Guilty as charged m'lud (again, but worth it)

Alright, alright so I have been 'missing in action' for a while there - but I do have some bloody good reasons of which I now feel strong enough to share with you all....

The new job has been really grand. More busy than expected and certainly keeping me on my toes for sure. Working with Brendan, Bob & Shirley is certainly a giggle.
Currently surveying the grounds of a country house hotel (Lyndford Hall) out near Thetford way which is both knackering and fun to be working doing something I love again.

Then we also have the good news (well for him) That 'nibs' has his posting to Afghanistan in September - which is better than the Feb /March I was initially expecting. I am very proud of the fact he is very good at scouts and will in no doubt do a superb job when over there and all will be well. But to go for a whole bleeding year is gonna pretty much cripple me.

Well at least he will be home for his 40th birthday in May which is nice. He has also already had his birthday boots he was after, as his pressie from me.

So what other amazing things have I been up to in the last two weeks???

Oh yes - now I remember, that will be the fact that I managed to stop smoking on New Years Eve... and am still two weeks later off the weed...well I'll be!
And have I done the usual dosed up with nicotine replacement products, chewing on foul tasting gum, sucking on manky mints are are not actually really minty? No I have not... I have finally found something that made me want to just stop cold turkey which wasn't just for me.
I stopped because I want to spend as much time with nibs as physically possible. even looking up on occasion saying;
"I really like this one, can I keep him please?"

If he goes and gets splatted in Afghanistan, I am straight back on them again just to spite, in fact I might even take up cigars and a pipe as well to really prove the point that life is a right cunt sometimes.

It's all go from here on in...

Well tomorrow it all starts... at 9am (ish) I will be starting my first day with DSS surveying again. I really can't wait. To be able to have a job again is just fantastic and I for one will be completely stoked.

The good thing is I didn't know it was all starting tomorrow until this morning when I got an email from Boss man no 1 which is grand. I like emails like that :)

So what else is new? Ahhh yes, yesterday I went sea fishing for the first time and it was superb! If not somewhat cold but that made it all the better.
Yes, I did catch one but it was only a little pissy thing but I still caught it all the same and was dead chuffed. Was quite funny at that point watching nib's go into a bit of a competitive streak that I had caught one and he hadn't lol but it all evened itself up again later.

So today's efforts are to sit back and lard... whilst hinting at nib's things he needs to do as I am not waiting hand and foot on any sod today!

The first day of the rest of my life....

Ok, so maybe the title is a bit of a swizz, as every bleeding day is the first day of the rest of your life but it did sound ever so slightly poignant initially :P

Either way, it's now the second day into 2009 and as far as years go it's not doing too badly.

The initial 'seeing in the new year' didn't quite go to plan but I must admit did make me laugh.

I had though that 'nibs' was going down south to visit his Mum. That didn't happen due to work not giving him enough notice of time off. Then we came up with a plan to drive somewhere to allow us to watch over all the fireworks over town as they kicked in.

We finally decided on staying home, having the last two bits of cake in the afternoon and waiting up until the witching hour to crack open some pink champers he had bought and celebrate.
It was getting rather dubious at 10:30pm that either of us would be able to stay awake until Midnight so he set an alarm "just in case we dozed off" lol and the pair of us, somewhat off our tits, zonked right out.

Next thing I remember was 'nibs' leaning over me saying:
"It's 00:20, the alarm didn't go off.... Happy New Year"
Whoops....lmao

Not to worry, we stayed in bed all day yesterday and the pink champers 'got it' at lunchtime...

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas/ New year whatever you were doing.


Then also yesterday I had the amazing ability to damage myself left right and bloody centre.

Not quite sure as to where this 'clumsy twat factor' came from but I am suffering today from it.

I successfully managed to slice into one of my pinkies with a sodding open beans can... right where it's now plastered form makes it a shit to bloody type.
Then just for a giggle whilst having a shower, managed to catch my elbow on the shower screen. Now many of you might now be thinking "How could that be painful? Stop moaning" Fair enough but I would now like to point out that my shower screen is made of glass and I managed to catch the edge of the glass with what is normally described as the funny bone (fuck all funny here I can tell you) Yep, the bit "in"the elbow joint. All I am going to say is I have been struggling to get comfy all bloody night with it and have resorted to one of my neoprene elbow supports from the days when I had Golfers elbow - yes, keen golfer me lol.

Fingers crossed it will all calm down soon or maybe I will have to accept that for some strange reason fate has decided that in 2009 I am destined to be a right clumsy edjit instead of having another shite year.

Fair swap if you ask me.