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So, How do you define yourself? Is it work, music, MTB?
This is me, I quit a job in WRC building engines for Subaru (Prodrive), to look after my two boys (9mths and 2.5yrs at the time), whilst the Mrs went back to work (she earns double me!). Now after a fine family summer roadtrip through Europe we are in NZ. The Mrs is working ...again, and I am at home with two wee men, now 2 and 3.5, and I am thinking , sh1t. is this it? At home with the kids? What about my skills/career, interaction with people over the age of 3? We are now riding (with trailer) 30kms a day, to the airfield or looking for horses, which is cool, it takes care of the cycle need at least.
So, who am I?... Who are you?
I'm the mild-mannered janitor.
i think Mr beeblebrox said it best
You mean Penry? Number One Super-Guy?
You're daddy day care, enjoy, they'll be at school before you know where you are..
Just this.
"From birth until death--it's just this."
(Dogen)
Grasshopper ๐ฏ
How remote are you? Get out and meet the toddler groups, you will be most welcome as a married (assumption by me) man as another influence in other kids lives. I did a lot of childcare when my two were younger due to shift work and a pattern with lots of free time. It was great though not stimulating at times. The local toddler group was a godsend though adults to talk to and the kids running and playing in safety. Visits into town or just out for a wander help avoid the stir crazy feeling.
Currently I'm part of the joblessworld crew and my job is to get fit and be a domestic god 8), whilst searching for a new job. It's a challenge and I miss my trips to the Peak District and the Lakes etc. but I'm covering silly amounts of miles in the local area. Enjoy the ability to stop and smell the flowers as and when you want or the kids require. This time will pay dividends in the teenage years.
i have a shit job at a shit company in a shit town....
you live in new zealand and spend your days with you kids....must be terrible.
i am happy tho, big, happy, ton.
i ride when i like, what i like, so it is not too bad.... ๐
Who am I?
I'll find out one day.
I am quadrophenic, no i'm not, yes i am...ignore those three, i am me.
Reggae lifestyle, rock and roll haircut.
cut me in half and i have bikes written through the middle
im a 22 year old soldier who live for the moment! and isnt phased by any thing that is thrown in front of me
i am what i am, and what i am needs no excuses..
I'm a rock 'n' roll star.
I'm a chap who's generally interested in the world, but has to spend all f*cking day sat in front of this computer doing pathetically boring things (to me) and imagining all the other amazing things that are out there to see and do.
Me; I'm Me I am ๐
I am a mountain, I am the sea, You can't take that away from me.
On a serious note, theres not exactly a shortage of Jap imports in NZ - could you do a bit of tuning/rally prep on the side?
Whereabouts are you anyway?
I am not an island.
That narrows it down a bit.
Great song that Shandy.
I have no particular definition of myself - I find it odd that people need to do so.
My feeling is that if I had kids I would love to look after them - I accept that's pretty dreamy though.
The grass is ever greener...
i am a tree...
but i'm thinking of branching out.
I frigging hate work. That kind of defines me maybe? So chopper, don't worry about not being at work too much ๐
I'm another year older and still no wiser ๐
I am a man. I am in the north.
So have some sympathy, please.
I seem to be molgrips.
I'm Brian. And so's my wife.
If DezB is me and I am DezB, then am I still the Walrus?
Doesnt sound to me like Chopper dislikes his current position at all, quite the contrary.
I'm 22, I have a buggered knee so bike riding is comfined to sporadic bursts every few years when the doctors let me before it reverts to being completely feked.
I live in a shared house with some pretty cool people, but the landlord is a grade one c**k, who "forgets" to replace the thermostat batteries when he takes them out for no feking good reason. And takes months to fix things.
I live in the south east which is rubbish
My job is nowhere near as interesting the degree "required" to do it.
And yes I will be geting private health care, moving up North, getting a different job and buying my own house just as soon as I can.
I'm me. I fart a lot.
thisisnotaspoon - cant you just refit your own batteries?
I'm deluded
I'm ****in ace, me.
I am a lowly paid peanut monkey.
does one need to define oneself ? I think we just get on with it...
Imagine you're on the Weakest Link:
"I'm Kevin and I'm an insurance salesman"
Doesn't work for me. But I think Anne might get a bit impatient with chopperT's description.
I'm a bike riding lampy
Or a lamp hanging bikey.
Something like that anyway
I'm a true Legend in My Own Mind
I am cowboy, looking for anything heavy
Dogsbody, taxi driver, funding expert, enforced workaholic, dog walker,
A man that is borne of a woman has but a very short time to live,
He comes up like a foresail top-mast, and down like a small flying jib.
I might not be a foresail topmast, but I'm certainly no small flying jib.
Sounds like an idylic lifestyle! Ages 2 and 3.5 yrs is a good time with kids. They are cute and relatively easy to manage. As they will quickly grow up this time will pass. You will suddenly realise that golden time is gone and you will be left with demanding, but non-communicative teenagers who have a spectacular ability to empty your wallet (but I wouldn't have it any other way :wink:)
Enjoy it why it lasts.
Live for the day!