Baby's first Christmas

Alex was one week old on his first Christmas. And he didn't have a name yet! He was still just "Baby" at that point. He was a very good cooperative boy and wore this little Santa outfit for a quick photoshoot for mummy. Some might accuse me of cruelty but I will have you know that he got away lucky, I saw a Christmas pudding outfit in Mothercare and had the decency to put it back. Even I realised it was bordering on child abuse! Still, there's always next year.

Merry Christmas 2008!!

Gosh, how long has it been since I updated? Shockingly long, is the answer you're looking for!

Not that much to report really. Been settling into the new place, working, taken a couple of trips to the States, including one for Thanksgiving. All good but apparently not worth writing much about!

This was just a quick one to say Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you had a good one. In the Poon household we enjoyed the time off work - with a lot of Guitar Hero, a fair amount of karaoke and shedloads of food, and that about sums it up! Christmas day was a nice quiet one here at the flat with my dad. There might be more details and some retrospective posts later, but I wouldn't want to a) jinx it, or b) get anyone's hopes up (neither yours nor mine!) by making big promises!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy 2008!

I hope everyone's new year has got off to a great start. I think I'm only just coming out of the holiday season now!

Christmas was nice. It was a quiet one again, just my dad, Jon and myself at home. I cooked up a storm, traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings.

Trying to work magic with parsnips and carrots

Apparently my cooking requires the supervision of 2 people!

Merry Christmas everyone!

After dinner - food coma

Jon and I both went back to work after boxing day. This is the first year I've had a full time job that requires me to work the days between Christmas and New Year and I thought it would hurt but it was actually quite cool. There were so few of us in and no bosses to be seen anywhere so it was a little eerie but nice and relaxed and never a full day. I am really loving working at Turner as you know, but the holidays really were fun, there were all sorts of shenanigans involving inflatables, mustaches, silly hats and a 5kg (!!) bar of chocolate.


New Year was a quiet one. Jon was sick so we didn't venture out, and just stayed in watching movies. I had to drink almost a whole bottle of Champagne by myself too, poor me! I must say, and this will sound weird to a lot of people, that I was looking forward to going back to work. I am not good at having time off without a holiday or a specific reason, I'm not much of a lounger or a pootler at home, and I need a regular routine and focus. Plus, my boss was away another week so I managed to ease myself in.

So, a brief reflection on 2007:

• Began 2007 in sunny Nice
• Left LBS
• Started working for Turner
  
• Went back to California in March and officially became a legal US alien
• Jon's folks visited in June and we took a trip to Istanbul with them
  
• Tuscany in July
• Embraced Turner's "summer Fridays" where we finished work at 3pm every Friday for the summer months
• Back to the States for November and Thanksgiving
• What is likely to be our last Christmas in the family home

That's extremely brief but I really can't remember anything else! It's been a good year but I'm looking forward to what 2008 will bring. Watch this space to find out what that is.

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to one and all! I am actually feeling festive this year, which is a big change. It takes a lot to beat the bah humbug out of me but I think the new office was too tough for me - lots of home-made decoration making (with varying degrees of success and rocketing tackiness and amusement) and playing cheesy Christmas tunes wore me down. I've been dragging it out a bit too - an early Christmas lunch with one of the departments, another lunch with my boss and the Department Heads, a dinner with close friends and then the office Christmas party last week which was fun, the photos are here:
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But this is my favourite picture from the night:









I got a generous and thoughtful gift from my boss, which was a very pleasant surprise, and was even sent flowers from his wife! I even went as far as to get a tree this year, and have a big feast planned for Christmas day. It'll be a fairly quiet one, just my dad, Jon and my cousin and myself, but we will eat with Christmas spirit. I'm excited.

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season, with lots of love,
Poonie xx

Dia de los muertos

So, Jon and his flatmates have been given notice to leave their flat by the end of December. It's the end of an era and a mild tragedy! So, in honour of this and to say a proper goodbye to the flat, Jon agreed to host a wee soiree. As barbecue season seemed to completely pass us by this year and we had been meaning to cook Mexican for friends, we decided on a Mexican themed party for Dia de los muertos, Day of the Dead.

Our friend Jose here, greeted guests at the door. We had a good few hungry people come and eat our home made Mexican. Thanks to everyone who came.

And for Jon, the house hunting ensues!

Happy St Patrick's Day!!