santa baby

dear santa

thanks for noticing how extremely very good i've been this year - particularly in the last three months. i just wanted to express my gratitude for the two big things that have come into my life recently - surely you were behind this kind of karmic generosity? sure you were!

thank you for my bike - i love it and i go to the shed and talk to it most days because i've been too sick to ride it for the last fortnight

thank you for my boyfriend - he is lovely and just what i wanted! how did you know, santa, how did you know?

i don't want to seem ungrateful, but i don't thank you for the h1n1 novel influenza virus i got last week. i still feel about a half past dead, and am operating at about 30% capacity. it's putting a real kink in the bike riding, sea kayaking and kite surfing i wanted to try, and when i left work today i had to sit down on the corner for ten minutes to avoid some sort of complete systems failure. the silver lining, i guess, is that i quit smoking nearly two weeks ago. funny how you can just decide to give up something that's not good for you and do it without making a big deal out of it.

so, thanks santa. i'm appreciative and grateful and happy

fly safe - there's a million checkpoints at this time of year, and only a bloody idiot drinks and flies magical sleighs

love(d up) chirst