Monkey Boy Diary

Friends, Fallouts & New Years Resolutions

2012-01-04T16:09:00.001Z

2012 is here and its that time of year again where you make New Years Resolutions that you try and stick to for the first few weeks and then give up....

So instead of making ones that are totally out of the questions hard to maintain i thought i would try and stick to some that made more sense to me and could easily be done with a little bit of effort and time, the main thing i wanted to do though is get in contact with a LOAD of people that i have either not spoken to in a long time due to distance or lost contact details for or people that i fallen out with or have fallen out with me over sometime the most littlest and stupidest things in life.....things that when you look back and really think about just seem pathetic and childish, if i can just do this one resolution this year it will be a fantastic year even if i dont manage the others (although im going to be working my ass off on the others as well as they are rather important).

So as i say, my resolutions are rather simple and should be easy to stick to.......

1: Do my YouTUBE weekly video each and every Sunday without fail, be it a Vlog, Rant or News Review

2: Animate, this is one that i have been steadily doing but not at a pace that could be so thats going to change as of now.

3: Draw more, i dont seem to draw as much as i use to so i really want to get back into it and improve my skills, i look at my sketch books and think "wow i could actually design interesting characters once" and i want to get that back.

4: Get in contact with all the people i've lost contact with.

5: Lose weight, its kinda traditional i guess to have this one on a list of resolutions so i thought i would stick it on here (chances are though i'll fail at it)

6: Find a Job, obviously my main goal for this one is an animation job but with my skills being rather low at the moment and my surgery in February any job would do.

So thats about it for the resolutions, i feel that i could stick to at least 5 of them really well and with the amount of chocolate i got for XMas its unlike the weight one will last :P

There are a few main people that i would love to get in contact with again as i felt like i was really close to them when we spoke hung out together, the problem is time....its been so very long since we have spoken i feel it will either be awkward or unwanted, but if i dont do it i'll regret losing those people from my life.

The people i speak of are from throughout my life such as people i've grown up with.......

(Top left to right: Shaun Buchan, Me, David Tindale)

(Bottom left to right: Daniel Welch, Kayleigh Hedley)

This photo (rather an old one) is a example of the good old days.....the original gang, others joined out close collection of friends over the years such as Vicki Bell.....

Who has been there since almost the start and i always class her as one of the originals.....and Dan Williamson who came into the group after we all went off to collage and brought more people back into it....

but i feel like i've lost contact with all these people and this is why my goal to to get back in contact, go for drinks, hang out and just have a great time again.

other people include ones i've studied with or lived with or even partied with ranging from college to university, people that i hoped to have never lost after graduation but sadly that wasn't the case and i regret it so much.

(Top left to right: Mark Tica, Me, Sam Dawes, Manjoe Chan, Nick Marshal)
(Bottom left to right: Rob Curtis, Lisa Baggy, Lou Burrow, India Barnardo, Sarah Lee, Gabrielle Marshell)

(Left to right:Me, Bryon Kennedy, Dave Moorcroft, Harris Abdullah)

(Mattias Wernér)

(James Taylor)

And this is just the tip of the iceberg, there are so many people and to list them all would take longer then i have, but if you are reading this blog and we use to talk a lot more and hang out all the time then expect an email or text or message of some sort from me soon because it would be great to talk to you again.

and one person will understand this message and if they do then be sure to get in touch soon.....i've just been of the grid for to long now and i would love to hang out soon.

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So thats about it really for this blog, i hope you all had a great holiday season and a wonderful new year celebration and that you all have made some great resolutions that you can easily stick to as well.

All the best for 2012 and i'll speak to you ALL soon :D

Been Some Time...

2011-12-13T04:46:00.000Z

So this blog is a bit over due and i've been rather busy hence why i've not been online much recently.

So whats been happening since my last post? well......firstly i've been migrating all my online account into one easily accessible one, i was getting rather sick of having 6 different email account all connected to different sites so i moved them all to one GMail account which is a ton better, sadly due to my own stupidity i forgot to migrate my Picasa account over to the new email and i have lost every photo i had stored on there which has really brought me down. This means that a large majority of the photos on my blogs have now gone and i can't get them back no matter what i do, i had a lot of memories posted on this blog and other blogs i have and i know that memories are in your head not on a computer screen but to not have them here anymore is still upsetting. I've made a request in the Google Help Forum to get my images back but i don't know how likely that is as i've seen other requests and all the answers where "sorry this isn't possible" but with Google changing there system and layout recently im hoping that the story has changed and is now possible. If not then i'll either have to leg go of the past and just move on with future posts (making sure i backup) or try to work out which images are missing and re-upload them (which could take a few days.....if not weeks).

So apologies to anyone surfing my pages and coming across the "No Image" image, as i say either this will be rectified or you'll just have to imagine what the images might have looked like.

Now that i have moved everything else over thought everything is running a lot smoother, integration with my Mail.app is much easier with GMail as its IMAP where as Hotmail was POP3 and i had to use MBox Mail for Mac to get my folders to transfer over, but now it just all works perfectly.

So in other news, i've been off grid for a few months now as people on DailyBooth, Twitter and YouTUBE will know but that doesn't mean that i've not been up to much in the real world, mainly i've just been trying to find work and catching up with old friends, the other week was Cats Graduation Ceremony for University, sadly she forgot to mention this to me in advance so i ended up hearing about it on the day with around 3 hours to get ready and to the place.....since i didn't have a ticket to sit inside and watch i planned on sitting on the benches and watching it on Middlesbroughs BigScreen outside of the town hall, but with me being me i managed to talk my way in luckily there where a few seats available so i didn't take them away from anyone with tickets so i didn't feel to bad, it was absolutely fantastic to get to see Cat graduate along with a load of other people i knew from university. Afterwards i had the good fortune to meet Cats parents which was great if not a little unnerving, i wanted to make a good impression and i feel that just being myself did that as they seemed to be ok with me and invited me to go to Whitby with them the following Saturday. I had an absolutely fantastic day and although my legs did start to act up a little i had taken some Co-Codamol that morning so not to much pain was had. While in Whitby we of course went on the Arcades and for me it was one Arcade machine in particular called Stacker where you have to stack up blocks on the screen as they move left and right starting with 3 block wide then moving to 2 then to 1, i managed to get to the "Mini Prize" (Keyring, Bouncy Ball, Yo-Yo, etc..) cut off point every time but i just felt i could get the "Major Prize" (iPhone, Nintendo 3DS, DVi Camera, Etc...) so i kept going but sadly kept loosing i would always make it to the final bar (the major prize one) but didn't manage to place the block on top of the other, i would always be a block out either side......but it was still a load of fun anyway and i had a few goes on the 2p and 10p machines as well :)

On the Sunday me and Cat went to the cinema and an all you can eat Chinese called Banana Leaf to celebrate her graduation, it was a great evening but i think i broke my diet for a good 3 months at least with the amount of food i had, but it was worth it as the food was delicious and the fantastic company.....as for the cinema there wasn't much in the way of choice as the majority of the cinema screen had stupid Twilight on them, but there was one movie that looked interesting (and wasn't gay sparkling vampires) which was Justice which stared Nicolas Cage as a husband that enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score after his wife is attacked....all in all it was a fun movie and gave birth to a new phase that i've been using lately (even though not many others get it.....i guess they didn't see the movie) "The Hungry Rabbit Jumps".....all in all a fantastic evening :)

Not much else has been happening really other then that......just been working on my own animations and trying to get better work together to make it easier to find a job. Back to the computer stuff though my Mac is now running lovely OSX Lion and all my accounts are setup with Cloud storage so i have a lot more space to work with on my system, 500GB seems like a lot at time but it just slips away sooner then you'd think.

So thats it for now guys, i'll have a post up again soon......i've got more stuff but at the moment thats about it.

Hope you all stay well and keep posted :D

Medical Problems, London and Life.

2011-10-14T01:25:00.001+01:00

So lifes not been to great at the moment as far as the medical side of things are going, as some of you might already know i have been having problems with my legs again and all the pain i was feeling before i went in for surgery back in February is back in my right leg.....i went to the doctor about it and after talking it over its been decided that i'll be going in for surgery again soon but not sure when that will be but i have an appointment to see the doctor on the 2nd November, although this is something i would really rather not have to go through again i know that if i dont im going to be in sooooooo much pain for the rest of my life and i can't live with that so surgery is a necessity i guess.

Sadly this isn't the only thing wrong with me though, while i was at the doctors i also mentioned that i was feeling pain in my hip when i was walking as well as my knee so he sent me in for a couple of X-Rays (around 7 in total, felt like i was going to turn into the hulk lol). when the results came back they found that there was 2 lumps on each side of my hip done (why are my problems always symmetrical), they said that it wasn't anything serious but if they are rubbing again ligaments and stuff when i walk it could be the reason for the pain and might mean more surgery to fix that as well......to check if it was going to be a problem they send me in for an MRI Scan which was earlier today, since i'd never had an MRI before i was a little nervous but thankfully Cat was nice enough to come with to keep my company while i waited to go in, they kept saying that i was just having my hip done but i insisted that my doctor said i was having my knee done as well.....but i left it at that as i thought they knew best, but after they did the scan for my hip (which took 40 mins) they said sorry but they needed to reset for my knee as well and i really felt like saying "told ya so" but i held back ^_^ so after another 30 minutes of scanning i finally got to go home ^^

now i just need to wait on the results which should be in back in around 10 to 14 days, i kinda hope it does show something so that i can get rid of the pain but also hope it doesn't so i dont have to go through more surgery.....we'll just have to see what happens.

So that the medical problems out the way, back in my fun life i went to London the other day and i had a fantastic time.....i mainly went down to see a friend off the internet from Canada, he was going to Venice for his birthday and was stopping off in London for a couple of days so i thought i would pop down and say hi :)

It was great meeting someone that i've talked to for ages now online in real life, sadly i didn't manage to get to all the places i wanted to go to but im thinking i'll pop down again to see the places i didn't. while i was down there though i did get the chance to hand out some CV's and showreels to the animation companies down there and with a little luck i'll hear something back from them.....even if its not a job offer but just a review of my real with some advice i would be over the moon :)

my main plan for London was the take lots of video for my Vlog but sadly i kinda forgot.....took lots of photos though (well a few at least) so since i couldn't make a vlog out of it i made a little Sub-Vlog linked to my main one.

All in all though i had a fantastic time and although i was in a lot of pain with my legs and feet i wouldn't happily do it all again......maybe next time round though i'll take a lot more Co-Codamol ^__^

And in the rest of life things have been great i guess, other then the pain of course......the other day me and Bryon (my housemate) went for a lovely meal at the Toby Carvery, it was great to spend some time and talk....plus great to finally eat some vegetables and be a little bit healthy for once :D

Last night i wrote out all my penpal letters which took quite a while to finish as since they are handwritten if i made a mistake i couldn't just CTRL + Z so i would start again (unless i was half way through a page then i would just cross it out) so i went through quite a bit of paper and my hand started hurting rather quickly.
I had a great time writing to them again though and i look forward to hearing from them soon i hope.....its rather bizarre though writing a letter to someone and then starting to wonder if that person has replied then you remember that it was a letter. It just shows how much technology is part of my life and how much i use instant messaging.

Anyway that been about all the main stuff.....there has been a lot of other little stuff but i would be here a while if i was to write it all out and i need to get back to animating which has been something i've been doing a lot and its been interwoven with all the stuff i mentioned above.

if you would like to see what animation work i've been up to you can check out my Animation Diary :)

Well until next time guys and gals, stay safe and love to you all :)

Hard Times

2011-08-26T00:20:00.000+01:00

So as a lot of you know by now things have been pretty rough for me lately, i had my heart broken and i lost a friendship that i thought i would never be without, but this is the life i have chosen and all the problem i faced recently where my own doing and came at a cost.

In life we make decision that can change and mold our entire futures, one small change such as choosing to drink a glass of water instead of a class of coke could be the choice between early stages of diabetes or a future of high health and a long life. we make these choices each and everyday but never think of the consequences that will follow because as a species we focus on there here and now and only truly think about future events when we focus ourselves to do so.

I made a choice in life that at the time i felt was the right thing, i felt it was my one of only option in life but as time went by and the future i had created unfolded in front of my eyes i could see that it wasn't the future i thought it was going to be, instead it was something much better, something that created a stronger and more meaningful bond.

But without the main bond i had severed all that time ago, the future was in a constant state of flux and nothing was certain except the here and now.

sadly my choice had ended something special and something i thought i would never be without, even now as i write this it still hard to think about but i have found for a long time now that writing things down helped me so much more then talking about it, i can write down my thought, my feelings and my emotions without a problem, but to open my mouth and speak the words is one of the hardest things i could ever do in life.

But they say time is a wonderful healer and im starting to find that this is true, though very slowly it is getting better and my life is getting back on track.

i hope that maybe one day a friendship can be recreated but it is too soon to find that courage at the moment.

Right now i just hope that they are happy and that they are being treated right, and that they know that no matter what the situation between us at the moment if things are REALLY hard and family, friends or life is getting to much for them and they need someone who understands them better then most others i am here.

There are times in life when you have to put aside feeling and help the people you care about, this is something i have done throughout my life and i will always do this, nothing can change that.

Anyway, sorry all for such a down in the dumps post but i just needed to get it all off my chest.

hopefully the next post will be happier ^^

but in the mean time if you want something else to read (something filled with happy news) you can check out my animation blog here: http://blog.mbanimations.com/2011/08/motivation

Hope to talk to you all again soon.

Bye For Now <3

Pains & Needles ! ! !

2011-01-14T21:09:00.000Z

so yesterday i went to the Hospital at Northallerton to have the tests done before i go for my operation.

now as you may know i've been having problems with my legs for years now but its gotten to a point where i can't handle the pain anymore, so i've been going to the Dr's to get it sorted out.......firstly they thought it was Lipoma which wasn't to bad cos its a simple operation and i would have been walking out of the hospital within 3 hours of me going in BUT after a while they soon found that it wasn't Lipoma but they also didn't know what it was either.

So i had an ultrasound and they found that i had fractures in my fascia tissue coursing my muscle to push through and into the wall of my leg equaling in immense pain when i walked for a period of time.

after seeing a specialist about the problem he made me an appointment to get a pressure reading from the muscles compartments of my legs, now although he said that it would hurt and that it would involve needles.......what he didn't say was how big the needles were or how painful it was going to be.

so ye.......yesterday was the day of the appointment, i got a letter saying that i wasn't to eat or drink anything for 6 hours prior to being admitted so i woke up and skipped having my breakfast and cup of tea.

started my day at around 7am to get ready for my bus at 7:45.....so after rushing around thinking i was going to be going through this on my own, my mam surprised me by meeting me at the bus station which i loved cos i knew that it was going to be hard for her to get through with the icy roads but she managed it for me :)

so after traveling on the bus for something like 2 hours we finally got to the hospital in time for my appointment at 10 :)

now i thought that since my appointment was for 10 i would be getting seen to by the specialist at around 10 but after the nurses showed me to my room, gave me my bands and took my details oh and gave me a flattering gown to wear......it was a 3 hour wait till i got to finally see the Dr's :(

even got my name on the wall of my room ^_^

and to top it all off........the Dr said that since i wasn't going to be getting anesthetized i could have had anything i wanted to eat or drink....Grrrrrrrrrrrrr Generic NHS Forms.

So once the nurses found this out they went and got me loads of biscuits and a nice cup of tea for me and my mam which was really nice of them :)

so after my tea and biscuits the Dr's returned.....this time it NEEDLES ! ! ! ! !

now when i saw the needles i FREAKED.......i was so scared cos it had to be thick so that they could slide a tube through the center of the needle and into my legs.

although the needles where kinda kool if not massive cos they split in half so that they could get it off the tubing......

So once they had all the tubes in my legs they took a pressure reading so that they had a base line and then asked me to have a walk around the hospital and try and get my legs to start hurting like they would usually do but with having the tubes in my legs it made it all the more harder to do and so much more painful.

also for some reason it took a lot longer for the swelling to start then it would usually take.

anyway.......after i went through even more pain they took another reading to see what the new pressure was and said that it was EXTREMELY high.......higher then they have seen before in fact the Dr said that if it had stayed that high for a period of 24 hours or more i would lose my legs due to the cells dying.

Soooooooooooooooooo VERY worrying ! ! ! ! ! ! !

so now i have been put onto the sick instead of job seekers until my legs are sorted.

which will hopefully been really soon cos i can't handle this pain for much longer and i miss being able to walk without struggling in agony.

So thats about it really......i will keep you posted on anything else that happens ^_^

buy for now peeps and i hope you all keep in better health then i am :)

Christmas 2010 Was Fantastic ! ! ! !

2010-12-26T22:24:00.000Z

So Xmas has been and gone and all the presents have been opened, now its the time to eat cold Turkey sandwiches and left over dinner.

I loved being home so far.....i've had the 42" TV in the living room to play Black Ops on and kick ass, well in game bots asses but better then nothing :P

I got a load of really good stuff, some of it was a little odd but still really kool.

A Monkey that dances to the music when you plug an MP3 into it ^_^

A melted record bowl that my mam made cos she got bord :P

Some Lynx shower gel and spray.

Loads of sweets.....i love Mr Tom bars and now i have 2 ^_^

some Lucky Charms and other American food off my sister (love them sooo much)

A Jack Daniels Cup and Coffee (yes JD Coffee ^_^)....and a bottle of Disaronno yummmm

more sweets.....god im going to put all the weight on that i had managed to lose :P

XBox Games so im not play COD Black Ops all the time (although i do love it ^^)

MONEYZ ! ! ! ! ! !

The traditional underwear......wouldn't be xmas without them :)

A Morph coaster off my sister boyfriend.

And yes that picture says what you think it says.....BBQ Flavored Mealworms, my sister got me that and im totally going to try them but im not rushing into it :)

it says that have a smiler taste to popcorn but with a difference ^_^

So ye that was all the stuff i got for XMas, i had a fantastic time with my family and a wonderful dinner.......it was one of those dinners where you really have the urge to sleep afterwards.

I have almost finished the majority of my sweets which isn't good i know but its Xmas so its ok :)

im looking forward to have more Turkey sandwiches as soon as i finish this post *types even faster* ^_^

i'll let you know how the worms taste when i eventually try them out :)

anyway till next time i hope you have had a wonderful xmas and you all have a fantastic new year ^^

What A Day ! ! ! !

2010-11-16T22:40:00.002Z

well today was one hell of a day.

I've Graduated University ^_^

yes thats right i am no longer a student (well maybe still am in my mind :P ) so now its time to straighten up and flight right as they say :)

it was a fantastic day though, i've almost been in tears cos i know thats the end of it all and i may not see the people i've studied with again but i hope that we all do stay in contact, i'll still be going to Societies and catching up with them for as long as i can but it will be so strange not going in and seeing them in class :(

but im sure everything will work out in the end :)

So today started off quite early as you can imagine, i was dragged out of bed at 7:30am and awoke to a load of frost and ice so i knew that getting from Hartlepool to Middlesbrough wasn't going to be easy so i got ready as fast as i could so that we could get the car sorted and still have time to get there.

We made it into Middlesbrough just with enough time for me to get my Gown and Hat so that was the first bit of good luck and the first job out of the way :)

after i got my self sorted me and Noel started walking over to the town hall as thats where we would be getting our awards.

As soon as my mam saw me she instantly started welling up, i knew that this was a big day for her and my whole family as im the first one in my family to go to University and Graduate from university, my sister will be next in line to graduate next year i think.

The ceremony itself dragged on for quite a bit but it was because there where a load of students graduating and also because the university where sticking to there long winded ways of saying things as thats the way its been done for years and it was tradition.

but soon they started getting the students on stage and it wasn't long till it was my turn......i was sooooo scared at the time and couldn't stop shaking, i really didn't want to mess up or trip on stage, but i managed it perfectly....(if not a little fast lol ) and returned to my seat to watch all the other members of my course collect there awards.

once everything was over we couldn't wait to get out of the town hall and out side for some fresh air.......everyone was extremely excited and all the families where EXTREMELY proud, it was great to see.

it felt (and still feels) so surreal to be officially graduated and to finally be able to officially put the letters BA (hons) after my name, i never thought that this day would happen and im soooooo happy it finally did.

now i can officially call myself...... Mr Ashley John Stringer BA (hons)

not long after taking a load of photos and returning the gown me and my family returned to Hartlepool and we went to Toby Carvery to celebrate, it was fantastic........i love Toby as theres sooooooo much food and since i'd not had anything to eat all day so i really stocked up on the food :)

as an even bigger surprise my mam and dad gave me £100 to say congratulations on graduating, i was SOOOOOOO shocked, i knew that there might have been some money in the card as they always do something for a card ranging between £5 and £20 but £100 was soooooo unexpected, they said that i should get a games console with it so im thinking i'll add something to it and get myself a new xBox 360s

i know my mam and dad wont probably read this but i would like say to my entire family, THANK YOU so much for the bottom of my heart, without your help over the years i would never have gotten to where i am today.

i really want to write soooooo much more but there is so much that i wouldn't have the time lol

so i will just say this, to everyone in my life......THANK YOU ! ! ! ! ! ! !

and to all that have graduated and will be graduating this week......GOOD LUCK ! ! !

i know that if we keep at our craft no matter what it may be we will get the job we have dreamed of for so many years.

Oh ye and to top off my day, i had to go sign on but i did it in style.....i signed on in my full graduation gown, oh yes how kool am i ^_^

also check out more photos on my facebook: Public Link

Almost A Month ! ! ! !

2010-09-20T02:50:00.002+01:00

Wow, well its almost a month since i last posted on here and i must say im struggling to remember 100% what has happened but i'll do my best.

so to start with i finally got around to spending that £20 compensation from Southfield Pub.....if you dont remember anything about it, that could have something to do with me never posting about it (i though i had but i just checked and i hadn't :p )

well to fill you all in on what happened......me, my mam and dad went to the Southfield Pub for some food while we where sorting out my Job Seekers forms and i decided to have some Peanut Butter Chocolate Pie (something that i do love, a lot).

it was VERY nummy, except for the little prize at the end......when i took almost my last bite there was a considerably big piece of plastic, now i didn't notice this till i had already put it in my mouth and until it had cut the inside of my cheek.

it came as a bit of a shock but when i went and told management about it they gave me all my money back, took me contact details and also gave me a new slice of cake.....although this time i was very careful with it lol

So, about 5 weeks ago a letter came through the door with a letter from Scream and a Voucher for £20 to spend in the Southfield, this was awesome and quite unexpected but i guess i could have made a massive deal about it and took them for a lot more money but im just not that type of person.......luckily for them :)

So anyway now you know the back story, back to the main one :)

so ye, me and Bryon went to Southfield the other week as there was very little in the house and got something to eat......we ended up spending the FULL £20 but it was SOOOOOOOO worth it for what we got as it was FREAKING GAWJUS ! ! ! ! !

as you can see, we got a lot with a lot of extras as well......we got extra bacon, extra onion rings and extra burger....and that was just inside the bun.....we also got a side order of onion rings and a couple of drinks.....oh and a couple of games of pool.

all in all it was a great time and VERY filling.......dont think we had anything to eat the following day :p

soooooooo.....what else, oh ye......me, Emily and Bryon went to see The Expendables at the Cinema....it was an amazing movie but about quarter of the way through the projector broke and we had to wait till they got it fixed....didn't take long but after the movie was finished they gave all the people in the cinema a free ticket for another 2D movie.

So with this ticket me and Emily went to see Scott Pilgrim vs The World......it was AWESOME ! ! ! ! ! ! and make me totally want to make an awesome bar for one of my DailyBooth Pictures in lovely 8-Bit Arcade Text.

As well as all the fun there has been some development with with Doctors, they have decided that it is defiantly holes in the muscle sock and now i need to go to see an Orthopedics Surgeon on the 28th September for a consult and see what it will be that they will be doing to be to sort it out......im absolutely terrified but if it stops the pain it will be worth it.......i hope.

As well as my leg problems i also developed a swelling on the gum around my wisdom tooth so i needed to take Antibiotics to sort it out for a week......not the nicest thing in the world as i couldn't eat anything for the first 3 days as the swelling was to much but after the meds took effect it was much better.

so thats about it i think.............well actually, i went to couple of meetings at University to see about me doing a Masters in Character Animation and see about funding but due to a change in the Government Funding Schemes i was no longer able to do Master Free if i did it Part Time, so now i need to save up £1,700-ish to do my masters over a year as part time would cost more.

Also i went to the Careers Department at uni and asked an adviser about finding work, she was a load of help and went over some pointers on changing my Portfolio around so that it was a little more professional and so that my best work was shown, i still need to put on my newest showreel but i'll get around to that soon as i can.

Oh, ye before i go........i've been talking to some REALLY great people on DailyBooth and we have been sending letters to each other in the post, i also send back some drawing for them and they said they loved them.

PicklePeyton

Czechdream

So ye.......i should be getting some more letters through the post soon from others online and im really looking forward to getting them and then i can reply with some awesome pictures. ^^

well.....thats it for now, i'll post back soon and try and get back into the swing of posting when it happens and NOT leave it a month again :p

Bye for now ^_^

The Scan.....dun dun dunnn sound effect

2010-08-26T13:28:00.001+01:00

well i went to the Hospital to have the scan for my legs........i was so nervous because if they found something then it would involve surgery most likely and if they didn't then it would involve pain in my legs forever.

part of me wanted them to find something just so i would be able to get it sorted and walk without pain and the other half was hoping that they would simply say that there is nothing there and they had no clue what was causing the pain so that i could get away without being cut open.......really hate the thought of it.

anyway, after the scan i asked them if they had noticed anything to explain the pain i was feeling in my legs.........they said that my results would be with my GP in 2 Weeks but i was really wanting to know now, after explaining that i had been in this pain for several years now and that they had already said to my once that it was Lipoma and then changed there mind they decided to let me know what it was they found.

basically, (this is what the Dr's told me) the muscles are covered with a strong but fine tissue to keep them in place and i have developed small holes in this tissue that is allowing my muscles to pop out through. this is causing the lumps on my legs and the pain i feel, the holes are so small that when the muscle pushes through it is stretching the hole and causing a tearing feeling.

when i explained it to Emily she put it in a simplified forum of explanation.........

"It's like when you have a hole in your sock and your big touch pushes through it making it bigger and the blood stops it, causing the pain"

it was a great explanation of it i felt.......it was like a Star Trek moment, there would always be a complex plan explained and then someone would make a analogy with household object to make it simpler to understand....like....

"If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure"

"Like putting too much air in a balloon!"

ok, ok, ok so thats from Futurama as i couldn't think of any Star Trek ones but still you get my point.

so ye thats whats wrong with me and although im terrified that when my GP gets the results in about 2 weeks im going to have to have surgery, its nice to finally know what the heck is wrong with me, i've wanted to know for such a long time now and to finally have an idea of what it is has taken a wait off my mind.

If you know what the name of this condition is called PLEASE let me know in the commets section below as i would be nice to put a name to it as well.

well thats all for now really, i just wanted to let you all know what had happened at the hospital (if you wanted to know that is, if not sorry for having you read this)......i'll let you know what my GP says when he gets the results.

bye for now peeps.

Long Time

2010-08-24T21:51:00.000+01:00

Well its been a long time since my last post but i hope that i can remember the things i did in that space of time.

About 2 weeks ago the Tall Ships invaded Hartlepool as it was the finishing line or there race.....it was nice to see such a lively environment.

Photos By Papy

Along with the ships there was sideshows and food stalls EVERYWHERE......never had anything except for a bag of chips with my mam.......had a great time though.

Can't really remember what happened over the next couple of days but at some point.......me and my mates from Hartlepool decided to go camping, it sounded like a great idea except after we had set everything up and finally got the campfire sorted the Wardens came over and said that due to changes in the policies of the park there is no camping allowed anymore so we had to pack up and leave.....next time we're going to ensure that we can defo camp but all in all it was a great time with the guys.

More Photos On FaceBook

So ye, although the camping was a bust it was a still a great time.....i hope we get to do it again.

Well......... thats about it, although...........today was a great day as it was the day my router came through so now we finally have the internet, now i can finally write out my blog and start doing my YouTube videos.

anyway thats it for now me thinks.......i wish there was more i could say but its now 9:49pm and im shattered, i just want to get to bed as i have my Ultra Sound tomorrow to see if i ned surgery or not.

in same way i hope i do as it will stop the pain but in another way i really hope i dont as i hate the thought of being cut open.....grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

bye for now peeps.

9.3 MILES ! ! ! ! !

2010-08-06T18:22:00.002+01:00

Hey peeps before i start just so you know this is going to be a very image intensive post ^^, so i've had some interesting times since my last post......still i've not heard anything back from the Doctors about me going in for scans so im going to be chasing that up sometime soon i hope.

So ye, the fun stuff......well me, Emily and Bryon all went to see the A-Team at the cinema the other weeks and it was AMAZING, so funny and full of action so a win win for me ^^ i think the next movie we'll be seeing will most likely be The Expendables as it looks awesome and it has all the action stars that i grew up watching so im really looking forward to seeing it.

more recently me and Emily went to the Carnival the other day which was a load of fun, didn't really go on any rides as im not really into the carnival rides to much anymore but i do love the shooting games on the sideshows......i ended up winning a giraffe & pony teddy for Emily and she got me a little Yoshi plushy which i love as i love Yoshi, he's so cute ^^

also we had a nice walk over to the sea front and had a good climb over the rocks which i loved....

i also attempted to do some arty photos and the kinda worked out ok but Emily has the ones on her camera that i liked the most, so i will try and get them off her as soon as i can and post them on here......but for now here and the ones i took.

Sooooooooooooooooo, thats a lot of images i know but like i said this is going to be a very image based post as im always snapping away with the camera.

So in other events......yesterday was my mate Dans Birthday so i headed back to Hartlepool to celebrate with him, it was a great night and i got to see a lot of people i ain't seen in years (literally like 4 or 5 years) so thats was absolutely fantastic and im glad i managed to get through to see him ^^.

Sadly dan had to leave early so it ended up just being me for a while till i found some people i knew, as the night got on the music started getting really bad as they went from Alternative to Pop and that just not right so i decided to head off home but.......as it was around 3am and the roads where really quiet i decided to do something i have wanted to do for years but never had the chance to.....i decided i would walk back home to Middlesbrough from Hartlepool.....now if my family ever found out about this they would KILL me so if your reading this and you know my mam or dad please dont tell them i'll do it at sound point later in the future ^^

Now before i set off i had a check on my phone and found that it was 9.3 miles and would take about 3.4 hours to walk it.......now thats not really very much walking in my opinion so i set off.

So, as i walked home i decided i would take some photos and and stuff to document what i was doing but sadly my phone battery ran flat half way back so the picture sadly ain't complete but there are some nice ones.

anyway, so i walked the shorter way back as i knew the route from taking buses that way, as i got to Seaton Crarew i noticed how beautiful it looked at night.....the soft light from the night sky was amazing...

As i got to around the end of Seaton i noticed some horses and since i love horses i decided that i would pop over and see them but to my shock one of them had there front right leg trapped in the railings of a gate and was unable to get out of it.....i tried to help it out but started to worry that i was only going to make it worse so i tried to calm the horse down and got the number of the RSPCA who came out and helped free the beautiful creature.......also i must say that the young lass that came out to help was very beautiful as well :)

Since i was with the horse for about an hour the sun had started coming up so it was a little easier to see where i was going as i continued on my walk....

By the time i got to the first bus stop i was already starting to think i wouldn't be able to do it but at the same time i really wanted to complete this was.....my only hope was that the Transporter Bridge was open so early in the morning.

As it was night light and people where heading to work the traffic really started to pick up and this started to scare me as i started to noticed glass, tires, bumpers and skid marks on the areas i was walking........all i could think was that one of these cars are going to fly off the road and kill me but then i realized that there was a good chance that i would be ok and nothing was going to happen..............well i was like that until i came across some flowers tied to a lamp post and that shuck me up a little bit but i carried on my journey.

Since i had a long way to go i thought i would make a little game to keep me entertained so since i was walking on the side of oncoming traffic (so that they could see me and i could see them) i decided to smile at every driver going past.....some smiled back and some look at me like i was an idiot...the nicest people where the Cyclists and the Motor Bikers they all (apart from one) smiled back sometime said good morning to me which was really nice and kept me going even more.

I noticed just how many sheep where around as well, these 3 photos where taken at different places along the journey and there are so many more that i didn't take photos of.

I mean if one day sheep decide to take over the world we are done for.......there are just to many of them ^^

So, ye after about 2 hours of leaving the horse my feet had started to feel like they where bleeding......at which point the number 1 bus (the one that would have taken me home) drove past so now i knew the buses had started to run i began to struggle with myself as part of me wanted to walk and nothing else and the other half wanted to get on the next bus that came along and get some quickly......i decided that if the Transporter Bridge was running by the time i got there i would continue the walk if not that i would grab the bus at Port Clarence Farm and get home.

Thankfully (not much for me feet) the bridge was running and i hope aboard and payed my 60p to use it.........i ain't been on the bridge since i was a small child when i went on with me mam so it was so cool to be on it again.

for those of you who dont know, the Transporter Bridge is a large platform suspended below a tack and moves from one side of the river to the other carrying cars and people.

It was so much fun and on the other side of the bridge is a nice little dinner where i got some much needed food and a very much needed drink although i could have waited till i got in but i love dinners there so different from your coffee shops.

Anyway after my sausage sandwich and drink i continued my walk home........i soon found myself at my front door and i was so happy to see it....by this point my feet where hurting and wet, my socks where wet, my shoes where wet and trousers where wet and all from walking through the due on the grass :p so as soon as i got in the house i got in some nice dry cloths and went to bed and i needed sleep badly ^^

and that was my journey.......in total from leaving Church Street (where i decided i was going to do it) to getting to the house it took 4 hours and 32 minutes but if we take away the time with the horse it adds up to 3 hours and 27 minutes to walk to full 9.3 miles which is kinda impressive for me to be honest so well done me :p

and not many people can say that they traveled from Hartlepool to Middlesbrough for 60 pence ^^

And if you ever feel like doing something like that, take someone with you as it is quite dangerous and also wear proper walking gear as i was dressed for a night out not a walk so it wasn't to easy to do.

Anyway i hope you enjoyed read this as much as i enjoyed experiencing and writing it, as there isn't much of the day left i'm going to try and get some animation done as soon as Star Trek Voyager is finished (yes im a geek :p)

till next time guys, keep well and i'll talk to you soon.

This Is Why I Dont Like Doctors ! ! ! !

2010-07-14T13:37:00.000+01:00

So i went in for my new appointment for the surgery today and when i got there i had to have a consult with a doctor to double check what i had and so that he knew what he was working with.

After i explained what the problem was he asked me to take off my shoes, socks and trousers and lay down on the bed (uncomfortable lol). he looked over my legs but couldn't seem to find a problem......i explained that it happens most when im on the stepper at the GYM so he got me to step up and down on a box which brought the bumps up a little but that added more confusion.

he explained that if it was Lipoma it wouldn't get bigger when walking or during exercise so now he hasn't got a clue what it is so he wants me to go in for a scan.....im not sure when but it will most likely soon.

He asked that i make it as bad as i can so that something comes up on the scan......all i can think of doing is running there or walking really fast.

the annoying thing about my legs are that when it happens its most of the day and it hurts like mad but sometimes it doesn't pop up at all.

i just can't take the pain anymore its way to much for me and i have been through a lot of pain in my life but this is the winner without a doubt for the most.

if i go to this scan and they dont find anything or the can't explain it then i am going to scream or take a freaking scalpel and go to town on my legs cos i just can't go on like this anymore.

anyway, thats my little rant.......i wish it was better news but thats life i guess.

so till next time keep well and i'll talk to you soon.

Today.

2010-07-12T23:08:00.000+01:00

Well not much has happened today.....so you might be asking why the heck am i blogging well i had a good day yesterday so i though i would write something about it ^^

So, yesterday was one hell of an early start for me (round about 9am lol), i went through to Hartlepool to spend the day with my family at the car boot sales.....i haven't been in such a long time and since the summer weather is back i can start to go out and about without having to wear several hundred layers ^^

So ye i went to the boot sale at Sedgefield with my mam and dad and i got some really nice things and didn't really spend that much money in total.....i got a street magic kit for £1, a PS2 Game for £1, a file for my documents for 50p, a lamp for £1 and a small Family Guy Stewie voice box for £1....so in total i spent £4.50 and had a great day out as well.

the only real downside was the fact that it was VERY windy and the fine dusty mud at Sedgfield Race Course (where the boot sale was) was getting blown everywhere and covering all of the stalls and people from head to toe......although it was funny that my dad got so much in his hair that it went from light gray to light blond ^^

he really doesn't suit blond hair :p

so ye that was my great day yesterday, i've not tested the Magic or the Game but the Lamp and Stewie thing works great.

Today has just been a very very very lazy day or just sitting in the front room with bryon and playing GTA San Andreas on the PS2......i entered a load of cheats to that the game was a little more exciting like everyone coming after you with guns and always on 6 starts wanted level.....it was realy fun.

well thats it really for this blog but before i go i just want to let you know about a project im doing.....only just started it but im going to keep it going as long as i can.

The project is called "Project 365" and it is when you take a photo of yourself everyday for 365 days of the year, the best example i can find is this one....

for those of you thinking "WOW i wonder if he's still doing it" well here is a link to his site will all the newest image:- http://www.everyday.noahkalina.com/

so ye, i wanted to do something like this since i saw it done on The Simpsons (if you've not seen it click HERE) so i have started a new DailyBooth account and will be uploading a new image everyday to it and will hopefully keep it going for a long long time.....i just think it would be great to look at my face and enviroment changing over a long long long time......you never know i might be able to keep this going till im 70 years old ^^

anyway, here is the link to my new DailyBooth:- http://dailybooth.com/DailySnapShot

so i hope you enjoyed this little post and i hope that you get a DailyBooth account yourself if you dont already and you follow me ^^

oh and here is my original DailyBooth account if your interested at all:-

http://dailybooth.com/MunkeyBoy

by for now peeps.

Finally ! ! ! ! !

2010-07-09T16:26:00.009+01:00

Well before i get to what the finally title is all about i just to tell you a little story, one that got some lols on my DailyBooth so i thought i would share with you all as well.

The story of a house mate

Chapter One (and the only one lol)

One day Monkey and his Irish housemate Bryon where sleeping in a lovely comfortable bed when suddenly Byron farted!!!!

Monkey woke up from a rather sexi dream and wasn't impressed, he confronted Bryon about the fart and soon found that he was the one who woke him up so he decided to strangle him.

just in that moment they heard a noise that they hadn't heard in such a long time, a noise that took them back to there childhood when they lived in the ghettos with the hoods.

It was the ice cream van, they had missed it so much and never thought that they would ever get to taste its loveliness again......because they thought it would never come back they bought everything that the man had and soon found it to be a big mistake as they became EXTREMELY fat.

and they never ate ice cream again.

The End.

hope you enjoyed that.

thank to Bryon for walking in on my hanging out the window trying to get a Wifi signal.....i couldn't have done it without you.

So ye that was my little story and i hope you liked it, it was never going to actually be a story, i was just taking some random photos in my room and Bryon walk in and we started taking pictures.......it was only after i had looked back at them i though....hmmmmm that could make a story ^^

anyway, so ye that was fun......at the moment we're still working on getting the house setup and moved around but its getting there slowly as always.

we should be done soon enough i recon.

so back to the Finally title.....well finally my marks came through, yes i now know what i got and if i passed and i can happily say....I PASSED ! ! ! ! ! !

its awesome the fact that i've passed the course and i no longer have to worry about the work load ^^

on the down side mind you is that i didn't get the mark i was hoping for......sadly i only got a 2:2 which is the same as a C Grade....i was really looking for a 2:1.

the worst thing is i was only 4 marks off getting that 2:1 but it can't be help i guess.....in the long run it all dependent on my portfolio and if i keep at it i should have a quite strong one that will get me that animation job i have worked so hard for.

anyway that all really, i just wanted to let you all know whats been happening...so till next time i hope you all great health and a blinking awesome time ^^

Im A Plonker.

2010-07-07T13:45:00.002+01:00

this is just a quick update to state that im am a fool........turns out that when the Dr's phoned me last night they stated that the appointment has been changed to 10:45am not 11:15am so i ended up missing it and am now going to have to wait for another week till i can get my legs sorted.....its not fun in the slightest.

oh well whats done is done i guess.....can't exactly go back and change it so i'll just live with it.

anyway, just wanted to keep you up to day....talk to you soon peeps.

bye

Still Setting Up

2010-07-06T14:15:00.001+01:00

Hey peeps, well im still setting up the house o.O

as i said in my last post, i have way to much stuff and its so hard trying to find places for everything but if i just think smart i should be able to work around it.

im still without the internet in the house so im having to use any free internet connections i can find.....easier said then done at times mind you ^^

but other then the relentless unpacking and the lack of interwebs i am having a great time........me and Bryon seem to just laze around the house watching whatever we can find on TV and also play on the Xbox 360 although it crashes after around 20 minutes of play but thats still 20 minutes or fun.

these next couple of days are going to be eventful for me......today i have a lot to do and then tomorrow is the big day.

So today i have to go over to C&M Property Management (basically my landlord) and tell them about the things that need fixing around the house like the shower rail and the my wardrobe.....also need to ask them about paying the water bill, im sure that there is over stuff i need to mention but i can't for the life of me remember what they where but hopefully i will remember by the time i get there =D

So ye once thats out the way i need to pop over to the town and find some storage options and pick the cheapest as i have more stuff them storage so i need to find more asap......then again what can you expect after 3 years of uni and nights out ^^

Then its back home to finish (hopefully) sorting my room out and getting everything finally straightened up.......although changes are that it will take me long into the night to get it fully finished.

so ye thats today and then tomorrow i have my surgery........im SOOOOOOOO not looking forward to it....i mean i knew it not going to hurt and that i will be able to get through it easily but still i can help but think to myself that its going to be the worst pain i have ever felt.

i just hope that afterward it doesn't take long for everything to heal up and then i can get back to the GYM and also will be able to talk without having to sit down every 5-10 minutes and wait for the swelling to go down.

so thats my next couple of days as far as i can see.

so what have i been up to? well yesterday me and Emily went to see Shrek Forever After 3D

it was quite a fun movie but not as good as the first Shrek.....i think that studios will always find it hard to make a movie that is better then the original, its mainly because there is such a bigger hype about a first movie then there is for sequels......take Toy Story for instance, it was a fantastic movie (although watching it in 3D almost destroyed it for me but i wrote all about that HERE so check it out) but the second one could never live up to the hype the 1st one got, it seemed like they where trying to push the story so much and it just wasn't working, now i know they are going to be showing Toy Story 3D at my cinema soon so i will be going to see that but i really dont expect it to be as good as the first one cos it just never has the been the case with any movie.

anyway, so ye i went to see Shrek with Emily and it was a fun movie with a lot of laugh factors....although we did kinda go into the wrong cinema screen, sat down and got comfortable then realized that the movie was almost over and ran out as quick as we could so we didn't find out what happened. lol

it was great spending time with Emily again.......we seem to be getting really close again and its really nice......so ye after the cinema we went back to hers and tried to sort her blog layout out, dear god......she's great and all but she really can't make her mind up ^_^ i thought that at the very least she would have had the layout she wanted picked out and downloaded but instead she just remembered a vague memory of one that she saw a while ago...so ye we never did end up doing any layout customizing but hopefully she will find one soon as we'll be able to get to work on it.

well, thats it for this post peeps, i'll let you all know how tomorrow goes and if they kill me on the operating table (i know its not really on an operating table but meh).

talk to you all then......bye for now x

Seems So Slow

2010-07-01T11:11:00.002+01:00

Well its taken a while but i've finally moved all my stuff over to my new house, now its just a case of cleaning up my old house and giving it a fresh coat of paint........then unpacking all my gear and finding some place for it all...

i have WAY ! ! ! ! ! to much so i might end up selling some of it but i really hope it doesn't come to that.

all my stuff carries some sort of memory with it, something that when i see it i instantly remember a great time in my life......i know people say that memories are in your head and not in an object but for me its a case of that i need the object to trigger the memory.

but as i said hopefully i will find a place for everything and there wont be any problems.

Although i've only just moved in (2 hours before i started writing this) i've already found myself questioning my decision of moving in......its not anything big just little things.....like not having the internet......ok so thats a major thing for me cos i use the internet all the time but there are other things as well.

the rent is a little high for a 2 bedroom house......i know a lot of people will disagree with me on this but £500 a month (£250 each) is rather a lot for a house that doesn't include anything.....we dont get water, gas, electricity, TV License ot internet.....so its going to cast a absolute load in the long term but Bryon seems to think that we will manage and i kinda do but i will have to give up a lot of the thing i like to buy......mainly anything from Sansberys lol

Its going to be an Aldi and Lidle house me thinks......not that there is anything wrong with either of them its just odd that its going to be my main source of food shopping.

i'm really starting to miss uni and always having money and not having to worry about the coming weeks......i know i could just get a job and that wouldn't be a problem but i really dont want to settle for a shelf stacking job, i would much rather hold on for a couple of more months and see if a job in an animation studio opens up even if its a runner position.

but thats all things to worry about once im fully moved in an settled i guess......

On the upside (cos i always feel there is an upside to everything in life) living with Bryon looks like its going to be a gas, we get on really well and we are both bringing a lot to the house......i just really wish he had a computer so that he had a reason for getting the internet as well cos otherwise im going to have to pay for it myself and i really can't afford it as well as food and bills.

but ye, he's a great guy and really kind........he's the type of person that would go out of there way to make sure that a friend was ok. i just know that this year is going to be soooo kool and a tone of fun.....not that the last few years haven't been AWESOME and fun ^^

im really looking forward to setting my room up like an AWESOME animation studio with animation posters on the walls and random crap placed around the room......its going to look great.....i was going to do this last year in my last house but i just found myself never doing it so this year is going to be different......im going to have my room just like i've always wanted it ^_^

well i think thats all i really wanted to say......oh actually, since there isn't any internet (and im just writing this is notepad until i find internet) i wont be able to update as much as i would usually so i will have to try and get something sorted asap but until then please keep checking back remember to subscribe via RSS and tell people about my sites......its all a big help to me as i love talking to you guys and i love letting you all know what im getting up to.

so ye i think that is it now, so good bye and keep safe and well.

talk to you all soon........i hope ^^

oh last thing before i go......i'll be uploading some photos of the move as soon as i can get a strong enough internet connection but in the meantime check out this awesome video from The Key Of Awesome they have a load of great video parody's in fact but this is my newest fave so check it out.

NEW SMILE!!!!!

2010-06-29T23:44:00.003+01:00

So i went to the dentist today to sort out my teeth problems, like i said in my last post.....my front tooth has been screwed up since i was 7 and now its all fixed and sorted.....yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey ^^

like i said last time, i had some filling putty added to my tooth when i was younger and then the other week i went and they sanded my tooth down to almost nothing and then added a temporary cap and then today i went and they took off the temp and put on the permanent.

i love my smile now.....the fake tooth is the one of the side with my lip ring (my webcam flipped my images)

Filling Putty - Temporary Cap - Permanent Cap

Im soooooo happy with it, before all this was done i had a slight cap between my cap and the lateral incisor but now with this new tooth its been modeled to close the cap....yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.

i know im saying yeeeeeeeeeeeeeey a lot but you have no idea how happy i am because of this......its one of the best things to happen EVER!!!!!!

i love to smile but my front tooth always bugged me and now i can smile not worry about it looking yellow and horrible.

So ye im totally jumping up and down happy as hell ^^

in other news.....because i had not slept all day i ended up injuring myself a lot.....

i cut my leg open, sprained my wrist, stood on a carpet nail, bruised my other leg, bruised my arm and trapped my finger while pushing a washing machine against the wall.

So now im bruised, rested and feeling a hell a lot of pain from my gum where the dentist injected me for my fillings as well.....so its all good.

but ye its been a good day even with the injuries and pain ^^

went to the job center and signed on so my money is on its way ^^ and also i went to the Cinema with Emily to see Death At A Funeral..

Now they advertised this movie as a comedy but i must say it had its moments but for the most part its wasn't that funny.....i was really hoping for a laugh fest but there was only enough material in it for a couple of chuckles.

but it was was great spending some time with Emily and having a catch up.....i just wish i wasn't as tired so i could have been a little more interactive but hey......thats life.

anyway, im off to get everything else packed up to move out and hopefully i will be able to start moving stuff over to the new house tomorrow after i help Bryon out with his Job Seekers and Housing Benefit forms.

Tomorrow Should Never Come!

2010-06-29T03:08:00.000+01:00

Well, im really not looking forward to tomorrow.....its going to be a long day and it starts off with pain.

I have to go to the dentist tomorrow for a load of stuff.......i can't remember if i wrote about this before as a lot has happened since but about 2-3 weeks back i wents in to the dentist to get my cap that i've had on my front tooth fixed as it's been there since i was 7 went i slipped in the bathroom and smashed my tooth off the bath (loads of pain!!!)....so i went to the dentist and they fitted some filler putty onto the end of the tooth.....now this stuff was very yellow and its annoyed the hell out of me since then so now that i get free dental again i can now afford to go back and get everything fixed.

so when i went down the other week they drilled my tooth down to almost nothing and fitted a temporary cap that is still yellow but not as yellow as the putty....now tomorrow i need to go down and get this taken off and my new porcelain permanent tooth fitted.....(custom made to my mouth)....AWESOMENESS.

i'll see if i can take any photo of it getting done to show you guys.....but ye thats tomorrow so really not looking forward to it.....

to top it off since the appiontment is at 11am i need to make sure i stay awake so that i dont sleep in as i need to get through to Hartlepool, alarm clocks dont work on me so if i fall asleep im out for the count.

then on the afternoon i need to go to the Job Center to sign on....not looking forward to that either but thats life......need to make sure i have my diary sheets finished as i've just been writing on scraps of paper when i've been looking for ward and now i need to put them all in the booklet.

the only thing i really looking forward to tomorrow is going to the cinema with Emily, dont know what movie where going to see yet but we'll figure that out when we get there....i just hope i can stay awake that long.....see said that she's going to prod me in the arm to kep me awake but i doubt that will work but we'll see :)

anyway thats all i really have to say, i'll post again most likely tomorrow and let you know how it goes......also i might be able to get my keys for my new house tomorrow so with a little luck i'll be able to start putting things in it.

anyway by for now.

Note: if you are interested in learning a little bit about painting on Photoshop i just made a tutorial video (about hour and a half long) that goes over some techniques.

check it out: http://blog.mbanimations.com/2010/06/bad-news.html

Moving Soon!

2010-06-24T13:03:00.000+01:00

Well the time for moving house is getting closer, me and my mate byron have been looking around everywhere to try and find the best deal......sadly there ain't that many available for 2 people.

We're off to sign the contract on the house we both decided on today, its going to cost us £56.30 a week plus bills.....so ye its not going to be cheap but its virtually our own option other then going home and living but i really dont fancy doing that as i just love living away from home so much.

But ye, lives moving on.....packing is going slow and weather is WAY to hot but nothing i can do about that sadly.

Yesterday was awesome mind you, my house mate from last year and the year before that (Dave Moorcroft) came up to boro until the weekend so after the Football i went over to Bryons and we all had a catch up and then went over to Ians to watch a movie and eat pizza......it was fecking awesome ^^

i missed Dave so much, hell i lived with him for 2 years and we went to each other with any problems we where havin in life......by the end of my first year of living with him i no longer saw him as a mate, he was more like a older brother that really looked out for me and i appreciated that so much.

currently hating my current housemate at the moment (Jamie) well not really hating him just uber jealous of him at the moment as last night while i was out he got to do something i have wanted to do for YEARS......and im really happy for him but at the same time Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

oh well thats life ^^

but ye thats all really.....as you might know if you follow my Animation Diary Blog i've been doing some work for Arcus Studios and thats going really good.....got some more scenes in my inbox yesterday that need doing so i'll be going that.

anyway thats for another post so i will talk to you all soon......by for now peeps.

Im A Scardeded!!!!!!

2010-06-18T19:45:00.002+01:00

So today was a eventful day.....i went housing hunting with Bryon, found some really nice ones from C&M Housing agency but i still have some reservations about it.

the downside for me with these houses are that all bills are paid separately, this means that it will be about £230 a month for the rent and another £200-£300 a month for bills which isn't the best..........i really dont think we will be able to mange it on Job Seekers.....and even if we could it would mean that there wouldn't be much for food and other things.

Tomorrow we're going to be looking at another one of Pauls houses, for me this is a better option when it comes to the money issues......with Paul the rent is £215 a month and that includes Water and Interwebs so it is better straight away, and since the houses gas and electrics are on key and card it means that we can keep track of how much were putting on it.

the downside about Pauls house is that its a 3 bedroom and there is only 2 of us, we do have a possible 3rd person but we're just unsure about it as the more people that move in the more the bills will go up and the bigger chance that arguments will start.........but also with Paul there is no administration form charges (usually about £150) so thats money where going to be saving as well.

i dont know its all up in the air at the moment but tomorrow we need to make a decision as i need to go to job seekers and tell them the address of the house i will be moving into when i go to see them on monday.

So ye on another note, as you can see from my post title.......im a scardeded!!!!!

today i went over to the doctors to see what was wrong with my legs......you might remember me talking about it as some point....if not, basically when i walk short (and long) distances two bumps appear on the outer side of my legs and it feels like someone is giving me a chinese burn thats so powerful my skin is ripping.

i couldn't take it anymore, the pain i was feeling was to much and all the times i've asked about it they have told me that it was a trapped muscle or something (i remember the word said trapped a lot) but it seems that now i found a Dr that knows what the hell he's talking about......he checked me out and said that its something called Lipoma, it basically a build up of fatty cells that have deposited themselves in my legs.....a lot like a cyst.

this image wont be nice so if you dont want to see then dont click on the "Show Image" button, but this is what one looks like and most likely whats in my legs right now.

Show Image

also i found some videos on YouTube that a patent took during his surgery....dont watch if you are squeamish.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Im really not looking forward to it, i have to go in on the 7th July at 11:30am to get it done and im not sure what i will need to do after the surgery as they haven't told me yet but i imagine that i will be required to rest my leg and ensure that i dont pull the stitches but its really bugging me and im really worried.

but my mam an dad will be coming over to Middlesbrough to support me and hold my hand......i know that might sound stupid but im fecking terrified i really am.

anyway thats all my news for today and i hope that this house hunting and minor (major if you ask me) surgery goes smoothly.....although i will most likely update you all before it happens anyway.

so talk to you all again soon.....bye for now x x

How Much More Can I Take?

2010-06-15T08:43:00.000+01:00

So its been just over 2 weeks since me and emily broke up and its getting harder every day.......i've had some stupid thoughts over that time period but nothing i would really do.

Im just so down and i can't seem to pick myself up at all.........the only times i feel better even the slightest is when i get a text from her, it just brightens my day up so much......maybe its cos we never went a full day without messaging each other at least once and now its once a week almost.

Its only been 2 weeks yet it feels like its been over 4 months since i last held her in my arms and told her how much i love her.......maybe thats the problem, maybe its cos i love her just so so much.

I wish things had been different in the relationship and i had been a little more forceful with one of the issues in particular, i really things would have been a lot different if i had been or if it had been different.

another thing that is killing me inside at the moment as well is that its like, and im sure it isn't the case but its like she's over it already........its like after 3 years of being with each other and loving each other she's just gone oh well time to move on.......i can't work out how she's done it as its only been 2 weeks and she's already moved on.

like i said im not saying this is the case as i like to think that i know her better then this but it is just the way things are coming across from her.

im still in hope that things change and we get back together after the summer but im not sure how she feels from how she's coming across to me.

anyway i just needed to rant as its all getting to much for me and i not sure if i can take anymore........talking to my housemate is all well and good and gets a lot of my chest but writing things out helps me so much more as i can kinda compile my thoughts into one block and then almost forget about it.

anyway, i'll talk to you all again soon and please remember to check my animation blog for other things i've been upto......not moping around the house things ^^

Feeling Better

2010-06-07T16:43:00.000+01:00

Well for a week now i've been down in the dumps and just moping around the house things bout how stupid i was to break up with emily.

but, yesterday we started talking again and we had a freaking AWESOMENESSTASTIC day ^^

I popped over hers in the morning to drop of The Color Of Magic and Going Postal DVD's then we decided to get some food from Southfield and head over to the Cinema to see The Losers.......which was an awesome movie.

But ye as i said it was an awesome day then we went back to hers and tried to work out the problems i was having with XSi and my rigging.....then watched The Color Of Magic!!!!!

great movie and a bloody FANTASTIC time.......one of the best times we've had together in such a long time.

We seemed to be so close to each other and we think we worked out why the relationship was stronger during the first 4 months and during the 4 month break....over that time we where flirting with each other like crazy, after about 4 months though we seemed to settle down the stopped flirting with one another.

Yesterday we where flirting like mad as well and it was awesome cos it just seemed so right.

Anyway, the overall outcome of yesterday was we would go over the summer and see how things work out and just be friends then if there are a lot of times like yesterday then we might give it another try.

another good thing about yesterday was that we had a good talk about things that bugged both of us about the relationship and what took us to the point of breaking up.....it got a lot of things out in the open and we became even closer through that which was great.

so in conclusion (i love saying that) we're good and we're going to see how the friendship goes.....i still love her and she said she still loves me and thats all that matters ^^

so till next time.........keep well people ^^

Long Time!!!

2010-05-29T22:19:00.000+01:00

Well its been a long time since i have even checked out this blog but i really need somewhere to write and clear my head.

I never for one second thought that i would become someone who would find the need to write as for my whole life i have found it hard to even get a couple of paragraphs written out.

Anyway as you can see the blog has a new layout and that will become a little more customized over the following week but for now this is good enough.

so as i said i needed to get some stuff in my head sorted.......have you ever woken up and started thinking that you made one of the biggest mistakes of your life!!!!

yesterday i did something that i never thought i would ever do....it was also he hardest and most painful thing in my life to this date.

Me and Emily have broken up and im already starting to feel like its one of the biggest mistakes of my life but i know that if we do get back together at this point in life things will just get back to the point where we need another break or breakup.

for the last couple of months i've been feeling like its coming to an end but kept trying to pull past it and keep it going but its just got to much for me.......one of the most painful things after telling her was seeing how upset she was....i swore to myself that i would never be a guy that would make her cry but i have and now i feel like the worst person in the world.

I care about her so much, i love her with all my heart but there was just so many things that took me to the point of needing to break up with her.........i just really hope that we can still remain friends as i would hate to lose her from my life all together.

the odd thing is, one of the hardest parts was going through my profiles online and changing the status to single, just typing that word is like a knife through the heart......i really can't bring myself to changing my FaceBook status, for some reason it feels like changing that one makes it final, its strange how a Social Network Profile can make such a difference to someones emotions.

Anyway i didn't make this decision blindly........its been at the back of my mind for months but i had always just told myself that everything is fine but deep down inside i know that this wasn't true and i needed to speak out.

I just had to hold on till her work was done as i didn't want this to effect her work.....i know it means so much to her that she has the chance to do this course and if i had anything to do with her failing i would never forgive myself.

If im honest with myself and with how i feel.......i love her so much and would do anything for her.......but........the spark that we had at the start of our relationship has gone, that excitement that we both felt wasn't there anymore for me........i mean it was other things as well but those things i've looked past for 3 years and although its been hard to do i have managed but once a spark in a relationship goes out its very difficult to get it back.

If only we had more times like SummerHill, Edinburgh, London and such.......its was at those times we where uber close.....i was looking so forward to the summer holidays.....i feel that things would have gotten better and we would have been closer again as work would have been out the way.

There where so many things that i was looking forward to doing with her over the summer such as the Hartlepool Carnival, Going to Edinburgh again, trips to Dublin maybe (if money held up), trips to Newcastle, Leeds, Scarborough and just sitting on the sofa and watching TV while getting all snuggled up.

I really wish we could have talked more......if we did maybe things would have been different, i just found it so hard to talk about the problems i was having because it always felt like i couldn't go to her about things without upsetting her and making her cry.

if we get back together it wont be for another year and even then it wont be back together straight away......if we do it will be as if its a fresh start and going on dates and such but for now i want to give her space and try and get my head into check.

anyway till my next post please check out my animation blog

thank you for listening......i needed this to get my head in check.....bye for now.

Avatar ! ! ! !

2010-01-12T18:30:00.001Z

Hey guys and gals

well i finally got to go see Avatar and i must say it RULES ! ! ! !

The effect and animation in the who movie where just mind blowing, every detail was there from the smallest planet to the largest creature, you can see how must work went to into this fantastic movie and the time spend on it really payed off.

The render time on the movie was 30-50 hours per frame of animation and that doubled for the 3D version of the animation and you can really see why that is.

If you haven't seen it or haven't even heard about it then here is a sneak peak of what you can look forward to....

As you can see its is an Epic movie and if you do go see it see it in 3D (with the glases) as it just all that more amazing and you wont regret it ^_^

Well that it for now but i'll be posting as things happen now as its just easier then the weekly posting so talk to you all again soon.

laterz x

Fail ! ! !

2010-01-09T01:42:00.002Z

Well as you remember from my last post (dont blade you if you don't as it was a long time ago) i said that i would be posting on the sunday after that post and its now 2 weeks later lol

Anyway, if you are reading this from the UK you are with out a doubt about to look out the window and see this.

Now if you where one of them people who said "it never snows anymore i want it to snow this Xmas, i would love a white Xmas" then i have one thing to say to you........i hate you.

Now granted, i was one of the people who said that as well but still i can't help but hate everyone who also said it cos its making my house freezing (we go through £20 of Gas in 3 days).

Now i hope that the snow isn't destroying your days and its not making you ill. im starting to feel a cold coming on but i've not had one in a long time and im not going to let this get me.

Dont get me wrong i love the snow and winter is one of my favourite seasons but i think because the house im living in this year is falling appart and when it snows my walls leek im just in a bit of a huff about it.

Anyway on a completely different note, i hope you all had a great time on New Years.....For mine i was going to stay in Hartlepool with my family but i decided to come back to Middlesbrough and celebrate it with my mates.

We had a fantastic time going around the town and drinkning the night away, although i forgot my ID so i had to head back home and get it but as soon as i got back to town i joined in with the drinking.

we starting out like this.......

and ended up looking like this.....

so all in all one hell of a good night. ^_^

So that was New Years.

Now not really much else happened (apart from snow stroms) but i did have a hell of a lot of problems with my MacBook Pro, i've been waiting on Apple to release the BootCamp 3.0 update so that Windows 7 is compatable....this has coursed me a hell of a lot of problems including trying to get XSI to work on my laptop without any major issues.

Every time i installed XSI and then used VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop 5 to use it i would then get a message asking for a licence key and this was couring me to have to reinstall Windows 7 over and over and over again till i got it to work and keep working.

Now i just looked back at my last couple of post and noticed that although i posted a message on xmas i didn't say what i got...........well from my family i got £50 cash which i put towards a bluetooth mouse for my laptop, lots of sweets (yum yum yum cavities lol), a cool 3D drawing kit (its just rules).............emmmmm........PC games and PS2 games (yes im old skool, i even still have my Atari) and also an Xbox 360 wired controler for my MacBook Pro so i can play my game with a controller instead of a mouse and keyboard (which is hard to do on GTA IV).

And off Emily i got an AWESOME.......and i mean AWESOME ! ! ! RoadKill Toy..

how cute is he.....i've been wanting one ever since i saw them on Dragons Den and im so happy she got me it......also she got me a new Skateboard since my last one got knicked.....though if the weather keeps up i'll have to convert it into a snowboard.

anyway for the next couple of weeks i'll be working my ass off trying to get my work up to date as due to all the computer issues i've not been able to get much work done.......thing is im going back to uni on Monday with a load of work that should have been done by now.

so i will try and get back onto a sunday update schedual but it is hard to do at the moment with all the work......but fingers crossed it will be ok.

anyway by for now and as always i hope you enjoyed reading this ^_^

PS......This is how bad it is....

Merry Xmas

2009-12-25T23:32:00.000Z

Hey everyone, well today is Xmas as many of you will know and i just wanted to say Merry Xmas to all of you and Happy Holidays if you are not celebrating Xmas.

I hope that all your celebrations go off with a bang, todays is a day to be with family and friends and to look back over the year and share stories and get close to one and all.

This is a very short post this week as i will be doing my full one on Sunday so i will stop right here and say.....

I hope that whatever you are doing and wherever you are, i hope you are loved, cherished and ready or the new year.

P.S...I soooooooooooooooooooooooo want this next year for Xmas

First Fog

2009-12-17T03:59:00.000Z

Well the first fog of 2009 is here, i woke up the other day and spent most of the day in the house working on CCA but when i needed to go to the shops for some food i realized just how think the snow was outside.

i took some photos but it was hard to get quite a good shot due to the thickness.

although it was foggy out it was still a lovely day and quite warm all things considered.

anyway that was the first fog of this year, now if only it would bloody snow lol

So yesterday me and Emily went to Edinburgh for some breakfast (yes breakfast....odd i know considering that its 157 miles away) and it was awesome.

we had a lovely time there and we're talking about going back in January as there will hopefully be snow then and we can take some real Xmas photos ^_^

i have a load of photos from yesterday but since there is something like 129 of them i've just put them on my facebook (Public Link) so please go there and check them out and im sure you'll see how much of a great time we had.

Also a reminder to all those that follow me, i have another 2 current blogs my final year project blog and my animation diary blog and those can be found:

Animation Diary - HERE

Final Year Project - HERE

and my friend has just set his blog up at http://heminrasul.blogspot.com/ so go check it out.

as always i will try my best and upload on Sunday but i have a very busy life at the moment so i may just start blogging on the day stuff happens, this will mean more updates guys so keep checking back or even better subscribe to my RSS and let the internet do the work for you ^_^.

so until next time, good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night.

Long Overdue Update

2009-12-09T00:35:00.001Z

Well its been a long time but i thought i would write out a new post and letting you all know what i've been up to over the last month or so.

Well, to start with i've been to the comedy club a couple of time and bloody loved it, me and emily try and get to ever one of them but at times it seems like where not going to make it due to the lack of money we both have but we have managed to get to them all so far.

Because i've been working my ass off with uni im finding it hard to remember what i've been doing but i do know that i've had a great time and im looking forward to the next couple of week with the up and coming events.

Since i dont feel im going to be able to remeber much i will simply talk about the last 2 days.

So i recently ordered a new MacBook Pro and it came through yesterday. Because im a Teesside University Student i got an AWESOME discount on it.....rather then the £2160 it should have been i got it for £1550 thats a £610 saving.......how kool is that.

Anyway as i said i got it through yesterday and since then i have been trying my hardest to work out how to use the Mac OS, so many times i have heard that the Mac OS is easy to use and how quick it is to get your head around......this is total bull and i dont care what people say.

Firstly when you use Windows and you go through your documents and press Return key and it goes into the selected folder or opens the file but with Mac if you press Return it asks you if you would like to rename the file/folder........why would i need this option more then once how many file/folders am i going to be renaming really?....to actually open anything i need to do Command + O this is quite a stretch and seems like something that will become a hassle and an annoyance.

anyway to stop myself going out my head i've installed Windows 7 on my Mac and im loving it so far, the Mac gives me a shit load of speed and power and the Windows 7 OS gives me the GUI that i can use ^_^.

anyway that all for this post i will try and write more when i get time but at the moment i just have to much to do to get time to do my blogs but for you guys and gals i will try and do the best i can.

till next time keep well ^_^

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Long Overdue

2009-11-11T07:11:00.000Z

Hey peeps, sorry its been so long since my last post, i've been really busy with a lot of things lately hence why there have been no updates.

so anyway since my last post which was almost a month ago a lot has been happening. well from what i can remember (you know what my brain is like lol) I have been to the comedy clubs at University a couple of times since then and everyone of them have ruled ^_^, im really looking forward to the next one and i know that although one of the comedians isn't so good the MC is awesome and i will have an awesome time with Emily.

what else, well its been Halloween since my last post, i dressed up as The Spirit and i think i did quite a good job at it(although i did it quick)...what do you think....

i know its not great but it does look quite good i think.

Anyway that image was taken at Anicom, it was a great night as they played shows that i could understand (non-subbed western animations) so i could really enjoy myself. also there was cake.....yeeeeeeeeeeey cake ! ! ! ! !

After Anicom was the 8-bit Disco....which RUULLLLLEEEDDD !! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

i had a great time there, there where a lot of photos taken that are on my facebook but for you without facebook here is some of them.

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oh ye been to the pic's a couple of times but for the life of me i can't remember all the movies but the one i can remember is Zombieland, it was a great movie, really funny and with a great cast.

me, emily, lauren and bryon all went to see it and all of us said that it was a great movie and would love to see it again and it just ruled.

the movie i want to see right now is Saw 6, this isn't cos it looks good but because i have seen all the others and its just something that i have been kinda looking forward to no matter now bad it looks. lol

anyway i think im going to leave it there as im really tired right now and should probs get some sleep but i can't as i have a class in 3 hours and i dont want to miss it.

but i do need to right out my other blogs so i wil talk to you soon soon i hope, bye for now.

laterz ! ! !

Fun Times

2009-10-13T03:06:00.004+01:00

Hey guys im sorry that this is another late post and also chances are its going to be a short one but i'll try and remember what i've been up to.

well if you remember that last week was freshers week and i had a bloody AWESOME time and this week wasn't much different, now yes there wasn't a load of freebies this week sadly but i guess they can only do so many things for free.

but the night life was just as fun......i can't remember what day it was but one of the members of the society im a member of called Anicom through a massive music event in the Dickens Inn, his music was all to do with the theme of geek and it just RULED ! ! ! i had the best time ever while i was in the pub but then things did take a turn for the worse when i started thing about things and then started feeling down but thanks for my friends i started to feel better and i just put the thoughts to the back of my mind.

but like i said it was awesome and im looking forward to the next one which i hope is goin to be soon.

then on Thursday i went to Anicom and everyone was still excited about the 8-Bit Ice Cream Disco (that was the name of it) so there was a lot of talk about it. once the convocations had died down we went onto the watch Spawn, now i really liked this show as i had never seen it before and to be honest i loved it but sadly the guys that voted didn't vote for it to be a regular show so it wont be on again.....this is kinda a downer as the shows that were picked all have subtitles and with me being dyslexic i find it very hard to read them and enjoy the shows so i dont know if im going to enjoy it this year but i will do my best to.

anyway after the ArtJams where over (grated i did them during the 1st show lol) me and emily went to the comedy club, it was very different to the way it was last year as The Hub (the upper part of the Student Union) had a load of tables set out with little tea candles set up on them....it looked really nice and slightly romantic so it was nice for me and emily to have time together, in a beautiful setting while we listened to some great comedy acts.

the host of the show was really amazing and so was the 1st comedian but the last one wasn't the best, he played the guitar kinda like Bill Bailey does when he does his jokes but it just didn't have the same impacted as Bill Bailey does.....

great thing is that the comedy shows are on every 2 weeks so i can't wait till next week for the next one ^_^, i need a laugh about now.

anyway not really much happened after that but one Saturday me, lauren, bryon, Al and jamie all sat down to watch some DVD's in the front room with a lot of alcohol, it was such a great time.......definitely one to remember and i have enough photos to remember it by, im looking forward to the next time we just randomly go get some booze and then watch some movies, i ain't watched Ghostbusters in year so that ruled and i've never seen Fry and Laurie before and that ruled as well so it just was amazing.

i wish i could put some photos up for you guys but i ain't found that adapter yet so as before i will be uploading a massive photo post when i find it with all the photos i've not been able to upload so far.

anyway that was an AWESOME time.

then yesterday me, lauren, emily and bryon went to see the new Pixar movie UP, it was bryons first ever 3D movie so he really enjoyed it.....i will be writing a review of Toy Story and Up on my Animation Blog tonight hopefully so check back for it.

anyway after UP we came back to my house and watch a cheesy Zombie B Movie called Wasting Away which was surprisingly entertaining, contradictory to the look of it.

if you've not seen it check it out its worth a watch even if only for the fact funny boner joke.

anyway thats it for this week as far as i can think.........oh and today i manged to get my room finally cleaned up as i've been trying to get it done for a week now and i;ve had nothing but distractions keeping me from doing it.

anyway its done now so yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey

talk to you all soon guys and gals and i hope you enjoed reading this.

laterz

Long Week ! ! !

2009-10-07T01:50:00.004+01:00

well its another long post and sadly i still haven't found my M2 Card Adapter so i can't upload my photos yet but i will as soon as i find it, i promise.

anyway this week has been awesome but at the same time, really forgettable it seems as im struggling to remember what happened, well lets see what i can remember, im sure i will remember stuff as i keep writing.

well last Monday was the first day of Freshers Week at my university, lots of great things happen on freshers week mainly that we get a load of free stuff that we dont need and at another other time wouldn't want but its free and its freshers and we need it ^_^

so with the start of freshers week saw the start of great night entertainment, Monday was a night called The Big 1 now granted this sounds like a great night and promises to be The Big 1 but i didn't really fancy it so i gave it a miss, instead i did something that has slipped my mind but it was probs something with Emily.

oh and i got my Freshers Pass that gets my into all the events on the nights (£25 for over £40 worth of events) ^_^

anyway the next day i went to the Uni again and got a TONE more freebies, oh i didn't say what i got....well............

i got....

Posters, Tea, more Tea, more Tea, Subway vouchers x3, a couple bags of Tortillas (Nacho Cheese), Pens, fliers (lots of them), bags,

im sure theres way more but my brain just can't remember, what i do remember is it took me 2 days to clean the stuff away from my floor after i emptied the bags.

so ye went back and got more free stuff then more stuff happened (really need to start doing this daily so i dont forget) then on the night it was the Headphone Disco........whats a headphone disco? i hear you ask.....well basically there are 2 DJ's on stage playing all different music from around one genre, in this case one was playing House and Club and the other was playing Indie...anyway so ye there are 2 DJ's and then on the Headphones your wearing there is a switch that you can use to go between the 2 DJ's meaning there maybe around say 600 people listening to the same as you and 400 listening to something completely different at the same time.

its a really novel idea but one that is really good and a great night out cos if you see someone you know and just want to have a quick catch up with them, rather then having to talk over really loud music you only have to talk over really loud people that can't sing :P

so that was Tuesday night and if you are reading this i just want to say thank you to Emily Kitching, Veronica Heath, Bob Gardner, Peter Southern for a bloody fantastic time.

Here is one of the photos taken by the University photographer as i can't upload yet.

Thank you ! ! !

anyway so that was Tuesday night and it just RULED Big Time.

so then on Wednesday it was my mate (more like a brother really, lived with him for the last 2 years as well, really missing living with him) Daves 22nd Birthday, so to celebrate we went over his for some drinks and then after there we went to Onyx for some more drinks and then i called it a night with Emily and Lauren as we where getting tired.

even though i cut the night short i still had a great night out and i want to say thank you to everyone in that photo and behind the camera for a great time.

so Thursday, well that was a slow day to begin with as i was knackered from the night before but when i did get out of bed i went to the uni to see my mates and to sign up for the Society's, i looked around at all of them but in the end decided to only join 2, the Short Animation Society (as i've been with i since we started it up) and Anicom as i have been with the guys there for around 3 years now and they are just some of the koolest guys i know and its a place i feel i can be my total self ^_^.

anyway, that night was the first anicom social and it just ruled, all the people running the society now introduced themselves and then went had a chat about what Anicom is all about then we started watching some shows.....Phil (show organizer) brought in the new Family Guy episode, now we only watched the Disney Styled animaiton section and it just took my breath away..........

for you that haven't sen it check it out, here is what it looked like.....

so ye as you can see it looks awesome so check it out......so after that we went onto watching the planned shows for the year, now i love my Anime but with my bein dyslexic i find it hard to read the subtitles that are on the shows and everyone else doesn't like the dubbed so i end up just not watching them or if i do i dont know whats happening so i dont enjoy it, but once that had finished we watched Wolverine and the X-Men....now as i had already seen this show with them being on BBC iPlayer i decided to draw out my ArtJam for the week as i didn't know we had one till the start of the social so i just drew out what i could look like as a Superhero, it was rushed but it looked ok i guess, anyway i got a free set of comics....basically there was a big box filled with stuff and a small hole to put your hand through and it was just like a lucky dip but i got some comics so kool ^_^

anyway after the Artjams had been shown me and emily went early for the Hypnotist show at the Union, she was called Lo Reid.....

this wasn't at our Uni but i found this online and its her at another freshers week doing her show.

she was REALLY good, my mate Dan had to sit there and have a lap dance by one of the hypnotized people (his name is Pickles) it was just sooooooo funny, there is a load of other stuff that she did but most of it that i couldn't and shouldn't really mention on my blog as i don't know who reads it. most of it was 18+ stuff ^_^

anyway that was a load of fun.

the next day im not really sure what i did, like i said i need to start doing these blogs on a daily basis when there is a lot on.....

well i'll skip that for now Saturday, is also a blank actually......sorry if you reading this and thinking, i know what you did how could you forget, i have a mind like a sieve.

well Sunday i know what i did, i went to the Union to say goodbye to one of my close mates, James Taylor.....i haven't known him that long but he has been a real friend and helped me with a load of stuff over the years and i've helped him out to.

i probs spent about £20-£30 on drinks that day as we started playing drinking games and the alcohol just want down so quick, not that i was bad at the game it was just that Dan made the rules up as he went along.

it was quite loud in the Union as the Arsenal vs Blackburn and the Chelsea vs Liverpool matches where on the big screens, but they didn't last to long and we manged to keep the convocations going over the noise, then i went back home at around 11 (ish) and not long after getting my supper and getting into bed Emily knocks on the door, a "little" drunk and ends up staying over.......i didn't mind to much but i did have to sleep on the sofa as the bed broke when i put her to bed and also cos she has a tendency to kick me out of bed in her sleep so i thought it wise.....problem is that when she stays over im tired for the next week or so, so it takes me ages to get well rested, anyway it was a great day and a great night.

so ye that was my week last week.

then this week not much has happened really (as its only been 2 days lol) but really, me and emily went fro Sushi to celebrate our money from uni coming through and also just cos Sushi is the best, as i bought this time emily is going to get next time so thats nice, all in all it came to £31.85 even though i thught she said £38 and just walked off leaver her a tip, then emily and the lass pointed out that i was leaving £8 odd so i went back and just took the £5 and said keep the rest.

then we went for a walk and had a lovely kiss under the big abstract bottle (odd i know but Middlesbrough has a big bottle) but ye we had a lovely kiss under there and then we went back to mine and watched some stuff on my computer and she went home.

then today i went into uni to see my friend Negar who had decided she wanted to do her masters here, so i went for some food at the south fiend and had a catch up with there which was really nice, i told her about my animation idea for my final year project and the problems im having with it and she helped me out a little with my story and she was telling me about her summer, sadly she had a class at 2 and we met up at 1 so there wasn't much time for a good catch up so i suggested meeting up again during the week.

anyway at 2 she went to her class and i decided to would go with her to see what the course was like as i will be hopefully picking my Masters next year so i need to know what i want to do. also i got to see my mentor (hopefully) Chris Wyatt and see what he had been up to.

after the class had finished i went to the union to see the Anicom guys as they hang out there a lot and then i had my real first class of the year (Creative Character Animation), where Nick (lecturer) talked about what the course was going to be like and what we would be expected to do.

one thing he said that i like a lot is that instead of doing 2 animations like last year we will be doing one animation and constantly improving on it till we have a work of art (mine will be first time :P lol) but really i think this is a great idea as it will help me and everyone to home there skills more and be able to also work on Final Year Project as well.

anyway that it really............oh there was one other thing but can't remember the day, me, emily and lauren went to see Toy Story 3D last week and it looked Amazing in 3D but there was somethings that ruined it for me...anyway there will be a review of that on my Animation Blog (link to the right) in a couple of days as i need time to sort other things out first, oh and also the Fire Department sent out some guys to install Fire Alarms in the house, now granted that doesn't sound like anything amazing but there came in a massive fire engine, i was like OMG they sent a massive truck to install 3 fire alarms in the house WTF ! ! !, i thought that they would have just went around the little smart cars they use now...

these.......

but anyway i have a photo of it outside the house but that will get uploaded with all the other photos as soon as i get an adapter......so keep your eyes out for a 700 page photo blog post ^_^

anyway that all guys so im going to say good night as im knackered and the only reason im up still is cos i didn't want keep you guys waiting another day.

so bye all and talk to you soon.

Laterz ! ! !

On Time ! ! !

2009-09-27T23:55:00.000+01:00

Hey all my favorite people in the world, how you all doing?

well this week (well half a week as i only updated you all on Wednesday i think) has been really good.

as you all know i've missed Emily like crazy since she moved out but now she's back in Boro in her new house and its awesome. ^_^

well the question is what the hell have i been up to this week, well to be honest not much but i have had a VERY awesome night with my friends from Hartlepool.

so last night one of my oldest friends Shaun decided to throw a party, it was bloody awesome.

we had a load of drink with lots of games but all these games soon ended up with a massive game of spin the bottle sometime without the bottle even being used.

i had so much fun and although i know it could have been even better i still had a great time with my friends and emily.

i would put up the photos but i've lost my adapter and haven't got a clue where it is, but when and if i do find it then i will be uploading them to facebook and if i remember i will upload them here as well.

so like i said great time, nothin really else has happened........tomorro (Monday 28) freshers week starts and it is goin to rule, sadly i missed the low price week ticket so im going to have to pay £10 per event, but its really worth it for all the things that are happening.

i should have more to write about next week with freshers week and also nme starting University again the week after.

so until then i wish you all the best and i keep save and sound.

laterz

New Theme

2009-09-23T19:44:00.013+01:00

Hey my fellow followers, well as you can see this is a late post AGAIN (sorry) and also there is a new Theme for you guys to enjoy, i took the NotePad Chaos which i edited to fit my needs.

As this is my Diary Blog i wanted to make it look more like a Diary so please let me know what you think about it.

so anyway, i've been quite busy this week and last week, last week Emily was staying over as many of you know and she left on Sunday :'(, i find myself missing her o much since then but i know she moves back to Middlesbrough soon so as soon as she's settled in i'll be able to see her more.

last blog post you may remember me saying that there where things that bugged me that i didn't know if i could live with in the long run with Emily, well im still around 90% about it but to be honest it bugs me a little more then it maybe should but the problem is i have to strong manners to bring it up as to talk about it is bad mannered and i just can't bring myself to be bad mannered.

but i really dont know what to do so i'm just going to have to just see how things work out and see if the things that bug me go away.

i still love Emily no matter what, she is my angel and will always be my angel for as long as time lasts, and as when im with her time stands still so i can see time lasting forever.

so what else has happened, well as i said Emily moved out and my friend and new house mate Al moved in. He's such a laugh i can see this year being a great year, when he moved in he went and bought a bottle of alcohol (can't remember what it was) and we all had a drink to celebrate the new move in.

it was great when he was getting his stuff unpacked as he went to smell a pan (not sure why) and ended up hitting himself in the face with it.

The pan he is cleaning is the culprit ^_^, i really wish i had caught him at the time it happened, such a Kodak moment.

after he unpacked his new knife he decided to attack me with it, i ended up getting my nuts chopped off, im in so much pain right not but they are growing back nicely. ^_^

sound didn't work when i converted it.

so ye after all the hitting and cutting lol not much else went on that night apart from me crashing as i was sooooooooooooooooo tired.

so let me see if i can remember what else happened last week (sorry if im all over the place this week im finding it hard to remember my stuff) well me and Emily went to the Cinema to see District 9 and OMG it was awesome CG but the movie wasn't much to write home about, the plot was ok i guess but i just didn't leave the cinema with that jaw dropping feeling i love to have at the end of movies that give me the sense that i have see something i am going to remember for a long time. in all i would give the movie a 3 1/2 stars

if you do go and see it, REALLY listen to the main character Wikus Van De Merwe played by Sharlto Copley. his accent is so much more Geordie when he says Fuck or Fucking which he says a lot through out the film then the South African character he is meant to be playing which is odd as he is South African in real life.

just listen out for it and you will see what i mean.

so what else?????, well me and my friend James met up early on in the week to have a good old catch up over some food at the Southfield, it was really great to catch up and see what he had been up to, he is really having some problems with getting a job but i would hope that with the advice i gave him he will find it a lot easier to.

there was an awesome afters as well, i had Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie......

this.....

it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO yummy, sadly when me and emily went back on later that week there was no pie left and i had to have Chocolate Fudge Cake, not to say that it wasn't nice but i really was looking forward to having the pie.

i dont really have much else to talk about (well nothing i can remember) , oh here are some images from within the week......

well i got an idea to draw a smiley face on Emily's hand so she drew one on mine, then i thought i would make it into a nice cat face ^_^, it got a couple of giggles....i love emilys giggle, its soooooo cute.

also these are some cans of drink that i bought when i was in London a few months back for mine and emilys 2 year anniversity i dont think i posted the images up so i thought i would do it now.....its a great set of drinks to invigorate your pussy lol

anyway i really do think thats it for this week.......oh wait...me and emily also had a massive fight, a straw fight that is ^_^

it was so much fun.....we couldn't stop laughing out heads off and then we decided to use the straws as headsets and become security and then Britney Spears...before she went nuts. there is a video that we recorded but it to long to upload so i'll just show these stills from it.....

well that is REALLY it for this week as far as i can remember but if not i'll post what i forget next week.

hope you Enjoyed ! ! !

REALLY SORRY

2009-09-15T20:58:00.002+01:00

hey guys and gals im so sorry that this blog post is popping up 2 days late, emily has moved in with me and she's desracting me all the time so i end up not doing the stuff i had planned but i love her so she gets away with it.

i was going to do them last night but my sister started messing me on Facebook and i ended up talking to her and by the end of it was just do tired to write it out so its better late then never i guess and here it is ^_^.

by the way Amanda Palmer RULES, just started to listen to her and OMG her songs and music rules BIG TIME.

this is a great song.....

so i really recommend checking her out and you wont regret it.

anyway back to my life......well as i said emily has moved into my room for a couple weeks, we've had our up and downs over the week but everything is ok now....i'm still only maybe 90% sure that we would be able to live together in a long time thing but thats just due to little silly things which are a big thing to me i guess but they are little to everyone else i guess.

but anyway, we'll see how things go.

so as for the house, the guy came around to sort it out and get all the crap in the house fixed like door and mold and stuff so thats al done now so i have started getting my room just how i want it....there are a few things that still need doing but they will get sorted at some point before Al moves in as my gear is in storage in his room for now.

only really got another 2 boxes of crap to find homes for....i might have to through some of the junk i've collected over the last 2 year away as it just dont go anywhere but i'll try my best to get it somewhere.

to be honest except for unpacking and spending time with Emily and doing work there really isn't much that has happened since the last update even though this one is late.

we went to the southfield (local studenty bar) for some food the other day, as usual i got my smothered chicken (awwwwwwwwwwwww so hungry), and emily had bangers and mash then we went back again and thought lets mix it up a little so i get a massive Scream Burger (awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww really really hungry).

anyway im going to move on before i start hallucinating food singing and dancing.........arrrr there they are asking me to go to the lobby

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

but really i've not really been up to that much.....oh i have been a mister fix it for the last week ^_^, well to start my bed was falling apart so i thought hmmmmmmmm i'll fix it and omg it worked lol (first time for everything i know) then the letter box was broke so i fixed that then the vacuum was broke so i fixed that then the extraction fan was broke so i fixed that and then i painted my room which i know isn't fixing anything but i just wanted to mention it ^_^.

ok now i've had some food yey ^_^

yum yum yum

anyway its getting late now and i still have my animation blog to write out so i will talk to you all later ^_^

bye for now and keep well everyone.

New House

2009-09-07T11:24:00.002+01:00

Hey guys and girls sorry for the late post i was just so tired last night i couldn't think straight so i thought i would do it this morning instead ^_^.

so ye i've moved into my new house, still not settled in yet got a load left to unpack but its getting there i guess.

the thin is it would be all out the way if the builder would come around and sort out the mold in the corner of my room. yes i know that sounds gross having mold in my room but nobody had known it was there until i moved the wardrobe out from the wall to move my room around. but anyway that should be getting sorted soon so with a little luck i will be able to get my room 100% sorted as at the moment its around 65% done.

but ye its a awesome house, got a load of space (even though i need more for my crap but im sure i'll work something out. the only thing that bugs me about the house is the mold oh and i could really do with a better internet connection, i mean there are 2 of us living here at the moment and 2 more are to be moving in soon and the internet is already 0.7mb so we really need a better speed. i'll have to talk to the landlord about it when the other guys move in as we might have to put maybe £50 each in to get it up to the 20MB but i dont think thats to bad, even if we give him £10 over the installments of our loans thats fuck all.

1 thing we found out that we really do need is another freezer as the one we have just covers me and Jamie so if we could get another one that would be great but once again thats something to worry about when the other guys move in.

im really looking forward to everyone moving in as it means that all my mates have moved in and also it means that freshers week has started (almost) so i get a LOAD of free shit, the best shit in the world. why is it things are so much better when they re free, i mean really think about it, think of the last time you had something like a buy one get one free on a sandwich, now think didn't the free one taste so much nicer then the one that you paid for or think of something somebody bought you, the fact you didn't buy it makes it so much nicer. thats why i love Freshers weeks, that and the fact i get to see all my mates again even though this year all the guys i started Uni with have left Uni and are more living there lifes. i'll soon be there.

(i know im using . and , a shit load i dont know why so just take no notice.)

so what else have i been up to, well i've changed my idea for my FYP so im workin on new designs for the character but you can find out more about that at my animation blog but other then that i've just been missing emily as she's gone away with her family again for a week so although i've been able to get a lot more work done then when she's here as i just can't stop looking at her when she's here and i end up doing bugger all, im still missing her like crazy, i think she gets back today but im not sure, if she does then YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY i'l get to see her and we can go to the SouthField for some grub ^_^ 2 for £6 meal deal is never a bad thing :P

so thats about it really just sat now thinking of what to do my for animation but like i said i'll talk about that more in my animation blog so i'll talk to you all soon and with a little luck i wont be to tired next week to do it on Sunday.

laterz ! ! !

Week Of Work

2009-08-31T00:02:00.001+01:00

well i've been working all week as usual but for once im actually getting somewhere with it WooHoo ! ! !

but im not here to talk about work thats what my Animation Blog is for, so i'l talk about something else, well this week as you can guess i've not left the house (dont worry im getting fresh air from my windows) but that doesn't mean that i haven't seen anyone. my loving girlfriend has been popping up from time to time to keep me company and its stopped me from going insane so thank you Emily.

now this is how great she is, as i was feeling really down with my work she remebered on a questionare i answered on facebook that i hve never had flowers of anyone so she went and got me some of them home made roses that you see everywhere, they look like roses but they dont die as they are card and other things. but they are beautiful and i love them so thank you again lover.

sadly though i've not seen her as much as i would have liked to over the holidays and thats really not going to change, my work is always going to have to come first with the next year of uni and i know she understands that but its really not fair on her, sadly there is bugger all i can do about it other then work harder and if i do work any harder im going to crack up so i dont want tht to happen.

i dont know how oher people do it, have a like, a carear and a family or girlfriend i've thought about it a lot before, things got so bad that i wasn't seeing her at all and i was going to have to say that its just not fair and maybe we should take a year out so that i can get my work done and she can gets hers done but then things got better and i hope it doesn't come to that again.

i wish there was more to talk about but i've really got a blank mind here, as i said at the start i've been working on nothing but my animation work.

oh wait i've just rememebered (which is odd as i'm still doing it) i had to refresh my computer to factory setting yesterday as it wasn't doin anything right anymore and im still trying to re-install everything (sooooooooooo many programs) this is something that emily is doing as well as hers was bluescreening on a dayly basis so im hoping hers will run a lot smoother now its been refreshed.

anyway i think that it for this week sorry, i wish there was more but im a boring old fart and haven't done anything lately but i will get more up next week i hope.

anyway laterz guys and gals.

keep well

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My Minds A Blank!

2009-08-23T23:41:00.003+01:00

hey guys well as you can see from the title of my post this week is a bit of a blank to m, i only just realized it was Sunday hence the time of the post ^_^

you know the saying "time flies when your having fun" well either that saying is complete BS or rigging is so much run i didn't even realize it (literally, NOTHING).

anyway as this is my Diary Blog i better talk about things other then my work, well the other day me and emily had a lovely night in and watched iGor and ordered a Chinese Takeaway, its been such a long time since we did anything like that and it was just so nice to do again, before (like year-ish ago) we use to do it all the time and to be honest he more we did it the less special it was but since we hadn't done it in ages it was like a whole new spark or romance had been inserted into the relationship ^_^.

the on top of that, she was wearing this gawjus top that we picked out together, its a tight denim effect top, that with a pair of tight denim jeans just made me melt at the knee's. it been great seeing her getting new cloths recently that fit her instead of swallowing her whole, its not just cos there fitted and she soot it but its also that she has such a stunning figure that she hasn't been told she has enough in life and sometime i dont think she sees it. i've never gone out with someone so beautiful so thin and so loving and i just dont like seeing her hidden away behind big baggy cloths. but s i said she doesn't so that anymore and its just such a great feelin for me and i hope also for her.

but back to the night, so ye we snuggled up on the sofa and watched iGor and had some food and it was fantastic, UNTIL i started walking home (yes i walk, its a novel thing i know but you all should try it sometime ^_^) i got maybe 5 mins away from emilys and a Police Van pulled up beside me, now im just listening to my mp3 through my headphones minding my own business so im thinking maybe they are wanting to ask me if i've seen anyone suspicious or something but no they wanted to ask me questions (no idea why) bout who i was, where i was going, where i had been, who i had been with and also had the nerve to say that it was late to be walking home don't i think, now granted this was 2am when it happened but im a 21 year old man (hell i just said man, whats happening to me) i dont need anyone telling me its to late to be walking home. now if i was listening to music on loud speakers or shouting or coursing fuss in the streets then i would understand and they would have been well within there right to question me but i was just walking home and listening nothing else so where do they get off questioning me and to top it off every time i answered one of there questions they repeated exactly what i said in a sarcastic tone right back at me which really pissed me off.

you know when you know EXACTLY what to say AFTER the situation, well it was one of them ones. when they drove away i knew what i should have said to them but it was to late, i was going to sit in that exact space until they drove back (thinking they just go around the block) but i decided it best just to get home and rant about it on facebook anyway its in the past now but i thought i would do a blog post about it anyway.

as i said the weeks blank with all this work my days have merged into one, so i think im going to leave it here but now i've finished my rig (not the face yet) of my character i might be able to do more in the real work (the real world being anywhere outside of my room) so i might have more next week.

so i'll catch you all later and keep safe guys otherwise i have bugger all to read this thing ^_^

laterz x

New Week And A New Post

2009-08-17T21:33:00.002+01:00

Hey all i know its a late one this week (well one day late) but i've been really busy with............can you guess...............yep you got it, been busy with my rigging for my FYP next year.

it all honesty it getting there but it is starting to do my head in with this new setup for the arm but if you want to read more about all that then check out my Animation Blog.

Anyway on my 2nd life (the one that you are all in) i've not really been up to as my animation life has been taking over but what i have been up to is looking forward for emily coming back from here holiday with her rents, which she did do on Saturday ^_^.

so to celebrate her coming back from holiday we went to the Pics to see The Taking of Pelham 123 and i have to say it was an AWESOME Movie and an AWESOME night it was great to see her after such a long week of missing her. Since we missed the Carnival at the Headland with all my work and the fact we forgot about it i went and got her a little Nintendog Puppy Plushy that barked when you press it er which she loved so i was so happy. Next year though we are definitely going to the Carnival as i love going there with her and shooting the targets on the sideshows, i am a crack shot at it and think i've only ever missed once in the maybe 14 years of me going to the Carnival which isn't bad ^_^.

so ye she loved that and as she went way she got me a little something from her holiday, a little monkey teddy and a lovely keyring that has a little dude on it with me favorite colors Red and Black (yes i know blacks a shade not a color) now these keyrings come in pears ones a mainly Black with a little Red and ones a Red with a bit of Black, i got the mainly red with a little Black as it was my favorite ^_^ and emily got the other one, these follow the same principles of the broken heart keyrings and pedants where each person has one half and i love them. ^_^

but the best thing that she got me by far is a black and silver ring which i saw at a jewelers a while back and she got me it and.............I Love It I Love It I Love It I Love It I Love It I Love It I Love It I Love It I Love It I Love It I Love It, thank you lover.

so ye she came around tonight to give me them gifts as she was busy yesterday but it was WELL WORTH the wait ^_^

so ye thats been it really not much else has happened that i can think of.

Oh last thin i just found out after i wrote the last thing, my sister Fiona Webb has just found out that she passed the acceptance classes over the summer to get into Newcastle University so i would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to my wonderful sister, i knew you would do it after all you got the brains in this family ^_^ (i got the looks :P) but really well done i hope you enjoy all your time at University i know i loved my first year and im sure you will as well. (im saying this and she doesn't even know about my blog but oh well).

anyway that really is the end of that so i hope you enjoyed reading and i'll try and remember Sunday next time not Monday ^_^.

Laterz ! ! ! !

Another Week, Another Post

2009-08-10T00:40:00.004+01:00

Well Hello people, not much again this week sadly. my days and nights are all taken up by animation, modelling, rigging and so on.

this post is going to be a lot more of a photo post so i hope you all like photography.

so let start off with the photos i forgot to put up last week due to not having my DTL, so if you remember it was my sisters 18th Birthday last week and i took a lot of photos and here they are.

yes i know thats very pink but this is Fiona we're talking about and she is a "Princess" so everything must be pink ^_^ but really Happy Birthday again sis.

so what other photos do i have to show, well on Thursday it was my good friend Dan's 21st Birthday so here are some of the photos but the rest of them will be on my Facebook so if you want to see them check them out if you have me added.

it was a bloody AWESOME night out and i got to see a load of people that i haven't seen in years and i really do mean years ^_^ its jut really hard to keep in contact with EVERYONE i know.

ok this is the Knife & Folk Debate, basically which hand you hold a knife and which you hold the folk, it went on most of the night but it was still a fun convo ^_^

And these are just photos from through the night

Oh ye and it was raining most of the night and we all decided to stand outside and get wet as Shaun is showing here

well thats it for the photos sadly, back to the writing so what else have i been up to? do you want the short answer or the long answer? ok short answer it is then......i've been up to bugger all lol REALLY ! ! !

once again emily has gone away with her family (thankfully lol ^_^) so now i can get on with doing my rigging for next year at uni so its basically the same old story, i feel like getting up tomorro and doing something insane so that i can give you all something exciting to read about but in Hartlepool thats very unlikely to happen as there isn't anything exciting here, oh well things will pick up i hope within the next couple of weeks as i'll be getting ready to move into my new house for uni, speaking of the new house i went through tonight to move me boxes over from my friend Negars to the new house as she is going back to Iran within the next couple of days so i can't leave it there any longer. so thats all sorted now so no worry about that at all ^_^.

so ye thats it for this week, boring i know but i'll still write it so i dont stop all together.

anyway talk to you all again soon.

LATERZ ! !

Boring ! ! !

2009-08-03T01:02:00.002+01:00

hey all its going to be a REALLY short blog today, to be honest the only reason im doing it is to try and keep the update sunday idea going.

anyway, as you may or may not know emily has been away this weekend with her family, i was invited to go but had a lot of work to do and other stuff as well. so really with her being away not much has been happening (god that makes me sound like i can't do anything without her) so i've just been sat in the house doing my work like a good little boy.

some of the things that did happen this week (not really to do with me but still worth mentioning), it was my sister Fionas birthday this week, she's now at the age of 18 i can't believe it, it feels like it was only yesterday that i was sat telling her bedtime stories and making her laugh and going round to everyone on the street dragging them over and saying look at my sister as she lay in the pram, but ye 18 where has the time gone.

i did take some photos of the party but there all on my camera and i can't find the card adapter or the DTL so i will have to do this post without but i may upload later in the week as an update to this post instead of a new post so if your following by RSS it may not come up as i have updated so just check back if you want to see them.

my relatives from Leamington Spa came up to wish her a happy birthday, they are both going back home tomorrow so i dont know when we will see them again but it may be in a couple of weeks time, i just hope that im still in H'Pool to see them.

Leamington Spa
192 mi – about 3 hours 25 mins away from Hartlepool

other then that not much has happened during the week, oh i did go through to Boro to see one of m close mates from college and uni (james) we went for some food at te Southfield (and i didn't get ask for ID for once, im bloody 21 i shouldn't get ask ever) so that was nice to catch up with him and talk about what he's been up to since uni finished, turns out he's just been doing the usual the usual being Mini Meets every couple of months, entered a couple of competitions with his Mini and won 1 i think he said and been doing some graphic work for his mates so all in all its been good holiday for him.

so ye that was my week basically then on Saturday so yesterday Emily came back home and we went to see G-Force the new 3D movie by Disney and i must say it was an awesome movie the 3D has really come on a lot since the 1st 3D movie i saw (My Bloody Valentine) they are utilizing a lot of things they should have been using since day 1 but if i carry on talking like this its going to turn into an animation blog so i'll stop now but one thing i would say is go see it, you'll not regret it (for the 3D the story is a little slow).

so ye i got to see emily and i was REALLY happy, then sad thing was that she didn't seem to happy to see me which in turn put me in a downer so my smile didn't last long, i know she was happy to see me and it was just other things but if i had been away for a week no matter what happened between saying lets go to the pic and us meeting up at the pic would stop me from smiling as all i would care about is seeing her again after such a long time, but anyway that was yesterday and in the past i just hope it doesn't happen again as she's going away again this Friday i think so i'm going to miss her like crazy again and if she comes back and doesn't have a smile when i see her cos she's missed me and as as happy to see me as i am to see her (no matter what) i just feel like im going to turn around and walk home cos yesterday i really was so close to doing it. but as i said thats in the past now so theres no need in dwelling on it. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY ^_^

so ye she came up today with Fionas birthday present and a couple of gifts for the family like a selection box of tea and shortbread for my mam and dad and an awesome fridge magnet that says "ewe not fat, ewe fluffy" with a picture or a pink ewe on the front which ruled and a marble block and white checked candle which i loved as i just love fire and candles are a very good source for fire so YEEEEEEEY (emily i wont burn the house down........................yet)

so ye that been it really, like i said not much although its not really a short blog is it looking back at what i've wrote here but i guess i had more to say then i originally thought, just hope i have this much to write out in my Animation blog as thats the next one to do so i'll talk to you all laterz and have a good week.

^_^

Long Week

2009-07-26T20:46:00.007+01:00

wow this has been a long week, i can't believe that it was only Monday that i went down to the new house with Emily to check it out.

anyway as promised i have taken the photos of the house to show you guys, i will be posting more when i move in but for now this is all i have.

well this is my room

these are some of the other parts of the house....

so ye what do you think? its really really really big so im very happy.

so ye that my new house.....

so what else has been happening, well me and emily went to Seaton for a nice bag of chips and a good old free running session, she did quite well for a noob ^_^

other then that it was a quite week until Saturday when me and Emily went to Newcastle for the day.....we had a great time. we went to YoSushi as soon as we got there though as we where both completely hungry but once that was out the way it just turned into a complete clothes shopping day but a really fun one.

emily got some new clothes and i got a nice new belt (im broke at the moment)

so ye thats been my week really other then working on my animation but read more about that at my other blog.

bye for now

New week and new work

2009-07-19T20:37:00.003+01:00

well hey guys, its only been 4 days since my last post i know but im trying to get back into the swing of posting on Sundays.

so ye, i've been really busy with animation this week not really managed to get out the house sadly but i have manged to find more people for my accommodation next year next year, we have a good friend of mine Almantas Šukelis from Lithuania and a new friend of my girlfriend and mine Lauren Stroud. im really looking forward to next year now as i have a fresh start (almost) with making friends, im living with people that i know and they all play guitar to a certain extent so we can have jamming sessions which will be fucking AWESOMENESS wrapped in a big ball of AWESOMENESS with AWESOME face stickers all over it ^_^ lol

but really its goin to be amazing if all things go to plan and all the guys mentioned do move in.

if at all your interested in knowing where abouts i will be living here is a google map image of the area and the (a) is where i am

another great thing about the house mates is that i know them all so i know that they ain't goin to be steeling or breaking or destroying my things and i know at least 2 of them clean up after themselves so things will be clean for once in a student house as far as i can see which will be a first in comparison to my houses last year and the year before.

tomorrow i will be going to the house to make a list of anything that is broken or ripped or scratched so that i can say at the end of the contract that it was there at the start and non of my bond will be taking off me. as well as a list i will be taking photos of the house so if you want i'll post them up on here so that you can see what it looks like and when i move in more will be on there way as i will have all my gear in there and i wont be able to wait to show it off i guess.

em...........what else have i done................well like i said i've been working on my animations and doing DJ Nickes' animation course as i've dropped a little bit behind on them and i should be starting my 3rd week by now not my 1st but im getting there. ^_^

also i've been working on updating the look of my animation blog, it was just getting really old looking and i was growing tired of it so i decided to have a change and i must say i do like it but i will be working on a new header image for it as i just really rushed that one and know i could do better.

thats all really, as i said it's only been 4 days since my last post so not much can really happen in 4 days.

just to finish off i'll be updating all my other blogs so if you are interested check them out.

anyway bye for now guys and speak to you soon.

house's so many bloody house's

2009-07-15T21:14:00.002+01:00

well if i see another house i am going to go crazy, i really mean it.

so far today i have looked around 6 houses and over 30 online and i just want to move into one now rather then looking at them.

the upside is i have 2 people to move into a house on Ayresome Park Road and they are both really great guys, one of he best things about the house is that the rooms are massive and one of them is going to become.......wait for it....... our GUITAR ROOM!!!(with projector hell ya)

when i move in i will be taking a shit load of pics and i will put some of them on here but all of them will be going on Facebook so keep a eye out if you have me on there.

the house on Ayresome Park is a beautiful house though and i would love to move in tomorrow but the landlord has renovations to do to it so i have to wait about a week or two but as soon as thats sorted i can move in.

also im not to far away from Uni, Emily or Gibbo so its going to be really easy to keep up with people and see my friends without being to late for uni.

and and and and and the park isn't to far away either so i can go for bike rides and skating about the park with emily, all i need to do now is find my bloody skateboard as it went missing in the old house and it pissed me off so much as it meant a load to be, when i got it i remember going straight to my gran and grandees and showing them it, i was so excited that i had my first skateboard now they are no longer with us i can't do that anymore, granted it was just skateboard and memories are in your head but for me i need something to trigger memories otherwise i easily forget things.

it was on its way out and i was going to be buying a new board anyway but i still wanted to keep that one so still had that trigger and the fact it was my first one, all i can say is whoever nicked it is a fucking bastard and i would love to get hold of them and kick the shot out of them for doing it and then do it all again so they wouldn't do it again.

anyway im going to get upset and annoyed if i keep going on so i'm going to end it here so i keep you updated next weekend but for now.

Ciao!

WOOOOO

2009-07-05T00:34:00.002+01:00

well its been ages since i last posted on this blog, i've just been majorly busy with university but now its the summer holidays and i can finally keep up with things.

so whats been happening, well me and emily have been together now for 2 years and to celebrate this we went to London for the day and OMG it was AMAZING, we went to see Big Ben, London Bridge, Tower of London, London Eye, Dali Museum (which ruled) and we went to a MASSIVE collection of movie memorabilia that was on display in another museum one of the coolest things what that we got to meet an animator for the simpsons amongst other things called Huw J and he was awesome, he said that if i contact him he will be able to help me with my Rigging for my character.

we also went to Yo Sushi which rocked, we love Sushi and just cant get enough of it, but then again it does taste bloody amazing ^_^

so what else, em........ i've finished univeristy now for the summer then im back to the grind stone to animate animate animate, only got 1 more year left then im hopefully in the industry (fingers crossed)

cant really think of anything else, oh me and emily have joined the GYM and im doing really well at it i've lost so much but due to my hay fever i aint been in a while and started putting it back on but i will be going back now that i have my tablets.

as well as the GYM we've been going on long walks through the countryside which was great cos it was so beautiful and walking with beauty in beauty is just so well beautiful :)

so i think thats all my news really i have some photos but i can't uploaded them now as i have to much to do but i will upload them to my facebook if you have me check them out if not sorry.

Whitby Goth Weekend 2009

2009-05-04T00:38:00.002+01:00

well last weekend me and emily went to WGW and OMG its was FANTASTIC, we had a great time walking around whitby all dressed up :)

i loved spending the time with emily and when she's all dressed up in her gear its a bonus, i just wish that she would do it more often as i think she looks so beautiful and when she's wearing baggy jeans and baggy tops you dont get to see that beauty which really upsets me.

but anyway here are some of the photos from the weekend and i hope you like them.

well thats all for now as im rendering and need to save my computing power as much as i can.

talk to you all soon.

My Birthday

2009-02-02T04:01:00.003Z

Last week was my Birthday and i must say although i didn't get to go out due to all the work i had to do i still had a fantastic day.

As the only day i can remember is the 26th (my birthday) everything else that i mention either happened before or after then, just not sure when.

anyway for my birthday as i said i had a lot of work to do but i still had a great time, on monday at something like 1:30 in the morning me and Emily made some awesome Sushi, we have made it before but this is the first time we made proper Sushi that you would pay top dollar for, also this is th first time i have remembered to take photos while we've made it.

it was so much fun making the Sushi and then putting so much wasabi on it, i love the stuff but emily can't stand it (more for me - YEEEEEYYYY)

After we had finished eating i headed home to get on with my work (fun fun fun), i spent all night doing work (yes didn't sleep again) then in the morning i went to uni.

After Uni i went home and my mam and dad had come over from Hartlepool to see me, when i answered the door they where stood there with birthday cake with candles and started signing Happy Birthday. this was great and so sweet of them, they gave me a load of cards from my family and a band new acoustic guitar which is am amazing and sounds so much better.

the other day my lovely girlfriend surprised me with a cheese cake and candles with a 21 badge. this was so sweet of her to do, love you emily.

for my birthday emily got me 2 books, these where Final Fantasy book.

the one on the left i have been after for so long, i was going to get it before from someone but they never gave me it but my angel gave me it and that was awesome of her.

due to all the work i haven't had a chance to look through them yet but i will when i have time.

like i said im not sure about time and dates due to working all the time so im not really sure what else has happened.

anyway hope you enjoyed this post there will be another one soon so stay tuned.

bye for now

Been AGES ! ! ! !

2009-01-20T05:54:00.005Z

Hey well its been ages since i posted anything in here, i do try but work is just getting to much at times, but i know even though work is getting to me i have Emily here to make sure i dont completely lose my head over work. ^_^

so whats been happening?

well im not 100% sure to be honest, it been that long since i posted anything i've lost what i've been up to in my head to make room for animation, hell im surprised i can still remember my name lol

but what i can remember is today, today was fantastic, my lovely girlfriend took me to Newcastle to a Sushi Restaurant called Yo Sushi for my Birthday as i dont know what will be happening on my real birthday (26th Jan >_<), O to the M to the G (OMG ! ! !) it was amazing, i had such a fantastic time there, there was so much food to choose from and it all went around on a conveyor belt in front of you so you just pick off the belt what you want and then pay for the color coded plates at the end.

the plates where color coded as they different colors have different prices and there was a silver one that was the most exspensice one there at £5 and because emily loves me and it was for my birthday she said it was ok for m to have one, how nice is that.

Eel Sushi - SOOOOOOOOO nice

All together we got 10 plates each cos the voucher that was on the net was something like only up to 10 plates we just went for it.

but since emily couldn't manage 10 (we didn't have to have 10 it was just cos we could ^_^) she gave me her last one cos the thing i finished on wasn't as nice as i thought it looked but when you finish on Sushi rather then a cheese cake its much better (thanks again love)

I really wish i could remember other things that i've been up to but sadly im drawing a blank when i try and remember. its either because i have a rubbish memory or its because its 6:30am and i ain't slept yet but im going to be heading to sleep soon hopefully, just have to remember to get up to go see my partner for my uni assignment.

anyway i'll talk to you all soon, oh and before i go i have yet another blog at The Button go check it out more information about it is on the blog now so go check it out and leave any comments that you want.

till next time byezy bye ^_^

Im back

2008-12-24T01:30:00.001Z

Last week is kind of a blank at the moment just cos so much has happened, i was going to write about the Wokstop issue but i see that i have already talked about that in my Animation Blog (don't quite know why as that is ment to be just for animation and little bits about life hmmmmmmmmmmmmm) so i will talk about what i can remember.

well last week my girlfriend Emily came over and since she didn't get a cake for her Birthday :-( i sent her home to do some odd jobs that i knew she had been meaning to get onto so i could surprise her.

so once she had gone i went over to Sainsbury's and bought the only thing i could afford (which believe me, right now isn't a lot) a Vanilla Cheesecake (there really nice) then came back and put a LOAD of tea candles around the room (really hard to light all them without burning yourself, i did it so many times). along with the cake and candles i put some music on standby and waited at the door for her to come over, then when she knocked on the door i ran upstairs and turned the music on and then ran back down to let her in. She was so happy to see all that i had done for her and gave me a MASSIVE hug that made me so happy.

Then on Friday i went down to see one of my best friends, Ellie who lives in the Wirral (down south from me, just outside Liverpool), it was great to see her again, i had been down a month or so before for her birthday but i said that i would be coming back to see her for xmas. Even though i told her not to get me anything she had to go and get me something so she got me a wooden bracelet (which i love cos i love bracelets, tend to never take them off) and a Nightmare Before Christmas 2009 3D calender which looks awesome.
Due to my phone memory being full i didn't many photos this time but i did use her camera to take a load, sadly i left that at her brothers and didn't have time to go get it so these are the ones i could take and some from last time.

We went all over the place over the weekend, on friday night we went to the pub for a meal with her friend Jenna (the 2nd lass in the photo up top), she's awesome lass, the last time i went down she was kind enough to pay for all the food and drink which i was amazed by cos you down get that type of kindness up her (well you do from some people but not everyone). After the food we went back to hers and watched a couple of movies. On Saturday we woke up refreshed and ready for the day and went to Liverpool to go to the art gallery and museum, they where AMAZING so many beautiful things to see, i loved the mummy exhibition and Greek sculptures they looked so beautiful. I took a load of photos of these beautiful things but once again i left it down her brothers, hopefully she'll be able to send them up so i have them. When we came back from Liverpool we went to the chinese takeaway for some food then went back to hers to watch Dad's Army and some other movies.

On Sunday we went to the Lady Lever Art Gallery which is a absolutely amazing village with a beautiful art gallery which Ellie, her mam, her mams boyfriend and his daughter. They had the nipolion room which had his bed (soooooo small we couldn't help but giggle). I could go on and on about the gallery as it was FULL of good stuff , including a very chatty security guard ^_^. If you want to know more about the gallery click here.

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About the Village (taken from the site, here)

PORT SUNLIGHT VILLAGE

In 1887 William Hesketh Lever, a successful soap manufacturer, began looking for a new site for his factory as his business had outgrown its original premises on the banks of the River Mersey in Warrington. He needed land on which to build his new works and have space for future expansion. The site also needed to be near to a river for importing raw materials, and a railway line for transporting the finished products. The marshy, uninspiring ground that he discovered was eventually to be transformed into the village of Port Sunlight, which was named after his famous soap.

Port Sunlight is a garden village which was founded in 1888 by Lever to house his soap factory workers. In line with his ideas on prosperity-sharing, the building maintenance and upkeep of the village was subsidised with a portion of the profits from Lever Brothers Limited. With his own money, Lever financed the church, technical institute and the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Lever took great pleasure in helping to plan this picturesque garden village and he employed nearly thirty different architects to create its unique style.

The well-being of the Port Sunlight community was very important to Lever. He introduced many schemes for welfare, education and the entertainment of his workers. A cottage hospital was built in 1907 which continued until the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948. Lever also encouraged games, recreations and any organisations which promoted art, literature, science or music. Many clubs and societies flourished in the village, such as The Boys' Brigade, Port Sunlight Players (the amateur dramatics group) and many sports clubs.

Port Sunlight is now a designated Conservation Area, still within its original boundaries. Today the village and Sunlight Vision museum are now managed by The Port Sunlight Village Trust and although houses can be bought on the open market, the Trust remains responsible for the environment and landscape in Port Sunlight.

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After the museum we went to her dads to see her dad and brother, me and her brother get on so well, Ellie said that it looked like we had been separated at birth lol, but it really was scary how well we got on. so ye after playing with him samurai sword and his guitars and also watching some comedy on youtube, we all went back to Ellie's to order some pizza and watch more movies :-) then i was so tired i crashed on the sofa while they where on.

then monday i came home and met my loving girlfriend at the train station and she was wearing such sexy cloths i really wish she would wear her goth stuff all the time or stuff like that at least, but when the money comes through in January we're going cloths shopping so might get some new stuff together then. then we went back to mine and watched some tv and spent some time together before i went to sleep and she went home.

Hopefully Ellie will be coming up soon as i have been down there twice now, she'll be able to see all the "wonderful" things Middlesbrough has to offer (which isn't much really).

anyway im going to go now as i need to get back to Hartlepool to see my family for xmas and im so hungry as well, talk to you all soon.

Happy Holidays

Sushi

2008-12-15T23:11:00.004Z

hey well my main blog has been updated so im now updating this one, (its still really hard to keep 2 blogs so i hope you are reading this emily as im only doing this for you as i love you) so as you can see from the post name this is to do with Sushi.

Today i went over to Emilys for dinner and we thought that it would be a great idea to make some SUSHI ! ! ! and watch nightmare before christmas. i love sushi so much i could eat it all day, i could also watch nightmare before christmas all day as well now i think about it ^_^.

anyway ye we made some salmon & avocado sushi and some crab stick & avocado sushi as well as some chicken stock noodles (they where so nice but the texturing of them was very strange). I have never made sushi before but it was so easy to do and i really enjoyed it, i hope that we make some again soon as it would be so cool to have a full cooking session with Emily (now i have a idea of how to do it).

when we started eating the sushi i said (just thinking out loud) this would be so nice with a little wasabi so emily surprised me went to the shops and bought me some, i was so taken back it was so kind and thoughtful of her to do that.

i really wish i had taken some photos now of all the work we put into it but sadly i forgot so next time i will and i'll upload them here.

some photos i did take though where from the lovely christmas dinner my house mate Dave made for me, Emily, Daves girlfriend and 2 of the guys he lived with in 1st year at University.

the meal was so nice, chicken, sprouts, carrots, roasted potatoes, basic lots of vegetables (love my vegetables), pigs in blankets, mini toad in the holes and hot onion gravy.

Late post but a nice one :)

2008-12-03T09:34:00.005Z

so ye im finding it hard to keep these two blogs going but im going to stick with it never the less.

so ye whats been happening well last Monday (Monday the 24th) it was my loving girlfriends 24th Birthday and i went down her house at 12am so i could be the first to wish her a happy birthday so on the way down i took a photo of a flower and picked that flower.

Then when i got there i sent a text saying "knock knock theres someone at the door", when she came to the door she was so happy to see me and i gave her the flower, it was so nice to see her smile like that, i love making her smile i wish i could do it all the time.

So on the night we went to the Etsukos (a Japanese noodle bar) where we had some lovely Sushi and Eel and other fantastic tasting foods, which she seemed to enjoy a lot, after that we went to the Cinema to see Saw V which was amazing and i would suggest it to everyone. i hope that i gave her a fantastic birthday as she means so much to me and i would do anything for her.

So what else well we've had some really bad weather around here lately we've had snow, Ice and the other day there was really bad fog, in fact it was so bad that when i took a photo with my flash on (due to it being dark out) all i got was a speckled photo where the flash had hit off the fog and bounced back (yes it was that bad) so after the failed flash ones i did my best to take some without the flash but keeping it bright.

So ye that what Middlesbrough has been looking like lately, not to pretty i know but im hoping that it clears up soon and we have some nice weather soon.

So whats else has been going well nothing much else really University work is destroying my social life but it needs to be done and there not long before it will be over so im ok for a bit longer i guess, but to make me all happy yesterday my lovely Emily came around mine to give me a advent calender because im not at home and im missing mine that i get every year off my parents so it was dead kind of her to do that for me, its thing like that although its small its so kind and i love it when she does things like that.

love you my Emily, with all my heart. <3

Well Hello

2008-11-28T02:24:00.000Z

this is my first post of my new blog, im going to try my best to keep this up to date but i already have another one and i find it hard enough to do more then one thing in life never mind virtually.

anyway rather then talking about my work and uploading my animations and drawing etc im using this one as a personal blog for what i've been up to like, going down the shops with my girlfriend, photos of my days out and other things of that nature so ye.

i have nothing for now with me having to work my ass off but when it calms down i'll try my best to keep this one up to date.

anyway talk to you all soon and remember to check out my other blog at monkey-boy-animations.blogspot.com

byez for now.