I will blog in the vain hope that I will manage more blog posts this year - terrible that I haven't blogged since September! I kept meaning to but then more and more things happened and I couldn't be bothered to write the masses it would need to cover it all. Now I've forgotten so much of it that I figure it's safe to post. :)

Last year some pretty rubbish things happened, some of which I've managed to get over, some I haven't (not completely, anyway). I had my first tooth filled. I guess I'm 31 so that was going to happen at some point. But hey. It was overly sensitive and I went back a few times. It still pains me, but I don't want to have to spend ages getting it re-filled. It seems to only be worth if it the pain's unbearable. I know I'm not alone in hating dentists... Other rubbish things, well, I hurt my back, and the second time it happened (whilst making tea!) I ended up being driven home from work and having to take a few days off. The physiotherapist gave me stretches to do and I've now been discharged, so hopefully it won't happen again. Sitting at a computer all day is, apparently, bad for you. Who'd have thought?

As Leicestershire's HER officer, I was asked to send some data to the team making Michael Wood's Story of England, and it was interesting to see the end result on the TV. I also went to a Time Team dig, the second one I've been to, so that was kind of cool. As an archaeologist we all like to make out that we hate Time Team, but it's a sort of love/hate thing. We love it for the brief moment of publicity it gives us. And in the current climate, we need all the help we can get. 2010 was also the year we found out our small team of ecology/archaeology/historic buildings specialists would be cut by 80%. Scary. No way of knowing how many of us will be left by the end of 2011...

The Formula One was very exciting - I was cheering for Mark Webber but Sebastian Vettel probably did deserve it in the end. Hopefully this year will be as good!

We just had our front room (dining room) totally replastered and decorated. It's looking very posh. The carpet should arrive tomorrow, following two previous attempts to get it put in. It's the first major thing we've had done to the house since we moved in and it was a lot more work than we thought it'd be. It was more work than the builder thought it would be, I think! 3/4 of a tonne of plaster fell off the ceiling. Wow!

I suppose a major thing that happened in 2010 was us getting a new Fiat 500. I think Rob is still happy with it. I've driven it, hmm, twice maybe? I know, I should drive it more. Hmm.

I've bought a lot of Batman graphic novels, and some other interesting ones like FreakAngels. Rob is trying to convert me to a Kindle but I'm not going to be easily convinced. Besides, graphic novels need to be in colour. I still buy my music on CD, there's no way I want an e-reader!

Christmas was good, my Mum and Dad and brother John all came to Leicester to visit. John's only just gone back to Southend this evening. I'm having a nice long break, using up some of my holiday. Don't have to go to work until Friday. Hooray! I think I may play quite a bit of Assassins Creed Brotherhood tomorrow, since it's the only day I have of my holiday where I'll be alone. Yay! Yay for the shiny black PS3!

Ah, whilst thinking of games, I should mention my favourite game of 2010 was Red Dead Redemption. Brilliant storyline! Very sad. And my least favourite game, or at least the most disappointing, was Fallout New Vegas. I have never played a buggier game on the PS3, and I'm actually now scared to play it since it crashes fairly regularly. So it's not just the annoying bugs like people getting stuck running into mountains, etc, it's crashes that could be hurting my PS3! How they took Fallout 3 and made such a buggy game out of it, I do not know.

Other favourites, hmm, Castle has been a must see. And Sherlock was brilliant.

There were probably loads more things I've enjoyed about 2010 but, well, I'll leave it here.

Wow I have a lot of episodes of Neighbours to catch up on... *sigh*