The Upcoming weekend.

This weekend should be an interesting one.

Tonight I'm not sure if i'll be out, although will probably stop in town for a few hours to sit in the sun with a few friends after work.

It'll have to be an early one for me tho as I'm up in the morning to unload a van full of my sister's stuff as she's moving home soon.

Then its up and away to London for a night out with some old uni friends, and there has been talk of the Ritz... and although that means dressing smart with shoes and everything it'll see be a nice cheap night out with no drinking...

Sunday is the really interesting day this weekend as I have a photo shoot... for a very interesting project. Its called "Hafu" and its about being half Japanese. This should be a lot of fun, and here's hoping that it all goes well.

Thats pretty much it for now

The long weekend

This has taken me a little while to put together as unfortunately i'm rather lazy...

Anyway lets recap. Friday I finished work and went to the pub to meet some friends, they were drinking I was not. This wasn't the most fun - and as I had some laptop memory in my bag I left around 9.30 just when the drunkards were beginning to irritate me...

Saturday my new laptop arrived, a sleek, sexy 10" beast... So I spent most of the day getting my geek on... upgrading the memory and installing Windows 7, which took forever but certainly makes a difference and makes everything look tremendously good.

Saturday night I met up with some more friends for more water and more drinking, this was going to end up in the small hours of the morning but as the final destination was to be the Turtle I politely declined and went home just after midnight as I have had bad experiences drinking from the glasses in there... they make stuff taste funny... and so as I would have to drink water from them I decided it was to be the end of the night for me.

Sunday - now this was a good day. After a lovely morning sleeping in, I went to the pub to watch Newcastle get relegated. This was especially fun as one of my friends is a Newcastle fan - and although there weren't enough tears the satisfaction of a win for the mighty Villa accompanied with the relegation of Newcastle made these moments so much sweeter.

After this - and the bbq that I was obliged to have at half time it was then time to walk into town (as I couldn't be arsed waiting for a bus) and go to another bbq. This was good fun - and this second bbq had every single base covered, it was very impressive and although I had already eaten I couldn't resist some olives and humous... There was even some rugby ball based amusement and this continued into the early evening up at my friend's flat where the Wii Fit was put on show and watching someone trying to hula hoop is just comedy gold.

Monday was a fairly quiet day for a bank holiday where I got my geek on again and played around more with my computer before heading into town for some Nandos and Star Trek... Nandos was very amusing especially because some of my teacher friend's pupils were sitting close by. The boys I was with were both hungover, one of them incredibly so which made my sobriety that much sweeter. Star Trek wasn't a bad film, and if it wasn't so geeky it would've been a good film.

The rest of this week has been cursed by having to work, but as my computer is actually working and not trying to goad me into throwing it out of a window its gone fairly quickly and easily.

Champion's League final was good last night - watching Man U look like a team of retards always brings a smile to my face.

The past few days...

Well, its been quite a busy few days for me - and of course many opportunities to drink alcohol. I have as usual remained strong and even withstanding a great deal of peer pressure. I am proud of my self that I'm doing this well and sticking to the confines of the challenge and I must admit that with time it is getting easier as the days and now months pass.

Back to the past few days, they've been interesting... On Friday I took the day off work to go into London with some friends to audition for the tv quiz show Eggheads, which was really good fun. Although the audition did involve some quiz questions, and a brief but rather amusing chat with the two lovely ladies who were in charge of the process, the most difficult part of the interview was getting your head around having to answer the questions by ruling out two of the options and giving your reasons for them. Explanations are much harder than you think, especially when the answers are ridiculously obvious, and its hard to explain why a certain answer is wrong when you're put on the spot.

A couple of the guys had a drink, or in one case a couple of pints, in the pub beforehand as we chatted and got to know each other as a few of us hadn't met each other before... I also realised that maybe I'm not quite as clever as I think I am which was a bit disappointing, but I think that our youth and the banter we had during the interview could really help us with getting on the show - fingers crossed.

I returned from London and went straight out to the pub to meet some friends in a great pub, one of my favourites actually, where we played some bar billiards, darts and had some inane chatter. They were pretty easy going when it came to me not drinking, although they did poke fun at it from time to time, but I am yet to crack in more appealing circumstances and they just accepted it as who I am at the moment which was good.

The rest of the weekend was spend relaxing, organising, and planning. The insurance money finally arrived this weekend, and now its just a matter of waiting until the cheque clears and then its time to get myself a new laptop and tv which will be very handy and what i've been waiting on for a while - I may even be able to find the shoes I'm looking for...

This week at work is a nightmare tho - I've worked for 19 hours the past 2 days, and although it will be easier from tomorrow onwards my computer and the software I use has been crashing and basically making everything I do so much harder. Which is very irritating given that I work at a software company.

Anyways, enough about work - I've realised that there are 2 things at work that can take my mind off things going crazy. Lots of coffee... and my work scooter Monty. Its amazing how much better you feel when you're pinging about the office on a scooter than sitting at your desk swearing loudly at your computer...

Hopefully this week will be better, we've got a work dinner sometime this week where Wagamama is one of the options. I really hope we don't go there as its an abomination on the face of this earth but as its for someone's leaving do I won't complain (too much)

I'd Rather Be A Goat Than A Donkey

Well...

This weekend was pretty boring, there was basically no-one around on Friday night so I didn't go out for drinks... Met up with my brother and had a civilised coffee instead. The rest of the weekend was spent trimming bushes, playing with dogs, reading, and just taking it easy and enjoying the sunshine.

Monday we went to the pub quiz after taking last week off. Our great team "I'd rather be a goat than a donkey" came in a pretty poor joint 4th after some ridiculously bad answers, for instance the notorious website that was launched in 2005 was youtube not youporn... and I must admit that there were often occasions that we guessed the answers and then decided to put down something else instead...

But - who can tell the difference between the Fiennes? and who really needs to know how many brothers Alec Baldwin has...

Anyway, we were commended for our picture of a goat and a donkey and although we didn't win or come that close it was a nice evening out.

This week there isn't much going on, although on Friday I will be auditioning for a television show with some friends which could provide my televisual debut... this could be very interesting and all in all it'll be a nice day off work and in London.

On a side note the insurance money for the break-in should be coming this week which will help - as currently I only have 5 television channels and that sucks ridiculously.

This is the story of the weekend. Still sober, still nicotine patched up to the max and staying away from the cigarettes, all is good.

Here's hoping that Friday will go well.

Its been a while

I haven't posted here since the middle of last week so I guess I'm due an update.

Well I had last Thursday and Friday off work, which I used to help a friend move house - which was nice although it really is amazing to see how much crap you can accumulate over time. After two whole days of lugging boxes around I ended up going for a couple of pints of water with a couple of friends on Friday night, which was good fun - except for the incredibly dodgy nature of the conversation. This was to avoid going to the Beer Festival, which I was assured this week wasn't as good as it has been before. My conclusion was that it was my absence that was the major factor in this...

However, I could've really done with some hog roast - as that is one of the main reasons that I usually go...

Saturday was a day for doing absolutely nothing - which was glorious. I didn't do much apart from relax, and not smoke - which was a bonus. I can't even remember exactly what I did - although I did read one of my recently bought books.

Sunday was a great day, although the weather didn't look like it was up to much in the morning I headed on an intrepid adventure with a couple of friends into London.

We headed up for a friend's birthday, and had a great day in the park. There's something incredibly relaxing about sitting on the grass talking shite with friends (and strangers as we didn't know many people there...)

We also played some rounders, where I figured out that I can't throw straight anymore - although I can catch and I can hit a ball with a small bar. I personally blame it on the fact that my patch was feeding my throwing arm nicotine... but it may just be that I'm not as good as I once was. Hopefully this isn't another sign that I'm ageing... although I still look young (and my new manager at work thinks I'm a student).

Anyway, we stayed there in the park for a few hours, having to use the toilets in a children's playground which really felt dodgy. There were even signs up saying that video cameras were banned and that unaccompanied adults would be asked to leave. Needless to say we didn't go on our own - as this would be rather suspicious.

After the park activities we retired to a really nice pub, where all the furnishings were apparently for sale. I cannot for the life of me remember what this was called but it was something inane like "The Public House"...

This being a birthday I was able to enjoy the pleasure of drinking alcohol so I had two organic lagers. These were costly and very tasty, and they came in a larger than ususal bottle so I believe I had more bang for my bucks than usual. We stayed for a few drinks here (I stayed with just my two beers) and then moved on to find something to eat.

We wandered up the road and found a Turkish restaurant which was fantastic. Its called Gem i think (my memory isn't as good these days), and the food was lovely. We had a full three course dinner, for a very respectable price. After dinner some of the guys had to head back to the 'ding but as I was staying with a mate we went our separate ways.

We had quite a trek to get back to my mate's place tho - Bank Station decided to close when we were there so instead of hopping on a DLR we had to get the bus. Finding the right bus took quite a while but it all worked out in the end.

On Monday I was supposed to be meeting up with my sister and a mate but as I hadn't heard from them in the morning we instead decided to see some culture and went to the Royal Academy of the Arts to see an exhibit of Japanese art by Kuniyoshi which was fantastic. I really enjoyed it and it was nice to experience the artistry of my ancestors...

After this we decided to take a wander around and ended up in the Trocadero where my friends tried (and I really mean tried and failed miserably) to play Street Fighter...

My sister being the woman she is decided halfway through the day that she wasn't going to be leaving her house... So that fell through. I did end up meeting my other mate tho - who has more hair that I've ever seen. It was crazy!

We ended up walking around for a couple of hours, looking for a shoe shop in Soho... We eventually found it - but it was much smaller than I remember and didn't have anything that I wanted...

After leaving there I ended up heading back home, and after all the walking and sleeping on a couch I was shattered. Mondays is usually pub quiz night, and Aston Villa were taking on Hull that evening, but I was absolutely exhausted so really wasn't up for doing anything.

This week's gone by in a blur really - I've just been tired and irritable all week.

I am now known in my friend's phone as "Angry" as its actually quite ridiculous how irritable I am.

Well I think this is quite enough for one post...