"If You Are Happy and You Know It...Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!"

I know,I know:I haven't blogged for a whole four days and, indeed, it does feel like as if I was missing a limb or had been fasting for weeks or something!!So here is a little riview of the week-end. First of all, here is a little after-gig review... I had got some tickets for Stefan for Christmas to see New York band "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah" which eventually we saw on Friday at the Academy. Although slightly clinical in their approach with a remarkably warm audience, they delivered:big time-they played a few songs from the new album,which only came out in the UK at the beginning of last week,so nobody really knew them though they were really quite catchy; then the old stuff came on and it was wicked awesome!I laughed,jumped and sang at the top of my lungs like no-man-business!Loved it! Saturday was such a "chilled- out"day. Don't you just love it when the telephone is disconnected, you don't have any plans for the day, it's cold and gloomy outside and the alarm ain't gonna go off and you are there,snuggled under your warm duvet, sleeping like a baby until your body has had enough of this heavenly bliss?! I do - sleeping still remains one of my top ten most favourite life activities! Thank God for sleep!!! Spoke to my mom, had a catch up with a few mates, watched Friends on T4,went to the cinema to see "Blood Diamond", had a take-away with friends..pure bliss! Sunday morning, church as usual,lunch with friends,watched a movie together,got home,chilled out for a little while,went out to a fancy-pansy pub with the boys, had a jolly good laugh.. and now it's Monday and,although it is blinking cold outside and I am at work, I am taken by surprise by an unexpected sense of wellbeing and happiness, dare I say. Even the guy deliverying free papers on Market Street stopped me to remark on how happy I looked - guess I must be. And for all this I am truly grateful: "Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed Thy hand has provided. Great is Thy faithfulness Lord unto me!"

Thought you deserved a wee taste of 'Clap Your Hands Say Yeah' - so here is a video of my fave song by them:ironically, "Is This Love?" -Enjoy! Also,mainly for Jay and Mike's information, the Manchester Phoenix won three games in a row,including two consecutive wins against the scary Belfast Giants-so I hear! Guess this link is necessary:well done!