2009 what a year good its out the way

hope everyone has had a good crimbo and new year and i hope you drink and be very drunk this evening, iam kinda not sure what ill be doing this evening yet but i know one thing ill be happy to see this year over and done with,

its been a long hard year lots of things have happened the year started off okay but rubbish but its ended on a good note iam out of debt got a nice girlfriend and even tho i maybe a little poor after my big expense with my car the other week i cant complain will be even better if i can spend the last eveing of the year with my ladyfriend butif not ill be okay i will most probly spend it with friends at the local pub,

hope you all have a good evening this evening doing what ever your doing

another crimbo out the way

hope everyone had a good crimbo eat plently and drank loads, my crimbo has kinda been a sober one this year just not felt like getting drunk dont know why but just havnt, but its been the best crimbo for years tho

even tho my car repair before crimbo has made me a bit skint i have had a realy good few days, spent a bit of time with the family a lot of time with the new girlfriend and some time with friends, and on my own as i have kinda my own place, ive had no nagging or anything what so ever, just pleased meself this year and ive not become flued up either so i even enjoyed my crimbo dinner,

crimbo day for the 1st time ever i went for a pint at the local which i quite enjoyed and a couple of pints got me a hunger going then i was round me parents for some dinner then the afternoon me new girlfriend came round which was nice has a very relaxed evening, boxing day i did sod all, watched a bit of telly the ladyfriend came round and watched a bitmore telly

the sunday took one of me currys round to the local pub as me mates have been asking me for ages to do them one so i did and i made a big pot and it all went was quite chuffed they all liked it i knew they would as it was the same as the last one i did for me mates birthday bbq and that all went as well,

for the rest of the week iam going to be either on the computer or xbox iam currently playing call of duty 4 modern warfair i must say what a great game can spend hours on it, this evening i have had 3 - 4 hours on it getting through it bit by bit, ive had a bit of a go on the online bit of the game and that will keep you going for a bit i dont know how long the game is but i think iam half way through by the looks of it i dont know how many storys they are but ive probly had 10 hours play now just see how it goes

thurs is new years eve going round the 2 local pubs this year with the ladyfriend quite looking forward to it as well as might be ready for a beer by then hope you all have a safe new years eve what ever your doing have a good one

inpressed and uninpressed

over the last 2 days ive been very inpressed and very uninpressed 1st with the inpressed, while i had no car monday i had to use the bus this normaly wouldnt be a problem but i had to work till half 11 in the evening, this meaning my bus from work didnt get here till 23:48 and got to town 23:58 then my bus from town to home left 0:05 dont leave me much time to play with my bus only needed to me a minuet or 2 late at work then my bus from town to be a early by a couple of mins but all went nicely

i got into town at 23:59 and my bus came dead on 0:05 and i was in bed all tucked up by half 12 so all good, one thing i wasnt inpressed with was the royal mail my presents have got to everyone the next day i posted them but from them to me took a week so wasnt very inpressed with royal mail, i was going to leave it untill today to make a complaint but luckly i didnt need to so come on royal mail get your arses into gear hey

all sorted

well think iam all ready for crimbo presents all brought and wrapped even my girlfriends presents are all sorted i know super organized ill not have to wizz around like a idiot with the rest of them on crimbo eve like i normaly do, ive just got to get some food shopping in and jobs done iam goign to be at asda for just after 6am when the nutters are still wrapped up in bed,

by 11am ill want to be at a stage where all me shopping is done and put away and beer cooling in the fridge house work all done and me just had a fry up breakfast, by 1pm ill be sat in my watering hole the old dog and partridge having a pint and watching the world go round, and the nutters in the pub getting pissed as this pub you seem to get some right old caraters come in from alcholics to the norm person coming in its just my kinda a pub and i think one of the cheapest in town,

least ill get a couple of hours entertainment while iam in there its a hard pub to explane you'll just have to go in it to see what i mean

i have just 2 days of graft left weds eve ill finish at 6pm not 10pm like i normaly do come 6:15 ill be in the pub with me work mate having a couple of pints before we go home chilling after a long busy term at the university and boy its been a tough one but all worth it come weds eve 6pm

time for me to bugger off now see if i can kick our friendly indians out of one of the buildings and me get the chance to go home hope all your crimbo preperations have gone to plan like mine have and i havnt even had the flu this crimbo yet touch wood as this time last year i was shivering and shaking like a leave but fingers crossed ill sail through without and hiches what so ever

sorry people

after reading dinners post about his friendly but slightly troubled friend who he gave a hug to i found my self in a simlar situation a while back, i had a evening out in town with a bunch of mates and while waiting for the last bus home i was happily tucking into my supper of fish and chips,

i'd just finished my supper and this sorry looking girl sat next to me and started talking to me, she was rambling about how a lot of people look unhappy and how a rubbish place the world is sometimes, i didnt know this girl from adam but me being me chatted to her just to be polite, all of a sudden she burst into tears and she did cry the poor thing next minuet i found she has snuggled upto me my arm round her and was like that for half anhour while waiting for the bus

we had a good chat about everything, she had stopped crying but i could still tell she still wasnt right so i asked her if she was waiting for the bus and she was she offered if i wanted to come back for a drink, i saidi would be happy if she came round my place as i knew it was safe and she only lived round the corner of what she said so bus came and we got to mine,

after a very long chat and many cups of tea i found out her boyfriend had cheated on her, she found out in the most crap way as well she had go into town to meet him for a drink but she had got to the pub a bit early but he was already there with another girl, she watched them from a distance for nearly a hour and it wasnt just a friend she saw them doing things friends shouldnt do if you know what i mean

by this time it was daylight 7am i wakled her round the corner to her house and i got back to my place and bed it was, it turned out to be rather a long night but good, even tho i could of got my leg over i didnt it didnt feel the right time or place, i did see her from time to time afterwards but i have moved house since and not seen or heard from her since this all happened when i lived in chelmsford but me being me i always seem to get the werid ones broken hearted or just idiots when iam waiting for the bus so i just dont do them much these days

have a goodun all and stay safe

snow how it causes problems

why when we have a bit of snow the counrty falls to bits, yeah i know a lot of people arnt used to snow but bluddy hell the madness it causes we only have a couple of inches and never gets below -5 hardly how do you think places like canada copes and they go below -10 and more just makes my laugh realy

but on a serious note was reading me mates facebook status he had a bit of a prang while driving last nite he was okay but his car was a little worse for wear as he had problems with the snow and ice, ill no doubt get a full story when he blogs about it in due time, ive had a couple of near misses with snow and ice while driving, quite scary realy but iam alive to tell the story

one time i was driving in ice and snow the snow just suddenly came down no warning and gave all the roads quite a covering, couldnt see the pavement or road wher it started or ended and deffo couldnt see any road markings, as ther was so much snow fall, but if you took your time you things were okay unlike so many drivers of today who want to get to places at 100 mph, but anyway that will be another post back to my near miss

i was driving down a big hill rad was very snowy andi was crawling at 5 mph andeven at that speed when i tapped my breaks it made my car skid once i started to skid that was it, i went all the way down the hill even tho i couldnt stop the cari was under controll i couldnt pull it into the side of the road as they was all parked cars in the way and would of caused to much damage so i just continued skidding down the hill

i got to the bottom of the hill still unable to stop the car i saw the traffic lights were on red but i know there was traffic coming from the main road i got worried now as i knew i was goign to go through the red lights i did and 2 cars narrowly missed me by inches i was sweating by now luckly after a few more mins i did come to a stop after the traffic lights i knew there was a car park so i decied to pull into that and in the end i mangaed to pull to a stop by gently pulling upto a brick wall

luckly theer was no damage to me or my car or any of the other drivers silly enoguh the main road was okay as it had been salted but the side roads were like ice rinks, i thanked my luck stars and got home and had a whisky or 2 to settle my nervous, driving these days isnt much fun like it was when i started you need eyes and ears eveywhere as you never know whats goign to happen to yourself out on the roads

shitter shitter shitter quite fucked off

iam not a happy chappy, good job theres a gym at work as ive just had half anhour kicking shit out the boxing bag, you ask why well heres why, yesterday while driving to work my car came to a sudden stop i knew right away what it was but i didnt want to believe it but yup was the cambelt tensioner,

what dose that mean you ask well for me 668 quid as i need a new cambelt kit fitting and new piston vavles fitting, basicly a engin rebuild and iam no way attemting to do it on this car as the engin is so much bigger than my old astra, and lots more sensors and gubbings to very easily bugger my car up even more if i done put the bits back in the right place so the garage it is,

its quite a pisser as a lot of my crimbo plans are going to be shelved maybe most my crimbo plans will be buggered, but least ive not got the flu like i did last year and the year before, the year before that crimbo was rubbish and the one before that yup my cambelt went on my astra a week in the garage stripping and rebuilding me engin so iam thinking crimbo isnt a good time for me as something always seem to happen, but least iam not ill or anything thats a plus and ive got a lovely new ladyfriend to cuddle upto

ill get me car back in a few days time and ill be minus 668 quid happy crimbo you lot and have a goodun

car

was reading a post on a friends blog about his car and thoght ill make a post about my car and driving, my dad said when i was aproaching 17 that i should do my driving test even tho i might not have a car right away it will come in usefull plus the driving test will become much harder,


so i went in for driving lessons and passed my test on my 3rd try, i didnt have a car right away i didnt have a car till i was 24, but i had the use of my dads car in the evenings and weekend and my job was within cycle distance so i didnt need all the expense of having one at the time,



my 1st car was a astra mk2 h reg 1992 was a great car had electric windows central locking and electric wing mirrors and a sunrove and even a electric areal that lasted me 4 years drove it round the uk very often did many happy a mile in the old battle wagon it started to cost me a lot of money towards the end of its life and the last year of me owning it the cambelt went and it involved me and me dad doing a rebuild of the engin and lasted another 6 months before i got my next car



well i got myself a p reg top of the range mondeo great car was my pride and joy i did all the little jobs on it fixed the electric window restored the paint work sorted the rear arches which the last owner made a good and proper bodge job off the car looked showroom condition the chap who i brought it from asked to buy it back cos i made such a good job of it, i had a nice loud sound system in the car and that lasted a year



the car was a badun from the start, 4 weeks from owning it i was waiting to pull off from a island and a lady driver smashed into me from behind, 8 months later i i was driving down to cornwall for a camping trip with a mate and had a bit of a prang, the car was a write off think me dad was more gutted than me about that car as he drove my car in the evenings that was the end of that









so after i had my prang in my modeo which i loved i didnt have a car for a little while as i had to save up for a car about 7 months later i got this little gem as from my pic you can see its a x reg laguna 2 liter a nice beast i had one or 2 teething problems but luckly it was under 3 months warranty so it cost nothing good thing realy as my clutch went and the water punp and fan belt went





but the guy at the garage was good enough to fix the car no quesitons and its run like a dream i gsave it a major service back in may i changed the breaks, the front right break pipe and a break vavle which was leaking cost me all in all 60 quid including the breaks vavle and spark plugs and what ever for the service bit, and the car runs great i can when iam brave enogh travel at 120mph with no problems i dont do that very often once and a while even at 120mph its still got a bit of go in it, once got it to 135mph before i ran out of room on the road and even then the beast still had go in it i would love to get the car on a race track one day and see how much i can get out of the beast,



but there is nothing wrong with the car what so ever the car dont look as gleaming like that on the pic at the moment it needs a good wash and polish and will look good as ever and yeah i have got a good sound system in the car as i do like me music,





as iam into my cars as a project i would love one of these great beasts a ford granada 2.8 ghia x to restore what a beast all the gagits in it for the age of the car its better than mine i have now one day when i have room for a 2nd car ill own one iam sure i will,

crimbo

well iam almost ready for crimbo done all my present shopping done most of it online but i had to buy some of it in shops so i went into town before work today and it was mental people just wondering aimlessly around in there own little world, but i got what i wanted and came out happy, iam so happy i dont have to work in a shop espicily over the crimbo period as it would drive me bonkers

tomorrow is the last day of term for our students as they go off for ther crimbo break, and about another week and a bit it will be the staff who will finish i break up onthe 23rd of december and come back on the 4th of jan, will be quite a nice break and iam ready for it as its been quite busy since september ive not realy had a break since beginning of august so iam ready for a rest ive had the odd long weekend off and ive found myself quite busy then so it will be nice not have to do anything as such, i have a few things to do over the 12 days ive got off but its not work related or doing anything round the house

was reading a mates blog he hates the crimbo period iam not a bit fan of crimbo but this year iam quite looking forward to it for many reasons which will be a post later on but this pic he put up was quite good sorry alex i had to pinch this pic for people who hate crimbo thought this was qute fitting

makes me mad

was reading dinners post about when he went to the dole office to see if he could sign on, and had no luck as he didnt meet the right criteria what a load of bollox makes me so mad i tryed to sign on once, i was 20 years old at the time and was layed off from work just before crimbo,

i didnt realy want to sign on as i didnt want to be sitting with all those depressed people or the ones who had no intention to work, but me dad said you might as well you worked and payed into the system go and see what you can get, so i did i filled out the forms and they dont half want to know a lot dont they

with my forms all filled in i was told i would hear someting very soon and my money would be back dated so ill not have lost anything after 2 weeks i got a phone call form the dole office asking if someone could come round and check me out and see if i am who i say iam i said okay a coulpe of days later this big black woman came knocking on the door,

she says that she was from the dole office and she came in asked me a couple of questions while she was doing this her attitude changed she was sniffing her nose as in she was looking down at me, she asked me if my parents couldnt give me money to keep me going while i looked for work,

my reaction was disbelive i had to ask her again to repeat what she just asked and when i heard for the 2nd time i went so mad i said no they couldnt as they were only just coping themselfs at the time in my disbelive i froged marched her out of the house got my forms and ripped them up and chucked them at her, i told her to get stuffed and what ever she was babbling on about if i didnt get any money i needed to continue to sign on cos of my national insurance i said get fucked and i didnt hear from them again,

i did take a loan from me dad over crimbo and was lucky to of got a job quite quickly after crimbo, but when you work and payed into the sysem dosent matter of your standard of living you should be intilted to some help just make me so mad that if your honest and hard working you get sod all when you need help and all these tossers who have no intention of work get everyhting,

and if i did know anyone who was claming and working on the side i would grass on them no second thoughts at all as there are also to many people who do that as well, hope you pass your driving instructors course dinners and the rest of you stay safe as theres still madduns around