Gin or heating, gin or heating, gin or heating....

...life really is full of difficult decisions and this is the most recent one.
I spend quite a lot of my time moaning about not having enough money to have my heating on as much as I need - working from home and living in Scotland, it would almost be a 24hr requirement, if I wasn't such a hardy chiel (child).  I complain about the cost of my utility bills, which is fair enough - they are expensive.  HOWEVER I caught myself bonny at the weekend.  Who does that?  The usual story would be that someone else would catch you out...but no, no, not me...I'll catch myself out, thank you very much!!


My good friend Ash moved into a flat near where I live at the weekend, and so on the Friday she asked if I would like to go and see the band her brother played in The Oxbow Lake Band (they were very good....difficult to describe, very eclectic).  Had a brilliant night, drank, laughed, chatted, bumped into old friends...what more can you ask for?
Saturday night I had arranged to meet up with a friend of mine that I bumped into recently.  We used to play rugby together in the mid-nineties, when I say 'we' I mean Shona played (she now plays Touch Rugby for the Scotland Squad) and I pitched up and had a laugh!!  Anyway, we met again recently at one of the Business Gateway courses, so we arranged to go out for dinner.  We did what we planned.  We met up, ate dinner and consumed a LOT of alcohol!!  Hats off to Shona ~ she mixed things up a bit, she had a g&t, 4 large glasses of wine (btw 3 large glasses = a bottle!!) then moved onto Vodka & Lemonade...this girl is my new hero.  I just stuck to g&t...but I did exceed my usual 2-gin-jo status!!


Sunday, I wake up....questioning what I ate the night before because I was feeling a wee bit rough, then it dawned on me, whilst I lay nice and cosy under my 4 duvets & one quilt.  For some reason I have a problem paying for heating but no problem going out two nights on the trott and spending what I spent!!  Eh???  (When I say 'no problem' I mean it's no problem at the time....the following day when I work out what I have to go without for the next month to claw back the money I've spent...little harder...)


So when I say it's a difficult decision between gin & heating, I have obviously made the decision already however, I'm now thinking I might have to grow up a bit....OR just stop complaining about being cold!