Huge gap
between entries, principally because we had so much going on, but first
of all Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2013 has much of the good stuff from
2012 & none of the crap.
So, we survived Christmas, nobody got
poisoned by the turkey and I think over-indulgence was kept to a
minimum, Of course it’s now over a year since we were in the UK but we
were still able to enjoy a phone conversation and joke about the
weather.
Amongst many presents, Ryan got a
train set.... then he got a replacement because the first one was, being
polite... fairly crap. He likes the new one much better, though it
does often seem to have a collision with an Angry Bird or 6! He also
got a T-Ball set (baseball for beginners basically) so far he’s not
broken anything nor chased after Poof with the bat - I doubt either of
those claims will last too long! Oh, he loves his Octonauts DVD....
except it’s a British series and the British versions of it have
different accents to those he knows from US tv....
Ryan has begun “school”... well
barely, because as I type this, he’s coughing his guts up. Only had the
2 1/2 days so far, but he settled in well and hopefully once over this
bug will be back for a good stint. This of course means I need to
foxtrot oscar and get a proper job, resume’s are currently spamming
recruiters, hopefully something worthwhile will turn up!
Speaking of bugs, we’ve gone through a
spell of bad health recently, we ended up at an emergency care facility
where it turned out Jessica was making a fuss over nothing and I had
enough of an intestinal issue that I ended up on a 2 week course of tabs
- since then I think what I actually had was the norovirus, but as that
seems common I’ll claim it was something more sinister.
Hmm, oh yes, Jakey thug decided we
needed an early call on Dec 26th by eating string...emergency vets req’d
where he was sedated and giving medicine to induce vomiting. It didn’t
work till he came home, rushed off, ate some food, walked into our
bedroom and vommed over the floor. “Great Jake, you asshole..... oh
look, string..... good work!”. So that worked out well, but it was
still expensive so he remains an asshole!
Finally, well not finally but this is
getting extensive so I’ll not bore you much more.... The number of US
citizens in our place went up by one on Dec 18th, as I finally completed
the long task put in place since I arrived. That means I can now vote
and have to decide who annoys me more, Demotwats being commies, stealing
my families money and having no idea how to curb spending or
Redumplicans who seem intent on shooting anything and seem socially
stuck in the 1900’s. Sigh. Ryan will soon be able to consider those
options in due course as we’re getting him tied into UK citizenship, not
for any big reason, but it will make any travels/study or work in the
EU (as it stands now - but of course it’ll be bankrupt by the time he’s
21 anyway) far easier.
Well as I mentioned politics it’s time to move on, should be a more regular update once we avoid silly times of the year.
All the best for 2013 from us all.
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