Normally at this time of the year, I’d be crawling back under my covers after a brief post-Christmas burst of energy and optimism, followed by a crash due to cold weather and catching the back-to-work snots.

• The great house spring cleaning has begun.
• Henry is back in school!
• Evelyn coping with school, despite it being GCSE Year
• Next holiday booked!
• OGL Dumpster fire avoided.
• Elaine’s house is getting sorted. LOOK AT MY BIG BADASS HUMIDIFIER!!!
• Not one but two games on the cusp of being released!
• The existing back catalogue doing well.
• Tax return done
• Seeing a lot more of my wife, and shift work more manageable.
• The weather is perking up!
• I’ve started another Fallout 4 play-through and its fun and I’m finding new fresh things, even after it being my go-to game for something like seven years (with Borderlands 2 being a close second).

So much excitement….I’ll think I’ll have a calm down in a darkened room 😀

Ironically our real-life Christmas decorations, which we’ve had up since the last week of November due to us going away to Lanzarote for a week, have just gone back into the attic – because even the prime architect of Christmas year (the stylish and exuberant Evie) says it doesnt’ feel like Christmas any more. 😀