Sooo…a year, eh? I’m not going to even attempt to write a years worth of updates in this post, but we need to start somewhere. Well last week I had my gallbladder removed which was tons of fun, but not really. I still feel like I’ve been punched in the gut repeatedly by someone wearing brass knuckles, but I’m getting better and that’s all we can hope for really. I’m starting to move away from my current diet of cup-a-soups and attempting more substantial foodstuffs like jacket potatoes. I’m not doubling over in agony, cursing the heavens, so I’ll take that as a good sign.

On a more cheerful note, I am now the proud owner of an iPhone 4. It’s so beautiful I’ve had an iPod Touch for the last couple of years and kept calling that an iPhone…now that I’ve actually got an iPhone I keep calling it my iPod. One day I shall master the art of speech. One day. As Apple are offering free cases I’ve gone for the Speck PixelSkin HD. I’ve also been eyeing up the Gelaskins covers which are extremely pretty, but what I’m really waiting for is for Uncommon to pull their fingers out and produce an iPhone 4 case.

Hopefully now that I’m all up-to-date with WordPress, etc, I’ll get a chance to do some cleaning up of this ‘ere website. There are lots of dead link, pointless pages and oodles of files taking up my precious webspace. I expect it’ll take a while

Edit: Wow, a lot of my affiliates have fallen off the face of the earth too! I need to extricate myself from Facebook and The Awful Forums and look for some cool blogs to read like I used to.

Ciao for now

Thank you for all the comments congratulating me on getting the Deputy Coach job. It’s going really well, and with Xmas coming up I’m able to do more hours and overtime. I’m on the early shift now until Xmas and it’s great. I wish it was permanent It’s taken me a while to get used to going to bed so early. I find it really hard to sleep if I know I’ve got to be up at a certain time, and keep waking up to check the time. After doing that for most of the night, when I see that it’s 3.30am I just give up on sleeping and roll down the stairs. Ah well, at least it gives me the chance to catch up on my favourite shows on Hulu (especially Heroes Season 3. Hahaha, that show is totally nuts now. I can’t stop watching).

Lydia’s doing really well. She’s been ill with a stomach bug over the last couple of days, but she’s a lot better now. She’s been in such a lovely mood recently too. We sometimes have to remind her to use her manners with us (she’s great with other people though), but she’s been absolutely perfect and is really helpful too. When I was carrying a load of washing upstairs, she opened the door for me, switched the stairs light on and told me to be careful! How cute is that? She loves washing dishes and dusting….I’m just going to enjoy it while it lasts!

She acts like a parent herself sometimes, especially with other children at the park. One little boy was throwing a tantrum because he didn’t want to leave, so his Mum started to slowly walk off without him. Lydia was in total shock at this and ran after his Mum shouting “What are you doing?! Where are you going?!”. She then pointed at the boy, ran up to him and started pulling him screaming “Come on! Your Mum’s going away! Come onnnnnn!”. Oh god, it was hilarious!

So what’s the latest gossip from the internet? I definitely need to do some catching up on various sites. Can anyone recommend some linkage for me, please? My bookmarks folder is a little bare

So what’s been going on? I had to have another Lumbar Puncture, which was an absolute joy to endure. :hmm: Thankfully, unlike last time, I had it performed under x-ray guidance straight away, but it was still tricky apparently. It took them a lot longer than last time and it was much more uncomfortable. The Doctor was digging around there for ages! I had to have it done to relieve the headaches I was getting due to pressure in my head (Intercranial Hyper-Tension), and they’ve all but gone. I’ve had some bad backache since then, so I’ll have to pester my GP about that.

Lydia’s doing great at Nursery and she’ll be starting at Infant School in September. She looks so grown up wearing a school uniform Dave’s parents are in the process of decorating the shed at the bottom of the garden so it can be a playhouse for her. It looks great and I can’t wait to see her face next week when it’s unveiled for her birthday! I want my own playhouse now though :damnyou:

I’m hoping to make more regular updates now that I’m over my grumpiness/fed up of being ill. Let’s hope I can make it interesting!

In the meantime, if you simply have to keep up with the inane stuff I do, here’s my Twitter and Facebook

Edit: Hooray! It’s done! Please let me know if you find anything that’s broken

The journey there was eventful. Well, it was just the one event but it was enough to be counted as more than one Lydia was sick in the car. Now, normally when she tells us she’s ill, it turns out to be when she fell over and scraped her knee a couple of weeks previously. She turned to Dave and said “Daddy. Poorly tummy”, and as he leant over to talk to her, she threw up in his hands! Luckily we could pull over pretty much straight away to clean her (and Dave!) up. She was alright after that, I just think she was congested as she’s all bunged up with a cold.

She had a wonderful time for the rest of the day. She was picking up pebbles from the beach and proclaimed that she had found ‘treasure’. Then she and Dave were digging holes by the sea. He would dig a hole, then the waves would rush in and wash it away. Lydia then shouted ‘Shoo, sea! Daddy’s playing! Shoo!’

Here are two photos of her from Tuesday:

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day! Dave bought me a single red rose in a gorgeous box and he cooked me a delicious dinner. I’m so full from that dinner that I’m practically falling asleep as I’m typing this. I got him a House M.D. soundtrack cd because he casually mentioned one time about liking the music. He’s so difficult to buy for because anything he wants he just buys it. This is extra annoying because it’s his birthday tomorrow too :damnyou:

Happy Valentines Day!

I hope I have visitors left

It’s good to be back home from work. My hands have been absolutely killing me tonight. I wasn’t really typing as much as I was stabbing the keys with my fingers. So apologies for the short entry, but I wanted to get the theme live but without wanting to chop my hands off

We had a wonderful time there. The apartment we stayed in was a 10 second walk away from the beach so we woke up to a beautiful sea view every morning. Just opposite the apartment was a little cafe that did yummy cream teas, and 5 minutes walk away was a beach front pub that served food and drinks outside. I’ll be uploading all of the pictures that I took to my Flickr account once they’re all resized and stuff.

Lydia absolutely loved it there. Once she was on the beach, it was nigh on impossible to get her away. She didn’t much care for the sea the last time we went to the coast. I think it was too loud and scary with the waves “chasing” her too. This time she would drag you on to the beach at every possible opportunity shouting “Beach? BEACH?”.

There’s going to be a new default theme soon! It’s going to be replacing the current theme, but keeping the bunnies. I’ve been struggling with coding layouts for a few months now for some reason and I got fed up of getting stressed out. So I hired someone to create it for me It should be unveiled some time within the next couple of days! So if you see anything weird happening on the site, it’s probably me faffing around with one thing or another in preparation of the new theme.

P.S. I’ve recently got into Animal Crossing for the Nintendo DS Lite, so if anyone wants to come and visit me, leave a comment and let me know so we can exchange codes!