Sunday 31 December 2006

everyone is doing it

seems like everyone is doing a what was good and bad about 2006
i was thinking i might, but it was a shitty year for me, good things happened too, but predominantly it was shit so i'm not going to bring peeps down with all that stuff
here are some things that didn't happen in 2006 though, but would've been funif they had

-Px was found to be the long lost heir to the throne of a small south american country
-Px won the lottery and donated most of it (after sorting himself out first of course) to worthy causes such as sock repairs
-Px signed a recording contract with Simon Cowell after not only winning american idol even though he didn't actually enter it...he's that damned talented!
-Px became the first male entrant into the Miss World pagant, claiming it was a sexist competition and threatening to sue them if he was not allowed to enter, he lost though
-Px inspired world peace by offering to hunt out the people who weren't very nice to others

what a fun world it would've been if this had happened

anyway peeps, for those of you who don't know me, i don't do resolutions if i can help it because i never keep them anyway, however, i'm making one this year, and that's to put more effort into everything, from looking for a job, to cooking dinner, to relationships to keeping in touch with my friends, even though we hardly see each other.
beats giving up smoking again (remember peeps i don't smoke anyway)

hope that you all have a corking new years celebration, however youchoose to celebrate it. I'm working in the pub tonight, but it's going to be a good time...they're having a T party, so i've got to dress up as anything to do with T, the was proving too difficult, my mum suggested going topless or as a tramp, someone wanted me to go as tarzan, but i've decided that a sheet will do me, i'm going in a toga :) if i can be bothered to dress up that is...

see you next year :)
Px

Thursday 28 December 2006

favourite HNT of the year

torn between 2
there's this one which i did back in april i think
i was being a little risky and did a TNT:


the other option is this from september i think, this means a lot because i had a lot of fun this night, it was cool to finally meet this person:

HHNT folks, and hope that 2007 brings everyone closer too

take care peeps

Px

Wednesday 27 December 2006

yesterday's TMI i forgot it...i'm a bad boy

1. What is your all-time favorite gift (whether given or received by you)?
i've given flowers to lots of people, they always go down well, one year i cut out the middle of a dictionary at the word love and gave my then girlfriend a necklace hidden in the hollow, she nearly hit me with it before she realised that there was only one word in that dictionary (love)...it took her a while.
best recieved...woja got me a battle tank one year, i've still got it, it's fucking awesome, but alas, he's the only other person that i know that's got one and so we don't get to battle very often :(
2. Where was the first place you ever passionately kissed?
the obvious answer here would be on the lips...but i think you're after more than that, like on the stairs when i was 13, had to be on the stairs, she was shorter than me by quite a bit, she's taller now, but i was still 6' back then...
3. Where was the first place you ever had sex?
it was on the floor in the living room at my folks house (they were both at work) and we'd put a film on in the background but neither of us were going to watch it
4. Have you ever had sex in your parent's home?
many times, mainly because i've lived there for ages
5. Have you ever met anyone in person that you met via your blog? Have you ever kissed anyone you met via your blog? Have you ever done more?
i've met a couple of people through my blog, fuckkit was the first, she invited me out for sunday lunch with some of her mates, that was cool
then i met lindsey (then though she was linny) we had a good time too, and a few beers, we kissed and cuddled at the end of the night (no tongues though) that's as far as we got though...

TMI done (late but done)
laters peeps
Px

Tuesday 26 December 2006

the day after

well yesterday was pretty cool, it was good to have the family around and it was really good not to have my dad around. i know that sounds weird, but every year he takes over, i swear he's always been a bigger kid than i ever was. and by take over i mean he's in charge, he dictates which present can be opened, and when. he doesn't cook, but he planned it all for when my mum should be doing things in the kitchen "shouldn't the turkey be in the oven by now?". if family were coming, he'd get anxious if they were running late, on several occasions i had to call my brother to find ot where he was and when he was getting here just to appease my dad.

anyway
presents this year were few, but that's cool, i'm old now and i don't expect to get anything anyway, i suspect that if i get round to having kids i'll be more into christmas again, but at the moment it's a bit of a wasted day on me... anyway i got money, a cd that i already own, series 5 of family guy on dvd (i've never really seen it before, but now i'm going to have to go out and hunt down the other 4 series...) when will jesus bring the pork chops by george carlin and make love* (*the bruce campbell way) by bruce campbell...and sweets. my mum has a tradition of giving me flumps (they're marshmallows) every year which was cool :)

the night before christmas
as you know i was working, i invited people over, people that i would've seen if i'd not been working, and some came, others had family things to do, so that was cool. and it started off quiet and i thought that it was going to be just another sunday...it wasn't, it was busier than it was on friday in there...some of my friends that i know through the pub left at 7 when it was still quiet and came back around 10 ish to find the place heaving with people. i got to sit with them for a while and have a pint, i think i'd earned it and the landlord didn't mind. we ended up serving until midnight (90 minutes longer than normal) and i think i left there about half past, but it was cool. i took home one of the barmaids and her mate because i'd offered to drive for them so they could both have a drink, i'm such a good boy! think i got home about 1.15, mum got me up at 8, but in fairness she did cook me breakfast in bed (she did it again this morning)

anyway i think that's all the christmas news
was thinking of hitting the sales today, i've been told it's quite quiet in oxford today so i might pop over there after lunch and spend some of that money :)
i hope you all got what you wanted for christmas, and spent a nice day with the people who love you.
laters peeps
Px

Saturday 23 December 2006

so tired

i worked last night at the pub and although we finished at the normal time (well ish) i dropped off a couple of people (making it after midnight then) i went to make a surprise ish but long overdue visit to my mate Kat
bearing in mind that i thin i've only seen kat about 3 different times this year, she is still one of my closest friends and someone who i feel i can turn to whenever i need a cuddle, even though she tells me off for not turning to her and keeping her up to date with info about what's going on in my life (i'm sure i've told her about this place...)
anyway after a long catch up chat with her and her family i think it was about 3am when i got home and i still wasn't actually that tired, so i read for a while longer
anyway, t was good to chat to kat and her mum (who thinks i'd make great son-in-law material by the way) and i've bene told that i can go round any time to see them over the next week or so...probably won't but you never know
so that's why i'm tired
my plan for today was to sort out a few final final things for christmas (cards and wrapping of the remaining couple of presents) but my mother left this morning before i was up and she took the wrong keys with her to my nan's house...as in she took mine, complete with car keys which is where i've been hiding the presents and wrapping paper and what i was going to use to go and find appropriate cards for the 2 nephews
great
so that was the plan shot to pieces
so you know what i did
i watched tv
christmas tv is naff!
but today i watched star trek the motion picture (well bits of it anyway), twins (while i wasn't switching channels to watch bits of the next film), the muppets christmas carol (bit of it while watching twins on the other side), gremlins (again only bits of it though) and nightmare before christmas wihch i watched all of while eating dinner and doing sudoku too...
what a nice and relaxing afternoon :)
happy holidays peeps, i doubt many peeps will be around until at least wednesday next week...but i think i'll probably still be posting most days...you know me...
got to work tomorrow night, should be a good night, hoping to get a few drinks bought for me so i can use them at the staff party (if i go that is...still undecided)
laters peeps :)
Px

Friday 22 December 2006

friday stuff

ok
here we go with the last friday stuff before christmas
cool

ok so i've been aplying for jobs left, right and centre this week and i've heard back from two saying that they'll be in touch when they've shortisted, so that's cool
i've also been working at the pub a lot again this week, i've been there every night this week so far and i'm in again tonight...although monday i wasn't working

i finally got round to fitting my rims, they look sweet, but now i need to lower the car because even though they are 17's they still look small!
need to get an alternator, fit the cv joint and the headlamp as well now

my new ink is scabbing nicely and itching like crazy...this is a good sign

think i'm ready for xmas
it's going ot be hard, but i'm sure i'll cope as will my mum (i hope anyway)

songs for the weekend
there's one song that i really wanted to post this week
it's called wonderful world by james morrison and if i'd have listened to it a few weeks/months ago i'd have thought you know what, this is a good song for me and her...but i'm hearing it now and i'm thinking you know what, although this would be a good song for me and her, it's a better song for me and my friends...you guys...because without this blog and the kind words from my friends i wouldn't be in as good a place as i am at the moment. so thank you
this is the chorus:
And I know that it's a wonderful world
But I cant feel it right now,
I thought I was doing well but I just want to cry now,
Well I know that its a wonderful world from the sky down to the sea,
but I can only see when you're here, here with me.

anyway...it being party time i've picked a couple of other songs too:
Fisrt, a true party song Love Shack by B-52's
just an awesome song When the Night Feels My Song by Bedouin Soundclash
It was a return to the classic rock ballad christmas song Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) (high bandwidth) by Darkness
now if i've got this right you should be able to click on the links and it should bring up the video for each track (it's using windows media player if that makes a difference)
hope you enjoy
laters peeps
Px

Thursday 21 December 2006

christmas wishes

ok this weeks HNT is about picking 3 people and giving them something for christmas, a wish, a desire anything that you think they'd appreciate.
well i thought about this really hard and i thought i couldn't limit myself to just 3 people, i'd want to give everyone in my sidebar a little something
but when it actuallly came down to it, i struggled to think of things to give people and that made me sad
you're all considered as friends, some of you i have known for quite some time now and you have helped me through some difficult patches, especially this last couple of months
and still i can't think of anything to wish for you guys
so i'm going ot be selfish
i'm going to wish 3 things for myself that involve al of you guys, i hope that's ok with you...
#1 i wish that this time next year we'll all have this bond, only stronger and that there will be more of us to share in each others lives
#2 i wish for hope, hope that all of us are there for each other through the next 12 months come what may
#3 i wish for happiness for us all in anyway that we can find it, from getting a new pair of sneaks to finding that one true love, we all deserve happiness
bonus wish: i hope to meet you all, i'm not sure how or when, i'm pretty sure it'll involve me getting a ticket to travel to the USA and Canada (that should catch most of you) and from there winging it to see how many pepole i can visit and stuff like that...
it will happen because i've said it will
happy holidays peeps
Px

Wednesday 20 December 2006

tattoo update

ok...
you remember this ink job i had done some 2 years ago now? (i'm sure i posted it as a hnt at some point) it was just an outline for ages as i couldn't decide what i wanted to do with it...
well i finally got it finished off yesterday...

i wish i'd zoomed in with the camera a little better

and yes that is a PX split either side of it

anyway

that's all for the day

I've responded to comments left yesterday

lemme know what you think

Laters

Px

Tuesday 19 December 2006

tuesday tmi is below

so it was the xmas quiz last night at the pub
and it was a laugh
but that's mainly due to me joining a different team
sax and violins took a week off because sax was at home eating her soup
so i joined a team called ken dodd's dad's dog's dead (nice name) and it was a real laugh
best bit though was winding up one of them about his distracted looks across the room at a very nice blonde girl, and she is a very nice girl.
of course being me, and this being the pub where i work, i went over and spoke to the team, actually i was getting some answers, but it's good to wind people up about these things. anyway i ended up sending a message to one of the team (because i had her number) and letting it slip that he was getting distracted by the blonde, my mate then sent back her number and told me that she was single.
but because we'd been ribbing him something chronic through the evening about it, he refused to do anything about it.
and i don't blame him, i'd be the same in his boat...

anyway we didn't win anything, but we did have a good laugh
laters peeps
Px

TMI

1. Is it better to give or receive?
depends on what we're talking about...if it's oral, then i'm a fan of both
2. What is the most sensitive part on a man/woman's body?
this is a tough one because different people are sensative in different places, although i've always found that a woman's neck is always a good place to start, then her collar bones. the inner thigh is usually highly sensative, but you can't really get her going when there are people around that way (she'll get pissed off about it)
3. What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you during sex? (Queefed? Family walked in? Couldn't get it up?)
can't really think of anything too bad, my dad knocked on the door to say good night once, i've had house mates walk in before and i had her mum walk in once too, but in both of those instances we were just "warming up"
4. Do you like to talk dirty during sex? How dirty does it get? Example! ;)
alas i'm a quiet person during the deed, i rarely say anything, let alone anything dirty...sorry to disappoint
5. What do you really want for Christmas? Vibrator? Spanking?
i want for nothing this year apart from a chance to leave this year behind and move on with life (this is something that i can give myself, so i'm good)
Bonus (as in optional): How often do you masturbate?
maybe couple of times a week, not really something i count or keep track of

TMI done
Px

Monday 18 December 2006

it's time to make that choice:

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? "
-renton, trainspotting
this was me a little while ago
tihs is me now:
"So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's going to change, I'm going to change. This is the last of this sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm going to be just like you: the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead, to the day you die."
-renton, trainspotting

monday morning

its the first time in a couple of weeks that i've been able to post something on a monday morning...and that's all good

yesterday i didnt get the fug
although i did get a bad head from saturday night

nothing is happening this week, its great to be able to do nothing

although last night it kinda hit me that at the moment i've got nothing and no-one and i was a bit pissed at that

but i'm not going to let it get to me as it's too much hassle to think about that on top of everything else

ok i think i said something about posting about women and no mexico
ok one at a time
women
my ex (the lovely lady) is seeing someone new, and i'm not bothered by this, i'm bothered about her not telling me though and me being told by someone else who said "i guess youknow there's something going on between x and y?" to which i said i'd guessed that something was going on.
someone new and me had somehting going on (which is partly why i wasn't bothered about the ex) but that fell apart because she is convinced that i've been playing games with her and still want the ex...and no matter how much i told her otherwise it didn't make any difference to her, she was convinced.
so that's me looking again

no mexico
this is a bit difficult
there are loads of reasons why i should've gone (the woman even called me again today to see if i wanted the place or not, i thought i only had 7 days, she gave me a lot more) in fact me and jenfer sat and wrote a list of pros and cons and for the 4 cons we had something like 20 pros. but 2 of the cons were big
#1 when i come back my mother would've had to sell the house because my dad is forcing the issue and as a result any house that she'll buy won't be big enough for us both because he's claiming that he needs some £160k to buy himself a house because he can't lie with the woman that he's had the affair with (no idea why, still not talking to him)
#2 she's been really depressed and on the verge of suicide, i know she won't, but she keeps going on about it at the moment and i don't want to leave her on her own at the moment. as much as it's stressing me out at the moment with her being like this, i just can't leave her
part of me feels like i've been guilted into staying, part of me knows that this is the right thing to do for now, part of me was already buying the plane ticket and working out what else i was going to do while i was out there

i'm tired, i've not been sleeping very well recently
and it doesn't look like it's giving up at the moment
i think i'm going to hit the sack for a bit nowand see if i can sleep some more
laters peeps
Px

Saturday 16 December 2006

tree update

i put our tree up earlier
i'll post a pic of it another time as i'm off to the pub to catch up with some mates i've not seen in ages

laters peeps
Px

friday stuff on saturday

does this mean that instead of being in a fug all day today i'll be in the fug tomorrw?
i hope not because today i'm feelin ALL GOOD!

right friday stuff:
how international is this? the other day at the cafe (now not called work because i no longer work there...more on that in a minute) 2 aussies came in, they worked for a company called europa and they ordered a full english breakfast...
i know it's not that interesting, but it made me smile. then i got to thinking, i know there's a full english, and a full irish (pretty much the same thing, only you get one in ireland...can you guess which?) ubt do you get a full french, or is that the same as a continental? what about a full australian? or a full spanish?
(i did debate putting down a full brazilian, but we all know you canget one of them, and it's ain't breakfast...although i'm sure you can have one for breakfast if she's willing to let you nibble)

ok the cafe situation
i worked nicely this week, only to be told yesterday that as of monday the woman that i replaced is coming back...and therefore putting me out of a job again
not that i'm bothered beause i wasn't that keen on it anyway
i didn't have a contract and i wasn't actually getting that much in the way of cash
the one thing that i did take away with me it a bad back
and shoulder
and feet
and the knowledge that if i called the EHO then they'd laugh at the "risk" assessments that there.
from working in leisure and writing the risk assessments for leisure centres, i know that there's a lot of things that can go wrong. one of the biggest risk assessments that in undertaken is the fire risk assessment, it's so big that there are people out there that have set up companies that solely do this for people. anyway i digress, the last fire risk assessment i wrote had it's own file on the shelf and was all in all some 50 pages long, covering everything from sources of ignition and fuel to the exit routes and the departmental duties. the fire risk assessment for the cafe was 3 pages long, including a map of the exit routes...
so glad i'm not there anymore...just now i need to find another job :(

got an interview on wednesday with soll again, but this time in a wet centre...that's one with a swimming pool...
should be better than the last, although i thikn i know the 2 people who are interviewing me (one is the woman from last time)
also got a "job chat" with the bloke who runs a recruitment agency just so he can put a name to a face

still haven't got our tree out, it's still in the loft

ok...comments from my HNT (i'm answering in this post because i didn't answer them in the comments bit of the last post...anyway i'm babbling)
ash:
you know i was going to one day anyway :)
yasamin:
bleeding eyes, that's not good...
lindsey:
christmas this year will have been and gone before i get into the spirit i think (although getting into the spirits might help me get in the spirit)
steve:
like i said, mine's stilll in the box...i've no idea if we've even got any decorations
teri:
sorry for shocking you...
that is a pierced scrotum
...my pierced scrotum
Fu:
sorry dude, but i did give a little warning, although in retrospect it probably wasn't enough
natalia:
it's all good, it's all fun too and it certainly doesn't get in the way :)
anonymous (autumn?)
;o)
jenfer:
gah nothing... :oP

as with fridays i'm offering a song again (even though it's saturday)
i know you're going to love this one
it's amazing
it's been in my head for a while
but it's all good...seriously
this week i give you:
you can call me al by paul simon
no idea why other than it makes me smile and cheers me up and it's a funky tune

laters peeps
i'll fill you in on the reasons for no mexico and no women soon too
Px

Thursday 14 December 2006

xmas tree HNT

this year we're being exceptionally bad at putting the tree up...
here's the proof:

so with that in mind i'm offering you all something else

ash you remember when you said you wanted to see that new peircing i had done (this was about 6 months ago now...) well here you go (not for the faint hearted!!!) sorry about the boxers...:

HHNT peeps (i knew my 400th post would be something "special")

ttnf

Px

Wednesday 13 December 2006

one post away from 400

yeah, you know it, this is post number 399

i am a blogging legend! (in my own lunchtime)

anyway iwas going to say tha ti've decided not to go to mexico and go into all the reason behind me not going

but at the moment i still really want to go

although today was the day that i needed to make my decision by and i haven't made it yet, so it looks like i'm not going by default

bugger

on a different note, today at the cafe (i refuse to call it work, because it's crap) some bloke (called william, a regular, comes in twice a day, has the same thing all the time) came up to the counter and told me that when he first looked down at the newspaper (daily mail) he thought that they were giving away dvd's about pinochet (you know, the bloke that snuffed it the other day [ and yes i do know there's a little more to it than that, like him being a dictator and aligning himself with the UK during the falklands war and being a generally nasty bloke to his own people]) anyway he was chuckling to himself about it because what the paper actually said was free Pinocchio DVD...yeah, small wooden boy who wanted to be real, south american dictator, interesting mix-up
i had to laugh at him...not with him because he is a weirdo, no two ways about it, he's just a bit strange...

weird story for the day over
laters peeps
Px

Tuesday 12 December 2006

TMI Tuesday

feeling really drained so i'm only posting this for now, maybe you'll get some more later or more likely tomorrow
sorry peeps

1. What is the sexiest part of your (or a) lover's body?
on me? no idea you'd have to ask someone thinks i have sexy parts (feel free to leave a comment on with you may think is my sexiest part)
on a lover? the bit from her belly button down to her inner thighs, definately (although if we're being clean i'd have to say smiling eyes are really sexy)
2. What is the un-sexiest part?
my hairy arse! (no it's not going to make a guest showing on HNT)
on a lover...hairy bits...ie legs and arm pits (not the other bits, i have no real preference there) and outtie belly buttons
3. What makes you feel sexiest … item of clothing, food, music, film, timbre of someone’s voice/accent/dialect, alcoholic beverage, etc.?
all sorts of things make me feel sexy, i don't think there's any one thing that is sexier than the rest, i mean from the way someone dresses to how they talk to me and what they do with their hands (by that i mean holding mine and the like)
4. What is you least favorite sexual position?
the boring ones are my least favourite (although i know many ways to spice them up) to be honest it's not the position, it's usually the person i'm with, if she's the kind to lay there (in what ever position) and let me do all the work, then it's no fun
5. What do you wish your (or a) partner would do to you?
such a loaded question (and i know that's intentional) to be honest if they don't want to do somehting, then i'm as cool with that as if they do want to do something. but there are always things that you talk about to see if they want to do it, always talk about it first (that's my advice anyway
Bonus (as in optional): What is the kinkiest thing you have ever done?
depends on your idea of what kinky is
i've done all sorts of things like having sex in the middle of a field in good friday (very public) in the middle of the day
to having sex in her parents bed while they were away
to having sexy with siblings (not my siblings...you sick puppies)
to being tied up/handcuffed/blindfolded
to spanking someone
to taking pictures
so its really on your definition of kinky, to me none of the above were particularly kinky apart from the spanking...

right games over for the day
laters peeps
Px

Monday 11 December 2006

sorry

for those of you who got a 4 page midnight text message last night

i'm not feeling any better

i'm not doing very well

i've been sent home sick from work today because of my stomach acting up again due to the stress

i hate myself so much right now that i just want to disappear

and i still need that release, i'm still contemplating doing what i swore i'd never do again just to get it, i'm trying so hard ot be stong, but i think i'm failing myself now

and now i'm crying again!

FUCK! get a grip!

Saturday 9 December 2006

again with the saturday shit

why is it that this saturday, just like last saturday, i feel like shit?
i feel lost and alone
i went shopping with my mum earlier and the intention was to get some new shoes/trainers for me so that my feet don't ache so much with this new job of mine (yeah the cafe thing that i don't really like)
we went into the first shop and i didn't see anything that i liked, we go into the next one and it's the same story. i know that there's a rule in shopping that you've got to look at everything in the store, then move on to the next store and do the same thing, and repeat it in every store you go into. well i'm not like that, i have a cursory glance around the merch and if there's nothing that grabs my eye straight away, then there's nothing there that i want. this continues in every store we go in this morning (there are only 2 shoe stores in didcot) we went into a pile of other shops for her to look and see if there was anything she could buy someone or if there was anything in these shops that i wanted...there wasn't. and it didn't matter how many shops we went into, there still wasn't any thing that i wanted.
i had a serious fug on this morning
if lifted briefly at lunch time when i got a call to say my new rims had arrived for my car, went down to get them, washed the car and went to fit them, only to find that they'd supplied the wrong nuts for the car...easily remedied by a quick trip back to the store and them giving me the right nuts for the wheel and giving me £20 back because they'd over charged me
got home and didn't fit the wheels anyway, wasn't in the mood then
the fug returned
and i've not been able to shake it all day
it's got something to do with the previous post
and i wish i could elaborate, but i can't because i have no idea what to do
anyway it's saturday night, i've spent the evening in my own company (probably best) watching some wrestling that i wasn't really paying attention to and generally feeling crappy i also posted a new bit of writing over on the storyboards site if you want to go and see
tomorrow is sunday and i know that i've got to go xmas shopping, but you know what, i can't be bothered with it, like i said last week xmas this year will be no fun at all.
i've lost my spirit
i'm done peeps
Px

women

'nuff said!

Friday 8 December 2006

friday stuff and a tag from natalia

ok friday stuff first:
mexico stuff
i've been offered a place if i want it, got 5 days left to decide. i'd be going in february for 6 weeks not the 15 that i originally applied for, but that's ok... discussed the issue with mum finally, was waiting to see if i'd be accepted before approaching her with it. and she said it was a good idea, but bad timing, and that because my dad is forcing the sale of the house so that he can continue to be a wanker, it's likely that if iwent then i wouldn't have a home to come back to because it would've been sold and all my mum would be able to afford is probably only going to be big enough for just her (that's if she can afford anywhere anyway). so i'm stuck thinking about it again :(

job stuff
i had another interview today, it was ok, i called in sick for the cafe job i've been doing to go there though, and in honesty i've been feeling pretty ill today anyway, but probably not ill enough to have called in sick.

song for the weekend:
she moves in her own way by the kooks no real reason behind it today, i just htink its a good bouncy tune and it makes me smile

tag:
1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
dammit i need a haircut
2. How much cash do you have on you?
between £70 and £80
3. What’s a word that rhymes with “DOOR?”
four
4. Favorite planet?
mars
5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
"unknown number" that's helpful isn't it
6. What is your favorite ring tone on your phone?
it's not so much a ring tone as someone shouting, and they're shouting "oh no, not the superted outfit" it makes me laugh
7. What shirt are you wearing?
a red t-shirt
8. Do you “label” yourself?
nope, not if i can help it
9. Name the brand of the shoes you’re currently wearing?
socks
10. Bright or Dark Room?
the light's on...
11. Why is there always a missing question?
because no one ever numbers these things properly, the question has to be why i it number 35 that's missing though? (sorry i thought i'd save you all the time in working out which one it was for you
12. What does your watch look like?
it's a black skinny swatch, not that i wear it very often
13. What were you doing at midnight last night?
just getting into bed with my book
14. What did your last text message you received on your cell say?
"the earliest i will be ready on saturday is 9 but i will let you know"
15. Where is your nearest 7-11?
a couple of minutes walk around the corner
16. Whats a word that you say a lot?
cool, excellent, bollocks, dammit
17. Who told you he/she loved you last?
my mum
18. Last furry thing you touched?
there was a dog in the pub a week or two ago, gave him a stroke
19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days?
alcohol
20. How many rolls of film do you need developed?
none
21. Favorite age you have been so far?
dunno, never really had a favourite, enjoyed them all
22. Your worst enemy?
"it's no surprise to me, i am my own worst enemy" - lit
23. What is your current desktop picture?
a dodge viper (photo i took while in germany)
24. What was the last thing you said to someone?
"yeah sure, why not?"
25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly what would it be?
i'll take the money thanks :)
26. Do you like someone?
guess so
27. The last song you listened to?
listening to indica by the shamen at the moment
28. What time of day were you born?
not sure, early afternoon i think
29. Whats your favorite number?
don't have one
30. Where did you live in 1987?
right here i believe
31. Are you jealous of anyone?
not at the moment
32. Is anyone jealous of you?
dunno, if they are, they haven't said anything about it
33. Where were you when 9/11 happened?
watching it all unfold on the telly and wondering why neighbours wasn't on initially
34. What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
find the person in charge and get it back, or walk away
36. If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be?
another one? dunno, not sure, i have my ideas though (btw see i told you, no 35...)
37. If you could be fluent in any other language, what would it be?
japanese
38. Would you move for the person you loved?
sure
39. Are you touchy feely?
Yes.
40. What’s your life motto?
"it seemed like a good idea at the time"
41. Name three things that you have on you at all times?
phone...that's about it really...if i'm going out then i've usually got keys and wallet with me too, but i've always got my phone on me
42. What’s your favourite town/city?
dublin/vegas
43. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
subway (chipotle southwest cheese steak footlong sub with a coke and doritos)
44. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?
hand written... a very long time ago, actually mailed it... probably not as long ago
45. Can you change the oil on a car?
nope, but i know people that can and will for a beer
46. Your first love: what is the last thing you heard about him/her?
don't know, i tend not to keep in touch with people unless i see them often
47. How far back do you know about your ancestry?
my grandparents
48. The last time you dressed fancy, what did you wear and why did you dress fancy?
i was suited and booted for my interview today...
49. Does anything hurt on your body right now?
my back and shoulder are still painful from this cafe job
50. Have you been burned by love?
who hasn't?
51. Do you have a crush on any bloggers?
that'd be telling
52. Where would you like to live?
in my own place, i'm not that picky where though

there we go peeps, that's me done for the week i guess
have a good weekend
Px

Thursday 7 December 2006

HNT time


ok it's a bad pic
i look rough

i took it the other day

with my phone

and sent it to lindsey

she liked it

anyway

this is my naked chin





Tuesday 5 December 2006

and the search goes on...

ok so today's tuesday and that means that i've got a TMI coming...should be below in a bit i promise. but also because today's tuesday i had 3 (count them one, two, three) interviews today
interview #1
soll leisure
duty manager position
£15000 pa
i have worked for soll before and although i didn't feel as though they were utilising me to my full potential and left leisure as a result, i actually enjoyed working there. although i was on more money then than they are offering me now...what's that about?
the actual interview went pretty well and i was fairly happy with it. i'll find out tomorrow as to if they want to offer it to me or not. one of the people interviewing me said that i was very brave to come back into a company that i'd left 18 months beforehand as they know all about me, and so the interview was more about seeing how i'd developed since then. i thought she was a little insulting with that

interview #2
helphire (or is it hirehelp)
driver
£5.50 p/h
i got offered this job on the spot, said i'd think about it because i had a few other things in the works for this week, but if i am going to take it i can start on monday. this job basically means i'll be driving cars from the office to customers through the local area (about 4 or 5 counties) nice and easy work, the sort of thing i could do with one had tied behind my back, the sort of thing that you can switch off and think of other things instead...
we shall see

interview #3
bourton mill
club manager
£15000 pa plus bonuses
wasn't overly impressed by this position, the club was very small and uninteresting, the money is poor considering the location (centre of oxford, and i really do mean the centre of oxford, it's just above the big TSB on the corner...for those of you who know the place) the club istelf is over 3 floors and smelt of sweaty people (understandable i guess) the guy who did my interview and who would be my manager was late for my interview (i guess that's his perogative) and in general i didn't like the interview and i wasn't really that comfortable there, it's not what i want to do or where i'd like to work.

the following is an email regarding an interview i went to about 3 weeks ago now, i got this email today (but ian has been away sick, so that's ok i guess)
this was the job that i went to, had the sit down chat with them and then had to do 2 exam type things as well...the one that i had a good feeling about because they'd been positive about the results form the tests.

Hi Pete

I have just had an email from Travelodge.

Mate, its not good news I'm afraid. Like I said to you over the phone they were very impressed with your test results, being the best they had seen. Unfortunately, in a way that has hindered you. Their feedback was that they were concerned that you were too good for the role and would therefore not stay in the role. They also interviewed an internal candidate and decided it was a safer bet to go with them.

Really sorry mate.

I will keep looking for other roles for you.

All the best

Ian


how can you be too good for a job? i understand that you can be over qualified and that, but if it's something you'd like to try surely it doesn't matter if you're too good?
anyway i was a little miffed by this email, as this was the one that i had got the best feeling about.

no news about the volunteer stuff yet, but that's ok i'm not expecting to hear anything this week.

right i guess 'd better go and have a look at wha tthe TMI questions are for this week
laters peeps
Px

TMI time

1. Ever had your toes sucked on?
nope, can't honestly say it's ever really appealed to me either, but then my toes are weird and hairy and stuff like that. i've sucked on toes before, but we were in teh bath at the time (so i knew they were clean)
2. Ever had a hickey... sexy or trashy? Why?
yeah i think i've had one, it's not easy to give me one though for some reason, people have tried and failed...i used to give an ex them all the time in weird places...just to wind her up, i thikn the best was in the middle of her back, it was really easy to give her them
3. Ever stolen from a store? If so, what?
yeah but it was by accident, we had some heavy stuff in the trolley and i said to the checkout chick would it be ok if we just scanned them in the trolley forgetting that i'd got stuff underneath them...nothing vaulable, thikn it was a tin of paint or something like that
4. Ever got a speeding ticket? If so, how many?
never got a ticket, or a fine or anything like that, although i've been pulled over for speeding, but the officer didn't do any thing about it at the time (think it was because there were 2 of us he pulled over, he was on his own and although he said he had video, i don't think he did.)
5. Ever faked an orgasm?
can men fake orgasms? i've never tried to be honest, if i'm at that point where i've had enough i just stop, that's all
Bonus (as in optional): What's the trick to being multiorgasmic?
again, is it possible as a man? i've given them before and i have no idea what i did to do that (is it to do with what you've got or what you're doing with it or how long you last?)

anyway that's my TMI tuesday done
laters peeps
Px

Monday 4 December 2006

i should be making a curry right now

but i'm not
i'm feeling very lazy and i've not even started to prep it yet!!!
i'm going to be omaned at when my mother comes home :(

but that's besides the point...it's quiz night at my "local" (i say it like that because it's a good 5+ minutes drive form my home to the pub and i drive quick). but unlike last week when i was a happy member of my own little team(sax and violins) this week i'm either going to be totally on my own or ive got to join another team...might do that, with the mad knowledge skills that were displayed last week by my team (which consisted of just jenfer and i) i think that i'll probably join another team this week and see what happens there...

nothing's been said about me going to mexico yet, but then no-one really knows as yet, i'm waiting until i've got some more info about it and if i'm actually going before i even think about talking to my mum about it.

but i had a good end to the weekend yesterday, and work today wasn't too bad. and i've got 4 interviews this week, and that number might go up even further, we'll see...three of them are tomorrow!

right that's my monday mundane stuff out of the way, just remember tomorrow is TMI tuesday (be warned that you might find out something that you really didn't need to know about me if you're unlucky)

took a pic the other day and emailed it to linny, might use it as my HNT this week, not sure yet though might take a different one...different but the same

anyway i'd better head off and start the curry, take care
laters peeps
Px

Sunday 3 December 2006

doing something positive

ok after yesterdays downer post i'm being positive today

linny dearest, you were right i do need a break, but i'm not really a holiday person, so i've taken a leaf out of your book a little, but doing something that's hopefully going to benefit someone else. i gues sit's also taking a leaf out of jenfer's book too.

last night i got in touch with sideshow spiderboy, someone i used to work with when i was back estimating for that german lab company. anyway long story short, he buggered off to do some volunteer work in mexico for GVI counting fish and the like, well he emailed me back this morning with all the details about the group and things like that, so i signed up this morning with a view to go out and be a volunteer and do something positive that will also get me away from here and all the issues that are going on, and yeah it's probably going to cost over £4000 to get everything sorted, but it'll be worth it, even if it only puts my life into perspective and makes the issues i've got seem insignificant, it will be worth it.

what do you think?
Laters
Px

Saturday 2 December 2006

bad couple of days

ok peeps, lets break this down for me and you

i've had a really bad couple of days recently (hell the whole month wouldn't be something worth writing home about if i didn't already live there again!)

anyway, the last couple of days i've bene getting down and shit and it's not cool

some people near me have suggested that i get away

and now i'm seriously considering not only getting away for a while, but getting away for good. i know ive mentioned in the past that i need a holiday, but this time i think i need more than that, this time i think i just need to run

a tour of asia has been suggested, so has australia, i'd love to go back to the states

my only worry is that all this would be me just running away from things that i just don't want to deal with

honestly
i'm struggling at the moment
things between my mum and dad have got me wound up
i can't stop tihnking about someone
and at the same time i can't stpo thinking about my ex and what she's doing and who with
i need to get a job sorted out
i want somewhere that's my own space, living with my mum has its benefits, but at the same time it's not my own space
i feel let down by people who i thought would be there for me, and at the same time i feel like i'm letting them down by not being strong enough to deal with everything that's facing me
sorry, welling up at the moment so if there are any spelling mistakes it's because i can't see the keyboard properly
and it's christmas
part of me that's still a kid, loves christmas, but this year it's going to be shit
no two ways around it, it's going to be shit
i mean, i'm single, living with my mum (who's single too) it'll be our first year without dad around, if he'd died it would be easier but he's still there and being a wanker about things so that'll make for a fun time
and to top it all off, there's nothing i want, nothing at all
well nothing that anyone will feasibly get for me

sorry i'm just really pissed off and depressed at the moment
px out

bad couple of days

ok peeps, lets break this down for me and you

i've had a really bad couple of days recently (hell the whole month wouldn't be something worth writing home about if i didn't already live there again!)

anyway, the last couple of days i've bene getting down and shit and it's not cool

some people near me have suggested that i get away

and now i'm seriously considering not only getting away for a while, but getting away for good. i know ive mentioned in the past that i need a holiday, but this time i think i need more than that, this time i think i just need to run

a tour of asia has been suggested, so has australia, i'd love to go back to the states

my only worry is that all this would be me just running away from things that i just don't want to deal with

honestly
i'm struggling at the moment
things between my mum and dad have got me wound up
i can't stop tihnking about someone
and at the same time i can't stpo thinking about my ex and what she's doing and who with
i need to get a job sorted out
i want somewhere that's my own space, living with my mum has its benefits, but at the same time it's not my own space
i feel let down by people who i thought would be there for me, and at the same time i feel like i'm letting them down by not being strong enough to deal with everything that's facing me
sorry, welling up at the moment so if there are any spelling mistakes it's because i can't see the keyboard properly
and it's christmas
part of me that's still a kid, loves christmas, but this year it's going to be shit
no two ways around it, it's going to be shit
i mean, i'm single, living with my mum (who's single too) it'll be our first year without dad around, if he'd died it would be easier but he's still there and being a wanker about things so that'll make for a fun time
and to top it all off, there's nothing i want, nothing at all
well nothing that anyone will feasibly get for me

sorry i'm just really pissed off and depressed at the moment
px out

Friday 1 December 2006

just a quickie for friday

got a song for you a little further down

woja, dude you're meme answers have been "marked" for someone who's known me for so long you didn't do too badly...to date he's the only person to have had a go though, therefore he's topping the leader board

jobs:
interview yesterday was very positive, although he's still got 2 more people to interview before he shortlists people to see his manager. although saying that he's not seen my cv and was making his decision solely based on my interview, so that should be a good thing, right? i asked about the parking situation because it's in the centre of oxford and the only parking around there is pay and display sort of thing and i was told that the club has 2 parking spaces, one reserved for the manager (him) and one reserved for the deputy manager (the role i went for) so i could have my very own private parking space in the centre of oxford...how cool would that be?
got 2 interviews on tuesday, one in the morning with SOLL (people i used to work for 18 months ago) and the other in the afternoon for a private gym in the centre of oxford, completely private and not part of a chain too...
we shall see
i've also had someone give me a shout about a driving job, basically i'd drive a nice car to someones house/work/whatever and then either be picked up from there or have a pre-arranged car there to drive back...easy work, although it could be rather boring...we shall see
but it would mean i get to drive some rather nice cars and on occasion come home with one, going to pop in there on tuesday too

song for the weekend:
overkill (acoustic version) by colin hay:
I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know I'll be alright
Perhaps it's just imagination

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away

Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation

At least there's pretty lights
And though there's little variation
It nullifies the night from overkill

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Come back another day

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at nightI
worry over situations
I know I'll be alright
It's just overkill

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Ghosts appear and fade away
Ghosts appear and fade away

i first came across this song in the series scrubs (s2 ep1 i got it from wikipedia) and i've been watching that a lot recently (it's one of the few dvd's that i didn't leave behind when i moved out) and i actually sat and listened to the lyrics the otherday and thought they were apt at the moment as i'm having trouble sleeping and things are getting to me a little
but i'll be ok (just like it says in the song)

right peeps, have a good weekend
take care
Px