The weekend was quite mixed. Started off very well....managed to be good until our anniversary evening meal and not think "well I might as well take the whole day off", the meal itself was lovely and I didn't eat nearly as much as I think I would. While a cheese and chocolate buffet sounds great in theory it's actually not that worth it...I could eat a side plate of cheese and biscuits before it got too rich/strong (those blues) and moved onto chocolate. One small side plate of chocolate and again it was so rich that I was basically done after that. We managed to share a few extra bits of other cheeses and chocolates to try a bit of everything but it was a pretty poor showing, which is great for the diet!
The not so great bit was the drinking, I had a pint of beer, a ginger ale and some champagne. Nic on the other hand got drunk rather quickly and while it's a bit strong to say "ruined the evening" she managed to upset herself and we spent the taxi ride home half arguing, half getting upset.
The background is that I want kids, but am not ready for them. She doesn't know if she will ever want kids at all, there was this big talk we had last year, we both got upset about it but decided to put a pin in it and move to Singapore and cross that bridge if we come to it. For some reason (related to her friend deciding she might want a baby) it brought it all back for Nic and the whole thing came up again. She was asking her friend lots of questions like "are you mature enough? have you thought of ...?" etc. all very critical in my eyes so that different view on the idea of kids was the trigger and hence why it was partially an argument not just all upset.
So yeah....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
I don't want to give the wrong impression....we rarely argue though. And our arguments are usually well formed and reasonable, more like disagreements....no shouting and swearing and we at least pretend to try and listen at the start which turns into actual listening part the way into the conversation. Just wasn't a fun weekend after all.
In other news I only put on half a pound....
The not so great bit was the drinking, I had a pint of beer, a ginger ale and some champagne. Nic on the other hand got drunk rather quickly and while it's a bit strong to say "ruined the evening" she managed to upset herself and we spent the taxi ride home half arguing, half getting upset.
The background is that I want kids, but am not ready for them. She doesn't know if she will ever want kids at all, there was this big talk we had last year, we both got upset about it but decided to put a pin in it and move to Singapore and cross that bridge if we come to it. For some reason (related to her friend deciding she might want a baby) it brought it all back for Nic and the whole thing came up again. She was asking her friend lots of questions like "are you mature enough? have you thought of ...?" etc. all very critical in my eyes so that different view on the idea of kids was the trigger and hence why it was partially an argument not just all upset.
So yeah....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
I don't want to give the wrong impression....we rarely argue though. And our arguments are usually well formed and reasonable, more like disagreements....no shouting and swearing and we at least pretend to try and listen at the start which turns into actual listening part the way into the conversation. Just wasn't a fun weekend after all.
In other news I only put on half a pound....
