"For Everything A Reason..."

So it was Team Danevan's first birthday last week (5th January). Awwwwwwwwwww! Yes – a year and four days ago I succumbed to the amounting pressure; I dropped my resolute guard, buckled and finally caved in. A little kissy kissy on the street corner and a year later here I am. Bloody living with him!
That fateful night involved a massive amount of drinking as you can imagine. The tipple of choice being B52s – a shooter cocktail featuring a layer of Kahlua, a layer of Baileys and another of Cointreau. Hmmmmmmm yummy. So in true anniversary style I went on a hunt of all the near-by off licences to our home in search of the three ingredients to recreate the mood. 5 shops later I finally purchased them all and skipped back with a cheeky grin on my face. I lost count how many we did after 5….AND in four days we're out of kahlua AND Baileys and half way through the Cointreau.

Soooo…..I did something stupid the other day. I've been packaging up sets of the 4 vinyls we're releasing throughout January and sending them off to journalists and industry wankers alike. I did about 50 yesterday. There was one person - Tank who manages Hundred Reasons – who’s address I was not sure of so I carefully packaged it all up and wrote 'Tank' on the postage sticker with no address at all and left it to one side. Well thought I left it to one side in actual fact I stupidly put it in the post bag and off its gone into the Great British postal system. What a frikking numpty! It kinda reminds me of the time where on Christmas Eve (2004) I happily laid out all the presents I had bought for everyone on the coffee table in front of a movie I love with a bottle of wine and a doobie and set about lovingly wrapping up the gifts. As happy as Larry I was until I found out that in my quest to buy silver wrapping paper a few hours previously, I had in fact bought fucking translucent wrap instead. It was like fucking Clingfilm!!!!!!!! Strategically placed bows, ribbons and parcel wrap became my life saver…what a dick.

Oh…..post just came in and Tank’s has been returned. I have to admit to being a little disappointed. Would have been soooo cool if it had got there.
DAMMIT.

I'm almost at the stage of quitting smoking, AGAIN (I gave up for 18 months and then fell apart about 9 months ago). I'm fully aware how utterly ridiculous that sounds but I'm reading a book that helps you quit and you're s'pose to smoke whilst reading it and then you quit at the end - I'm on chapter 20 just over half way. I must admit to something, I do really wanna stop smoking because, as this book has made me realise again, its utter bollocks but last time I read the book I really felt like I didn't want to smoke anymore and couldn't wait to finish the book. I haven't quite had that this time round which is worrying me. I think my main fear is that when I finish I'm going to find it hard and difficult and miserable but as the book puts it in an annoyingly repetitive but hugely successful way - its none of those things, its actually enjoyable to not have to think about smoking anymore and you do feel immediately better about yourself - so I'm just gonna shuddup, finish the book and get on with it. Maybe by the end of the week - I would have stopped altogether. Hurrah.