You will have to forgive the crazy title of this blog. Although I like to think it gives away two very important things about me; I am a mummy, and I love Batman.
Let's address the first of these facts to begin with.
I have a young son, at the time of writing this he is 19 months old. HIs name is James William Whelan. He was born on July 28th 2012, at 4:35am, weighing 6lbs3oz (just over 2kg). He is cheeky and charming, and is a complete flirt. Honestly, I am not joking. He had his first haircut a couple of weeks ago, and rather than being the complete fidgety nightmare that I had expected, he sat and turned on the charm with the hairdresser, giggling and smiling and babbling away. Eventually he had all the poor girls charmed, and all I was hearing was "How cute is he?" or "Awww he's adorable", one of the girls even offered to take him home with her. Unfortunately I knew she'd have bought him back to me within about 10 minutes.
He may seem cute on the surface but really he's a little menace. He's into everything and wants to get his hands on everything. He wants to play with every little doggy he encounters, he likes to chase pigeons, and he even seems to enjoy throwing the odd tantrum. Really it's all normal kid stuff, and to be honest, I have definitely encountered children a lot worse behaved, but obviously none of them have the ability to push my buttons quite as much as James does. I know better than anyone else in the world that I wouldn't give James up for anything or anyone but honestly, I am never having any more children! And I don't recommend it either! People seem to think that when you become a parent you miraculously grow a new found patience that you never had before. Well I didn't and a lot of other mum's I've spoken to didn't either. You just learn how to deal with your lack of patience a lot better. You learn that despite what all of these so called "professionals" say, all children are naughty, it is a phase they all go through, and no matter what you try, you can't avoid it. You just have to do your best to try and snap them out of it and deal with it the best you can. I'm finding with James at the minute that no matter what I do he will always choose to do the complete opposite of what I tell him, and I know that's a completely natural part of growing up, hell I'm still guilty of doing it now, and I'm 22, but I still can't help but wonder what I'm doing wrong , even though I know deep down that really, he's just growing up and finding himself and discovering things that are entirely new to him, and I just have to let him get on with it, and make sure that he doesn't hurt himself or get into any real danger, and make sure that he knows when he's done wrong, and praise him when he has done something good. I know a lot of parents who are very quick to tell their children off for misbehaving, but not nearly as quick to praise them when they do something clever or do as their told, which I think is unfair. I make an effort to always tell James he's a good or clever boy when he does something to merit praise.
For example, when he says a new word, I always tell him he's clever, or when he puts things in the bin or wash basket, I will always praise him, because he can never learn when he's doing something wrong, if I never tell him when he's doing something right.
I am insanely proud of my child, and he is everything to me. He's not been on this earth a large amount of time, but I can't remember what life was like before him, and I wouldn't change that for the world.
As previously mentioned, I am also a huge Batman fan, I like to read the comics, watch the movies, play the games, put Batman posters al over my walls, draw Batman characters, I even plan on getting a Batman tattoo (we'll get to my love of ink in a separate post!). I own a few Batman dresses/skirts/tshirts, even a pair of Batman converse, oh and a bag. I have a copy of the first Batman comic to ever be released (Detective Comics #27, released May 1939, if you're interested). My favourite actor to have played Batman is Val Kilmer, I enjoyed Christian Bale, however a very important person in my life pointed out to me earlier this week that he was completely outdone by Liam Neeson (Ra's Al Ghul) in Batman Begins, Heath Ledger (The Joker) in The Dark Knight and Tom Hardy (Bane) in The Dark Knight Rises, so basically, Christian Bale completely underplayed Batman. As for Ben Affleck as Batman, well I don't have an opinion, I haven't seen the movie (obviously) and I shall reserve judgement until I have seen the movie. I like Ben Affleck as an actor, and even though he was awful in DareDevil, let's be honest, it was a generally terrible film.
In keeping with the whole comic book theme, I am generally a huge comic book fan. I enjoy reading comics from both the Marvel and DC universes, I even enjoy some Dark Horse comics, and some Vertigo comics. My favourite ever comic book character is Deadpool, I think he is amazing. The first comic I ever read with him in it (and I can't even remember which one it was now) began with him on a bus dreaming, and thinking the phrase "I will smite you". That was easily enough to earn him a little place in my heart. My favourite Deadpool arc is easily the "Dead" arc. Nothing funnier than an immortal guy trying to find a way to get himself killed! I'm currently working my way through Avengers: Age of Ultron, because I have a subscription to Marvel's Mightiest Heroes, and once a month they send me four hardback arcs, it only costs me twenty quid a month, and it is worth every penny, so if you're a comic fan and like me don't have a comic book store anywhere near give the website a look: http://www.hachettepartworks.com/our-titles/mightiest-heroes/
On top of being a single mummy, I work full time as an IT apprentice at Peavey. Y'know the guys that make the guitars and amps and other cool stuff. Now the cool thing about this is I get staff discount, oh and Peavey do a range of Marvel guitars. You can imagine what this could be like for my bank balance. The problem is they also do a range of The Walking Dead guitars, and they're about to release a DC comics range and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles range, and I don't think I'd be able to choose one, so I would have to buy them all, and I just can't afford that. So I don't buy any. I have just purchased myself a shiny new blueburst acoustic guitar which I fully intend on learning to play (that's something else we'll come back to later).
Now, my apprenticeship is to be a hardware techie. I really enjoy building and unbuilding (definitely going to copyright that word) computers. I genuinely love it. Occasionally my job involves a little bit of coding, and I hate that. It gives me a headache and I don't have the patience for it. I have spent far too much time staring at code trying to work out the error, to then discover I've missed a semi-colon somewhere. I now refuse to get involved in coding.
And that is pretty much enough for a nice little introduction.
Welcome to my crazy life, it's full of some amazing people, some hilarious stories and some serious "what in Gods name was I thinking?" moments, but I would not change it for the world. And I shall end this post with my favourite Dr Seuss quote:
"We are all a little weird, life is a little weird, and when we find someone whose weird is compatible with ours, we team up, fall in mutual weirdness and call it love"
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