the first blog

So I'd guess the first blog is the hardest. I mean, if I post again in a few days then I need to tell you what's happened in the last few days... do I need to tell you what's happened in the last 19 years in this post?Resisting the temptation to do that in a tiny font, I s'pose I'll just start by going through where I am... what I do... who I'm with, these sorts of things. Im sure the picture will build up as I keep posting... or like Catch Phrase those little tiles'll disappear... Revealing more and more of the weird little picture beneath. And as our journey progresses we will, I'm sure, find the picture beneath to be quite a weird one.

I'm at uni - Royal Holloway University of London - in Surrey. I study economics, which is pretty interesting stuff for the most part, although I could live without regressions and so on [reference for econo-nerds]. I've got a beautiful girlfriend, and although we're only 19 and 20 (i'm the younger!) we've been together almost four and a half years now... Times can be tough with her being at uni in Southampton but we generally see each other every week or two... And when we aren't seeing each other often, there's always MSN, webcam and so on. Long distance hasn't been too bad in my experience.

Going to see her in Southampton is always a nice trip. She's one of those people who just seem to be able to make anywhere feel really nice and homely, so being at her uni house is a treat. Mine, on the other hand, is quite a way from perfect. It's not the worst - it's a big enough room, but everything's old, it's usually cold and even though I keep it tidy old stuff in a grubby house just can't feel too homely. The feeling of impending doom hangs over me in this house too... quite literally. In august, a month or so before I moved in, the ceiling collapsed above my bed... some furniture got destroyed and it was pretty ugly apparantly! The landlord fixed it himself... which isn't great news. And since the rain started theres a growing wet patch in the beautiful designer wood-chip wallpaper where the wall joins the ceiling... and again - right above my bed.

This is part of why I love visitng my girlfriend, and a factor in my decision to go home at weekends. Yeah, it's a 2 hour train journey to Bristol Temple Meads, followed by a 15 minute walk and a half hour car journey, but its the home cooking, the warm house, the comfy bed - they keep me sane. I don't think I could stay in this house for weeks on end without a trip away like I could in our nice house last year. Also last year I was out of sport because of a shoulder injury, so this year I play for my team back home at weekends. I'm happy with the set up - I enjoy the football and I've got a lot of friends through it, being home keeps me sane... and I get to watch all the TV I Sky plussed in the week.

And if you mouse-overed that link, you'll see I'm a big corrie fan. I love it. Maybe it's because its technically the mother land for me or something, even though I have no northern accent or anything, or maybe its just quality television. My guess is you disagree with the latter of the two reasons. Most people do. I don't - I love it. I generally also catch up with WWE while I'm home, sitting up with my brother on a friday night and watching monday's show followed by friday's when it starts. Yeah, my fridays are pretty dull. This is partly compulsory - the football management won't have hungover players - and partly by choice... I just love a lazy evening at home.

And speaking of lazy evenings... that's exactly what Ive got planned for tonight. Going to make pasta and meatballs for dinner I think, or maybe bolognese and get comfy and watch a movie. What movie? I'm not sure but I've got a decent selection to choose from... On the shelf behind me I've got TWELVE sealed DVDs... twelve! When you go into supermarkets for the weekly shop there's always the dvd shelf, and there are some real bargains there... I always see a few films there that I've wanted to watch for ages, and they're all like three or four quid... so I end up picking one up everytime I go in, forgetting that I never seem to have the bastard time to watch them. Another thing contributing to the twlve-stack is Woolworths. The mighty retail empire. The day the one shut down in Weston Super Mare over the Christmas holidays I'd had to drop my girlfriend off at the shop she works at for highstreet opening time... So i was conveniently placed to have a scan of the Woolworths shelves before everyone else got in there. I've never watched a Bond film, and I take a lot of stick for it... But they had those special edition ones in there RRP £13 or something like that, but they were all £3, so I got the five different ones that they had... I've just not watched any of them yet. Then there's also Christmas presents too which has added to the pile. I'm not ungrateful! I love presents! And they're awesome films, or in the case of the last link, just awesome... I just don't make time to watch them!

So tonight, I might get the pasta and meatballs (seen left, minus the meatballs/mince) and watch Phonebooth, which I bought a couple of weeks ago, awesome film and only and hour and a half long (how much longer could you make a film about a phone booth??). I think I'm webcamming with my lovely lady later on MSN too, which will inevitably lead to checkers and solitaire showdown, complete with taunting from the winner and rude gestures from the loser... So I'll probably be gesturing.

Girls should be worse at games! I still do't understand how she beats me so bad at Wii Play, even though I introduced the game to her ages after I started playing! Oh well =[

I'm getting peckish now and need to squeeze the film in before we chat so I'll end my first blog post here. If you have any opinions on either a) my life or b) the dullness of my blog [or c) the dullness of my life] feel free to leave them as comments or whatever the norm is.

I just felt the need to start this blog because I have a lot of thoughts that I wouldn't mind putting down on paper, especially recently, and because I've started reading a few peoples' blogs recently and quite enjoyed them.

So yeah, that's it for now. Will see you all soon..!


I'm currently/recently:

Feeling: relaxed, blue

Watching:

• Frasier - a morningly episode with the breakfast
• WWE
  

Playing:

• Half Life 2 (Orange box) - 360
• Fifa 09 - 360

Reading:

• Enter The Dragon; Autobiography Theo Paphitis
• The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
• Robert Peston blog

P.S. - apologies Kermit for taking inspiration from your blog a little! And thanks for the FB tag earlier you bbbbb..