If there was one time of the week I had always looked forward to, it was Friday nights. Well, it still is but for now I'm extremely limited to them until after Christmas. The reason for this being I actually got the job at Marks & Spencer where I did that work placement. It was only three weeks ago where I had concluded the work placement and already I'm back there! Good news, right? Well, it came with a catch and that catch being weekends only and I'm starting as early as 7 in the morning on Saturday and 10 for Sunday. This right there almost entirely shuts down my weekend evening plans as while Friday nights are out of the question for a while, I can at least still have a bit of time on Saturday under the condition that I get back home at midnight
Don't get me wrong, I'm still very happy that I am working with a paid job now but to lose out on my favourite time of the week is admittedly a bummer but at least it's for a good cause. Hell, I had tried to look at all the advantages such as still having Thursday and Saturday to go to The Hotel California and anywhere else but Friday is really its night with it being the busiest out of the three as well as knowing many that go there exclusively then. Other bright side being able to save more money but even when I look at them, right now I'm just back at home sitting in front of my laptop on a Friday night which actually feels depressing.
Since making regular trips outside the house for Fridays, I've made excellent progress with my social life and it's really been some of the best I've done with my whole life yet (probably even one of the best ever for me) so for it to be off for a while does make me feel left out. However, I still have other days where I can go out somewhere and my best days are Wednesdays and Thursdays with no work the following day for them as well as Saturday for a bit. With that I can still go to the same places that I enjoy.
Looking at that, though, it does make me think that my Friday nights out have become too much of a comfort zone for me and now it's time to break it as I have no other choice. I'm not the only one who's having to be back at home right now since others will have to work early in the morning as well. It's just one life responsibility that I have to take. While my contract with M&S is due to end on the first week of January, there is that chance of them renewing it thus keeping me on which will actually be good but would mean even longer times away from these nights. However, maybe this is the start of a new change for me. It could be that my weekend antics could be over and I'll only have a few hours out and would only have a full night if I happen to have a holiday booked.
That said, I think I'll still try and go out on Friday but like Saturday it would have to be short and having to leave early and Friday will be an earlier leave for me. I don't see the point of being at the Cali for two hours and then only be there for another half hour when the whole place opens so maybe I'll see how it goes when they open the rest at 9 as opposed to 10 and hopefully feel I have at least had a bit of time to enjoy myself on a Friday.
As much as I hope to still have other plans to have some social life, I'm still going ahead with stating more availability to work at other times at M&S so if they want me in at any time between Monday and Friday, they're more than welcome to ask me in and overtime means more pay and if I heard correctly about their system, the overtime I've done can actually give me time off my normal shifts so here's hoping I can at least go ahead with a plan or two that I had in mind later on the year but had to drop it due to work. If not, oh well, I'll just have to roll with it but at least right now I'm getting something out of it.
Lastly, let's not forget about money. While it's only slightly above minimum wage, that with DLA I get as well as claiming Working Tax Credit (or rather I should be as I need to find out more since hours per week could be tricky this time with getting it) so all of those together and the money I have in my bank account right now means it won't be too long off until I can get a new laptop which is something I've been wanting to get for a while now. Afterwards, I'll have money to spend more than enough for Christmas shopping and after that I'll see about making plans to go to at least two or three Comic Con events as well as a festival or two that I want to attend. So things will look up form hereon.
Friday, 29 August 2014
Sunday, 10 August 2014
Wind of change
So I've got through my two week work placement at Marks & Spencer and while the managers were very impressed with my work overall, I felt I could have done better but hey, there's always room for improvement. The interaction with customers was still good and everything, although my confidence to talk to unfamiliar faces at night outs didn't make much developments which is a shame but I suppose there's still time to work on that.
Anyway, as the title suggests, there's been a wind of change going on and this is regarding my Thursday nights. I had been going to these karaoke nights regularly since the start of the year and sadly, it all ended last Thursday when the hosts had announced to the staff that they would no longer be able to hold their weekly events after that night but they weren't too pleased and just told them to leave without even going through one last night.
So with that unfortunate end to the Thursday karaoke nights, this now leaves me with nothing to do for these days. However, I do have some ideas on what I can do instead but some of them I would like to give a shot and see how comfortable I am. It's possible that friends I know from the Thursday nights will have their own ideas on what to do outside the house instead but it's best to make my own plans and not rely on others, although if they wish to invite me to wherever then I could go ahead and see how it goes.
So far my best alternative for the new Thursdays is to go to the swimming baths. I've been trying to exercise more in my life and sadly it's always on and off and I've yet to have a consistent routine for it. It might be mostly because the opening times for the swimming baths haven't worked out for me and when there are times when I'm awake when they're open, usually kids are out of school then and trying to do lane swimming when there's kids around is not ideal. However, some of the swimming baths have a nice time slot for Thursday where it's adults only so no kids around to get in my way of doing my lane swimming.
One other idea has just been to simply stay at home and have time to focus on video games, films and TV shows, some of them I admittedly lack doing much of at the moment so I can take the laptop upstairs and use the TV for films and gaming. Now this combined with swimming on Thursdays sounds like a really good way to spend my Thursdays but what's not making me 100% about this? Only thing about these two is feeling I may not get the best out of socialising with them, especially not the night in part but the swimming, I suppose it will vary.
Other ideas I've in mind involve other pubs and that but one thing in particular is considering taking up Magic: The Gathering again. I used to play Yugioh and quitted that game for various reasons and I had said to some friends that play Magic that I would consider playing actively but was busy for Thursdays and Fridays already. However, with Thursdays free right now I could possibly start it up again. Some of the regulars that I know tend to go to Baa Bar afterwards which I could possibly join along to but if it's going beyond midnight, then it's a no-go for me considering this is over in Liverpool. The only things that would bother me about being a Magic player is having to be active in the game to know what's going on and to learn unfamiliar cards all the time and the need for money all the time. So with them, this idea is not likely but I won't rule it out yet.
Last things in mind are pub quiz at The Swan in Liverpool and jam night at The Hotel California. The former is a potentially good one but it would only be with friends that I know so perhaps building my way up for that will get us somewhere. As for the latter, it's something I can consider and have popped in before to sit and watch but the thing is, I'm already there every Friday and some Saturdays so to be there regularly for a third night is overdoing it. Don't get me wrong, I love the place but I don't want to get sick of it.
So there you have it. All my possible new ideas for Thursdays now that karaoke night is no more. It's hard to say what I'll end up doing but perhaps I can experiment with each one and eventually decide what's best for me. Heck, I could even change each week to freshen things up but I tend to like routines so the most ideal one for me from this lot (or even something else) should end up being my new Thursday nights.
Anyway, as the title suggests, there's been a wind of change going on and this is regarding my Thursday nights. I had been going to these karaoke nights regularly since the start of the year and sadly, it all ended last Thursday when the hosts had announced to the staff that they would no longer be able to hold their weekly events after that night but they weren't too pleased and just told them to leave without even going through one last night.
So with that unfortunate end to the Thursday karaoke nights, this now leaves me with nothing to do for these days. However, I do have some ideas on what I can do instead but some of them I would like to give a shot and see how comfortable I am. It's possible that friends I know from the Thursday nights will have their own ideas on what to do outside the house instead but it's best to make my own plans and not rely on others, although if they wish to invite me to wherever then I could go ahead and see how it goes.
So far my best alternative for the new Thursdays is to go to the swimming baths. I've been trying to exercise more in my life and sadly it's always on and off and I've yet to have a consistent routine for it. It might be mostly because the opening times for the swimming baths haven't worked out for me and when there are times when I'm awake when they're open, usually kids are out of school then and trying to do lane swimming when there's kids around is not ideal. However, some of the swimming baths have a nice time slot for Thursday where it's adults only so no kids around to get in my way of doing my lane swimming.
One other idea has just been to simply stay at home and have time to focus on video games, films and TV shows, some of them I admittedly lack doing much of at the moment so I can take the laptop upstairs and use the TV for films and gaming. Now this combined with swimming on Thursdays sounds like a really good way to spend my Thursdays but what's not making me 100% about this? Only thing about these two is feeling I may not get the best out of socialising with them, especially not the night in part but the swimming, I suppose it will vary.
Other ideas I've in mind involve other pubs and that but one thing in particular is considering taking up Magic: The Gathering again. I used to play Yugioh and quitted that game for various reasons and I had said to some friends that play Magic that I would consider playing actively but was busy for Thursdays and Fridays already. However, with Thursdays free right now I could possibly start it up again. Some of the regulars that I know tend to go to Baa Bar afterwards which I could possibly join along to but if it's going beyond midnight, then it's a no-go for me considering this is over in Liverpool. The only things that would bother me about being a Magic player is having to be active in the game to know what's going on and to learn unfamiliar cards all the time and the need for money all the time. So with them, this idea is not likely but I won't rule it out yet.
Last things in mind are pub quiz at The Swan in Liverpool and jam night at The Hotel California. The former is a potentially good one but it would only be with friends that I know so perhaps building my way up for that will get us somewhere. As for the latter, it's something I can consider and have popped in before to sit and watch but the thing is, I'm already there every Friday and some Saturdays so to be there regularly for a third night is overdoing it. Don't get me wrong, I love the place but I don't want to get sick of it.
So there you have it. All my possible new ideas for Thursdays now that karaoke night is no more. It's hard to say what I'll end up doing but perhaps I can experiment with each one and eventually decide what's best for me. Heck, I could even change each week to freshen things up but I tend to like routines so the most ideal one for me from this lot (or even something else) should end up being my new Thursday nights.
Monday, 28 July 2014
Defeating that social awkwardness
More than ever I think to myself just how many people I don't ever approach whether it be my usual Friday night outs or even just someone on a bus or train. Okay, the latter might be stretching it since I shouldn't expect to talk to someone each time I'm on a public transport, particularly when I'd rather listen to my iPod to let the journey go by but there's been the odd few that I've seen while travelling that I wish I could have just tried saying hi to for a change.
For Friday nights, while I know a lot of people at The Hotel California already (the rock bar that I go to), I always feel that there's plenty more that I haven't spoken to and am potentially missing out on some great individuals. With me I usually just let others talk to me first so I don't feel like I'm being a bothersome to whoever but I just never know what they think of me until I try talking to them. This isn't to say I always just let others break the ice for me but that's the case most of the time.
For the way I just act like this, I feel it's not a matter of bad at talking to girls but rather it's just being not so great at talking to unfamiliar people in general. Now if I were to be more open to others I think I could do a whole lot better. I want to put this theory into practice for this Friday but chances are I'll probably still be my awkward self and only talk to those I'm familiar with. At least I'll give myself twice the opportunity this week as it's gonna be Saturday night as well and usually I don't go to the Cali often on those nights due to Fridays already and going there then generally has a different crowd. Supposedly one did flirt with me the last time I was there on a Saturday but was so oblivious to it. Shit like that needs to change already.
That brings me to another thing. If there's something I should try and do better with, it's breaking the touch barrier. Now this I won't and shouldn't go overboard on but if I feel I'm getting on well with someone, I ought to see what happens if I take it slightly further. After a few experiences in the past, one thing that's helped is just... cuddling. It might sound big to do but it's worked a few times before and if it gets seen as too much by them, all they need to say is no and that will be it. Sounds simple, doesn't it? If they don't like it, fair enough but if they do... see what happens.
Those are two things I definitely need to work on but facing that shyness of speaking to those that I'm unfamiliar with really needs to be beaten. This is something I definitely learned at MCM Manchester but now I really have to be more outgoing, especially when I have a two week work placement at Marks & Spencer and being all quiet to myself while working is only going to make me fail it so easily. I better be more brave with talking to strangers and with those skills of socialising, perhaps I can improve even more at my night outs.
Some may think I'm fine with the way I am but I want to tweak my personality and if these improvements happen, I'll be a whole lot happier with myself. I will seriously be made up if my confidence greatly improves from the work placement, even if it's only two weeks and I'm not getting paid for it apart from travel and lunch and it's an hour and a half just to get there but hey, it will do for now.
For Friday nights, while I know a lot of people at The Hotel California already (the rock bar that I go to), I always feel that there's plenty more that I haven't spoken to and am potentially missing out on some great individuals. With me I usually just let others talk to me first so I don't feel like I'm being a bothersome to whoever but I just never know what they think of me until I try talking to them. This isn't to say I always just let others break the ice for me but that's the case most of the time.
For the way I just act like this, I feel it's not a matter of bad at talking to girls but rather it's just being not so great at talking to unfamiliar people in general. Now if I were to be more open to others I think I could do a whole lot better. I want to put this theory into practice for this Friday but chances are I'll probably still be my awkward self and only talk to those I'm familiar with. At least I'll give myself twice the opportunity this week as it's gonna be Saturday night as well and usually I don't go to the Cali often on those nights due to Fridays already and going there then generally has a different crowd. Supposedly one did flirt with me the last time I was there on a Saturday but was so oblivious to it. Shit like that needs to change already.
That brings me to another thing. If there's something I should try and do better with, it's breaking the touch barrier. Now this I won't and shouldn't go overboard on but if I feel I'm getting on well with someone, I ought to see what happens if I take it slightly further. After a few experiences in the past, one thing that's helped is just... cuddling. It might sound big to do but it's worked a few times before and if it gets seen as too much by them, all they need to say is no and that will be it. Sounds simple, doesn't it? If they don't like it, fair enough but if they do... see what happens.
Those are two things I definitely need to work on but facing that shyness of speaking to those that I'm unfamiliar with really needs to be beaten. This is something I definitely learned at MCM Manchester but now I really have to be more outgoing, especially when I have a two week work placement at Marks & Spencer and being all quiet to myself while working is only going to make me fail it so easily. I better be more brave with talking to strangers and with those skills of socialising, perhaps I can improve even more at my night outs.
Some may think I'm fine with the way I am but I want to tweak my personality and if these improvements happen, I'll be a whole lot happier with myself. I will seriously be made up if my confidence greatly improves from the work placement, even if it's only two weeks and I'm not getting paid for it apart from travel and lunch and it's an hour and a half just to get there but hey, it will do for now.
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
MCM Manchester 2014
So I went ahead with attending MCM Manchester 2014 as stated on the previous post and now that it's (sadly) all over, I can now express my thoughts on the whole event. If I was to describe it with one word it would be sweaty. :P Kidding around aside, I easily describe is as unforgettable. Having never attended any Comic Con events before, my expectations of the event exceeded! I knew it was going to be a really good time but damn, it really blew me away. Sure, there were some difficulties such as waiting in the rain for a few hours, having to carry my luggage around on the Sunday due to no cloakrooms at the venue, those issues were really overshadowed by everything else.
There are so many great moments to mention that it's hard to know where to begin. I'd say for starters it was great having many people approaching me calling me The Doctor as I was dressed up as the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and I appreciated everyone taking photos of me. However, the photo shoots that the Whovians did a few times throughout the weekend did actually get a bit tiring due to posing with a sonic screwdriver for half an hour which really did make my arms ache over the weekend but it was still worth it. I only hope I can find loads more photos of myself with the cosplay whether it be on my own or in a group of any size.
Other moments I really liked was some of the awesome cosplayers that I came across. While so many were fantastic, I have to give a shout out to the ones that went as Daft Punk, the one with a cardboard box over their head and ran around the building with it and the two that were cosplaying as the Star Wars AT-AT. Those all are undoubtabley legends as well as others. Another notable moment was meeting Hattie Hayridge, Holly from Red Dwarf. I had wanted to meet the Dwarfers but was unsure about spending £15 on an autograph at first. I sadly missed out on Robert Llewellyn and Judy Pascoe due to meeting up with one of them on the Sunday and they were left with Chris Barrie and Hattie but it was still a pleasure speaking to Hattie as she said "Hello Doctor!" to me. Decided the autograph would be for the whole family and managed to get a photo with me which I'm pleased with.
As much as I enjoyed the whole event, if there was one thing I was rather disappointed with it was my shyness. Seeing so many people that I didn't know with them being in cosplays and everything, I felt awkward just approaching everyone and trying to take photos with them but I really should have thought that others there would have been just as nervous as I was. Being fair, this was my first time so I will be a little rough around the edges but it still disappoints me that I had spoken to very little of those in Adventure Time cosplays and I really love that show so missed opportunities on speaking to likeminded people is a bit of a bummer but I suppose I can't win at everything. At least hanging out with the Whovians was a pleasure and it was easier to speak to them due to relevant cosplay and the way their group photos turned out, I'd say I made the best choice with my cosplay. Perhaps next time cosplay as someone from one show/game/etc and then someone else from another to mix myself in better.
Overall, it was an amazing experience and this along with my birthday celebration and seeing Black Sabbath, Faith No More and Motörhead in Hyde Park has no doubt made this month one of the best yet! I will definitely have to go to future MCM events and would like to see about attending London in October, even if it is more crowded than Manchester's events. Failing London, I'll try and leave the next event as late as Manchester for 2015 but hope to go to a sooner event. At least for next time, I know to ask for ANYONE whose cosplay that I like seeing if I could take a photo of them and I can go ahead and go on my own to these events as you're bound to be talking to people throughout the day so no need to find my friends, although seeing them would still be great.
Lastly, I said to myself that if there was one thing I hoped to do with this weekend it was to discover new people and thanks to those Whovians, I more than succeeded with that so I'm very proud of myself for going to this!
There are so many great moments to mention that it's hard to know where to begin. I'd say for starters it was great having many people approaching me calling me The Doctor as I was dressed up as the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and I appreciated everyone taking photos of me. However, the photo shoots that the Whovians did a few times throughout the weekend did actually get a bit tiring due to posing with a sonic screwdriver for half an hour which really did make my arms ache over the weekend but it was still worth it. I only hope I can find loads more photos of myself with the cosplay whether it be on my own or in a group of any size.
Other moments I really liked was some of the awesome cosplayers that I came across. While so many were fantastic, I have to give a shout out to the ones that went as Daft Punk, the one with a cardboard box over their head and ran around the building with it and the two that were cosplaying as the Star Wars AT-AT. Those all are undoubtabley legends as well as others. Another notable moment was meeting Hattie Hayridge, Holly from Red Dwarf. I had wanted to meet the Dwarfers but was unsure about spending £15 on an autograph at first. I sadly missed out on Robert Llewellyn and Judy Pascoe due to meeting up with one of them on the Sunday and they were left with Chris Barrie and Hattie but it was still a pleasure speaking to Hattie as she said "Hello Doctor!" to me. Decided the autograph would be for the whole family and managed to get a photo with me which I'm pleased with.
As much as I enjoyed the whole event, if there was one thing I was rather disappointed with it was my shyness. Seeing so many people that I didn't know with them being in cosplays and everything, I felt awkward just approaching everyone and trying to take photos with them but I really should have thought that others there would have been just as nervous as I was. Being fair, this was my first time so I will be a little rough around the edges but it still disappoints me that I had spoken to very little of those in Adventure Time cosplays and I really love that show so missed opportunities on speaking to likeminded people is a bit of a bummer but I suppose I can't win at everything. At least hanging out with the Whovians was a pleasure and it was easier to speak to them due to relevant cosplay and the way their group photos turned out, I'd say I made the best choice with my cosplay. Perhaps next time cosplay as someone from one show/game/etc and then someone else from another to mix myself in better.
Overall, it was an amazing experience and this along with my birthday celebration and seeing Black Sabbath, Faith No More and Motörhead in Hyde Park has no doubt made this month one of the best yet! I will definitely have to go to future MCM events and would like to see about attending London in October, even if it is more crowded than Manchester's events. Failing London, I'll try and leave the next event as late as Manchester for 2015 but hope to go to a sooner event. At least for next time, I know to ask for ANYONE whose cosplay that I like seeing if I could take a photo of them and I can go ahead and go on my own to these events as you're bound to be talking to people throughout the day so no need to find my friends, although seeing them would still be great.
Lastly, I said to myself that if there was one thing I hoped to do with this weekend it was to discover new people and thanks to those Whovians, I more than succeeded with that so I'm very proud of myself for going to this!
Friday, 11 July 2014
There's always hope
I had seen a few people on Facebook feeling down last night and I always wish I could say something to them to make them feel better but I never seem to have the best of advice and when I do say anything it always comes off as a generic message to me. However, I do appreciate those that give great advice to them since they can be sure they have plenty of great friends around.
A few of them had said how they feel hopeless with never finding someone to be with and I do feel the same most of the time. I can relate to them very well with that since I thought I had my chance but of course things did not go in my favour and then felt like I had no hope. The thing is, the one thing to keep in mind is wondering who you might meet sometime in the future. There's plenty of time to meet plenty of people and I just have to consider how many people I've met over the last two years so imagine who I'm gonna meet over the next two years.
You just never know what kind of great people you will eventually come across wherever you go whether it be your local area or somewhere outside. Personally I hope to find someone out there at some point but where that could be I just have to find out. While I'm at the age of 23... well, 24 tomorrow, I've got all the time I have so I should make the most out of it and be adventurous. This is why I decided to go ahead with attending MCM Manchester next week even if I only considered it as late as last month but still, it's a big event and I should be meeting plenty of new people. It's not certain that I'll find my girl there but as long as I get to meet new great people, even if it's just a few, that alone would make me happy and would assure me that the trip wasn't a waste. I'm not just talking about this event but rather anywhere else that I'll go whether it be the local bars or somewhere beyond Merseyside such as Manchester, London or any of the music festivals (not this year for me besides Hyde Park BST but I'll give it a thought next year).
Hopefully others that feel hopeless about their love lives will consider my thoughts and realise that they too just need to take the chance to enjoy themselves in life and do whatever they want and go wherever. There's still plenty of great people to meet in life that you haven't met yet so just play things out for the time being. I would like to see that in two years I will look back at this post and reflect on all the great individuals I have come across in that period of time.
A few of them had said how they feel hopeless with never finding someone to be with and I do feel the same most of the time. I can relate to them very well with that since I thought I had my chance but of course things did not go in my favour and then felt like I had no hope. The thing is, the one thing to keep in mind is wondering who you might meet sometime in the future. There's plenty of time to meet plenty of people and I just have to consider how many people I've met over the last two years so imagine who I'm gonna meet over the next two years.
You just never know what kind of great people you will eventually come across wherever you go whether it be your local area or somewhere outside. Personally I hope to find someone out there at some point but where that could be I just have to find out. While I'm at the age of 23... well, 24 tomorrow, I've got all the time I have so I should make the most out of it and be adventurous. This is why I decided to go ahead with attending MCM Manchester next week even if I only considered it as late as last month but still, it's a big event and I should be meeting plenty of new people. It's not certain that I'll find my girl there but as long as I get to meet new great people, even if it's just a few, that alone would make me happy and would assure me that the trip wasn't a waste. I'm not just talking about this event but rather anywhere else that I'll go whether it be the local bars or somewhere beyond Merseyside such as Manchester, London or any of the music festivals (not this year for me besides Hyde Park BST but I'll give it a thought next year).
Hopefully others that feel hopeless about their love lives will consider my thoughts and realise that they too just need to take the chance to enjoy themselves in life and do whatever they want and go wherever. There's still plenty of great people to meet in life that you haven't met yet so just play things out for the time being. I would like to see that in two years I will look back at this post and reflect on all the great individuals I have come across in that period of time.
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Wednesdays...
So I'm having my first staying in at home on a Wednesday in a long time. Last time I did this was whenever I was last ill on this day of the week which was probably sometime last year. I had usually been out of the house on Wednesdays. particularly for Liverpool but things have been getting too quiet at one place for my liking and the recent weeks I've found myself bored to the point of sleeping on one of the sofas there. It's because of this I started leaving earlier than usual to head off to a pub and Wednesday pub trips weren't a thing for me up until a few months back when it was decided that my time was better off having a pint in the evening.
So today I've just sat in and not need to go to Liverpool. However, I had the temptation to go out to the pub still seeing as the weather is really good but after last weekend in London with all that booze as well as the oncoming storm that is Friday night, I decided it was best to stay in and as much as I don't like being stuck indoors all day, I'm actually not doing that bad. I guess I can get used to not doing as much on Wednesdays as I did in the past. It will help with a money a bit as well so that's a plus for me.
This isn't to say my old Wednesday plans are forever done. I think if I'm to go there it's because I know enough of my close friends will be there and/or the rain is pissing down so walking 40 minutes to the Job Centre one way is not a bright idea so travel day ticket will be needed for those cases. Other than that, I'm content with home. Well, this day of the week will be the best opportunity to go swimming so we'll see...
UPDATE: Ended up going to the pub anyway thanks to a friend of mine giving me a text to find out if I was going out or not. Was good to get out of the house for a few hours, although with just a trip to the pub and nothing else, it doesn't feel as adventurous as past Wednesdays did. Thankfully I didn't have too much to drink. Only two pints and one of them was free. Let's see if I can keep the drinking to a minimum tomorrow as well.
So today I've just sat in and not need to go to Liverpool. However, I had the temptation to go out to the pub still seeing as the weather is really good but after last weekend in London with all that booze as well as the oncoming storm that is Friday night, I decided it was best to stay in and as much as I don't like being stuck indoors all day, I'm actually not doing that bad. I guess I can get used to not doing as much on Wednesdays as I did in the past. It will help with a money a bit as well so that's a plus for me.
This isn't to say my old Wednesday plans are forever done. I think if I'm to go there it's because I know enough of my close friends will be there and/or the rain is pissing down so walking 40 minutes to the Job Centre one way is not a bright idea so travel day ticket will be needed for those cases. Other than that, I'm content with home. Well, this day of the week will be the best opportunity to go swimming so we'll see...
UPDATE: Ended up going to the pub anyway thanks to a friend of mine giving me a text to find out if I was going out or not. Was good to get out of the house for a few hours, although with just a trip to the pub and nothing else, it doesn't feel as adventurous as past Wednesdays did. Thankfully I didn't have too much to drink. Only two pints and one of them was free. Let's see if I can keep the drinking to a minimum tomorrow as well.
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Hello World
So I've opened up this blog here after realising that I had nowhere to blog on the internet. I had just recently deleted my Tumblr account and had done some blogging on there but without having one now, I've turned to Blogger for blogging purposes.
I decided to get off Tumblr after a little fall out with someone who I reblogged a lot of stuff from so I figured my account wasn't going to do a lot of good to me anymore. One could say I could try and patch things up but knowing that she didn't treat my feelings as anything and lacked the decency to keep in contact with me after I tried to keep messaging her to keep in touch, I felt she wasn't a true friend and that to me ended the friendship right there. Thankfully it wasn't anyone local so it won't make things awkward anywhere around here. It's funny how I got brought to Tumblr because of one girl I ended up liking and then I closed my account because of another girl that I liked.
Anyway, my blogging purposes here will mostly be personal stuff that I feel will fit better here than it will on Twitter and Facebook and whatever comes to mind that I want to put on here I will post it but I'll refrain from making posts that are too personal. This is merely a replacement for my Tumblr account so I may not constantly use this blog but we can only wait and see.
One thing I'll say for now about personal thoughts is that I have had my downer moments and have felt bummed out that my chances with dating anyone are as non-existent as ever but I've learned that getting too attached to one girl that I like is not a good idea. I'm all for finding the right one for me and aforementioned girl had almost everything I wanted from a partner but I found out the answer and have learned much worse later on. For now, there is one that I'm becoming interested in but I only met her once at a friend's birthday pub crawl and we didn't talk much for long that night but at least we got Facebook contacts so we're able to keep in touch and we're both attending MCM Manchester next week so hopefully we can catch up then! Not gonna build my hopes up too much right now but it would be great if bigger things ended up happening but if not, a new great friend is still a plus.
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