I'm back. Still finding a place.

Hello. It's been like... 3 months. Yup. Long time.

Essentially, I stopped blogging at the point where I lost my cat. I know that sounds odd to say to anyone who doesn't have cats as a reason why things stopped for a while, but she is an integral part of my wonderful little family of four (me, my Beloved, Annabelle and Moonrise) and the loss precipitated a full month of combing the neighbourhood and hunting everywhere. Sadly to no avail. In the wake of that it was hard to find anything good to blog about, and then Xmas, etc. came up.

So here we are. And now I am blogging just on the eve of my 31st Birthday (seriously, about half an hour from now).

Birthdays are always a time of reflection, and this is no different. Life has been, on the whole, pretty brilliant. I have my Beloved, I have my family, I have my cats (a new addition of Jasper joined our little enclave). I've just had an epic trip to Center Parcs, and I'm looking at more holidays this year, including some proper travelling adventures again. I have my work, where I'm considered an expert in my field (!) and I'm now fully into engineering management. I have my cooking, I have my reading, I have my piano and now I have added a true SLR camera to my arsenal of brilliant pastimes. I'm finally beginning to lose weight. Things are good.

It still leaves a few questions though. I'm still not really sure what will happen going forward over the next year. I'm pretty confident that I can fill it with something good, but I have no idea where I'll be at the end of it. That being said I had no idea at the start of last year that I'd be here by now.

So here I am, back again and blogging properly. I'm doing much better at being Masamune, I'm still doing very, very well at talking a load of old rubbish, but I'm looking forward the most to trying to find out what my place will be in this world over the next year. Over the next few years I guess.

I've managed to cheat death for 31 years, I'd quite like to cheat him out of quite a lot more. So I guess that's plenty of time to find a place.

Time for birthday fireworks!