The first 15 Years

We had to be apart for our 15th anniversary for one reason an invitation to Westminster and the Houses of Parliament for a party that I would not have allowed Jamie to miss even on an important date in our calendar. An opportunity like this may never happen again, we will be together tomorrow and for the next 15 years and beyond so I made her go and enjoy tonight with her American friend at the home of British politics.

Our first 15 years have been packed with so much joy. I can’t believe how much we have done and how strongly our relationship has grown. We are such a great team and laugh every day we just are perfect together and my favourite saying is “Loving Jamie is the easiest thing I do!

Happy Anniversary, dude, and here’s to the rest of our lives together ??

Let’s face it if you were here, this would be us right now. rolls eyes lol

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Could we make you stay?

Got a call from my boss late afternoon to say they were sorry to recieve my letter of resignation and is there anything they could say to change my descision, which I replied straightaway with the fact that it had been coming for a while and I felt it was time to move on so no there was nothing they could say. She was very complimentary in her assement of what I had done for the Willows in my time as IT Manager and that I would be sorely missed, to the point where she was slightly emotional(?).

I am not sure whether they know just how much I will be missed as I believe I have become an integeral part of making the company run smoothly on a daily basis and by that I do not mean it will crumble without me but the “smoothly” bit will disapear I am sure, maybe I will never know but like when I left Ideal Standard even people that hated me stopped me in the street to tell me how bad it became when I left.

I have the fact that I am going to a new job right in my head so it feels OK

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Offer accepted

Can we talk at 1:30…yeh OK

Do you want this job or what?

Yeh I think I do!

I’ll send you something to sign OK

Er yeh

Was basically (paraphrased) how my day went, I got offered a job that in all honesty I have been sold all along and I sort said fuck it I would be a fool not to at least entertain it!

My heart was POUNDING as I sat in the car park at work with my resignation letter in my hand, no going back now as I handed it over to Andrea (PA to my bosses) and asked her to pass it on ASAP

I let my close colleagues know just to make the news a bit personal for them before it gets out officially or through rumour. I am not used to this as I have always stayed at jobs and given 100% until I felt I couldn’t do that anymore or something better was available, and I think both are available now

I sit here tonight and I feel good about my decision and look forward to the next stage of my career!

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Bench press

Spent a good portion of my Sunday cracking on with my bench and managed to get main top work space attached and the bottom shelf secured too and left it with the saw shelf ready to set up but time and inclination got the better of me and ended the day at the pub with Jamie.

An experience never to be forgotten not for the pleasure of spending quality time relaxing over a Guinness with my beautiful wife but watching some extremely drunk people navigate life while experiencing near fatal episodes that turn out to be that they’re just pist…. I want to  go again it was car crash TV live!

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I didn’t think it would be her!

Although I wanted to spend all day in me shed Jamie asked if I wanted to do our walk after dropping Reagan off at horse riding, and that was a no-brainer. I love spending time alone with my best mate!

When we picked up Reagan she was not waiting for us so Mommy went in to find her while I waited in the car park. They took ages and when the appeared Mommy was aiding a crying Reagan towards the car? Apparently her horse had driven her knee into the side of the ring and she was in real pain Mommy took her to Northwich Infirmary where she was told she had sprained her knee

She came home on crutches sprained knee and told no physical excerise horse riding or PE till Easter but she admitted it didn’t feel too bad which was good

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Friday feelings

It was good to make it to Friday and k ow the weekend is about to begin after a long and eventful week but after a busy day I started feeling ill….the feeling was the same as Jamie had been complaining about the last couple of days.

I don’t mind being ill (I don’t want to be ill), but why did it have to wait until Friday afternoon to get here ffs?

I did try to do a bit to my bench, which I have made real headway on the last few nights since last weekend, but I felt sick and tired, so I had to sleep.

Right way up, on wheels ready for table saw shelf .

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The Interview

Today was all about meeting two people I don’t know and trying to impress them with a view to maybe getting a job with their company. From my point of view I treated it as an interview so had a shave a shower added cologn and moisturiser on me head, cleaned me teeth and put a three piece suit on because I always try to do my best in whatever I do.

We spoke for over half an hour and I think again they were trying to sell the job to me rather than me trying to win the job but I think I did a pretty good job of showing me at my best.

At the end of the “interview” the lady asked her colleague if they need to get anyone else involved and he said no, this is just a paper exercise now…which sounded like an offer would likely follow so I await the next step?

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Time to step up?

I felt I had to send a message to my pool team tonight after getting soundly beaten and listening to one or two individuals losing faith in the process…

Winning is easy losing is the hardest but it either strengthens you or breaks you, tonight I had to be a captain!

“This is your captain speaking, I have not spent the last 30 years taking this team from championship winning relevance to bottom of the table obscurity, to let shithouses and gobshites from Middlewich and District ruin our Wednesday night out…

At the moment it is tough, when we are getting beat and we have to sit and listen to shithouses and gobshites living up to their names but we have great potential and its by small margins in each of our frames that we are not punishing and capitalising on opportunities.

If we stick together better times will come, it was the best feeling when JEB sank that double to beat Eight Farmers and that is the reason I keep coming back each week, because we can get results like that, and sticking together is the only way to get more nights like that!

All I can say is I’ll do my best as captain and the only thing I ask in return is you do your best when playing your frame. Beyond that there is not much I can do, I love being Steventons Pool Team captain and would hate to think the last 30 years of failures was my fault!

Let’s beat White Lion next week have a good night and forget tonight!”

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Disappointment

I lay in the bath tonight and it occurred to me that this job offer can only disappoint me now?

I lay there and realised that I have got my head round leaving my job now, if the offer was good enough, I think I have started feeling excited about the prospect, which is definitely not what I am used to but it would be nice to get the ball rolling.

The link for the job arrived today and after work it was my first job to respond and upload my CV but the link didn’t work which was so frustrating when all I want to do is find out more about this opportunity.

The biggest disappointment was bursting into the bedroom to impart this revelation to Jamie only to find the bedroom in darkness and her asleep….

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High Deaf

Today I was made aware of my inability to hear high frequency noise, something I knew about to a certain extent from a hearing test I had back in my Ideal Standard days when after about 30 seconds an ear splitting noise jolted me and the nurse asked if that is the first sound I heard because she thought her machine had broken so turned it up. It was and she informed me that I had hearing loss at high frequency which at the time didn’t bother me but yesterday did especially coupled with the tinnitus I experience 24/7 getting worse I think I need to go get a hearing test.

The straw that broke the camels back this morning was two nurses laughing at me because I could not hear the annoying noise the fan within a switch was making that they could not bear yet I could not hear, I know they were telling the truth about the noise but so was I…I could not hear anything!

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