Bat's
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Just a quick picture of the show i'm sat doing. Bit of a musical and band job for bat's? Not a bad show but a bit slow. Busy day tomorrow though setting up for another show in Osset.
In other news though i may well be going to the jamboree afterall! Nothing in stone as yet but could be going down as a videot as part of the entertainments team. More on that when i know more.
Anyway. Must get back to the show!
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One for good luck
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Not that you can see anything but...
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Not that you can actually see anything but that's the support act!
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This evening I shall mostly be going to see Meatloaf at the MEN in Manchester... can't wait!
Tis ages since I've ben to see a gig and have been wanting to go see meatloaf for absolutely ages!
Think I've got the mobile blogging sorted again so I'll try post some pics tonight!
Hello once again blog readers..... well those of you that have realised that I've removed the restrictions on reading my posts.....
Anyway. It's been a long time since I last posted anything on here, in fact it's been about three months since I posted on here about what I was doing. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't start writing sooner but after I "privatised the blog" back in february for reasons that some of you will know I just never got round to starting up again - till now! Hopefully this time I should keep you informed and up to date with my goings on!
Rather than bore you all with what I've been doing for the past three months I'll not bother updating too far back as that would take for too much time...
What I will say though is that I'm still not back at work.. hopefully that situation will be sorted out soon...
I didn't get the job I applied for - I did however get down to a shortlist of 5 and after interview it was between me and another guy. Unfortunately my situation didn't lend well to me getting the job so the other guy got the job. Bit of a downer but I've got over it now - even if the money was better and the job more along the lines of what I wanted to do!
As for other things I ended up doing a weeks freelance work for a guy I've worked with a few times - but this job was different to any of the others I have done with him. This was a national roadshow for a large UK bank. While I didn't do the full three week run of the roadshow I did do a weeks section of it - 3 shows in all - Edinburgh, Glasgow and London. The journey between Glasgow and London was not fun! Even if I did sleep most of the way - it was still 9 hours on a not so comfy bus seat!
I'll leave it at that for now as I can't be bohered typing any more.... but do come back soon!
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Well, quite a lot actually - well If I don't keep myself occupied I keep worrying and it's starting to really get me down now. I still haven't heard from work or anyone regarding the situation so still don't know what the problem is!
So, having nothing better to do on Tuesday I trotted off to the Library to see if they had the Haynes manual for the car - yep, so that was good... incidentally I got to drive my dads car... ok so all I did was move it forward so I could get mine out.... but he still let me drive it... the fact that he was on the phone and working might have had something to do with it but never mind!
So, armed with the manual I set about diagnosing the faulyts my car has... dodgy spark plugs being one of them. Wednesday was then set aside to mend my car - silly idea - who'd choose to be outside on a day like wednesday! But car now has new spark plugs, replaced the second of three gear linkages and hopefully if the bandage thingy worked cured the blowing exhaust!
Today though I are mostly feeling like shite... to be honest I've been feeling like shite all week... i've got a cold which isn't helped by the lack of sleep and the probable streess I'm under not knowing what's going on at work! Had I have meant to have been in work today I would more than likely have rung in sick!
Just spotted a good job in a paper so rung them up for the form... won't say where tho... just in case!
Anyway... off for a nice long soak in the bath to see if that makes me feel any better!
So, once more it's been a while since I last blogged on here... reason being? Well, for a start I have no reliable internet at home at the moment as I have disconnected the NTL account (I can still recieve incomming calls tho...)... I currently use the internet through a neighbors un secured wireless network connection. Shhh... don't tell him!
Only problem with this though is that it's not all that reliable and I have to sit with the laptop in the bedroom window for it to work well... not all that good! So all I've really been using it for is checking my email on an evening and listening to BBC 7 repeats on the internet!
As well as that it's also been the Collegians Panto over the last week or so and as such I've been a little bit tied up over the past two weekends and every evening. This years panto wasn't as good as normal - and it was far too long! Both acts were around the hour long mark, so we were lucky if we managed to get out of the town hall most nights!
Then, as if that wasn't a hectic enough schedule, what with work and the panto, I've spent all my free time (probably the time I should have been sleeping or catching up with my paperwork mountain..) I've been packing my stuff up in order to move back in with the parents... I'd say more about this but the aftermath of the last post regarding this has suggested that this probably isn't the best place to say such things... even if this is my diary!
I'm pretty much moved now, well, most of the stuff is up at the parents now anyway as I've been picking Robert up for the panto ever night. As I was going up to parents to pick him up it seemed a good idea to take a boot load of stuff with me at the same time. I'm going to spend some time this evening moving stuff back as well. All being well I should be moved and sorted by the end of the week. Probably going to spend an evening or two sorting stuff out at parents properly before I move for real so that things are just so...
The house looks looks like a bomb has hit it at the moment as I have bits and pieces all over - I tidied up before I started packing to make it easier but now I have piles of stuff here there an everywhere as I've been sorting through all the stuff that I've not used since I moved and throwing a lot away... it's a good job I have access to the skip at work.... I'd have probably filled the bin a number of times over by now with the ammount of stuff I've thrown away!
It actually felt quite good to throw a lot of the stuff away - I think I've picked up my dads habit of hoarding stuff "just in case" - or maybe it's something to do with Scouting? Saving stuff that might come in useful at some point. Problem is when you do find a need for what you've saved you can never find the "safe place" it was stored in!
Once everything is out of the house that belongs to me I'm going to absolutely blitz the house and give iy a real good clean so that Katie can have a fresh start... well... that and the parents want the Vaccum back... and it would be unfair to leave a house that needed a good vac and take the vaccume with me!
So what are my thoughts on moving back in with the parents? Well... I'm not particularly happy to be doing it, it's probably going to be a bit hard as I'm so used to the freedom that having my own place (which I sort of have had for the last 3 or four months really). On the other hand though I'm actually looking on the upside of things here - it's going to save me a hell of a lot of money so that I can begin to sort my finances out and get a stable financial platform so I can think about getting myself a house of my own somewhere... thought I'm not all that sure I can get a mortgage on my salary :( As well as the savings I'm going to make the board and half payment for all the appliances and bits and pieces we bought for the house will help a lot to get me back on track. I'm just glad that this months wage (payday on Friday!) has the overtime that was missed out on last pay day as well as all the overtime from the show week! This last couple of weeks has been really tight - it's Ok getting paid early for Christmas (we got paid on the 19th) but it makes it a long time between getting paid! That and blasted bank charges as well have made this month especially tight! I'm just glad I have people I can call on when things get tight (thank you Robert for lending me money!).
While I think it could be a bit of a shock moving back home it shouldn't be all that bad as I now have the car so don't spend as much time in and around the house as I used to do. I know I'm going to have to live to some tighter house rules than before I moved out but it should make things easier for me. Especially with the finance side of things - I'm not paying as much board as I was with Katie - and I won't have to worry about buying food and things ontop. I'll even get real meals and be able to cook proerly again. Cooking for one is not as much fun or as easy a cooking for five!
I think after this week I'm going to need a break... fortunately the parents are going up to Gearstones again for the weekend... depending on whether or not Matthew has another pot put on when he goes in on Wednesday I may be called upon to give Matthew a lift up on Friday (if he doesn't get a pot)... even if I don't need to give him a lift I'll still go up for the weekend and hopefully this time the weather will be suitable for walking in so I can get some "me" time!
As well as that, this week should see the Guinness Fridge being delivered to me so woo!
Anyhow... I've avoided doing any real work for a while now so I suppose I ought to get back and do some real work...
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Current Mood - Feel like s**t to be honest.... not enough sleep, too much work over weekend!
Current Music - radio 1 in the background on one side, some lesson or other on the other side!
Current Drink - black coffee!
Exactly what it says in the title....
Ok, so i'm pissed, i'm in a mood and I'm annoyyed... so deal with it!
Actually, I'm annoyed as I've just spent the last half hour constructing a post that doesn't make me sound bitter about needing a housemate and that I am actually bloody happy for katie but I managed to press something on the laptop and it's now all gone...
I'm not bitter that katie is moving with her other half, I'm just up in the air as I haven't a fucking clue what I'm gonna do! While katie is fine as she has something worked out I'm stuc with no a clue what to do!
All I know is that I can't afford the rent on this place on my own and that I don't now anyone wanting to share with me. I don't want to move back in with the parents as I've too much stuff that I bought when me and katie first moved in - stuff that if I go back to the parents will become redundant. Stuff that I bought thinking we would be in the house for a while, furniture, appliances, stuff so that we could both use the internet. Stuff that if I go back home will have been a waste of time.
I'm currently sishing I never even moved out of the parents house. God knows I wasn't all that sure of the idea at first, but with persuasion from Katie I finally succumed to the idea and we started looking for somewhere, then a few months after we had found somewhere and we were settled in Katie fins a serious BF.... now don't get me wrong I'm still fantastically happy for both katie and Mark. I'm just now left in the shit not knowing where I'm going to go from here! I just feel like I've ben handed the shitty end of the baton in the relay race of life...
Now, having posted this I know that katie is going to have a fit over why I haven't talked about thsi to her, but those that know me will be aware that I'm no good at face to face communiaction and that I prefer the art of writing - hell I even came out to my parents in a letter! But please don't be mad.....
Oh... and if anyone does need a lodger or who knows somone wanting somewhere to stay then you know where I am....
Quick header to this post... I had planned to post this earlier in the week (as in before 2007) as it's been sat in my drafts folder havng varioud bits added an changed for a week or so now... so here it is... my mind dumpings formed roughly around a post from Katie...
As is customary at this time of year (and I'm bored) I thought it an apt time to look back on the ups and downs of 2006... the highs, the lows. The tears, the
laughter and above all the fun I've had...
So what did I do in 2006 that I haven't done before.. quite a lot actually. I started the year off by learning to drive, something that I planned on doing for ages and had been a new years resolution for many a year (well, since I turned 17 that is!). Alas, up till this year I coudn't afford it. But in January of 2006 I had the money so approached a number of Driving Instructors, finally settling on BSM... which may or may not have been a good idea but it did mean that I passed my test first time - after having 2 diferent instructors and cars!
What else have I done this year? Well, I've been to ireland and had a fantastic time, I've been on summer camp, I've passed my driving test, bought a car and moved out of my parents house (for now!). On a slightly different tact I've also spent the night with someone that I love and fulfilled one of my fantasies!
Have I kept any of my new years resolutions? Well.. yeah... one or two... that is I learned to drive and, erm.. thats it I think. I know I didn't loose weight... well I did, but put it back on again! Neither have I taken myself off for a weekend everymonth in the tent.. but I have spent nearly 50 nights away from home in a scouting sort of way.
Did anyone I know give birth? Yeah... one of the music teachers at school.. not that I know them that well.
4. Did anyone close to you die? My old scout leader, John, I wouldn't say that I was all that close to John but I'd known him for so long and shared a rather large quantity of pints with him iver the years. In fact it was quite probably John that got me into drinking when I joined ventures! I've spent many a morning after everybody else had gone to bed putting the world to rights with john over a tin or two... and somehow John allways managed to get up to do the breakfast after not a lot of sleep.
What countries have I visited... well, apart from Ireland I've kind of stayed in England... but I have seen a lot of England this year with various jaunts off on a weekend!
What would I like to have in 2007 that I lacked in 2006? Well, to be honest, not a lot really. Well, actually I would like to learn to be a bit more carefull with my money and spend it a bit more wisely. I'd probably like a better paid job as well... but a job with the same hours and holidays that I love (like my current job which I love... apart from the pay) is going to be hard to find.
What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Quite probably the 24th August as that was the day I passed my driving test! Or even the 30th september - when I met Matt.
What was your biggest achievement of the year? Passing my Driving test first time with only 3 minors I think... even if driving does cost a load!
What was your biggest failure? My inability to save money and spend wisely...
Did you suffer illness or injury? Nothing serious
What was the best thing you bought? Although I kind of don't like my car anymore and it just seems to eat money I suppose I'd better say the car as it's made things so much easier... even if it does keep giving me headaches with the ammount it costs to run!
Where did most of your money go? I'd like to say food and rent here, but I know I'm wrong and that most has gone on my car and bank charges... without bank charges I think I'd actually be able to save some money... I'm in the process of recovering all my bank charges though...
What did you get really, really, really excited about? Going to Ireland.... buying a car and driving it around...
What song(s) will always remind you of 2006? - Snow patrol "run" and I suppose anything from Grease.. I'm not really one to have a soundtrack to my life as so many different songs have differnt memories attatched to them for lots of reasons. If I was ever to make a soundtrack to my life I don't think I'd be able to afford all the blank CD's! I'm also not one for being able to say of the top of my head what song reminds me of what - it's when I hear the song that I remember the times!
Am I happier or sadder than this time last year? Well, to be honest I'm neither! In some ways I'm happier and then there are some things and aspects of my life where I'm not! You might have guessed but my life can be pretty fucked up at times - though thankfully (for me at least) not as bad as some other peoples lives.
Did you fall in love in 2006? I don't know... what is "Love"? I've found someone who I get on with imensely, but I don't think you could call it love. Whether it is love or not I've certainly found someone else that I can call a really special part of my life. Actually. Everybody is special and important in my life - just some people are a far more special to me than others.
How many one-night stands? Er... none! I've slept with the same 2 people on multiple occasions (though not at the same time!). I'm not one for one night stands. I know that the typical stereotype of young gay men is that we are all promiscuous people that go out with one thing on their mind - to get laid. That's just not me though - I go out to have a good time and enjy myself.
Have I been happy with 2006 then? Actually yes! It's been a year of highs and some lows, but overall it's been a good year. And of course it's over now - what's hapened has happened and can't be changed. All that's left to do now is build on the sucesses of 2006 and ignore the rest!
Heres to a happy and prosperous 2007!
Happy new year everyone!
