So as always not much has happened this week. I worked and that's been it really.
Today though I went to see Kick Ass 2 with Lucy, Connor and Toby. It was a great movie, but it annoys me when they keep calling themselves superheroes. They are just vigilantes...none of them have special powers or anything, they are merely dudes with bats or other weapons. Other than that the film is great! It's funny and violent much like the first, but more over the top. To try and apply any sort of serious tone to the movie is a wasted effort. You really can't..the movie is stupid and crazy but it's entertaining and fun so who cares? I love how insane Hit Girl is as a character. She's mental. I mean it's to be expected given everything she's been through...her dad being some kind of serial killer vigilante who exposed her to that kind of thing regularly is going to leave some kind of permanent mental damage to her. Still I think she's probably the best character in the movie. Kick Ass is just shit, all he ever seems to do is get the crap kicked out of him. The biggest disappointment has to be the lack of Nic Cage. They could have incorporated a bunch of flashbacks with him being his crazy self and that would have been great.
I will say this though, the film has one very weird and messed up sub plot and it should probably be removed. Union J have no place in that movie.
Lets face it, we all love Nic Cage, he's great.
I'd like to write more about it but I can't think of anything to say really....I go back to Lincoln on Sunday which should be awesome. Can't wait to see the frisbee family again...kinda nervous about being team captain for Lads on Tournament but hopefully I'll be fine.
Catch ya later folks
Monday, 26 August 2013
Monday, 19 August 2013
Aaaaaaaaand it's Monday
Looks like it's that time of the week again. So it's Monday once more and I've got very little to say about the last week. I've been working hard and barely sleeping which has been....interesting. I'm looking forward to getting back to Lincoln where I can take it easier for a couple weeks before lectures start up again.
I have recently watched all of the first season of Avatar: Legend of Korra which prompted me to re-watch The Legend of Aang. I'd forgotten how much I loved that show. It's a shame kids today don't have any cartoons like it. It's hilarious and conveys some more serious points along the way as well. I must admit that it makes me wish I could control the elements to shoot fire from my hands or create tornadoes with a sneeze but sadly that's not the case.
It makes me sad to see that there aren't any Saturday or Sunday morning cartoons anymore. I used to really look forward to watching Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokemon/Beyblades/Digimon/Avatar/Ninja Turtles and a whole load of other shows at the weekends. You'd wake up and run downstairs, park yourself in front of the TV for a couple of hours watching all the awesome cartoons. Yeah they were cartoons and people say they're childish but when I watch them, I don't care! I grew up watching them! I'd go so far as to say that they taught me some important life lessons. The differences between right and wrong, good and evil and not to trust anyone named Gary Oak.
Yeah they were shows designed for kids and maybe they are childish and immature but some of them had some deep and profound messages to give. Hell I can think of two obvious ones simply from Pokemon: The First Movie. Mewtwo and Meowth both have moments where they question life and why we do the things we do. It's a "kids" film for crying out loud! Most people still write them off as childish non-sense, so what the movie has a couple insightful moments, doesn't make it any more mature. The main character then proceeds to sacrifice himself. He throws himself between two of the most powerful beings to ever exist just to try to stop them fighting. What kind of kids film does that? And then they go on to create a whole load more movies and the TV series is still going! There were so many tear jerking moments in the first season of the series alone! And that's just one show!
Pokemon alone taught me a lot and that's not to mention the others. I could probably go on and on but then I'd sound like a right ass. I don't care if watching cartoons is seen as childish and immature, it makes me happy. They remind me of simpler times, when things weren't all so serious or important. They managed to teach a generation about life while making us laugh and joke along the way. Which when you come to think of it, isn't that what our parents have been teaching us all these years anyway? To work hard but also to have fun along the way?
Catch ya later folks
I have recently watched all of the first season of Avatar: Legend of Korra which prompted me to re-watch The Legend of Aang. I'd forgotten how much I loved that show. It's a shame kids today don't have any cartoons like it. It's hilarious and conveys some more serious points along the way as well. I must admit that it makes me wish I could control the elements to shoot fire from my hands or create tornadoes with a sneeze but sadly that's not the case.
It makes me sad to see that there aren't any Saturday or Sunday morning cartoons anymore. I used to really look forward to watching Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokemon/Beyblades/Digimon/Avatar/Ninja Turtles and a whole load of other shows at the weekends. You'd wake up and run downstairs, park yourself in front of the TV for a couple of hours watching all the awesome cartoons. Yeah they were cartoons and people say they're childish but when I watch them, I don't care! I grew up watching them! I'd go so far as to say that they taught me some important life lessons. The differences between right and wrong, good and evil and not to trust anyone named Gary Oak.
Yeah they were shows designed for kids and maybe they are childish and immature but some of them had some deep and profound messages to give. Hell I can think of two obvious ones simply from Pokemon: The First Movie. Mewtwo and Meowth both have moments where they question life and why we do the things we do. It's a "kids" film for crying out loud! Most people still write them off as childish non-sense, so what the movie has a couple insightful moments, doesn't make it any more mature. The main character then proceeds to sacrifice himself. He throws himself between two of the most powerful beings to ever exist just to try to stop them fighting. What kind of kids film does that? And then they go on to create a whole load more movies and the TV series is still going! There were so many tear jerking moments in the first season of the series alone! And that's just one show!
Pokemon alone taught me a lot and that's not to mention the others. I could probably go on and on but then I'd sound like a right ass. I don't care if watching cartoons is seen as childish and immature, it makes me happy. They remind me of simpler times, when things weren't all so serious or important. They managed to teach a generation about life while making us laugh and joke along the way. Which when you come to think of it, isn't that what our parents have been teaching us all these years anyway? To work hard but also to have fun along the way?
Catch ya later folks
Monday, 12 August 2013
Monday, Monday, Monday (ahhhaaahhhaaaa)
Imagine the title being sung to the chorus of "Ruby Ruby Ruby" by Kaiser Chiefs.
So it's once again Monday. That day that follows the weekend before. You either come into Monday bleary eyed and hazy from the weekend before or totally refreshed and ready to face the week (but let's face it no-one does that). I am very much the former but not for the reasons one might expect (Yeah, "one" used the word "one"), I'm all bleary eyed and hazy due to a shitty sleep pattern caused by all of the night shifts I pulled last week. Every day I worked last week was a night shift. It sucked to say the least. Who needs sleep anyways? The graveyard shift is an odd one...it shifts from busy as hell to quiet as a grave in a moment and it's really disconcerting.
Aside from that I haven't got much to say really. I spent most of last week working night times and failing to sleep the rest of the time so there's not all that much to say. I went for a run for the first time in far too long (2 months or so...) and it hurt...alot. I am massively out of shape and my fitness has dropped like a stone. The all be it short run took longer than it should have done and my legs are still killing me from it. It was a bad call. Safe to say I'm going to need to do alot of work to be ready for Lads on Tournament in September.
My niece Kelly King has been short listed for a "Little Hero" award. She's been exposed to my sister's epileptic seizures a number of times and has called for an ambulance, given their address and let them in to help my sister when she's had a seizure. She is a little hero and has really earned this. I'm gunna post the link here and if you've got facebook and could vote for her that would mean the world to her and my sister! Thanks folks, here's the link:
https://apps.facebook.com/offerpop/Contest.psp?c=429366&u=3822&a=177914495580579&p=306933629360508&v=Entry&id=1889975&rest=1
Catch ya later folks
So it's once again Monday. That day that follows the weekend before. You either come into Monday bleary eyed and hazy from the weekend before or totally refreshed and ready to face the week (but let's face it no-one does that). I am very much the former but not for the reasons one might expect (Yeah, "one" used the word "one"), I'm all bleary eyed and hazy due to a shitty sleep pattern caused by all of the night shifts I pulled last week. Every day I worked last week was a night shift. It sucked to say the least. Who needs sleep anyways? The graveyard shift is an odd one...it shifts from busy as hell to quiet as a grave in a moment and it's really disconcerting.
Aside from that I haven't got much to say really. I spent most of last week working night times and failing to sleep the rest of the time so there's not all that much to say. I went for a run for the first time in far too long (2 months or so...) and it hurt...alot. I am massively out of shape and my fitness has dropped like a stone. The all be it short run took longer than it should have done and my legs are still killing me from it. It was a bad call. Safe to say I'm going to need to do alot of work to be ready for Lads on Tournament in September.
My niece Kelly King has been short listed for a "Little Hero" award. She's been exposed to my sister's epileptic seizures a number of times and has called for an ambulance, given their address and let them in to help my sister when she's had a seizure. She is a little hero and has really earned this. I'm gunna post the link here and if you've got facebook and could vote for her that would mean the world to her and my sister! Thanks folks, here's the link:
https://apps.facebook.com/offerpop/Contest.psp?c=429366&u=3822&a=177914495580579&p=306933629360508&v=Entry&id=1889975&rest=1
Catch ya later folks
Monday, 5 August 2013
Reconnecting
I haven't had any crazy shenanigans going on this week, it's been relatively quiet really. My new laptop arrived and I've discovered that Windows 8 is a tricky bastard to learn, but no doubt I'll get it with time.
That's not what this week's post is about though. This week is, as the title suggests, about reconnecting with old friends.
I saw one of my oldest and best mates the other day while I was working and realised I hadn't seen him in literally 2 years...that scared the hell out of me. I mean I place a lot of faith in my friends, they are and always will be incredibly important to me. I'd kill for some of them and I'd die for a few, because they are like family to me. They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps and I like to think I keep great company (even if they don't agree).
Fray was, and still is, one of my best friends. Yeah I haven't seen him in forever but I'd be there if he ever needed me to help him and I'd like to think he would for me too. This chance encounter though got me to thinking at how crumby a friend I've been this summer. I've hardly seen anyone! It sucks! I've been so busy working that I've had hardly any time to do anything else really and that really sucks. So for that I do apologise, to all my friends (not just those that read this) and I promise to do better.
It also got me thinking about an old friend of mine who I met way back when I was 13/14, hell I don't even remember. We'd sit and talk for hours on end about anything and everything, pointless or not and even though she lived hundreds of miles away (in another country), she was still one of my best friends. I sadly lost touch with her a couple years back for reasons I don't remember....maybe my laziness or I became busy and every time I thought about getting back in touch I thought "Nah it's been too long...". Well I recently got back in touch with her a couple days ago and even though its been a couple years and we've grown up and done things with our lives it seems like nothing has changed. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing...personally though? I think it's probably a good thing. The past couple years hasn't really changed who we are all that much which to me is a good thing, maybe the years have just added to the people we are instead of a complete overhaul.
Really this week has just got me thinking about how important my friends are to me and how....ashamed I am of myself for allowing myself to become so distant from some of my best friends. I still trust them with my life and if they called I'd answer. Maybe now I'm not the first person they'd call, or if they'd even call me at all...but my point is, if they did I'd be there, but if they didn't? Who would blame them? I haven't been the best friend in the world recently and yeah we've all been busy with life, doing things and stuff and it makes it hard to keep in touch at times...but surely I should be able to make time to write a simple text, email or Facebook message or something just to say "Hey, how you doing?".
So I admit maybe I've neglected you folks and I'm truly sorry about that, but just because I haven't been in touch recently it doesn't mean I've forgotten about you. I've probably just been busy, not that that's much of an excuse...it's just the truth. I'll be better in future, promise.
After all, I am who I am today because of the friends I've made and the times we've had together, good and bad. I've been there to help a few, if not most, of you out in bad times and we've had some real good laughs along the way. You guys (and girls) have made me the man I am today and without you I wouldn't be half that man. I know I can be annoying and a pain in the ass at times, I would apologise but I know I'll only do it again so really there's not much point. Just know that I don't do it on purpose, it's just who I am!
So yeah, that's pretty much all I've got to say on the matter really.
Forgive this post for being so late in posting, I've been busy today trying to make up my absence this summer to some mates and I've been pulling all the late shifts at work for the past couple days and only get in at 11pm. So yeah, I'm currently sat on my bed, proof reading this post that I drafted last night on my way home/whilst sat in bed. I don't know. It's been a bit of a crazy week and not for all the good reasons really.
I've been having some weird ass dreams recently that probably aren't help by the lack of sleep and the sleep that I am getting being restless and very light. All in all I'm back to sleeping poorly again which isn't exactly fun but it can't really be helped, what with the humidity and the late hours I'm at work. It's weird to think that maybe my sleeping pattern will normalise when I'm back at Uni...normally its the other way around. The ear infection that still hasn't completely healed doesn't really help matters. It's not often that it aches, but it's always one of those dull aches that's too prominent to completely ignore and too dull to actually hurt properly you know?
I'm guessing the scare I had recently when I found some swelling in a place that shouldn't really swell hasn't helped either. I got myself booked in with the doctor as soon as I could so he could check it out and thankfully it's nothing to worry about. He gave me some antibiotics that should clear things up in a few days. Still, it scared the hell out of me. Even though I kept telling myself "It's probably nothing..." I couldn't help but fear the worst. Can you blame me? Anyways, I'm okay (or should be soon) so that's a relief. Maybe the weight hasn't completely lifted from my mind yet but something like that takes time to recover from and considering I haven't finished my antibiotics yet and the swelling hasn't fully gone away then I doubt my mind is ready to let the matter rest yet. You'd have thought it would have been embarrassing or at least kind of awkward going to the doctor and having him examine such a....sensitive area, but I didn't feel any of that. He's a trained professional and didn't make me feel like an idiot for being scared about it for no reason. He said that it's important to get something like that checked as soon as possible.
Anyways, that is pretty much it for now. I'm gunna go and lay in bed and try to relax and switch off, get some sleep before having to work late again tomorrow. I haven't had chance to work on any of the photos yet, for which I do apologise and I promise to get them done as soon as I can!
Catch ya later folks
So yeah, that's pretty much all I've got to say on the matter really.
Forgive this post for being so late in posting, I've been busy today trying to make up my absence this summer to some mates and I've been pulling all the late shifts at work for the past couple days and only get in at 11pm. So yeah, I'm currently sat on my bed, proof reading this post that I drafted last night on my way home/whilst sat in bed. I don't know. It's been a bit of a crazy week and not for all the good reasons really.
I've been having some weird ass dreams recently that probably aren't help by the lack of sleep and the sleep that I am getting being restless and very light. All in all I'm back to sleeping poorly again which isn't exactly fun but it can't really be helped, what with the humidity and the late hours I'm at work. It's weird to think that maybe my sleeping pattern will normalise when I'm back at Uni...normally its the other way around. The ear infection that still hasn't completely healed doesn't really help matters. It's not often that it aches, but it's always one of those dull aches that's too prominent to completely ignore and too dull to actually hurt properly you know?
I'm guessing the scare I had recently when I found some swelling in a place that shouldn't really swell hasn't helped either. I got myself booked in with the doctor as soon as I could so he could check it out and thankfully it's nothing to worry about. He gave me some antibiotics that should clear things up in a few days. Still, it scared the hell out of me. Even though I kept telling myself "It's probably nothing..." I couldn't help but fear the worst. Can you blame me? Anyways, I'm okay (or should be soon) so that's a relief. Maybe the weight hasn't completely lifted from my mind yet but something like that takes time to recover from and considering I haven't finished my antibiotics yet and the swelling hasn't fully gone away then I doubt my mind is ready to let the matter rest yet. You'd have thought it would have been embarrassing or at least kind of awkward going to the doctor and having him examine such a....sensitive area, but I didn't feel any of that. He's a trained professional and didn't make me feel like an idiot for being scared about it for no reason. He said that it's important to get something like that checked as soon as possible.
Anyways, that is pretty much it for now. I'm gunna go and lay in bed and try to relax and switch off, get some sleep before having to work late again tomorrow. I haven't had chance to work on any of the photos yet, for which I do apologise and I promise to get them done as soon as I can!
Catch ya later folks
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