Watching the Making of Do they know its Christmas and the performance that made me cry was George Michael just WOW! How good was he…I feel he was the BEST!
I can feel my mood wavering, I’m not worried its just my brain won’t stop.
I put some ‘bloopers’ on YouTube tonight which always makes me laugh and it did
Work has been something I gave not had to think about for months since I jumped ship from the Willows over to Practice Point to support Assisi but the last couple of weeks I feel like I used to and its the reason it made moving easy.
I find myself thinking about what the hell is going on and if I will have a job next year after they announced that out of 8 people that work there I am the only one safe from redundancy.
It’s annoying because all I want is my life to be simple…
Got up at 01:15am and watched the 7 & 5 Broncos play the 3 & 8 Browns and it was one of those games that makes it worth getting up for. The stats were insane and for it to be the Monday Night national game across the whole of America was ace!
Yes I would have liked to thrash the Browns but 32 – 41 making us 8 & 5 going into a bye week where we can get well and rest up for a push towards our first playoff football since Superbowl 50 was worth feeling tired all day!
#GoBroncos
Back to work after a week off was tough but I now work from home permanently so I can take Billy at 8am and still sit down and have a leisurely breakfast before starting work at 9am, so not too bad. I will write a blog about work soon to bring this blog upto date with where its going but for now I just do my best and forget about it after 5
Anyway tonight I had a pool match which was REALLY not ideal because the Broncos kick off at 01:15am and I would normally go to bed at 8pm. Imagine my delight when the captain of The Junction messaged to say they will have to forfeit tonights quarter final of Team Knockout meaning my evening was free. Once Jamie and Reagan left for Choir practice I got in the bath watchedStick to Football podcast on YouTube then went bed hoping for a Broncos win later…
I am finding it so hard to blog I think about it all the time but never actually pick up my phone and write down my thoughts. It’s wierd because I can obsess about getting my thoughts down in writing and have to blog everyday most of the time but just lately it’s been almost impossible to sit and write anything so I have set a goal to blog every day of December to try and motivate myself so here is the first one.
Not much to say other than just got back from a day spent walking in the Lake District and a night in Ulverston with the Phoenix 5
Didn’t do a great deal else today, other than laze around on the sofa walk Billy who was forgotten about while I was away so we went all around the canal paths before it got dark
The Broncos don’t play until tomorrow so I am sat watching the Patriots vs Colts hoping the former helps us out for our possible wildcard spot which we currently hold…!
New job not the greatest but 7 months in to be told while on site that 100+ redundancies are likely but not able to get any facts….as days go I’ve had better
This photo sums up just what a great Mom Lincoln (and Reagan) has, after being told he was suffering from verrucas she treats them every night
Best mom in the world!
I looked at my family around the table last tonight while we ate tea, I never saw myself as a parent but what would life have been about if I hadn’t become one. I think I would have been happy maybe content in ignorance of not knowing what it would be like to be a parent, I also think I could have been happy too with the same ignorance?
Now I know what it is like, I can’t imagine being any of the above, if I did not have this that surrounds me, a daughter that is so pretty and intelligent funny and caring who is showing the first signs of becoming a woman as her body begins to change. She has all the hang-ups of a teenage girl but has such good foundations and knows we are always there to help her through that she is crushing life right now and I hope that continues forever.
Lincoln is growing, in every way watching him eat shows the obvious growth and has already gone past his sister and his Mom in the height stakes but his growth in how he is as a human being on this earth is astounding. At 13 years old I did not have anywhere near the presence he has within his surroundings whether that be at home, school or church where he excels. He too is heading to adulthood as his voice is starting to break and his facial hair needs attention. Everyone he meets remarks on what a lovely young man he is and I think he has my sense of humour too so he will make people laugh like I try to do
I love gushing about my family and how happy they make me feel but it was the feeling I got leaving for work that made me write this next bit, walking towards the gate imagining Jamie sat in the office she built next to the house she now lives in working a job she loves that also pays well in England because of me. For that I take no credit, but it does blow me away that she sacrificed so much made the leap took advantage of the opportunity for a new start smiles every day and still wants to be with me?
Me, who just does his best and that seems to be enough….and as I open the gate I just thought I really did something here!
Today was 16 years since Jamie was granted her first Visa to come and live in the UK the reason we know that was because her friends son is thinking of going on a similar journey to ours by dating a lady from Colorado. Jamie told them about UKYankee a website dedicated to helping US citizens through the minefield that is immigration and contains all you would need to know and has professionals online to help too.
When she logged into her account it brough back all the memories of that experience we both went through when we decided we wanted to be together on this side of the pond. There were emails containing some of our courtship banter which reading back was very cringey to read now but also there was a ticker timer at the bottom of the screen saying “15 Years 10 Months 7 Days since moving to Middlewich”
These tickers were torture back then, we looked at them everyday willing them along because they were always counting down to something special, like a visit to be together etc This one has sat there for nearly 16 years and never been looked at…I don’t miss them but it was nice to see such a high number and hope it gets to 32 or 42 or 52…I would be in my 80s and if we are still as happy as we are today that would be evidence that it really was worth all that effort