So it's now 2010, it has been a year since I joined Hearst Digital, the time has flown and a lot of change has happened in the last year.
I've have survived three managers, a redundancy and moved offices. With my team, built Huxley, a CMS that uses Gearman, R3 (Yahoo! templating system based on Rosetta), Perl backend and PHP frontend, MySQL Database, that runs on the cloud. It is also cheap as chips to run. The sites running on it as of today: Diet Diaries , 30 Days and Mens Health Lucozade
At home we now have Charlotte with us as well as Oskar and Tomas. She is 8 weeks old now and has grown into a cute little girl already; the worrying thing for me is that I get excited about cute pink outfits now.
For the last 3 years I have tried to give up smoking, in fact it has become a bit of a family tradition for me to give up at new year, this year is no different, I am currently smoke free and a bit grumpy, but on the plus side I'm up by £6.20 in savings already. At this rate I'll be able to afford all the shoes, clothes and other random "must haves" that Oskar, Tomas and Charlotte all need.
It is Oskar's first day at "big" school on Tuesday 5th Jan, this meant that we needed to go school uniform shopping. Oskar and I went to Staines to get shoes, Trousers, Shirts and Plimsolls. We came back home with black trousers - should be grey, long sleeve shirts - should be short sleeve and totally lacking in shoes. Bad trip all in all, but Linda and Oskar went and sorted it all out, exchanging the items I got wrong with the words "I shouldn't have sent my husband..."
Well, it's Tom and Jerry day on Boomerang today, so should get on and try to find some peace and quiet away from the bang and crashes of the cat and mouse. The thing that is both a relief and an annoyance is that they are showing old Tom and Jerry cartoons, which have not be airbrushed by the health Nazi's and they both still smoke. This now annoys me as I fancy a smoke at the moment!
- Day: 1
- Number of ciggies: 0
- Grumpy factor: 8
- Snapped at boys: 2
- Savings on ciggies: £6.20
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