Blogging – how not to do it.

Yesterday Kai and I talked, we talked and talked, we exhausted ourselves with words. Then we went out for dinner. We went to Frankie and Bennies, we ate until 10pm then took the kids home to bed. It was perhaps the closest to a perfect night out we, as a family have ever come. It was a fantastic night. One I was sorry to see end. In the morning I rose from torpor, dressed, fed the kids and tookto school and then went to work.

I left work early today, at lunch time as it so happens – something I had planned to do a few days ago, sadly this meant I missed out on lunch with S but meant I got to go home home. The purpose of this blatant disregard of responsibility was so that I could spend time with my beloved. Kai and I rarely get to spend time with just each other these days, so I made of point of taking this afternoon off – and boy was it worth it. We had a couple of small errands to run but after that we spent a pleasant hour in town. We drank coffee, wandered around the shops, bought pretzels and just generally hung out. Something we haven’t done in an age to my mind. Oh sure we spent time together but the smalls generally kept us busy so it wasn’t just us. After we picked the kids up from school Kai and I took them up to the top of Crickley Hill to let them run around like maniacs whislt we renewed our handfasting. The ceremony was a simple one but one cherished by both Kai and myself. As we wandered around the green hiltop stopping on occasion to allow Kai to take some photos I began to feel tired. I wish I knew what caused it and I know it caused some concern to Kai and to this point I still can’t explain what cased such a lack of energy to befall me. So there I was, enjoying myself – as much as I can surrounded by nature with young family members present and completely exhausted. We returned home, happy with ourselves and in our renewed vows of love to one another. I prepared dinner and Kai, very kindly, cooked for us. We had fajitas, then after dinner played snakes and ladders with the kids. Kai then kept the kids out of my hair for a while – which I felt bad about, she needs her space at the moment, but I was just so exhausted that its what I needed. As I sat there playing computer games in a near vegetative state I came accorss an old yearning – one to be out in pubs and clubs. In Edinburgh I used to go out every Wednesday night to the pub and almost every fortnight to some club or another. Down here we don’t really get the opportunity to. Don’t get me wrong, I love being where I am now I just miss social interactions brought about by being within a close proximity of alchohol based beverages. Which leads me on to my next point. Turns out the local goth/alternate nightclub down here is next on, on the 11th – hopefully I’ll make it to that.

Tomorrow beckons the pair of us, sleep, topor, call it what you will pulls on us like an anchor, and it is a call we intend to answer. We’ll see what the dawn makes of the world again soon enough.