I’m turning in to a pretty cynical person. Just to add to my wonderful characteristics of being overly grumpy and sarcastic. Seriously, you have to go through a lot of crap to survive being my friend.
So valentine’s day is over and has the world changed much? No. Don’t worry, I got a card, a cd and a dvd for the mrs, pretty standard I know, but this was our 11th together, so the novelty is wearing thin, and I haven’t got the cash to throw away on meaningless gifts for one day.
Even at church on Sunday there were plenty of references to valentine’s day, which, if it was in the context of modern day life and wasting your money and emotions then I would agree with, but it wasn’t. I love the people of my church, but it in no way inspires me to be a better person, not that that is the sole reason I attend, there’s various reasons, which we’ll discuss another time.
In general I had a good weekend. I had the kids to myself on Saturday morning and so we went to my sisters to play with my niece, Grace. The kids had a lovely time. I was still a little on edge. I can’t seem to discuss our Australia plans openly without a massive twinge of guilt. So, I pretty much avoided the topic.
Later in the day we had Isabelle and Marc over for a games night. Now, I love board games, in particular I love monopoly and I have a slight obsession. I own over 50 different monopoly games. I don’t actually play them very often, but I love all the variations from Muppets to Elvis to Beatles to James Bond to Star Wars to Lord of the Rings.
So, I was quite excited that we had people coming over. Marc and I were also secretly hoping we could talk the girls in to playing Risk…but unfortunately, no. Instead after some food we started on Trivial Pursuit, and our version is pre-2003 so blimey it felt old. But the evening wasn’t very smooth, Perhaps I was too grumpy, but nobody seemed to be really letting go, perhaps we all had stuff on our mind.
Sunday, or as everyone knew it as, Valentine’s Day, was lovely. I’d already got the go ahead from the wifey for a morning bike ride with my brother in-law and a few others, so we could really start training for the 100km ride in March. We did around 25 miles and the weather was great, not sure on the route, we stuck to dual carriageways and seemed to add a hill everywhere we went, the roads didn’t feel great and were way too bumpy, but it was great to get out.
We finished the ride at church and stopped for a rather dull 2 hours, and then it was home for lunch, kids went for a nap, as did me and the mrs. Well, Matilda woke up after an hour, so I ventured downstairs and we watched the rugby and football, while we gave mommy a rest. And that was pretty much that. Perhaps it was uneventful, un romantic, but precisely how me and my wife enjoyed it x
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