Counting down the days...

Now that Tuesday's over I've officially got less than a week until I leave the Hospital for my new job.  I can't express just how much I'm looking forward to seeing the back of that place, severing all ties and never looking back.  City hospital's caused me nothing but misery in recent months, and soon I can finally start putting that episode of my life behind me.

And then I go into my first ever management role! Scary!!!

Well well well. 7 months

So here I am, back again on the dusty old blog.  I guess I haven't had much to say the last 7 months.  I only really blog when I fancy a ramble or if there's something I need to get off my chest.  Well in this case it's the latter.

I learned something today (in the South Park style).  It's a lesson I get slapped with a lot, but it never seems to take hold.  Never trust anybody.  If you put faith in anyone, you will end up getting burned for it.  Maybe in a week, maybe a month, maybe a year, but they'll always prove you were wrong to let them in in the first place.  I'm very much hoping the lesson will stick this time.  I did perfectly well for a long time with no friends to put hopes in, and subsequently no one to let me down.  Maybe it'd be easier going back there.

Don't know what the hell I want right now.

Weird dream time again, steady yourselves.

Good morning folks. Well it's actually 1:45pm, but I've only just woken up so it's morning to me in relative terms.  And being typical me, I've just woke up from an extremely odd dream - a cross between Pirates of the Caribbean, One Piece, and Warhammer 40,000.

I was Jack Sparrow (Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please), and as far as I remember the dream started with me searching through pawn shops for a nice decorative miniature table, which was to be a gift for a member of my pirate crew.  My pirate crew was in fact the Straw Hat crew from One Piece, but whether the table was for Nami or Robin I can't remember.

Anyway I was passing through one shop when a really tiny wardrobe caught my eye (it was literally about 3 inches tall), so I stopped to take a closer look.  While I was looking at this wardrobe the store owner came over to see if he could help, so I explained that I was actually after a table and I'd just been sidetracked by the wardrobe (which incidentally was priced at £11), but I wasn't planning on buying it.  The store owner was understanding and instead asked if I'd be interested at all in their range of Sega Megadrive games (gotta love a bit of retro gaming!).  So just to be polite I had a quick look, and I noticed a game (European Club Soccer, so be precise - a truly awful game even at the time!) which had got a price tag written in my handwriting.  I realised it was my game, which I had last seen at home under the bed a few days earlier.

So I asked the store owner about where he got it, but he refused to tell me because he didn't know who I was.  I confided in him that I was Jack Sparrow, and also told him who my crew was (who had at some point in the proceedings showed up in the shop).  He seemed happy with this, and told me that the game was sold to him by an ork the previous day (which is where Warhammer 40,000 starts to creep in).  I thanked him for his help, gathered my crew, and off we walked to the next availabled pawn shop to try and gather more clues!

It had started snowing very heavily and there were a good few inches on the ground when we reached the next shop, which was actually located in the same place as my barbers' is in real life.  At the next shop there were no further clues, but the woman behind the counter was watching sattelite images of outer space on a computer screen, and telling us how worried she was because space was shrinking.  I told her that it didn't bother me, because I was a sea-pirate and the oceans were always going to be big enough for me.  Then a massive Ork warboss in mega-armour came thundering through the doors and I froze!  But it turned out to be okay, because he'd just come in to browse.

We went back outside, and there was a team of mercenaries waiting to ambush us.  Apparently they'd been following my trail and capturing all of the pawn shop owners because they thought they were a part of my crew.

And that's about it, I can't remember what happened after that, I think that might have been the end of the dream.

At some point later I was in command of a massive Imperial Guard army and I had to try and take back a fortress which had been overrun by the forces of Chaos, but I'm pretty sure that was a seperate dream altogether.

Good morning!

Well I've dropped off the radar somewhat lately, so I thought it's about time I updated and said hello to all the lovely people out there!

What can I talk about first?  Well I've had a bit of a movie fest over the last few weeks.  I don't usually go to the cinema very often, but in the last couple of weeks I went to see 3 films :) First of all I went to see The King's Speech, which I enjoyed very much and was very happy when it bagged the top Oscars.  As with any film based on actual events, it's been criticised a bit for its accuracy, but as someone who didn't know anything about that period in history I have to say I found it a fantastic piece of cinema.

The second film I went to see was Paul - the new film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.  I've got to be honest, I was bitterly disappointed with that.  It had a few good moments once it got going, but it felt too American, and completely lacked the British charm that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz both had.  It had way too much swearing in it as well.  I don't mind swearing where appropriate, but this just felt as though they were throwing swear words into the script for the sake of it.  If I had to give it a rating out of 5 I'd give it a 2.

Then the third film was True Grit, the renake of the John Wayne western (which I admit I haven't seen), starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon.  I'm not normally a big western fan, but I thought True Grit had a good story, and the actors all played their roles fantastically - even though you couldn't understand Jeff Bridges half the time!

Outside of the cinema I bought Shutter Island on dvd, and so saw that for the first time.  That was a great film which kept you guessing all the way up until the ending.  I never really like Leonardo DiCaprio in his "pretty boy" roles such as Titanic, but he's grown up and matured into one of my favourite actors at the moment.  And I borrowed 2001: A Space Oddyesy off a friend at work, and so I saw that for the first time :) I liked it, and it was a beautiful piece of cinema, but I have to say it was very confusing!  I had to Google it to find out what the film was actually about!

So film-wise that's me updated.  In other news I'm about to have my first week off in 6 months :-D  I've not got anything planned, but it's going to be so nice to have some me-time again.  I fancy going to see The Adjustment Bureau at the cinema, but aside from that I'm probably just going to read a bit and maybe paint some more of my Warhammer models.  I had a massive clearout of my room yesterday as well.  Now my sister's moved out the loft's quite empty, so I moved all of the stock from my old anime stall out of my room and into the loft, which has created loads of space in here :) So one day next week I need to have a good tidy and get things spread out into those new spaces.

I think that's pretty much all the excitement to report!  Apart from the fact that I went to Woktastic in town last night with the work folks.  We had a good time, but I preferred Shogun Teppanyaki in the Mailbox.  The sake was good though ;)

Well I think that's me updated.  I'm just waiting for my best friend to text back to see if we're still on for coffee today, and then hopefully I shall be heading out :)

New laptop!!

Well the keyboard on my old laptop completely failed altogether this afternoon, so after long hard deliberation (honestly, it must have taken at least 2 minutes!) I decided to go out and get a brand new laptop :) So now I am free to blog well and truly and properly once more!

Anyways, I've just got home and got set up, so I've got a bit of stuff still to sort out, and then I shall finish blogging about the Dodgeball event later this evening :)

I'm very much a happy chappy right now :)

Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge!

Dodgeball!

Well it's been a week since the big Dodgeball event and my legs have finally stopped aching, so I think it's about time to blog about it :)

So yes, last Sunday I went down to London courtesy of Cadbury's, and spent most of the day playing Dodgeball with four olympic athletes - Kriss Akabussi, Rebecca Adlington, Amy Williams, and Phillips Idowu.  The massive downside at the start of the day was that I had to be at the sports club in Wimbledon by 10.30 in the morning, and the trains to London didn't run that early, so I had to get up at 4.30 to catch a coach instead.  But anyway, I got to London in good time, had a bagel for breakfast, and then made my way to the sports centre.

At the centre everyone was split into 4 teams, with one of the olympians captaining each team - I was on Kriss Akabussi's team.  This was all part of Cadbury's ongoing Spots v Stripes campaign, so there were 2 spot teams and 2 stripe teams - I was naturally showing off my stripey pride lol  Rebecca Adlington captained the other stripe team.  So after changing into our team kits it was time to start Dodgeballing! :) 

There were some guys there from the UKDBA - the UK Dodgeball Association - to teach us the basics and referee the games, so we all sat down for a training video to see how the game is played.

Sorry, my keyboard's really playing up, I'll

 have to post a second blog another time

I'm back!!! :-D

Hello one and all!

First and foremost let me say I'm sorry for my month's abscence from the internet - I unfortunately dropped and broke my laptop, which has kept me offline for a while.  But I've dug out my old laptop and am now using that to get myself back on the internet :) It's not a great machine - neither of the shift keys work, and half of the keyboard it a bit dodgy, but it just about works.

So anyways.  A month seems to have passed in the blink of an eye!  What have I got up to over the last month?  Well I finished watching Cowboy Bebop, and I really enjoyed that :) And I watched Elfen Lied, which was also pretty awesome.

Work is just work, there's nothing very exciting going on in that side of life.  I'm working back at Sandwell at the moment which is a bit depressing, but there's nothing really I can do about it.

This weekend could be quite interesting - I'm going to London courtesy of Cadburys to play Dodgeball against some olympic athletes!  Rather looking forward to that :)

Anyway, I'm being distracted by TV and can't keep a train of thought going at the moment, so I'm going to wander off now :) Be back to blogging again soon!