I feel like I’ve been spending most of December down a dark hole! My shoulder and hand still hurt like hell and I was pretty much in a world of pain at work, especially using my computer. My manager was really great about it all though and she kept telling me to take breaks when the pain got too bad. I persevered by moving everything really close to me so I wasn’t at least straining my shoulder. I’m really tired of the aches and pains though and I’m getting impatient for it all to go away. Thankfully, things were really quiet at work and I suspect it’s going to get even quieter over the next couple of weeks as things start to wind down. I don’t finish up for the holidays until midday on Christmas Eve but I’m not really planning on doing a whole lot of work!

We’ve got a couple of lunches coming this week which will take us away from the work. One is with my team and the other is for the whole office as a thank you for all our hard work and there are rumours going around about a Wii competition afterwards so there won’t be much work getting done. It reminds me of when we used to take games in with us on the last day of school!

In a way, I’m really not expecting much from Christmas Day this year as it is only going to be me and my parents. My dad is such a killjoy at this time of the year and never wants to do anything - it really takes the joy out of the day because my mum ends up trying to pick a fight. It’s going to be so strange not having Grandma at our table this year.