song for the weekend
seeing as it's the start of the world cup this weekend and EN-GER-LAND have their first match tomorrow (while i'm at work:( )
I thought i'd post this as the song for the weekend...it's been going round my head all day!
it's by Bell and Spurling and it was released a couple of years ago for the football then (i;m not a fan of the embrace track which lays claim the the england world cup song this year)

Sven Sven Sven
Sven Sven Sven Goran Eriksson
He's got Jimmy Saville's haircut so how'd he get a lovely girlfriend
He tried so many players for the Holland game
Yeah how'd he forget Collymore, they say he's insane

Sven Sven Sven Goran Eriksson
He's a lovely geezer but don't forget that he's from Sweden
Up front there's Michael Owen and Heskey that's his pal
We should shave off Seaman's moustache and cut his ponytail

Seaman Seaman Seaman Your hair's in a right old state
All you need is a Mark One Escort and a sovereign ring, mate
What a wally David looks his hair will have to go
'Cos he's a cross between Burt Reynolds
And Peter Stringfellow

Seaman Seaman Seaman Your hair is in a right old state
All you need is a Ford Cortina and some furry dice, mate
You could try Beckham's mohican
Now that's a lovely cut
Or even dye it ginger
Like those scrolls on Nicky's butt

Hey Dave bring on the Germans
Another mighty clash
Have a word with Rudi Völler
See who's got the biggest 'tache

Rudi Rudi Rudi Rudi Völler
Vorsprung Durch Technik or something or other
Little Michael Owen he put three past Ollie Kahn
He must have cried his eyes out down the autobahn

Ollie Ollie Ollie Oliver Kahn
Eins Zwei Drei Vier Funf that's five in German
Steven Gerrard crossed the German line
Winston Churchill would be proud as he put up the victory sign

Stevie Stevie Stevie Stevie Gerrard
He must be our man because he is well-hard
We could play that Jordan with her jelly bags
When we win the world-cup
She'll get them out for the lads

Sven Sven Sven's got her in his squad
He's even brought back Nobby Styles, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ken Dodd
Ken Dodd?
Yeah well Gordon Banks doesn't exactly rhyme with squad does it
Can't say that it does...
Sven Sven Sven Goran Eriksson
Sven Sven Sven Goran Eriksson
He's a lovely geezer but don't forget that he's from Sweden
Don't forget that he's from Sweden
Sven Sven Sven Goran Eriksson...

otpion 2 for the weekend (there's a definate theme building) possibly the best football song in the world ever...very chantable, very catchy
Vindaloo by Fat Les
Where on earth are you from?
We're from England
Where you come from
Do you put the kettle on?
Kick it
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Bonjour
Nah Nah Nah
Monsieur
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah
We're England
We're gonna score one more than you
England!
Can I introduce you please
To a lump of Cheddar Cheese
Knit one, Pearl one
Drop one, Curl one
Kick it
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah
We're England
We're gonna score one more than you
England!
Me and me Mum and me Dad and me Gran
We're off to Waterloo
Me and me Mum and me Dad and me Gran
And a bucket of Vindaloo
Bucket!
Vindaloo
Vindaloo
Vindaloo
Vindaloo
Vindaloo Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Vindaloo
Vindaloo
Vindaloo Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Vindaloo
And we all like Vindaloo
We're England
We're gonna score one more than you
England!
Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Vindaloo
And we all like Vindaloo
We're England
We're gonna score one more than youEngland!
Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Vindaloo
Vindaloo
And we all like Vindaloo
We're England!
We're gonna score one more than you
England!!

and finally, this has got the be the best one that there is...again with the chanting and singing (i can almost hear the crowds in the stands already)
THREE LIONS 98 by LIGHTNING SEEDS featuring baddiel and skinner
(The crosses of St George are flying all around me)
(Gareth Southgate the whole of England is with you)
(Oh it's saved, saved, saved)
We still believe
We still believe
We still believe
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
Tears for heroes dressed in grey
No plans for final day
Stay in bed, drift away
It could have been all
Songs in the street
It was nearly complete
It was nearly so sweet
And now I'm singing
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming
Talk about football coming home
And then one night in Rome
We were strong, we had grown
And now I see
Ince ready for war
Gazza good as before
Shearer certain to score
And Psycho screaming
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming
(Beautiful football by England,
Gazza oh that is majestic,
Alan Shearer,
Italy nil England nil and we're there in France 1998)
We can dance Nobby's dance
We could dance it in France
It's coming home
It's coming Football's
coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming..

and there we have it...my top 3 songs for the world cup and none of them are from this year (unless someone's re-released one on the sly)
EN-GER-LAND
EN-GER-LAND
EN-GER-LAND
laters peeps, and enjoy your weekend
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post appraisal post
ok
so my appraisal was on friday and it's now monday, but i'm still telling you what was said
fyi these things are supposed to be P&C so i'm not giving out details, it's just going to be a brief overview of what was said and how i felt it went
lots was said
i thought it went well
brief enough?
too brief...oh sorry
well there was a lot of positive feedback, although there was a question about my motivational issues, i cleared that up by stating that i only seem to get the smaller quotes and thus i am bored. it was also mentioned that my MD thinks i have a high intellectual capacity, so i'm guessing he thinks i'm cleverer than i let on...which may well be the case
there was only one issue that wasn't so good, but after clarification it's been turned into a positive.
in the future i'm going to be doing more H&S related things for the company, but someone somewhere has got to give me the stuff first (this is assuming that there is a company policy and procedures relating to H&S) and maybe next year i'll be put on a course as well...we shall see though
all in all though i found it to be a good meeting...and i didn't talk about pay, i don't like discussing pay during appraisals, an appraisal is about my abilities and my performance, not about the money i am on and the money i think i should be on...that topic is yet to be broached with the boss, although i'm past due a pay review.

in other news,
i'm still working on my 100 things...on number 33 at the moment...
weekend was good, nice weather and england won 6-0 against jamaica...but then that wasn't difficult...even with peter crouch missing a penalty (what a dumbass, even i could've scored then...and with my left foot!)
at the moment i'm doing a LOT of filing, no idea if there are any quotes that need to be looked at, if there are i've not been told or given them, so i'm mixing my time between cyberslacking (blogging) and sorting these files out
i'm hungry, but i can't eat anything for a while...stupid tablets!
that's about all for now
laters
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friday fun, the car aftermath and other things

friday is always fun day at the office, but today is a little different, today i have my first annual appraisal...which is going to be crap as i have no targets or anything like that to be appraised against, so i'm anticipating a short appraisal involving targets for the next year (should i still be here) and a brief review of this year...we shall see

after that it's pub time though...for lunch...but alas i'm not allowed to drink. you remember me being ill ast week and having 2 days off for it...the whole vomiting in the morning thing, just after breakfast...well i took my meds for the entire course, however, 2 days after the course finished i was sick again, at the same time as i had been before. this time when i went to the doc i saw a nice lady that i've been to before and i taught her kids to swim too. so she was very nice and chatted everything through with me, she thinks i'm producing too much stomach acid during the night prompting me to be sick in the morning when i eat something. now i'm on the anti-chunder tablets that i was on last week and now some more things that should stop me producing as much acid as well...we shall see, but i wasn't sick this morning, so that's a start i guess.

i've finally got my car back after over 2 weeks of having it in the garage and i'm acting as a go between for the garage that did the work and the garage that i got the car from. which is crap! at the moment i've got my car back, i've not got anything to pay with regards to the work done because it should all be covered under the warranty, however there is an issue with it somewhere along the line which is giving me strife still...someone needs to authorise something and someone else needs to pay someone for the work...but not me. so my question is why am i still being involved? it's wrong...just wrong

song for the weekend will be making a return at the end of the post

lack of HNT...sorry, but with he being sick and other things, i didn't feel like posting a pic this week, but i promise to post something next week...that piercing might be posted...but then again it might not, various people read this that might actually not want to see it, so i've got to weigh things up...what i might do is post it elsewhere and link it in on here...along with another pic for HNT on here...anyway, we'll see

i'm working on the 100 things post that various people have done a while ago...so that should be up at some point

went to see x-men the last stand on wednesday
i liked it, but there were still a few too many loose ends for my liking, but i think too many of the main characters died for them to make a decent sequel...however i've heard rumblings of a wolverine film, which could be fairly interesting
still waiting to see the davinci code. also saw a trailer for ghostrider...looks AWESOME and i really can't wait for that

song for the weekend:
ghostbusters by ray parker jr.

anyway best be off
laters peeps

I had sex with a ninja because I was drunk
i got this of the lovely kate (who i expect to post a comment even though she emailed it to me) so come on guys and girls...have a go

Pick the month (number) you were born in:
1----I fell in love with
2----I ate a
3----I smacked
4----I sang to
5----I gave my number to
6----I murdered
7----I shot
8----I gave a lap dance to
9----I choked on
10---I bitched out
11---I had sex with
12---I humped
Pick the day (number) you were born on:
1-------A homeless guy
2-------your mom
3-------a banana
4-------a fork
5-------a Mexican
6-------a gangster
7-------a hooker
8-------an ipod
9-------my best friends boyfriend
10-------a goat
11-------my dog
12-------a ninja
13-------the computer
14-------a football player
15-------my neighbor
16-------myself
17-------a Jones soda
18-------a llama
19-------a pickle
20-------a stuffed animal
21-------a permanent marker
22-------my dad
23-------a condom
24-------my psychiatrist
25-------a policeman
26-------my brother
27-------my sister
28-------a baseball bat
29-------a DVD player
30-------a paperclip
31-------my cell phone
Pick the color of shirt you are wearing:
White------Because I was high.
Black-------Because I was drunk.
Pink--------Because I'm NOT homosexual.
Red---------Because the voices told me to.
Blue--------Because I'm sexy and I do what I want.
Green------Because I hate myself.
Purple------Because I'm naked.
Gray--------Because that's how I roll.
Yellow------Because someone offered me 1,000,000 dollars.
Orange----Because I hate my family.
Other-------Because that's how I roll.

Now put that in a comment, post it and make all our friends laugh too!!!

a question to you all
i've got a new piercing and i'm wondering if i should post it for HNT...i only had it done ad the weekend though and i'm a little apprehensive to show you all just yet, but what do you think, should i do it?
vote now...
double posted today, please read both

i want, i need, i have
i want:
my car back
to see x-men 3 - going tomorrow night
to see davinci code
something to eat
an evil bendy

i need:
more money from my job
a new job
a cuddle

i have:
a new piercing
somewhere to live for the next year (renting a flat)
a secret

laters
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flicking the 'bean
sexual connotations over
all i wanted to do was introduce rawbean to the blogs link on the sidebar as i've added her there because i keep checking her page
that is all
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dammit hnt
it's hnt time again and i've been ill again, so i've not got anything prepared!!!

so unfortunately you've got a sweaty pic of my and my best mate from a gig about a year ago

we went to see flogging molly

it rocked

even though i broke my glassed (hence the without glasses look)

HAPPY HNT ALL

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watch what you're doing with that foot fuckkit!

it's true
i am alive

i've been suffering from a bout of suspected man-flu the last few days thus i've had a couple of days off sick (yesterday and today). i say suspected man-flu because it started out as a cold, cold's are a pain, but you can live with them, then it turned into man-flu. but now it appears to have become something slightly more sinister, the last two mornings i've woken up feeling fine, only to have breakfast and promptly vomit it all back up...it's been pink too, but that's due to the casing on the tablets i took minutes before chundering being red!

so i'm ill
i went to see the doctor this morning and he's given me 2 lots of tablets to take (i'm not good with tablets) one before a meal, one after...genius...apparently the one before the meals should clear up the cold, the one after should clear up the vomiting
fingers crossed

cars...
i feel the need to do a very brief review of the car's i've been driving in leiu of my actual car. last week i had a VW golf...go google search it if you're not sure what it is...it was fucking awesome, it was a nice car to drive, plenty of room inside, and a decent (responsive) engine. it was a pleasure to drive it...even if i had to hire it and it cost me £200+ for the week
currently i've got a courtesy car...so i'm not paying for this one...and trust me i wouldn't pay for it anyway! i'm driving around in a peugeot 1007...yes that's a 1007 not a 107...this thing looks like a van...with windows...and shorter...it's got an automatic gearbox (in the UK stick-shift is the main way to drive) which means that unless i jam the accelerator down hard and over rev the engine i get a sudden loss in power when the car changes gear, usually half way round a roundabout...not cool! it's got a redeeming feature though...slidy doors...which you can open from about 10m away from the car...although this isn't that useful, i'm told it's cool!!!
as for my pug...it's probably better not to ask!

family...
things have been a little awkward. mum's been to see the solicitor, long story short, if that wanker wants to come round agian he's to make an appointment and pre arrange the items which he wants to pick up. there was an episode at the weekend while i was out when he turned up and bullied mum, thus stressing her and me out.
on a lighter note one of the locals has offered to do a number on him for £50, so i'm thinking i might start up a fund for that purpose...lol

BMG...
so i went to see blue man group on saturday (where i was when the above happened) and it was fucking awesome
i've got to say that
it was out of this world, i laughed all the way through, it's very much an audience participation show. it's funny. it's musical. it's awesome
i loved it!!!
go see them whenever and wherever you can!
just do it dammit...i don't endorse many things!

that's about it
but a quick note here to x.dell if you're reading again, welcome back. the comment you left on the last post was very nice and cool, people, go and read it...seriously, it's a nice comment
laters peeps, i'm going back to bed
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HNT anniversary!
HNT is a year old tomorrow so i thought i'd play today, but only half playing. Os wants our first HNT and a new one, well i've had to plump with the old one only...few other issues the last week or so, as regular readers will know. (previous post)
so here it is...my very first HNT (click the link i'm feeling lazy, sorry)
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thanks to everyone who has left a message and been supportive, you guys are my other family and it means so much to me to have you all wishing me the best and stuff like that, so a big THANK YOU and a hug goes out to each and every one of you
i've still not heard from that wanker yet, but i have paid in my cheque and as soon as i can cash against it i'm switching it into another account and leaving it there to gain plenty of interest :)
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For all the guys out there: (print this up and pin it some place where the women in your lives will spot it) it's a little sexist, but very funny
Extremely important advice and recommendations to be passed on to wives, girlfriends, fiancés, mothers, sisters, daughters, etc. (to all women in general).
These rules are to be communicated prior to the World Cup in June/July this year...
LIST OF RULES
1. From 9 June to 9 July 2006, you should read the sports section of the newspaper so that you are aware of what is going on regarding the World Cup, and that way you will be able to join in the conversations. If you fail to do this, then you will be looked at in a bad way, or you will be totally ignored. DO NOT complain about not receiving any attention.
2. During the World Cup, the television is mine, at all times, without any exceptions. If you even take a glimpse of the remote control, you will lose it (your eye).
3. If you have to pass by in front of the TV during a game, I don't mind, as long as you do it crawling on the floor and without distracting me. If you decide to stand nude in front of the TV, make sure you put clothes on right after because if you catch a cold, I wont have time to take you to the doctor or look after you during the World Cup month.
4. During the games I will be blind, deaf and mute, unless I require a refill of my drink or something to eat. You are out of your mind if you expect me to listen to you, open the door, answer the telephone, or pick up the baby that just fell from the second floor....it wont happen.
5. It would be a good idea for you to keep at least 2 six packs in the fridge at all times, as well as plenty of things to nibble on, and please do not make any funny faces to my friends when they come over to watch the games. In return, you will be allowed to use the TV between 12am and 6am, unless they replay a good game that I missed during the day.
6. Please, please, please!! if you see me upset because one of my teams is losing, DO NOT say "get over it, its only a game", or "don't worry, they'll win next time". If you say these things, you will only make me angrier and I will love you less. Remember, you will never ever know more about football than me and your so called "words of encouragement" will only lead to a break up or divorce.
7. You are welcome to sit with me to watch one game and you can talk to me during halftime but only when the commercials are on, and only if the halftime score is pleasing me. In addition, please note I am saying "one" game, hence do not use the World Cup as a nice cheesy excuse to "spend time together".
8. The replays of the goals are very important. I don't care if I have seen them or I haven't seen them, I want to see them again. Many times.
9. Tell your friends NOT to have any babies, or any other child related parties or gatherings that requires my attendance because:a) I will not go,b) I will not go, andc) I will not go.
10. But, if a friend of mine invites us to his house on a Sunday to watch a game, we will be there in a flash.
11. The daily World Cup highlights show on TV every night is just as important as the games themselves. Do not even think about saying "but you have already seen this... why don't you change the channel to something we can all watch??", the reply will be: "Refer to Rule #2 of this list".
12. And finally, please save your expressions such as "Thank God the World Cup is only every 4 years". I am immune to these words, because after this comes the Champions League, Italian League, Spanish League, Premier League, etc etc.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Regards
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i've not been to the doctors yet...will have to make an appointment today
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still no word on my car either...bloody thing is bugging me, although i'm enjoying riding around in the hire car as it's a lovely car to drive!

right i think that's about it
laters peeps
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the shitty weekend
ok so there has been a little concern about me and my weekend, i know ash said i should get out and have a drink, but it's not that easy this time.

so friday my dad decided to admit that he's been having an affair for the last 18 months, thus ripping the heart out of my family
saturday i was still in shock about it all and not really sure what was going on
sunday my car broke down...proper broke down, so bad that i've got a hire car for the next week while the stupid people at the gay garage make vague tutting noises and try to fleece me for all that they can again...wankers haven't got a courtesy car for me until 10 days, so i'm driving around in a brand new golf 1.6...it's very nice to drive, but it's cost £200 to get it
monday...back to work, but in no way shape or form was my head into it
this morning...i lost my wallet, it's just been found, but it's not helped the demeanor of the morning

so far i've been really good (or bad depending on how you look at it) in so far as i've not hit anything/one, i've not cried, i've not cut myself and generally i've tried bumbling along and all that. but i can feel it getting to me and i know that sooner or later i''m going to have to cry and let it all out. but i'm trying to hold it all together, for my mum primarily, but also for the need that i jst can't let myself go. and above all he's not worth it.

from now on my ex father will either be referred to as that wanker or nothing.

that wanker came round yesterday while i was at work badgering mum a little, but he did live up to his promise of giving me £5000. doesn't mean he's not a wanker though, just means that i've got £5000 of his money.

so yeah
that was my shitty weekend
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bad weekend
i mean really bad
so bad that i can't bring myself to blog about it
life is falling apart

all filler no killer...
you've got to see this, although i'm assuming some of you probably already have! it's genius and you need to the sound on...really need the sound on, it's hilarious!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

also i'm going to see Blue Man Group next weekend in London, i can't wait!!!! :D

Natalia...in reference to your comment in the previous post, it was a bit too chav, a bit too long and i was having to edit all the questions as well...and some of them were repeated...so i decided against it

take care peeps and i hope you chuckled :D

hey peeps, i found a questionnaire thing that i was going to post, but i decided against it...not sure why
but i did

promise a new post here and on all other blogs sometime soon
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so i replied
thanks for all your comments on the last post, i know it was a bit of a mission reading it all, so thanks for stucking with it, it meant quite a bit to know that even though i've not been nekkid for you guys for a few weeks now and i've not even posted something vaguely interesting that you guys are still out there and reading on occasion.
i was thinking about what i could put in this post, and i've been struggling, i want to be positive and bubbly and all that stuff, but recently i've been feeling physically ill and emotionally drained, so being positive is kinda hard at the moment.
people have been asking what's wrong, and i wish i could help them out and give them a decent answer, but there is no one defining thing that's wrong, there's not ten things, hell there's not one hundred things wrong...there's so many things that just feel wrong at the moment i wouldn't know where to start
so i'm struggling with positive
however i am carrying on and putting a brave face on things, i don't want my nearest and dearest at home realising that i'm not overly joyous at the moment because i fear that it will make things worse...they worry enough as it is.
it's my dad's birthday party on sunday, i think i remember mentioning it once or twice before on the basis that i'm not looking forward to it and that i think it will be either a complete balls up or i'll jst end up sitting at the bar while everyone has a go at everyone else and their dog in the pub where i work. i'm tempted to just sit there and watch it all fall apart as both me and my mum know will happen. tragic i know, but sadly it's true.
anyway it's friday night here and i'm currently blogging! that tells you quite a bit about my current social life...i guess i could go out to the pub, but i'm not really in the mood for it at the moment, i'm fairly tired too, so i might just hit the sack and hope that everything will pass me by for a day or two.
work wise, things are a bit crap at the moment, although i'm not getting all the shitty quotes i am still getting all the crap, we missed a deadline today, something needed to be with the client by 2pm, the people in germany told us it would be another 2-3 weeks before they can complete the special articles that are required in the specification, needless to say the sales manager was less than impressed and initially took this out on me, however when i pointed out that it was germany and not me that was holding things up, she calmed down and realised that it wasn't my fault and things were ok then...well as ok as things can be when you're watching a €200k quote disappear down the shitter. still i got her other quote done this morning and posted today (i hope, i left before the post went) that's for €85k which should soften the blow a little (she thought that was expensive for 8 fume cupboards, but i reminded her that they were all special because of the additional €3k for each FC to have a steel liner rather than a stardard liner).
on the job hunt, i got cold called yesterday by a recruitment firm who wanted to put me forward for a position, the ugy guaranteed i'd hear from him within 24 hours, but it's been more than that and i've not heard anything from him, so now i don't care about that position very much. also got told that an interview i had that i was one of four candidates, so a good chance of getting the position, but i didn't like the centre or the manager there so i'll not be looking too hard at that one either, however if they offer me the position i'll consider it for a little while, it's all about the monetary motivation now...
starting to lose interest in a lot of things at the moment
so really i guess that's as good a point as any to sign off, go check the comments from the last post as i replied to you all...
sorry
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2 posts in 3 weeks???
damn i've been slack
but there were reasons
- initially i was feeling under the weather and as a result didn't have much to blog about
- issues with blogging
- lack of inspiration
- week off work

anyway i think i'm pretty much back to normal at the moment, things seem to have settled down a little, well i've settled down a little, however, i'm still more than a little miffed with work and my job, but as has been documented, i'm searching for a new one. more in a bit

ok so after being ill for a while, nasty cough and head cold thing that's been going around, i decided that i was having issues with blogging, mainly due to lack of inspiration, too much going on that i didn't really feel the need to share and other things. i've still got the cough though :o(

on the day when i stopped HNT (2 posts ago) i also put my wheels in for it's regular service (can't believe i've done over 12000 miles since july!). thinking it would be fairly in expensive, i was shocked and stunned and many other things when i got a call half way through the day to tell me it'd be a little under £850, and that only covered the essential things that NEEDED doing!!! i could've doubled that by getting them to do everything...so there went my salary for the month! i was none too impressed, to say the least, but it needed doing

easter was pretty crap, with my parents arguing over lunch, thankfully we don't seem to go in for the big family lunch thing very often. although i got one easter egg, which i ate the next day. Also saw my friend Kat for the first time in a LONG time, i used to baby sit for her...it's funny!

the following week i was supposed to be having a chat to my boss about things work related, but even though he asked for the meeting, he forgot it, because he's got a memory like a sieve... that made me feel like a valued member of the team! so on wednesday i decided to book the next week (last week) off, to give myself some time to re-assess things...i've been re-assessing a lot of things recently i know...anyway the remains of the week proceeded to piss me off more so i spent some time each day looking for a new job. i think i sent out my CV 20 odd times!

so the week off...
monday, i went to the cinema with Kat, and the quiz in the evening, she joined me and the bar staff, we still didn't win, but we had a good time. even if one of the other teams mistakenly identified Kat as my new girlfriend who i was flaunting in the pub while my ex was behind the bar...i must re-iterate, Kat is a friend from way back and lovely as she is, she's not my girlfriend and unlikely to ever be...
tuesday, i took kat back to uni, comedy ensued in the local news agents in which we implied that i liked it when she hit me, but only when she's naked...needless to say we got some interesting looks from the other patrons... in the evening i went to see the lady (aforementioned ex) and we sat and watched night watch, a totally brilliant russian film which i recommend to anyone who liked things like the matrix, underworld and that kind of thing...
wednesday, i caught up with the old flame, she came down to oxford for a few hours and we chatted and all that, it was cool to see her again, and although she'll disagree, i don't think she's changed that much in the 7 years since i last saw her. but it was great to see her and i'd like to see again sometime...
thursday, i had an interview, first round one only, but it seemed to go really well, i'm not going to get my hopes up about it though as i don't want to be thinking about it too much if i don't get a call back for it. thursday night i worked in the pub, i enjoy that more than working here so i didn't feel like i needed to take the time off from there...
friday, i did nothing, nothing at all

Myspace...some of you know i had a myspace thing...note had. during the week i was trying to sort out all the settings and stuff on it, but everytime i logged in and went to do something it told me i had to be logged in to do it, so i logged in again...and the circle continued for over an hour until i found the only link i could get at was the cancel me link, so i did after much frustration and trying to work out if i wanted to cancel it, i guess i'd just had enough. so sadly my myspace no longer exists
sorry for worrying you K8, but thanks for the call to check up on me ;o)

so you can see that i've not been around to whatever reason
and now i think you're pretty much up to date with things, so it's all good :o)
last night i guest hosted the music round at the quiz, it went down a storm with most teams getting 26 or more from 30, i would give you the track listing, but i can't remember it all. DJ dave that runs the quiz has been using it in other pubs though and they've all liked it too, so much so that i might sort out another one for him at some point, we'll see

right, i think that's more than enough, one last ting is that i'm apologising, having a week off i've not really kept up to date with everyone's blogs, i've tried, and commented on some posts, but not on everyone's.
take care peeps
Px

am i back

i'm not sure yet
there are still things i need to think about and sort out in my head

although i did meet my first blogger (fuckkit) over the weekend, that was cool, only wish i could've spent more time and not had to rush off for work on sunday. it was kinda strange to meet her and her mates because it was like we were old friends and knew a fair amount about each other...
cheers m'luv, shame i probably won't see you again before you head off to Oz though :o(

other stuff...
martin got married at the weekend, congrats

my head is all over the place at the moment and certain people are bugging me, people that i didn't expect to bug me are bugging me more than anything
confusion is not cool

but at least ive got this week off to do with as i see fit! and trust me i'm already enjoying it!
i'll be back soon i hope
laters Px

lacking a HNT againg today as i'm not feeling 100%
got another nasty cold that's currently making me cough up nice lumps, i've got a sore throat and bunged up nose...it really doesn't warrant a HNT as i'm sure you don't want to se that
i should be back with one next week though

I'll take envelope 7
i won £100 last night at the quiz
you missed out there fuckkit!!
it was mega busy in there as well, a record 80 people were taking part, which made the jackpot even more cash

sweet

anyway that is all

for now

and ash the job i went for is in yorkshire and is operations manager for a large chain of gyms in the country

expect a rant later though
Px

randomness on a monday again
think i've found the job i want, it's up in yorkshire and is back in leisure. it's at the level above what i was at before and i should be able to get the money i want for it as well
didn't sleep very well last night...
'nuff said
had a fairly good weekend though, work on saturday and sunday was pretty easy, even though the other barmaid on saturday was a bit crap and didn't do much once her boyf and mates turned up, there was even a little questionable serving, but i forgot to ask her about the age of the kids that were drinking...sunday was dead though, and chris looked pasty as fuck when he left!
quiz night tonight, i might have convinced fuckkit join in this week, but it's doubtful...up to her really, but if she can make it she'll be welcome
anyway that is all
Px

EDIT:
forgot to thank everyone for thier nice messages from that HNT, it's good to know i can make a few of you red...even if you were at work...

A little something for the weekend

and no i don't mean another pic, this time with my hands moved to a different place...

song for saturday
options
OPP by Naughty By Nature
Jump Around by House Of Pain
both classics
both old skool
both faves of mine

done :P
Px

HNT - Starry eyed and bollock naked...
someone remembered that i'd promised a FNT when i'd sorted my camera out (yeah, thanks fuckkit) so i've done it...
here i am in all my glory!!!
(thank god i found out how to use the timer, didn't really want to be asking a mate {or parent for that matter} to take it for me)

Wednesday random post from work
(aren't they all)
Spinning complacently in the darkness
Covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives
False security has lulled the madness of this world into a slumber
Wake Up!
An eye is upon you
Staring straight down and keenly through,
Seeing all that you are and everything that you can never be
Yes, an eye is upon you, an eye ready to blink.
SO face forward, with arms wide open and mind reeling
Your future has arrived...Are you ready to go?

no i didn't write it
yes i like it
yes it's from an album (tonight the stars revolt by powerman 5000, this is the intro called an eye is upon you)
no you probably wouldn't like the rest of the album
yes i am tired
no i don't like thinking
yes someone (finally) answered my questions from the last couple of days
no i wasn't particularly satisfied with the answers that were offered
no i'm not going to ask any more
yes i'm still thinking about the FNT option
no i don't think i'll chicken out
yes i'm still suffering from a lack of sleep
no i don't like the mornings
yes i've got an idea why i can't sleep
noi'm not talking about it, well not at the moment :P

nuff said
Px out

stir crazy
it would appear that yesterday's post caused a bit of a stir!
not least with the comments about a possbile FNT...hmmm...in particular the comments from jennifer who seemed set on posting as many as possible!!!
why? i don't know...you tell me!
but no-one helped with the other questions, so i'm posting them AGAIN
why do batman and robin both get rubber nipples on their suits in batman forever and batman and robin?
in the same film (batman and robin) why doesn't batgirl's suit have any nipples?
why is the first disc of the red dwarf series 8 pack a PG when the other two discs are rated 12?
why do lives become very complicated very easily?
what was the best thing before sliced bread?
why is it i can pick up on the smallest of plot holes in a film or tv show, but in reality i can't pick up on something until it's glaringly obvious?
why are Reading festival tickets going on sale at 7.30 pm? (linny click the link it's not a reading festival, it's Reading Festival...Reading is a town near to where i live and they put on an annual music festival...weekend tickets are sold out already and they only went on sale last night!!!)
surely an earlier time would be more beneficial! why do these things bother me?
who will pick up on what i'm really getting at?
am i really getting at anything?

other stuff...who's the anonymous person who wants to see me nekkid? (yesterday's comments)
next time leave clues as to who you are...makes it easier for me!
last night was the pub quiz...we didn't do very well again, not that iwas really bothered last night, i was having a distinctly non-plussed evening and i really could've done with heading home early to get some sleep. as it happens when i did head home i got told off for not saying bye to my ex (she was working the bar) but i couldn't find her when it came to leaving, besides would any of you really want me to hunt you down and say bye when i'm feeling remarkably pissed off for no real reason? although i didn't tell her i was in a foul mood, what's the point, she can't do anything about it and if she sulks with me it's only going to make me feel more pissed off
i had a really good day at work yesterday, i got a few little quotes done in the morning, but in the afternoon the server here went down, so i couldn't do any work, i couldn't get online either though, so i resorted to filing...shocking i know!
it's april (like you didn't already know) but it's april means i've been able to turn the page on my bath uni cheerleaders lingerie calendar...i'm enjoying april ;o)
right i guess that's it
laters peeps
Px

monday morning randomness
why do batman and robin both get rubber nipples on their suits in batman forever and batman and robin?
in the same film (batman and robin) why doesn't batgirl's suit have any nipples?
why is the first disc of the red dwarf series 8 pack a PG when the other two discs are rated 12?
why do lives become very complicated very easily?
what was the best thing before sliced bread?
why is it i can pick up on the smallest of plot holes in a film or tv show, but in reality i can't pick up on something until it's glaringly obvious?
why are Reading festival tickets going on sale at 7.30 pm? surely an earlier time would be more beneficial!
why do these things bother me?
who will pick up on what i'm really getting at?
am i really getting at anything?
who want's to see me totally nekkid (fuckkit remembered that i said when i'd sorted the camera issues out i'd post an FNT as opposed to an HNT)?
will i really do it?
come on people, provide me with answers...
that is all
Px

stuff
new camera has arrived today! will be back with an all new HNT on thursday, suggestions please :)
work has been weird since sideshow left (see the office for an interesting picture of him on his leaving do)
not really been in the mood to do too much, but have still managed to get a fair few things done, currently working on a lot of little revisions and changes and little quotes which can be dull and boring though

song for saturday:
alive and kicking by simple minds it's a wicked tune and i have no other reason to want it other than that!

think that's all for now, expect a pile of pics to come flooding through though at some point ;)
laters and, for those that don't check back, have a good weekend
Px

What, NO HNT?
due to camera issues and the fact that i haven't got a working one at the moment there's no HNT today. however, i have ordered a new camera which i'm "patiently" waiting to arrive today, if it arrives in time i'll try and post a picture later...
btw old flame said "very nice but again strange to see women i presume you don't even know thinking you're fantastic" about me posting the previous blog. which is cool, i tried to explain how we all got to know each other, but i've no idea if i was clear or not, we'll see
laters peeps
Px

i've been put in my place :)
said old flame from yesterday has read what i had to say about me and her chatting and emailed me about it with a re-write of that paragraph:
i've been emailing an old flame from uni- i got her interested and then dumped her for someone else, i got in touch with her through friendsreunited.co.uk and we've been having a good chat and catch up, which is great because she has obviously just about forgiven me. if you're reading, hey! :o) i'm really sorry to have been such a pig and trampled all over your feelings it's been really good to catch up with her and i've found myself waiting to hear from her again because she's so lovely ( more now than then)
i've chosen to post this because she IS lovely and i AM sorry
although i'm not sure there was someone else, i was a pig and i did trample her feelings. it was unintentional and i didn't realise i hurt her. i would hide behind the fact that i'm a bloke and as such i never think about other peoples feelings (true as it sounds) but i've decided not to, instead, i'm a bloke, but more than that i am an inconsiderate and pig-headed arse at times
i'm not saying this because i'm trying to justify myself to you, i'm saying this because it's the truth.

by the way...this is post no #300

EDIT:
there are some videos on the office blog so go and check out what we do when the boss isn't around!!!

TIT'S OUT TUESDAY

still no offerings

:(


note: this is the 3rd post of the day

obituaries
today i have the misfortune of having to pass on some bad news
my digital camera has died
and although i can get it fixed for £100, i can buy a newer/better/upgraded camera for a little more than that
so i'm thinking that i'll be getting a new one soon, but not just yet
alas that means some more poor HNT's until then
sorry
Px

cunning stunts!!
it's tuesday
i've been told off by fuckkit for not blogging since friday
she should take a look at some of my friends blogs, mentioning no names*
the weekend was pretty dull
well after drinking heavily on friday night that is (3 pints of smiles heritage {real ale} and something like 7 doubles and 1 quadruple vodka and coke) i then worked saturday and sunday evenings, missing out on spanish's birthday party. i missed out on a lot of sleep too having less than 4 hours on friday night and not for interesting reasons (unfortunately) even though a few people seemed to think that i was getting rather close with one of the jokers** and only two of them had the cahoonas to ask me if anything had happened/was going on
gave my mum an inspired present for mothers day, a picture which i've posted on here before (link), only blown up to a decent size. i told her that i was tired of getting the clichèd bunch of flowers and/or box of chocolates, so i got her something that i thought was good. she's put it up on the wall already, was a bit shocked about that!!!
last night was quiz night, we won chocolate after a particularly pants music round, the music rounds are being offered out as guest slots at the moment, i've offered to do (another) one in a few weeks so i'm mentally trying to arrange some tracks ready for it ;o) part of me wants to make it as obscure as possible, but i need to make it fairly easy otherwise people won't enjoy it. they enjoyed the me first and the gimme gimmes round that i helped sort out the other week, well some of them enjoyed it, and there are now a lot of me first fans in oxfordshire :oD
i've been emailing an old flame from uni, i got in touch with her through friendsreunited.co.uk and we've been having a good chat and catch up, which is great. if you're reading, hey! :o) it's been really good to catch up with her and i've found myself waiting to hear from her again
i got harry potter and the goblet of fire over the weekend, have watched it just the once, also got event horizon, the batman quadrilology (not batman begins) and the bret hart story all on dvd at the weekend and i shall be watching them during the course of the week (watched bret hart, event horizon and harry potter once already, want to get through them all once before repeating them, although i wanna see HP again)
right i think i'm done really
i've had enough of work today and i've only been here about 2 hours (it's now about 45 minutes later than the time tag)
laters peeps
Px
*ok i was going to name and shame, but i'm taking the higher ground and choosing not to
** the jokers are one of the quiz teams from monday nights

friday fun
you know the score
it's friday
it's time for fun
i wish
however i am going out tonight and i do intend on getting VERY messily drunk, well i hope i can anyway, sod it, i'm going to!
stuff from this week
it's been ok, i've gradually pulled myself out of my funk, not really sure how though (wish i did so i could do it next time, you know there will be a next time, there always is)
haven't done anything this week, i mean i've done completely and utterly nothing of interest! i went to the quiz on monday, when to joker's on tuesday and watched the wrestling, wednesday and thursday i worked in the pub, so i think i'm deserving of a night out tonight :)
work has bee dead the last couple of nights, please note this isn't me complaining, it's been great, but over the last 2 nights (in the 11 hours that i was there) we took under £350...silly huh! but i got bought a couple of drinks last night which will save me some cash tonight :)
working saturday and sunday as well, saturday should be easy, i'm only really there to help out if needs be and lock up at the end of the night, and i reckon it'll be a quiet one as there's the party tonight...fingers crossed though!

song for saturday...
i love this song
it's sure a good tune and nice and up beat
you ready for this
erasure - a little respect the original is always the best, although wheatus did have a fair crack at it i'm afraid that they just couldn't do it justice. it also appeared in scrubs season 1 episode 3 right ar the start when Turk and Dr. Wen argue over which song to play in the OR. The song then sticks in everyone's heads..."like a virus." it's so true though, it does stick in peoples heads...you try it, either whistle (or if you're feeling brave sing) a line while you're at work, home, out tonight, basically where ever there are other people and i guarantee that sooner or later (more likely sooner) someone else will pick up on it as well. i mean admit it, it's already in your head, you're humming, whistling or singing it already...you know you are
anyway that's it from me for today
laters peeps
Px

i try to discover
a little something to make me sweeter
oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
i'm so in love with you
i'll be forever blue...
*whistles the tune*

this is the scar down the side of my right foot from where i broke it sereval years ago and had to have a plate put in it

facing my fears
last night, before heading round to joker's place to watch the wrestling and playing on the ps2, i broke a filling while eating a mint.
what's so scary i hear you ask
well i really don't like going to the dentist, it's not that i don't look after them so every time i go i'm having one pulled or drilled and filled, i'm actually pretty good at looking after my teeth. but ever since my previous dentist drilled the wrong tooth, a perfectly healthy and worst of all not numb tooth, which he then had to fill said hole and proceeded to charge me for it all as well! i've been more than a little scared to go for fear of more incompetence and therefore more pain.
it stopped me from going to the dentist for about years
so 2 years ago when i got toothache, i had to find a dentist who would sedate me completely to do the needed work, that time he pulled a tooth out. it took him (the new dentist) 15 minutes to get me calm enough to sit in the chair.
that was the last time i went to the dentist until today...last year i should've gone after sneezing a filling out...yes i actually sneezed a filling out!!!
so when i called today, they've got it on record that i need sedation, they told me that they'd look at it, but they wouldn't be able to do anything for at least a week because of the sedatoin thing. i said that i needed the work and was willing to go in with just an ordinary injection. so, the receptionist booked me in.
when i got there this afternoon, i was made fairly comfortable, and had a joke about the look of abject fear on my face. i was afraid, i don't mind admitting that. but this time i walked right in there and sat in the chair, reay for the worst. my dentist, who's called james brown (how cool is that), put me right at ease saying he wasn't willing to drill anything if it wasn't needed as he knew what had happened before with my previous dentist.
i needed no drilling (even in the hole from last year) and was in and out in 15 minutes :)
and it only cost me £25 (it i'd had the sedation treatment and drill and fill i'd have been looking at £200 at least)
so although i haven't conquered my fears, today i've started by facing up to them and coming out ok
i've also learnt not to eat my dad's mints, even if he did let me!!!
and PP although i still don't like the dentist, you're right, they can be your friend, mine has restored some of my missing faith in them today.
take care peeps
Px

The Quiz
we didn't win anything
not that i'm bothered
but hey it was good fun
there is talk of a super team being created at the moment as well just to knock a particular collaboration of teams down a little bit
it all gets a little competitive
anyway
all said and done

ok, little bit calmer now!
i am
really
no i am
honest
fuck, i need a curry, tomorrow's curry night though and if i can get someone to go with me i'll go (hint hint, someone please come for a curry with me)

work is pants today, although i'm a little more motivated today, but people keep asking me to do things which are not in my job role, or they want them now and i'm too busy to sort them out today (i'm blogging in my lunch break before anyone comments on that!)

i wanna go cinema, wanna see the hills have eyes and hostel (but the later isn't out until friday)

fingers crossed mother will remember that the latest HP film is out on dvd today and get me a copy from work

it's quiz night tonight too, fingers crossed we might win something again, although the jackpot went last week so there's not much in it this week (maybe £30 if we're lucky) anyone's welcome to join us for that one too, could have our own blogger quiz team...

bleugh that's all i can think of
will post about the stag do at the weekend in a day or two if i remember/think about it

laters peeps
Px

pissed off with blogger!!!
yes i am
having spent most of the weekend being unable to view my blog, let alone post anything on it i've been more than a little narky with it
but anyway, i'm hoping the situation has been rectified
i'll post again later with a more interesting post, but for not i shall leave this mini venting post up and out there
STUPID fucking thing!!!
i was in a bad mood to start with, now i'm really pissed off
bollocks to it

HAPPY St PADDY'S DAY
so can someone tell me what's up with blogger? apparently i'm NOT authorised to veiw my own blog... EDIT: it would appear to be fixed now, but that doesn'texplain why when i posted this yesterday it didn't appear...dodgy, anyway fingers crossed it's ok now!
anyway sorry about that, got side tracked for a second!
so it's that day of the year when everyone becomes a little irish again, hence the green.
i myself might be tempted to partake in a few bevvies this evening, although i'm not a huge fan of the black stuff, i'll happily raise a few pints of something to celebrate!
let me know how you've celebrated (got inebriated)
song for the day: salty dog by flogging molly they are an awesome band, crossing the boundaries of californian punk and irish folk, i've seen them 3 or 4 times and every gig have been amazing, loved them all!!! so check them out if you can

other random stuff
not been in the best of moods this week, initially i though this was probably down to a lack of sleep, but i think it's more than that now.
mood has been lightened slightly by getting amazon to pay for the P&P on a couple of books i bought, they were trying to diddle me out of it, but apparently i'd not ticked a box that i should've to get the free P&P, so they've stumped it up out of kindness...
mood has been lightened by getting my latest in a large collection of wrestling dvd's...yes i know it's sad, no i don't care, yes i enjoy them, no i'm not 12, yes i know it's "fake" (i think a proper rant on the fakeness of wrestling is needed though and i might add that in a bit) 7 hours of matches was good, there were some very impressive bouts and some of these matches will be referred to in the aforementioned rant...
mood has been dulled by work
mood has been lightened by the prospect of a really good weekend, it's a mates stag do tomorrow, so i'm looking forward to that
mood has been lightened by an unexpected invitation out this evening, probably won't accept it, but it was nice to be invited anyway

right wrestling rant, i promise to make it relatively short.
i know wrestling isn't real, i mean it's classed as sports entertainment for a start, that kinda gives it away. but as for it being fake, no that i don't agree with, yes ok in the old days (the 80's) you did see people pulling punches, going down even though they were about 2 inches away from the other guys fist and you could finish a match with a leg drop of all things! but these days the matches are real, the moves are real, the blood is real, the injuries are real. i've seen footage of men breaking their necks, arms, legs, sustaining concussions, being hit with all manner of "weapons" and other objects, from the fairly standard trash can to VCR's and frying pans and even cream pies, although the latter obviously did little to injure the person. i've seen barb wire matches where the opponents have become attached to the wire, ripped their flesh and even wrapped themselves up in it to win. so the idea that the wrestling is fake is beyond me. however, the storylines and the pre-determined results and things like that do go a long way to making people thing it's fake and i'll agree there, but only there.

Song for Saturday:
choice of two for you this week...
violent pornography by system of a down - simple choice, it's a catchy song, admittedly it's not their best, but i like it. and it's been on in the car this week...
99 problems by jay-z (or by jay-z vs. linkin park) - essentially it's the same song, and i like both versions of it, and again the latter version has been in the car all week too...

anyway i should be getting on with work
laters peeps, enjoy the green day, the green beer and for those of you who partake just enjoy the green!!!
Px

Irish Themed HNT

ok so i've still not fixed my camera :(

but seeing as Os asked for Irish themed HNT pics this week for St. Patrick's day, i give you this, titled pete, peter's and a random fat guy...

i'm the dark bit over the shoulder of said random fat guy with my arms in the air. there's a rule in ireland that you can't walk past a pub with your name on it without going in for a drink. so while in dublin for my 26th birthday we found peter's pub and obviously HAD to go in...thing is we stayed in and got even drunker than we already were...and that's saying something! this was taken at about 7 or 8, to be honest i was pretty blotto by then as we'd been drinking since before 11 that morning and i seem to remember eating a burger and we'd had 4 pints by then, that was about 12 ish...after that i couldn't tell you how much we had to drink...but it was a lot

and it was all good

and the irish are awesome people

SLACK!!!!
that's what i've been
slack in posting, especially as kate (in the sidebar) really showed me up last week by blogging everyday and some days more than once!!!

but i won a bottle of wine last night in the pub quiz
that was good, although i've not drank it yet

my shamen CD arrived yesterday morning, i got moaned at about buying it and not saving and i got moaned at for buying it and not having enough room for all my CD's...but it's worth it

been happily driving around with the new stereo in the car, loud tunes, varied selection...from kanye west, GLC, Pendulem right through to SOAD, Coal Chamber and Rammstein...proper tunes

but today i'm feeling really pissed off
might blog some more later, but for now i'm not going to

i want to go for a curry tonight...any takers, my shout maybe...

"tit's out tuesday" sounds like an interesting idea, i'd be more than happy to post a lovely pair here every week if you really want me too...so who wants to start it off then? who's going to send me a pic of their tit's first? lol i'm kidding btw!

and oh yeah...don't worry, i wasn't planning on running out and jumping into a whole new relationship yet, i need to give things some time and i really want to get away from here for a while and find myself again as it were...and no i'm not being rude :oP i want to enjoy being single for a while, although it feels like i've been single for about 6 weeks already...

i need a holiday...any suggestions?

laters peeps
Px

confessions and a song for saturday
ok peeps, i've got a few confessions to make, nothing major, but i feel the need to get them off my chest...and i guess most of them ain't really confessions it's omre i need to get a few things off my chest
i've not been spending the time over the last few days reading everyones blogs and i know i've not been commenting as much as i usually do, i'm sorry and i plan to rectify that situation over the weekend with a hardcore session of reading and commenting
so that's the main confession
mini confessions
i hate my job that much that ive been looking for a new one
in company time
like i care
today i have taken the day off so i could have my stereo fitted into my car, along with some new kit, sub and amp, 6x9's and all that jazz
sounds sweet...cost me over £350 to have everything done though, i'm supposed to be saving

i have one quick comment to make to my new friend fukkit...i know i've not been very HN in the last few HNT's...you try asking your mates to take a pic of you HN...they'd look at me more than a bit oddly me thinks
however i promise to make up for it when i've fixed my camera by doing a FNT (f=full) at some point, just need to find someone to take the shot...i would ask for volunteers, but i'm not gonna!

me and my lady have called it a day officially now, i think it's been on the cards for a while, we've been seeing less and less of each other for the last few weeks now, so we had a big chat the other night and we actually caught up more after we split than anything else
so i'm back to being single
question is do i start looking for somoene or do i leave it and see what happens
bearing in mind most of my friends are male or are in the "been there, done that" catagory (i suppose i could buy them all a p-shirt now like mine so i could add "got the t-shirt") the women front is looking decidedly quiet, but i thikn that's probably a good thing, i don't want to rush into something just yet do i!

anyway i promise that i'm going to be a commenting DEMON tomorrow, and i'm also going to have a look at sorting some things out for the website as well over the weekend, i'll keep you posted :)
laters peeps
Px

EDIT:
i realised after posting that i'd forgotten the song lol!!!
so this weekend i could be sentimental and pick goodbye my lover by james blunt or dry your eyes mate by the streets or something of that ilk, but i choose not to, i choose life, i choose goldie lookin' chain and your mothers got a penis i know that everyone outside of the UK probably hasn't heard of these guys or this song, but i urge you to find it and listen to it, download it, play it really loud, and laugh along with me...YOU KNOWS IT!!!!

instrumental HNT

ok so i look like i'm asleep

and i know that you shouldn't sit down while playing the big violin

but i wasn't asleep

and i had to sit down to reach everything because although the double bass is huge, it was too short for me to play standing up!!!

no it's not mine

no i can't play it

but who cares

(still trying to get my camera fixed, but being the lazy arse i am i've not actually done anything about it yet...this pic was taken by the spanish guy in the office with his phone)

take it easy peeps

Px

been in a foul mood today
i know why
talking about it won't help
don't ask me to
i have a song for saturday lined up...but it might change depending on if i can find my old shamen tape for in the car in the morning
the shamen were funny
i noticed that there have been issues with blogger this week (again) so i'm keping this short
PP i'll sort you out an email tomorrow
laters peeps
Px

pah!
so i forgot the song for saturday thing, i know it's my own creation and i know i should've done it, but i've been feeling a bit out of sorts of late
in the last week i've watched nearly 20 films
when i'm not at one work or the other i've been in my room most of the rest of the time watching dvd's or playing on the ps2
it's not that things are getting to me, i'm not letting them, but i've just not been in the mood to go out and see people or even stay in and see people
yesterday i think i spent a total of about 2 hours downstairs, most of the rest of the time i was in my room, and i spent a couple of hours on the internet bumming around and chatting to a few people
today it's been the same, i've been downstairs to eat and that's it
tonight i'm working in the pub though so i'm going to have to speak to people there, but i've got some paperwork type stuff to do while i'm there so i'm taking the laptop in with me to deal with it...yay great fun!
might take a couple of games in as well...just to pass the time, sunday's are usually dead for the first couple of hours anyway
dad's birthday party is shaping up to be a shambles, brother no. 2 on his side is refusing to come, brother no. 1 and sister also on that side don't get along, and i don't really like either of them, mum's said she's not going, no idea why, i don't really want to go either, but i can see myself being made to go... no idea why, i'm the odd one in the family anyway, the only child from this marriage, the only one without any kids, the only one under 30, the only one who went to uni, the only one who dropped out of uni, the only one who lives at home still...the list goes on, besides it's going to be held in the pub where i work, so if there is a family bust up (and i'm guessing there will be) that'll be fantastic, everyone i work with and all the locals and regulars that know me will see just what a stupid family i have...i can't wait!
i hope my plans work out though, things will be better if they do...

HNT - I was a dragon!!!

View this clip on Vimeo

Something a little special this week for HNT.

a few weeks ago i went to a house warming party, where we went fire breathing, using chocolate powder of all things!!! but before you go and try it, it only works with spanish chocolate powder. well that's what our spanish host told us anyway.

needless to say it was good fun and we really enjoyed it.

KIDS DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!

btw i've broken my camera so i'll be struggling with HNT for a little while :(

and my p-shirt (it's a pete collective t-shirt) arrived yesterday!! if you wanna know more about the pete collective check out the previous post

Take care though peeps

Px

The Pete Collective - Give Pete A Chance
it would appear that pete is the new black!
i found this site a couple of weeks ago and it's weird what some people out there will do, but kinda cool at the same time. basically this guy was set a challenge to find 200 petes, but this seemed fairly pointless as there was no drive behind it! so after finding out about 345 maria's in spain had set a world record for the number of people with the same name in one place, pete (not me) decided that he could breakt that record. that is until dubai stepped up to the plate and had some 1500 muhammed's all meet up. so the challenge is for 2000 pete's, i've signed up because dammit this is the only way i'm going to break any records! that and i'm called pete!
anyway, have a look around the site, it's scary the effort this guy has gone to, i've even go so far as to order myself a p-shirt which will make it's way on to HNT as soon as i've got it!
it sounds kinda dave gorman, but who cares! (for those who don't know about dave gorman, his mate danny wallace set him a challenge to find 52 other dave gormans, he wrote a book about it, he had a show at the edinburgh fringe festival, i think he even made it onto tv about it, he convinced 3 people to change their names to dave gorman, including 2 women, he found daves in the US and in italy. anyway he found them all, and took danny wallace along for the ride. during all this time they never met another danny wallace! the book's very good though and i recommend it to anyone)
so
if you know a pete
you know where to send him
take care peeps and petes alike
Px

song for the saturday
right people i've had a pityful response on the bio's from you guys, i've had one and i've got to say it was perfect and just what i was after...so thank you jennifer! the rest of you motley crew, all i'm asking is for a paragraph, something witty and inciteful about you and a pic. I know you're all busy (or lazy in some peoples case Akanksha!), but i'd really appriciate it if ou could just spend a few minutes helping me out :)
remember it's for my website
so i have no idea who will see it
but it'll all be good i promise
anyway back to the song for saturday... this weeks choice is something i've listened to a lot this week, especially in the car, tears and rain by james blunt, i'm really liking this song, it's hitting my in many places. it's reminding me of the past, when i've done things which i regret to an extent, choices i've made and things that were just wrong for me at that time. however it's also hitting me with the line "I guess it's time I run far, far away" because although that's not how i'm feeling, it's what i want to do. some of you know what i mean (natalia)
so that's my song for tomorrow, i'll listen to it several times and i intend to put it on while i'm at work as well tomorrow and make the customers in the pub listen to it as well!
anyway, please try and help me out with your bio's or else i'm going to have to utilise my wit and imagination and just make something up about you all and then google search some random picture as well...this pic might not exactly be safe either...if you know what i mean!
laters peeps and enjoy your weekend peeps :)
Px

UPDATE
thanks to Linny who has also provided me with a mini bio and a couple of pics, fear not linny, the nekkid ones will never be seen by anyone else ;o)
Miss ash, all you need to do is write a few sentences about yourself, anything at all, and the email it to me with a pic of you that you don't mind me putting up on the website...simple!

UPDATE 2
thanks to Miss Ash, although a quote wasn't exactly what i was after, it'll do i guess ;o)

HNT time already!!!

just me pulling a face, no idea why, but it looks kinda cool :)

well it's HNT click the button to find out more or click Osbasso's link to find out who's playing today (both are over there <---)

take it easy peeps and HHNT

Px

more apologies from me today
sorry peeps, i've been a little more than reglectful of my blog for the last few days.
but the good news is i'm feeling a bit better, the bad news is i'm working more this week than i was last week :(
i've got 4 nights at the pub this week and i did an additional 2 hours last night as well!! but i'm thinking of the money and the fact that i've got my first friday free since sometime in december, but to compensate for that i'm working saturday night instead (this week only) and i've got to stay there because the landlord is away and i'm trust worthy apparently. and he told me it means i can have a couple of pints with the regulars and not have to worry about getting home :)
in other things...well main job work has been ok, just finished a budget price for some lab in bristol...not overly interesting, but pretty easy and only took me 2 days. when i work i can do these things quicker than anyone else here, but it's getting me motivated to work that seems to be the problem!
oh
i have a request for you lovely people that regularly read my blog. i want to put a little boig of all of you on my website as my buddies, so i want some info about you, anything you want to tell me and a pic too if poss...please email them to the address on my profile (putting it back up there now) once it's sorted i'll publish a link for you to have a look at and comment on and all that. muchos gracias in advance :)
anyway take care peeps
Px

No HNT from me
sorry to disappoint guys, but i've been feeling a bit offf this week, was home sick yesterday and half the day before, still suffering the effects of a nasty cold now (bunged up nose, chesty, phlegm-producing cough, headache) but feeling a little better than i have been
so for those who used to read the office blog as well, i've got a little link for you, it's rather amusing...click me...this is chunk, we thought we'd put him up on this site and see how he faired...he's not doing too badly at the moment!
for those not in the know, this is what chav means, take a loot around the rest of the site that chuck's on, it's worth a chuckle!
take it easy peeps and hopefully i'll be feeling better soon
Px

happy valentines people
i just want to say i love you all
and i want you all to be my valentines
song for the day:
All You Need Is Love
The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

i just love the bit in LOVE ACTUALLY where they sing this in the church at the end of the wedding!! always makes me feel warm inside, but then that could just be miss knightley

take care peeps, enjoy the day and i hope those of you who have love, keep it and those who haven't, find it

love to you all

Px

stupid drivers
just a quick rant about stupid drivers
on the way to work this morning a stupid BMW driver cut me up, then made a hand gesture to say it was my fault
i was hoping that this ignoramus was going to stop at the next available opportunity and argue with me as some people have done that before and they soon back down when i unfold my 6'4" frame from my little car, but alas they did not.
i had it all ready for them as well, i was going to give it to them with both barrels as the saying goes
but my wit was wasted.
thing is it was them at fault.
we were at a round about and we were both going straight across, now unless there is a filter on, to go straight across you should be in the outside lane, like i was, but the bmw was in the inside lane...no i know that my 1.4 isn't very quick off the mark, and should've been left for dust compared to the 2.8 bmw engine, but it wasn't and i was level with this other car most of the way across the roundabout, it was only when i got the turn off that they put their foot down and cut me off (bastard)
i had this ready for them too...
"thanks for cutting me up you ignorant prick. why don't you look up an online copy of the highway code when you get to your nice office, instead of looking up porn and fantasising about your secretary who you'll never get because you're old, balding and boring and she'd much rather have someone like me instead. once you're looking at the highway code, i suggest reading the section on roundabouts and you'll realise that you were in the wrong, so tomorrow when i see you and you try to cut me up again, you'll wave me through and apologise for having your head up your arse!"
but like i said this pillock thought he was king of the road and ignored me

you'll all be pleased to know that, contrary to the implications of the above, i'm actually in a much better mood today as well :)
take care now
Px

oh, ps linny, you're from georgia right? thought you might appriciate this joke:

After the southern tourist had been served in a Las Vegas cocktail lounge, he beckoned the waitress back and said quietly, "Miss, y'all sure are a luvly, luvly lady; can ah persuade y'all to give me a piece of ass?"

"Lord, that's the most direct proposition I've ever had!" gasped the girl.

Then she looked around the room, smiled and added, "Sure, why not? You're nice lookin' too and it's pretty slow here right now, so why don't we just slip away up to my room?"

When the pair returned half an hour later, the man sat down at the same table and the waitress asked, "Will there be anything else, sir?"

"Why yes," replied the southern gentleman. "Ah sure'preciate what y'all just did for me; it was real sweet and right neighbourly, but where ah come from in Georgia, we lack our bourbon real cold, so ah still need to trouble y'all for a piece uh ass for mah drink."

that friday feeling? (being edited and added to through the day)
HELL NO!!!
this is a warning, this post probably isn't going to be a great read and more than likely will be disjointed and random in places
8am
so i got up and was sick this morning, by 7 am i'd thrown up 3 times :(
but seeing as i hadn't eaten anything since about 7pm the night before there was nothing to come up apart from spit and stomach acid...not cool, very not cool
I'm being moved off of the friday night shift at the pub, for one reason or another, and i'm being switched to a sunday. i think that's going to be better for me because not only am i getting a little more responsibility as i'll be cashing up and locking up at the end of the night, it means i'll not be working back to back long days anymore, 8-5 and then 6-11.30+ on a thursday and then a friday too doing this is not cool...very not cool
work has been a bit pants too as you may have guessed from the previous post! just another thing that's not cool...very not cool

however on the cool side of things, i heard from a mate who i've not seen in over a year, but i'm told that he does pop in here from time to time and check up on me as it were. anyway, he's getting married in a few months and wants me to go, so that's cool...very cool
but it does mean i'll have to hunt out my suit, check it still fits, get it cleaned and all that, but it'll be worth it!

9.30 am
fed up

i've got one quote out this morning already and it's only half 9, add that to the one i got out yesterday, that only leaves me the one i'm working on now, the one that needs to go out on monday and the one that i've just got...well they're are the ones i have right now, but i know there are a couple of others on the horizon :o(

11am
that's another quote done...but think of the trees here, this one was 60 pages long, we keep a hardcopy and send one to the client, except this client has requested multiple copies of the quote (why he can't just print them off himself i'll never know, but hey!)

just had the email for the next one too, this one will be "interesting" as it's the 9th revision to the base quote, i'm sure we should've been charging them for the additional revisions that we've made to this one...it's getting beyond a joke! every couple of weeks the sales manager calls me and says "you'll never guess what...they want another revision done!" this time they want some rear panels, some locks and want some things we added for them last revision, removed for this one!!! can you say "PISS TAKE!!"?

and that is what i spend my day doing...well that and obviously blogging about it too lol

12.30pm
that's the 3rd quote to leave my hands today! that was a little one (the 8th revision though and seemingly pointless)
but i've just been handed a fax, 17 pages in total regarding something i quoted 6 weeks ago and how the QS thinks that i've got the wrong size on the units, trouble is if i have got the wrong sizes it'll be monday before anyone can get me new prices and even then they'll probably take a day or two to get them to me...and the QS is hoping for a letter on monday with the revised price and missing items included...we missed them out because they're non-standard items, things like whiteboards, which i've now sourced and priced, we were €30k - €40k under the others tendering for this project, i've added in the white boards and some sinks i'd missed as well and added €42k, if these units are also going to be special constructions then i'm looking at probably adding to that even further...great, way to be competitive on price!!!
also been chatting to woja, we're thinking of heading to see the wrestling again sometime this year so that'll be cool :D
well best get back to it :(

3.55pm
with just over an hour to go at this job i've finally hit the wall!
i went through the 17 page fax, working out what they wanted and what we'd offered were different things, in so far as what i'd priced was almost what the wanted, except everything was out by 90 degrees, they wanted a 1200mm high unit, i'd offered a 1200 wide unit because that was what made sense, even the sales manager said that she'd have done the same thing, so that's ok :)
throat hurts
didn't do a pub lunch either today...didn't feel like it and wanted to crack on with work
but now i'm at the wall and i'm stuck
can't do anymore

song for saturday...(friday again i know but who cares, so few people visit on a saturday!)
Boys Don't Cry by The Cure it's a cracking song and it's very me at the moment (been listening to the unplugged version today)

i think that'll be the last update for the day, gotta dash off from here and go to my penultimate friday at the pub
laters peeps,
Px

it just goes to show (if you're here for HNT it's below this post)
if you start the day in a positive way
you set yourself up for a fall
i was happy this morning
i'd had a good night out last night and was on a positive high for the day
but gradually work has dragged me down and down and down
i'm now so deep down that i can't see the light for the piles of shite work that i have on my desk
stupid proposals that are worthless and meaningless and generally realy crappy
projects that want the smallest of details changed which involved re-pricing everything, adjusting the figures to suit the sales team, the MD and the client, re issuing the document to the right people, once you've found out who the right people are that is, then there's the back log of tidying things up afterwards, copying files onto different servers so different people can find them, printing off hard copies of EVERYTHING used to make the quote up and then filing it all in the temperamental (emphasise mental when you read that back again later) filing cupboard in files that are too big to fit inside the hangers.
it's all crap
and i want to go home
but i can't because tonight i'm working in the pub!!!
i knew i should've brought my laptop with me, i could've done something useful while i was at the pub tonight, serving the 0 customers we have on a thursday (last week there were 3 people in and 5 staff, which gradually declined to the point of there being no customers and 5 staff)
somebody please take me away from all this
please
i'm begging you
rant over


for now
Px

un prepared HNT
for various reasons (all of them out-of-this-world good) i've not had chance to prep a decent HNT again!!!
slacking i know, but here's my neck

so i entered this competition
online
about 2 weeks ago
the prize was a date in london with one of the people running the competition
i entered thinking nothing would come of it
as i usually think when i enter competitions
thing is i got short-listed to the final 3 that would face a public vote to find out who would win
that was last wednesday
on friday i got an email to say i'd won
the date was last night
i went
i had a much better time than i'd expected
i mean it was really really cool, she was really good fun and easy to get along with, really chatty and generally we clicked
we were supposed to go to the theatre, but with the wine flowing we just got lost in conversation, chatting about everything and anything
it seemed very natural
and i'm thinking it'd be cool to do it again

monday morning blues...on a monday afternoon!
keeping me sane is proving fairly hard at the moment what with the lack of sleep and everything!
had to excuse myself early on friday night from my shift at the pub as i could feel myself falling asleep and i knew i'd start getting grouchy with someof the locals as well, thankfully some of the more irritating ones weren't in
the weekend passed fairly uneventfully...with the exception of spanish's house warming party...click here to go see, pictures will follow as soon as i've got round to dealing with them...but there are some very cool pics, and some even better videos :D
sunday was my day to chill, but i didn't manage all that much chilling
and then it was back to work today...the grind that it is...
been trying to get prices for various things...one supplier has made me wait pretty much all day before faxing me a little note "sorry we are unable to supply the above items" needless to say i was well impressed, but if they can't do it, that's fair enough, but they could've told me a little earlier...ho-hum
tonight is quiz night, although i'm not 100% sure i'll be attending as i should really try to get another early night, i say early, but we all know it'll be after midnight before i get to sleep, so i guess i may as well head out and enjoy myself :)
take it easy peeps (glad to see there are no tags about at the moment)
Px

Song for Saturday (yeah i know it's still friday...but who cares!)
feel good song for the weekend... was listening to it in the car this morning on the way to work and it's put me in a good mood :D
funky cold medina - Tonè Loc
cold cooling at a ball
looking for some action
but like Mick Jagger said
I can't get no satisfaction
the girls are all around
but none of them wanna get with me
my threads are fresh and I'm looking def
yo wassup with the l o c
the girls are all jocking
at the other end of the bar
having drinks with some no name chump
when they know that I'm the star
so I got up and strolled over
to the other side of the cantina
I asked the guy, "why you so fly?"
he said "funky cold medina"

this brother told me a secret
on how to get more chicks
put a little medina in your glass
and the girls'll come real quick
it's better than any alcohol
or afrodesiac
a couple of sips of this love potion and she'll be on your lap
so I gave some to my dog, when he began to big
and then he licked his bowl and he looked at me
and did the wild thing on my leg
he used to scratch and bite me
before he was much much meaner
but now all the poodles run to my house for the funky cold medina

you know what I'm saying
I got every dog in my neighborhood breaking down my door
I got Spuds McKenzie, Alex from Strolls
they won't leave my dog alone with that medina thing

I went up to this girl
she said "Hi, my name Sheena"
I thought she'd be good to go with a little funk cold medina,
she said "I'd like a drink", I said "ok, I'll go get it"
and then a couple of sips,
she cold licked her lips
and I knew that she was with it
so I took her to my crib
and everything went well as planned
but when she got undressed
it was big old mess
Sheena was a man
so I threw him out
I don't fool around with no Oscar Meyer weiner
you must be sure that the girl is pure for the funky cold medina
you know,
ain't no plans with a man,
this is the 80s and I'm down the ladies,

break it down,

back in the saddle, looking for a little affection
I took a shot, I thought I'd test it on the Love Connection
the audience guests voted,
and you know, they picked a winner
I took my date to the Hilton for medina had some dinner
she had a few drinks, I'm thinking soon what I'd be getting,
but that's when she starting talking 'bout plans for a wedding,
I said "wait, slow down love, not so fast, I'll be seeing ya",
that's why I found you don't play around with the funky cold medina

you know what I'm saying
that medina's a monster y'all

HNT time again
fluff free but you can still see where i had it pierced...i give you my belly button! no stories this week, no history behind it...nothing but pics!
First up is the straight on shot...
next up is what i see of my belly button...

Happy HNT peeps...don't know what i'm on about...click the button in the side bar :)

Take care peeps

Px