Yay, it's now my Christmas holidays! Although I'm not going home till tomorrow, so it won't feel like it till then. But I have packed and slept late and helped with a tinshake today.

Yesterday's work's Christmas party went ok. Except for not getting lunch till 3pm and as I have low blood sugar meant I basically fell asleep at 8pm although managed to stay up till 10.30. My hesitance at believing the people about the food was proved correct because apparently the head chef had a different view. But it was at a golf club connected to a hotel and the hotel did some of my food for me. The potatoes were nice, as was the soup, but there was also turkey, which I hate, and although there was cauliflower, which I like, it was crunchy, which is horrible.

I actually got a decent Secret Santa present for the first time ever. It was Doctor Who Top Trumps. Which although being series 2 & 3 stuff, and Top Trumps being the most pointless game in the world ever, actually shows that someone knew something about me at least. And it is well done - the cards with Toby and the Ood have their eyes in sparkling red, and all the names on the cards are in sparkling silver.

Then there was the work Oscars, where I was nominated for best charity worker. I sent round an email in the morning about our Cheese and Wine quiz evening (12th January, if anyone wants to come it's £8 and I have space in my house to sleep and I'll make chocolate mousse if there's enough people). Talking to someone before we went he said I should have sent the email earlier when people were still voting because then I might have won. So I thought he probably knew something and all the people on there were more popular than me anyway. Although some of them I'm hard pressed to know what charity-related stuff they do.

When the nominations were read out there were suddenly a whole load of people chanting my name, as had been done on other categories. And I did win - with 30% of the vote and twice as many votes as the person who came second. I used my 15 seconds acceptance speech to mention the cheese & wine quiz again, which got a laugh. And then I sat down shaky with pins and needles!