Well Christmas is over for yet another year. Kinda scary to think that a full year has gone so fast! But also lovely because 2006 has been a wonderful year! At the beginning I was expecting it to be pants but it turned out amazing. I went to POTC2 Premiere, I passed my driving test, I got excellent GCSE results, I became a godmother, but most of all I am still alive a year later without needing to be listed for transplant yet. That is a major achievement in my books! 2006 also had it's downs, but when I'm old (and not wrinkley, botox is a wonderful thing!!) I will always remember the highs, not the lows.

But back to Christmas. I came home from hospital on Thursday and felt rather well so decided I would take advantage and do lots. Big mistake so I spent Christmas eve on the sofa under my duvet resting and even got dad to do my physio for me! It was so worth it though on Christmas day. This year my entire extended family all decided to return home for Christmas. It was magical! We went to see Kayne after much present opening was done (after finally getting to sleep at the horrible hour of 4am and woke again at 6, opps!). He was too young to know it was christmas but did love the fact that winnie the pooh sang songs, ok I have to admit I was more so than him but still! We then headed to my dad's mum's house to see family there. It was utter mayhem! But lovely all the same. Me and my two cousins, dad and my uncles mark and connor all decided that then would be a wonderful time to try out mark's new flying aeroplane thingi. Um no. We ended up froze outside so decided to try it in the living room (I should point out my gran's living room is HUGE!) I think the last count of times people were hit was 13. Yes we were wonderful at it! It was however highly amusing so was well worth it. Then on to my other grandparents house for dinner. We arrived and I promptly fell asleep on the sofa until dinner was ready (this may or may not have been a tactic to avoid being sociable but I still needed the sleep). Granny as usual made a gorgeous christmas dinner (I am a sucker for my granny's cooking at the best of times!). I decided to eat more than my weight in food which everyone thought rather funny that a tiny person could eat so much, yet mum still thought I needed calogen grrr! But between dinner and desert I fell asleep on dad's knee. He kicked me off though once I started to wriggle because I am quite boney. Oh well it was good while it lasted! Desert was then made specially for me because I wanted it (yes I know I am spoilt but good spoilt not bad spoilt!). So after opening more presents and chatting for a bit we headed home so I could rest as by this point I was ready to fall in a heap and pass out. So once home I slept again then watched ridiclous amounts of two pints of larger. It was great!

Boxing night my mad mother decided to invite all family over for drinks. Me, ryan and connor ended up in my room playing the 360 and geting very drunk. Thankfully all grandparents had left by the time we got to the point of 'I really need to sleep or be sick now!' It was a very good night though and we did be sociable for a while. I think the adults were just as drunk as us though! Four people slept in my bed that night and somehow no-one killed each other. Quite a thing when all four of us are very restless sleepers!

I am incredibly proud of how I held up over the Christmas period though. I manged to have a wonderful time yet manage to take care of myself at the same time. Normally it's one or the other as once I start enjoying things I forget to rest! I did start some orals on Wednesday to combat a rather lovely cough I have but hopefully they will work and no IV's will be needed! After leaving hospital I was at my lowest weight ever and still havn't managed to put any on but that will take time!

I am now really looking forward to 2007!! So that is all for now.
Happy new year all and I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas!
Neesh
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