The best part about my Boxing day was seeing Karen so chirpy and looking well it was so great to see and I have to say unexpected.

It was good to go down to a kitchen that was tidy having worked hard to do dishes and tidy up throughout the the big day meaning Boxing day started off in a relaxed manner

A trip to Argos to get Jaie fun / joke present was required because I can’t read texts and panicked just before Christmas but they sorted it all out refunding me for a speaker a day supplying the bedding I was going to wrap the speaker in as a little traditional joke.

Mum did turkey, and we had a great time. The only sort of concerning thing about the whole day was listening to Abbie and how she treats me mum basically living in the house, probably with her boyfriend possibly rent free and telling us she has access to mums bank account. Benefit of the doubt aside it concerns me that she is taking advantage of her situation and the boyfriend may have ulterior motives beyond playing house…?

As we sat watching The Snowman followed by the Snowman and the Snow Dog both Jamie and me looked at our family and were just bowled over by what we did.

As a couple we began in an unconventional way but on the eve of Christmas we are as conventional as we could possibly be sipping wine waiting to be Father Christmas as soon as the kids go to bed

I love my life!!!

Absolutely no idea why I became all other men and left shopping to the week before Christmas but got it sorted and sat back thinking a trip to Argos Winsford sorts my Santa duties, oh no!

Panic set in when  one of my gifts moved to ‘available 27th’ and I knew I could have got them all physically but chose to use argos because I could do a one stop shop job done.

Yes I got them all today but I had to drive to Crewe and Northwich braving slash tolerating the Christmas crowds lol

Just don’t leave it till the last minute ffs

I learned more about a work colleague in three and a half hours today than I had learned in 8 months and all it took was to listen without prejudice, something I have learned from Jamie.

A young lad that doesn’t talk a lot, very clever but  everyone introduced him as autistic and not talkative is just how expected him to be but our employer has left us the last remaining out of 8.

Maybe that changed things but today I arranged a meeting to discuss the tickets on a list to see if between us we could close of as many tickets and showing trust in his opinion, being confident in the solutions he was giving and most of all listening to what he had to say just opened the floodgates.

At 18:30 an hour and half after I should have signed off for Christmas I reluctantly had to sign off because I had things to do but as I did I knew so much about him and I think he loved telling me his story without being judged and in return I told him my story.

It was probably the best way to finish for Christmas because it made me feel good too…

Not having the best time at work right now and apart from Jamie I don’t get a chance to talk to anybody other than customers with problems so it was good to get out and chat with my pool team. Just have a beer and get stuff off my chest was good even though we didn’t win I felt better when I got home.