Archive for February, 2005

What a day! Signed up for a new mortgage, fixed my scooter and shared some quality time with James. Fixing the scooter was a nightmare, it is VERY VERY hard to disassemble the exhaust on my scooter when all the bolts are rusty. In the end we just changed the main exhaust pipe, but will still have made a great saving (ha ha, not really a saving cos the exhaust might not have blown up) over the garage. I got the parts from this brilliant place on the web which you can get most parts from and they deliver to your door next day, fab!

The new mortgage should be sorted out in a couple of weeks and that will mean that the money is ready for the DIY work, which will make it feel like things are happening. I also opened a web saving account with a great rate of interest (5.35%). If you want to do the same then the alliance and leister is the boy for the job, sign up here.

James was brilliant today. We had several really nice times together where he was smiling and laughing at me. I will miss him next week when I am away, and I hope he wont forget the good times we had.

Although my time off work has not been entirely good today made up for it and I feel a lot better about things. The chance to sort out lots of finances has also been really good news. Hopefully I can keep it up.

Sleepy… that seems to be an enduring emotion these days. As I write James is almost asleep after a very long and very pained crying session. He seems to have mastered the sleeping after 11pm game, but in the evenings he still wants to stay up with Mum and Dad. This is OK i suppose, but he really should go to bed at 7:30pm in my opinion, and then Mum and Dad can have an easy night. I suppose at only 9 weeks old we can’t complain that much about this minor issue, and perhaps it’s too early to be putting him down in the evenings anyway. He is just so amazingly alert and needs to look at everything even at the expence of going to sleep. I think he gets overstimulated with everything around and then can’t get off however I could be wrong.

I am well busy, but seem to still spend half my life wasting time. It was great talking with a friend today and holding each other to account for what we are doing with our lives. It’s worrying to think about what I will have achieved by the time I am 30, non that much in reality. Of course I will have earned some money and built up a stack of material possetions but in terms of actual impact on others not much. It’s a depressing kind of thought, but one that I seem to dwell on more often. There is so much that I would like to do. Climbing Kilimanjiro would be one, writing a novel or childrens book would be another.
I sometimes wonder if I am in the right job, but it’s difficult to do anything once you have build up your material (and marital!) world around you.

Anyway.. on the plus side, I bought an excellent photography book with really useful tips for using all the pro settings on my camera, so hopefully I can take some good shots and show you them. Now to find the time to actualy get out and experiment!

I have been wondering about reading to James. I think I will try and start this week, perhaps that will help him goto sleep, or perhaps it will just stimulate him even more.