Varying degrees of amazing

Here is a picture of me taken literally yesterday to prove to you that I am still alive.

I look quite happy in this photo, don't I? It helps that I am on a week of leave at the moment and, at the time this photo was taken, I was enjoying a very sunny stroll along the promenade in Largs. The dog is Ziggy, who belongs to my friend Carol. Still, if she'd looked away for too long, the dog would have been mine. He was just the coolest, un-yappiest Jack Russell I have ever known.

Anyway, yes I am still alive. That means some amazing (and unamazing) things have happened since I last blogged at any length...

My six month contract at work, which then became a 12 month contract, went permanent.

I went to see Take That in concert and it pissed down with rain for the whole show.

I went to see Cyndi Lauper in concert and she was amazing.

I went to London to see Janet Jackson at the Royal Albert Hall. She was amazing (Hooray!!!) for all of the 70 minutes (Boooo!!!) that she was actually on the stage.

Nerina Pallot and I had a twitter conversation and she read this blog and said it was "funny". Utterly utterly amazing.

Ricky Wilde and I exchanged "you are amazing" tweets on twitter. He was joking but I was serious.

I went to see Amy Grant perform to an audience of just 400 churchy types in Glasgow and cried when she sung "Oh How The Years Go By" and again during "I Will Remember You". Uh-may-zing.

I got a second sticker at fat class, which told me I'd lost a stone in about 6 weeks. Just another stone to go, then.

I won an auction for 178 Garbage Pail Kids stickers (remember them?) on eBay but was peeved when what I got in the post was a Donkey Kong Game & Watch console instead. Unamazing.

Our Sky box at home got zapped in a thunder storm. :-(

My sister had her apartment robbed and £300 stolen from her bank account - but the Police swiftly caught the fucker.

I went to see the last Harry Potter movie. I didn't cry but I did think it was amazing.

I threw out about two and a half bags of clothes which are now too big for me. A-bloody-mazing!!!