You were not the same after that!

2006-07-31T22:25:00.000+02:00

New Video of the Month

I have recently re-fallen in love with this song.

It's great. A modern classic.

Greenday - Basket Case

Enjoy

2006-07-31T22:12:00.000+02:00

So it's been a long time!

Today I make my return to the world of blog.

Why have i been away so long I hear you say. This is because 44 days ago I got married and at the same moved out of my parents house where i had regular access to a computer and the internet.

That, as you can imagine, would put a stop to blogging. Add to that that I was on honeymoon for two weeks and the last thing I wanted to do whilst there was to sit at a computer and tell you all how lovely it was out there.

Upon our return to the UK, AJ and I moved into our lovely little house in Wickford. These last few weeks have been hectic ones trying to get everything unpacked and built and finding homes for them and so on. Therefore no time to blog.

Then, after miraculously finding time when I may be able to sit down and blog, check emails and whatever else, remembering I don't own a computer!

Now, you can clealry tell, we have a computer. It's certainly been an expensive month.

I might manage to do this a little more regularly now

2006-06-14T20:50:00.000+02:00

You may all wonder how I have managed to suddenly catch up with all my posting.

I've finished college!

My last exam was yesterday and I've just two minutes ago handed in my portfolio.

It's been a long old year but it'll all be worth it in the end. For now...
'ROLL ON SUMMER'

It's gonna be a good one as in four days time I get married and that means in five i'm off to Thailand.

I can't wait for either of these two events as they've been a long time coming and organising.

Now I finally have the time to panick about the last details that need to be organised.

Marvelous!

2006-06-14T20:27:00.000+02:00

Worship Bleeding

Sunday 4th June was a momentus occassion for me. It was the first time I lead worship. I've played the guitar or drums or bass for worship before and also once i was forced to sing a couple of songs because there was no one else available but on this instance I played the guitar and sang. Wow! Proper worship leading.

It was dreadful.

I couldn't read the words so kept singing random lines. I played several wrong chords which clashed horribly with the vocal and linking each song I mubbled something along the lines of 'just bear with me and can you sing a bit louder please'.

All of this was not helped by the fact that i had forgotten to take a plectrum with me and so i ended up pounding the guitar out of tune and cutting my index finger in the process by grating layers of skin off just above my nail. It hurts quite alot as i tried to play through the pain.

2006-06-14T20:22:00.000+02:00

VIDEO OF THE MONTH

From now on I shall try to change the music video shown on my blog roughly once a month.

This however is not a dictatorship. If you really dislike the video just let me know. I'll take your opinions into consideration and think about changing it.

Also generally let me know what you think of the vids.

Last month you were watching and listening to Landed by Ben Folds.

Now it's MUSE with Hysteria.

Enjoy

2006-06-07T18:33:00.000+02:00

I got shot in the but-tocks!

On the Saturday just gone I was my Stag Day.

For some reason, I can't remeber who's idea it was, myself and some friends of mine made our way to Ayridge to go to Mayhem.
Mayhem is a paintballing place. Check out the site http://www.mayhem-paintball.co.uk/
It's an absolutely insane idea, in my opinion. Running through various fields and woods. Crawling through mud and grass an your hands and knees while people shoot at you.

I wasn't really looking forward to the day and even less so when we arrived. There were eleven of us in our group. Most of the other groups were about the same size but all the other groups looked hard. They all looked like they'd done this many times before. They looked like the kind that catch the paintballs in their teeth, chew it up and spit it in your face.

I don't believe i was the only a little nervous about the trip. Matt was saying he'd be alright as he's from Northern Ireland and the camouflage we were wearing was his school uniform. Nathan also pointed out that he is from Zimbabwe so this was nothing.

I however am not used to guns, military clothing and big hard fellas. We did think we would be alright though when a large group of kids arrived hoping we'd be against them.

Eventually we got kitted up and sent to the battle field and split to teams. We got teamed with some guys who had broght their own equipment. Our luck was in. We were with pros.

Target practice was eventful. I hit nothing. Simon hit his target first time and my father, my own flesh and blood, SHOT ME. From point blank range he shot me in my left butt cheek! I've never felt such pain. It was so momentary I soon got over it but it didn't half hurt at first.

Now the only pain I have is when I poke the bruises I have. Luckily my muscles have recovered from the abuse I gave them that day. I haven't done any running around for years.

One tip for you all. If you ever go paintballing, do some warm ups and stretches. You won't feel the benefit but if you don't do them you'll know about it.

2006-05-31T18:57:00.000+02:00

My Peggy Face

After Glyn's comment/question on my last post,

"I've been meaning to ask, is that photo actually of what it looks like? As in is that actually you with actual clothes pegs actually clipped onto your actual face."

I thought i would elaberate a little upon the picture.

That is a picture of me in my living room about 3 years ago when my hair was even more awful and unruley than it is now. The full state of which can't really be seen to to the fact that there are many pegs obscuring the view of my hair and also my face. (no jokes about how good it is to not see my face thanks).

To put an end to Glyn's wondering yes that is actually me and those are actually clothes pegs and they are clipped onto my actual face!

There are actually 65 pegs on my face at that time. I might also add that they were quite large clothes pegs and i'm sure i could've fitted more on of they were smaller.

I haven't however tried to fit any pegs to my face since this occassion.

I am a long way form the world record which if i remember correctly was about 130+

2006-05-22T18:53:00.000+02:00

So it's been a long time since i've done this blogging thing.

Nobody seems to be that bothered except Glyn. Glyn is quite an exceptional creature though.

As you can see, I'm still quite new to this blogging mallarchy. Also this knowing how to spell mallarchy!

I have decided to try and keep this up to date a little more often but really i can't see what's all that interesting.

Here follows a list of what I have done since my last blog:
-went to work
-studied
-went to college
-went to church
-saw AJ
-studied more

This is generally how my weeks pan out at the moment.
I did however manage to break the mould a little this week. I bought some shoes for my wedding!
How exciting am i!

This is my life.

I also did manage to get out to go to my good friend Matthew White's birthday party. This was a very interesting and nicely relaxing evening with many humerous moments. Unfortunatly, anybody who will actually bother to read my blog was there.

This seems to make it an almost not worth posting.

I did discover that most of my friends who were there and talking about all the stuff they've found on the internet seem to have far too much time on their hands!
Sadly i had to leave quite early as i had to work in the morning but i hear that the internet exploring went on into the early hours of the morning.

I barely have time to check my own emails let alone search for interesting things.

2006-05-05T14:05:00.000+02:00

So my blog is pink!

I was thinking about changing it because i wasn't too sure myself about how i felt about my blog being pink but since Glyn commented on the fact that it's pink simply with am
'um... it's pink'
i've decided to leave it pink.

Pink is a cool colour!
Embrace the pinkness! It's not quite as cool as purple but it's still good.
Only recently have men come to terms with pink. It's no longer just a girls colour and quite rightly so. Why should the female of the species be so lucky and hog all the good pinkness there is in this world. We can have it too!

There are still some men around who feel such as my good friend Glyn and can't handle the pink. To them I say, 'try it, you'll like it'.
It is not something that needs to be ashamed of and if in doubt think of the pink panther.

Gods favourite colour is pink. He told me!

2006-05-05T00:06:00.000+02:00

My first ever post.

Don't really know what to say. Been trying to sort out double glazing today, 'yes my life is just that interesting', but hey, these things need to be done on occasions.

Finally cut it down to a pair of companies who are trying to charge me marginally less extortianate prices than the others.

Why are windows so expensive anyway!

If i remember correctly from my school days glass is made from sand.

Sand is everywhere!

There's lots of sand all over so why are they charging me so much to put some in the walls of my house!

I beleive there needs to be a revolution against double glazing companies and such ridiculous prices they charge for pretty looking sand.

If anyone would like to take that on board and start it up i'd be interested to know. I may support you and by a badge or wrist band