Boxing day well another Christmas done and dusted roll on 2012 , it was not a good Christmas no real atmosphere again went to Helen parents house and i took my laptop to put some James Patterson novels on to her Kindle she received , i would have liked one myself put needless to say no chance this year also i was hoping to win a i pod classic on eBay but never watched the bidding on it through as money is tight again this year as there is only one wage coming in , it was always going to be a difficult time , least we had some nice food and we are having another turkey dinner today with Yorkshire puddings and sweet potatoes and a few bottles of pear cider then its back to work tomorrow which i am happy that i have a job

Yesterday we got our dinner for boxing day bought a turkey crown from the village of Uppermill at Saddleworth along with a load of fresh vegetables including sprouts and satsumas but no dates hopefully they all grown locally ,We also stopped at the local bakery and bought some steak pies to eat there , a pork pie some Christmas truffles and mince pies and sliced Christmas cake , We went to the local Tesco at Greenfields
and bought some sweet potatoes lager and cider and some chocs and other provisions all ready for our feast on boxing day .

today we went visiting called to see my Daughter at the hair salon she works the called to a old Friend who watched me grow up from my birth and was a true Friend to my mum for over fifty five years we said we will invite here over to dine with us , form there we went to Lawnswood crematorium to leave Christmas cards for relatives that are passed over.









Went to Christmas mass to the church at Adel where Helen grow up and used to play in its grounds,went with Mark and Sue the church is a 12th century building its small and very architectural in its design with its big old door and exposed beams it was full its the first time i have to Communion in many years.

Its been decided by us both to go to Helen's parents for Christmas dinner , we will get a turkey crown and do another Christmas dinner on boxing day with sweet potatoes and honey roasted parsnips washed down with my favorite pear cider , as always we are skint its been another hard year with lots of ups and downs and various peaks and troughs , hopefully in 2012 things will level out and improve.

Its been hard to save for this Christmas i would have loved a kindle and a i pod classic two important features in my life reading and music its not going to happen ,for Helen i wanted to get her a Buddha water feature and a reiki bed its not likely to happen.

That doesn't mean we wont have a great Christmas we will have a great time together although i will miss my children Christmas is not the same and Helen will miss her children , we have both had great Christmases in the past and hopefully will have a few more great ones yet , Christmas costs we all want to give nice presents to our loved ones its not always possible we both know if we had more money there would be loads of gifts under the Christmas tree and why not , ever one we know never seem to struggle like we do have holidays go out and have money for the sales we never do for the last four years we have been on a tight budget.
But we CAN NEVER forget we left everything to be together and started again with nothing , we have between us created a home and house we are proud of.

We have done alterations and modernised the house which we never thought we would work which is still on going , our first Christmas together we was in the apartment near to town and we didn't have a Christmas tree we moved in a few days before Xmas and didn't have the time , now we have two trees and numerous lights round the house both inside and out have two light up reindeer's out on the patio maybe we have more than we realise.

went for a interview for supervisors position today at one o clock , it went very well hopefully i will be the best and get the job , hope i do if not well i will keep trying.
Christmas looms as does the new year if Santa was visiting this year and money was no object here's what i would like.

Have been allocated a interview for a supervisors position were i currently work on the 20th of December as before will give it my best shot and hopefully get a job offer.
have bidded on four wooden tarot card boxes on eBay for Helen's collection of cards she uses for peoples tarot readings all are ornately designed and carved.Also she has designed and ordered 500 business cards from vistaprint all done online online to distribute where necessary.Helen is also ordered a domain address and is building her own website.
I got my son Guy interested in I-tunes and listening to music via a i-pod nano he was using but only after a couple of days went kaput we think the battery is dead so i sent him mine as he was a little pissed off to say the least after building his play list, i will have to use my i-phone until i get a new i pod touch or i-pod classic i am undecided the touch does a lot more things but the classic will hold lots more songs/albums at 160 gig and the white touch is a sleeker piece of design.
bought a pair of K-Swiss trainers these were used but in very good condition for a princely sum of £2.91p plus £2.50 p/p , also i bought some original i-pod earphones if they aren't they are very good copies and i would buy them again also i bought now 10 i-phone screen protectors for £1.49 free p/p and i now hold 22 stars and 100% feedback , seeing as i only buy and don't sell and pay for each item as soon as i win a item , this is likely to drop.
worked all week this week and i am working all next week this will be a good start to the new year also i receive this months salary on the 23rd of December a few days early because it is Christmas holidays.

Listening to - Akon Koncrete

Reading - I Steve-Jobs in his own words by George Beahm

This morning in the rain i fixed the blue icicle lights to the eaves of the garage using drawing pins we passed the cable through the window then just shut the window trapping the wire in place hopefully it wont strip the protective cover that protects the wires.Then i did the white icicle lighting to the front of the bay window also using drawing pins this time just running it back inside via over the front door threshold.We have two Christmas trees one in the living room and one in the hallway which Helen decorated we have quite a few strings of lights now scattered throughout he house we are going to get some for our wrought iron bed just to be on the safe side will get batteries ones not type of shocking experience i want in the bedroom would really go with a bang

From the visit to the building society our mortgage has dropped by a £150 a month which now makes our house cheaper than renting somewhere , which is a result in a way i suppose it would have been nicer to have a repayment of around £350 we are now paying £433 a month.
Bought some hand crafted sky lanterns to let go at Christmas and new year also bought some blue and whit icicle lights to go on the bat window and on the garage.