We opened the doors of our new home to visitors for the first time, having a small shindig to celebrate the launch of my wife's new book
"My Best Friend and Other Enemies". It's not easy to write a book, let alone get one published and I am enormously proud of her. I am also hoping that she will become the new J K Rowling so that I can take my foot off the gas a bit and spend the rest of my life in my hammock in the back garden drinking beer and playing Yahtzee on my iPhone. So buy the book for any 8-12 year olds that you know. It's very funny.
It was nice to have a party to look forward to and after a couple of days of feeling a bit depressed and uninspired I managed to get some work done today, knocking out my next three Metro columns (yesterday's blog proving to be the inspiration I needed) and confirming a few of the bookings for the Leicester Square Theatre Podcasts. So far three are booked up with three more to go and I am aiming high. Confirmed guests are:
8th October Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton
5th November Dave Gorman
3rd December Russell Howard
Pretty exciting! I think those tickets will get snapped up so
BOOK NOW. It's only £12.50, for up to two hours of entertainment. It will as always be online for free in the usual places. But as always if you can come along you'll a) have even more fun and b) get to see me do some stand up that won't go online and c) help to keep the project running into the future.
The party was fun, but contrary to my resolutions I seem to be drinking a lot more now than I did in Edinburgh. But tonight was the first time I really let my hair down in ages. I got drunk way too fast, though I think I managed to behave myself. Though there are a few blank spots in my memory. So if you hear any more stories about me swearing in a restaurant in East London then I can't guarantee that they're not true. It was fun to see people's reactions to the new layout of the house - it really does look quite different - though it was hard to relax for fear that someone would smash or crack something expensive. Especially given that I knew I was the most likely to smash something. But we got away with minimal damage.
But the place is beginning to feel like home and it was cool to share it with friends and to cut loose a bit and release some stress. It's hard to get the balance right between work and play.
Being a stand up is a brilliant job, but you have to put the work in and the work is always at night time and I don't see my friends as much as I should. So it was great to catch up with some of my pals tonight as well as making a few new ones. Unfortunately my drunkenness means that I won't remember them next time I see them so they'll just think I am a rude prick. But at least we had tonight. Didn't we? Thingymebob, you know the bloke with the hair. Or did I just dream him?
I think I've pretty much ensured that I am taking the rest of the week off. Which is a good thing. On Monday I will start getting some writing done and get back to the gym. I have to make the most of the next four months, cos I am not going to get much writing done on the road. Until then, let's party like it's 1999.
I wish it was 1999.
