Dear Kitty,           A lot has happened. I'm single again, generally sleepy, stressed - oh, and there's a lot else going on. Too much has happened that I can be bothered to write about, so lets focus on the future, not the past:                    So, it's nine days til my birthday, and I'm going to be sixteen! I can't believe I was fourteen when I joined this site - it seems like, to coin a phrase, yesterday. It's six days until my brother's birthday, and that makes it twenty one days until Christmas - which is twenty three days until Cecily's birthday. I'm starting to get excited now. On Monday, there's 'Crash into Christmas', and then we're doing our Secret Santas. I've got mine a hot chocolate set, and I'm knitting her a pair of handwarmers - as for the rest, I've made a little scavenger hunt for them.                On Sunday, I have to go and play the violin and sing for some old people - I'm leading Symphony Orchestra, which is not something I really want to do. I wouldn't mind, but I've only played the first (and outside) violin part once, and when you're working constantly around third, fourth and fifth position, rather than staying in comfortable first in the second violins...yes, I'm lazy. I'm also out of tune.I'd better go, it's almost breakfast, and yes, I will write again before Christmas. Promise.Yours,Francesca