Well, I know there are still officially 10 days of Christmas to go, but I've already found myself asking people if they "had" a good Christmas.
Our Christmas was pretty standard (only in the sense that as usual we were (and still are) all ill. Lara's dad came to stay and so we went to my folks (and took him with us). The kids did well to say they were under the weather. The first presents were opened at around 7am, and the last ones were opened at 7.30pm with no more than a 20 minute gap between any two openings all day.
Lara seems happy with her DS, Maisey has a new found love of prams and dolls, and Zak is now surrounded by Wall:e gadgets and gizmos. As for me, I'm the proud owner of a new guitar effects pedal (although it hasn't arrvied yet). You can't beat the Boss ME-50.
And that's it. Another completed Christmas. Tune in again next year.
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So, it would appear that our kids are better at the FAME dance routine (that I'm supposed to be doing next week in a high school) than I am. That's quite embarrassing!!
Go on, click that link.
I so wish that I could sleep during the day, but it's something I just can't do. We've already been to the cinema today which was cool, if a little long, had lunch and I've prepared another batch of golden brown. 3 weeks and it should be ready to drink. And now I have to wake up the little girl to go to a family prayer event (apparently I'm leading some worship at it.
Do keep in touch.
Do keep in touch.
Wow, it's really been a long time since I was last here, which means as usual I have so much to report that I'll probably forget half of it by the time I get to the point where I may have considered writing about it, and if that is the case I can only appologise in advance for the small amount of detail that is missing regarding the last month of my life!!
Anyway, what was I saying? I forget... Oh yes...
Aaaarrrggghhh!! I've now officially been waiting over 2 months for my new mobile phone upgrade - that's frustrating enough, not helped by the fact I decided to use Lara's 4yr old phone for a while til it came so I could sell my orange replacement pda phone (the one I lost in France) before it got all scuffed and well used. But now to add insult to injury, I called Orange on Wednesday and amazingly they said they had the phone in stock, it finally got ordered, and I worked from home all day yesterday excitedly waiting to receive it. However, by 4pm I was bored of waiting so I called to get a consignment number in an attempt to track the courier, only to find that (apparently) between being told that it was in stock again, and actually completing the order process, it went BACK OUT OF STOCK!!! Aaaarrggghhhh!! So still no new phone and a very annoyed Jon to-boot.
So, what else has happened - oh, the CYFC exec agreed to buy me a spanky (nearly) new Macbook Pro, with a budget of just £700, and I managed to find one for £650 with a dodgy keyboard but 1yr warranty left so that got replaced for free, leaving me £50 to upgrade to the latest mac OS (leopard, for those of you that care). Owner/Carer and baby are doing fine, don't know the weight, but you get the idea!!
I would have totally written more about that if I wasn't trying to cover a whole month in one blog entry!!! (incuding the ebay purchase of an unsuitable operating system that I then re-auctioned and sold for a huge profit of -£19.00 (yes, that is a minus sign).
I'm gradually running out of beer. I bought a new kit like 2 weeks ago, and just haven't got round to it, so that's not much of a story.
Our new house is small but warm and the outside light finally works after 2 evenings replacing the whole lot and tracing wiring for faults - it turns out, you have to plug it in as well!! (oops) Lara actually made the discovery whilst trying to find somewhere to do the ironing. @What do you think this plug is for?@ she asks all innocently. Eureka!! (notice the strange quote marks... anyone that every changed from PC to Mac should find that quite amusing.)
And I've discovered a new found passion for the guitar - mainly through many nights with lack of an internet connection and seeing young people who can play better than me.
I really should have broken this down into several entries - do let me know if you need any more info on any of these points.
Oh, 2 other things...
Our house still hasn't sold, and now that our 2yr tracker has run out we're paying £200 more per month for a house we don't live in - GREAT!!
And Work at CYFC is going really well - a few interesting teething issues, but nothing that I wasn't expecting.
And thirdly, (for those of you that don't know where number 2 comes in the numeric system) Zak is having an amazing time at school - he gets so many stickers that we've run out of things to stick them to.
Oh, and fourthly, Lara now works part-time for St Matts as Children's worker, and Maisey has started going to nursery (the Maisey thing should really have its own point, but this is quite frankly getting ridiculous)
And I'll stop there.
Ciao people!!
ps. check out the new Cov YFC website - www.covyfc.org
Ok, so it would appear that I damaged my back whilst in the process of
moving house (again) this week. Bizarrely, it was actually in the
process of lifting Maisey to give her a cuddle, but I'm guessing it was
mainly the heavy lifting thing that caused the problem.
And boy, did it hurt!!
Anyway, after my team told me to "GO HOME!!" yesterday, I visited the doctor and she prescribed some codiene (*sp) which is great, and now my back doesn't hurt as much, which is also good. I have to take "2 codiene tablets 4 times daily", and "8 ibruprofen per day" - which is actually the same thing but quite confusing when explained in 2 very different ways.
We also had friends to stay last night which was cool - guests to stay on our 2nd night in the house. Boy, are we socialites?
So I'm back at work now, and pleased with my back relief, but I did just scuff the bumper of my car on a bollard, which is VERY annoying.
Wow, that felt a little random, as far as blogs go, but hey, that's my ramblings I guess.
Ciao.
And boy, did it hurt!!
Anyway, after my team told me to "GO HOME!!" yesterday, I visited the doctor and she prescribed some codiene (*sp) which is great, and now my back doesn't hurt as much, which is also good. I have to take "2 codiene tablets 4 times daily", and "8 ibruprofen per day" - which is actually the same thing but quite confusing when explained in 2 very different ways.
We also had friends to stay last night which was cool - guests to stay on our 2nd night in the house. Boy, are we socialites?
So I'm back at work now, and pleased with my back relief, but I did just scuff the bumper of my car on a bollard, which is VERY annoying.
Wow, that felt a little random, as far as blogs go, but hey, that's my ramblings I guess.
Ciao.
I just started a community blog (where any realyouth blogger can post stuff).
The idea, simply, is to make it the dullest blog in the world, EVER!!
And I honestly think people will find it hilly-areas!!
So, check it out, and if you regularly find yourself with nothing at all to talk about, let me know - I'll add you as an author and you can tell us all about it.
GENIUS!!
Jon.
It feels like I've blogged far too much this weekend, but soooo much is going on.
Yes, I still have a cold, and yes, the outlaw is still here,
but on a positive note (lol) we've decided to take the house option, and so move into our own (kind of) place next monday.
How exciting.
I'm not gonna write any more, cos that'd just be too much of a good thing
Ciao, fellow readers!!
Here's an interesting one. The whole Cov YFC team (apart from Chris) getting
all friendly with a huge chocolate blob!!
Interesting!!
all friendly with a huge chocolate blob!!
Interesting!!
This weekend has been quite stressful in many ways - I have a progressively bad cold, the outlaw is here, and then there's the whole housing/work stuff going on.
So here I am, lying in bed on a Sunday morning watching TV when I'd normally be at church, and they start talking about "Back to Church Sunday" which loads of churches are partaking in this week.
The idea is that churches encourage their congregations to invite a friend to the service on this one Sunday of the year (usually linked to the start of a huge country-wide Alpha course starting.
Anyway, I'm really quite shocked by what the people on this programme had to say about it - all of them claiming to be "non-religious". It seems the general consensus is that this is just a big ploy to raise church funds and get more weddings (i.e. money) back into the church. One guy even suggested that Christians were "trying to take the church outside of the church building, which makes the whole thing pointless". Another presenter suggested that in the future we may even see "Bishops dressed up as batman" to try to raise the church's profile.
I mean, really? A bishop, being normal, even "fun" - heaven forbid!! (lol)
My concern - Is this really what people think about Christians (and the church in general) - that we're all just money grabbing morons?
They also, later in the programme, happened to mention that next week is "national smile week" which they're all really positive about!!
So the moral of Sunday morning TV: Forget Church, just keep smiling!!
EXCELLENT!! (not)
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