No blog for five days?! Criminal I say!!

Shutter Island was a gooood film!! It's one of those films where two people could have a completely different idea about what exactly happened in it. That perhaps sounds kinda stupid, but it's true.
Also, 24 FINALLY got kinda good. I think that happened at the 11am-12pm episode, so it's definitely a slow starter!! FYI it started at midnight and each new episode represents another hour of the day.

What else has been happening? Man United beat Liverpool today while Chelsea drew with Blackburn, so that was doubly great. Park Ji-Sung scored the winner for United, so I will share my favourite United chant, about the South Korean, to the tune of Lord of the Dance:

Park, Park, Wherever you may be,
You eat dogs in your home country,
But it could be worse,
You could be a Scouse,
Eating rats in your council house.

Sheer poetry, I'm sure you'll agree.

The last few days have contained work, filling out various forms and job applications, oddly bizarre and sexual dreams (sorry...you know who you are!), going out for a meal as a joint celebration of mother's day and my dad's birthday (I had a haggis starter, haddock main, and a heavenly toasted gingerbread with vanilla ice cream and butterscotch sauce dessert).

Talking about that epic dessert reminds me; you might remember that diet thing I mentioned about a month ago. Well, at the moment, I can't get to the gym as much, but only because I'm doing longer hours which means a lot more walking....so it kind of balances out. Anyway, all my jeans keep falling down on me....which is sorta annoying, but it does mean I've lost weight. Which is good. Obviously. It does mean I now need new jeans though....unless I start using a belt all the time....which I'm not used to. I digress.

One day of work, then two off. Bring it!

Hmmmm...the website that posted the blink-182 tour dates in Scotland has removed them from their site. Mysterious....

Anyways, past two days I've been getting trained on a new delivery round. It's pretty tiring. I really hate the whole process because it is just a total mindfuck for a week or so until you really get to grips with what you're doing.

Terrific win for Man United tonight. AC Milan were well and truly thrashed. To make it even sweeter, Real Madrid got knocked out by Lyon. The same Real Madrid that bought Ronaldo, Kaka and Benzema for £80 million, £56 million and £40 million respectively. I find that hilarious. In total they spent £215,000,000 last summer, and have fallen at an early hurdle. Manager sacking on the cards me thinks....

Not much else to blog about right now...off to watch some Dexty :)

Hello March!!
This year is flying by. Somehow!

I was back at work today, and feeling a good bit better. I was dreading getting back to work, but the amount of good news that was waiting for me made everything better. Firstly, I got a brand new pair of work shoes (which I had ordered in about september of last year!!), and yeah, they're not just crappy work shoes, they're proper Cat shoes. Seriously cool. Well, for the Royal Mail at any rate. Then my boss came in, which doesn't happen very often, and told me I'm not working again until saturday. Sweeeet!!

The weekend also went fairly well for me. I completely forgot to blog any of it, but Man United won the Carling Cup, and Man City thumped Chelsea. Admittedly I hate both those teams, but City did us a bit of a favour. Plus, it was great to see Wayne Bridge get one over John "I'm a total cunt" Terry.

I think I mentioned before that I am slogging my way through every episode of the X-Files. I'm finally onto the last season (9) now, but I got a huge shock at the end of season 8, because Mulder and Scully kissed(!!!!). I totally thought that they didn't have that sort of relationship in any way, I mean, I knew people made a big deal about them back in the day when it was on tv, similar to Ross and Rachel in some ways I suppose, but I really thought nothing happened. I realise this sounds quite sad, but I have been watching X-Files for almost 3 months now....I'm pretty heavily immersed!!

Again, I probably do have other stuff to talk about, everytime I write one of these, I remember something I intended to talk about, but for now, my head is empty.

Goodnight peoples.

Gooood day. Apart from Andy Murray getting absolutely thumped by Federer. Federer was just a class apart, and didn't give Murray too many opportunities. Andy's time will come though.

Manchester United had a big game at Arsenal today, which I wasn't too confident of. However, Nani, Rooney and Carrick put on a bit of a masterclass, so much so, that I felt a little sorry for Arsenal. I'll be backing them next weekend at Chelsea! If United can keep this form up, we should have a couple of trophies come the end of the season!

Some bad news from today was that my dad has the next 3 weeks off work. My dad and I get on ok, to an extent, but in all honesty, I think I can really piss him off. As a result, I spend a lot of time staying out of his way, because frankly it just isn't worth winding each other up. So yeah, him having 3 weeks off work inevitably means we will have more interactions, and henceforth more arguments. Damn.

I've pretty much bummed myself out now. Considering the fact I was pretty chirpy when I started writing, that's pretty impressive.

I have the day off work again tomorrow. I'll definitely be hitting the gym. I think I'm going to try and go on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, and see how it goes from there. I have a couple of good incentives to work towards now, which helps tenfold.

I almost forgot, my big achievement of the day!! I'd noticed my computer was making a much louder whirring noise than usual. I remembered when I first got it I could barely hear it, so I decided to take the plunge and try to clean out the fan. So this meant I had to dismantle the laptop. Quite frankly, even the thought of doing that terrifies me. Nonetheless, I did it. Sweaty palms and all. The side of the vents leading to the fan were caked in a thick lining of dust, and now, the computer is so much quieter. More to the point, it's still working!!! It was actually pretty cool looking in at the innards of my beloved machine.

I'm lacking a bit of musical inspiration today, so I'll just refer back to yesterday, and add some Boys Like Girls. "The Great Escape" was their second single, and comes from their self-titled debut album. Which quite frankly, is brilliant.

First of all, I fully intended to blog yesterday, but from 9pm, I was KO'd on my bed until 2am. At 2 I actually managed to get into my bed and slept until 9am. Definitely felt the better of it, but I never unintentionally slept for so long before. I was totally confused when I woke up at 2. I initially thought I'd slept in for work!!

I blame my tiredness on the gym! I went again yesterday. Woo! Go me!! Huge contrast to today. It was my day off work, so by rights a lazy day! I semi-tidied my room while watching Lord of the Rings.
Oh!! That reminds me. There's an event in Eden Court in february, where they are screening the full LOTR trilogy in one day, starting at 11am. That would be sooo cool!!! Pretty long, and I guess approaching the end, a bit tedious, but I'm really tempted. I know, I'm a total nerd.

Lots of pretty interesting football news lately. For starters, John Terry, the England captain, was sleeping with the mother of one of his team-mate's child, and at the time girlfriend. That's horrifying. Wayne Bridge broke up with the woman in question last month, but John Terry is no stranger to that sort of behaviour apparently. Seriously. Google it. It's disgusting.
In other news, some "Super rich" Man United fan is getting advice on launching a takeover bid for United. Music to my ears. United are quoted at being £617 million in debt. From where I'm sitting, the future of the club is pretty grim.

There's so many good gigs being announced at the moment. Boys Like Girls, Bowling for Soup and MC Lars have all recently announced headlining shows. It's at times like this when I wish I lived nearer Glasgow, or even better, Manchester.

I've added Bowling for Soup's "Two Seater" to the playlist. I only realised how much I like this song when I saw BFS last year, and was treated to an exclusive acoustic performance before the main show. I know they're a bit of a goofball band, but their lyrics and guitar work was really impressive. It's a shame they're labelled as a "one hit wonder" by so many people.

I found out today that I have 18 days of annual leave left, to use up before the end of march. Whether or not I will actually be able to use these is one thing, what the hell I'm actually going to do if I get them is another!!
I've had a couple of ideas which were pretty much ridiculed by everyone I mentioned them to, so I don't know. All I know is, I can't sit around my house for 3 weeks. I'll try getting in touch with my boss and see if/when I can take them, and take it from there.

MC Lars has literally just announced a UK headlining tour, which consists of England and Wales. Super :/ As a result I'm pondering a trip down to Liverpool to see him. Never been there before. It's pretty close to Manchester so I'm wondering if I could squeeze in a Man United game since I'm down. I'll look nearer the time, but from the information I've got, there's a 1 in 4 chance there could be a Champion's League game at Old Trafford the following night. That would be simply awesome.

I'll add MC Lars into my playlist. "Guitar Hero Hero" is about all the people who played the likes of Guitar Hero and thought they were awesome because of their guitar skillz, but really, they wouldn't have a clue. Guitar Hero were actually enquired about using the song on a new version of the game, but then they kinda realised it wasn't really putting across the best kind of message about the game. Enjoy!

Oooooh, totally lost track of time. I really shoulda written this blog a good few hours ago.

The gym was alright in the end. When I was sitting waiting for my induction to start, a couple that I deliver mail to were just finishing, and then shortly after my local GP finished his work out too. By the way, awesome head band doc! But it was kinda awkward. The induction itself was kinda gash. It was more like a whistle stop tour of all the equipment, with a fellow gym inductee constantly asking what points to breathe in and out when using each bit of kit.

After that was done I did a 4km run, and then went on the cross-country machine until my calves couldn't take anymore punishment. Which wasn't very long! It was a brief workout, but it was a start.

When I got home my new phone was waiting for me. If I haven't told you my new number let me know. The phone itself seems pretty awesome, but I haven't really sat down and fiddled about with it too much yet.

And of course, thank goodness, United prevailed over City. Only just mind you. Good old Wayne Rooney. I love that man. You can tell he just loves playing for the club. He's been my favourite player for a long time, mainly for the level of passion and determination he plays with. I know he's hated in many circles, but to me, the guy is a legend.

I woke up this morning, kind of hoping that 10K run thing was all a bad dream. Alas, it was not. Dammit.