I'd like to do XP but I'm in a team of one when it comes to my projects so no pair programming there

I try and do as much of XP as I can on a project - even if you cannot do all the practices, the ones you can do help. For example I can imagine that having user stories, acceptance tests and small iterations would help you with the more... annoying... aspects of your current "methodology" :-)

At the moment I am sole developer, so I cannot do pair programming. I also don't have an onsite customer, so they're not around to answer questions immediately or help write acceptance tests. However everything else in XP is working just dandy (planning game, iterations, test-first, etc.)