Hi agian

Yes I cooked for 50+ people for the party.. I love cooking it relaxes me.. even when the oven died the night before the actual party (Mum paniced but I just got a repair man to come early on the Friday so all good).
It wasn't hard food other than the cake - tripple layer chocolate sponge sandwiched together with whipped ganache and smothered in dark chocolate ganache... I've never made a cake that big before LOL it weighed a tonne!
The other food was basic stuff... lasange, curry, rice, chicken wings and salads...and a few slices (brownies and caramel walnut) to fee the masses!
So that's the reason I took Thursday and Friday off work hahaha.. to get it all done and prepared in time.

Enjoy your mum coming to stay with you. I never appreciated my Mum until I was about 23 and really she is my best friend now.
Sad that it will cause you to remember your dad more but maybe you can turn it into a positive some way? Great memories to be remembered perhaps?

I went on a date on Saturday night (just to the movies) with the young guy... I told him what he has is more of a crush on me than love LOL... he sits and stares at me... weird but a nice distraction from the Mark stuff.

I felt like giving up the my "dead line" etc was putting my head in the sand but I have realised that I can't control this situation as much as I want to... I just have to live my life and maybe one day everything will sort it's self out the way i am hoping for.. in the mean time you never know, I coudl fall in love with someone else