It's been a whole week!

I had hoped to keep up with this blog, which would be a first since I've never even managed to keep a diary for more than a few days, so maybe that was ambitious of me. I am already showing signs of trailing off and no one reads it, but I will not let it die!

Today is Valentines Day. We went for a meal at a local Mediterranean restaurant with Alexia in tow, which wasn't bright to begin with. Also I have a cold, I slept in today and looked after my eight year old nephew, TJ, for a while which was exhausting. So by the time we got home we had thirty five minutes to get ready for the meal, me and Paul weren't feeling well, I was tired, Alexia was tired, full of cold and attention seeky and everything seemed to be going wrong. We were barely five minutes later than the time we'd expected to be there, but we were tired and stressed. The staff at the restaurant were really good though, they gave us things to keep Alexia occupied and stop her from getting upset and they were fine when she was wandering around or crying and generally causing havoc. The food was good and the atmosphere was excellent (especially when we left I imagine!) and we couldn't fault the staff, but I felt really guilty because we were quite loud and if I'd been out for a quiet meal without Alexia and another couple had brought a loud and annoying child with them I think it would have ruined my meal. I don't think we'll be doing that again in a hurry then!

Nothing much has happened this week apart from that, we went shopping in Leeds on Saturday and we let Alexia walk around for most of the way, that went quite well and tired her out nicely. On Sunday we went for a nice walk near where my Dad lives. We see him every other Saturday and he loves walking so naturally he was dying for Alexia to get walking so he could take her with him! That made her nice and tired too, but she's had a cold ever since and so have I.

I still hate my job, but I don't think I've come any closer to thinking of one I'd like more this week. I'm still thinking of engineering, something to do with the environment (which is a bit at odds with the engineering idea, or is it?), or something that involves a bit of exploring.

I want to be an adventurer!