life in general

Happies & Crappies – 15 – 21 Feb ’14

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Ahhh it’s friday! Don’t we all love Fridays? The promise of the weekend ahead, wine, lying in bed and unknown adventures! Though truthfully for me it’s often laziness, potentially a hangover and boredom. Ha! I need a hobby.

The past week in summary…

Happy

+ It’s only 3 week to go until We get to see our families in South Africa! We last went home in September 2012 to get married, so it’s been a long time since I got to cuddle my loved ones. Time to shift the counting to days instead of weeks I think. 22 Sleeps! 🙂

+ I’ve booked Vash into holiday care for while we are away. He’s going to be staying with Sam’s Species so it’s good to know he will be in capable hands while we are on our hols.

+ I’ve been listening to the Books on the Nightstand podcast and totally loving it! I love both books and technology, so a podcast about books is like heaven to me. I feel geeky and intellectual all at the same time. Haha. I listen on the Apple Podcast App while at work and always end up adding a book or 2 to my goodreads.com “to read” list along the way.
This week I listened to Ann & Michael talk about audiobooks, and it has prompted me to blow the digital dust off my Audiobook copy of Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett and install the Audible App on my iPhone to listen to it. Though sometimes I find it hard to focus properly on audiobooks I’m slowly getting through it. I am able to listen at work as long as I’m not doing anything that requires reading (I can’t do the 2 together) or too much stop and start. Thankfully this week has been conducive to listening and have had it on the go for most of yesterday and today.

Crappy

– I had a head cold at the beginning of the week. I started to feel crappy on Sunday when Pete and I went for a walk in the sunshine, and ended up taking Tuesday as a sick day. Thankfully it was short lived and I’m right as rain again.

– Before we moved house in December, my car’s driver door was keyed by some wanker and only just got around to getting a quote for the repair. £168! 🙁 I’m going to see what improvements I can make myself before forking out so much dosh on it.

Life as it stands – freedom

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iEllen via boeke.
iEllen via boeke.

Tonight (Sunday, 23:03) I said to Pete “I wish it was Saturday night again. I don’t want to go to bed”, and then he made a very good point. Our life if not exactly hard or stressful at the moment. We go to work, then come home and have the whole evening to ourselves. We have no obligations. ALL of our spare time, and our spare money for that matter, is our own. We have the liberty to laze around for our entire Saturday & Sunday if we want to. Much like we did today actually. So really I have nothing to moan about for going to work tomorrow, especially as I really love my job!

It’s good to be introspective about these things and take the time to just sit back and realise just how freaking good we have it. We have spoken about having children, and it’s definitely something are planning on doing in the next few years, but at the moment we are really enjoying our time together. Normally it’s just the two of us sitting on our respective couches doing our own things, as we are right now. QI on TV, Pete normally playing games, and me pottering on the internet. If we fancy, we go for a bike ride together or I stick a movie on which we both slowly put our laptops aside for.

After drinking wine and going to bed at about 3am last night, today we watched about 5 episodes of Castle Season 5 and played on our laptops all day long. Pete did a load of washing, and I did the dishes, and that was the extent of our exertion! It sounds lazy, I know. And it is. Very. and we goddamn love it!

Are you a parent that went through this phase before making the big commitment? Tell me all about it 🙂