Hallelujah

The effing Saints managed to lose the game yesterday. Hmmmm. But we had a really good evening together round the dining table and all of the moussaka, bar one portion (dinner tonight -yum and blipped!), was demolished. It was a big hit so that's now firmly in my repertoire of good dishes that can be prepared well ahead of time and served up to grateful recipients, veggies and non dairyists alike! (My non dairy rice pudding was quite well received too. I'd have it again. The oat cream (as opposed to cow's cream) was also not bad at all as a substitute.)

After relaxing in front of some recorded XFactor, I got to bed at 11pm and felt well prepared for my return to work today.

And so it proved. I had an excellent first proper day back today. I feel completely different today from last week and now I'm feeling so much more normal, it's only now I can see how unready for work and miserable I was last week. Sometimes it's so true that only hindsight gives clear vision and understanding. So now, I feel very much accepting of my decisions last week. I really was not fit to work and did myself a lot of good by taking time out for myself.

So, work was fine and things are a bit more in perspective. I was pretty relaxed, did some administrative type tasks to ease myself in first thing then enjoyed some productive meetings with various colleagues. I asked my team not to tiptoe around me and not to mind if I have the odd 'moment' at my desk and things felt pretty good. One colleague in particular has surprised me by his understanding and generosity of spirit in offering more help this week. My faith in humankind was increased a little bit today!

As a result of all that, I am on a definite high this evening and I am actually really looking forward to work tomorrow, which is a really good sign.

Breaking news: I've broken my 'Game of Thrones' duck tonight! What am I letting myself in for? Will I get addicted like Mad Men, The Wire and Breaking Bad? We'll see...