It's Friday...Let's celebrate!

In a moment of madness (a.k.a. a health-kick), Lovely Lawyer Husband and I decided that we would stop drinking alcohol from 1st August. It's not that either of us drink excessively, but we thought that it would be generally healthier (and would help with losing a bit of weight) if we stopped having wine with dinner etc. etc. In the past we've tried to cut back a bit by just having one glass, but we've been pretty lame on the willpower front once the bottle's open. (Actually, I blame LLH and his surreptitious topping-up tendencies for this!)

Anyway, being lawyers (even if I'm just an academic one, as opposed to the real type), we of course had to have an exception to our general prohibition. We decided that we would drink champagne on celebratory occasions...birthdays, holidays, finishing PhD (that one will be a whole cellar load of champagne!). Being even more lawyerly and in need of a start-the-weekend drink, we've been working on construing a broad definition of 'celebratory occasion'. The reasoning kinda goes...It's Friday. It's the weekend. Let's celebrate.

Actually, we're not quite as lame as it sounds...we do have a slightly better reason to celebrate. We've finally finished getting our house ready to sell - yay! It seemed to take forever and the last minute jobs meant that we only got just over 3 hours sleep last night. But, it seems to be paying off...two estate agents have visited already and the valuations are as good as we'd hoped. They also said the property was perfectly presented (yay for our House Doctoring skills!) and should sell pretty quickly. So, okay, it hasn't sold yet and there's more hard work to come, but hell, as Kool and the Gang would say....Celebrate good times, come on! Now where's the champagne??