Archive for August, 2010
And fuck her too!
No I’m not being rude, but I am completely addicted to the new track from Cee-lo Green. You know, the voice of Gnarls Barkley. There is a ‘clean’ version where they change the words to “Forget You” so it should still do well with radio/tv plays but I think you have to listen to it in it’s original form to really enjoy it:
So the major perk of working in a school is of course the holidays. I can’t deny it’s a great bonus. We’re about half way through now, so what have I been up to…
Well the first thing is the utter failure of a trip to London. We were going primarily for Hannah’s first visit to London Zoo, a place Me & Kat have been before and loved. Hannah loves animals so we were super excited about it all, which is why the whole experience was all the more bitter. The trip can be summed up thus:
So basically it was a lot of money and a lot of effort all for nothing really. The one redeeming thing about the trip to the zoo was that for a few minutes when Hannah saw the tigers she lit up and was happy. Ho hum. Next time we’ll do it when she’s a bit older and we’ll do it as a day trip.
The best thing about the holiday so far is the thing that’s cost us the least. Kat’s parents went on holiday and as they live in a mansion (not really, but you could fit our house into their’s several times over) we decided to stay there whilst Kat’s friends Tom and Jemma visited us with their brand new baby Ellie who is 6 months old. They are the nicest people you could ever meet. Scarily so. Perhaps they secretly eat kittens or something to balance out the niceness? Who knows. Anyway Ellie and Hannah got along great and I found it really nice to be with another ‘new’ family like ours. It’s a real shame they live so far away. I have very few friends and out of those only two are guys and neither have children, it would be nice to have another dad to talk to on occasion.
Every new year, every holiday I tell myself I will lose weight, start exercising etc. It never happens. I managed 2 long morning walks and that was about it. It comes down to my main underlying problem, the aspect of myself that I really hate the most. I can’t focus on anything. I have a million things I think about doing and I flit between them all, never doing most and barely doing the rest. So I feel in a permanent state of cruise control, doing the same things. I like my life a lot, in fact it’s pretty much perfect. I have a stable job with prospects, a lovely wife, perfect child and overall a cushy lifestyle. But there’s nothing I ever get my teeth into. The closest I get is when my assignment deadlines are only days away and I have no other choice. In those moments I excel, it has always been the way I do work and 99% of the time it works out fine.
So what to do? My brain tends to flick between these options:
When I pick an option my mind tends to go into overdrive with ideas and enthusiasm. The problem being it all vanishes after a night’s sleep. So either I need to stop sleeping, or perhaps set a more low-key plan for one of those goals. Merely writing this is just another example of me just talking the talk, pretending I’ll do one of them when my usual laziness will override any such instincts.
Or will it?
(Answer: Yes)
I do at least have one thing that I always try my best at and that is being a father to Hannah. Every day I make sure I have fun with her, protect her, teach her and show my love for her. I think this is where my laziness is an asset. It’s just so easy to love her. It happens without trying, it’s effortless. With that the playing, protecting and teaching happens on it’s own. In fact you can’t have one without the others.
All a bit soppy I know but she’s magic personified and I felt like writing about it. On that note I have the rest of my summer holidays to be getting on with, so shoo! Off you go!
Ok I have a lot of comics and a few DS/PSP games to sell. I’ll put word about on Twitter/Facebook first then eBay ‘em. All prices include second class/standard postage.
Before I list the main attraction, I have an iPod Touch, 1st gen, with a broken earphone port. It will probably play music through any kind of dock (Haven’t tested this but I can) and if you really want I think you can buy dock to earphone converter cables. Anyway for internet browsing over wifi and general iPod Touch games it’s fine. Supplied with charging cable, no headphones £50.
Nintendo DS Games. No boxes/manuals unless otherwise stated but they are legit! £5 each
White PSP for sale, original model. Barely used, great condition. I’m selling as a bundle for £70 including:
Where possible I want to sell entire runs. If you do want bits and bobs I’d rather they were at the start or end of the collections so I can still sell continuous blocks but all offers welcome. Conditions of all comics is at least good
New Avengers: I have the entire run of New Avengers (well, issue 57 is missing!) going for £40.
Ultimate Spider-Man: The first 15 volumes (issues 1-90) for £45
Ultimate X-Men: First two paperbacks are the “Ultimate Collections” that have 2 volumes in each so there are no missing issues, they are just grouped differently £40.
Ultimate Avengers: 6 issue run for £4
The Ultimates 3: This is not a patch on The Ultimates 1 and 2 but hey ho, at £3 you can’t moan!
Captain America: It pains me to sell these as they are so good, this is the current Ed Brubaker run. Slightly higher price due to hardbacks, aprox 70 comics for £60.
Invincible Iron Man: This is the Matt Fraction run, issues 1-28 for £15.
Secret Invasion: Annoyingly I’m missing issue 7. For that reason it’s only £3.
Dark Avengers: Again annoyingly missed buying issues 7 and 8 but it didn’t ruin my enjoyment of the series. £5.
Siege: The 2010 crossover event, only 4 issues so a princely £2.
Astonishing X-Men: The first 34 issues for £15.
X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse: Four thick paperbacks that I can’t be bothered to count the issues of! £20.
X-Men: I have various X-Men books. I can find out what issues and series they belong to but for now will just list the book titles and prices. Basically the more issues per book the more it costs!