9/6/09 Natasha has it easy......

Only a minor amount of ribbing from mates over the ‘Friends’ entry. Plenty of offers to be my ‘Friend’. They think they are hilarious.
I think they are too. Andy scrabble making me laugh by constantly bringing it up was the highlight of my Friday night. Scratch that. The highlight of my night on Friday was the award that we won.
Let me explain.
My football club consists of six teams. Numbered 1-6 (for ease!). 6 being the poorer, 1 being the better. Well it should be like that. Due to politics and strong egos it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ones are better than others probably not, in hindsight. Anyway, I digress. The league presentation dinner was Friday and we had a strong turnout due to a fantastic season had by the club as a whole. The 5’s won their league (along with 1 cup win and another cup final appearance). The 3’s won their league. 2’s won their league.
The 1’s? Us? Well, we didn’t win anything but was allowed to pick up the hospitality award on behalf of the club. A most prestigious award, handed out to the club that referees and other teams have voted the most entertaining. I like to think we absolutely deserved it. It’s me that has been cajoling others into drinking 4 spirit shots laced with crisp, a bit of mars bar, orange juice, coke and deep heat cream rubbed around the rim of the glass. I say others. Invariably it is me that loses the stupid drinking game of ‘spoof’ and ends up a tiny bit p***ed.
It was nice of the club to let me collect the award along with my new best friend Andy Scrabble to make us feel important and not as bad a football as it looks. So, whilst every team was enjoying their triumphant moment on Friday due to their footballing efforts for the season we were raising a toast to our equally triumphant drinking sessions for the season!
Andy Scrabble, if you don’t know him. Is called Andy scrabble because he has the unfortunate surname Tkaczyk. This of course would get you 29 points in Scrabble if it wasn’t placed on any bonus squares. I like to keep this knowledge of his name with me at all times to wow people!!!! Mind you, it is such a messed up name that if you stuck an extra Z in there would anybody notice?
52 days to go and Natasha is getting the feeling the baby is going to be sooner rather than later (gulp). She has been getting more back pain associated with giving birth I believe! It will be rather scary if she has it soon. It still isn’t totally sinking in for me yet. I wonder if she could hold off for a while. Perhaps 4 or 5 years?
She thinks she has it hard. I have to work non-stop for the next ten days with my night shifts bunged in. give me a baby to carry in front of me for nine months any day!