A Family Saturday

While July 4th means no fireworks for us here in the UK, what it does mean for me is a lot of family birthdays all rolled up into a short space of time.

Hence after a looooong (and what I think was a well deserved after a hard working week) lay in everyone (including some cousins I haven’t seen in 5 or so years!) pitched up at the pub for a family meal. It was good to see everyone sat around the same table because it doesn’t happen that often these days now we’re all off living our own lives. Plus the food wasn’t bad either! It’s been ages since I last had waffles but these were good! Wish more restaurants/pubs in the UK served them.  Actually there’s a lot of American food I wish was served in the UK but I think that’s for another post entirely some day.

Didn’t get up to anything too exciting in the evening. Catching up with podcasts (I’m about six months behind) and watching CSI. Problem is with the weekends is that they fly by all too quickly.

Trapped

When you’re in a place you don’t want to be with no escape and very little to do what do you do? Blog in my case!

Friday was as quiet as could be expected in an empty office. For the first time in a few weeks I managed to be out of the door at 4pm. Normally something will go wrong and I end up being there until 6 or 7. I feel like I’m winding down for my week off beginning on the 17th. I’ll actually be able to refuse work this week as I won’t be able to fit it in until December.

I needed to get some small things like watch batteries done this weekend. Driving home on Friday night I suddenly found some motivation and got it out of the way there and then. I hate giving up my weekends to do that kind of thing. If I had left it until Saturday morning I would have struggled to find the energy to do it. Plus I would rather spend my weekends when I am not working with the people I care about and when that can’t happen within my own thoughts.

Sundays are not my favourite part of the weekend. It’s time to visit family which usually means being sat in the corner of the room being ignored. You know the one time I decide not to turn up though I’ll be moaned at. I’m not sure how I coped before the invention of the iPhone though. Writing posts like this, reading Twitter and Facebook just about keep me sane.

This kinda sums it up though…. everyone else just left the room and I’m now sat here on my own. I wonder if anyone will notice if I take a nap