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Aberdeen Scotland<--click it! Well the internet is back on (it's the promised 2 meg now that somehow never managed to get on in Kilwinning) and we are in Aberdeen. The kids have started school and nursery. Catty is at work and I am here at 'home' doing the housework*.

The move went reasonably well, except for the following;

• The removal company charged over £100 more than quoted for "extras" that were included in the walkround which the quote was based on!!
• The removal company turned up 3 hours late, with the wrong truck!!!
• The removal company lost one of the legs to the kids trampoline!!
• The removal company just threw the kids toys into the back garden!! (they got here first and didn't realise I had pulled in to the drive and could see them doing this!)
• The removal company, against policy, took the tropical fish in the back of their (ice cold) truck and we are now 6 fish less.
• The removal company fucked my brand new guitar (I am extrememly pissed at them for this one)

I hope catty's company will still pay for these cowboys, since their quote is now not the cheapest.

See you next Tuesdays!

I probably lost a few emails in the downtime, my email account was locked out. So my mum and Catty may also have stopped receiving email for a day or two (I had over 200 spam etc using the space) my apologies for that peepell.

Within a few days of getting here I broke the van! I know I know, take a second to compose yourselves! I backed it into this little pony wall thingy out the back door. It's there because the drive is higher than the windows I think but anyhow it's still there. Took out the rear bumper panel, big scratch and crack, here are the pics (excuse the mank)...




I am sure Aberdeen isn't completely rubbish though, the people here seem fine 'like'. Everyone is friendly and the kids school seems good, properly good not just this is fine for now good. I found the local B&Q mini-warehouse today, which was pretty cool, not that B&Q is cool but that I was actually out and about finding places. I actually think I am going to enjoy the place as somewhere to live, better not speak too soon though! watch this space!

*read as blogging

btk x
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Stoopid guitar anyway. So there we are packing for Aberdeen, well I say WE but mean Catty. She tells me to take Jordan's rocking horse out for the rubbish(it's well past it's best). Well, does the shit hit the fan then!! Jordan decides that it's not under any circumstances to go in the bin. Eventually he calms down though. A bit later I am annoying him saying I am going to throw out everything in his toy boxes because it's all rubbish anyhow. Catty steps in and says "How would you like it if I cut your guitar strings or smashed the van windows and we had to throw those out, they'd be rubbish too?"

Yeah yeah yeah. That's not gonna happen though. So we carry on packing Jordan's room. Sorting his toys into boxes and bags to go out. Next thing the voice from the background,

"Well dad, how do you like that now then?"

I turn round to see Jordan standing at the top of the stairs, my guitar in hand with the strings looking like some deranged spider waving about. I was speechless, he must have caught me in a good mood!

I think we need to watch what we say round him, his wrath knows no bounds! lol.

Perfect excuse to buy a new guitar tho isn't it?

I need to pack the house this week, look after the kids, work, do Catty's sister's shower and wireless network, do her mum's laminate bullnoses not forgetting the regular housework.

Easy if I was motivated, in my current state, not so much!

Here is possibly my favourite poster in the world, after the Avril in kilt one...



Billy x
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WOW This is how I always did it, but not as fast(or skillful)!



Billy x
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The Joy of Billy! Aberdeen is definitely ON. more's the pity. The kids have places at school. The mover people come on the 15th. I have been instructed to quit my job. THIS IS ALL SUCK! I can think of no worse place in the country/world(Iraq comes close) to live. It's colder than a penguins bollock for a start, I am going to have to leave a job that I LOVE, to go to a strange place where I have no friends, live in the middle of nowhere so have no chance of meeting possible suitable friends and to NO job so will have to take up the first job I am offered just for cash.

This is shit. I hope this move doesn't come between Catty and me because I really don't want it to. It's just getting such a fucking issue for me, the more I think about it the worse it feels. Catty asks me if I am sure about it and I tell her yes, I meant it too, at the time although I wasn't overjoyed with the idea I thought it was OK. Now it's a total turnoff.

I can't say I don't want to go though because Catty is so enjoying her job there and I know she would do the same for me. I also want to keep her in the employment groove as this is her first "proper" job in my eyes since we met over TEN years ago. Course I am partly to blame for this as I have been keeping her preggalito for a big bit of it! LOL

I will make the most of it and try to keep an open mind, even though I am certain it will be HELL! eughgrrrrrrrrrr. OK that's that frustration over with. If anyone has anything good to point out about Aberdeen leave a reply, because as an outsider I cant think of a thing.

I found Tesco sell these fire log things that burn for 2½ - 3 hours so a stock of those will be bought!! That should take the edge off.

I am slipping into a depression, today was a fucking topper as well, totally under pressure all day but not under stress. Now I'm thinking too much and not "doing" enough! Bloody computers. Think I'll pull an all nighter tonight, just to get the washing done if nothing else! I'm under strict orders to have it completed by mañana OR ELSE!!

I need to get my own computer SOOOOON. I can't have mIRC, I can't have my music. It is shit. I could have gotten that deal with the council, but that govetoedod by Catty. Sometimes I think she just says no for the sake of it, anyone else's girlfriends/wives do that?

Emily found an old pic of me on her PC tonight.....


This was taken in the Buckhorn Museum in San Antonio when I was 22, I am gonna be 27 this month, how shit is that!! I am not going to mention this birthday in the hope it will be forgotten. I already said this to Catty but in her constant state of 'ignore Billy' she, well, ignored it. I wish birthdays would just leave me alone!

I have been thinking about baby names tonight as well. How does Miranda sound? Too posh for my lot right. There is a lack of ambition in my family and it pisses me off. Mostly because there's sod all I can do about it. Mostly my own apathy gets in the way of my ambition too though!

*There was a LOT more to this post but I spell checked half way through then forgot about it, wrote loads more, then saw the spell checker window up and checked it all, which promptly removed everything since i clicked spell check. I can't stand buggy software! grrr.*

This post sounds like I am really low but it's not as bad as it sounds, honest! I'm not so blue.

Billy x
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Keyless entry Keyless entry is something I will need to look in to, since Catty has taken the children to Aberdeen with her, along with two of her kin, namely Mary(her mum) and Jennifer(her sister). I have been left here to look after both houses and the animals.

Did anyone think to check I had a key though? Did they fuck. So now I need to make a plan of attack for entry. I will first check all my pockets to make sure I don't have a key though before I break something. I was using Catty's key the other day as those two were off galivanting in Renfrew.

Oh, HAPPY NEW YEAR btw, belated I know but thats what I am all about. We went up to Mario and Annes for Hogmanay, which was actually good. Marios mum got these nibbles from Sainsbury's which were bad ass. I had a couple of drinks but shandified them so i wouldnt go over the limit. We drove home at about 4AM. As we were pulling out of the street I spotted her other sister Anne and her man James coming towards the place, pissed as a fart James looked. Nice timing I think. lol

Here is a New Year thingy...

In the year 2006 I resolve to: Wearing spandex every other day. Get your resolution here

Later Gators.

Billy x
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