this day would never come

And now I bring the best news, its almost like a late Christmas present. I should …… wait for it …….. have sold my house buy this Friday or next! That’s dome and dusted, no more selling, money in my pocket, thanks bye!

How happy I'm i! extremely would be the word, so now I start to seriously box up most of belongings all ready to be loaded in to the back of a van (£120 for 3 days) and taken to Manchester, granted there will be a gray area there where I won’t live anywhere but I think I can survive somehow!

Got to go microwave just binged at me! Food!

the new year

So I write this latest blog entry on the eve of a new year which got me thinking of the past year, you know what I would remember 2006 for, now this was odd. If you have been keeping up with my blog you will know what a different year 2006 has been for me and I still go in to 2007 carrying some baggage from 2006 but hopefully not for long. I managed to start the year of like any other year but come to the end of it and things have changed and all for the good, I love my new position at work and I feel like I'm going to be able to really sink my teeth in to it come 2007, my life has changed so much for the good and with in a few week I should have moved to Manchester and have my very own place to call home, I have so many ideas about my room, it may sound simple but I think its something to look forward to, not just that but not having the connection to my old house or the money issues I have at the moment.
So as 2007 slowly comes over the hill I find myself having a little think of what I could get up to in what I think will be a amazing year, well my job is something that keeps me busy but I feel there is so much I can do to make it better and that’s something in really going to go at, once the house is sorted I think it will become easier to concentrate on, I would like to do some travailing not quite sure where but it would be nice to take 2 maybe 3 weeks off and have a plan and just go, would have to save some money for a trip like that but I think I would really really like it. But 1st thing 1st I need to move and get a little settled. I want to spend more time on my little video projects and bring it up to a new level of editing and planning and see what I can come up with, I have few idea’s for some new projects which I'm going to start working on very soon. I have a few new years resolutions which I want to work on but I'm not going in to them.
But you know as for the rest of my life I would not even think about changing any of for all the tea in china, I'm happy with nearly everything!

As for Christmas I got a few things that I would love to share with the world,
1st would be my first ever pair of Converse trainers
2nd would be my very own triads
3rd would be this wicked robot, it walks and everything!



Check out my little video I did for it (sorry about the spelling mistakes and all)

I did and up buying myself a 2.5” usb external 120gb hard drive as my laptop seams to get very full very quickly and it should help with my video editing, also got a usb thingy (not sure what to call it) jogging wheel to help with the old editing stuff.

So as the sun goes down for the last time in 2006 I come to an end, I also need to get some booze before everything shuts so I must go, I hope you have had as much fun reading my blog over the last year as I have had writing it, happy new year and I’ll see you all soon.

Boxing day peps

Well ho ho ho-my-god I'm kind of glad that’s over for another year, its was good and I did eventually get festive but with the worry of my forever dying car and the fact I couldn’t get everyone presents I would have like to due to the ever impending financial events of my life but after spending some time with most of my family it was a track over to Liverpool for me to spend the remainder of xmas day. And my car got me all the way! Thank you car!
Did santa give me what I wanted, well there were no keys to a apartment in Manchester with a car that works but think that’s one I will have to do on my own but I did get some wonderful presents and money which was a very welcome gift, I could only have the money if I spent it on myself and not on bills which again was nice so now I get to decided what would make my life easier or how to make myself look peaty’er. I have some ideas but we will see.
I think one of the reason xmas is not so big this year is work, working the close xmas eve and back in all day for boxing day dosnt add to the holiday period but it pays the bills don’t forget and I do get new year off which may make up for the work through xmas, I can imagine everyone would have like to have taken xmas off but this can’t happen in my industry!

I have been watching quite a few film over the last week like, renaissance, bond, pans labyrinth, perfume, happy feet, the wizard of ozz, London to Brighton and maybe a few more but just haven’t had tome to give them the monkey rating! I would give them all high scores anyway, maybe my film picking skills have now finally been sharpened or maybe I have an extra person picking some of them, thinks it’s a bit of both!
Well got to go as someone has to run the films when you come to watch them on boxing day, its boxing day people why would you want to go to the cinema, go to a park or the pub (something for all age groups)
cyall

Ho-Ho-Ho

So its Christmas eve and I'm sat at work with 6 more hours to go before I attempt to get to my dads for the evening, I say attempt as my car is and will never be very well so I'm going to try and get the 40 or so miles over there and back to Liverpool tomorrow. Got all the possible Christmas shopping I could have done on the budget I have got which is not very big at all and I'm all set for the big day.
I did have the wonderful idea for as long as I could remember that I would not have my house by now! Come on Christmas I thought all of this would have been done and dusted, but its not to be well not yet anyway, I actually went home for a change yesterday, now this wasn’t really by chose as I'm more than happy in Manchester but I thought I should pop back, get some washing done, check to see if all is well at my house and it was with nothing exciting to report back at all!
So not to long then in the car for a while and then who knows, all I know is for Christmas eve I'm not feeling very Christmassy, I hope it will come to me.

Merry Christmas

Cast party all over

Hi all,
So you may have noticed the lack of blogs over the last few weeks. this is all down to the amount of time i was spending working on the latest project to keep me busy, the staff party at work. As i work in a cinema i thought it would have been a good idea to have a MTV style awards ceremony instead of the quick one we usually have, now this took way more time than i have fist thought as i spent every spare minute i had editing video's of the even, i didn’t help having 19 categories. But after all the hard work with the video's, getting the clips, all the hardware set up i was really really happy with how the even went and from the feed back i get everyone else really enjoyed it to. I have started to put all the work i have done online but there were a few people there recording the event so a dvd can be put together of the entire evening.

So still no house sale! and i guess you must wonder what this could be now, maybe god has a problem or they need to check every brick or the grass is the wrong green well you would be wrong, after all this work it seams my solicitors are ready to go but the buyers solicitors are still waiting on some searches which they should have put in for along time ago, so it will be at lease after Christmas now and my mind says after new year. So this blows my plans for Christmas presents for everyone as now i will be back to haveing no money, and when i say no money i really mean no money, if my back had the choose i wouldn’t be eating. But hay life gose on.

Manager Award
Best High Five Action Sequence
Mrs I’ll Take Your Shift
Mr I’ll Take Your Shift
Projection Award
Best Comedic Act
Best Cashier
Clueless Award
Drunken Master Award
Best Couple
TL Award
Look A Like
The Hoff Award
Best Female
Best Male
The Heroes Award
Sammy J Award
Sexy Female
Sexy Male
Amelie Award
Credits and Winners

Well lets catch up on the last few weeks, I managed to get drunk beyond belief the other night, went to watch a friend on his first stand up gig and he was very good by the way but after drinking a bit to much. So we got on the bus to get back but I only managed two stops before getting off due to ‘sickness’ (think we all know what I'm talking about!). so after starting to feel better I decided to get back on a bus the next stop down and managed all of 2 mins before having to get off again! So instead of a 4 mins bus ride it turned in to a 35min walk, what a plonker! I felt like a bit of an idiot but I didn’t feel to bad as the week before I had to do the same thing but this time I was the one who didn’t have enough, and that night it rained like you have never seen before, I didn’t mind as I was sure then that one day the roles would be changed and they soon where.

So I'm still in Blackburn but so so lose to moving and it would be a welcome change, to be honest I do spend quilt a lot of time in Manchester and I'm loving it, it could be nice not to have to travel 50 mile round trip to get some clean cloths and to have my stuff closer but I'm sure that will all change, I even think I'm in to single numbers in the times I have to go home.

I been spending loads and loads of time working on the clips for the upcoming cast party, as soon as there done they will be put online for everyone to see, I even hope I will get time to put the winners on the clips as at the moment it runs up to ‘the winner is’ and that’s when it get announced. They look good and I expect the night to be one to remember.

Got to go, being home means my time is full of cleaning and getting stuff for the week ect……….bye

70p

So the end of the working month could only mean one thing and that would be pay day and non to soon as the day before I had a full 70p to my name, now when I say 70p I mean absolutely nothing more, I managed to get some food for the day but that was it. I did intend to go home that night for a change but with the train costing £9 there was no chance of that. Due to the lack of home visits I ended up washing some essential items in a sink at work just so I could have clan cloths for the few remaining days it Manchester. I do intend to go home tomorrow as I'm starting to forget where the place is. With the pay day now here I got chance to pay the internet bill which had leaded to the internet to my house being cut off! How could they do that, I think it should be part of human rights. So home with some tv shows to download and watch and probably back to Manchester for another few days!

student life

Well what can I say, still got nothing through from the house people and still waiting on the second survey back just to make sure everything is ok and there are no big problems, got some more paper work to send back to the solicitors and they are requesting the deeds for the house which I'm not exactly sure what that means but it sounds like it’s a big ish thing so things are still moving but I just want some money, at least pay day is only a few days away and the sliver lining of not having ANY money is I cant afford to get home so guess what I haven’t been home in ages! Can you blame me? But the month I get a full months pay rather than the 3 week like the last two months!

as for other things! The video stuff I'm doing for work is looking really really good but is taking more and more time, I only have weeks now to get it done but I have 40/50% of it done but now I have to work on the harder sections as I did the easy one’s first (do you blame me) and I keep getting good reports back from the people who have seen them! But trying to find high 5 clips or any projection related clips is proving to be a problem! And now with the lack of internet at home (due to a pure lack of money) I'm now having problems getting hold of the footage I need for the clips but I'm sure after a quick email to my many friends all with a massive dvd collection someone will be able to come up with the stuff I need. I do intent to accredit all the people who help with this project and how every hard it has now become I have started to use adobe pro like I have never used it and it good to use footage which is higher quality than my mobile phone. I cant wait to get a camera and the company who do plugin’s for adobe have released a plugin for the HD cameras I want as adobe would not import the file even though it was a mpeg4 file. HD!!!! Granted there will be few time I would use the full HD but still its good to have if needed. SOON!

I like how my blogs have started to come from different places, the last one was sat on a train on my way home and now I come live from some student café in uni just off Oxford road surrounded by students, I wonder if they knew I was a full time worker if they would all turn on me? Lets keep that one quite but my battery is starting to run low and I have my eye on the plug socket in the corner of the room but its like a scene out of India Jones and I have to get past the 4 moody students and then on to the lady with the tray of coffee’s and past the mass of chairs before I can reach my goal of power!

week off

So one day at home and back to the far city of Manchester, for any plans I hear you say! Nope just cos I want to, that’s what I do. But I'm sure something will come up and it just has, a night out on Friday night as a friend has some time away from her studies and wants to go out, and I have got the chance to watch Pan’s labyrinth a little early which I need to cram in to my last remaining days of freedom from work. Something which I have had booker for some time now is taking the girl friend to meet some of my family, she has meet some of them very briefly but I would like it they could get to know her a little better so first port of call would be across to my dad’s which happens to be thins Sunday

trian ride home, bit late

Hi all hope you are all well,

So this week had my girlfriends birthday to plan and I remember a few months ago she mentioned she has never had a surprise party so when I found out she had friends coming over from her home town I managed to get in contact with them and make them cancel, after she told me of this which she want happy about I told her I would take her out for a really really nice meal to celebrate her turning 21! Now this was not going to be the case and her friends would be coming over just she didn’t know about it, now I never imagined how much lying and planning I would have to do to get some think like that organised but I'm proud to say I did. I managed to get her to eat on the night before our meal and cunningly got her to the bar we had booked after convincing her I had to nip to work due to some problems, To say she fell for it hook, lie, sinker, fishing fleet would be an underestimate. I could not have wished for the night to have gone any better, but I cant take all of the credit as with out the help of her friends I don’t think I could have done it all.

Now that would have been one night of drinking in a weekend of fun, curries, drinks and so much more and what a weekend, OK that may be a lie as in the last 2 weeks I have managed to stay at home twice maybe three times but you know what I'm loving it. What dose help this wonderful mood I'm in is I'm on my week off from work and enjoying all the time I have to do things and just enjoy life. In the past few days I have this enormous scene of well being and a happiness in where I am and what I'm doing so things must be good , to be honest I cant remember being this happy which brings me on to the house! Survey is back and there are a few little things that are getting checked out today, I expected something to come up on the survey and I'm glad there is nothing which could hold me up for weeks so I hope to hear back in the next few days and then its in the hands of the solicitors. One thing I have used to make me feel a little better about my money situation is a new term, I do have money but at the moment its tied up in property! Ha it makes me sound like some business tycoon with houses and flats all over the uk but it tends to make the people who want money off me give me a little more respect as its never the same person on the end of the phone!

So I come to you now sat on the train on my way home! And trust me when I say this the only way only one would get me laptop from me is out of my dead hands (as I look around the carriage!) and the only reason I'm going home is I didn’t bring any work cloths to Manchester with me when i came in on Friday, kind of which I had thought it through a little more! Dam but I could do with washing some cloths and spending some time with the cats (don’t worry I do get some one to feed them) but I think I should start to look at some where for the cats to live, I would love to take them with me but it would not be far as I believe cats should be free to come and go as and when they want and not locked up in some flat some where, as long as they get a good home with someone who will look after them I will be happy if upset (don’t forget they have been my pets for 4 and 5 years)

As for the rest of my day I went to look round the hotel we have hired for the up coming staff party as I want to make sure it goes with a bang after all the work I have put in the video stuff and I have got very good feed back from the work I have done up to now which is very welcome, I hope to get some more work done in the nest few days as time is ticking and its getting closer and closer to the date of the party and I still have a lot of work to do!

Well I have go as my station is only a few stops away and with all the baggage I have to carry I take me that long to get it all sorted and on my shoulder.

late post

So I think I must becoming to the end of all the transition period of my life before I move on to bigger, brighter, excitinger, funnier times and experiences. I say I must becoming to the end as things seam to be getting more and more of a challenge, trying to stop all the people who want something off me at bay is becoming more and more of a tight rope and I think I'm starting to see physical changes all down to the stress of dealing with all this stuff. All is going well when it comes to the selling of the one and only house in my life but TIME is the main pain in my ass. B8ut saying all that there are still many time in my week when I'm truly happy, granted the car problems have made getting around more difficult and the added money aspect of fixing the old banger is not what I need right now but still the happy times come through time and time again! My be I should be a life coach with all the good vibes! Think I’ll stick to what I know for the time being.

I'm still keeping pretty busy and not letting the lack of money dampen my mood, although most of my good time, well all of my good time tends to be in Manchester. Got a night out Thursday related to work which I'm looking forward to but spending any money is something that stands out in my mind so I will try to spend very little! May be shots!

Lets think positive and look forward to what is coming, living in Manchester and having clean clothes instead of carrying 3/4 days of clothes around with me. Not having to live alone even if that means making some adjustments, being closer to work and not spending nearly 2 hours in rush hour just to get in, being able to go out for a drink after work instead of saying ‘I cant drink I have to drive’, being close to you know who! Which will be a very good thing! VERY GOOD PEOPLE.

So now I have the plan everything else must just fall in to place!?! Well I hope so, people tell me things will be ok but I think when your in the thick of things and it’s you future in balance and such a tight balance you cant just switch off and forget about your problems, I wish I could and when this is all over one way or another trust me I will be the on who switched off at every bad bit of news but the next few weeks could quite easy decided the financial out come for me which could impact in a good way for months to come or in a bad way for possibly years to come, I wish that was an exaggeration but if things go really pete tong I could be paying for it for a very long time. But with out people telling me thing will be ok I don’t think I would even be in the mood I'm in right now! So how ever crap I feel sometimes with out there support I don’t think I would even be here now, having the happy times in my life so a big thanks peps.

Well I think that would be my hart and my feelings on a plate so enjoy,

Keep smiling

xx

So what up peps?

I started to listen to a bloke called Scott Matthews, you can check out his myspace here and after hearing exclusive I was hooked, The girl friend managed to get tickets to his Manchester gig last week and it was awesome! Really good and I can get the cd out of my head and for good reason its amazing! Go and buy it people.

So after my car had been running so well after having in at the garage you can imagine my surprise when I stated with the same trouble again, at the same time I was trying to get the paperwork back to the solicitors after they lost the last lot! Had to get picked up by the AA today just to get home and the nice bloke who checked my car out didn’t look to convinced it would only need ‘a little work’. CRAP so I have to get my back to the garage for the verdict.

Something that has been keeping my bust is some video work, there is a work chrimbo do coming up and I had the idea of doing some montage for each category, there is A LOT of work to do but the stuff I have done looks good in my book and I'm really liking the job, we shall see if it all comes together.

Right I'm off, got some more editing to do and I want to get to bed early ish as I'm back in Manchester tomorrow, something that makes me feel so much better!

Love you x

i miss you! you miss me?

Sorry I have been ignoring you but ive been busy, went to a gig on Sunday and I haven’t stopped working on some more video projects for work, but I promise I will stop and check in soon.