Moneys Too Tight To Mention…

…So I wont. But I will update this for once, I think I’ll add it to my list of new years resolutions and hopefully not need to cross it out.

The past 2 weeks have mainly consisted of going to and from college, staying at home doing my coursework and web design, counting pennies and sleeping.

But seriously, apart from that nothing has happened, my life has got to the point where it cannot be any more boring.

The only thing worth mentioning really is on Wednesday I went back to Church Stretton, I originally went there last year to photograph a waterfall but due to the fact I was using my Pentax for the first time and me not having a tripod the photos didn’t work, so this time I was determined to make it work.

I got to college early (9:30am), I had to go with the first year students because my year had already done this project. On the way there I was told all about the strange different characters on the first year.

When we got to Church Stretton we had a walk uphill and I realized how unfit I actually am, I took 4 rolls of film which I used up pretty quickly.

When we were all done we noticed that someone had left their bag on a rock and gone back to the car so we took it with us as we headed back to the car park. When we got to the car park he wasn’t there, we all started panicking and planning the search party, luckily he turned up so we all left.

Oh, another thing that happened was I almost sold my car to of all people Mr High Speed Garage, I spent all of last Sunday waiting for him to come back but he didn’t so I still have a car to get rid of.

So that’s my boring 2 weeks for you, hope you haven’t fallen asleep as you were reading this, but next week should be better, I’ve received a nice big cheque off my Dad plus I’m planning my New York trip.

currently listening to: stellastarr* - Somewhere Across Forever
Gemma is currently listening to: Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - Lets Party

Motivation Such An Aggravation…

So it’s a new year full of new starts and all that, so I made a list of new years resolutions:
Stop drinking
Eat healthily
Be on time for college
Get a job
Be more focused with my college work

2 out of 5 have been broken already, so now I have to find a job and get some bloody work done quickly before I have to cross them off the list too.

So I went back to college last Monday, I was late which wasn’t a very good start to the new year, we were told that we now have deadlines to get our work in by, then we were told that our essay proposal forms in by next Monday (tomorrow) - I need to think of something to do quick!

Me, Jazz and Ashley left early to go to the ‘library’ for a few ‘books’, when we got into Solihull we had a Subway, I hadn’t had a Subway in ages and forgotten how much I like them, I think they can count as eating healthily.

After looking round a few shops I bought Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age and a book on 20th Century Photography, it was quite a rude book, but all the naked people were uglies so it counts as ‘art’.

We then went into Jessops, Ashley bought a new digital SLR, it was very expensive and fancy, so to celebrate we went to the ‘library’, the first ‘library’ we went into was the Weatherspoons, as we sat down this random alcoholic from Wolverhampton sat with us, he started telling us about Maradona, Mike Tyson being in debt and Michael Jackson.

At this point he had already got through 2 ‘books’ about Guinness and we’d only been sat down for a few minutes, he then started telling us about how his wife has left him and how he threw his platinum wedding ring in the bin, he looked like he was either about to cry or kill us all, luckily he got up to go to the toilet so we finished ’reading our books’ and made a run for it.

On the way out we bumped into him:
“your not going already are you?”
“um…yeah look at the time, we have to meet….um…thingy”
“oh…ok…well I’m going to be in here for the rest of the day”

…We went into the Hog’s Head next door.

When we sat down we started to look at Ashley’s new camera, it was very good, and she even did her flash blur project while we were in there of me ‘reading’.

Wednesday I had college again, not much happened really, I fell asleep at one point (again) but hopefully nobody noticed.

Thursday was boring.

Friday I had college again, with any luck I should be going to New York at the beginning of March, I also found this pretty cool website called AdBusters it’s worth a look at, it’s very interesting especially the spoof adverts at the bottom.

The weekend was boring, I had no money, not even any bus fare. Grr! I really should get a job, well maybe a student loan will suffice.

currently listening to: Blink 182 - Dammit
Gemma is currently listening to: Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice baby

Crappy New Beer…

I’ve neglected my site again but it’s one of my many new years resolutions to update it as much as possible.

So what's the goss?

It starts with me breaking up from college, I broke up on the Wednesday and travelled down to Falmouth the next day to visit Claire, I spent a couple of days there and came back on the Saturday, I had a good few days and really enjoyed it.

When I got home I had a really bad cough, which soon turned into a bad cold and I felt awful, but I needed to get some Christmas shopping done, everyday I tried to make the effort but ended up going back to bed.

To make matters worse our boiler which was all completely refitted a couple of weeks before started leaking and we had to get the retarded plumbers out to fix it.

I started my Christmas shopping on Christmas eve, I had to hurry though because my Dad was coming over in the afternoon, I managed to get everyone’s presents and was even stood next to Bob Warman from Central News as I was queuing up in HMV.

...I bet your jealous of me really!

Apparently Har Mar Superstar was also doing his Christmas shopping in there too.

On the way back from town my bus smashed into the back of a car as I was about to get off it, luckily nobody was hurt. I couldn’t get off the bus until the driver opened the doors but he was too scared to because the woman who’s car he bumped into was threatening to kill him, nothing like a bit of festive cheer!

When my Dad got here he’d only just sat down and Gaz turned up, I think Gaz must have left his beard at home, I was shocked.

On Christmas morning I woke up about 9am, we all got up and opened our presents half asleep, my Mum and Dad got me a sexy new coat and a shirt plus lots of chocolates and my sister got me Kill Bill 1 and 2 on DVD.

In the afternoon I went with my Dad to my Nan’s house to pick her up for Christmas dinner, we were saving on money this year by eating my Nan instead of getting a turkey, unfortunately my Nan wouldn’t fit in the oven so we had to have turkey after all.

After a rather yummy Christmas dinner we all sat round in a state of half conscious full up-ness. My Nan got me more chocolates but you wont hear me complaining.

In the evening I looked out of the window to see snow, I was really excited as this is only the 2nd white Christmas I’ve ever witnessed, the first was when I was 2 months old and we got snowed in.

Boxing day morning I woke up in a really good mood, it was Christmas, there was snow on the ground, I had chocolate - I felt like bursting into song, but as I came downstairs the first thing my Dad says to me is “the boilers broken again, this time waters gushing out of it” I was stood there in complete shock, it had only just been fixed, how will I cope? We’ll have no hot water, We’ll have no central heating, I CANT HAVE A SHOWER!!! and there’s no plumbers available for days.

...Bollocks!

We spent the entire day phoning emergency plumbers, CORGI inspectors, engineers, anyone who might be able to fix it. We had no luck.

The next day we decided we needed to get out of our cold house, we were going to go for a walk around the Lickey hills, but after leaving it too late we went for a walk around Sainsbury’s instead, we visited my Nan on the way back, she made us cakes and we watched Matilda on TV and I fell asleep on the settee.

My Dad was going back on Tuesday, before he went though my Mum tried phoning the people who fixed our boiler last, we couldn’t get any luck from them so my Dad spoke to them but the bloke who he spoke to threatened to give him a slap, my dad made me laugh by going “well come here and fix the boiler, then you can give me a slap”
…they hung up after that.

That evening I met up with Adam, Gaz and Jo and we all went to the Coach house, it was pretty quiet there, mind you it always is from what I remember, but it has been ages since I was last there.

Wednesday evening I was feeling pretty crappy, I wont go into it all, everything just seemed to go wrong and my head felt like it would explode, I needed a night out and luckily I was meeting up with Gemma and Jo and seeing Distophia at the Jug Of Ale in Moseley.

The first band up were Shocked Elevator Family, they were ok, they had a fan club at the front who did this funny sort of claw pose with their hands, when they were finished I went to the bar to get drinks, half of Birmingham were at the bar though and it took me an hour to get served, there was even a fight which broke out with some local scallywags which was entertaining.

When I finally got back upstairs, the 2nd band - Champion Kickboxer - were just finishing, they were very tall and plinky plonky, not my cup of tea really.

Distophia were the last band up, Jo was hoping they would play Joanne so she could dance around on stage but they didn’t, they did play Cats Of Brazil, Winifred Whyte and Robert Redford though as well as some others which were on a free CD which was being handed out but we didn’t get one.

On the way home afterwards I was stood at the bus stop and there was this drunk Irish bloke telling me about the monopolisation of the bus industry in the Midlands, he had a point really but as soon as the bus came I tried to disassociate from him and left him to talk to himself.

Thursday morning after getting no sleep I got up feeling pretty crap so I decided to get some tickets to the Ramshackle vs. Subculture new years bash at the Academy and maybe a bit of retail therapy would help too, however I noticed nearly everything in the sale was more money or the same as it was before Christmas and I saw one of the Shocked Elevator Family in HMV.

After looking round Birmingham aimlessly I got the number 6 into Solihull hoping to catch the shops before they closed but the bus took 2 hours and most of the shops were shut, luckily being Thursday Touchwood was still open so I had a look in Fopp and this DVD shop but still couldn’t find anything worth buying.

Absolutely exhausted and pissed off I phoned Adam hoping that he’d be in Solihull, luckily he was, it was Mike’s birthday so everyone from Transco was there, Adam was pissed off too for some reason, not sure why though. After a while we all went to Carl’s house and watched the Animatrix, I fell asleep through most of it because I was so tired.

Friday was new years eve, went into Birmingham during the day and bought the Cure’s greatest hits, Rated R by Queens Of The Stone Age and Fahrenheit 9/11 on DVD, in the evening I went back into Brum to meet up with Gemma for Ramshackle vs. Subculture at the Academy.

It was quite busy there but there were more people at the bar trying to get served than anywhere else, when it struck midnight everyone got onto the dance floor packed like sardines as these balloons fell, unfortunately I have a phobia of balloons so I was excited but scared at the same time.

I wanted to grab a balloon but couldn’t catch any, probably because my eyes were closed tightly, when I opened them again I grabbed what I thought was a balloon, unfortunately it was a bald bloke’s head so Gemma handed me one she caught and we headed to the bar, we waited over an hour at the bar to get served, beating my record set on Wednesday at the Jug.

We left the Academy in time to catch the 3:05 night bus but it didn’t arrive and neither did the one after that, we almost got a taxi with some Solihull randoms until we realized we were stood at the wrong bus stop, luckily we flagged it down and caught it.

We got off the bus in Shirley to catch Shirley Kebab House as it was closing and got some red hot chicken and then found out that the Red Lion was being naughty and having a lock in.

I started to walk home, the taxis were double fare so it was a bit of a long walk, there weren’t many drunkards on the street but plenty of puddles of sick so I knew they were there earlier, when I got in at 5am I was so tired I went straight to sleep.

…All is quiet on new years day…

On the Sunday we all went to the pub quiz at the Red Lion, we came 6th out of about 8 so we didn’t win anything this time, afterwards we were naughty and stayed behind for a few drinks after hours.

I had a bit too much too drink and when I eventually got home and had 2 Chinese takeaways I started paying the price for staying behind after hours, the next thing I knew it was 8:30 am and I was lying fully clothed on the settee.

I was meant to meet Adam and Gemma in Solihull for a Burger King but that was the last thing I wanted so in the end Adam and Gemma came here, Adam needed to use my computer to book his Reading ticket so he booked mine and Jo’s at the same time.

So that was my exciting Christmas holiday, despite being ill, having no hot water or central heating, suffering the consequences of drinking too much, and the other shitness that happened I guess it wasn't such a bad Christmas.

Back at college tomorrow, maybe I should have got some coursework done.

currently listening to: Goldfinger - Superman
Gemma is currently listening to: Dizzee Rascal's little rap bit in Band Aid 20