And that's the way the cookie crumbles

Last night, my string of Christmas parties came to an end. We had our company party and it was amazing! The venue was so cool - set up much like a ski lodge. Food was amazing. Great music. And amazing company.

All in all, it was a good way to close out the media Christmas season.

Now I get to start the real party - my trip home!! I can't wait to leave tomorrow - this time tomorrow, my flight will have been in the air for half an hour!!

See you all very very soon. x

I Heard the Bells (whiskey) on Christmas Day

Oh Broadcast. How I have a love-hate relationship with the parties we put on.

I had my 2nd Christmas party on Tuesday - the infamous Broadcast one. It was a very fun night but it got a bit too silly, mostly in part due to shots.

I'll leave you with a few photos. I've got my 3rd and final Christmas party tonight, the Carat company party. Going to take it easy. But on the bright side, I don't have to be at work until noon tomorrow. AND THEN, only ONE sleep until I come home! I'm beyond excited but I still don't think that I've processed the fact that I'm coming home. Still have to pack.... so much procrastination.

Love you and miss you all, and can not WAIT to see you.

Around the World in 6 hours

We're full on into Christmas party season now. I don't know where the time has gone! Firstly, can't believe it's already December. Secondly, can't believe we're almost half way through December. Work has been a whirlwind. Early closedowns, lots of campaigns... just trying to keep my head screwed on.

On Wednesday, I had my first Christmas party of the season. It was our floor party. Lou organised the whole thing. The theme was Around the World and was a costume party. We all dressed up as different citizens of the world. I chose to go as Cleopatra. It was an awesome evening and loads of fun!

Here is a photo of me and the rest of my team. As you can see, everyone put in a lot of effort!

I'm coming home in 8 days! This is what's keeping me going. Next week is going to FLY by. It's very busy, work wise and socially. Tuesday is the big Broadcast Christmas party. Wednesday I have a lunch with the J&J team and one of the contractors. Thursday is the Carat party. Friday is radio drinks. And then Saturday, I leave!

The best part of Friday next week is I get to sleep in! With the floor party, everyone was allowed to come in at noon the next day - apart from TV, mostly because we have early closedowns to deal with. So to be fair, we get to come in late next week. Friday will go by so fast!

I can not wait to come home for a White Christmas!

Love you all x

Alrighty homies, not much to report.

I've been busy doing normal things - work, social outings, etc.

Work has been really good - I've been exceedingly busy but handling it all very well. I feel like I'm starting to get a real handle on it so that makes me happy.

I am, however, really looking forward to Christmas!! It's less than a month until I'll be flying home. 27 days in fact. I can't wait to do some Christmas baking, have my Mom's Christmas dinner and see all of my friends and family. It's going to be amazing.

I think missing Christmas last year truly made me appreciate it. Not that I've never appreciated Christmas, but when you miss out on it - you really realise how important and special it is.

It'll be nice to have Christmas in the new house - I'm sure Mom is happy that I'll be there for the 1st one!

The next few weeks are going to fly by! I've got at least one work related social outing a week until I leave. My Outlook calendar has been filled with lunches and Christmas parties. They're all going to be a lot of fun and will surely only make the time go by faster. This week I have a curry lunch with Sky TV and then SmartClip (tv online) will be taking us out for cocktail making lessons.

Anywho, love you and miss you all. See you all very soon! x

celebrity juice.

This week, I got a last minute invitation to go to the recording of a show on ITV2 (a TV station) called Celebrity Juice. One thing I absolutely love about the UK are the panel chat shows they have on TV - they're hysterical. Basically, they'll get comedians and some celebs together and have trivia and what not. One of them that I love is called 8 out of 10 Cats where they try to guess survey statistics. It's all quite funny.

Anyway, Celebrity Juice is one of said chat shows. This one focuses on celebrity gossip. The one we went to was the Christmas Special (English TV is huge at Christmas - loads of special programming, etc).

It was really funny! Had an absolute nightmare getting there because of the tube strike but in the end it was fun.

Got quite a lot on in the next few weeks as we start to get closer and closer to Christmas. We've got a team lunch next week which should be good. We'll all be going for a nice meal and some drinks, courtesy of my boss.

Lots to do, so little time. Work hard, play hard!

(41 days til I come home!) x

Shenanigan-ing about with work

I've had an eventful few weeks at work - it's been very "play hard, work hard." Very busy but we still manage to find the time to unwind.

Last week, Lou was behind organising our work's charity event for Wear it Pink. It was amazing! A lot of people from work turned up and there was an auction as well. I enjoyed bidding on things with no intention of winning. True class (ha ha).

On Wednesday, I went to Cartoon Network's launch party for the new Scooby Doo. It was a halloween party but I foolishly didn't dress up! It was loads of fun with all my lovely co-workers who I just adore. The venue was brilliant as well - it was a Vinopolis, which is sort of a wine tasting venue. All in all very good night!

RED premiere.

Long overdue post about my experience at the RED premiere. I'll make it really short and sweet. The movie was awesome and the experience was brilliant as ever. We arrived and went straight up the red carpet. Lou even had to point out that we walked directly past Helen Mirren.

The movies then all came out to introduce the film - so we got to see Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and Mary Louise Parker! Very exciting experience.(not the greatest photo as everybody's flashes were going off - but you get the point!)