I haven't done a blog-blog, in a while, so I figured I would write about a few things today and talk about how things have been going in the past couple of weeks/ months.
Kaleb
The baba is doing great, and he's getting bigger and bolder by the day. He's getting heavy too, which is fairly decent because each day is becoming more of a workout by doing things like throwing him in the air, which he loves, and in general, just carrying him around.
Creche has been great for him, and he seems to have grown up? Grown up, in a baby way at least, I'm not expecting him to go out and get a job anytime soon.
He's more independent to a certain extent. Before, he could tend to be a little bit clingy, and never really entertained himself with his toys and stuff, now though, he's happy to mess around with his stuff, which is nice to see. He's also copying me a lot; for example, he has this dump truck toy, and if I put stuff in it, he copies me and giggles away to himself. He started using that same logic with appliances in the house, he opened the door of the washing machine and threw his ball into it, closed the door and started messing with the dial.
14 months old, and I have no idea where the time has gone so far. It feels like yesterday Aimee told me she was pregnant, before heading down to a gig in town.
The first thing I thought when he was handed to me by the midwife and I looked into his eyes, was that he was going to be mischievous. Well, I was right. He does stuff, that he knows he shouldn't, and it's like he understands that he's being bold, but instead of stopping, he usually just turns around and laughs when he's told to stop. But, if we don't notice what he's doing, he stares at us laughing until we look at him.
We don't let him in between the couches in Aimee's house, and he managed to crawl underneath them when I wasn't looking, and all I heard was his mischievous giggle, and turned to see an eye staring at me as he started laughing. He's smart for a baby.
Work
Work is great, but it's shit, but it's good, but it's bad, I love it, and hate it.
It's grand. Handy job, and great staff, my supervisor is sound, and I love what I'm doing. I just hate that I have to be gone. The money is okay, but nothing to write home about. If I didn't like the people I work with, or the place I'm working, in general, I wouldn't be there.
I have to get buses from Aimee's town and mine, and it sucks. Buses aren't cheap here, so I'm not exactly walking away with as much as I should be.
It's a catch 22, if I work a few days in a row I can stay in my hometown, do my days and go back down; it saves money, and is handy not having to travel, but then I don't get to spend time with Aimee and Kaleb.
If my days are one in, one out, it costs more, but at least we get to spend evenings together.
Aimee is thinking of quitting. She is now fully qualified and working in the salon, but when she tried to cut her days down to four, they refused and said that she has to stay on five for at least 6 to 8 months, to build up experience.
It sucks right now. We're both kind of on different schedules, and don't get many days off together. When we do, it's good, but we end up spending the majority of that time cleaning, organising, and sorting stuff out, so it's not exactly a day off.
I Got An Editing Gig Too Well, technically two.
When I finish at 5, I get some dinner and get onto the computer and edit until about 11/ 12, maybe longer if I have it in me. It's cool to be doing some film work again, and I'm happy that I'm keeping my skills sharp.
It's good to make a bit of extra money too. Only problem is, I can only edit when I'm in my home town, because my office down here is where my PC and everything is.
I'm going to do some editing on my laptop too. All of my early short films/ music videos were edited on it, but the old girl doesn't have too much work left in her at this stage. I'm thinking of making a few upgrades to it, at least then I can work when away from my office.
eBay Shizz
I want a side hustle, so decided to do some eBay selling. All's well, and I have my shipping prices sorted now for the places I'm going to be sending too. It was daunting, but it's done.
There's a lot of stock waiting to be photographed and uploaded, and I was thinking of doing it today, but I'm exhausted.
I took Kaleb up to my home town with me, I was working yesterday but was off today. I was hoping to get some stuff done, but it didn't happen the way I'd planned.
He woke up at 6:20 AM, and wouldn't go back to sleep, even after a bottle and a change. I only went to sleep around 1 or 2, so I'm kind of running on empty. He slept for about 2 hours after we went out to the park. While he slept I had something to eat and didn't bring myself to do anything else.
I'm at work tomorrow until 5, and Aimee should get in around 7. My mum and dad are going to mind him for the day until I get back.
Me and Aimee started watching Breaking Bad, which is a cool show. We can only watch about 1 episode a night though after Kaleb goes to sleep, because we're both fairly exhausted at this point.
In general, all is well. My posting here on Hive has remained daily, and I've been earning a good bit. I recently passed 16k HP, which is amazing.
I feel, in a way, that I'm doing too much, but I also feel like I'm not really achieving anything. There are a few things I really want to do, outside of the stuff I'm doing now, and I'm not getting any of it done. That kind of sucks, to be honest.
But, all in all, I can't really complain too much.
