert finished by 10:00pm and we didn’t stay for the encore – I felt a bit mean, however it would take us 2 hours to get back and my cough had started to play up again so I really just wanted to get back and go to sleep. We managed to get back to Jeff’s for 11:50pm which wasn’t bad considering the train was delayed at the station due to it ‘awaiting a train staff member’. I had a thoroughly fantastic night and thought it was a great ‘final thing’ to do in 2010 before we said goodbye to each other over the Christmas and New Year period.
-Molly
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Fun Filled Festive Frivolities
What do you do when you start seeing your ex partner again after a year?
Go for a drink? Check.
Spend loads of time catching up, filling each other in on what each other has been up to over the year? Check.
Spend the best part of 3-4 days making mince pies, mulled wine, visiting a number of farm shops, baking cupcakes, buying fine wine from a wine merchant, have a meal in a very posh hotel, book a holiday, decide to go to the annual ‘Cheese awards’, go to a classical music concert in London?
Erm.... Check?
The last few days have been awesome – For both of us, I think. Despite me having a very nasty cold, Jeff and I have been getting to know each other again and have done all manner of funky stuff.
When we were together, we used to go on loads of really cool holidays. We went to Prague and Berlin and did loads of really, really cool UK holidays such as visiting Northumberland, Scotland, Ipswich, Cornwall, Exeter, Oxford, Hertfordshire..... We always managed to find fun things to do and as we’re both National Trust nuts, it usually involved at least one castle or stately home. Getting back in contact, we thought it might be nice to go on holiday somewhere else, somewhere new, so we can make some more memories. Being the ‘control freak’ in the partnership, I suggested to Jeff that I organise everything and he just turn up at the train station and I’ll tell him where we’re going and what we’re doing. So, on January 28th 2011, Jeff will be turning up at the train station and will be told where our mini weekend break will be! I’ve been having great fun organising everything and on the day we travel to our destination, will be giving Jeff an envelope with a number of clues in it, so he can guess where we’re going....
Saturday morning, Jeff picked me up in his 4 wheel car due to the snow issue – I do drive (and it’s an absolutely fantastic car), however Jeff’s handles better in the snow, so he drove to my house and off we went to the first farm shop. Neither of us had visited it before and we managed to buy quite a lot of ingredients to make ‘Venison and red wine casserole’ which was the plan on Saturday night. Unfortunately, I had come down with a very nasty chest infection, therefore there was a lot of coughing and nose blowing as well as the chattering nineteen to the dozen. We then headed to a supermarket to get all the rest of the ingredients and some cough mixture for me.
Everything seems rather surreal at the moment – The last time I was at that supermarket was when Jeff and I were together over a year ago – The last time we spoke on the phone, was when he dumped me, the last time we went out for a posh meal was the week before we split.... I know it will get easier, but it’s been a very odd few days.
Once armed with the food stuffs we headed back to Jeff’s house and started to make mince pies – I have to say, they turned out rather well considering we made some changes to the recipe. The casserole, we did later on in the day and again, it turned out incredibly well – We woofed it down with some lovely crusty rolls and then couldn’t really move for a few minutes. I think Jeff is planning on having the leftovers today for lunch. We made mulled wine ‘half properly’ and it tasted great – I think that’s another thing we have in common, we both like a drink :-)
Sunday was more farm shops and a lovely walk in the snow along a river. It was lovely just holding hands and everything being far less... complicated. When I was working away from home, Jeff travelled to see me at least once a week and I didn’t see him at weekends as I was so busy trying to fit all my friends and family in – just ‘chilling’ and spending time together without having to worry about travelling back to work is something I’m still really happy about. I taught Jeff another one of my recipes and the Lamb Byriani turned out exceptionally well – I think we’ll be the size of houses if we continue cooking every night, though.
Monday night was the night we had booked the posh meal – it was a tradition of ours to go to this hotel once a year at Christmas. Last Christmas we had just split up, therefore we obviously didn’t go, however when we got back in contact we decided that this was a tradition that we both enjoyed and therefore were willing to try again and risk damaging the memories. I shouldn’t have worried, it was utterly, utterly perfect. Jeff looked absolutely gorgeous in a black suit and when I saw him come downstairs he literally took my breath away – It was snowing when we got to the hotel and sitting by the open log fire with a drink, a gorgeous man and snow outside was such a perfect evening. The meal was wonderful, the service was (as always) brilliant and it didn’t feel like we had been apart at all.
On Tuesday, we decided we would make cupcakes and go and investigate fine wines – Jeff knew of this brilliant Fine Wine shop and Wine merchants very close to his house so we decided to go there and investigate. It was fantastic! We got a few bottles of fine wine and had this really, really nice man recommend a sweet red to us (I’m pretty OK with white wines, don’t have a clue when it comes to red wine). Neither of us had been there before and it was nice to think that having only been in contact just over a month, we’d already found loads of amazing places and done loads of really fun things together. The cupcakes turned out brilliantly – we decorated them ourselves, I think Jeff should quit IT and go into the cupcake making business as I certainly think he has talent in that area!
Lunch time was a wonderfully European affair of cheese, meat and bread – one of the cheeses seemed to have won an award at the ‘annual cheese awards’ and this got me interested, so we Googled the awards and have no decided that due to our shared love of cheese, we will be going to the annual 2011 cheese awards – What relationship can fail if you both share a love of cheese?
Tonight is the classical music concert and I’m so excited. Jeff and I share a love of classical music and whilst I don’t profess to be very knowledgeable in that area, I do know I enjoy listening, learning and experiencing things with the man I never thought I would see again.
- Molly
Go for a drink? Check.
Spend loads of time catching up, filling each other in on what each other has been up to over the year? Check.
Spend the best part of 3-4 days making mince pies, mulled wine, visiting a number of farm shops, baking cupcakes, buying fine wine from a wine merchant, have a meal in a very posh hotel, book a holiday, decide to go to the annual ‘Cheese awards’, go to a classical music concert in London?
Erm.... Check?
The last few days have been awesome – For both of us, I think. Despite me having a very nasty cold, Jeff and I have been getting to know each other again and have done all manner of funky stuff.
When we were together, we used to go on loads of really cool holidays. We went to Prague and Berlin and did loads of really, really cool UK holidays such as visiting Northumberland, Scotland, Ipswich, Cornwall, Exeter, Oxford, Hertfordshire..... We always managed to find fun things to do and as we’re both National Trust nuts, it usually involved at least one castle or stately home. Getting back in contact, we thought it might be nice to go on holiday somewhere else, somewhere new, so we can make some more memories. Being the ‘control freak’ in the partnership, I suggested to Jeff that I organise everything and he just turn up at the train station and I’ll tell him where we’re going and what we’re doing. So, on January 28th 2011, Jeff will be turning up at the train station and will be told where our mini weekend break will be! I’ve been having great fun organising everything and on the day we travel to our destination, will be giving Jeff an envelope with a number of clues in it, so he can guess where we’re going....
Saturday morning, Jeff picked me up in his 4 wheel car due to the snow issue – I do drive (and it’s an absolutely fantastic car), however Jeff’s handles better in the snow, so he drove to my house and off we went to the first farm shop. Neither of us had visited it before and we managed to buy quite a lot of ingredients to make ‘Venison and red wine casserole’ which was the plan on Saturday night. Unfortunately, I had come down with a very nasty chest infection, therefore there was a lot of coughing and nose blowing as well as the chattering nineteen to the dozen. We then headed to a supermarket to get all the rest of the ingredients and some cough mixture for me.
Everything seems rather surreal at the moment – The last time I was at that supermarket was when Jeff and I were together over a year ago – The last time we spoke on the phone, was when he dumped me, the last time we went out for a posh meal was the week before we split.... I know it will get easier, but it’s been a very odd few days.
Once armed with the food stuffs we headed back to Jeff’s house and started to make mince pies – I have to say, they turned out rather well considering we made some changes to the recipe. The casserole, we did later on in the day and again, it turned out incredibly well – We woofed it down with some lovely crusty rolls and then couldn’t really move for a few minutes. I think Jeff is planning on having the leftovers today for lunch. We made mulled wine ‘half properly’ and it tasted great – I think that’s another thing we have in common, we both like a drink :-)
Sunday was more farm shops and a lovely walk in the snow along a river. It was lovely just holding hands and everything being far less... complicated. When I was working away from home, Jeff travelled to see me at least once a week and I didn’t see him at weekends as I was so busy trying to fit all my friends and family in – just ‘chilling’ and spending time together without having to worry about travelling back to work is something I’m still really happy about. I taught Jeff another one of my recipes and the Lamb Byriani turned out exceptionally well – I think we’ll be the size of houses if we continue cooking every night, though.Monday night was the night we had booked the posh meal – it was a tradition of ours to go to this hotel once a year at Christmas. Last Christmas we had just split up, therefore we obviously didn’t go, however when we got back in contact we decided that this was a tradition that we both enjoyed and therefore were willing to try again and risk damaging the memories. I shouldn’t have worried, it was utterly, utterly perfect. Jeff looked absolutely gorgeous in a black suit and when I saw him come downstairs he literally took my breath away – It was snowing when we got to the hotel and sitting by the open log fire with a drink, a gorgeous man and snow outside was such a perfect evening. The meal was wonderful, the service was (as always) brilliant and it didn’t feel like we had been apart at all.
Tonight is the classical music concert and I’m so excited. Jeff and I share a love of classical music and whilst I don’t profess to be very knowledgeable in that area, I do know I enjoy listening, learning and experiencing things with the man I never thought I would see again.
- Molly
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