And the beat goes on

Woah! It's been a while since I updated this blog. Things've been fairly hectic I guess what with work but I've been spending a lot of time with friends of an evening. Fact is, I just haven't been too bothered about keeping this up to date.

The new position at work has been interesting, for sure. Its kind of given me my reason for being in my line of work back again because I have to say that before that I had gotten a trifle jaded and cynical about things and was really questioning whether it was something I wanted to do. I see the benefit of working in my current area but do wonder whether I will be able to fully qualify in that area if current trends continue. Ok, so that was entirely unhelpful for those who might read this and have no idea what I do but I'm not about to talk it on a public site so gimme a ring, strangers!

I've taken up jogging again despite advice to the contrary. I remember explaining to someone that I now walk to work and really should consider jogging home from work at the end of the day. He very helpfully responded that I should drop some weight before doing so because otherwise I could possibly cause myself knee damage... Which was nice... Because THAT didn't make me feel at all self conscious about my weight... But anyway, that kinda irked me enough to make me actually get out and do it and I have a jogging partner who needed to get out and do some as well so we're both (hopefully) going to get some benefit out of it.

The flat is going nicely as well. You can tell you're getting old in the head when you're chuffed as nuts that you've got a new hoover that makes your carpet look brand new again. Really, is this the extent to which my life has fallen? Sadly, it would appear so! Still, the place is looking quite nice and I've made a concerted effort to keep it that way for the forseeable. Maybe I'll get around to that flatwarming one of these days...

My social-cum-private life has been ticking along nicely as well. I don't give up THAT much time to friends etc but the time I have been giving up has been well spent in my opinion. Last weekend I went to one of my best mates new flat to spend the evening with him and his good lady who introduced me to her rather lovely young friend. For the first time in ages I found myself feeling rather shy which is odd because I very rarely get like that with women. I hope I masked it well but who knows? Anyway, jury's out on that. I will not be drawn to further comment! ;-P

The car will hopefully be sold within a matter of weeks and then the decision must be made about whether I go for a brand new car (Which I can get for less than £5k after the sale of my car) and thus incur a new debt or do I go for something smaller for a similar price and hope for the best? Really hard to say right now. I still love my car but do get fed up with the endless maintenance required of having the handbrake cleaned and fixed every 6 months along with having to shell out for tyres and what have you. I know you have to do all these things on a smaller car also but my car is larger and thus everything seems to cost more.

I am also trying to occupy myself with hobbies to keep away from spending too much but am falling a little short in that also! Honestly, I am so rubbish I should just let someone else run my bank account and hand me some money each week for going out purposes as I am more than likely to simply blow my budget on things I don't really need but kinda wanted at the time. *Sigh* Will I ever learn?

But anyway, things are quite nice, thanks all the same. And depending on how things continue along I may produce a little more poetry in the near future for those who like that kind of thing.

Ciao for now. x