After having two days off i was kind a glad i was back to work and only on a short shift, getting home at 3 meant i could get some of the boring day today tasks we all have to endure. One thing i enjoy is how ever strange it sounds is shopping with music, you have to pick the right sound track but when you do it can make eg food shoping a bit more interesting. So while taking the evening easy i got a text inviting me out to Manchester, i know i had just come from there and it only gave me i hour or so to get everything done before i made my way back to Manchester for the second time that day, now i like Manchester but after 6 years the drive has become boring, but like a trooper i decided to go and where would the night take me? well to a house warming party and what would you give some one as a present? Well a cigar! Yep! I have come around to the thinking that when you move in to a new place you have to smoke a cigar, now this is down to the fact of that’s what im going to do and no cheap cigar either, something nice! So after a few drinks (ok enough!) back to staying out in Manchester, now im old enough where i don’t have to ask my mum if i can stay out and the cats were feed so what would be holding me back? Nothing and i done think it could if it tried!
We come back to what i love about Manchester and thats the breakfast at what ever time of the day you want it and yes i did, i managed to drag my self out of bed at about 1 and it did take a lot of effort and not from the beer, 5 mins down the road and another greasy spoon gem, what a breakfast!
Now i wish i could stop typing about night out but HA not today, so after a night of partying and late days i dropped of the girl im seeing at her home (you probably guessed she had something to do with the evening!) then i set of home to wash, new cloths, feed cats and back out to Manchester for a good friends birthdays party around the northern quarter, Now just to remind you buy this point i had gone one day this week with out sleep, spent 2 days down south, been out the night before and had only slept in my bed once this week i could have quite happily just gone to sleep but when i friend becomes involved i can let them down and im glad i didnt, The northern quarter is a really relaxed and chilled out place, spent a lot of time in Blue and then on to a club, not the place that would be first on my list but if i did everything i do again and again i would never find new and exciting things, so by the end of the night i had spent some time drinking, chatting and dancing and had a great time, I even got a sofa to sleep on in a room of 8! spent most of the night giggling!
So now im home and yep i get to sleep im my very own bed! i even got new covers for it!

I did get to see my little sis today, she is the Ex's sister but i have known her for so long i see her as my own sister and she sees me as her brother, she rang me while i was in town and ask me to come and see her so i did! She's not a bad ice skater as she proved to me. So all in all a very very good week and fantastic last few days

My photo's:

What i think is a very cool poster!

House party and the eviction of unwanted scallys.

Printworks at night.

Blue bar.


The Club we finished the night at.



MY sister the expert ice skater.

Hose update: Another viewing tomorrow! Come on luck!

Lets catch up........

The joy of two day off was upon me as soon as I opened my eyes! So after finishing a few lose ends and fitting some more ram in my laptop (makes to cook things faster apparently!) I got to spend the day enjoying life, and who better to spend some of this time with? Come on people don’t you known anything by now! Yep you guessed right! And I took her to have a day shopping although she would let me spend any cash on her! I can understand that but these student don’t have any money and im quite amazed on what a person can actually survive on! So after some food we went back to her flat to drop off some stuff I had, may as well go to good use in someone else flat instead of the bin, after shifting through all the stuff I have it’s a good feeling that something I have would help someone else. So after a few hours of chatting, chilling, trying to under stand the difference of politics philosophy and the philosophy of politics time had run away with our day, So option 1: Drive her back and then home but would be late before I was home Or Option 2: stay exactly where we were and enjoy the best Breakfast Manchester has to offer and when ever you want, So we opted for option 2! Glad option 2 was on the table as I really enjoyed the night, early morning, afternoon and early evening And got to have that great breakfast at 3pm! So after making our way back to Liverpool in what could only be described as torrential rain I made my way back home, it wasn’t the fastest trip as the rain was to heavy but after getting on the motorway to Blackburn I hit would only what could be described as a lake in the fast lane of the motorway, Now being in a car you can imagine that the force and speed of my car may displace some water but that would be an understatement, I would describe my car as being underwater! Only for a few seconds but yep underwater! All I could do is hold the wheel straight as I was aquaplaning and hope that there was more for me to do on this world and hay presto! I was alive and on the other side! Now you may think I could be exaggerating some of the events of that story but the bloke in the car behind may disagree as he spun and stopped in the fast lane,

So I picked up a Trafford Pixies – Doolittle, Rage Agents The Machine - , Spaced Box set and old boy, got to watch old boy to night and I have to say what a film! I just enjoyed ever bit of that film and its been a while since a film has made me squirm, Oh I also got the 10 disc matrix box set when in Milton Kenyans for £15, Bargain!

Took some photo’s of my trip down south!

Home!

no talk just sleep

Well need sleep!

So im sat in a travel lodge in Milton Kenyans at 10:30 at night and decided I would get a little more up to date with my blog, the day has been a long one sorting through what I can only describe as a absolute mess, no planning, no love and no work done in this booth, So sorting through this made a chalangeing day. My day started on Sunday morning when I forgot to leave my door unlocked (not unlocked just not dead bolts) so after getting in bed at 3am I had to get up at 9am to let my mum in as she was down doing some work on my house so this meant I didn’t get the amount of sleep I was expecting, after working on my house for a few house I was invited over to Manchester to see the girl im seeing and her new flat. Now my plan was to get to J’s for 10pm at the latest as we had to set off to Milton Keynes at 4am so this would give me ‘some’ sleep but after I would say was another fantastic night (told you it would be!) I didn’t end up going to J’s and all down to fate, well I flipped a coin and luck was on my side so I ended up staying where I was but, Ha, But I didn’t end up getting any sleep! OK slow down people! After chatting for some hours it got to the point in the night where it was no longer an option to go to sleep! So after chatting to the small hours of the night and tucking the girl in bed I made my way with J on our 150 ish mile trip. Now I can understand you may think this was not a good idea and if I put my sane head on I would agree but I tend to leave decision to the moment and however sleepy or grumpy I have felt to day I would not have changed a thing on that night! So back to the travel lodge and the next day doing the same thing is going to be hard work and then a 2/3hour trip home should prove to be a challenging day! But a good one I hope!

Now if you have read my bolgs you will know that I have 2 days off after this and I may put one or two plans in action but we will see!

Ben x

Verson 1 of the last night out

So after sorting through all the clips and a bit of chopping and changing i have come up with version 1 of the finished vid, im expecting some more clips of the night and i will edit them in on the next one, it dose look a little pixilated, thinks its the new editing software and my lack of knowledge about using it!




I did feel a little rough from that night this morning but i think my hangovers retile to how much fun i had on the night!

So what else can i let the world know? Well 2nd phone call to the Ex and another good out come! I know it may sound stupid and i admit i do think it would make all this easier if i did just cut here out all together but that wouldn’t be me, and im not about to start changing (well the good changes are ok).
Tomorrow i get to enjoy the day with the girl im seeing! Now this is something im looking forward to, no matter how much shit im in or the problems with work or my life i seam to leave it behind me when i see her, even when im back to the world of work, bills, mortgage, house, selling it, cleaning and the rest it only takes a text message it bring a smile to my face, this maybe small to some people but to me that’s a wonderful feeling when it happens, now lets not get to serous about this, i think we all know the feelings that come with meeting some one new and im not denying that i have them but Baby steps people! So what we will end up doing im unsure about but what ever it is i can put money on the fact i will enjoy it.
So that would be a good day it kick off the challenging few days, what am i talking about? Milton Keynes baby!!!!! at 4am i will be going (with a friend, you know who you are hun!) to Milton Keynes to spend two days working our magic on the cinema's projection booth, why would we have to do it you ask! Well when you become as good as we are people all over the UK would want the sort magic we can do in a projection booth, some projectionist can even look at us with out wetting then selves! Now how ever good we are, we like all living things require sleep, we may be magicians but could turn evil with lack of sleep, so i think that will be the only crap thing about the trip. But im sure we can drink all night and get some hookers (that’s for the girly j). But after the what im sure will be a saga of events will be 2 days off! and what will i do with two full, next to each other, days off? Drink, Sleep, Eat, See you know who, Sleep, Drink, Sleep Eat and what ever else i can come up with. So the way you could look at it is one Fantastic day, Two long but ok days followed but (possibly) another great day or even days (notice the s did you!) depending on what fate, destiny or even karma has down for that day.

Night all x

The morning after the night before!

So it's 10am and i have been up since 7:30 after a really good night out, went drinking in Manchester for a good friends birthday! (Happy Birthday Mate!) we ended up at 5th Ave enjoying the fantastic music and drinking the night away! but god do i feel it today, DETOX is what is called for i think, keep the water flowing and someone stop the room from spinning coz i think this is my stop, but no sick! which is always a plus in my book! after taking a lot of video (to the point i started to annoy people) i intent to make him some little reminder of how the night went but i think i would like to forget some parts of it.



House Update!
Well today i have a viewing from a 1st time buyer! Which is good, this will have been the 2nd viewing on my house and i have another booked in for saturday which is FANTASTIC news, so tonight will involve cleaning and making my house look wonderful!
Keep posted for the latest on House UpDate

ps new video

For Sale! 1House!

so three week on the market and nothing until the viewing Tuesday and ... an offer of £62,000 possibly up tp £65,000, now i know i want out soon and to begin with when i started to look at selling 65 would have been up my street but now i have another viewing on Friday and the estate agent is getting some interest in my house which makes me feel great! i mean really good, still im not getting to excited but its hard not to. Not the only thing to start in the right direction today, after what i would say was the best conversation i have had with the Ex, all i want is some help selling the house and nothing more but like i have said it would be a shame to lose such along friendship, i would do the same for any of my close friends.

But to make things a little interesting today i got pulled by the police in a road check! WTF, i now have on file that i have been stopped and checked even though nothing was wrong, i did notice sat there that only crapy, older cars were getting pulled, all the BMW ect rolled on by. I tried cracking a few jokes to lighten the mood but the officer of the law must have left his sense of humor in the police locker! I asked him how long he had to stand out side in the cold wind and rain, he said all day, i said i get to sit down inside in the warm but what ever pays the bills right! Still no smile! Tough Crowed!

to end my night is cleaning! got loads of bits and bobs for the house, things to make it look and smell nice! Decided to make a house update section to each blog, see next post for details!
Night x

a moment of clarity

So after a longish day at work (2 blogs on the same day should tell you how long its been) i got home tired and a bit bummed (not in that way) about all the problem i seam to have to deal with in my life, i know we all have these problem in one way or another in our life’s and i was waiting of the down day as its been a while and it was here, i got home, sat down, lessened to some fantastic music and remembered everything good in my life by giving advice to a friend, there is always a silver lining in everything we have to deal with in life, when you are happy then nothing else really matters, with out the down time life brings there would never be up time through life. i sat there, am sitting there looking forward to all that i have to come, no matter how hard or how much fun i have to have.

As fate/destiny/karma waves it hand in front of my face media center has started to play Snow Patrol - Set Fire To The Third Bar (Ft Martha Wainwright) a fantastic track. how dose fate have it hand in this, well someone who i like and think like's me like's this song (to many like's i think) so can you see how the small things can matter, no matter how small. as now this song brings a smile to my face.

Things to do tomorrow and i hope i will get some fun to go with it, Keep posted of the next thrilling installment of the sager of life!!

@ work all day!

So while i had a small brake at work i put together this small video, i needed to try out Adobe's video editing software and had a small clip that Cinemec had taken on my phone some time ago, so here it is,

Apart from the fun and excitement that work brings its been a some what uneventful day, nothing like wading through solicitors paperwork and trying to work out what need to be dome for the week to make me in a crap mood.

Stay Safe!

Update Dar .. Dar ... Dit ... Dar ....

So after a fun weekend which involved drinks a John's Birthday (Happy Birthday Mate!) at there beautiful home it was fantastic to catch up with some friends i had not seen for a while and the friends that’s i do. so many drinks later and some fantastic food (and a more smooth BBQ that the last one, see the photo!) it was time to get a few hours sleep before Sundays fun. After dropping of some friends (the perils of having a car and a big hart!) i happened upon a small town west of manchester, i cant remember the name of it! Hang on Something like Megil .. .. nope .. .. .. May be Magull, not quite sure but after arriving at this town i realized that it was familiar and i did know someone who happened to be staying in that very same town! what are the odds? So after searching for her number in my phone i managed to text her saying i was in the area and would she like to meet up, you know just on the off chance! and what would you know! she was free, And that’s not the amazing thing! I was parked out side of her house!
(ok this may exactly how it happend)
So we walked for some time catching up on the events that entertain us in our own worlds and everything anyone would want to talk about, to peak this tranquil story a trip to asda (yes asda and i big one might i add) to get abit of food for my tea (a mood spoiler? Answers on a post card) but then on to more relaxing surroundings located in a beer garden (no beer this time, both of us were happy to give the alcohol a miss for one day a week) After the weather decided to provided its own mood spoiler back to the car to engoy some music and chat some more, the next thing to happen was a small party of ..... humm .... local yobs! is that PC? decided to confess he would like me to 'Do Him', i can only image as i don’t look like a hit man or have ever fired a gun let alone killed some one he meant in the sexual way, after getting over the flattery i declined but informed him that Manchester was much more accepting that some of the smaller villages (not that this town was one of them) After spending peaty much every spear minute i could there it was time for home for a quick tea and bed that’s to my lack of sleep and early start as the time had just run away.

So I after this story i hope i dont need to describe how much fun i had, i would even class Sunday as amazing, and that would be all the event of my day.

To bring on the other events that have kept my world busy would be my house, well someone is coming to view it tomorrow but my feet are well on the ground, i do like the idea of karma and i have everyone to be confident for me about selling my house but i dont want to get excited about something that may take a while, as cretin people will know im already peaty buzzed about moving to manchester.
The thing that not to easy to write about would be the Ex, i am determined to try and make some sort of friend ship work after this is over, i know what some may say but when you spend this amount of time together i think it would be a shame to lose, but its not easy when i have to try and get help in the job of selling a house, i keep being told just to do things on my own but the quickest way is if we both work at it, i hope to find some ground that we both can be comfortable. I no longer want this to be a part of my life that i feel sad about, not the loss but just the feelings i get with when I have to deal with it. Bit to Deep!

Photo's
Cinemec working on his BBQ




Something to get excited about,

A wonderfull photo from a new, sexy, up comming artist and her mobile phone

Well its about time i was going to bed as work once again tomorrow and its an all'day'er.
THanks you've been a great audience

My day at work, well part of it.

So I wasn’t going to do a blog but after an interesting day at work thought I would share part of it.

After a power cut the cinema was evacuated and we didnt open for a few hours, well thats the story im sticking to.



*Can you please note we were waiting on the all clear before we could start our work, if there was work to do or could be done we would have been on it! In the above video people on a brake as we take them when we can. At no point was any of the equipment damages or even in danger of being damaged and we maintained full control of the health and safety of all people involved, the over all footage taken only amounts to a minute and only editing has made the clip bigger, peoples faces have been change to protect the innocent and if you have a question, comment or would like this video removed please contact me.

Good night out playing pool and there should be a video online soon, we will see how it turns out. The weekend involves a 25th birthday party and maybe a trip to see the girl im seeing

What would have been my 10 year anniversary

The 1^st August would have been my 10 year anniversary with my Ex, now 10 years is a long time and you may be thinking why I would bring this anniversary up when it no longer matters, I don’t want to speak to her or celebrate this day in any way but this doesn’t mean I didn’t think about the fact it would have been 10 years. Now I wouldn’t mind if you thought that I would be upset or bothered today with all the possible relevance but im not, in any way, at all. In fact im happy! (Yep that happy word again!)

Why? Well not total sure about that one, After speaking to many people over the last few months I remember someone saying it takes you half the time you spent with someone before you are over them. Now for me that doesn’t work as I don’t want to spend the next 5 years getting over someone but I don’t think this works for everyone as I feel like im over the relationship hurt, There was another saying I heard which I like better, there is no set time to get over someone, could be years could be days it all depends on you! Now that dose fit very well for me as I will say again I want to get on with my life and move on with it, the only thing I need to get over is selling my dam house, I know ‘if I put it on the market people will come’ and I know I need to be a little more patient but that’s what I want more than anything in the world

Now on to one of the reasons I feel so good especially on a day that I shouldn’t, I think we all know who im taking about! Which leads me smoothly on to the last weekend, So I trekked over to Liverpool to pick up the Girl im seeing and then back to Manchester to a birthday party for a friend which involved a BBQ and for me still to be alive righting this blog meant it was good, Back to mine for fun, laughs and drinks, I even treated her to breakfast in the morning, yes I know, Me! Spent the rest of Sunday chatting and listening to music (dam the Now albums, when media centre logs music it looks like you have a crap music selection as it lists artists names, crazy frog ect..) Now I know this doesn’t sound like an action packed weekend and it wasn’t but what a weekend, I really enjoyed my self and the company I was with and could do it every day but with 40 miles between us at the moment this is not a easy task, just seeing her some weeks is near to impossible but im like to think when it comes down to beating the impossible or not seeing her for a few week I could make the impossible possible any day of the week, its all about motivation!

So what dose the week have planned for me? Humm Drinks Wednesday night, not sure about Thursday night but im sure if I stay in the present mood I will be visiting Magull (Liverpool) or maybe Friday night, Saturday night is a 25^th party at a old friends and Sunday the day of rest im unsure about. With all this new found fun and adventure its means im on the road more and more, Tue/wed I racked up 250 miles and over the weekend I just missed 200 miles but its all very very worth it and would keep driving if I had to. (motivation!)

Stay tuned!