Speedy update

Dear Diary,

To bring you up to date, before I depart to Snooze-land before tomorrow:

Yesterday's shift was awful BECAUSE:

• Only 3 of us were in, which included a power-hungry Team Leader. Us 3, and 3 alone had to do every single job ALL day. Knackering as fook.
• In an attempt to eat as little as possible before Come Dine With Me, bought a Turkey stuffing sandwich from Staff Canteen. And it was fucking VILE.
• We didn't get HALFWAY through the jobs. We in big trouble......
• I managed to trip and topple a steel cage containing 6000 washed, polished, counted and organised knives, forks and spoons - which, despite my trying desperately to catch them, scattered all over the floor....... just as Carmichael turned the corner and saw me. Nice. I also now have about 7 lovely new bruises, 6 in a cluster on my right shin, and a big dock-off beast along my arm. Tasty.
• Lee was not there, when he should've been. Why? Because he was being interviewed. ABOUT THE EVENTS OF SATURDAY NIGHT. Of course, we were thinking; "What a legend - we've all become such good friends and he likes us so much, he's presented us with a free bar for the night!" Which I'm told was true - but of course, none of us REALLY stopped to think how bad it might look to the superiors....... a 23 year-old lad authorising an un-authorised FREE bar, and letting us get pissed and boogie down on L********** property till the early hours, without fully making sure everyone got home safe and taking responsibility. Doesn't look too rosy, does it? Anyway, he was off being interviewed - I prayed he wouldn't lose his job over it.
• Aforemention Power Hungry Team Leader. What a boring bastard he was today. Ended up sacking off the turkey sandwich to wander round the shopping centre, he was annoying me that much.
• Going out on Party Room 2 Terrace for a quick "fag break" (without the fag), and staring wistfully at the view. Looked at the cranes, decorated with fairy lights, and felt a glow in my heart at the thought of these builders, determined to bring Christmas to all by making the effort and stringing up lights. Conveyed this to Other Worker, her reply was: "No, it's so the planes don't fly too low and crash into them." Oh.

CDWM was excellent. In true Katrina-stylee I was behind on almost everything I did, forgot to do loads of stuff, was massively dis-organised, but everything came together in the end! Gave them both the same present - a fantastic Ann Summers endorsed missive, entitled "How to give a mind-blowing BJ". Bought it myself last year. Two words: Pure. Gold. Simply READING it had Aaron crossing his legs when he saw it by my bed one time....... Loved the meals, finished the wine, watched "Knocked Up" and laughed harder than I have done in ages. A success, in my eyes!

Just come back from takeaway at Auntie's. I had a FINE-arse Prawn Curry, and my fortune cookie told me "Thursday will be your lucky day". Thursday happens to be tomorrow - ie: Christmas Day. The way I see it, that could mean two things:

A) I will be very lucky to have such a lovely family get-together, at which I'm allowed to help cook and will receive presents and watch Christmas TV.

B) Something outstanding will happen. Something lucky. Dammit, why didn't I do the Lottery?!

Hmmmmm...... Anyway. We watched and howled at episodes of "Not going out" followed by Top 50 Comedy moments, then, about half 11, went home carrying bags of presents for under the treeeeeeeeeee!!

KAT'S TOP 5 THINGS I LOVE WITH HEART AND SOUL ABOUT CHRISTMAS:

1) Decorations - in particular, fairy lights. They are EVERYWHERE and I fucking LOVE IT. They brighten up houses, make everywhere look automatically cheerful, bring a smile to my face whenever I see them, and make a real testament to the British sense of enthusiasm and effort. Have had fairy lights mounted in every uni residence I resided in - and would genuinely decorate my room with tinsel, if it wasn't so insanely weird.

2) Takeaway. An O'Donnell family tradition. Need I say more? I'm a creature of habit

3) Made for TV Christmas TV. This year's line-up is outstanding. Besides, what else are you meant to do in between eating, unwrapping presents and drinking? Go for a walk? Bite me.

4) Christmas songs - I can never get enough of them. Not even after 4 weeks of them on a loop at the Pub and the L***********. So damned brilliant. My faves: "Fairytale of New York," "So here it is Merry Christmas", and "I wish it could be Christmas every day". Utter catchiness.

5) The sheer excitement of it all. It grips the country, and is almost better than the actual event. Nothing produces tingles of excitement quite like national anticipation. Hence why I love the World Cup.

Right, I'm off to bed. Season's greetings, etc... and I'll see you tomorrow, folks!

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