The New Year Begins...

If I am to do this properly, I suppose I should introduce myself and some of the people I love and annoy.

I am 31 years old and I work in the IT industry as a Service Desk Manager. I have worked in IT for about 7 years now and hope to have a bright future ahead of me (or an incredible Lottery result).

 

I am married to a glorious, patient and often hilarious lady called Jeanette. She is my rock, she looks after me, she makes me feel happy when I would otherwise be down. She makes me laugh and no doubt some quotes from her will appear here soon.

My poor wife!

We are hardly the most active couple in the world (excluding the bedroom ahem!) as we enjoy watching sports and movies together and the occasional crap on the television. We enjoy good food and like to cook for each other but we are also fairly lazy so, probably more often than we should, we just call for a pizza!

I consider myself a DJ - ex professional - mainly because I still have my decks and collect vinyl. I do expect to go fully digital in 2010 though so expect to see them on ebay soon.

1210's, CDJ's and some of my vinyl

My younger brother Dean, who is about 18 feet tall, lives in Madrid with his girlfriend Helena. He is one of those irritating people who seems to breeze through life with no responsibility. We have a good relationship but always find something to argue about - be it Mario Kart, music, movies, football (despite supporting the same team). I expect Dean and Helena to appear on here often over the course of 2010 as we often chat online together and share opinions. I also hope to visit them in Madrid at some point this year.

Helena and Dean in Madrid

I also expect to introduce some of my closest friends over the course of the year as and when I see them.

My main reason for this blog is to keep a track of what we do, my thoughts and opinions over the year, and hopefully for others to comment or advise. I say in my title that I am "semi-normal" but I cannot quantify this in anyway and often think that I over-analyse everything and worry about pointless things. I let these thoughts stress me out sometimes and I hope that feedback I get will confirm that most of us are similarly neurotic about nothing. Or that I am insane.

 

Today

Today my team, Manchester United, lose at Old Trafford to major rivals Leeds United. Normally this would be reason enough for me to just sulk but the fact that we were out-played for the vast majority by a team two divisions below us, on the last day of my Christmas holidays, makes me lose the will to do anything.

Jermaine Beckford ruins my day!

I woke up this morning feeling fresh and motivated but, after seeing my team play like they were the lower division side, I only managed to do the ironing and a bit of tidying up.

Anyway, I am not going to let this one game completely ruin my day. After all, there is the Darts World Final tonight which could be a great match seeing as the seemingly annual Barneveld vs Taylor show has seen a surprise upset.

If I don't watch this, I may get dumped with Celebrity Big Brother or one of the following movies:

• 500 Days of Summer
• Jennifers Body
• Moon
• Observe and Report
• Race to Witch Mountain (remake with Dwayne Dibbly aka The Rock)
• The Proposal 

I am sure, whatever we choose, it will get us suitably in the mood for work in the morning. Or not.