and so this is xmas

As others have put their feelings towards christmas down i shall follow. This has never been a happy time for me, filled with long memories of christmas past. In a previous life that is before we moved up here I had always been in casual labour hire employment. Usually by this time of the year the factories which i had been working in on a regular basis would have closed for christmas and therefore all income would have stopped. Yes I would have had heaps of overtime and therefore lots of money in the bank. but... usually by this time I would have registration on a car, insurance car and contents, plus I knew very well that sometime between 24th dec and 1st jan someone was going to come around and read the power, gas and water meters, therefore no money. So down to centrelink I would go, the hour long drive into geelong full well knowing that my regular job would go back in feb so that we would have money to buy food for christmas. Ahh the bad old days, always bleak. Thankfuly those days are behind us and while yes I have to work through the christmas and new year period I'd rather that than no money and no food for 2 months.

december

It is here again, time to take the kids on that 3 and a half hour trip into the big smoke and look at Myer's pathetic attempt to do a window display to beat melbourne. To ride the train around santa land. Wondering whether i should part with $85 for a smile that would serve as a mormen recruting poster, justifying why they dont do christmas? ahh yes i started doing this when we moved here. So i guess i will have to keep doing it, its all worth it in the end. Maybe no.2 might be able to hop on this year, who knows, the things we do for our kids let me tell you i would not have it any other way. So join me on this adventure the wonderful journey of parenthood.