Kermit's Blog

Another day, another blog.

First on.  The weekend just gone…
Friday, had a little ghetto (GTA-esque) adventure, and eventually hung out with some uni peeps, games got played, South Park and LOST got watched, and to hide the truth in a metaphor…we all drifted off the ground.  Fun times.

Me @ Alex's

Saturday, I only got up at 3.30pm, had some weak sleeps during the week and managed to used the weekend to catch up somewhat.  Sat night I went to Southport to hang at my friend Alex’s, basically we just played video games, he showed me a bunch of stuff (never been to his house before), watched some films, and basically just had a dudes night.
Sunday, got back to Preston about 6.30pm, had a funky bus ride, watched some Samurai Champloo on my laptop, played some Punch Out on an emulator, and watched some WWE, came home, plowed through some eBay work I had to do, and then just spent the night chilling out and watching tv shows.

Subway win!

Monday, got my Subway vouchers I won for work (from a local radio competition), and they took my photo (although I’m yet to see if or where that has ended up on the internet).  Work was easy going, Subway lunch owned (as always), came home, got tempted to go out, tried to make it happen, but it didn’t, so…I spent the night watching TV, and watched Wrestlemania 25.

That’s all there is to tell on a summary of recent days really.  I’ve also just today been reminded that this Friday is a bank holiday, and so is Monday, thus…4 day weekend.  Which is good, because I’m building up a back log of games I haven’t played yet but want to, not to mention the forever growing backlog of games that I mean to complete but haven’t.

Games I have but have never got round to playing:

• Zelda: Majora’s Mask (N64…but on a gamecube bonus disk, didn’t remember I had this until the other day)
• Bioshock (360 – had this nearly a year now, and it’s still in the cellophane wrap :p)
• Stuntman Ignition (same as above)
• Ninja Gaiden II (360 – got this a few weeks ago, not touched yet)
• Kameo (360 – same as above)
• Kung Fu Panda/ Lego Indiana Jones (360 – same as above)
• Skate It (Wii – same as above)
• Madworld (Wii – bought on Friday, I’ve not played it yet)
• Shaun Whites Snowboarding Road Trip (Wii – ordered online yesterday).

I’m probably forgetting at least 1 more game too, and I don’t think I’ll bother starting a list on games I have but haven’t completed yet, as otherwise this blog is going to just depress me with unfinished tasks.
I’ve not been out to a club in a few weeks, so with that has meant I’ve had cash in my pocket/ bank to spend, and I’m such a douche with money, I just have to get rid of it in exchange for stuff.  So I just end up buying stuff and making sure I’m broke till the next bit of cash comes in, video games are pretty much the main offenders in my impulse buys, and I really need to stop and put money into other things, whilst simultaneously getting the enjoyment from the back log of games I’ve not played yet/ not finished yet.
I wonder if I’ll ever be able to properly save up money?
Yet at the same time, I don’t want to save for a rainy day, I want to spend and buy stuff whilst I have the money and enjoy it.

Segwaying off the unfinished business sort of mention above, I’ve got a few TV shows I want to catch up on too.  Shows I followed for ages then fell behind on.

• Scrubs (seen every ep upto Season 4, and then caught random ones on TV since then).
• LOST (I got to about 85% through Season 3, and want to catch up).
• Everybody Hates Chris (About 80% through Season 2 I think).
• The Office US (I’m about 25 eps behind on this I think)
• Nip tuck (not so bad on this one, probably about 7 eps away from being up to date.

I need to start having some marathon gaming and marathon TV show watching sessions I think,  I stay up late all the time, so it makes sense I should use my time to enjoy things I enjoy, instead of losing time to whatever else.

Mmmkay so it’s now Wednesday night as I get to this paragraph, went out last night.

Me and Alex, out and drunk

Didn’t plan too, and then didn’t plan to have a heavy one, it started as a few drinks in the Adelphi with my friend Harry, and ended up in PR1 for there Rock Night (Where’s Mavis), I haven’t been in ages, so the potential to eventually end up in PR1 was kind of a selling point in getting me out.  All in all, a good night, got majorly drunk, and drank a few beers I didn’t ask for (loud music + misunderstood bar people = random drinks), bumped into my friend Alex whom was out with some of his friends, and the night rolled on till closing time.

Woke up waaaay late today, got a telling off from my Pa over how late I was for work (I expected it though, apologised, and tried to keep my head down), thankfully I didn’t have a hangover today, although I did feel very drained, I had a Subway to try and get some energy up, and had an awesome Pasta at home (made by momma bear) so those 2 meals have helped.  Right now I’m gonna hop in the shower, do some pubic removal, and then I’m torn between watching TV or finally playing some of the games I’ve been meaning to play.  I think I’ll give “Skate It” a try, as the Wii Balance board owns.  I’m currently near 2 weeks into my facial hair growth try out by the way.  I’ve never given it a proper shot, I’m not one for growing this kind of thing, and plus, my hair is a light colour so it’s barely noticeable :p, still…if I keep it up, who knows what will come of it (other than potentially putting some girls off me with my hobo-kermit look, heh).  I also got a call off my ex today, informing me somehow that some bill had been forwarded onto her that was for me (I presume the new tenants of our old place gave it to the letting peeps, whom then passed it on to my ex), anyway, basically on top of the already mounting debts I’ve picked up from when I lost my job/ moved out, a bunch of stuff I got on finance last year is now being asked for in full.  So it’s like +£1100 on top of what I already owed, meaning I now owe somewhere not far from £2000 :S not too mention I’m repaying my mum back for my +£500 laptop.
I may well need to put my social life on hold for a while, and just have quiet nights in at friends or something, I’m hoping that my mum can still hook me up with a personal loan (from her) and I’ll just have to make sure I repay her like £100 a week, and have her paid off a.s.a.p.  As I really want to be debt free, and start rebuilding my credit score before I start uni.  I’ll have to get one of those visor caps, some 80′s nerd glasses, and one of those typewriter finance things and then go through all my unopened and messed up mail to work out what the total I owe is, and then approach my mum when she’s in a chirpy mood over this Easter weekend with a figure and be like “mum….*then drop the ‘i needs monies’ bomb*”.

So more on that as it progresses…As referenced in my previous blog my lil Bro Jake has been drawing for me since last time (where I mentioned how he often suprises me with little drawings for me).

Jakes Drawings, click the pic to big it up

Randomly this time he’s actually pitched a game idea to me, I told him what I was doing a while ago when I was working on my games design portfolio, and he didnt really say anything other than acknowlidging the fact I was busy with something and wouldn’t be playing video games (which he’d normally sit and watch me do).  So for him to randomly come up with a games design when I never asked him too, or remind him about it, it just goes to show he totally respects me and takes inspiration off me.  His game idea was called “Snipe him out Dead 2″ (did he make a number 1?).  I think I’m the coolest person (in his opinion) that he knows , and who knows, when my lil bro Max (3) gets older, he may idolise me too .  I love my lil bro’s, it’s going to once again be sad to move out of my parents (whenver that happens) simply because of them.  Last time my lil bro Jake was crying over me moving, and that was soo hard for me to take in.  Anyway, I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.

So for now…it’s shower time, and time to end this blog.  Expect another one in the next couple of days though, what with Easter weekend etc, maybe I’ll be able to do some mini-reviews on some of the above mentioned games, I’m itching to upload something new to my YouTube too, I love immortalising myself through YouTube, even if I do nothing but make a damn fool of myself and further hurt any credibility I have, lol, and hopefully this weekend I’ll get an Easter egg off someone too (the only person I can think who’d maybe get me one is my mum…so maybe I shouldn’t rush into the money lending fromr her just yet ^_^).

Anyways, thanks as always for nibbling on my text-fests.  Till next time….Adios Amigo’s!

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Kermit is currently/ recently:

Playing:

Current Mood: Fine, in need of a shower

• Halo 2 (PC) – Borrowed off my friend Alex
• Smash Bros Brawl (Wii) – Awesome multiplayer game
• Resident Evil 5 (360)
• Pokemon Platinum (DS)
• Punch Out (Nes)

Watching:

• South Park – Last weeks new ep was cool, and I watched some classic eps last Fri too.
• LOST – a random ep from Season 2 last week (I’m thinking of maybe going back and re-watching LOST from the start, but I don’t know if I can motivate myself to do so)
• How I met your mother – Love it, best new show to me in ages.
• Wrestlemania 25 – Enjoyed it, good show.  Favourite match; HBK vs Undertaker.

So yeah…

Yesterday, after work, my cousin Edd whom I haven’t seen in a long time came round to mine. We was to partake in some heavy 2 player partying here, that just didn’t go to a good start.

Somewhere between Morrisons and my house I managed to lose my door keys, at first I thought it was just stupidity and that they’d turn up either on my car seat or under it like they have done before (fell out my pocket or whatever). However, this time after checking like a hawk in the car park, outside my house, and in Morrisons…it just wasnt coming to a happy ending.

I asked some woman in morrisons what I do now…locksmith? O_o? She had no idea, I rang my mum with the same question, to which she had no idea about locksmith prices and info etc. So…I figured I’d 118118 “24hour locksmiths in preston”, they gave me some number which they said was “ASAP Locksmiths Preston” so I thought “yay, a little local firm”, but no…I spoke to some foreign sounding person who was pushing an american accent, and I was just straight up and asking for the price of having someone come round. To which she slapped me in the face with “£55 call out fee, + labour”, to that I was just like “erm…no it’s alright, thanks” and just before I hung up she was like “whats your name please” to which I was like “what?” and just hung up.

So…I don’t have that kind of money to pay a locksmith what could’ve ended up being upto like £100, so I had to start thinking about smashing a window…cause window replacement isn’t as costly…but it’s more awkward and not something I wanted to have to do. So I began thinking and we had a window in our house that had a loose-ish latch on it,

Seat adjuster/ crowbar

so armed with what used to be the thing to move the passenger seat forward/backward in my car (it snapped off a while ago). We walked around to the back of my house (like proper dodgy thieving bastard types :\), and tried to pry open this window. At first it didn’t seem like it was going to happen, but after we both had at it from both ends, somehow the wood gave way, broke, and the window opened like a present from the skies!

We was in! We was fkn in!!!!
WOOOOO!!

I was so happy when we got in, I thought I was proper screwed over having lost my key and having no money to spare on window repairs/ locksmiths etc, but we got in. Sure we had to repair the wood and the latch (any proper burglar could’ve broke in really so it’s a good thing we did), but we’d turned a 1hour search of everywhere we’d stepped, then a worrying bunch of calls to people for advice or for prices…to actually being back in my own place. Armed with pizzas and beer etc.

First thing we did was watch Reno 911: Miami (which I’ve never seen before, yet had on DVD for like a year). Beforehand we’d played a bunch of Guitar Hero World Tour so we was burned out on that, and no longer sober enough for that kind of thing. However, Edd was into playing some SingStar and with a few beers in me I was ok with that. So we played singstar for about an hour, then it turned into an argument over me thinking Steve Perry is the best voice ever, and Edd thinking Freddie Mercury was…

So naturally I Journey’d him up by shoving on there greatest hits DVD, to which he had little complaints too, I think by this time Edd had been sick and I was still drinking…which was stupid of me cause I said I wouldn’t go stupid (although I didn’t do anything too bad as in whisky or vodka consumption). Anywho by about 4am I think it was Game Over time for us both…well, me, as Edd was already asleep in a bean bag chair.

Today…I didn’t want to get up, I woke up at sometime around 8:45am originally and my head was just like “no!…if you get up now, I will hurt you all day long”, so I had to listen to that, and sleep some more, I finally got up later on and the extra sleep has done me good. I feel as though if I had some Tropicana and a shower now, I would be 100% again. No aspirins etc required. Been waiting for a call to see if my dad needed me in work (as it’s too busy for me to do my job with him being the only person in upstairs for the festive holidays), but it doesn’t look like I’ll be getting a call today, which kinda sucks as I need money to get some bills done, and to be able to eye up what I can do tomorrow.

So…it’s a cold Tuesday afternoon. 1 I still would’ve tried skating in had I had to walk/ skate to work today, yesterday was quite fun, as there is so much downhill on the way home. Takes like an hour to get there and 25mins to get back, hehe. Tonight I think it’ll be some more Guitar Hero perhaps as Mossy is down for coming round, plus I hear there is a new episode of “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” to watch, which is like the first one in forever.  Today also brings in the depressing fact that I have 1 less day to live in this place I’ve called home for the past 8 months or so.

I’m also getting weak at nights too.  Like in bed just before I’m trying to go to sleep, I hug my new little bean bag pillow I got off my nan (I lost my old one when I moved here), and then my body just becomes marinated in thoughts of loneliness.  Then I start thinking I should text Laura.  That’s not going to accomplish anything, she won’t reply, and it’s not even what I actually want.

my pillow girlfriend

The thing I do want is to not feel so alone.  I’ve become accustomed to companionship, and it seems recently I’ve been trying to hide that feeling as much as possible by having friends round.  Yet even still, no matter how many friends are round sleeping on various furniture around me…when I lay on the single bed mattress I’m now currently on, hug my lil pillow, and make sure I’m self-tucked in to the single duvet.  I feel hollow, without someone to love or having someone love me.  I never realised how much I liked cuddling until it was gone .  Sucks too cause I know for me it’ll probably take me like half a year at least to find someone, and not just anyone…the right someone (I’m not rushing into anything).

Apologies for having to drop this blog from a funky breaking in and getting drunk story, to a “my loneliness/ emo-ish crybaby relationship mumbo jumbo”, but I couldn’t hold back on giving that shit a mention, I’m hoping it’s going to start getting easier now I’ve mentioned it.  That might be wishful thinking…

Anyway, that’s that for this blog.

Kermit is Currently/ Recently:

current mood: Not happy but not sad...just alright.

Playing:

• Guitar Hero World Tour – (360)
• Singstar (Amped & 80′s) – (PS2)

Watching:

• Reno 911: Miami
• Journey Greatest Hits

Told you it’d be up this weekend (I think?).

Anyway…Halloween 2008 was pretty damned good I’d say.  This blog will basically consist of me going through what happened Friday (Halloween) and what I got upto etc…and most importantly, there are (some) pictures to support it.  Basic jist, a bunch of mates (both mine & Lauras) swung by to party down at our house Halloween fancy dress stylee!.

So…I’ll start from about 4pm that day. I was home alone, fixing up my costume (had to make some alterations to my shirt), so spent ages trying to work some magic with a needle & thread (and I don’t “gots skills” in that area), I did an alright job though.  As I was finishing up with that, Laura came home with one of her friends from work, as well as her boyfriend (I’ve never met either before), this was cause Laura had told her mate she’d curl her hair nice for her cause they were off out for a meal.  Ended up getting in some unexpected Guitar Hero time in with Lauras’ friends’ boyfriend (Dave), it’s always nice to whip out some Guitar Hero.
After that was said and done with I swung by Morrisons, got some last minute SoCo (Southern Comfort), incase I ran dry on beer at the party.  Then it was a case of getting some dinner sorted (barely ate that day so needed some food in me, Pizza & some Mickey Mouse potato shapes took care of the hunger (Mickey Mouse Potato shapes, £1.30ish from morrisons…buy some, they’re the shiznyt!).  Then it was a case of me and Laura last minute preppin our costumes (we was James and Jessie from Team Rocket, 2 bad guys from the Pokemon Anime/ Cartoon) and gettin the house ready.  *Doorbell sounds…*  First trick or treater, some lil kid dressed up, stood on the step ready for treats, multiple packs of Haribo for you lil dude!

10mins later *doorbell again*  I grab some more Haribo (we bought a massive 80 mini-pack bag of

Pumpkin by Mossy

Halloween Haribo for trick or treaters and people who were comin to ours that night).  I see 2 people dresed up, I’m about to offer out the treats when I notice they have a box of beer, then I realise it’s our first guests to arrive, 2 of my long time friends, Brad (Dark Bee Keeper) and Mossy (Pro-Smoking Alien).  They were early, so they got the pleasure of helping me do work, Mossy carved up our pumpkin, Brad emptied out the garbage, I washed up…

Then from there the party started to pick up like a Royal Rumble would, as in, people kept arriving at set intervals.  The party consisted of basically my iPod playing a random playlist of everything on it on the speakers in the front room, the spare room consisting of Wii Sports and SingStar karaoke action, and the kitchen being a place to have some good conversation and be close to the drinks .  Mostly it was just us guys (Me, Brad, Mossy and Pete) in there though, reminiscing about funny stories and what not.

Picture break…

Pete, Brad, Moss, Me in Kitchen

Light up.

Pete & Me

Emma (goth vampire) & Laura (Team Rockets Jessie)

Me, Emma and Mossy

Also I gotta say that I wasn’t really a camera man that night, other people (should) have better pictures, cause some brought digital cameras, I just took a few select phone pics when I was drunk or feeling like I needed something for my blog. I’ll try and get some pics from other peoples facebooks/ myspaces, whatever once they’re up and then edit this post later.  Back to the night though…

So…after everyone was here and the girls had all pretty much gathered at the table to drink wine, and girl chat etc…us guys went outside to do some drunken ollies on mine and brads skateboards, after that we came inside, and the girls were not soon after setting up SingStar on the PS2 to get there karaoke on.  At this point it came to us guys conclusion that we should sneak off to the pub thats about a 5min walk from were I live.  So we said we was off skateboarding again, but instead took to the pub…oddly the pub was full mostly of men wearing tutu’s, and those not having any halloween fun were just miserable looking middle aged guys drowning there sorrows…so after a round of shots and a round of beer we set off back to mine.

On the way back we took a detour and walked along this little steam railway track thing that runs behind a bunch of trees near the road by my house.  It’s some sort of novelty tourist thing…like a 5 mile steam railway track or something that runs during the day most weekends…I’ve never personally been on it, but back to the point.  There was a sign saying how you could be fined for being on the track…and of course with it being late, and us guys being drunk…we decided to walk along this dark spooky track.  This walk was also part inspired by that scene in that film “Stand by me” where the 4 boys walk along the tracks.  Anyway, it was a moist night…the tracks were a pain to walk along (major slippy), especially in Ug boots I might add, and about 5 mins down the line we had to do a team effort to get over a fence back to the road.  It was cool walking down the tracks drunk in the dark with my friends though, reminded me of childhood times.

Anyway, we got back to the house, we’d only been e over half an hour, the girls were still mostly just playing SingStar, and no one really noticed we’d gone, about this time Laura whipped out the Vodka Jelly she’d made for us all, it was hella strong, but at the same time really tasty and went down easy.  The jelly I think slowly took everyone to the next level of drunk.  Good thing too, cause people were slowly running out of alcohol.

Chinese Delivery Guy

I remember Pete & Emma running out of there box of Stella firstly, so to counter that I remembered that the Bamboo Chinese Takeaway near my house had something on the menu about Chinese Beer with meals…I got out the menu, a phone call was made (by Pete I think?) and then about 18 beers and some chips where heading our way!    Not forgetting the free prawn crackers we got for ordering over £12 too, hehe.  They got here after about 20mins (seemed like about 5 mins in ‘drunk & happy at a house party time’ though.  The beers themselves are quite good, not as good as Tiger (another chinese lager), but still…I’d happily drink Tsing Tao beer again.

Tsing Tao Beer

After this the girls who dont like beer were gettin in a bit of a frenzy over there own supplies, so ideas to head off to night clubs started emerging, we probably would’ve just stayed at ours if we could’ve found the number for Dial a Beer/ Dial a Drink (some mythical alcohol home delivery service that runs till like 4am) though.  I’ve had a flyer for the place and heard people joke about it (simply because it is like the most convenient thing ever!) but never used it…so didnt have the number (nor did anyone else).  Anyways, it started getting later, everyone was mostly drunk, Kid Rock – All Summer Long got pretty much everyone dancing drunk in the front room, and then soon after we all headed off to the clubs (except Pete & Emma who had to shoot off due to Emma having work next day).

Looking back I really wish we hadn’t gone to the clubs, and when I say “clubs” I should just say “club”, we went to 1 place, Lava Ignite.  I fuckin hate the place, it’s not my scene at all…plus they have no main brand alcoholic drinks, entry is overpriced, the drinks are way overpriced, and most of all…the place smells like arm pits and feet >_<.

Me & Mossy, 'not sober' in Lava.

Thankfully I can’t remember much of the night once I got in there (other than the nasty smell of the place), and that I was doing Randy Orton dropkicks on one of those machines that you’re meant to punch and test your strength on.  Soon after this I just remember not knowing where Brad and his GF had gone, and then I think I lost Mossy too.  Laura was with all her girls (didnt know where they were), and I was just majorly drunk at this point and had to bolt.  I left the club, went into Subway…ordered a sandwich, talked about Pokemon briefly with some random, and I’d texted Laura whilst leaving to say I was leaving, and she’d come out and found me in Subway, she got herself a sub (hers was way better than mine …I should’ve ordered a Meatball Marinara like her), and then from there we got a cab home, I was up for walkin…but I dont think she will ever be up for a drunk walk home with me :p (just mapquested it, and it’s a 2.7 mile trip) made the more interesting by being majorly drunk whilst trekking back home…a feat that I did happily the last time I was out “clubbing” and heavily drunk at the end of the night.

Overall I had a quality night, all the highlights of the night were before we went to the club if you ask me, but still…I wont say the club ruined the night.  I wish more people had of made comments about who I was…I know I chose someone random and less known to be for Halloween, but I only remember about 3 people making a comment.  I reckon if we’d of gone to better bars, Lava’s full of chavs and people who are n00bs to clubbing (18) mostly though, maybe the 18 year olds of today missed out or dont remember Pokemon too well?  Also, another interesting thing, is we only got 1 trick or treater the whole night.  Our area tends to be full of first time couples, and young folk renting though…so not many kids about, but still…I expected more than 1.

A shiz pic of the next day mess.

The next day I woke up at about 8.30am, I couldn’t sleep…so I got up…suprisingly I wasn’t so hungover (at this time), as the morning progressed though, I started to feel like I was getting more drunk.  I did a trip to McDonalds to pick up breakfasts and stuff for me, Laura, and Caroline (1 of Lauras mates who stayed over at ours), that hit the spot oh so well.  Then everyone had a shot at getting more sleep, I still couldnt sleep though.  So I went and played “Skate” on the 360 for a bit, and did some tidying of the house (which was the usual after-party mess you’d expect.

Me...as the hangover made its appearance.

After doing as much tidying as I could bare to do up to that point, I tried to nap on the couch…still tno joy.  After everyone had gone home, I eventually showered my hair back to reality, still was getting bummed down by an increasingly annoying headache though, and finally managed to get some sleep in the afternoon.  Which has since f**ked up my sleeping pattern (it’s 4.22am right now as I type this).

Satuday I did nothing but recover really.  Played some video games and stayed sober, Sunday (today) I’ve done pretty much the same, just chilled out and took it easy.  Played some video games, and me and Laura watched the last of what we had left to watch of Rob & Big Season 3.  Shame the series came to such a quick end imo.  Hope they both stay on TV though…even if in seperate endeavours.

And so that wraps up this blog.  Like I said…I hope to get more pics up soon in a future edit to this page.  I’ll have to have a read through of this tomorrow to filter out any confusing bits, the laptop I’m using right now has a habit of accidentally clicking and highlighting text and making me either delete things, or end up writing in the middle of something else :\.  I’m all burned out for this weekend, and now I get to enjoy about 5 hours sleep before I have to be up to take Laura to Uni.

Laterz peepz.

Kermit

Kermit is currently/ recently:

Watching:

• Rob & Big
• South Park
  

  Current Mood: Weak, making the most of things.

Playing:

• Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
• My Pokemon Ranch (Wii)
• Skate (360)
• Bomberman Blast (Wii)

Lacking:

• Money
• a good nights sleep & a proper sleeping pattern
• a sense of pride from still having no job.