Who Are You!?

A bumper hit-day *again* yesterday! 31 people visited me! WHO ARE YOU!? WHY YOU NO LEAVE COMMENTS!!!???

Thank you to those who did leave comments..I have a girlfriend apparently ;o)

But...uh...who are you "I"? Reaval thyself (please...not in a naked way).

Right - I have to go out for lunch - I got told this morning that we've got someone looking at our house at 5pm so I've gotta nip home to make sure my room is vaguely presentable!

Listening to: Eli - "The Lumber Song" (Things I Prayed For)

Who Should I Vote For?

My outcome:

	Labour 6
	Conservative 13
	Liberal Democrat 44
	UK Independence Party 1
	Green 40

I should vote: Liberal Democrat

The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care for the elderly free across the UK, and scrap university tuition fees. They are in favour of a ban on smoking in public places, but would relax laws on cannabis. They propose to change vehicle taxation to be based on usage rather than ownership.

Take the test at Who Should You Vote For

Listening to: Switchfood - "Living Is Simple" (Learning to Breathe)

Thank You, Come Again.

Normally I have less than 10 different visitors to my blog per day. Imagine my surprise when I checked my blog stats today to find that 44 *different* people visited my blog yesterday!! yes....44! Welcome to the half-crazy 44 (go on...name that film reference...)!!

If you're visiting my blog, leave a comment, tell me where you're from and a little about yourself...make this post have interesting comments :-D

Thanks for coming!

Listening to: Third Day - "Anything" (Offerings II)

I Play 'A'

Hi Everybody (Hi Doctor 'T'). I'm sorry for my lack of update - I simply couldn't face the internet after the vicious assault that I suffered at the hands of my anonymous attacker ('Dirty J***s' we call her). It has been a while - a week in fact! Let me summarize what happened in the last 7 days....


...STUFF...

...yes...stuff happened. On Monday was worship practice as per usual - we practiced the Delirious songs again. Tuesday was cinema...only I was running late, so we missed the film. Instead, the few of us that went (Beautiful Lis, Charlotte and Sam) went to KFC for some munch...decided against it, and so went to Pizza Hut instead. Wednesday was work, and then a leaders' meeting at church. Thursday, we had band practice, and Lis came along to that. She even said she liked the songs!

Conversation (who said what is a open to debate...but it's correct *enough*)

TT - Tris TO - Timmay TSR - Tom

TT - "What should we play now?"
TO - *turns page* "We should do this one," *points*
TSR - "You've played it a few times before,"
TT - *looks* "Yeah, I kinda recognise it,"
*TO starts off song*
*TT struggles to keep up on his guitar, but picks it up soon enough*
TT - *stops playing* "Wa-a-ait a minute. This is the song that *I* wrote with Tom!"

I found that quite funny, but I think *only* I do, so please just laugh along to humour me. Please.

Right, that was Thursday. On Friday was youth club as normal, and afterwards, a bunch of us went to Pizza Hut (surprise, surprise). Simon had wanted to come out for a few weeks, and I had been willing, however, his parents hadn't; he had needed some early Saturday starts. So Simon came to Pizza Hut with us.

Unrelated Sidenote (kindof): There are people (let's call them Bill and Ben) who you help out, nurture and defend when people are saying that Bill and Ben talk about other people behind their backs. You don't believe it, and then, BAM; Bill and Ben start talking about *you* behind *your* back. What should you do? Every part of you wants to confront them or, failing that, simply not bother with them any more; why should you be a walkover!? Then there's God - He says you should forgive Bill and Ben, and move on. I'll probably end up forgiving them, not saying anything, but not trusting them much any more. Thoughts anybody?

Saturday: This was the day of many boxes. As you probably know, my parents are moving to [[location]], and I'm moving up the road to live with Joe. This means that we have to tidy the house up for selling, and I have to move stuff over to Joe's to make my room less full. Last time we moved, I couldn't be bothered to do a 'clean-out' of my room, and most of the rubbish didn't get unpacked; it just went into the attic! Saturday morning, all of these boxes got brough out of the attic - about 10-15 of them! Lis came round, and in the avo we went through all of my old stuff. I'd like to say that I was incredibly efficient, didn't reminisce, and finished the job in a tiny amount of time. However, I ended up reading through old school books, scrap pieces of paper, and even old Christmas cards. I also found a few calculator boxes and calculators!! Even though it was my stuff, and I'd packed it in the first place, my most common thought/phrase was "I remember that!". I ended up with 3½ boxes of stuff to keep, and 6 to send to the dump. And a bunch of empties too *grin*

Evening: There was a Dance Extravaganza at church for the dance group(s), along with some dance groups from other churches. Lis came along, but unfortunately I was helping Nick with the lighting/sound, so I had to leave her with Tom. Poor Lis ;) After the dance thing, Tom and myself went back to Woodie's so that he could meet a particular lil housemate of Lis's ;) she wasn't around though :( but we did watch Eddie Izzard though (always good *grin*).

Bombshell Sunday: Well, it's official; Sunday was the most *different* day of church ever. When I got back from France last month, I got told that our Senior minister and his wife were going to be moving to the US to take over a church there. *bam!!* I couldn't believe it! Then I got told who the new minister is and what their plans were, and I immediately became positive about it...I think it's going to be a really good thing! Our current minister's gifting is with planting new church and breaking new ground. Our church is getting a bit established now, and his focus is wider than pushing the local church forward - he's more of a 'big picture' person. The change will be great cuz it'll let him concentrate on the big picture a lot more, while someone else concentrates on the local stuff! Aaaanyways, Sunday was the day where the changes were announced at church...it's finally all out in the open. Generally, I think people are really positive about the changes - I haven't heard anything negative about it! Obviously we're going to miss the minister on a personal level, and will miss his teaching, but he's back for 3 months of the year, so it's not like we're never seeing him again! God's great when he coaxes us out of the boat ;) After church, my gorgeous girlfriend and I watched "Gattaca" on DVD.

Today is work, and you're finally filled in! Yay! Tonight we've got worship practice, though I think it'll be more chill time to chat about the changes announced yesterday. Because it'll be shorter, Tim, Tom, Mark, Andy and myself have organised to have a band practice too. Then home and sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!

My headphones arrived last week and they rock!! Boom-boom-boom goes the bass. Chucka-chucka-chucka goes the guitar noises. Heh heh. Chordmaster thing hasn't arrived yet :( needs to hurry up cuz I've lost all but 1 of my plectrums :S

Listening to: Seven Day Jesus - "Always Comes Around"

Guess Who!!

Recently I was having a conversation with someone online and they turned on their webcam. "Awwww," I thought, "they want to share something special with me." and big grin crossed my face. After chatting harmlessly for a short while, they suddenly attacked my visual cortex with obscenities...here's a sample. I am choosing not to reveal the identiy of my attacker, however, you are open to guess...

Music I Likes

Wow, another week, another adventure. C'est la vie. Let's see, what new cool stuff happened last week? Got to see my gorgeous gal yet more - yay! On Tuesday I went to see 'Hitch' - it was pretty good! Made me laugh lots *grin*. On Monday I watched an episode of Desperate Housewives, and then on Wednesday I finally caught up with another two, just in time to watch the latest C4 episode!! Now there's only one that I haven't seen from a few weeks back (ignoring the fact that I've never seen the first two episodes!), and I'll get to see that when mum remembers to bring it home from work *grin*

Thursday night Luke had some people round to his for some munch, so went there. Friday was youth as usual including less crashed cars than last week. Saturday I managed to get a nice lie-in, followed by a youth leaders' meeting.
We bought a lawn on Saturday!! Because we're selling the house soon, my step-dad bought some turf, levelled the back-yard-rubble-thing that was behind our house, and laid down some lawn! He did this while I cleaned my room (*shock*) - it was a tip. Hadn't sorted out clothes from either of my holidays in March, so there were clothes everywhere. I found the contract for the room I'm moving into this summer so I can sign it and send it back! Yay!

I also bought a "Chordmaster" from some website for cheap amount - was pointed towards it by lovely Lis :-D lorra, lorra chords coming out the yin-yang!

Yesterday at church was quite cool - Andy, Mark & Larry shared in the morning about their trip to Ukraine..it sounded great! I'd love to go there! But then I'd love to go to Russia really. Did I mention I'm half Russian? And half Irish? And half English. Oh, and not forgetting half American (*cringe* don't hit me!). And yes...I do mean 'half' for each of those. You don't understand? To steal a well-known phrase; Meh!

Lis has my mp3 player to steal my music at the mo, so I thought I'd give her a few recommendations here that she might not try otherwise...

Collective Soul - "Collective Soul" (their other album is OK too)
Something Corporate - "Leaving Through The Window" (again, their other album is alrite!)
Eli - Both Albums - He's a Christian artist, but I love his stuff...I played you one of his songs on Saturday night on my guitar :)

That's all I can think of without my mp3 player in front of me :) have fun y'all...and if you need a car...make an offer on Tom's that he has for sale!

Listening to: Maroon 5 - "The Sun" (Songs About Jane)

My Inner European is Swedish...Apparently!

Relaxed and peaceful.

You like to kick back and enjoy life.

Who's Your Inner European?

Random Thought

'Configurator' - is that a real word!? Was just looking on one of the servers at work and noticed a program icon with that name. I guess it's used to configure something.

Listening to: Something Corporate - "If You C Jordan" (Leaving Through The Window)

Crash Photo

So here's the crash - that's Tom's car with Chris's behind it. Thankfully, nobody was hurt :-)

NB - Used with Tom's permission

Updating My Bog After Stooping For A While

Good morning! If you've read Maria's comments on Lis's blog and my blog, then you'll understand the title.

Let's see, I haven't updated my blog for almost three weeks!!! Wow, how amazing is that?!? I must apologise to my loyal fan base - the many comments I've received have been an inspiration to blog. After all, you're the reason I blog. No, really you are. Obviously I don't enjoy it in the slightest.

I am a bit daunted about updating, because 3 weeks is a long time and I'm not sure I can really be bothered to tell you all about it, so I'm thinking I might just do some highlights.

Ciao!
I went to France, Monaco & Italy with Nigel, Esther, Loz, Maz, Adam, Luke and Nathan. Had a really good time. We were living it up in Nice (France), and hopped over to Monaco and Italy on the train for day-trips. Saw a famous person's yacht (though it was more like a cruise-liner; it had a helicopter on top!), some gorgeous cars (Aston Martin DB9s - two of them!), saw some *really* beautiful, sparkly sea, ate lots of cheese and sampled various wines/cocktails (White Russian...mmm).

While there, Nathan and myself played a game which I am about to dub, "SmartCiao". If you saw a SmartCar you shouted "SmartCar!". This included SmartCarRoadsters and SmartCarForFours. If you saw a moped/scooter thing then you shouted "Ciao!". If you saw a "Ciao" (which is what we started calling mopeds) with two people on it, then you shouted "Ciao-Down!". This was really fun - you could get combos. E.g. "Ciao-Down, SmartCar!". All of this game was played using "Beavis & Butthead"-screamy-style voices (well...really it was just Beavis-style voice..he's more psycho, and Butthead's is just plain hard). This was great fun in Italy because there are nothing but "Ciao"s everywhere! CiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiaoCiao!

We have come up with a UK version of the "Ciao" part of the game; "Chav" ;)

(for those non-UK readers who don't know what a "Chav" is - click here - the teenage Chavs tend to ride around on moped/scooter things that are painted like racing motorbikes, but have a top speed of 35mph: downhill. Or at least that's what they're like in Bristol.)

**gets distracted for 20 minutes looking at new-found chav site**

Last Week
Last week was pretty good! Work went really quickly due to a shed-load of work. If you're about to ask what a shed-load is; it is the amount of something that will fit into your standard garden shed. So if you had a shed-load of money, then you're stinking rich and you're laughing. However, if you had a shedload of adult elephants then that's not even a whole elephant. But you'd still be laughing.

Thursday & Weekend
Thursday was one of the best days last week - my gorgeous girlfriend came home and I got to see her again! It was fantastic! I've seen my lovely Lis every day since then - bliss :) Won't get to see her today though :( oooh, that reminds me to remind her...

....LIS - GO TO THE SUPERMARKET AND GET FOOD!!!

ps - you're gorgeous :)

Cartoons
I managed to find a complete box-set of all Futurama for a cheap price!! I've been watching a fair few of those. I also watched some Family Guy, and had forgotten just how funny it is! Grr, I wish my memory was better so that I could quote it; it had me in stitches yesterday!

Crash
On Friday night, a few car-loads of us went to Pizza Hut to munch after youth club. I needed the men's room at the end, so my car left later than the other two cars. As we were going around the ring-road, we spotted a couple of cars crashed into the barriers on one of the round-abouts! Tom had lost control on the round-about and Chris had gone into the back of him. Nobody was hurt whatsoever (except some bruises on John's leg) - thank-you Jesus!), but both cars look like they're going to be written off. I feel really bad for you Tom :( you were really unlucky and it really sucks that it happened :( I'm glad you've got fully-comp insurance.

Playin' The Bass
Got to play my bass yesterday - mmm. Tonight, at worship practice, we're going to be learning "Majesty" by Delirous. "Harriet" taught me the cool bassline for the verse in my piano lesson, and he did a lil instrumental at church yesterday at one point..I joined in *grin* - so much fun to play. Lis: it's still in my head, LoL.

Work
Right, I suppose I'd better do some work now that I've finally updated for you demanding people. It's been fun.

About to Listen to: Garbage's new album - "Bleed Like Me"