Going Todash

OK, I have moved!

Unfortunately back to my parents but that's only till the 10th when i can get into my student house. Money is becoming somewhat of an issue but tomorrow I'm heading off to hand in the last of my paperwork for my student loan. With any luck it'll arrive quickly and since i have no savings and no income i should get a big pile of means tested cash. However I may have to get a part time job as well, but with my retail experience i don't see a problem in that. i just hope i can find a job that doesn't make my brain dribble out of my ears through sheer boredom.

DAMMIT! Today I was planning to go down to Plymouth to have a look at the student house i'm hoping to move into. So I go outside to my car, which isn't there. Some little oik has pinched it! And to add insult to injury they left the stanley knife they probably used to get into my car lying on the floor where the front door would have been.

On the plus side I got hold of the police and apparently it's been found. At least I hope it's a plus side and not actually wrapped around a tree or burnt out. The car would only have lasted until the 15th of september anyway, at which point the MOT runs out and it probably won't pass another.

Now I have to wait for the police to get back to me and find out the state of the car. I'm still undecided as to whether to drive to plymouth or get the train. At the moment I'm thinking I drive the car (if driveable) down to cornwall, then head back up to swansea with my mum, since she's coming up to pick up stuff anyway.

Well, time will tell if I own a functional car or a burnt out husk. And I'm not sure I mind either way.

OK, I am famously bad at making decisions. A few months ago I had to make a fairly big one. Do I go to Uni in Plymouth or move up to Swansea with my old friends.

I chose Swansea, and I've changed my mind.

After a week off and going to back to work I've realized exactly how much I hate my job. And to top it off I'm surrounded by fairly intelligent people who've been there for years, who's highest aspiration is to make manager and who spend most of their time picking up cardboard. And I said NO!

I never canceled my place at Plymouth and my parents are willing to front the fees till my loan comes through. I have a house-share I can move into with my friends sister and, overall, it's going well.

I'm pretty sure I can find some evening or weekend work there, and whatever I get it can't be worse than Lidl.

So, about 2 weeks of work to go then i'm buggering off. Although it sort of feels like I've failed the whole "moving out" thing. Although I'll only be back at my parents for a maximum of 2 weeks.

Anyway, must drink tea and eat pasta before work *shudder*.

Tata

Yesterday I thought it'd be a great idea to hit the local rock night. A great night all round, amazing music, good company and alcohol. However, today I have to go to work at midday. I've managed to get up and i'm starting to think the evening wasn't the best idea.

I do have a plan though. TEA! Tea will make it all better.

Now then, where was i?

Ah! Jobs. I have come to the belief that there are no actual jobs that run from Monday to Friday, 9am till 5 pm, or thereabouts. It's a myth,an urban legend. All jobs have incredibly unsociable hours and will rob you of your weekends. Though it's probably just because I'm stuck in the retail job loop. I have 5 years working experience, the trouble is that as it's all retail experience the only people who take it into account are other retailers. I've recently tried to counter this by getting a City and Guilds level 2 in PC repair, but so far I've found nothing. Oh well, on the plus side I've recently applied for a job as an assistant manager at Blue Banana, so it's not all bad.

Which brings me, handily, to living arrangements. I lived with my parents in cornwall for ages, then i got together with my girlfriend and moved into her house for about 6 months. We moved up to swansea for 3 years and then moved back. At which point we broke up and i moved back in at home. I soon tired of the cliche of a D&D playing nerd living wit his parents in his 20s so i decided to move out. Which is where i find myself now, lodged back up in swansea with all my old mates. I managed to get a transfer with my job at Lidl from cornwall, I'm still not sure if this is a good thing or bad.

Now for some random facts about me:

I can play a drum kit and djembe (african drum). I also ply the ocarina, and yes, i can play zelda tunes on it. I am also trying to get into a band (on drums or vocals, not the ocarina)

I am looking to start making webcomic since i recently found out i can actually draw a bit. I have at least 5 ideas, I'm sure i'll pick one eventually. However I can't make a start till i go out and buy a scanner.

I'm a big fan of cooking, I enjoy foreign food like chinese, thai and indian. I have a tendency to cook nice food but i tend to drasticaly overestimate the amounts needed. This is OK because I couls eat for my country.

I enjoy martial arts and i've now found a theres a place in swansea that does Brazilian Ju-Jitsu, which i've done in the past. once i find out where it is i shall start going.

I am also learning acrobatics. I can cartwheel (1 or 2 handed), arab spring, kick up from my shoulders, headspring and i've recently managed to land flips and somersaults. Yay!

OK, by now you should have an insight into who i am and why. If not it's probably my fault, sorry. I shall now blog more regularly about my day to day activities until such a time as i get my arse in gear and portray them through the media of comics.

Catch you later

Happy Goth

Right, I've been blogging on and off for the past few years over various sites and i thought it was about time i did it properly. So here we go.

Welcome bored denizens of the Internet, by lucky chance you have stumbled across my blog. I shall try to keep it as interesting as possible and not twaddle on for pages.

Where to begin,I think I'll skip the whole childhood thing as i messed that up royally and instead fill you in on the parts of my adult life that have shaped me into the twisted creature at the keyboard here today.

I am nice, there's no avoiding it. Some people are handsome, some are witty, some are clever, i am nice. This affliction has plagued me since childhood and i can't seem to shake it, personally I blame the parents. My niceness led me to my first long term girlfriend, I'll not go into names but those who know me know who she is. We were together for 5 years, i came up to Swansea to get her through uni and it seemed to work. However she was somewhat needy (sorry) and possessive (sorry again). I tried as best i could to get her out of these habits and meet people, make more friends and learn to spend time on her own, but it didn't work. Probably because, as previously mentioned, I'm too nice for my own good so when she asked me not to go out, I didn't. Eventually it got to the point where she wouldn't have to ask, I'd just assume she wanted me to stay in so i didn't bother to go out. I was becoming someone i didn't like, so i left her. Hardest thing i ever did, and I'm sorry for hurting her, but i had to do it. We are still friends and talk on messenger.

During my time in Swansea I discovered the wonderful wonderful world of LARP. Best way to think of it is a cross between lord of the rings and reenactment. I dress up in old style clothes (think braveheart, kilt and all) and go out into a field with about 1,000 similarly minded adults. We drink beer, sing songs and beat each other up with foam weaponry. It's great, go look it up and join in. LARP came fairly easy to me as i am a roleplayer. No, not in a sexual way, more in a dungeons and dragons, violence and dice kind of way. I also play tabletop wargames and play a lot of computer games (most recently world of warcraft). If you havn't guessed it by now, I am a geek/nerd and proud of it. I have a belt with flaming dice to prove it!

Music! Music is an incredibly important part of my life. I believe taht it, above all other things, defines who i really am. If i am awake and not in work (pesky supermarkets) I have music on. Be it on my MP3 player or the several thousand tracks sitting on my PC. i have a somewhat eclectic music taste. I'll eventually go into my full tastes later on. However, one of my favorite artist is Emilie Autumn. A beautiful voice and skilled with the electric violin. i went to my first live show recently to see her in camden. It was good, however it has shown me one thing about myself. I prefer recorded music to live. When an artist makes a track they want it to sound a certain way, which is where studio jigery pokery comes into it. When a track is performed live the artis generally can't produce the same musical quality and the track is heard out of context. I'd prefer to hear it how the artist wants it to be heard rather than it actually sounds on the night. I dunno, maybe i'm just wierd.

OK, I'v wattled on for far too long now. Shall continue my epic saga later after i've had a clean up and put the washing on. Toodle pip.