barefacts is over...

yay!!!

Yay!!!!!

YAY!!!!!!!

(can you tell I'm happy?)

Well, in some ways this year barefacts has been my baby, but in other ways (probably outweighing the baby-ness) it has been the absolute bane of my life, and the cause of a hell of a lot of stress and upset. But I hope that i've done something good with the paper this year, and that i'm remembered in a vaguely positive way by the people who matter. :)

So now, I am concentrating on getting content for the new website (which has to be almost completely written from scratch, as the current one is, quite frankly, poo)! I also need to mailout all the copies of barefacts since Christmas to loads of loads of companies, individuals etc etc.... a mission and a half. Plus, I'm gonna work on some ideas for GU2 after easter, hopefully get the other sabbs trained up (apart from pete who knows his stuff 100%, obviously!) so we can all cover shows if needed after Easter, when exam-fever starts. AND I have a magazine to cost, plan, design and find content for, and annual report to do (job and a half), and then bugets and handover to plan. No rest for the wicked, I guess!

This time next week I'll be at NUS Annual Conference in Blackpool, and from 8th April I get.... a week off work! I can't wait. It sounds really cheesy, but I'm going to miss Ben so much when I'm away for 4 or 5 days at conference (we've only been apart for a total of 2 weeks in the last 9 months!) but we're looking at possibly going on holiday for the week I'm off work. We've had a gander at places in Guernsey, and although it doesn't look cheap, we may just go for it. It's all about tallying up the cheap flights with the right days for self catering accommodation though..... not easy....

This weekend was a pretty momentous one - Ben's and my families met each other for the first time ever! It was quite an extended family meeting, with Ben's mum, dad, sister Gené and her finace Paul meeting my mum, dad, 2 sisters (Emma and Rachel), uncle neil and granny! After a day with ben's family on saturday, we all came up to Croydon for a concert of my dad's orchestra, hence the grand meeting. It's funny, everyone I've told about it has asked "so, when's the wedding?" I guess that lots of families do only meet when planning the wedding..... well, we're just a little premature! ;)

Well, Ben and I have just had a scrummy meal of special pasta (cooked entirely by me - wow!) and now we're going to have a watch of the first episode of Brideshead Revisited, a fantastic drama series from 1980, which I bought my parents the box set of for Christmas, and have subsequently borrowed!

I'm off for a kiss and a cuddle and a video - bye bye!! :)