which is really rather a nice word to roll around the tongue I think. 🙂
Started today with the dash to Brighton to the bank. We were expecting a traffic filled journey with problems parking but in a bit of a surreal Dr Who where have all the rest of the people gone fashion the drive was speedy and we parked outside the bank no problem. Very odd. Back home for a very early lunch for me and then I headed off to work for the afternoon leaving Ady and the children behind to xbox, be very noisy and make me birthday presents (I’m nearly 33 you know :lol:).
Work was good – quiet again but I felt like I got to know the two Saturday staff a bit better today and shared a few laughs with them both, also spent a bit of time with my immediate boss there who had swapped Saturdays with someone else so that was good. Due to the quietness she gave me a few different jobs to do – all very clerical / adminny but actually for brief periods of time I am more than happy with that sort of task so I really enjoyed that. There are more hours available due to someone leaving and I was tempted to put myself forward for another 4 or so hours a week but with January looking like something of a childcare nightmare (my parents leave on 13th for a months holiday and Ady is away for five nights) it is not the right time to ask for extra hours so I’m sure the opportunity will arise again when the time is right. It would also put me above the threshold for tax free earnings too , making the hourly rate rather less attractive so is something I need to do some maths on first too I think.
Ady who is a wonderful househusband had got the children sitting down to their tea with a bath already run for them by the time I got home so I poured myself a drink and enjoyed the last Saturday night of the year in a happy relaxed state. 🙂
The weather is, as predicted, starting to whip up a storm so I am unsure as to whether our planned walk with Chris and Julie will go ahead tomorrow afternoon but we plan to go walking anyway as the children are ready for some outdoor yelling into the wind instead of each others faces and some running around outside rather than from room to room in the house. If it’s not too crazy we might go down to the beach which is always very exciting and invigorating in windy wet weather – before children Ady and I often used to go down there in extreme weather just for fun. Nothing like getting wet and blustered about by the elements to make you feel alive, worry free and happy just to be here, not to mention the joy of getting dry and warm infront of a fire with hot chocolate again afterwards. Hey I’m almost hoping C&J do cancel now 😆
We’ve promised the children they can stay up as late as they can manage tomorrow night, we’ve got loads of buffet style bung it in the oven to heat up type food, plenty to drink and a load of board games to play so if I’m not around to see in the new year online tomorrow evening I wish you all a very happy new year now and I’ll see you on the other side. 🙂