So how have you been?

Right then, here we go again. As I said back when I started this blog it may or may not be added to regularly and this post proves that point entirely. I stumbled across my own blog recently and read through all my early posts and laughingly enjoyed them. Yes, I know that's quite a sad and lonely thing to do but hey, sure me.

I thought I'd just give an update on where my life's at, actually, so that's really the purpose of this entry. My last post told how I was starting a new job and it's been nearly 8 months since I started that job and I have to say I really, really enjoy it. Maybe it's the newness of the thing that has me enjoying it so much or maybe it's the job I should be doing to make me happy, who knows. How often does a person find the ideal job in this world. To be fair how many people in this world choose to work when it's so much easier to scrounge of the state and life the life of a king without any effort?

The new year brought many surprises, some good and some bad, the biggest of which was my gorgeous girlfriend proposing to me at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. Naturally I accepted and I think it was always going to be a race between us as to who would ask the other first. She bought me a ring which I wear proudly everyday and for her birthday in March I bought her one back.

Recent months have been darkened by the death of two of the girlfriend... sorry, fiance's family members. First her Nan died mid-January and more recently her father passed away at around Easter. Needless to say she was devastated at the loss of her father and as hard as I tried I found it very hard to keep her going. Luckily she has a strong family and everyone rallied round to arrange the funeral and a fine sending off for him. She still grieves and it hurts me to see her so upset but I know this is part of the process and I have to be strong for her but sometimes it's hard to be.

On the lighter side of things baby Grace, who as I am marrying into the family will be my niece, arrived mid-January and she is growing bigger all the time, she'll soon be running around at the rate she's growing and has a funny little mowhawk thing going on on the top of her head. She's a cutey and no mistake but I still don't think I'm ready to be a dad yet. Sometime in the future maybe but not just yet, which suits the pair of us just fine.

And that's pretty much that, dear reader. The last eight months summed up in five short paragraphs, doesn't time fly when you're having fun? To be honest I can't believe it's May already and soon to be June. What is it that happens to time as you get older that makes it fly by at speeds hitherto unknown to humanity? You'll notice that I glossed over the fact that I had a thirtieth birthday in the intervening months since I last blogged, that wasn't accidental (although I would like to thank the missus for the party, it was awesome) as at my age you don't like to dwell too much on the past, ;-)

Until next time.