Hi Ho, Hi Ho, its off to work we go

Date: 13 Feb 2002

Mood: OK

Well, haven't we been a busy little bee recently?

I seem to have secured a half decent job at last!

Its further up North we go, which means that Lightfoot Towers will be moving in the coming months. In fact since the offer, there has been an amazing amount of activity at the home of this bit of the Internet.

My God, I've even been busy - fixing up the rotten run down ol' shack we call home to make it a half decent place for strangers to live in. (strangers in the castle - never!). We had contemplated the idea of letting out the ol' ruin for a bit, but it does just not add up - do people really pay large sums of money for what is really just space out of the drizzle that seems to be the standard weather we have these days? I'm not sure we could do that.

Still, the ruin goes up for sale soon - I might even put up pictures of the place as an advert for selling what has been our home for nearly six years.

Now I'm getting all maudlin. Can people really have feelings for a pile of bricks and mortar? It appears so. Still, the old place has been good to us. Its kept us warm when it was cold, and kept us cold when it was too warm (In England - can it ever be?) If I carry on like this I'll start regretting I mentioned it. So I won't.

For the last two days, Her who should be obeyed has gone to the Mother-in-Law's, leaving me alone in the place. The little cherubs have gone with her. Two days in a house on my own - bliss!!!!

Or is it? I've been painting over distinctly dodgy decoration to make the Towers more presentable. I've had quite a lot of time to myself, and a little time to catch my breath and do some serious thinking about my lifestyle.

Its definitely time to decide to do something with my lifestyle - it stinks. I smoke, drink, and do little or no exercise. I'm going to be dead soon if I don't do something, and that is something I'd rather put off if thats ok with you.

I reckon this new job will get me on the road to recovery. However, I reckon it has started already, simply with a mindset opitimised by a statement I regularly saw on my school reports - ' Must do better'.

However, I am going out drinking tonight...