Kermit's Blog

I meant to roll this blog out within a few days of the actual day itself…

I mentioned in the last blog [July 24th] about the rehearsal, so this is all about the day itself.

Anyway, here goes.

July 25th, I was best man for my good friend Pete, and his marriage to his long time girlfriend Emma (whom has also become a good friend of mine).

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I woke up on the Sunday morning at 8:05am.  I know the time exactly because I used “Windows Task Scheduler” to wake me up.  I set it to play “White Wedding” by Billy Idol to get the day started.

I showered, played some Wii, then got ready.

Pete picked me up at mine, and we (me, Pete, and Andre [Pete's sister's BF]) went to get breakfast at a small café in the city centre.  We initially wanted to go have an American style breakfast at Frankie & Benny’s, but those guys weren’t open till 11am, so the small café it was.

We all had a traditional english breakfast type get up, along with some pure OJ and some coffee’s, I’m not a coffee guy, but I figured I’d join in the caffeine antics and try some random latté thing.  Good times!  Although I asked them for “No Tomatoes” and they gave me “No Beans” along with a damn tomato, but oh well…

After eating, Pete dropped Andre off, and then me and Pete went to Asda to kill some time.  It was probably about 11am by this point, and we didn’t need to be at the church till 2pm.  So we killed time in Asda (which is a chain of supermarkets for anyone outside the UK), we bought some cookies, I got some beers, and Pete got himself some travel insurance for his honeymoon trip the next day (convenient!).

After ASDA it was off to Pete’s house, to get ready, to set the big day in motion.

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In Pete's Room, pre-getting ready

Pete working on the order of what he'll say for his own little speech

I was pretty much by Pete’s side the whole day, we was like a [good] wrestling tag team, we drank beers, we constantly got asked by people if we were nervous (nervous wasn’t the word to describe it though, we were both quite casual and laid back about our roles we had to play that day), and we ate cookies!

Best man necessities, Cookies & the rings ^_^

It was a nice exciting atmosphere at Pete’s house though.  His family are cool friendly people, plus the day meant a lot to different people, so it was a good day.
Anywho, once me and Pete were suited up, we had some beers, posed for some wedding shots, and was at the church by 2pm.  We said some hello’s to friends whom were already there etc, then me and Pete took our front row seats, waited for the church to fill up, and waited for Emma to arrive.

The wedding service itself didn’t take as long as I expected, not that I expected it to drag on…but I thought that by the time it was over that we’d be glad to get outside for some air.  Yet it went by quite quick, it even had a comedy moment when the priest accidentally asked Emma if Pete would be his wife (audience laughed).  Hehe.

View from the Best Man seat

Once the holy part was over, and the legal signatures were done, it was off outside for many, many wedding photo’s.  After that it was off to this suave Italian place called “Tino’s” in Preston city centre for the reception/ after party.  I’d never been in Tino’s before, but inside, the place was really nice.  It was a cool place to have a party, but would definitely be a cool place to go on for like a date, or a nice meal out or something.

Mucho’s alcohol was consumed on the premises by all, and the atmosphere was great.

My friends; Brad, Drew Moss, Me, Pete, & Emma

I definitely have to give Tino’s props on the buffet though, some of the food they had was absolutely awesome, the meatballs especially…they were better than Subway’s, and I FREAKING LOVE SUBWAY’s Meatball Marinara.

Once the speeches came along I was ready to go.  I never really do any public speaking, so I don’t have experience in doing it…and even though I didn’t really know perhaps 85% of the people there, I wasn’t nervous to speak.  My speech wasn’t too long, and it wasn’t offensive or rude, plus I’d worked it so that it ended on a note to encourage Pete and Emma to throw us [everyone there] all some more parties for there anniversaries.  So whenever you mention parties, you always win the crowd the over.  Plus Emma’s Dad had mentioned he was a bit nervous about doing a speech, so after trying to give him words of encouragement about it, I couldn’t be hypocritical.

During the speeches

Once all the speeches, toasts, and thank you’s were said and done.  It was back to hanging with friends, mingling, and drinking.  Pete and Emma surprised me with a “thank you” bottle of Jagermeister, which was awesome!! Although once I flashed the Jager at the table I was sat at (with my friends; DD, Brad, Drew Moss, and Brad’s GF Claire), it was like blood attracting sharks, so it was devoured within about 5 minutes by us all ^_^ hehe.

There was a lot of random drunk dancing and hilarious conversation to be had as the night got deeper, and I got hella excited when they played “Journey – Don’t Stop Believing”.  I constantly used to ask for rock clubs to play that song in the years before they would actually do it, and then out of nowhere it became such a mainstream song here in the UK recently…but I managed to bury my head in the sand and not the  Radio overplaying of it to kill it’s awesome-ness.

Some reception pics below of the night going on…notice my hair getting crazier (messier) as the night goes on…heh.

It was a great day though, mostly for the fact that Pete and Emma finally got married…
…but another reason the day was great was in it’s way that it brought together a lot of friends.  Friends whom haven’t hung out together all at the same time for years.  That makes me want to try and get more friendly gatherings on the go once I get my next batch of uni money or something.

Create good times with your friends

In terms of my own expectations for blogging.  I’m behind.
I’m long overdue a new post.  Same goes for my video game blog (Currently Playing) too.

I’ll get on with it though, eh.

This will be a bit of a speed run blog too.  As in I’m going to try and get through it a.s.a.p.  No background entertainment TV or switching over to twitter for distraction, as I have some Potato Wedges and a Pizza in the oven, and I want this post ONLINE! before those guys are oven baked.

First up.  I turned 24 on June 30th.  Yahoo, to that.  Age doesn’t bother me.  Sure I’m getting older on paper, but in my head I still remain the same colourful imaginative immaturish guy that I’ve always been (in my head).

Although that’s partly a lie, as things aren’t always colourful in there…in fact recently I’ve been on something like a 10 day bad dream streak.  Some days I’m about to die, some days I’m in deep jail time like trouble, or at the least things are just going really bad for me.  I don’t think I’ve ever had a notable streak of bad dreams before.  Plus these aren’t recurring dreams either, it’s something new every night.

Speaking of night.  It’s 00:23am here right now, and my sleeping pattern was sacrificed this weekend in order for me to watch “EVO 2010” live (via stream) online.  Evo is the biggest annual fighting games tournament on the calendar.  It’s run by some amazing people, it’s an amazing gathering of fans of Capcom beat em ups (as well as others), and the crowd it gathers are amazing.  GET HYPE!!
Might need to do some long staying up if possible to try and get my sleeping pattern back to something decent, as today I woke up at 6pm (after going to bed at like 9am).

Moving back to my birthday though.  Things were quiet, but good.  Didn’t do anything major in order to celebrate it, but I got some nice gifts, and had a good day.  My ladypal surprised me from afar (as she’s in the USA over the summer) by having a huge “Mario” cake delivered too me.  Which was DELICIOUS!!

Cake of Win

Also, it’s always weird to read certain birthday cards too.  Like how my parents (whom like I always get the impression are disappointed with me, or something of that nature) got me a card that said something along the lines of: “you are so great that if you wasn’t our son we’d try to adopt you”.  It’s so out of character for them to say something like that, to me at least, but still over analysing cards aside.  Great day.

2 Gifts of Win!

A few days after my birthday it was my homeboy Peter’s Bachelor Party/ Stag Do.  We all went to “Haydock” (horse race track) to drink and gamble.  Then came back to Preston to hit up the city clubs after that.
It was the first time I’d ever been to one of these gambling happy race track places, but it was a good laugh.  Dressing up smart, drinking all day, seeing Pete literally get whipped, good times!

Pete's current Facebook profile pic.

Although i’m gutted I didn’t get to meet boxer Ricky Hatton like Pete and some of the others there did (as i wasn’t with them at the time they bumped into him).  Wanted to ask him about his involvement with WWE earlier this year and how much creative control he actually had with that.  Yeah…bet that question would’ve caught him off guard.

It’s just under 2 weeks now till Pete’s wedding, and as I’m his best man (another first for me), I need to get cracking on some sort of short wedding speech thing.  It’s on my “to-do list” this week.

I guess I’ll have more time on my hands during the weeks now that the World Cup is over.  I was loving that whilst it was on.  I don’t really follow Football as much these days, but every 4 years when the World Cup rolls around I dive in deep.  I love international football, especially when every continent in the world is there to represent.  It was awesome seeing some underdogs cause upsets, and seeing some players really make a name for themselves and become break out stars whilst the whole world was watching.  When it got down to the final yesterday I was personally rooting for Holland to win.  As I feel Spain are a bit over-hyped,  it was a very tight game though, and Spain have won 2 major trophies in 2 years now, so congratulations to them on that.  …now roll on Brasil 2014!!

Torres didn't dive here, he was Gief'd!

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Anyway, it’s not long till my food will be heatified, so I best wrap this blog up.  Expect more here and on Currently Playing in the next days/ weeks though.  Fo’ Sho!

Adios Amigo’s

Oh and a shout out to those whom don’t actually no me in real life but follow my blog as some form of entertainment *high five

Kermit

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Kermit is Currently/ Recently:

Watching:

• 2010 Fifa World Cup
• EVO2010
• G4TV Icons
• Superman (1978 movie) – Never properly watched this before, but it was entertaining, and has me wanting to see more Superman stuff.
• Jerry Seinfeld: I’m telling you for the last time – Stand up special he did not long after the end of Seinfeld.  :)
• I’ve also watched quite a lot of Ricki Lake, Judge Judy, and Jeremy Kyle in the past week.  Watching other peoples drama is always a nice reminder that I’m not living that kind of drama.

Current Mood: Fine. +check my colourful lounging about pants.

Playing:

• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) – Absolutely amazing, one of the best platformers of all time, and a fine evolution of all things Mario.
• Super Street Fighter IV (360)
• Split/Second (360)
• Tatsunoko vs Capcom (Wii)
• Earthworm Jim HD (XBLA)
• Street Fighter II (Wii VC)
• Pokemon Heart Gold (DS)

Listening to:

• A lot of 90′s music and Reggae, they seem to be installed within me as “Summer type music”.

So, it’s Thursday afternoon! (for me…right now as I blog this).

I’m currently in the university library, using a keyboard with the most bouncy high maintenance “press me hard” keys I’ve used in quite some time.  It’s pretty busy in here today, full of tense looking “ahh deadline :S” faces.  I too have a hefty sum of work to be working on myself, but instead I’m here blogging.

I figured I’d do a blog before getting into some work, as it feels refreshing to do.  Sort of like how sometimes when I’m at home I’ll sometimes tidy my room up a little bit before I do any uni work, never thought as to why…perhaps it’s just to delay the work some more, or perhaps as some sort of ritual.  I don’t know.

Today’s been an interesting-ish day so far though.  I woke up, had a shower, rushed to get dry and dressed, chucked a bandana on to hide my untidy hair, and set off to the city centre.  Overheard 2 chav guys talking about there relationships, seemed full of drama, would’ve been right at home on “the Jeremy Kyle show” I reckon.

Anywho, the main reason for my rushing nature was because I had agreed to meet a random man, about a rare coin (sort of sounds like an RPG side quest).  My nan had come in possession of a rare 20p coin that hadn’t been dated by the royal mint (the people who make english currency), so…naturally people who are into coin collecting cherish these sort of rare error having coins.  Anywho, my nan offered the coin to me and my sis to eBay, as a sort of treat to us type thing, which was very nice of her.  So I took it to eBay and let the bid war begin.  It sold for £62.90.  Which still, it’s not as high as some of these coins have sold for, but at the same time still…someone paying £62.90 for 20p is a definite eyebrow raiser.

The winning bidder of the coin was a local, whom wanted to pick it up and have a look at the coin on payment, I agreed to it (as awkward as meeting randoms can be).  He was a nice guy, friendly, non-intimidating, the kind of random you wouldn’t mind being stuck next to on a long flight or something.  He had a look at the coin, said it was to be a birthday treat for a relative (so I presume he comes from a family of coin collectors or something).

After that I headed off to Blockbuster, to drop off “Avatar” on Blu Ray.

My girlfriend rented it last night and we watched it.  She’d already seen it before and had been pestering me for a while to watch it.  I never bought into the big hype of Avatar myself.  After seeing the public go crazy for it, I was kind of turned off.  Plus I was also somehow led to believe it was something of a fantasy type film, and things like Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter, and those sort of fantasy universes are not my kind of thing.
If I had of looked more into the film, actually watched the trailers with attention, then I probably could’ve been corrected and would’ve watched it sooner, but it wasn’t until the past weekend that I saw a screenshot of the film with a dude with a shot gun that I thought “hmm…maybe I was wrong about this”.  So…I watched it, and enjoyed it.  It definitely didn’t live up to the hype it received (in my opinion), but it was a decent enough film, and 1 I’d probably watch again in a few years or something.

Twitpic of sandwich

After mailing back the Blu Ray to Blockbuster I headed over to Subway for some lunch, got a 12″ Chicken & Bacon “Ranch”, toasted with cheese, on Hearty Italian bread, just lettuce for salad, and sauced up 1 half with mayo, and the other with hot chilli.  I was contemplating getting the super tasty Meatball Marinara, but I decided not too as it’s possible I may be having a big roast dinner for eats later on, and the meatball is more filling, think of it like a game of tetris…the “ranch” sub I had is better at digestive tetris, it’s good at getting lines, which can be like the metaphor for it digesting quick…or something.

OK enough about Subway and Tetris now as it’s getting silly.

So…Coin man, Avatar, and Subway.  That brings me upto NOW.  My time in the library.  In 6 days I have a deadline for this artist book thing I had to prepare on my chosen subject matter.  For me I chose “Skateboards”, or more specifically the art side…as in the patterns on decks and such.  I’ve basically had to do a load of research from various sources, and a number of sketches and drawings and so forth to pad out a book full of content.  Admittedly I’m a little behind on the thing, but with enough focused time and less distractions and I can definitely have it all done by it’s deadline (next Wednesday).  I also have another project, my final “exhibition” project due in near the end of May.  Which I need to do a lot of cramming in to make sure I do well on that too.  It’s definitely going to be a busy next 3-4 weeks for me.  Which is a shame seeing as how one of my most anticipated games of 2010 (Super Street Fighter IV) is out tomorrow !  It would’ve been much more ideal if the game had of released just after my deadlines.  The Nintendo Gamecube was generous enough to do that for me in 2002 (release after the workload) when I took my final high school exams.
…and speaking of work, I should totally get round to that now and wrap up this blog post.  Plus I keep flicking between this blog post tab, and my Twitter, and people keep coming up the stairs (which I’m sat near) to look for vacant PC’s to use to potentially do work on (although most ppl here just seem to bum facebook like most of the population do these days).

I’ll be blogging more soon.  Feel free to comment.  Feel free to add me on Twitter. 

 If you like Video Games then check out my gaming blog “Currently Playing” or the Twitter for that, or even the Facebook Fan Page for that.

Quick wrap up to this blog seeing as how I’m in the library and unable to photo myself for the currently/ recently sign off.  Apologies if you miss that.

Adios Amigo’s

Kermit

So yesterday I went out with some friends to a small bar (Mad Ferret, Preston) to listen to some awesome unsigned up and coming bands play.

My friend Jemma, vocals for Reign Broke Better.

• Sultans of Smooth
• Reign Broke Better
• …can’t remember the last band, they were decent too ¬_¬ (damn alcohol)

Today! I had a seminar I was meant to be at, and I wanted to start my week in a productive manner, kicking some ass on my projects that are due in this month for uni, and perhaps blogging on Currently Playing.  Has my day been productive?…Hell no.  It’s been the complete opposite.

Last night my intention was to go out, have maybe 3-4 beers tops, whilst enjoying the music, then go home.

Instead.  I can’t remember how many beers I had (10 maybe?) got home all super drunk, spilt the water I had got to try and sober me up all over some books, and passed out in my bed with my pillows on the other side of the room.

I woke up today with a deluxe hangover, my room looking like ground zero cause I knocked over my DVD/ games/ blu ray stacks, and a small pool of water, by a glass, on it’s side >.<

Tidy stack of games/ movies etc. Didn't look like this when I woke up though.

I’m absolutely pathetic at having the will power to limit my drinking on nights out.  It’s as if I feel I must always have a beer either in my hand, or in arms reach on a table.  I’m tired of saying “I’m not getting drunk tonight” and then ending up getting wasted.

Don’t get me wrong, I love hanging out with friends and having a few beers, getting loose and having some awesome conversations about anything and nothing, enjoying music, and having some “lolz”, but I’m just so vulnerable to hangovers, which is fair play considering I do seemingly drink my own body weight in alcohol.

I kind of wish they’d legalise marijuana in the UK tbh, it’s basically on par with alcohol in terms of affects, but just without the hangover the next day.  That would be ideal, because then I wouldn’t end up wasting a day with having to recover from a few hours of drinking, or better yet, someone invent an alcoholic beverage that doesn’t eventually turn against you.

In other news

• I’m still waiting on the verdict regarding some student finance monies I’m hoping to get a lump sum of (mentioned in my last blog).
• My hair is in serious need of cutting, it’s SOOO thick, and takes about 6 lifetimes to get dry and sort it out after a shower.
• I’ve not had Chinese food in TOO long, and need to fix that soon.
• Super Street Fighter IV is out this week and it’s one of my most anticipated video game releases of this year.
• Went on my skateboard for the first time in many months yesterday afternoon, my balance skills are rusty
• I’m voting for the first time in my life in this years elections, and I’m going with “Lib Dems”.

I really wish this hangover would leave me now.  I feel as if I’m underwater right now, like I’m slower, and weighed down more than normal.  It pisses me off having to wait a day or 2 after some major alcohol consumption to be at full health again.  I wish I had the money and the ability to go somewhere for some sweet comfort food though.  Like to a carvery or something, have a traditional English Roast dinner thing.  That would be a great stepping stone to recovering I reckon.

Oh, I started watching Seinfeld recently.  I’ve caught random episodes of it on TV over the years, and enjoyed what I’ve seen, however it wasn’t until recently after finishing watching the entirety of Curb Your Enthusiasm (amazing show btw) that I figured I’d get into Seinfeld properly.  As in watching it from the first ep all the way through to the end.  So far I’m upto Season 3, and I’m loving it so far.  The characters are great, and the way it covers loads of random social situations that many of us have experienced but never really brought up or given much thought too is great.

In other “watching” news, I’m about half way through Band of Brothers on Blu-Ray.  Amazing stuff.  I’ll have to get into “The Pacific” once that is released on Blu-Ray too.  I also got “LIFE” on Blu-Ray (BBC documentary on animals and such).  Looks amazing in HD, plus the footage they’ve got is amazing and it’s put together so well.  Really interesting stuff.

I also really enjoyed South Park’s 2 part 200th episode in the weeks just passed.  Referenced a lot of old school South Park jokes and episodes, which I really liked seeing as I have followed the show since it’s start and seen every episode so far.

I think I’ll bring this blog to a short quick end now.  Staring at this laptop screen is doing my eyes in, and not helping things in regards to the hangover .  I’ll get round to doing a blog that is rich with more flavour and content soon (hopefully one were I can say “yay I got my student monies”), in the meantime…thanks for reading.

Adios Amigo’s

Kermit

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Current Mood: Lamed off that I'm hungover and having an unproductive Monday.

Kermit is Currently/ Recently:

Playing:

• Pokemon Heart Gold (DS)
• Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics (Wii)
• Super Mario Luigi Galaxy (Wii)
• Final Fight Double Impact (XBLA)
• King of Fighters 98 Ultimate Match (XBLA)
• OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (PC)

Watching:

• LIFE
• Seinfeld
• South Park
• Band of Brothers
• Street Fighter Alpha (Animated Movie)
• Great Escape – never watched this before until recently, great film.
• Airplane II – Love the Airplane films, awesome spoof movies.

Into a new month, and time for a new blog.

I’ve been meaning to do a blog for a while now really, like within days of the last one I did actually :\, but I’ve just been distracted with Uni work mostly, and then for the past week or so I’ve been ruined (yes RUINED) by Flu.

So I’m going to kick things off in this blog with a big shout out to the current virus plaguing my body system.

It all started last Sunday (March 28th).  That evening I started feeling a bit drowsy, although in fairness I had drunk a lot on the Friday 2 days before and got a bad hangover from it, so I thought it might of been related to that.
The next morning though, Monday.  I woke up with a sore throat.  It’d been ages since I’d had a sore throat, so for a brief 5 seconds or so I thought to myself “heh, a sore throat…not had one of these in a while”, then immediately I realised why sore throats don’t have a good reputation amongst humans.  Mainly due to that STUPID habit of swallowing a lot (when I have nothing in my mouth) when I have a sore throat.  It’s as if my body is constantly checking to see if I still have a sore throat or something…and to which the answer is generally always “yes” for a few days, yet I can’t seem to shake the urge to swallow and put myself through that pain >:P

Lemsip and me had a common enemy...FLU

I didn’t fret too much over a mere sore throat though, I mean…it wasn’t TOO bad, I still could speak, and I could still eat Toast (which can be a difficult challenge on some  sore throats).  However this wasn’t just a sore throat…

Now…personally I haven’t had proper “Flu” in ages.  I’ve had the occasional minor cold, or cough, but as for a full on bout of Flu.  It’s been a while.
Also, I stress this is actual “Flu” not that Man Flu malarky that some guys try and get sympathy for as if they’re home wounded from being in the Vietnam War or something.

Anyway as the week progressed I got visited by pretty much every trick (symptoms) Flu has up it’s sleeve, and not only did I get visited, I got kicked in the ass by every single one.  It was as if my immune system just said goodbye to some laid back manager it had running the place for a long time, and then in came some new hard-assed replacement, who’s first job was to test out every area of my immune system only to show how much of a failure the place has become.  The worst of the worst was my nose.  It became the most fragile thing in existence for a few days.  It was as if the Flu bug inside came in, picked up the controller and inputted the cheat code on the title screen for “Infinite Nasal Fluid Leakage” .

Toilet Roll, an essential item

Anything and everything would set my nose off on a leak.  Standing up, sitting down, staring still at a TV screen, turning left or right…I just couldn’t get it under control at all, and I must’ve used up about 3 rolls of toilet roll (perhaps more :\) just on trying to manage the leaks and capture the sneezes.
It was even worse when I tried to sleep at night, I literally had to hold a tub of Vick’s Vapor Rub to my nose, and use my index finger of that same hand to like press down on my nose bone to try and adjust my nasal passage to be able to take in air.  GRRR!

By Thursday I was kind of expecting things to be clearing up.  Flu in the past usually has about 1 – 2 days of PRIME TIME f**king me over, and then after that it’s all down hill from there till I’m finally cured, but that wasn’t the case, possibly partly due to my own error though.  See…because I was truly having my ass handed to me by this virus, I was making sure I was more than equipped with the “flu fighting meds” out there.  Whether this was Lemon flavoured Aspirin drinks (e.g. Lemsip’s), as well as the remix’d Paracetamols and such in a “specifically for flu” packaging.  The thing was I was impatient and thought I knew best, so I was taking these sorts of things more often than the packaging advised, generally it’s never been a problem when I’ve done that before, as common illnesses (such as Flu) have never really had a prolonged stay in my system, but this time it had it’s feet up and was having a blast inside me, so naturally I had taken a lot of meds over the past couple of days and this all caught up to me in a bad way :\.

What my bin looked like. Just packed with tissue, water/ gatorade bottles, and empty medicine boxes.

On Thursday night I started getting this severe pain in my stomach, and I mean severe.  I was literally curled up on my beanbag in the fetal position, with a plush toy in my hand that I was using to do a sort of self-massage-rub on that region to try and ease the muscles or whatever in that area.  After a while I started feeling sick, so I went to the bathroom and gave that a shot.  It was taking it’s time to so I sped things along with the fingers in throat method :/, and weirdly even though I had been eating, and should’ve technically had things to “throw up”, what actually came out was a heap of stomach acid in all it’s yellowy orange glory.
Now…after some googling I found out this was probably due to my stomach having problems with all the pills and stuff I took to fight the flu, as well as the near 1 litre of Pure orange juice I had that day (which is quite acidic).  So what I was suffering from was indigestion of sorts, to a disabling level.  I took some antacid stuff later on which calmed it down, but ever since Thursday I’ve continued to have this sort of indigestion type feeling come and go, even though I’ve pretty much had next to no medicine since Thursday :S.

The hypochondriac in me did a bit more googling and now I’ve self diagnosed myself with a possible stomach ulcer, although I’ll give it a few more days to see if it continues.  Although I’m definitely not looking forward to the gastroscopy if I have to have that checked out.  Plus the only time I’ve really heard of a stomach ulcer in any form of media was in that film “Dumb & Dumber” were that bad guy dies because of it…well he’s given rat poison by accident to treat his ulcer, that got inflamed from an over the top amount of hot chili’s >_> but still…

It’s now Saturday night and I’m still lingering with a bit of Flu, nearly a week on!  Thankfully it does seem to be slowly going away now, but I still get the occasional dizzy/ drowsy spells that seem a bit random, and my nose is still not a working sense of smell (although the red eczema type skin that had gathered on it due to all the sneezing and blowing my nose etc isn’t too bad any more).  I did manage to get out on Saturday evening for a hefty-ish walk.  I walked from my house to a Supermarket (ASDA), then to another Supermarket (Sainsburys) then back home.  It clocks in at about 7 miles, and with the browsing of the shops it was about a 3 hour or so endeavour.  Although it was nice to get out, the weather was nice, my iPod was loaded with some cool (to me) podcasts, and I was racking up beneficial steps on my Pokéwalker that came with the latest Pokémon RPG for the Nintendo DS.

Purchases I made on my travels today

So…that is pretty much all I have to cover in this blog.  Hopefully my next one will be coming from a more healthier specimen.  It should definitely be within the next week or so at the most, and I say that with confidence, simply because I’m currently on an Easter break from University, I have uni work still to do in this time off, but nontheless I do have time off, and providing I don’t become even more ill, or get TOO engulfed in video games then there should be some more keyboard keys being tapped relating to things that be going on in my life and then going out onto the internet, for hypothetical readers to read.

So…until the next blog.  Adios!

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Kermit is Currently/ Recently:

Watching:

• Band of Brothers – Epic…and in Blu-Ray, in DTS sound, it’s a home cinema dream.
• Wrestlemania 26 – Good stuff on the whole, not quite as remarkable as I’d of hoped it would be, and it was a shame to see HBK retire.
• South Park – Loved this week’s episode (S14E3 “Medical Fried Chicken”) ^_^
• The Others – Not watched this in a while.  Good film imo.
• Trainspotting – Saw this for the first time this week, not a nice topic of film, but it’s well done, so it was a very enjoyable watch.
• Disturbia – Not seen this in a while either, but yeah…good movie.  Shia LeBouf actually fits the role well.

Eating:

• Hot Cross Buns.  I’ve eaten a load of these recently…apparently they’re an Easter thing (at least in the UK).  Personally I’d eat them whenever.  Toasted buns with currants are WIN!
• I had an epic “Ranch” from Subway the other day –> 

Current Mood: Kinda sleepy, kinda ill.

Playing:

• Super Mario RPG (SNES on Wii) – Never played this before, and I’m not normally an RPG kind of guy, but I love the Mario series, and I’m liking this game a lot so far.
• Super Mario Kart (Snes on Wii) – A timeless classic, not only is it one of the earliest franchise Kart Racer games, but it started off the genre in awesome form.
• Pokémon Heart Gold (DS) – Whether you’re a player or a hater.  The Pokémon RPG games on the handhelds are still epic video games.
• Sega Megadrive/ Genesis Collection (PS3) – Bought this today, been really digging classic SEGA recently, and the price was right for me to pick this game up.

First off, *squints* GRRR!  I left my glasses at my friend Jimbo’s the other day and because of which I’m Mr “15 centimetres away from the screen” as I write this.  I don’t have terrible short sighted-ness, but I do use a good resolution on my screen so naturally this small text is now hard to read text without my glasses.  I need new glasses by the way…pity I’d also need about £140 to get some as Specsavers spoiled me last time and I don’t think I could go back to a more generic pair again.

Original Post!

This blog needs to be somewhat of a catch up on things as I’ve not done a regular blog in about 2-3 weeks, I did a blog last week.  Which I do believe in fact was the longest blog I’ve ever written so far!  It was over 3,000 words, and it mostly covered things like depression, things against me in life, and just general sad-ness.  I don’t really like writing those blogs as;

a) they’re generally very personal and can be upsetting for me to have to spend time thinking about the parts of my life that bring me down, and…
b) I’d rather do blogs on upbeat stuff, funny stuff, stuff that has me smiling or excited, good times I’ve had, etc… but life isn’t all good times (unfortunately), and sometimes events happen or enough time ignoring something goes past, and I just HAVE to get some of the dark times off my chest.

Anyway, let me start with what was 3 weekends ago now… BEACH PLEASE!

Basically this was a smaller scale music festival, being held in an EPIC!!! club in Preston.  They had an awesome range of acts going on over 3 days, a nice bunch of “Beach” themed decor inside, and the crowd the club attracts is generally a great laid back group of music lovers and people wanting a good time.  >>Poster<<.  The other key point to mention about Beach Please though is that the club whom had put this on, was CODA, and a few weeks prior to Beach Please, they found out from there property owners that they were shutting the place down, this upset a lot of people as CODA has become a bit of a cult place in Preston.  There was a lot of familiar faces pretty much everytime I went there, and I’ve actually met a few randoms whom have become friends through CODA simply because of the great atmosphere and the good people that the place brought in.  So…yeah, it turned out Beach Please was going to be the last weekend of CODA, and thus it was going to be a pretty special send off for the place.
As the days got near things were looking a bit bleak that I’d get to enjoy the full 3 days of it as some of the people I was supposed to go with pulled out, and others I tried to recruit wouldn’t be convinced or had no money.  So that sucked :p  Thankfully (for me) my friend Ash was in a similar position for day 1, and thus we decided to tag team up and go.  Day 1 was awesome, DROP in the main room, and my first taste of the epic “Hiphopalippz” in the smaller room.  I urge those of you local to Preston who like bands, and have an ear for some of the better day hip hop/ rap of the 80′s/ 90′s to check them out.  JOIN THERE FACEBOOK GROUP I’ll definitely be going to there next live gig, so come with!
Day 2 continued the awesome, as it was Beats of Rage, which is something I have come to religiously follow, as I’ve never had a bad night there.  I also got in on the Beach theme myself be dressing in shorts and a vest, good times!  I wish I could dress like that for clubs more often, very refreshing, and it was easy to dance in too ^_^.

Day 3 was starting to get harder on my body as I was on Day 3 of what was 3 days of drinking, there was a lot of cool local LIVE bands playing on Sunday though, so I had to be there.  I went there with the idea in mind that I wouldn’t be drinking that day…but that soon went out the window.  I got there fairly late in the evening on Sunday so missed a few bands unfortunately but the 5 or 6 that I did catch were all decent, and will keep my eye out for there names on further events in future.  Got to see Jelly’s Last Jam again too, which was cool

Beach Please was an amazing weekend though, and a great send off for CODA, and I wish those guys all the best in keeping the spirit of the place alive in there numerous nights they created, or even better…secure a new place and start fresh?

POST-CODA I’ve been to DROP at “blowing wild” which is a gay bar in Preston.  Although there was nothing of that nature to report on the night as those who were there for DROP were upstairs, and if there was a normal night going on there also…then those people were downstairs.  Not that I should need to report about that…but I know some people where making jokes before hand like how the night would be full of awkward advances from gay people.  Instead it was just a quality night at a decent enough venue (which kinda felt like a school disco in a way), also you had to love the “£4 beer jugs” they offered there Although in hind sight they got me trashed (from dropping random shots into the jug) and I can’t remember a chunk of that night because of that :p.  Still…good night though.

The weekend just gone, I checked out Beats of Rage at 53 degree’s, it marked the first time in my life that I’d been to a club on my own, I spent the evening with my friend Jim, had a few smokes at his, and then I tried to convince him to come, but he just wouldnt budge on his stance on not going out that night.  …then I just got thinking about how I’d not missed a Beats of Rage since January this year, and I was all ready to go out that night…so I just had to go, and I did.  The music was great there, and the beer was cheap, so a good time was cemented there, didn’t really feel as awkward as I figured it’d be, mainly because I wasn’t the only person there who was just like stood, bouncing a bit, and watching the DJ’s at work.  One downer though was that the attendance was really low compared to normal, I’m of high belief that this was just simply because of the fact that the weekend just gone a lot of people had gone to Reading/ Leeds music festival, and Creamfields Dance Festival.

In other night out news.  I re-affirmed to myself that I CANNOT go out drinking on a work night, I went out on Tuesday last week, to Warehouse and “Where’s Mavis” got majorly drunk (mostly due to not having eaten much that day and having gone out on an empty stomach).  My friend Jim said it’s the most fucked he’d ever seen me, and I think I just drank myself into ‘standby mode’ from what I recall it was just a point of being stood there in a daze, occasionally sipping my drink, and making subtle movements to acknowledge a song I knew was playing.  Crazy times, and the next day I was very very rough.

Speaking of work nights though…might be the last time I have such a thing to speak of for a while, as last Thursday my prick of a Dad was in a bad mood at work, and a petty complaint came from an eBay customer whom simply wanted a refund (which I don’ see what he has such a big fuckin problem with, considering it was a fair point the guy made), but noooo…my dad isn’t about customer satisfaction, and more so…he wasn’t about being rational.  He basically decided to flip out somewhat, shout, and cancel the whole eBay thing I was doing there, basically taking my job away.  So 20mins after that I packed up my things, called my friend Jim up (whom has come back to Preston for Uni, but doesn’t know anyone else in Preston whom he can hang with at the moment, so he’s in need of excuses to get out or hang out), so I went to hang with him, we played some Wii, got some Subway, and played more Wii.  The next day, it was more of the same, and in fact it was the most fun I’ve had on Wii in a long time, played some Wii Sports very competitively (but was still fun), at night we crossed paths with another friend and spontaneously ending up having a bit of a smoke session, which was the first one I’d had in a while.  Turned out to be very fun though, some good munchies, good tunes, and Aladdin on Blu-Ray, hehe.  I also got to spend my first proper night in some Uni halls.  As a few of the rooms had been left unlocked (they were empty) in my friends cluster flats, so I crashed in one of those rooms for Friday night.

Room I stayed in

On the subject of Uni…the start date is nearing by the minute.  September 14th, I’m starting to get REALLY nervous about my loans.  I’ve gone over these before but I NEED the tuition loan at least, as that allows me to actually go to Uni, then as a 2nd, I would really really LOVE my maintenance loan as if you’ve followed my blogs of recent, you’d know how much I just don’t feel welcome living at home with my family etc, especially being around my dad.  I need out, so I feel I’d be so much better and happier if I get the opportunity soon to move out.  Then as a third…I’d try for a student loan I think, just to support me for a bit, as I’d need to get a job to fit around my uni schedule etc.  Not sure what loans I’m eligible for though, as ALSO like previously mentioned, I have a bad credit score at the moment, and that’s effected me in “regular people” loans, so I’m worried that bad credit may also effect my eligibility to get Student loans. :\  I think I could cry with joy to be told I was accepted for my uni loans, which would be a bright contrast to the tears I shed the previous Thursday due to an overwhelming feeling of fear regarding things and disappointment in myself, first time I’d cried in a long time (well…not including when I watched Marley & Me a few months back…but that was due to the power of that film, Thursday night was due to me feeling a bit depressed ).

Anyway, I’ve got a lot more to talk about, mainly on things I’ve been watching or shows I’ve been getting into recently, but I’ll leave that for over the next couple of days.  As always, major major appreciate any views my blog gets, thanks for the well wishings some people have given me recently, and anytime you need a friend to talk too…hit me up, I’m a very talkative person (as you may of figured from my blogs).

Adios Amigo’s
Kermit
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Kermit is currently/ recently:

Current Mood: Alright

Playing:

• Burnout Paradise (360) – Epic, nearly 100% completed it.
• Wii Sports (Wii) – Awesome, simply due to the competition from Jimbo
• Smash Bros Brawl (Wii) – <3
• Mario Kart Wii (Wii) – <3
• Rock Band 2 (360) – Good times.
• Burnout Revenge (360) – Finding it hard to go back in the timeline after Burnout Paradise.

Watching:

• Currently watching Friends re-runs on e4.
• Aladdin (Disney Movie)
• …and more of what I have been watching in my next blog

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