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Hello there!

I have been lurking for quite a while and have only just rejoined the boards in the last day or so. Life has been pretty crazy lately so here's some updates on me.:-

Firstly, I have been very preoccupied with my family. We have just organised a family intervention to try to convince my Dad to get help for his alcoholism. My Mum,14 year old sister and I went to an addicition counsellor for help the week before last and he helped us plan the "intervention meeting". This involved all 6 kids (aged 29 to 11) meeting him together when he was sober (this was very very hard to orchestrate) We all wrote letters telling him how much we love him and care about him and how his drinking is hurting us and begging him to get help. We were so scared about it, but I am delighted to report that he got very emotional and said that while he felt that he needed to drink that he would talk to the counsellor, so we are all thrilled and so glad that we invested so much time and emotion into the planning. It was without a doubt the hardest thing that I have ever done. My Dad called it the greatest day of his life, having his 6 children tell him how much they love him and how much they care.

phew,right on to other stuff. Life is moving along. Work is really really busy at the moment and there are a lot of people on holidays etc so I am under pressure.

Wedding wise I got shoes and jewellery for my bridesmaids (on the wedding boards I can call them BMs, doesn't really work here though

) The shoes are lilac satin mules with a kitten heel and a diamante oval buckle, they are very cute and were in a sale. The jewellery is silver with tiny lilac stones, I got necklaces and bracelets for both girls and earrings for one.

Also we spent about two hours on Sunday morning setting up our gift registry, its sooo much fun! They give you a scanner and you go around the shop scanning the stuff that you want, P loved the scanning, I loved the shopping. I have a dyson vacuum cleaner on it and a kenwood chef food mixer and then lots of pretty porcelain stuff and a lovely square white dinner service. We kept it to all practical stuff as we have pretty much everything that we need, and a tiny little house so no room for pretty dustcatchers.

I am off to London this weekend to a friend's hen weekend, staying in her house in Essex (no UK girls she is NOT marrying a footballer!

) We are having a pampering day and a winetasting and then we are heading out for a meal and going to schooldisco.com so we have to dress up in school uniforms...cringe, I have really chunky legs for my size and EVERYONE is talking about doing a Britney in "Hit Me Baby one more time" video look with a minimini-skirt but I can't do this, it would look soo terrible on me...argh!

Anyway that's all for now, sorry its soo long

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