the 4 baths of man
double post today, please read both...
i heard this on a "soap" the other day and i wanted to use it in a post because i thought it was accurate and would make other people laugh after i'd put it in my words...and for those people who recognise where it's come from...yes i am sad, but then so are you!
the principle for this is based on the 7 ages of man, but seeing as i've only just read what that's about and i didn't really pay much attention to it either i'm sticking with the 4 baths of man

the first bath is when we're little...i mean really little...when baths are fun and you can splash around and laugh and giggle get everything wet, including our mum/dad who's bathing us at the time, we'd do anything to get in the bath and just get water and bubbles everywhere. including bubble beards and big bubble hairdos

the second bath is when we're still children, but older, the stage where we want to be as dirty as possible, avoiding getting in the bath for as many days (or weeks if you were lucky) as possible. it wasn't so much about avoiding getting wet, but more about staying dirty. with mud on our knees, jam on our faces and who-know what in our hair.

the third and longest bath is an adult bath, this is the relaxing bath, one where we have it hot, with plenty of bubbles, some have candles, some have wine, some have books, some have other people. these baths have gone beyond just getting clean, these are about unwinding, these are about relaxing, these are about "me time". this stage is about climbing in the bath and not thinking about anything for as long as possible, sometimes these baths can last hours, and we love it

the final bath is the bath for the older person, the bath where we worry about slipping and breaking something, where we no longer enjoy staying in there for hours in case we can't get out again afterwards. where we only get in there to get clean. where we have to use all manner of things to help us get into and out of the tub, from baths with doors to things we sit on which lower us and raise us back up again afterwards.

i'm very glad to say that i'm in the third bath at the moment, i'm happy to sit in there with a good book for a couple of hours, ossacionally topping it up with hot water. sometimes i enjoy a nice cold beer while i'm there, other times it's a glass of wine, always it's hot. and on the odd occasion it's not alone ;)
i love my bathtime, and i'm dreading moving into the final bath.

anyway that's just me...what do you think?
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spooky, darlings
right
so yesterday was halloween
except over here it's not such a big deal as it in in the USA
there was the party i went to on satuday, but because i've spent all last week working, i didn't get chance to go and get a costume, not that i'd need one (before someone else says it)
and besides last night i was bear sitting again which was cool, except she wouldn't settle for ages, she was up about an hour longer than she normally is, but she eventually went down and then i got to eat and play PS2 :)
i couldn't eat before because she's got into the habit of eating whatever anyone else has got rather than her own food, which is fine, but i had one of my favourite dinners last night and i didn't really want to share...mmmm...crispy chilli beef :)
anyway
jenfer's party was good fun, i'm hoping she raised a decent sum, but i ain't got a clue how much, i guess i should give her a call and find out really, but it was good to see her and it was a laugh, it's just a shame the other regulars from our old crowd didn't go...
work is going pretty well at the moment, both jobs, sticking with the lifeguarding at the moment as i'm starting to enjoy it a little at the moment. some of the kids there are a good laugh which makes it more fun i guess
everything else is pretty good too
so in general life is all good :)
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today i most feel like
crying
but seeing as it's the end of the day for me i can go home and sleep it off

HNT #3

it's about time i did this properly
so here's some flesh, a nipple and specially for those who have been asking,, nay begging for it, a hand too
the piercing was my second nipple ring, the other one is done as well...one day i might show both of them, but for now you'll have to make do with just this one...the piercing is also one of only 4 that i have left in, i had 10 at one point...i might show the scars one HNT as well...you never know
anyway there's no realy story behind the nipple ring apart from i think they look cool and i wanted one since i was 15, i got my first when i was 19 and within about 3 years i had lots...same with my tattoos really, they all appeared around the same time.
so there you have it...
laters
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poached from someone that i don't know
10 Favorites:
Favorite Season: winter
Favorite Sport: swimming
Favorite Time: bedtime
Favorite Month: september
Favorite Actor: morgan freeman
Favorite Actress: keira knightley
Favorite Ice Cream: tutti frutti
Favorite Food: italian
Favorite Drink: orange juice
Favorite Place: in my bath

9 Currents:
Current Feeling: pissed off
Current O/S: windows 2000 professional
Current Windows Open: blogger create post, outlook, msn messenger, kalkmc6
Current Drink: coke
Current Time: 14.27
Current Mobile(s) Used: sony ericsson k700i
Current Show on TV: no tv on...i'm at work
Current Thought: pissed off
Current Clothes: socks & pants, trousers, pornstar t-shirt, jumper

8 Firsts:
First Nickname: bonzo...my dad's great (anyone uses this and i will hunt you down and feed you your on genitals)
First Kiss: when i was 13
First Crush: can't remember
First Computer: amstrad cpc6128
First Vehicle I drove: austin maestro
First Job: paper boy
First Movie: can't remember
First Pet: pippy, a yorkshire terrier
First Shave: 12 i think

7 Lasts:
Last Chai (Tea) : months ago
Last Movie: nightmare before christmas (on sunday)
Last Time I Drove: this morning
Last Time Shaved: monday evening
Last Web Site Visited: the one i got this from
Last Software Installed: windows media player
Last Pill I Had: paracetamol on monday

6 Have You Evers:
Have You Ever Broken the Law: speeding
Have You Ever Been Drunk: many many times
Have You Ever Climbed a Tree: yeah, but not very high
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't Know: a few times
Have You Ever Been in the Middle/Close to Gunfire or Bomb Blast: nope, thankfully
Have You Ever Broken Anyone’s Heart: more than likely

5 Things:
Things You Can Hear Right Now: my boss walking around upstairs
Things on Your Computer Table: remains of my dinner
Things on Your Bed: bedding
Things You Ate Today: chicken curry for lunch, cake, breakfast cereal
Things in Mind: too much to mention

4 Places You Have Been Today:
the office
home
my car
...outside

3 People You Can Tell Anything To:
woja
chunk
vic

2. Choices:
Black or White: black
Hot or Cold: cold

1 Thing You Want To Do Before You Die:
swim with sharks

i'm tagging everyone in the sidebar, just do it dammit

i am a llama
sometimes i wonder what it would be like to be:
somewhere else...i don't mean like right now, i mean like if i'd have grown up somewhere else, like in the states of in france or even south africa (i mention these places as they were the first that came to my head, but because i want to be there or anything in particular). i mnea there would be certain cultural differences and languages and things like that, but would i still be the same me as i am now or would i be totally different? maybe i'd have joined the army, maybe i'd be married with kids, maybe i'd have more friends, but less people who really know me...there are some many things that could be different
i like to think i'm a success story where ever i am...;
someone else...i mean actually someone else, like david beckham or steve urwin or sharon osbourne (again names were picked at random, i can't stand beckham) or even if i were chunk or woja or even PP, would i be like them or like me, would i enjoy their life or want to change it, would i moan about it? it'd be nice to sample other peoples lives, but i think i'd prefer to stick to my own sometimes;
something else...like a llama or a tree or the last dodo in existence...

sorry feeling a bit random today
attempted to discuss the idea of leaving the lifeguard job with mother morning, she wasn't too impressed, saying that i needed the second job to clear my debts and that without it i wouldn't cope...even though i've been struggling through the last few months without having the second job...so what's changed? nothing
i don't know what to do, i know what i want to do though and that's not have a second job, it cuts into my spare time and means that i'm working 6 full days a week and an additional evening as well, which is just going to wear me out and i'm going to suffer again health wise like i did just before i left the wave.
but at the same time i need some more money
this whole situation sucks

and to top it all off i've not prepared my HNT yet either and i need to do that tonight when i get in from the stupid lifeguard job...

i'm so fed up with everything now that i want to be a llama living in france thinking that i'm sharon osbourne
laters
(a rather grouchy and tired of it all)
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delayed addendum
ok so this is post number two, and it's going to be a little one
i don't like the lifeguard job, it's crap, but i need the money, do i:
a) stick at it and think of the money
b) call the bloke i spoke to the other day about a job dj-ing at functions
c) quit the job and pull the purse stirngs really tightly

lifeguarding is easy and something i've been doing for nearly 11 years, but it's a job filled with young people, most of my collegues at my new place are under 20 (i say under 20, they are in the 16-18 demographic) therefore only want to get pissed up and talk about their sex lives...or lack thereof (point to remember, i'm nearly 27 and therefore have done everything they are trying to do and didn't brag about it...unlike them) and they have little or no pride in the work that they do, no interest in the job and are only there so that they can go to the pub that night

DJ-ing pays better, but the hours are less sociable, i say pays better, it pays something like 4 or 5 times more than lifeguarding. it does mean that i'm going to have to sit through a lot of songs that i'm not keen on, but it will primarily depend on the demographic of the function as to what is played. there is more opportunity to work...and it's more flexible as in i can work a function if i want to. but then that's a drawback in that if there isn't a function, i can't work...

tightening the purse strings is a good idea, it'll mean i get to save some cash too hopefully, but with crimbo fast approaching i could do with all the additional cash i can get

come on people...i need your views and help
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delayed
ok, so before Fu moans again about my distinct lack of blogging i'd better post something
i've had a pretty good weekend, apart from throwing up on saturday and still feeling it now, stomach has been dodgy since friday i think, but i'm surviving, and no it wasn't alcohol related, more's the pity. but alas it meant i missed a 21st party on saturday evening and missed work yesterday, got sent home on saturday from my other job too...great way to start my first shift!

other news
well pretty much nothing
really getting fed up though
not even sure why

it's only a couple of weeks now until my birthday :)
it's on a saturday and i feel the need to do something a little special, but as it stands i've got nothing planned...i'm thinking that i should at least go out for either food or a drink, but i can't be bothered to hear the usual excuses from people who can't be bothered to come and see me :(

babysitting last week went fine, it went better than fine, and i really enjoyed it, but the baby is teething and so she's grizzly all the time at the moment, but i can still make her laugh, so that's ok

PARTY...come on people, don't forget, we've got to help jenfer (please note i'm going to push this like you wouldn't believe until the actual event)

if anyone else has got some news, feel free to post it
seeing as none of my UK bloggers are posting anything at the moment (bunch of slackers) although it does waste a few minutes everyday while i check to make sure that they still haven't said anything, even though i'm sure that they've all got news and things happening in their lives, like buying a house or moving to sheffield...you know who you are...and although i'm sure there are reasons for you guys not posting nything for ages, i'm still disappointed

laters
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IMPORTANT INVITATION

People of the blogosphere

one amongst us needs our help

there is a PARTY next weekend on the 29th of October

it's for charity

it's important

and it's all in fun

Jenfer is holding a halloween party and needs us to help her raise money to send her away to some tropical place where she's going to be doing a shed load of good things for lots of people. so people dig deep and help her out

right the party is fancy dress if you wanna
it's in Chilton, which is near Didcot for those who don't know
it's in aid of Raleigh International
it's from 8pm on the 29th of October
it's a BYOB affair
tickets are the bargain basement price of £5
bring yourself
bring your friends
bring everybody that you know
this is uber important
but please let me know if you can make it because there is a chance that it might be cancelled if not enough people are going to make it...and if it gets cancelled then jenfer will lose out on some vitally needed dosh

want to know more about why she's having the party...click here
want to help but can't come to the party...click here if you are kind enough to donate to this worthy cause please wish her luck at the same time, funds on this site are looking pretty meagre, but i'm told that she has oodles more money than is indicated here
want to know just who jenfer is...click here although she's been rather slack with her posts recently having moved back up to sheffield and is disticntly lacking in internet access now

i know that the lovely people overseas who regularly check into my life will seriously be unable to make it, but the very least you guys could do is to hop over to one of the 2 blogs above and leave a supportive comment

as for the people in this country...i'll need a very good excuse for you not to make it as i will be seriously unimpressed not to see you there...
yes that does mean you before you ask
no it doesn't matter that you don't know her
yes i get get you directions
no i'm not going to provide you with beer all night, but i might be tempted to give you one
so stop thinking about if you should go and start thinking about what you should wear

HNT time already

ok, i was totally un prepared for HNT today, i have a cool idea for the pic that i wanted to post, but after not getting in yesterday until after 10pm from work and only having about 5 hours sleep the previous night i just passed out...

so instead i'm sharing with you guys something special

it's from one of those moments when you're walking around and you think i wish i had my camera, well this time i did have my camera

and as you can see it gave me a stunning sunset

it taken while i was in germany training for my job, you're looking out over Bodensee from lindau, on the border between germany and switzerland

we went there with my mental for the afternoon/evening and while we walked back to the carpark (or parkplatz seeing as it was in germany) i just stopped and snapped away

i am so impressed with this single picture, probably the best i've ever taken, that i've got it A3 size with the intention of framing it and hanging in in my home (when i get one)
there is only one minor imperfection that i could see on the pic, but from the size of this pic you can't really see it, but there is an aeroplane trail in the sky. someone told me i could photoshop it out, but i think if i leave it in that it's mine all mine, where as it i photoshop it out it could just be a pic i took off the net

so that's my HNT

next week i promise to be better prepared and show you some more of me...probably my hands seeing as so many of you want to see them, but until then i hope you like this one

this is how sad i am...
i read on a random blog the other day something that i disagree with and i was going to leave a comment on said blog, but i didn't want to make a fool of myself for getting what i thought was right, wrong...but i've thought about it more and more, not to the point where it's kept me awake at night, but i've given it some thought
the comment was about never being able to get a triangle with 3 right angles in it, now this i agreed with initially, but then i thought about it more and i realised that whoever it was that made the statement was wrong
you can get a triangle with 3 right angles...just not in the normal 2 dimensions, you have to think in 3 dimensions for this....ready...here's the science bit
think of the globe...think of the equator, this is our base line for our triangle, now you need to take 2 line of longitude which meet at either the north or south pole, at which one they meet is fairly irrelevent as long as where they meet, they meet at a right angle...therefore you have 3 right angles in a triangle
got it?
see this is what i do all day when i'm left to my own devices
anyway
enough
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slapped wrists for me
FU has told me off for not posting since thursday, but i've been a "busy" bunny
so let me break it down for you
friday i joined the league of the "white van man", a magical realm in which you get superiority over all other road users simply by driving a white van, you get to look down upon the puny people in their cars and smaller vans and you feel like part of a brotherhood with all the other white van men out there. you have to resist the urge to wave at them as you drive past them going the other way. and there was a distinct feeling of being over-dressed and naked at the same time, the nakedness coming from the severe lack of big thick glod chains from elizabeth duke, you know the kind of gold that leaves nice green marks everywhere.
so why do you ask was i doing this...the answer is simple, i was moving a load of my things into my mate vic's flat, killing 2 birds with one stone, not only was i providing her with furniture but i'm saving myself about£650 a year in storage costs by moving the remaining gear into a smaller unit. needless to say we had the bear in tow all day and she appeared to love the idea of travelling around in a big white van, so much so that she didn't sleep at all, even though she usually does in the car...so we had a "white van baby" in the offing
saturday was an early start, started my new job, lifeguard, and i had to shadow some other guy, basically he was there to tell me all about how to be a lifeguard and that kind of stuff, it was cool, but basically he learned more in those 4 hours than i did... at least he wasn't patronising which was great, he understood that i have some 11 years experience in the leisure industry, opposed to his 3 or 4 years and he was happy to listen to me as much as i was happy to listen to him.
the rest of saturday was spent doing very little, so little that i can't actually remember what i did, i think i read for a while then went to see vic in the evening because she wanted a hand moving some things that i'd delivered on friday...
sunday was spent doing some tidying of my room, making it almost inhabitable, but i was so tired from moving things around for 2 days that i fell asleep fairly early on in the evening which was a poor show, i say early, i think i went to bed around 9 or 10
monday (yesterday) i worked...but in the afternoon the main program we use to prepare our quotes crashed so i left early...not being able to do anything means i go home. in the evening i went to the pub quiz, joined the usual team, i'm hoping that soon they will change their name though, i'm not keen on being a lovely lady, although last week i was their pimp apparently... we did ok, we got a decent score in the music round, but not brilliant scores in the others, but hey, it's just for fun
so basically i've not blogged for a litle while because i've been busy...
PP was worried about me too, she'd not seen me all weekend either, she was worried i'd died or something, then that got her on to thinking what if i had died, how would she know, which leads tothe question of how would any of you know...and i guess i just don't know, but i'm sure we'll sort something out...some how...anyone got any ideas?
anyway laters peeps
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Happy HNT

so this is my first HNT, nothing really special, most people that know me in person have seen this, but seeing as i've not got a lot of new peeps reading this little thing all about me i thought i'd start with something about me that i really like

the pic is of my favourite tattoo

it runs all around my right ankle and is in colour, the others are predominantly all in black
this one is special to me because it was the first one i had done which was done completely free hand, the tattoo artist just went straight into it with no marker or outline or anything, a mark of a truly good artist
there are no flaws in this tatt either, a few of the earlier ones have colour fades and bits missing when from where the scab fell off while it was healing, but this one came out perfect
i don't know what made me want this done, but i did
it took about 90 minutes, wasn't overly painful, but hurt like hell after i'd had it done, i was limping for like two weeks, it's one of the two most expensive ones i've had done costing me £120 some 3 years ago
but hey i like it and that's what HNT is all about right?
let me know what you think peeps
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not long now
it's one month until my birthday...interesting
it's under 24 hours until my first HNT post...nerve racking
it's been a few days since i had a decent night's sleep...tiring

birthday
right today i'm exactly one month off being 27 and as yet i have NO plans...this time last year i had no plans either though and i ended up getting totally trucked in Dublin's fair city, where the girls really are so pretty...so i'm not holding out for anything exciting to happen this year, although i can still dream that all my favourite women in the world will converge in one place and put a huge great big smile on my face...

HNT
ok things are looking interesting for the HNT post, there have been a few suggestions, listed below, this is the final chance for people to make any suggestions or plump for one of the options already suggested...come on people come up with something entertaining, you tell me the pic i'll tell you a story behind it or a little about me relating to it.
options so far are:
hands
neck
shoulders
tattoos (x2)
eyes
facial hair (this is sadly lacking at the moment though)
in my lifeguard uniform (x2 although i don't apparently have to be wearing it)
"dirty" pic...
so come on people

tired
insomnia sucks
it'd be ok if there was a decent reason for being tired, like i'd been up all night shagging someone, but alas this is not the case...it is genuinely insomnia and that is crazy and i hate it

guess that's all there is to say at the moment though...sorry
laters
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do it for FU
finally i decided to do this for FU who's ill and stuff
Name someone with the same birthday as you.
apparently grace kelly was born on the same day as me, as was auguste rodin

Where was your first kiss?
on the lips...

Have you ever seriously vandalized someone else's property?
nope that i can think of

Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex?
not in a malicious way

Have you ever sung in front of a large number of people?
a few times, with school choirs, in school productions and while pissed at uni on the karaoke

What's the first thing you notice about the preferred sex?
everything i can see, so hair, smile, eyes, figure (tits and ass)

What do you order at the Coffee Bean?
i'm guessing it's a coffee shop type place, but seeing as we don't have coffee bean over here and i don't like coffee anyway...i'll be skipping this one

What is your biggest mistake?
see the next question

Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
yeah :(

Say something totally random about yourself.
seeing as FU had to remind me about this i'd better put something down well i'm a pretty random person most of the time...how about i once got a tattoo, and the only reason for this one was to show a mate how little it hurt to get done, she stood and watched while i had it done and then didn't get one herself...shame on her

Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
probably, but i can't remember who though

Do you still watch kiddy movies or tv shows?
yeah sometimes

Did you have braces?
not train tracks no, but i had a bite plate and some other sort of brace that i could take out

Are you comfortable with your height?
hell yeah

What is the most romantic thing someone of the opposite sex has done for you?
phoned me from the supermarket and wanted to know if i needed anything, then she bought me some bread, totally out of the blue, i think she was looking for an excuse to see me as we'd not seen each other for a few days and were in the honeymoon period of the relationship

When do you know it's love?
when it feels like it's love

Do you speak any other languages?
a little french, spanish, polish, german and japanese (when i say a little i mean like only a few words)

Have you ever been to a tanning salon?
hell no, i like being a pastie pale face

What magazines do you read?
i only look at the pictures ;)

Have you ever ridden in a limo?
nope, and i have no real desire to either

Has anyone you were really close to passed away?
not recently

Do you watch MTV?
nope...not got the channel

What's something that really annoys you?
people bugging me when i want to be alone
inconsideration (which i do myself)

What's something you really like?
marmite :)

Do you like Michael Jackson?
musically...not overly, he's done some good stuff and some bad
as a person...no

Can you dance?
some people say i can, some say i can't, i'm inclined to go with the latter

What's the latest you have ever stayed up?
dunno, usually too wasted or tired to pay that much attention to the time, flew to san francisco a few years ago, didn't sleep for over 48 hours then...but that's about it

Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room?
more than once

Do you actually read these when other people fill them out?
usually yeah

i'm getting special treatment :)
so anyway, i suppose i'd better explain myself a little
right, i went for my pool test and induction to be a lifeguard again and there was two other guys there with me doing it and it was cool, although both of them were younger than me and had only done the course once each i though you know, maybe these kids will know their stuff and i'll be the one who looks bad...yeah right, like that was ever going to happen!
we had to do a written paper, 30 questions, pass mark was 85%, i got 90%, didn't want to show off too much you know, so i managed to get one wrong on each section of the test, not on purpose though, just because i wasn't thinking straight...nerves and all, but the other two didn't manage to get the 85%, i was shocked...
next came CPR, which i breezed through, without making any mistakes, but again the other 2 fluffed it up, i was starting to doubt their abilities...even counting 10 seconds seemed to be a bit of a chore...
ok, final part of the test was the pool work, nice and easy, and we all should have had this nailed, but one pulled up with cramp after only doing the timed swims. which is fair enough, but i was getting the impression that he didn't really want to go any further with the test seeing has he'd already failed the other 2 sections...either way that left just two of us...so knowing that i'd got the experience and knowing that she'd trained me in the past of a few occasions, the trainer made the other guy go first all the time so that he didn't copy the stuff i'd done...fair enough...but when it came to putting the spinal board in, i was told to shut up, even though the errors he was making would reflect badly on me too...but i shut up...for once...and then i got to do it all myself, and although i made one error on the board because i assumed the team would work as they should do rather than waiting for me, i was let off my one minor error...
needless to say after the poor performance from the other two i was the only one who made it through and i was given soem rather tasteful, if somewhat small, uniform and told i start on saturday...and this is where the remaining special treatment kicked in, due to who i am, i've only got to do 1 shadow session, the standard is 3 or more, from there i was given a few other special bits of info and all that kinda stuff, things that i need to know, little bits of info really, but all helpful stuff.
so i've got myself a second job, and i'm getting the special treatment because of who i am, nice!

other stuff...still only one person has come up with a options for my premier HNT post, again thanks berly, so come on people i need to know asap just what you want to see from me or i'll be posting some random image of something really obscure...comments please, come on, you know you want to

in other stuff, i finished everything off at my brothers place and i'm now officially out, my room at my parents house it looking like a bomb site already, and i really should get round to sorting through things so that i can at least see the floor...it's that bad, no really it is, there's dvd's and cd's everywhere...hundreds of the things

anyway i should get to work, things to do
laters peeps
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stuff and nonsense
ok after the mammoth amount of rubbish that went on with the comments from the last post i made, which were partly my fault as well as other people who were to blame in varying degrees...but for now it doesn't matter things got overly personal in the last one so with that in mind i want to apologise to everyone for the things that were said, this was a situation between me and clarissa and all other parties who got involved shouldn't have, the things that were said should've been kept between me and her and that's all

anyway enough of that

i've got my induction today for my 2nd job, 4 hours of being at the swimming pool, it's going to be like old times, but at the same time it should be a walk in the park considering i'm only going for a lifeguard position and i am qualified to train people to be lifeguards so i although i'm a little nervous about it, i'm also confident enough to not be worried about it

the HNT voting has begun with a solitary vote for 3 things, berly i think you're being a little greedy myself (lol), but if yours it the only request then i'll have to see what i can do, think i should be able to manage it...just about
but people, remember, i want to hear from you, what do you want to know about me, what do you want to see...and people, please be reasonable, i'm not going to post anything ott for my first HNT...

life in general
i think i'm coming down with a cold or something, my throat is a little sore today, but that could be down to snoring all night, which i may have done if i have a cold.
work is good and no sideshow, i'm not complaining about things being quiet, i'm just saying that things are good and simple for now, alhtough next week i get the impression that things will change
living with the folks has worked out ok this week, we'll have to see how things go from here in though

anyway i'd best be off as i need to eat something fairly soon if i'm going to be getting in the pool this afternoon i dont want to be cramping up because i ate too late

take care peeps
laters
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HNT
it's friday so i can't do this today, but rest assured i'll post a HNT next week, too many people seem to be doing it for me not to...but before i do i need two things;
1.) a decent free gallery host
2.) suggestions of what people want to see
so with that in mind i'm giving everyone a chance to tell me what they want to see and i will choose the best option, note, that might not be the most popular either...

a really random thing that happened to me this week was that i got an email from a guy called chris who did a search for 5th metatarsel on the 'net and got to my blog, he was looking up ways to break it or something, not sure why, but scarily he broke his 5th met on the same day i did back in december...how freaky is that? i know that there are probably hundreds of people who did the same on that day, but for one to hunt me down and tell me was a little freaky, but kinda cool...so chris, if you're reading this...good stuff

things are really quiet at work at the moment, although i know that there is going to be a couple of things heading my way fairly soon...nothing major, but it'll still be on it's way

had a deep and meaningful with my mum of all people last night, told her a couple of things, she said she wasn't surprised and had thought something was going on between me and this girl but didn't want to say anything, anyway, she's told me not to be an idiot this time with her because i won't get another chance with her...i agreed with her

sorted out a load of things to do with my stuff in storage as well and i've started to move the stuff around my room to make it more bearable to live in now, although that has involved moving the girls cage right up next to the head of my bed, but things at home have settled quite nicely for the moment and with sorting the stuff in storage out i'll be able to save some cash

got an induction and pool-test on sunday at the only local pool i've not worked in before, for the only leisure company locally that i've not worked for before, should be fine, should breeze through it without any troubles i hope and that will then give me some extra cash so next year i might actually be able to afford a holiday :)

and finally, this came from spanish, the guy i work with...we all thought it was funny and so it got posted, although he's not sure of the best way to translate cabrones to english, he thinks the closest thing would be assholes or bastards...
Coincidences:
In 1981
- Prince Charles got married.
- Liverpool won the Champions league.
- The Pope died.
In 2005
- Prince Charles got married.
- Liverpool won the Champions league.
- The Pope died.
So, if any next year Prince Charles anounce that he is getting married, and Liverpool gets into the final of the Champions league, please don't be 'cabrones' and tell inmediately the Pope.

take caare peeps, laters
Px

this made me laugh

some excerpts from the edinburgh comedy festival that were emailed to me

* I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat. - Marcus Brigstocke at theAssembly Rooms

* Cats have nine lives - which makes them ideal for experimentation. - Jimmy Carr

* The right to bear arms is slightly less ludicrous than the right to arm bears. - Chris Addison at thePleasance

* My dad is Irish and my mum is Iranian, which meant that we spent most of our family holidays in Customs.- Patrick Monahan at the Gilded Balloon

* The dodo died. Then Dodi died, Di died and Dando died... Dido must be shitting herself. - Colin & Fergus at the Pleasance

* My parents are from Glasgow which means they're incredibly hard, but I was never smacked as a child... well, maybe one or two grams to get me to sleep at night. - Susan Murray at the Underbelly

* Is it fair to say that there'd be less litter in Britain if blind people were given pointed sticks? -Adam Bloom at the Pleasance

* You have to remember all the trivia that your girlfriend tells you, because eventually you get tested. She'll go: "What's my favourite flower?" And you murmur to yourself: "Shit, I wasn't listening...Self-raising?" - Addy Van-Der-Borgh at the AssemblyRooms

* I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was "Shout For Help". - Mark Watson, Rhod Gilbert at the Tron

* I went out with an Irish Catholic. Very frustrating.You can take the Girl out of Cork, but... - MarkusBirdman at the Pod Deco

* A dog goes into a hardware store and says: "I'd like a job please". The hardware store owner says: "We don't hire dogs. Why don't you go join the circus?" The dog replies: "What would the circus want with a plumber". - Steven Alan Green at C34

* I like to go into the Body Shop and shout out reallyloud "I've already got one!" - Norman Lovett at TheStand

* If you're being chased by a police dog, try not togo through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that.- Milton Jones at the Underbelly.

i've pretty much had enough at the moment
people are really starting to bug me in my real life...not my cyberside
there has been various people who i've know for a long time now, some very long, but all of them are starting to bug me in their own special way and i don't want to go into it because if they are reading this i'm sure they'd get narked that i posted it rather than talked with them about it...so with that in mind, if you think that i'm narked at you...think about it and then get intouch, you may be right, you may also be wrong though.

in other things i moved home yesterday, home as in back in with my parents :( the financial situation is looking pretty bleak and as such i'm going to have to take a second job just to start saving money for the future, which looks equally as bleak...going to spend the afternoon cleaning out the flat in which i used to live and moving a few more of the essential things back here...eg the cd's, stereo, dvd player and surround system

after much deliberation and seemingly endless rows me and luton have decided that we are incompatible, then we proceeded to talk more in the last week than we have done for a while, it was nice though

i want to spend a shed load of money on cd's this month there are loads of new one out that i really want, so if anyone gets something that they think i might like let me know and i'll poach it, rip it and burn it from you...easier than buying cd's i know, but the question is will anyone actually get hold of something i might like and/or want? doubtful

right mind is wandering and i can smell the roast chicken...food is coming...
take it easy peeps
Px

beer...it's what's for dinner!
i'm rapidly running out of decent things to eat in my flat, mainly because i'm getting rid of everything that i've got so that when i move out i'm not taking a shed load of food with me, that and i've not got any money to buy any more food until friday, but at least i've got some beers in the place :)
i've been doing very little this week, very little indeed
although i was pretty late for work on tuesday, a whopping 90 minutes, i couldn't help it i just plain slept through my alarms. speaking of work i've been asked to write the company Health & Safety manual and policy...responsibility or what!!!??? still it'l lbe good to get them to realise that i can do things that they might not think i can do
i've been feeling pretty weird the last couple of days, at work i've been fine, we've been really busy so i've not had much time to think about much while i've been at work and the last few nights i've been out and about, visiting people and drinking. but tonight i just feel as though there's something wrong and i can't put my finger on it, i'm just feeling a bit weird. kinda alone i guess
i've been blogging on he other sites i've got running a little as well recently, it's given me something else to do, although the other posts haven't been all that much to be honest
heh heh something i have been doing is watching my living dead films ready for when i can get to the cinema to see land of the dead...it's got to be done...i've been waiting all summer for it to be released and now it has i've got n money to see it, well not until this weekend anyway :D
when i grow up i want to be in a zombie film
there's so much i could say about now, but i have no idea what i want to say anymore, i'm just so tired at the moment
think i'm going to head to the bath and try not to fall asleep in it again, like i did on saturday!!
finished my book the other day will post a review when i get round to it, might be tomorrow depends on work...going to have to read something i've read before now...ah well such is life
oh
by the way roxi...german beer hangovers are easy...i was in germany for a month earlier this year and i'll happily drink many many beers and not suffer much in the morning...proper beers to, from the litre size stein...it was ALL good :)
anyway bathtime is calling
laters peeps
Px

something new?
but i have nothing to say
it's too early on a saturday morning for me to be thinking about something new to post about
besides i'm trying to think of a witty and cutting comeback for pp on the other blog and it's just not working for me
supposed to be moving things today, but alas, plans changed last night while out and now i'm stuck moving things on my own again...which to be honest i prefer, because there's less hassle of telling people what's supposed to be where and all that kinda junk...besides some of this shit needs to go into storage
btw roxi...i did a few of the things on your site...
apparently i'm "tin man's johnson silver" as a rejected crayon
i'm an "expert kisser" but that's only according to the thing
the underwear oracle had me spot on
and my porn star name is larry loverod
i'm hungry and i want some breakfast, but i used all the bacon and eggs yesterday and the day before, and that only really leave toast for breakfast this morning and i don't really want toast, i wanted a bacon buttie :(
anyway i'm struggling with things to say now so i'm going to cut an run
take care peeps
laters
Px

stupid thing didn't work
bugger it

laughing all the way
not sure why i'm laughing, or where i'm going, but it might have something to do with listening to running with scissors by weird al yankovic on the way to work today...
so this is 201
it's not going to be very interesting though
been stuck in traffic most of the week
and there has been a shed load of army vehicles on the road, last week there was a convoy of lorries, 12 in total, some with trailers, some with out, all doing about 45-50 on the a34...causing the traffic to back up something chronic, yesterday it was motorbikes, and this morning it was tanks...how bizarre is that? not sure where they were all going because they were heading in different directions, but heading towards the likely suspect of abingdon
got a big offer quote out on monday, it was big, over half a million again and that was just the furniture...but that's also why i've not had chance to cyber-slack or blog recently, got another project on the go at the moment, fairly small and pretty easy, i'm just waiting for a pile of prices to come through from the delightful people in germany, although i've just priced some sinks up this morning and they've come out as being pretty expensive!!! yesterday it was the taps that were high cost, today it't the sinks...
in other news, i've had various visitors this week and last, including vic and aisha who popped in the other evening on a flying visit so i could give them aisha's birthday card, and dk who popped in last night, after getting lost twice on her way back from swansea, just another flying visit, but it was cool to see her for an hour as i've not seen her for over a year!
other than that things have been pretty quiet, i had a bit of a cold most of last week, but didn't feel that ill that i'd take the day off, but i was ill enough not to make it to offspring gig, was disappointed about that, but i made it all the way to luton, then after sitting in luton's sitting room with her for a while, i decided that i was going to try and get home as i was running a fever and had a thumping head, neck and backache which wasn't cool!
think that's pretty much it though, so take care peeps
laters
Px

THIS IS POST NUMBER 200!!!!!!!!
i'm going to take my time over this post, it's not that i've got a lot to say, although i probably will end up saying loads, but i want to make sure that i get everything down on "paper"

i can't actually remember when i last posted, think it was thursday, how bad is that?!

well since thursday i've not been feeling too great, saturday i hardly ate anything, same sunday and yesterday, been feeling as though i'll throw up if i do, although yesterday i did go for a curry, managed to eat 2/3 of it, but that was pretty much all i ate yesterday.

lemme see
what exciting things have i been up to
well sunday morning i had an audition in London for a new tv game show called Deal Or No Deal, it was pretty cool and if i get to go on it i could win up to £250,000, which would get me a nice house and a dodge viper :) how cool would that be!?!?!
during the audition i had to do a 30 second piece to camera...great fun...so i stood there and said "i'm pete and i'm tall and that's about it, i;m heavily into music and films...basically what you see is what you get." which illicited the question "does being tall give you delusions of grandeur?" my response was great and totally off the top of my head " no...everybody already knows i'm great" much laughing was done and that was it my 30 seconds in the spot light were over...i think i may have made an inpression with the last comment
the only bad thing about it was that i had to be in central london for 9.30 on a sunday morning and yes that time really does exist!

luton's been busy the last few days with work, but she's off all week and she's taking me to see Offspring at the weekend, so that's cool, i'm looking forward to that, so's she. nd i'm looking forward to here cooking me dinner sometime soon

THIS IS MY 200TH POST CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? i didn't think it'd make it past about 20! so i wanna thank everyone who reads this thing, i wanna thank everyone who's commented on it and i wanna thank everyone who has given me something to write about. as for starting it, i blame woja as he got me started on it when i read his many moons ago now...

and although i have 3 blogs now, the latest being a new one which hasn't had anything done to it yet because i'm waiting for pp to link herself into it...this one will remain my blog and will have some of the random and personal stuff in it, the storys will continue to be sporadic and when i feel like it and the new one will be completely random stuff that's going to bounce either side of the pond

anyway
there's not much i can think of to say at the moment because my brain has turned to jelly and is dribbling out my ears
take care peeps
Px (NOT Pixy...please take note pp)

ok, this is supposed to be the something new...
...but seeing as it's half 10 and i've only just got in from work, admittedly we finished at 6 and went for a couple of pints and a curry, i'm shattered and i want my bed
there is so much that i want to tell though, about the weekend and everything, i'll post it all tomorrow, and i know that it sounds like i'm putting it off...that's because i am!
laters peeps
Px

i solemly swear
that i'll post something new this evening, bit busy at work today so i've not had a chance
Px

dammit i got tagged
sorry to put you all through this, blame roxi...i can't believe i'm doing this :(

7 things I want to do before I die....
1. write a book
2. travel the world
3. learn to play the guitar
4. have children
5. be on tv
6. become rich and famous
7. set foot in the squared circle

7 things I can do....
1. save you when you drwon
2. order a beer in polish
3. make fun of myself
4. set off an airport metal detector
5. cook a dinner that will make you want more even though you're full already
6. live hard and drive fast
7. enjoy myself without needing to be drunk

7 things I cant do....
1. budget properly
2. get up in time for work
3. paint in watercolours
4. play the guitar
5. lick my elbow
6. be short
7. the washing up after cooking a nice dinner

7 things that attract me to the opposite sex...
1. Seductive smile
2. Loving eyes
3. long dark hair
4. Inney belly button
5. GSOH
6. Long legs
7. Nice T&A

7 celebrity crushes....
1. Kiera Knightley
2. Kate Winslet
3. Kate Beckinsale
4. Charlize Theron
5. Michelle Branch
6. Vanessa Carlton
7. Beyonce Knowles

i can't think of a witty title, so this will have to do
i'm tired, i shouldn't be, but i am, well, i suppose technically i should be tired seeing as i think i only got about 5 hours sleep, which obviously wasn't good...
work has been a bit odd... i can sit here for ages not doing anything, not because i don't want to, but because i can't, then all of a sudden everything comes in at once and i'm flooded with it again.
for some reason i've been having a few bad days this week and although i think it's down to a mix of being over tired and work is getting a little irritating, i can't think of anything else which would contribute to it
my car decided that it would lock the stereo this morning...that was great, i put the key in, the stereo started, when i turned the ignition, the stereo read "radio locked" brilliant! that means i need to take it over to the garage i got it from, but there's the problem seeing as the "fitters only work monday to friday" and i only work monday to friday, i can't get the car there, especially as they don't have a courtesy car...brilliant, so i'm face with driving around with no tunes for a while or having to bunk off work to try and get the car over to the garage and get the stereo sorted...i know which option i'd choose, but bunking off work is harder than it should be
driving home last night i realised that i now drive to work without really paying much attention to the road and more attention to the other vehicle on the road, and although this sounds ideal, i'm actually referring to the fact that i'm starting to recognise other cars on the road as having seen them the previous day on roughly the same bit of road, example, i pass a Norbert Dentressengle lorry every day on the A34 between abingdon and didcot on the way home, now although i'm pretty sure it's not the same lorry, it's kinda freaky that i pass one every day on the same section of road. for those who don't know, Norbert Dentressengle are a logistics firm that roll around in big red lorries with white writing on them. there's a car i see every few days on the road, there's another lorry firm that i usually see, although this morning i saw a van not a lorry... i usually people watch while i'm driving too, this morning i saw someone putting on their make-up in the car, it's ok we were in a stationary line of traffic when she started, but then we started moving and she was still doing it... there was a nice looking woman the other day with her finger stuck up her nose, that made me chuckle, i have nothing against nose pickers, but to see someone doing it while stuck in traffic and totally oblivious to the fact that everyone else around her was watching...makes me laugh. there are the people who sing along with what ever they are listening to (oh how i envied them this morning) some do it softly, others are really giving to some, there seems to be no happy medium... i do it sometimes, and i do it sometimes when i have people in the car with me, that can be embarressing when you're singing to something cheesy or totally out of character to your persona. it makes me laugh when people realise that they're being watched while singing and try to pretend they weren't doing it, the ingenious ways they come up with is funny, one pretended to swap his "phone" to the other ear last week to i could he was actually talking on it, but seeing as he didn't actually have his hand to his other ear in the first place i couldn't help but laugh.
just realised i'm talking balls again so i'm going to go back to my little quote that i'm working on and see if i can finish off the packet of Haribo sweets i've just pulled out of my secret stash draw before anyone else pinches one
take it easy peeps
Px

big time bad mood

just feeling a little pee'd off today...
i say a little, i mean a lot
and i don't know why
anyway my heads not really into the whole blogging thing too much today so i'm just going to prattle on about something or other and see where the random stream takes me

i've turned into a bit of a phantom comment leaver type person at the moment...i keep clicking on the "next blog" button and reading things and from there i sometimes leave a comment and other times i don't...and if i really like the blog i go back and look again, and maybe leave another comment...it's all good though

there are a few people at the moment who have a lot to answer for...
woja...for sending me a link to a stupid burger game which i get stuck on level 4, that's if i make it to level 4 that is...once i managed to get to level 5...but it was way too scary and i ended up dying very quickly
Evel...for getting me into Su Doku...number are now evil

am really bored again today at work, sometimes i wonder why i do this job, other times i realise without it i wouldn't have so much time to surf the internet :) although i definately need more money so i might have to take a second job, not sure what though...suggestions please?

just had my lunch...smoked salmon sandwich and then a cheese and bacon one as well, think i preferred the latter one, not sure why though... still hungry though, might have to head off and raid the local shop for more food at this rate...

apparently the lunch time hacky sack session is calling for me...i'll be back

right that's the post lunch session out of the way...spanish wanted to name all the different kicks that we use, but no-one could actually be that bothered to do it...and everytime we got a double and were heading for the triple someone would say "that's the double" (usually spanish) and then we'd fluff it before we made the next full loop

the 34 effing fume cupboards are being changed again so i'm stuck not being able to work on them...which is fine with me at the moment, but seeing as i've got 4 days before the quote is due, i hope that the problems get sorted out...

i'm so bored at the moment

and i've got a headache coming on now too
great :(

still not sure what i'm pee'd off about, but i feel better now after the lunchtime hack...bizarre huh!

right to clarify...bobbins means "of no conceivable use" from the ever useful woja, so i hope that helps you linny...ain't english great?

i guess i should get back to work, but i still have nothing to do...ho-hum
guess i could go back to randomly reading other peoples blogs and leaving little comments on them

laters peeps, take care now
Px

be realistic
i put my old car stereo on ebay last weekend, hoping to make a few quid off it...i got it for £200, i was hoping for something between £100 and £125...
the auction finished about half hour ago with the total reaching the lofty sum of £70.84, i know i said it was a bargain deaal for the stereo...it was originally around worth £330 as new, so when i logged in yesterday to see how people were doing and it was at the pricnely sum of £20.02 i nearly edited the listing with words to the effect of "i know i said it was a bargain, but come on people, be realistic...the stereo is worth a lot more than £20" but i decided against it
i sat and watched this afternoon as there were some small bidding flurries, and i was a little disappointed when it didn't make it's reserve of £100...oh well
someone has since emailed me and offered £85 including p&p which i think is a little low, but i'm going to have a think about it before i laugh at them and say, in a very condesending tone "no", although i might take them up, i'd rather pay to have it fitted into my car...which may cause a little problem as the pug has a fitted head unit and the multi changer is fitted in the back as well, still they might be able to hook up both changers...we'll have to see
still...work is going fairly slow today so i'm just chilling at the moment, thinking about things, mulling them over in my head
i need a beer
i need a holiday too...but i think in fairness a beer is probably going to be more realistic

34 fume cupboards
34 effing fume cupboards
33 of them are special constructions because they are bigger than the stardard FC's we offer and the remaining one is also a special because it's smaller than the ones we offer! typical!! to top it off they want special controllers, apparently ours ain't good enough, which is going to add an additional £37,500 to the price, and that's before we factor it, i could be adding up to £87,000 to the "competative" quote, but seeing as all the other quotes from the other companies will be using this price as well...if shouldn't make too much difference...right?
sorry, minor rant about the current pricing proposal i'm working on.

in other news...there is no other news
blockage in my blogage
it's such a nice day outside i want to be out there running around like a loon with the woofer, but the woofer ain't really the kinda woofer that does a lot of running, he's a bit on the small side really...i want a bigger woofer...for those who have never seen the woofer, he's a little woofer, he sulks when my dad's away so i tend to visit my folks a bit more often then just to make sure the woofer's ok, when he runs his back end goes quicker than the front...which makes him look funny when he's lolloping along...foolish woofer

right i should really getback to work

anyone got any ideas of ways to make the time go quicker?
i would appreciate them
take care peeps
Px

dead bugs, spilt yoghurt and hacky-sack
three very small things
while i was in the bath yesterday i squished a bug with my book... it was only a smallish one, and it was a brown sort of colour on the outside, but it was the colour on the inside that freaked me a little...it was like a lime green colour...i must say that it went well with the colours in the bath too though, for those who have utilised my facilities it was the same sort of colour as the tiles... reminded me of MiB for some reason, probably because it was a bug and it was green on the inside...
i spilt yoghurt on my touchpad thing a little while ago and although i've tried to clean it off it's still there, i got a tissue and tried to mop it, but that just spread it about a bit, so i tried to absorb it as well, but that didn' work either, i used my finger to try and clean it off, but that sent the game i was playing a little mental...that'll teach me for eating yoghurt will sitting at the laptop
actually it probably won't
i've been playing a lot of hacky-sack at work recently, so much so that we now have regular sack breaks during the day...not as many as the smokers have fag breaks, but we still have plenty... but it's giving us a break away from the screen and it's also exercise...so i see no harm in it
right, i'm off, be random people
Px
p.s.

How to make a shadowfish
Ingredients:
3 parts pride
5 parts humour
5 parts ego
Method:
Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice.
Top it off with a sprinkle of lustfulness and enjoy!
i got it from some quiz site (www.go-quiz.com) thing and thought it was funny :)

this didn't work properly and i couldn't delete the page for some reason
oh well

randomness
a friend of mine has told me i'm the personification of the word random...not sure if i'm the anthropomorphic personification of random though...still it's cool...
really random sighting the other day, while heading home from work i spotted, as you do, a white van...nothing odd about that i hear you utter...well for a while now i've been thinking that there is an increasingnumber of white vans on our natoins highways and byways, that there must be a secret breeding ground for them somewhere...well this van proved it, this vanwas pregnant with another white van. i know this because i could see it through the rear windows of the original van...it was bizarre to think that a white van, backbone of our country, deliverer of our goods and needs, was actually delivering a white van
i've seen loads of random things driving to and from work, it's a pain in the butt that i can't remember them now though...oh hum
i've been sat here for like half an hour now staring at the screen...mind's gone blank
been looking at random blogs again, found out what tagging is as well...bit random, but at least it's easier than getting all the email questionnaires that take like 45 minutes to fill out ach time and are all identical and time consuming and everything like that...might start doing that too though
anyway seeing as i'm stuck for things to write and i only really intended to mention the white van thing and anything else i could could remember...
laters
Px

do i have to?
i've just spent a couple of hours reading random blogs online, there are some really good ones out there, but at the same time there are a lot of "spam" blogs for example the comment i got on mine about a ceiling fan diagram blog...yeah great, some people either have too much time on their hands or really should think about getting a darwin award...
although i said i was moving out this weekend...i'm now not...this is predominantly due to 2 factors, the first being that i haven't been arsed to pack anything up yet and the second is because i've not seen my bro to tell him...planning on moving out by next weekend now instead though, which will give me more time to sort things with him and pack up and everything. (or at least that's the plan)
work has been ok this week, may have finished the quote for a scottish project, three weeks after originally getting it and after about 3 revisions either because there was something missing or because we were too expensive or because the client changed their minds about it and chose something else...really helpful people that they are!!!
been doing some more sudoku this week, no idea why, but i'm really getting into it and i think it's getting easier!
me and luton had a bit of barney the other day, but the really confusing bt was that we were arguing the same point from diferent directions. still not 100% sure she knows where i was coming from, but i don't think i'm 100% sure i know where she was coming from either...but it's sorted and we realised that we were arguing the same point...making the whole thing pointless
oh well
been in a really apathetic mood this week too...don't really know why, don't really care either, fingers crossed it'll improve though
anyway, i'm blogging off for now,
take care peeps
laters,
Px

early planning for birthday
ok, i know my birthday is over 2 months away, and what i've got in mind is infact nearer 3 months away, but i've remembered the 6p's:
prior
planning
prevents
piss
poor
performance
and with that in mind, i'm putting some feelers out as it were to see what people are interested in
ideas posted as comments would be ideal
first idea is mine
wwe raw and smackdown, televised events, from sheffield, back to back nights, monday and tuesday, end of november...tickets go on sale fairly soon, probably around the £40 mark per night, plus a hotel, spending money and drinking money...any takers?
other ideas include a few gigs that are on around then, including flogging molly, i think i heard that on the grapevine sometime ago...
anyway let me know what you think
Px

forgot to mention
i've opened up the comments to everyone again with a code verification thing on it, it should mean that anyone can comment again, but it should also stop the spam comments...fingers crossed
Px

robbed!!!
people of the world...you're being robbed!
ask we speak, the people who make m&m's are robbing us
they are robbing us with every peanut m&m they make
i'm disappointed to announce that in the 250g pack of peanut m&m's i am "slowly" eating my way through while "working my nuts off" today at work, i'm yet to find a whole peanut incased in the crispy shelled chocolate, every time i either bite into or let it all melt into my mouth, i only find half a nut
it's shocking
i'm thinking of writing to my MP
i'm thinking of starting a petition
i'm thinking it's just too much for one person to take on

anyway in other news
work is going ok
i've decided that i should move out of my flat this week, moving back into my parents house is the idea again at the moment, it's cheaper and it'll give me a chance to sort out a few things before i set about looking for a new place...cunning plan, we'll just have to see if it works...it'll be easier now as well because i will rarely be in my parents house with just my dad, which i think was part of the problem before...might see if i can have a second line put in so i can have my own internet access as well, that would be cool and it would save me from using the desktop computer, which is starting to work at the speed of a gereatric chicken
my wwe fantasy roster isn't doing too bad, although i've dropped about 2000 places this last week, but considering the amount of people i think are doing it, it's ok, i'm not going to win anything though :(
so in general, it's all good at the moment
take care peeps
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balls
tennis balls
golf balls
footballs
basketballs
squash balls
korfballs
rugby balls
cricket balls
noticing a theme
yes
you've got it
it's all balls!
not sure why, i've had a few pretty good days, work has been pretty stress free, i finished my book, things have been really quite nice
but today
today it's all balls again
not even sure why, might be because i skipped breakfast i guess, might be because i didn't sleep very much last night
but at the moment it's all balls
beach balls
baseballs (is that right? it sounds odd, but then so does baseball balls...dodgy)
polo balls

anyway things are just feeling a little strange today, i'm tempted to take tomorrow off work, everyone else seems to be doing the same here and i'd love to be able to have a lay-in again, that'd be nice, and i could sort out a load of things, like the bank and post office stuff that i've been trying to deal with for a few weeks now...i could even get a hair cut
but then again i could do all these things on a saturday, it's just going to involve me heading into oxford to go to the bank...ho-hum

feel a bit sick now, the handy-man here at the farm is creosoting stuff again :(
and the sky looks like it's going to open at any minute

lol

oh well

i've got a big carton of ribena, some TUC biscuit things and some m&m's to cheer me up...the afternoon should be fairly good from there me thinks :)

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Taranchilla
no i'm not talking about a hybrid/mutant cross between a tarantula and a chinchilla, that would just be strange!
i'm on about a track on an album that i got at the weekend (hold your colour by pendulem) it's DnB which is a change from the usual stuff i listen to and tarantula is a corking, stand-out track on it and i just can't get it out of my head (even if it does sound like they're saying taranchilla)
thought i'd better blog having not done it for a week
things are ok
work is dull and i've put the same quote out 5 times in the last week because there were errors, sometimes they were my errors, other times they were the fault of the salesman, which meant it was my fault too...this quote is worth like £600k and is over 150 pages long, so producing that 5 times has cost a tree or two somewhere...pain in the arse salesman
everything else is pretty ok, trying to look for a new place to live, but every place i'm interested in is either too expensive, too small or let before i've had a chance to even look at it...which is great...trying to move vaguely closer to work as well so i can save some money on the travel costs, but at the rate things are going i'l be back at my parents place before i know it :(
anyway i should get back to work
take care peeps
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realisation
i realised soething today that's made me feel a bit better and smile
on august the 8th 2004 i cut myself with a steak knife, it was a bit deeper than i intended at the time and although i meant to cut myself and it relieved some tension at the time i ended up taking my ass off to the hospital to make sure thatit was ok and that it didn't need stitches or anything like that.
also on this day i promised myself that i wouldn't do it again
and it's been a little over a year now since i did it and i'm still alive and kicking, and better than that i've not cut myself once intentionally since that day.
this realisation means a lot to me.
it means that i've got things emotionally under more control than i had last year.
it means i've moved on to a better place than i was in last year.

there are so many people i want to thank for this that i'm not going to name anyone in case i miss someone out. but i want everyone to know that i owe them all so much and without them there is a chance that i wouldn't be here today, and it means a lot for me to be able to say that, i just hope you all realise how much you all mean to me, if i could thank you all personally i would, you have no idea how much i owe you

and that's all there is to it, i'm just sorry that some of the people i need to thank properly probably won't read this because i've lost touch with them over the year, and other people won't read this because they don't know about it or don't have access...which is a shame because i can be more honest on here than i can in person
take care peeps and know that i'm there if you need me like you've all been there for me over the last 12-18 months
thank you all
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due to spam comments i've had to change the settings so that only registered bloggers can add comments now
sorry to those few of you who have commented in the past and not been members, from now on you'll just have to mail me your comments instead
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quantus vobis uxor?
it's latin
not an advert for an australian airline
bored at work waiting for a price so i started plugging random things into a latin translator online and this is one of my favourites, it means how much for you wife?

big thanks have got to go out to jenfer who braved the cinema with me last night to see devil's rejects, not sure if it was really her bag, but i enjoyed it so that's ok
was a very weird film
very trippy
it's a follow on from the first film (house of 1000 corpses) feeping the family the same
like i said i liked it
wasn't quite as weird as the first, but still very abstract
found myself laughing out loud at the bug splat of a death in one scene, jenfer will know which one i mean and if any of you see it you'll see what i mean too, it involves a mack truck and a person and in saying that i've peobably said too much
there were other people in the cinema laughing though so it was ok, i didn't feel like too much of a freak for laughing when i did
and there was a bit about tutti-frutti, that was funny too
not going to give the "story" away though

anyway thanks jenfer
big time
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desperately seeking...
a cinema buddy
for tonight
tomorrow
or saturday
must be over 18 or can get away with it
must be into horror/gore films
reason: i wanna see the devil's rejects, the new film by rob zombie and it's only on in reading for these 3 days and i've got no-one to see it with
there is no way on this planet i'm gonna do the billy-no-mates trick of going on my own either...i need to find someone to go with.
hell i'll even pay!!!
so come on people
help me out here
please
i'm begging
i'm on my knees begging
come on
you know you wanna
get in touch via any of the usual ways...please
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two quick reviews to think about...
no. #1
this song has been in my head for a couple of days, don't know why, don't read anything into it either, i think it's just a beautiful song, i'd except this to be a single sometime soon
James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.

no.#2
charlie and the chocolate factory
went to see it at the weekend
you've got to go see it, it is absolutely amazing
johnny depp is awesome in it, he plays the part so well!
it's so very different from the original that it's a whole new film
tim burton works his magic with it, the colours, the pace of the film, the eerie look of some things, the way it's been set up, everything screams burton...
and the oompah loompahs...well they were just brilliant, but orange anymore and there's no green hair, but the stripes have been kept...
go and see it
go and see it
go and see it
that's an order!!!

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i forgot to mention
the 7 legged spider in the bathroom has been christened Sven
he was back yesterday, and spiderman decided sven was a good a name as any
(sven + e = 7 and all that)
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ok...i need to do this
not sure what "this" is though
i keep thinking of things that i have to do and then not doing them
there are things i need to say to people as well, but they seem irrelevent most of the time
i feel crappy
i want a break

work
it's going ok at the moment, sometimes i'm bored, other times i'm busy, the bored times are bad, the busy times fly by, it makes me feel as though there are more bored times though because they drag so much compared to the busy times...it sucks

money
it's too tight to mention

car
running well, happy with it

life
s'ok, nuff said

things i've done
went to visit V&A, not the museum, the people...cooked V some dinner, we had some wine and chatted for hours and hours, it was cracking, it was really good to catch up and chat and chill. she made me realise a few things, which is always good, i like it when people point things out to me, it's easier than working them out on my own...
played pool a lot and got drunk on friday, that was needed and fun, did the same late night too
finished Harry Potter, finally, didn't think it was the best, there are some really random bits in the storyline where she rambles about things which seem to have little or no relevance to the current plot. as for who dies...did they really die? or is it just a twist in the storyline for the next/final book? we shall see
saw a policeman about the car crash, he came o see me yesterday during my lunch hour, gave him my statement and everything. he actually had to read me my rights first, nearly laughed out loud at that one, very bizarre! but i understood why. he said if it was up to him there wouldn't be a case, it looks very much like an accident and that's that, but it's not up to him, someone else has got to decide...oh well
not really done anything else been too tired to do anything really, too tired and too miffed and fugged off with everything to feel like doing much...

forth coming plans
seeing luton lass at the weekend, ot sure if she's coming here or i'm going there yet though
sleep
ironing and washing, it's piling up and i want to get shot of it and have a bit of a tidy up, might do that tonight...

anyway, that's it, i'm going to have my lunch
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People make me laugh

there has been an abundance of swearing in the office the last couple of days, from everyone, i think the only person i've not hear utter an obsenity has been the boss, but seeing as i lack the knowledge to understand german, i wouldn't be surprised if he has swore and i've just not heard him...
but everyone's at it, from the secretary all the way up
sometimes it's a minor obsenity, i.e. bloody, bugger, crap and the like, other times it's a bit more, i.e. fuck, shit etc. yesterday the photocopier took a bit of a verbal battering from the secretary
chunk usually swears down the phone at people he knows
spanish usually mutters it under his breath
i've been cursing the architects of the project i'm on and various others have joined me in that, including the saleswoman who wants the quote and spiderman who's trying to help me with it...

anyway, it's keeping me entertained trying to work out who's next to swear...and why

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bizarre bits & pieces

ok i've not blogged for just over a week, so i thought i'd better update something before someone moans, either DK or chunk...

right the last week has been pretty uneventful i think, i certainly don't remember much happening anyway...well nothing exciting anyway

finally got round to seeing pidge on friday evening while she was at work, it's been the first time i've seen her in nearly a year, so that was cool to see her for a little while, even if she did hurt my chest when she gave me a hug...women! tut tut!

baby chunk is off this week, she's heading to cyprus with her new job for a couple of months, i know chunk'll miss her, i know i will to, she was one of the few people at the abbey i really considered a proper friend. but i know she'll enjoy her new job and i think it'll sui her down to the ground, hopefully!

Luton lass is off this week as well, but only on holiday, she's off to spain for a week later today, she'd beter send me a postcard at least or there will be real trouble!

had an email today from my german mental, she said she's getting married on friday, which is cool...she's having tomorrow and thursday off to get everything ready, getting hitched on friday, then back in work on monday!!! told you she was mental!

nothing much else has happened the last few days though.

work is going pretty well at the moment, we had a meeting due at 8am this morning and i would've made it with time to spare, but luton stopped over last night and was still in bed when i wanted to leave, i was going to leave her there, it would've been ok, but she said she'd get up, so i left 20 minutes late, got to work at 8.10 and had to walk in to the meeting late, everyone started laughing at me too :o( the rest of the work type thing is ok though, just finishing off a quote today for the uni of warwick and then starting a big one for uni in dublin...so i'm fairly busy at the moment :o)

still trying to sort out a few things to do with my car, but the new one's running fine. if anyone knows anyone who wants to buy a car stereo and multi-changer i've got one on the go for £150, it's missing the multi-changer lead though, but it should be worth around £300+ so it's a bit of a bargain...get in touch with me for more details...

well i'd better get back to it, lunch is about half over and i've not stopped to eat yet...anyway just a little something to make everyone chuckle...i'm glad i didn't use these when i got caught!

These extravagant excuses for speeding include alien hypnosis, low-flying aircraft, a dying hamster and bouts of diarrhoea. Here is the top 10:
1) I had passed out after seeing flashing lights, which I believed to be UFOs in the distance. The flash of the camera brought me round from my trance.
2) I was in the airport's flight path and I believe the camera was triggered by a jet overhead, not my car.
3) I had a severe bout of diarrhoea and had to speed to a public toilet.
4) There was a strong wind behind my car, which pushed me over the limit.
5) My friend had just chopped his fingers off and I was rushing the fingers to hospital.
6) The vibrations from the surfboard I had on the roof rack set off the camera.
7) I had to rush my dying hamster to the vets.
8) A violent sneeze caused a chain reaction where my foot pushed down harder on the accelerator.
9) There was a suspected case of foot and mouth and I had to rush to see the cow concerned.
10) The only way I could demonstrate my faulty clutch was to accelerate madly.

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there's a spider in the bathroom and it's only got 7 legs...
it looks like it's surviving ok though, but im not sure how many flies are in the toilet at work though becasue i've never seen any go in, apart from the ones on the front of my trousers...

my chest is still really hurting, and it feels like it's getting worse, same with my ankle. i keep turning my ankle when i'm walking along and it hurts, and i keep sneezing or having to blow my nose, which is hurting my chest too...

i'm practically alone in the office again now, it's lunch time and everyone else had buggered off, i don't really blame them either

the car is running well, and it's really nice to have air/con, although i put the cd's in the magazine the wrong way round the first time and felt a bit silly, thankfully there was only me in the car at the time so it was ok. really need to see about putting in m y 6x9's in the back as the sound output at the moment it a little less than desired and the bass is muffled, so i need to sort that out soon, maybe this weekend if i can get hold of some leads and that.

i'm tired, fed-up and bored...

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right then...NIN
not being the biggest Nine Inch Nails fan in the world, when i was asked if i wanted to go and see them i said yeah, of course i said yeah, i meanwho's going to turn down a chance to see one of the most influencial and well known bands of the last decade?
and i really enjoyed it
i wasn't sure it was going to be the best idea to go considering my recent injury, but i decided to go anyway, i was still intwo minds even at the station waiting for the train though...and in true Luton lass style we arrivedabout 2 hours late for the doors, but we were never going to make it for 7 anyway, but we missed SAUL WILLIAMS, whoever the fuck he is, i've heard some of his stuff from when i was in germany because french played it a lot, but i never really found much out about him, and i don't think we really missed much anyway.
by the time we got there NIN were already on stage and about 15 minutes into their set, which was fine beause they played for another 90 minutes anyway.
ok
now i know that NIN is basically TRENT REZNOR in a studio playing everything himself either live or via a synthesiser type thing, and a touring band when he wants to hit the road, and i'm cool with that, but it became oh so obvious that it was all about him on tour as well when you stand at the back of brixton and either side of the stage is flanked by 40ft shadows of the bloke because there are 2 strategically placed spotlights either side of his mic and none really on the rest of the band, well not in the same way anyway. but that didn't detract from the awesome some that they put on.
the guitarist was mental, it's always good to see somone running around stage like a lunatic. even if everyone on stage looked the same...in black clothing an with black hair...he even took some of the emphasis off of mr reznor! (shockingly)
must say though that the light show going on around the band and at the back of the stage was very cool, lots of colour, red, blue and green (yeah i know these are the scientific prime colours)
anyway the gig was wicked though, they played the last single, the hand that feeds, and the played the other two big songs, head like a hole and fuck you like an animal, and a couple of other songs that i half recognised, but i've no idea what they were...
some of the songs were too bass heavy, and the vibrations hurt my chest, not sure wh, i'm sure there's someone out there who can give a medical reason as to why bass-y songs hurt when you've got a cracked sternum, or probably ribs for that matter, but anyway they do hurt, and it wasn't comfortable, even though the song was awesome
would've gone to the front it i'd not got a cracked sternum too, but there wasn't really anyone crowd-surfing, bit of a disappointment, that's the sort of thing i'd do given the chance
anyway, that's all there is to say about the gig i guess...
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silver it is then...
i am now the "proud" owner of a peugeot 206 1.4 glx in silver
it's all good
it's the one i was going to look at on tuesday evening, i put £100 down there and then and settled up when i went to collect it last night
it looks nice and runs well and so i'm happy, even if the doors are huge and it's a bit of a come down from the 2.0l turbo that i had before...
anyway i'm not worried

went to the dr's about my ankle the other day, he said not to worry about it too much, it's probably a little internal bruising and should be ok in a couple of weeks, if not im to go back again then. the chest is a little painful...only when i laugh/sneeze/breathe in/cough/breathe out/stretch that type of thing, but it feels better than it did, it comes and goes though

went to see NIN the other night too...was very cool, although the bass evel was that loud that i could feel the vibrations in my trousers and it had my chest hurt...it's a shame i didn't recognise more of the tunes, will blog more about the gig when i've got more time though

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the silver lining
just heard back from the engineers who are looking at my car and they've told me that they are going ot give me a decent amount for my car, they've said that they will offer £1715 for it and considering i though it was £1000 at most, it's made me a little happier about things...
went to have a look at a couple of cars last night, but they were all too much, but now they are a little less because i have some more cash available :) hoping to go and have a look at a couple more tonight, looking at a focus and a 206 if the bloke calls me back...fingers crossed!
anyway,
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details
so i crashed my car
big deal
it's been written off
bigger deal
need a new car
your chance to vote now, what should i get, at the moment i'm thinking 206 or focus or if i'm being really silly a toyota hi-lux, but i'm open to all suggestions providing they are sensible and affordable, so either leave me a message or mail me what you think i should be getting!

anyway, people keep asking me what happened so i'm going to try and tell you, but i can't actually remember hitting the van, only the bits before and after...here goes!

i was driving on the A418 from thame to aylesbury, the plan being to get to luton, to see luton lass, sat happily behind a line of traffic, doing between 50 and 60, we all started to brake for a corner, nothing major there. after turning the corner, the line of traffic all braked suddenly as on the other side of the road was a similar line of traffic all pretty much stationary with an ambulance whizzing past them with it's lights on. in braking heavily i managed to lock the front wheel sof my, now defunct, rover and skidded it into the back of a 51 plate mercedes van...D'OH!!! i remember thinking that i needed to take my foot off the brake to stop the skid, but then next thing i remember is seeing the van about 5m in front of me, with the driver out of his car and jogging towards me to check i was ok...nice chap actually, he spoke to my dad as well to try and tell him where i was and all that. i called luton lass to tell her i wasn't going to make it and that i had had a crash and i didn't really know where i was so she shouldn't try to find me, at least that what she said i said... i called my dad after and all i remember him asking is where was i, and i didn't know so i started shouting down the phone at him. bearing in mind all this time someone had called an ambulance and told me that i wasn't allowed to move until they got there, just in case like. when they got there they put a collar on me and checked a few things, they asked me if i thought i could walk, i said yes so they were going to get me to walk to the back of the ambulance and get on the stretcher and spinal board there, but when it came to standing up, i just couldn't do it, i had gone into shock and my legs were shaking that much that i managed about 3 feet before they told me to turn around and they would strap me to the bored standing...a weird sensation falling backwards without being able to crumple or put anything out to support myself i'll tell you! anyway they stuck me in the back on the ambulance eventually and hooked me up to a few things to measure my pulse and blood pressure. chunk arrived on the scene a little after i got into the ambulance, i'd sent him a message knowing he'd be the nearest person i could get hold of, it's funny, he's now met both my folks and on both occasions it's been because i've been to the hospital with him!!! anyway the copper came in and did a breath test on me while i was laying down...it was obviously clear as i'd not had a drink for a few days, but they've got to do these things.
in the hospital they eventually took me off the spinal board and told me that they were going to give me some pain relief, an injected pain relief, well those of you that know me know i go a bit loopy around injections and i don't have them unless i really need them, so i refused it! i had a load of x-rays done, of my neck and back and chest and hips and all that type of stuff. it turns ou that the pain in my chect was from a cracked sternum, but other than that there was nothing else wrong with me, yet they did insist on keeping me wired up to an ECG monitor for a while, which didn't work because the sticky things kept falling off because i'm so damned hairy! eventually i got told i could go home though so it was ok. i'd asked chunk to try and call luton lass because i wanted her to know i was ok, but my phone was dead so he had to get it off directory enquiries, but she wasn't in...it wasn't until i called my mum on the way home that i found out that she had been there and was on her way to the hospital to see me, part of me is glad she didn't find me because i know she'd have wanted to stay and she was supposed to be at work, bigger part of me was relieved to know that she was ok and looking for me. apparently she missed me at the hospital by about 15 minutes, don't you just hate that! she also told me that chunk sounded very professional when he called her...lol if only she knew!
now though i'm feeling pretty good, back ache has all but gone, as has the neck ache, chest still hurts when i forget about it and do something like twist around or stretch too far...only real concern now is my dodgy ankle, the one with the metalwork in it...since firday it's been really sore and it's starting to cause me pain to walk on it, tihnk i probably jarred it i the accident, but it's taken a while for the bruising to come out or whatever, but then i'm not a doctor and i don't really know, think if it's still sore tomorrow i might see if i can make a doctors appointment to get some pain killers for it...we'll see

well since then i've been taking it easy, today's been my first day back at work and it's not too bad, there's only me, spanish and the fall guy in the office today, everyone else was either in germany or having a day off and enjoying the weather...but apparently those in germany had rain :o)

thanks to everyone who's been in touch to check how i am, it means a lot to know that there are some idiots out there who a) waste their time reading this, and b) care about me...

anyway, best get off now, take care peeps and remember to get in touch with what you think my next car should be
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chalk up another one
i had a car crash this evening
it wasn't good
i think i've written my car off
i spent a few hours in stoke mandeville hospital
i've cracked my sternum
i'm ok, bit shaken up though
anyway, just thought you should know
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britian, britian, britian...
enough
germany was ok
but i'm back now
the lovely luton lass met me at the airport and gave me a much needed cuddle, i missed her, we spent most of ther weekend together too, which was good, it helped me chill out after being stuck in a foreign country with two other people who spoke english, but not as their first language, so it was great to have someone to spend the weekend with...so thank you baby
started work today
i was pretty boring because there wasn't very much we could do and both of us new guys needed help and kept asking "the fall guy" what we need to do and all that, and he's busy as well so it's getting difficult
anyway
don't really know what else to say at the moment
got my car sorted today, was expensive, but i didn't pay for it, had a new starter motor fitted, can you believe that for all the time that i was away the car started first time every time...and within two days of getting back it takes me 20 minutes to get it started, and it only starts the once...how bad is that?
anyway i'm going now
i've had enough tonight and i want to go to bed
take care peeps
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