Everything's Bigger In Texas

Well it's been a couple of weeks since I updated this so thought it was about time I sorted that!

Well what's happened? Well new years came and went without much going on, in fact we were all in bed by 9pm because we're all so old...I mean tired! Yes. That's it, we were tired. Not old at all, tired.

It has been the first new year I've ever had where I've had a kid to look after as well so that's been different. Normally I would have just stayed in with a few beers and played a few games on my Xbox but this year thanks to the move, I don't have a games console yet and thanks to the kid, I didn't have any beers but we did buy fireworks! And who doesn't love fireworks?!? The only problem was, it was wet on new years eve! Talk about Murphy's law!

And due to strong winds and more rain over the next few nights we were forced to do the fireworks over a few nights and were really just lighting them in between the gusts of wind! But that led to it's own problems...

Now I'm sure anybody out there who has a kid will appreciate what I'm about to write but if you tell a kid that you're going to do something that night, turning around later on that night and saying you can't do it does not sit well with an 8 year old!! Even when you explain to him that the reason you can't do more of the fireworks is because it's raining...a lot! As you would expect, this led to him stomping around moaning and generally throwing a fit. All of this led eventually to him getting in trouble, so off to his room he went for 8 minutes as that's what Supernanny says you should do and he was fine after that, although the next day when the weather was bad again, the same thing happened. Will he ever learn??

The View From My Front Door!

It's kind of funny when you think about it because an Englishman’s idea of Texas and Texas weather is huge expanses of land with wild horse and cows running free over it with Cowboy hat and Wrangler wearing cowboys herding all the animals but that's really not the case!!

My Cowboy Hat.

Now I admit, I live in the middle of nowhere and I am surrounded by fields and cows although I am yet to see a cowboy, but I do have a cowboy hat which I love!! and at least here I can wear it without getting funny looks from people or my mum telling me to “take that silly hat off” What does she know though??!! (I love you really mum!) But even though I live in the middle of nowhere, that is not stereotypical of Texas (at least not this part of Texas). Just 30 minutes down the road I get into bay City which is just like any other city really just the roads are a little bigger than England!

So I'm pretty settled now, I just have to find a job which hopefully will come in the next couple of weeks or so as everyone seems like they're going to be hiring in the middle of January. I've been looking for all sorts of other things too but not really been having too much luck, I guess because there's more people in Texas looking for work.

It's true what they say though...Everything's bigger in Texas!