Reply to: I am getting these strange urges

[BrowneIssue]

It's blooming strange if you get them at nine oclock in the a.m.

I mean, the sun and the yard-arm are still total strangers

My days start with a desire to not wake up. Then to go back to bed. After about 90 minutes I wake up (despite having made the tea, washed up, etc.) and want a beer.

By 9 a.m. I am ready to give up on the day. I'm certainly capable of starting drinking before 9 a.m. - that's why I never do! (Except for those occasions when I have... never mind, I'm not going there now.)

That basically sums up my mornings since I was about 14.

I really am not a morning person. Not unless it is morning and I haven't gone to bed yet.

[EternalOptimist]

Edit: Bugger. Scourer beat me to it.

That is not a strange urge. That is normal. I am in a perpetual state of trying to resist such urges, and always have been.

It's blooming strange if you get them at nine oclock in the a.m.

I mean, the sun and the yard-arm are still total strangers

[BrowneIssue]

I keep getting the urge to put my coat on, tell the MD I will be back in a fortnight, then go to the pub. Then ring the missus and tell her I am missing in action.
Must be getting jaded or something

Edit: Bugger. Scourer beat me to it.

That is not a strange urge. That is normal. I am in a perpetual state of trying to resist such urges, and always have been.

[BrilloPad]

I keep getting the urge to put my coat on, tell the MD I will be back in a fortnight, then go to the pub. Then ring the missus and tell her I am missing in action.
Must be getting jaded or something

"strange"? I thought that was a normal urge.....

[original PM]

I agree with you

I have 2 younger brothers who do nothing all weekend except sit around drink beer, play playstation, or footy, smoke gange and generally do as they please - I am soooo jealous!

I am lucky if I manage to catch 45 minutes of footy over the weekend.

love my family loads but want to slob around doing nowt for a week - would get bored after a week and love being back at the mill wheel!

[BrianSnail]

I keep getting the urge to put my coat on, tell the MD I will be back in a fortnight, then go to the pub. Then ring the missus and tell her I am missing in action.
Must be getting jaded or something

Sounds like a great suggestion for the first CUK Summer Holiday.

I second EO's two weeks in the pub proposal. Can we get a third?

[ChimpMaster]

Are you sure it is the lifestyle they want? Maybe they'd rather see more of you?

I know, I am one to talk....

To an extent, yes I'm sure they'd like to see more of me (though I wouldn't mind more of a break now and again...). When I do want to take time off, I'm kindly reminded by the mrs how much it is costing us and so if I do take time off "we" should do something worthwhile and not just hang about doing nowt! I could quite happily sit at home smoking a J and having a beer whilst playing Tiger Woods 09 on the Wii!

[expat]

EO I feel exactly the same. It's like I'm living this life for someone else - my family to be specific - but not for myself. Except that they don't appreciate what I do to keep them in this lifestyle that they want.

Sometimes I just want to do a runner to have a break for a while!

Or am I just an ungrateful father?

Are you sure it is the lifestyle they want? Maybe they'd rather see more of you?

I know, I am one to talk....

[EternalOptimist]

EO I feel exactly the same. It's like I'm living this life for someone else - my family to be specific - but not for myself. Except that they don't appreciate what I do to keep them in this lifestyle that they want.

Sometimes I just want to do a runner to have a break for a while!

Or am I just an ungrateful father?

tulip man. Ungrateful ?
I took my lad on the adventure of a lifetime for his eighteenth, two days driving down to Pompeii, two days there, two days back.
I took my daughter to Hull for a weekend shopping bonanza for her 16th.
Took the missus on a four week adventure of a lifetime to Australia
Took the extended family camping three times last summer.
Take the missus hill walking every w/e cos she has 'palpatations'

I'm fcked man

[Pogle]

EO I feel exactly the same. It's like I'm living this life for someone else - my family to be specific - but not for myself. Except that they don't appreciate what I do to keep them in this lifestyle that they want.

Sometimes I just want to do a runner to have a break for a while!

Or am I just an ungrateful father?

Nope - we all need a little ME time.

[Pogle]

Well it's true, I am bored. But I have been at it for nearly 20 months now without a break (for me). I have been on loads of holidays, but they are always for someone else, my type of break consists of what I said in the OP.

So where exactly is your new gig ?

So, take a few days off and spend it in a decent pub.
I grew up in a pub - pubs are great

Southend on Sea

[ChimpMaster]

EO I feel exactly the same. It's like I'm living this life for someone else - my family to be specific - but not for myself. Except that they don't appreciate what I do to keep them in this lifestyle that they want.

Sometimes I just want to do a runner to have a break for a while!

Or am I just an ungrateful father?

[expat]

Sounds to me like you're bored. Is your current project not engaging your little grey cells?

I've been bored for years. Would I be here otherwise?

[EternalOptimist]

Sounds to me like you're bored. Is your current project not engaging your little grey cells?

Well it's true, I am bored. But I have been at it for nearly 20 months now without a break (for me). I have been on loads of holidays, but they are always for someone else, my type of break consists of what I said in the OP.

So where exactly is your new gig ?

[Pogle]

I keep getting the urge to put my coat on, tell the MD I will be back in a fortnight, then go to the pub. Then ring the missus and tell her I am missing in action.
Must be getting jaded or something

Sounds to me like you're bored. Is your current project not engaging your little grey cells?