odd week, disjointed post

It's been quite a week, hasn't it?  I won't rehash as I know from reading all your posts that a lot has already been said.  Let me just put this out there and I'll leave the topic alone.  We went through the Brexit vote this year and so I know how it feels when half of your country does something so completely inexplicable, divisive, backward-looking and self-destructive.  Cold comfort though this may be - you guys can fix this in four years, and I have faith that you will.

And to add insult to injury, we lost Leonard Cohen today.  The world is a lot poorer this week...

I'm home sick today.  Well, I have been all week apart from a misguided two hours when I went to work yesterday.  Basically I was sent home and told not to darken the doors again until Monday.  Most of the time I've felt too ill (chest infection, nothing major) to do anything but Netflix and chills (see what I did there?) but today I am feeling perky.  And an email telling me I had a new comment on my last post galvanised me to come over and say hello.

Hello!  How are you all?  I have spent the past few months floating on clouds of bliss.  One of my friends told me to savour every moment of being engaged because it's a time like no other and, ever obedient, I have been.  I still haven't quite stopped staring goofily at my ring, but I have it down to once a week now.  In the months since getting engaged and now we have set a date, found our wedding venue, given our intention-to-marry notices, booked a registrar and I have found my dress.  Sometimes having a type A personality works in your favour :-)  S has met more of my friends and charmed them in his usual manner (eclectic interests, dry sense of humour, strange addiction to puns, encyclopaedic knowledge of London's history).

Oh, and I'm not giving you the finger, I'm showing off my engagement ring :-)