November

November seemed to involve me never leaving work, had a couple of 60 hour weeks and it felt like i never left the flippin place! the whole month is a bit of a blur, i literally only remember going to work all the time and watching spurs a lot.

October

Went to see Lee Evans this month, he was very good and definitely good value for money, he was on for well over 2 hours.

october was basically a sorting month, trying to sort new mortgage and looking at my finances etc etc etc. 

needless to say i was still getting the house finalised!

spurs sacked their manager, coaches and sporting director on 25th october - the second year in a row weve done this on this date! i was worried that this was a knee kerk reaction and thinking the chairman had definitely lost the plot but literally a few minutes later it turned out he had someone lined up, harry flippin redknapp!! its fair to say i was pleased!

September

September was interesting! 

Had a random week where i worked overnight on sunday till monday, went to london on monday till tuesday, worked wednesday intol thursday and then went to london again from thursday until sunday. the london trips consisted of 3 spurs games, watford v reading with the goal that never was, some cinema visits and the dark knight on imax - superb!!

the monday night in london had the most bizarre incident of the year for me but i wont go into it here. it did restore my faith in people tho!

something that didnt do much for my faith in people was an unexpected bill for £4500. i spent a few days stressing and literally tearing my hair out wondering about how i was going to sort this until i decided to be proactive and gather all the proof possible that i shouldnt be paying this. it worked. was a nice little reminded of how we shouldnt be complacent tho!!

August

house was still being finalised this month, it got more and more frustrating as time went on. the bulk of the work was done but it was so annoying waiting for small things to be completed and even more annoying at hearing the stupid excuses for them not being done.

the football started again this month and needless to say there was a wee trip to spurs in the middle of the month. unfortunately our new look side lost and was a pretty poor day all round

highlight of the month and also one of the highlights of the year was reach. i was off for the 2 days before reach (my first proper weekend off in many, many months) and i was trying to think of reasons for me not to do it because i really wasnt in the mood and just felt tired and drained but the bottom line was id committed to doing it and i wasnt going to pull out now. i spent time praying and just gave everything to God and i was blown away by the whole week - it was fantastic and although i was knackered at the end of it i was going away totally encouraged and feeling renewed. to see so many people involved was amazing and to see so many people passionate about what was going on really inspired me, it was a great experience.

July

More stress. Im like a big kid in many ways, if im told something is going to happen i take that as gospel and usually get quite excited at the thought of it no matter what it is. when it doesnt happen i get pissed off and moody. this happend a lot this month! it was so frustrating being given assurances about things being done and when i arrived in the house to see they were done i was very annoyed. I snapped a couple of times, once in particular with the elctrician but the less said about that the better. 

i did move back in to my house this month which was quite nice in way but it was frustrating as i had my ideal scenario of me moving back in with everything completely finished both inside and out - this wasnt the case! also sad to be leaving my adopted home of the previous few months, it was great craic and at times i wished i left there all the time!

amazing thing about july was the football week with ballysillan youth for christ, the guy in charge of it seemed so excited about it and had described it as being the highlight of his year - i was a bit cynical and wasnt expecting that much but it was a flippin amazing week! i loved every second of it and was brilliant to go there for a few hours every day and meet all the kids and have a laugh with them and the other coaches. was great to go there and forget about work, the house and all other crap going on and just focus on the lads and making sure they had a brilliant week.

June

The house was meant to be finished this month. It wasnt. This was a frustrating month in many way as there were lots of deadlines to be met and when some werent it caused a lot of hassle and stress as it meant something else was then help up. It was a month full of meetings and trying to get things finalised. I began getting properly stressed this month, this went on for quite a while!

in lighter news i went to see billy connolly in the waterfront - flippin hilarious! the man is an absolute legend and on top of everything else is flippin hilarious!!!

May

Weather wise, may was fantastic which meant things got off to quite a good start with the house. It was really hectic this month having to run around looking for things for the house and i seemed to have constant meetings with builder, electrician, plumber etc etc. i seemed to barely have a miute to myself although i did manage to squeeze in a wee trip to spurs for the last home game of the season, the lap of honour was quite sad this year as i knew that a fair few of the players would be leaving the club.

may was notable as well for the belfast marathon which i completed. most people are quick to point out that i only walked it and it took me 7hours 20 mins but i couldnt care less. it was a challenge and i raised money for charity, im almost looking forward to doing it again next year. was very grateful to have nicky with me on the day and really appreciated his encouragement when i was starting to struggle! ill never forget the pain i felt the next day but it was worth it!