Was a bit easier, and managed to get round a little quicker than Day 1. But as I got a new mountain bike at the weekend I have been spending time on that, good its more excersise but it did mean I tired myself out.
next run is tonight however! and its the last run of the first week! Can’t remember how big of an increase week 2 is, hopefully not much!
For years I have been a big drinker of coca cola or coke as its now known. It’s no big surprise to anyone that coke is quite bad for you, full of sugar and stuff but still I drank it. That was until lent this year when I decided to help myself get healthy I would give it up (for lent).
During this time, especilly the first few days I missed my drinks of coke a lot, I got moody and very tired at night. It wasn’t nice and a few times I nearly buckled and poured myself a glass.
I stayed with it and easter sunday came and I poured myself a glass… it was ok… not great but I drank it, now a few days later I poured myself a glass and couldn’t drink it, it just wasn’t nice. In a way I am a little sad, I used to love the taste but I suppose this is for the best, I have lost weight and people say I am looking better…. I doubt it’s entirely down to not drinking coke but it must be a factor.
So anyway, goodbye old friend.
At least I still like a good ol cup of tea 
I used to love these as a kid, not too fun now with my teeth covered in one sat in a busy office. No one can understand me when I speak now… *sigh*
Well… when was I last here… December… right
So what am I doing back?? WELL! I have decided to give it another go after being inspired from reading Danny Wallace’s Yes Man. He has such a good writing style which is very humorous and jolly… in fact jolly is the perfect way to describe it.. yes.. so there we go, it was another Dan (and a prod from a friend.)
ALSO!! I decided since I have now been in the big working world a year I should really say something… and a lot has happened since December… for starters Christmas has been and gone… if I left this blog any longer it would be nearly yet another Christmas and that would have been embarrassing.
So heres a quick update.
CHRISTMAS!
The work Christmas do was quite a good night even though everyone was very skeptical about it, some hated it but I had a great night in my tuxedo which was 5 sizes too big for me (this isn’t a sign that for the last 4 months I’ve been on a fitness fest… I have lost weight, but not that much ok) but I had fun just going round talking to people from the other office I used to work at. I drank far too much (as usual) and ended up at a seedy Chinese karaoke bar (first time) until 3am.
As for actual Christmas, my Mum was ill so nothing really happened on Christmas day it was boring but instead of getting family over and infecting them, we decided to get family over at a later date but it did give me chance to help cook Christmas dinner… it was edible.
I know its not Christmas but New Year was spent with some good friends, I think it was the first year I was away for new year.. but was nice I enjoyed it lots
WORK
Hey everyone!!! I lost my job in February! Yeah that sucked hard but after 3 weeks of moping round the house I got another job, better paid, better work so up yours previous place!
BUT DAN… YOU WERE MOANING ABOUT NOT GETTING FIT… WHAT ABOUT THAT?
Errr… well I played football once and managed to injure myself whilst we weren’t actually playing and I drank a lot of green tea… that is all. BUT! somehow I have managed to lose a bit of weight which is good and currently for that thing called lent I have given up Coca Cola as I drink far too much of the stuff… I can’t wait for lent to be over!
SO WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?
Well I have been travelling around visiting friends and thats pretty much it apart from spending far too much money on gadgets and stuff… but gadgets and stuff is whats needed.
SO WHAT ABOUT BLOGGING?
Well i do have my SEO Blog Junior SEO which the plan is to update that once a week. This blog may be moved to my hosting server and given a domain but unsure of that yet. I also have plans to start a Motorsports/F1 blog since the start of the 2009 season will start soon. I would also like to do a gadget blog, video game blog, general car blog… but they would take up alot of time that I don’t really have and would probably not get updated as much as this (honest!) and the SEO blog.
I am going to try and refrain from posting game/car stuff on here like I have done in the past… it’s a bit pointless.. this is a blog about me… and thats what it is.
See you in a few months few weeks few days (hopefully)
i have lots of ideas for sites and blogs and things like that. Things that would make me more productive but currently I don’t do any of them.
And after having a look at my current site, and realising just what a mess it’s in I feel a big sort out is needed to be done. I do also have to finish off the redesign idea which can currently be previewed here…
But… when do I have the time!
… but always busy, things to write about but very little time.
not updated in a while… again! and its looking like most of the time I post general me and my life stuff, I write it on the train to and from work. Currently on the way into work where I shall spend today alone as the other 3 people in my office are out all day so apart from maybe the odd person coming in to ask where they are, no one, nade, zilch. Was quite looking forward to it as I can sit there listen to my ipod and get on with things but today its kinda hit me… it’s going to suck.
Been having more ideas to have more blogs about chosen subjects, like one for games and another for cars/motorsports just so this blog is kept to one thing and one thing only… my life. It all really depends on how much I can keep them updated, my time at home is very short now although the weeks are flying by (is it really thursday already!) but it means that I can get closer to my holiday which I booked last week to Rhodes in September. Really looking forward to that especilly because it means I get to spend a whole week with Lou who I hardly get to see anymore (which also sucks) but she is trying to get a job up here… really hope she does. Especilly since its her birthday next month and also we will have been together for 4 years then and its looking like we wont get to see each other.
Right, time for me to get off the train and go to work. *sigh*
I have just read from the announcement on the Autosport site that the Silverstone will host it’s final British Grand Prix next year and will be replaced with Donnington in 2010 due to lack of govenment funding.
This now means that the work done to Silverstone of moving the position of the pits, soemthing that was being done to secure Silverstone’s place in the future of F1, will only be used for a year by F1.
And now more money (£100 million) has to be spent on Donnington to improve its facilities as right now Donnington is no where near an “F1 circuit”. I would also say that the circuit itself isn’t the best for F1, especilly when compared to Silverstone (which drivers have praised for its variety of corners). So will the layout of the circuit be changed?
The way I see it is Bernie Ecclestone doesn’t see things like you or I.. all he see’s is big wads of cash everywhere.
I just hope I’m wrong about it all
*UPDATE*
OK so when I wrote this I was forgetting that the British GP used to be held at Donnington (the last one was in 1993). But still I think the current facilities at donnington are not upto the modern ways of Formula One. Just have to see what happens with the £100 million.
Dammit… why is it when you plan to get loads of things done after work you don’t leave till late… miss your usual train by about 10 seconds and then the next train departs from a different platform which was unannounced… I hate trains so much, not as much as buses (which I will be traveling on in about half an hour… more fun) but yeah… I hate them.
Doesn’t really help when I spend 4 hours a day getting to and from work using public transport, I cannot wait for the move back into the centre of Manchester when my journey time will be halved… and hopefully almost none if/when I get a place in the centre. That reminds me. The paper has apartments lsited today. I shouldn’t really look as I can’t afford it yet and the current situation of the market is so rubbish in the UK.
Ahh the usual drunk beer/piss smelling guy has got on the train… theres always one.
Finally got round to listening to the “new” himynameismark podcast… I say new, it actually came out in April but after recent computer problems I lost my podcasts and only recently subscribed to them again. I do like the himynamismark podcast, hosted by the fantastic Mark Hoppus of Blink 182/+44 a personal fav cool guy for me as especilly in high school Blink was my favourite band (and still are) and when I got my first guitar I learnt loads of Blink songs. It is a shame what happened with Blink 182 but I’m glad +44 spawned from it with Mark and Travis… and to be honest I cannot listen to angels and airwaves and hopefully will never hear one of their songs, I was saddened to hear of his side of the break up, I liked Tom DeLonge alot but after that… well dislike is probably the only word to use… I could be totally wrong about it, I don’t know exactly what happened but its just from what I have read. And you never know… Blink 182 may reform one day.
Looks like its going to rain soon… and this morning it was very sunny so I dont have a coat with me and im in a short sleeved shirt… crap.
*UPDATE*
ok so I wrote that on the train into Manchester. since then I got to the bus station, found that the bus to where I want to go wont be leaving till 8 which was 2 hours away so I got on the nearst bus I could get and then a connecting bus… but when I got there… no bus for ages too… so in the end I got a taxi… where I had to tell the guy where to go because he had no idea… at least now im home
So I finally get a job, where after a while I finally settle in and start to get to know my colleagues a bit more… then my department gets moved down to Wilmslow for 3 months, which does suck, but I am just coming to terms with it and hopefully things will improve, then when I get home on Friday night my Mum shows me a job advert in the local paper for a position exactly the same as what I am doing now, no experience necessary so it could be an easy win for me, and its £10,000 more then what I’m on now…
I really wish I hadn’t been shown that advert, on my way home I was happy, it was the weekend, and for some reason the weather in the UK is very nice at the moment! which does make a nice change. But now I know of this position I have been down… I like my job now, well, I like where I used to be and will go back to in a couple of months, I like the people I work with and have made some great friends there… but £10,000 is a lot of money, especially for a 23 year old guy like me. Everyone I have spoken to… wishing they would tell me I should stay where I am have told me to go for it and leave, but I just wouldn’t fee right if I did, I got my current job though my next door neighbour so am very grateful to him, sure he knows that in a couple of years I will probably leave as its best to move around different agencies but not after a couple of months!!! And also all the other people I work with, I don’t want it to be the case of I just get to know them and then I leave… I suppose I am thinking of other’s too much before myself.
also the £10,000 is nice but it would mean I would start having to pay off my student loan… I wanted to build up some savings before then, but on the other hand pretty much every day I want something else, like a place of my own, or my own car or this or that… the money would help me get those things sooner
I may talk to my neighbour and see what he says, but I will probably scream if he says that I should go for it. Another thing is I need to check on the reputation of the agency, if its not as good as where I am now, even with the extra money I won’t go, it may take a year or two but I will be on the same wage then and have a better career background behind me.
I just don’t know what to do