Last week was a busy week!

By the time we got home from D.C it was too late to make choir so it was straight to bed.  Tuesday, I spent most of the day with my lovely little God daughter, Eve.

I watched her while Magz went to Therapy Petz (with a recovering-pawed Bazil) and Col and I watched her and the pups while Magz and Sam had their March date night (they went to see the Hunger Games).

Col and I gave her a bath, put her to bed and sat watching Come Dine with Me for the evening – joined by the lovely Poppy, who couldn’t get enough cuddles and who shouldn’t be allowed on the sofa (technically, she was on me, not on the sofa, right? LOL!)

Wednesday I paid a visit to see my fairy-hairdresser Angel!

I had been toying with the idea of drastically changing my hair colour, with the summer quickly approaching, my blonde locks wouldn’t have stood up well against the harsh Texas sunshine.  So, I decided to go dark red – the day before a big SSA Social event!

I’d been a red head before a few years ago, but I wasn’t hugely happy with it, it wasn’t dark enough for me, it was all a little too orange…Angel grabbed the challenge with both hands and decided upon a colour formulation and we got to it.  There are few people I’d let photograph me in this state (below), but I know the beauty that Angel is going to create, so I figure ‘why not?’ you get a better idea of the transformation if you see how much like a boot I look before hand!

It was a messy process, with lots of red blood-looking dye all over her poor towels and kitchen floor, but boy was it worth it!

I love my new hair, and, everyone at the Social the following day loved it – I had one lady even tell me I should stay a red head forever! LOL! It looks different in the daylight to how it does in the pictures, it’s wicked!

After I got home, Col decided I was way too pretty looking to stay inside, so, instead, we went for a nice date night – dinner and a movie.  We went to see the Hunger Games, a book I was introduced to in February while on holiday in New Mexico – I fell in love, I was hooked and couldn’t put the book down.

I finished all three books in a matter of days and I couldn’t WAIT for the movie to be released.  It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t OMG fantastic either, but, thankfully, it wasn’t the train-wreck that is Twilight.  It didn’t let the book down *too* badly, Col didn’t hate it and he said it almost made him want to read the book (high praise) AND that he’d go and see the sequel (highest praise!)

The Spring social was lots of fun, it was held in a favourite ‘social’ venue of mine, Lakeside Country Club.  It’s a great venue, the food is good, the room is good and the company is always the best! This time, my friend Shelley even came along for the fun and games, she was sporting a very fashionable ‘button’ (or badge as we call it), promoting her favourite election candidate!

Friday, my second friend of the week told me she was pregnant followed by Col’s sister in law, making the ‘it comes in threes’ adage come true this week.  Baby fever again in 2012! My total for 2011 was seven pregnant friends methinks…  I have been writing a blog on fertility and ‘trying to conceive’ for a while now, I keep ‘tweaking’ it, maybe I should just post the damn thing!

Saturday I had choir practice (followed by a pot luck lunch, where I discovered the fantastic salad-talents of the lovely Lindsay!!) Saturday night, Col and I went to visit our friends Ann and Paul and their four month old twins Matthew and Kira – I stupidly forgot my camera, but it was a nice evening.  It’d been a while since we’d seen them both and Col hadn’t met the twins yet, so we picked up some treats and had the craic – it was a good night and we should definitely repeat it again soon!

Saturday night is when the wheels came off the wagon.  As soon as I got home, my sore throat from the morning had blossomed into a general aching and tiredness.  It was bedtime.  I didn’t leave the house again until Wednesday for an hour and then it was back to bed.

A plague has hit the McMaster’s household!

Back home, colds and flus are ten a penny, with the weather being so cold and miserable, chances are, at any given time, someone in your circle is sick.  But you forget just how awful they are when you live in a city where 60F/15C is considered cold.

You know it’s a plague, because not only has ‘catch-everything’ Mrs M been stricken with the lurgy, but Mr M has come down with it too – and he’s strong as an ox and rarely gets sick, so it’s bad.  I’m getting slowly better, but it’s lingering and I’m all out of cough drops and Nyquil, we only have a couple of doses of Dayquil left – it’s dire!

We both have man-flu.  It sucks! But I still have fierce red hair 😉