How Was It For You?

So 2007....

New places I went to
- Transylvania- if only for a few hours. Won't go back to Romania again so this was my last chance to get out of Bucharest and see something else.
- Colorado- cold. And if you don't have the air con you get static electricity shocks off the lightswiches
- Las Vegas- a place where you get vodka and coke for a dollar, all kids are banned from the important areas and you can play computer poker. When can I go back?
- Hamburg- so lucky with the weather- was over 30 degrees all weekend. I loved it, so much to do, so much more cosmopolitan and multicultural compared to where I live, so big...



Great things that happened this year:
- Going to the US and seeing my sisters. It was particularly cute to see the littlest one getting on so well with the boyf.
- Rugby!!! Great weekend in St.Gallen and we won the 2nd division again. Started playing 15s in the top division.
- Glastonbury. Special highlight was Glenn Tilbrook on Friday night in the Leftfield Tent, in particular the sing-a-long version of Black Coffee In Bed
- Meeting Paul Merton. And Tim Burgess.
- Seeing Prince in concert finally. At the O2 in London which was spectacular. Screamed so much when he played 1999, I'm not sure how I had any voice
- The Scissor Sisters in concert- top quality fun. That whole weekend was pretty damn great actually
- Learning to use hotwax. Having armpits like a 7 year old again is wonderful. Shame it only lasts around 2 weeks.
- Leaving my job. Yes I may not have found another job but I really am so much happier without it.
- My wonderful friends. And I've really learnt this year who they are.



Not so good things:
- the late year run of breaking things (camera, earrings, glasses)
- the depression that's accompanied me not working. And the loneliness. Normally both are manageable but things got a bit too much for me in November and I had to get out of here. The guys
- vegan cheese!!!!
- not being well- I seem to have had a cold on and off for most of the autumn . And I got that wonderful rash all over my jaw and neck that affected me at Glasto....
- finding out who my friends really aren't. Helping people and getting absolutely zero in return.



New Years Resolution:
- Not to be so trusting, helpful and open with people, especially those I've just met to avoid getting hurt and just being used. I'm too nice sometimes and I need to stop going out of my way to help people when I should be helping myself a bit more.
- Decide really and truly what to do with my life and change situations that I am not happy about
- Accept the things I can't change and change the things I can
- Do more Vegan Weeks again
- Lose weight, get fit, yadda yadda yadda

Happiness And Joy

Today's posting was going to be the annual round up but I've had quite a nice


Firstly I had a relatively pain free experience at the unemployment office here. I didn't spend any money, I resisted buying naughty drinks and when I got home after 11am I felt so full of energy that I started cleaning my flat. I cleaned my bedroom (dragging the drawers out from the wall to get rid of the dust behind it) did some ironing, and I finally got round to finishing the year long process of copying all my videos on to DVD which meant I could have a bit of a sing a long with Paul Weller as I was cleaning.

Then I went down to see my friend Elena and her little boy to give him his Christmas present. I had a great time playing cars with him and wiping his nose because . I got his Crimbo pressie right too- turns out he loves Bob The Builder so I got that right. He is really gorgeous, he's going to be such a heartbreaker when he's older. He's got really blonde hair that sticks up all around the front. At one point I told his mum that I was going to steal him and take him with me to England for Christmas and pretend to the outlaws that he was mine and the boyf's... hee hee hee

I felt so Christmassy walking from Elena's to my next destination, Hoey's to drop off her Christmas present. It was nice and chilly outside, lots of people have lights in their windows as I walking along and I felt so happy after seeing my two buddies and there was a bloke outside a supermarket dressed as Santa powering one of those hand turned wooden piped music boxes

And it is my oldest friend's 30th today. Trying to get hold of her on the phone. This means that my 30th is not too far away. Oh shit.


The only sad thing about today is that it is 7 years since we tragically lost Kirsty MacColl. RIP. If you've never heard her do me a favour and download (legally please!) or buy her last and best album- Tropical Brainstorm. Magic from beginnning to end.

I'll Give It To Someone Special

I want to be whisked away to a log cabin somewhere high up in the mountains with snow falling heavily outside, a roaring fire to dance to Wham! and The Pogues.

Hello? Is it me your looking for?

Um. So yeah. Like hi. Long time no 'speak'. Hope all is well with whoever may be reading this.

So I have left this a very long time, to the point that I was considering dropping my blog alltogether. But I will persevere. For the moment anyway.

What's good for me to tell you about? Rugby is going well- we started playing 15s and aren't doing too badly considering. Almost got hypothermia after some stupid people decided they wanted us to play in a fucking hailstorm (!!!) a few weeks back and on the same day got a whack around the nose to the point where I thought it was broken. Everything is on track relationship wise which makes me very happy and I am lucky to have some good friends around too. I'm not sure I appreciate either of these enough though. And of course my continuous pride and joy- my little sisters.

On the downside- I really haven't been feeling myself at all lately. I won't go too much into the details. It's all very complicated. But if you live near me and fancy taking me out for a drink sometime I would appreciate it muchly. Or just drop me a line sometime soon and tell me how much you care about me- that helps too :)

Normal service will resume soon.

It's The Time Of The Season

Another blog from the safety and comfort of my bed. What bliss. I am also accompanied by the lovely Christopher Eccleston. Sadly he is in digital format and steadfastly refuses to leave Doctor Who which is currently playing and join me sub-duvet.

So I had to do a google search for today's blog title/lyric cos it's all about zombies* and I absolutely refuse to have anything to do with the godawful Cranberries. The Rach and I went to the cinema tonight to see 28 Weeks Later (follow up to 28 Days Later, starring the delectable Cillian Murphy) which has finally come out on the cinema here. I love the first film- utter genius with some breathtaking shots and the aforementioned Christopher is in it too- and while the second one wasn't as good as the first one, it's still fabulous. They make use of what feels like most of Central London as a movie set, the main actors are all very good, ther. e's a couple of jumpy bits, buckets of blood and even I had to close my eyes at a particularly gruesome part. The Rach and I had a good giggle at their liberal usage of London geography too. Anyway- comes highly recommended, especially if you liked the first one.






* Okay, okay, before any other movie geek pulls me up on it, I know that technically the 28... films are not zombie films because it's a transmittable virus that causes them to be in that state, rather than death followed by reanimation. However, they remain zombie in spirit, splatter and appeal.

Party Over, Oops Out Of Time

hello all, long time no blog and all that.

Reason being that life feels pretty boring nowadays. Unemployment is slowly losing it's novelty and I really need to start deciding what I should be doing from now on. It's starting to demotivate me and make feel not all that happy. It's still better than working and I know that my decision to leave my previous job was the right one. As long as I keep telling myself this I should be alright!

It shouldn't be- this month I've been to Hamburg for a long weekend (loved it, would love to live there) and I just got back from a weekend in London which was just amazing. The boyfriend got us tickets to see Prince in concert which was indescribably good and I was so shocked when he played some of my favourite Prince songs (1999 and Kiss) but he only did one encore as apparently loads of people were leaving during his last song which pissed him off so no Raspberry Beret, When Doves Cry or Gett Off. We also did some shopping in London and went to the British Museum and a tour of the House of Commons. We hung out with my family and it was sunny the whole time. This is also not contributing to my low level of happiness factor right now.

Rugby training has started with a vengeance but I couldn't be arsed to go last night. I had a very valid reason- my little toe on my left foot is all messed up. I'm used to getting blisters on the bottom of my feet but not on the top and side of a toe. At least I think it is a blister because the little bumps are full of liquid but they've also gone slightly red. It's really sensitive too and doesn't like being in shoes.

Anyway, enough of my medical problems. I need to get out of bed and start doing things and getting organised (oh yes, that's my other news, on my last official day in my old job I decided to invest in a new laptop. Her name is Louloubelle and she is gorgeous and allows me to blog and watch DVDs from the safety of my bed. Blissssssssssss)

We've Got To Shift These Colour TVs

People who've seen me in the last few months have probably heard my 3 favourite telly moments. I have now found links to two of them online:

1. Miss Piggy and Billy Crystal re-enacting *that* scene from When Harry Met Sally. I started to think that maybe I'd dreamed this because it's just so fecking funny and could not work out why it wasn't on YouTube. Now it is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4O0ftwqZn4 forward to 3 minutes 40 seconds

2. Jarvis Cocker on Shooting Stars doing a 'pulling' question on Shooting Stars. Just take a look at it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFfyTz1NEE


If I ever find number 3 online to share with you all I will die happy. I found it recently on one of my videos but the quality is appalling. Back in about 1991, Comic Relief decided to do a competition for kids to write a pop song about one of the issues they raise money for and the grand prize was you would get to record your song, perform it on Going Live and be on Smash Hits too. To publicise this, Going Live did a film about it asking 'pop stars' like Take That, East 17 and Betty Boo for advice about how they go about writing a song interspersed with clips from everyone's favourite comedians- Trevor and Simon. The bit where they are doing songs as The Singing Corner in the style of other people is pure genius. See if you can guess what the songs are from my depiction below:

"Erotic, erotic, la la la la la la la la. E-rot-ic, E-rot-ic run your fingers through my beard"
"My name is prince/ the one and only/ My name is prince/ I'm a little bit funky/sha la la la la la la la la"
"Rhythm is a dancer/come and swing your pants-ah/Sha la la la la la la la la"

As I said pure genius

It's Been A Long Time

So at the request of my many thousands of readers (read gayboy) who've been patiently awaiting an update- here you go. There's too many things to cover so I'm going to have to do this in point styley:

- At the end of May I turned 25. Oh alright, I turned 29. Not particularly happy about it but then there's not much I can really do to stop it.
- I dragged the boyf to his first Glastonbury. It rained a lot so it was wet and muddy and apart from a drunken mishap caused by someone else on the last night it was completely brilliant. Particular highlights: Gareth Jones doing escape from cling film (again!) which I caught on video, Glenn Tilbrook singing Black Coffee In Bed late on Friday night with all of us in the audience doing the backing music, meeting a buddy from the internet for cider, meeting Tim Burgess. Roll on next year!!!
- The infamous Heather is here from the US with two friends. My flat is a little squashed and now they're off in Paris but we're having fun.


And now the big news. I am no longer working. I finished at my office on the 29th of June and am on vacation till the end of July. From the 1st of August I'm with a transfer company who help find us jobs and sort out our CVs etc. That lasts for 6 months and I get 80% of my salary whilst doing it. I haven't decided what I'm doing yet but I am quite content to take the time and the financial help to make that decision.

Tied To The 90's

I can't remember if I've posted this or not:

How you know you experienced the 90's
1) You once used Wella Plum mousse or Sun In in your hair that you thought was totally original and stylish
2) You thought blue mascara looked good on EVERYONE
3) You could do or tried to do the Prodigy step
4) You owned or longed for an Adidas three stripe tracksuit
5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain", "What is love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" on it
6) Hour long debates on who was better? East 17 or Take That
7) You judged a girl on who she fancied from Take That! (Robbie: you were cool, Gary Barlow: you were not!)
8) For all you die hard East 17 fans: "Outside it's raining, inside it's wet!"
9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max
10) Going into town with £5, getting the bus there and back, lunch and a top with it!
11) Running on the spot dancing!
12) You wore leggings/cycling shorts with long t-shirts
13) You owned a Bennetton / NafNaf / Ton sur Ton jumper
14) You owned scrunchies in an array of colours
15) You went to or dreamed about going to a Smash Hits concert
16) You bought Smash Hits for the song lyrics and the immense amount of stickers that you would stick everywhere!
17) You had a pen pal
18) You watched Sweet Valley High after school
19) Then on a Saturday afternoon you watched Catchphrase, Gladiators, Generation Game, Noels House Party and then Casualty
20) You wore black opaque tights with a wrap round skirt
21) Just 17 and More magazines had the best problem pages
22) 10p crisps!
23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have
24) Sharkie & George were the crime busters of the sea
25) Puffa jackets
26) You used the line "it's a free country" every day
27) Do the Bartman "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything"
28) Impulse body spray
29) Woodies alco pops were the best thing EVER!
30) Don't forget your toothbrush and Big Breakfast with Chris Evans
31) You had at least one troll
32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Night. You also tried to scat like Scatman John!
33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie & Shauna got together! You fancied Eddie (Billy Warlock) too!
34) You watched Byker Grove
35) You went into Body Shop to put on Vanilla or White Musk perfumes
36) Shellsuits & bumbags!
37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210
38) Fruit shaped soaps that usually came from Body Shop for your birthdays 39) You owned the TLC album
40) Fruit salads and black jacks!
41) Strike it lucky on a Sunday night with Michael Barrymore when he was straight & married
42) Chain letters 43) You had fake ID

Ask Yourself This Question

- Is it sad to be excited to spend 40 minutes tomorrow in Cologne station because of the good food and shopping opportunities?
- When will this bloody cough go?
- Will my plants continue to thrive over the weekend while I am away?
- Is it too late to phone the bride and groom or will they be panicking about the nuptial event on Saturday?
- Why do I continue to have skin like a teenager?
- About 60% of my friends on Facebook are 'met randomly'- is that sad?
- Where is my tax print out from last year?
- Is 28 Weeks Later going to be on at the cinema oop north so can I watch it this long weekend?
- Where is Fabuleuse?
- Will everything go wrong because- OMG- Hazey takes a few days off from the office?