Still finding it hard

To remember to do this!

This is how I didn't keep it going the first time!

So as we get into the year, not only do I fall off the blog waggon once I then do it again!
This is gonna take some work!

Missed one :-(

Missed a day, not impressed.

Back to Work

Unlike most people I can't wait to get back to work. As a person who needs to have some sense of routine in his life, work offers me that and more.  It also helps that I work with a number of really great people, who between us make our days seem shorter.
In fact the starting of this blog again is to try and help me at work.  I have a very practical job, but one that by law requires an amount of paperwork to be completed on a regular basis for best practice. I have trouble with the whole act of thinking about words and then trying to translate them into either handwriting or typing. Keeping this blog filled with a post everyday is me trying to get my brain to actually get words out and not keep them in.

No longer the worse day of the year

So until a few years ago this day was the worse day of the year for me. The high from Christmas, New Year and then my birthday would be gone and instead I'd be saying to myself what have I got to look forward too?
Of course now its very different, I have my anniversary, my wife's birthday, my daughters birthday and this year the birth of my second child.

So the 4th January, no longer a depressing day!

It's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to!

So today is my birthday.  I've always tried to make a day out of my birthday, having time off work trying to do what I want to do and for the most part over the last few years that's what has happened.  Still doesn't quite make up for all those years when I just felt depressed over my birthday.  Everyone has just brought you a Christmas present, so getting anything else for your birthday was a no-no.

When it came to having our first child I really was aware that I didn't want a baby in the first two months of the year.  Our first was born in July and our second is due in March this year (2012).

Thankfully my wife is understanding about my issues with my birthday and she makes sure that the house is de-christmasified before the day.

Day two

Since being old enough to legally drink this has been the filling to the sandwich that is New Year and my birthday.
For quite a while the 2nd has just been an excuse for more drink and today has been no exception! A nice bottle of white for dinner, seeing the evening through.

Day One again

So why have I started writing here again, years after I first started this blog and years since I wrote anything?
Well I'm trying to have a year that changes me, my Manifesto 2012 is not about resolutions but trying to hold myself up to better standards and proving to myself that I can do stuff.  The first stuff is being creative and typing stuff down, so hence the start of this blog again.

The year 2012

Ok, a post every day for this year, let's see how long it will last for.