It's very odd, for someone like myself, who has gotten used to having his girlfriend being around every weekend, not to have her around.

Why you ask? Well, Sarah and I only really get to spend the weekend together due to the distance we live away from each other and our working life. Sure, it's only about a 45 min drive, but it takes it's toll. Still, we have our own things going on etc, so the weekends our usually ours to spend together.

Not this weekend. Oh no.

This weekend, she has been stolen! This weekend she is going down south with my mother for her hen weekend. (My mothers hen weekend before any conclusions are made )
From what I've heard, they are having a blast. They have been out today, visiting the main location for the Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft of Harry Potter fame.

LUCKY BASTARDS!

So here I sit. All alone, twiddling my thumbs, pottering about. I have loads of stuff which I can do, and which I have done, but I just want her here. Blah!

Anyway, the one thing I did have planned was this.

That's all I really had planned.
The rest of the weekend, I'll be pottering about as mentioned, doing some reading, ironing. Exciting stuff.

Anyway, hope everyone is well. I'm off to cook a pizza, then procede to do nothing but chill

Love you bitches.

Happiness is:

Makes me sound like a right materialistic git in some places, but the stories, the feelings etc...good times.

So yeah, back from the family do with Sarah a few weeks ago. All went really well. Enjoyed myself, the room was gorgeous and Sarah and I did another castle...
It was lovely. I'd love to go back.

So I start my new job in October. The 13th to be exact. No more call centres or insurance. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm starting to get really pissed off at the fact I still have over a week left.

Anyway, I digress. Another pointless blog, but it's just a wee update.

Meh

Your looking at a new Debt Collecting Agent for Shell, the 2nd biggest company in the world.
That's right. I got a new job.

No more call centres. No more Cross/Up selling. No more constant phone calls.

Better Pay.
Better hours.
Yearly bonus.
Good holidays.
Pension.
Health Care.

Fuck yeah. I'm so fucking happy.

To make things even better, my girlfriend went and treated me (or rather shut me up) by buying me the little MP3 player I wanted to widdle my time away on the bus to and from work.

She's amazing.

Good.

Fucking.

Times...

On yourself big D. Dump the hag.

Sarah and I will be going up to Huntly this weekend for my Grandparents (fathers side) 50th wedding anniversary and also the first Stables (my surname) family reunion.

This will be the first time in my near 23 year life that I will see all my family in the one place, due to the fact they live all over the world inc. Scotland, England and Canada.

We will be staying in the Huntly Castle Hotel which is situated on a Clan Gordon estate. Clan Gordon happens to be my Clan, so I am very much looking forward to seeing the house and it's grounds. It feels almost as if I'm going home.

There will be quite a grand dinner on the Saturday night, followed by numerous drinks (FREE BAR!! WOO!!), and no doubt many stories throughout the family.

There will be pictures.

Have a good weekend guys!

I love my mother, I really do, but sometimes, offft, for fuck sake I want to tell her to shut up and get on with it. She's going through some shit at work, not knowing if she's staying or going as her company is being bought over, I can understand why you would want to vent for that reason, but for a while now our cats have been bothering her.
Technically she is allergic to the bloody things, which to me is as good enough a reason as any, but since we've moved to the house in Erskine back in 2006, we've found the cats to be going to the toilet (both 1&2s) around the house. We thought it was them adjusting, which was fine, but it's been two years now. For a good year now I've put up with the same complaints and moans about her having to clean it up, getting to her whits end, how she cleans it up to prevent her partner from finding out and starting arguments about it. Seriously, just get rid of the cats. I love them dearly, and I would miss them for sure, but man, just get rid of them if they can't adjust. It would be better for the cat and the house.
Well apparently she contacted the local Cat Protection league who deals with re-homing and there is a list of 156 cats waiting to be taken, so they can't take on any more.
It has now got to the stage where mum is thinking about putting the offending cat down and keeping the one that goes outside for her business. I think that's bang out of order myself, but what can I do. it just pisses me off. I just wish she would make a bloody decision. I really can't wait to move out so I don't need to deal with her shite anymore. (excuse the pun)

Anyway, I'm home ranting after my 2nd day back at work and it sucks. Same old shite. I need to move on, but can I be bothered looking? Can I afford to look? Not really. I need to get my finances sorted, I need to find a new flat, I need to do this, I need to pay for that. It never bloody ends. I hate the moods I get in now a days, for no fucking reason what so ever.

So, on to something a little more cheery. I had a good couple of weeks off. As I mentioned, Sarah was off also, which was great. We got to spend some proper time together. We didn't really get up to a huge amount, which she mentioned a couple of times she felt she was wasting her holiday, but I hope she enjoyed it all the same. I just enjoyed chilling out, watching movies etc. I feel refreshed in a sense. I guess haha!

Bloodstock was amazing though! Man, I met so many cool people this year, the weather held out (except for the nights, when it lashed down) and the bands I wanted to see were great. I missed Soulfly, which I'm not really bothered about, but I heard they were amazing, so I was a bit gutted. Alestorm were a big disappointment though. Really didn't hold there own in my opinion. Opeth, Destruction, Kataklysm, Eluveitie, Akercocke, Iced Earth, Napalm Death and The Berzerker were all awesome, however, the big shocker for me was At the Gates. Now I had never heard an At the Gates track in my life, but I was aware it was there only and last UK date for the reunion, so I checked them out. FUCKING HELL, THEY ARE AMAZING! One of the best live bands I have ever seen. I have since D/L all there stuff and I fucking love it. LOVE EET!
The festival itself was much bigger this year. They sorted out the toilet fiasco from last year which was great, they even had showers, not that I used them, but it was good to know. However, they had a couple of bullshit rules. We were only allowed the equivelent of 1 crate of beer in with us. Now in the UK, the biggest crate you can ge tis 24 cans, which was fine, so I smuggled one crate of 12 in my bag and another crate of 12 with a bottle of jack and coke I carried in. So, although the rule was stupid, it was easy to bend seeing they didn't check bags. However, one of my friends tried to get through with two crates of 12 (equaling 24) only to be told he would need to empty one crate into a plastic bag, but he was allowed to take the 24 cans, just not in TWO crates, due to the ONE crate rule. Madness.
Which moves me on to my next niggle. The BBQ/Stove rule. On the tickets there was a rule stating that BBQs were to be used in the designated BBQ area. Bullshit, i know, but I had a gas stove, so I thought could that anywhere, but no, that counted as a BBQ (for some stupid reason). Fine we thought, stupid rule, but fine. However, again, we got to the gate and they weren't allowing gas what so ever. Fuck. That's me buggered for the weekend then. But no, as they weren't checking bags, so my mate smuggled the stove in and I smuggled the gas, and we cooked in secret near our tents. Bastards.
What gets me the most is that these rules were not explaing properly, so unlike myself who checked the forum, there were thousands of people who got stuck as they only went by a few rules on the back of the ticket. I hope they ditch these rules next year, they are really un-needed, and took a bit of the atmosphere away, which was a shame really. But still, all in all, I had a fucking great weekend.

Here are some pics. (The pick of the bunch)

I only have one major "festival" planned for later this year, and it's a one day affair down in Leeds. I happen to know the chap that puts it on, and he really has out done himself. Just take a look.

So apart from that, I have some family coming over from Canada tomorrow, so that will be good to see them. I remember writing a blog on Myspace saying those that are coming over are my favourite aunt and uncle. Well, needless to say, my other uncle saw this and decided to comment about it (first contact in years by the way), which I promptly told him to fuck off about it, so the family reunion that Sarah and I are attending up north, which coincides with my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary, will be interesting. I'm looking forward to it though. There are a lot of people I haven't seen in years who are going, so it'll be cool to see the reaction when they see a hairy, tattooed 22 year old walk through the door. Good times. Means Sarah and I get to abuse the free bar and have a cheeky night in a swanky hotel. It really looks gorgeous. It happens to be a Clan Gordon family estate, so it's almost like going "home" for me haha!
I'll be sure to take some pics.

That's really about it to be honest. All the other stuff is rubbish. I never did get why I thought what I want to buy is interesting to others, but never mind.

Laters people.



P.S. I forgot to mention I'm on a Julia Stiles binge...

I'm in love with a band call At The Gates.

I'd never seen nor heard them before this weekend...just one of those bands that escaped me as they tend to do.

My god...

I'm off to Bloodstock Open Air, bitches. Don't miss me. I'll bring back pics.

First off, it's been a while. How are we all doin'? Alright, good times, good times...

So I saw Hellboy 2 last night. Sorry Batman fans, it's shits all over Batmans latest effort. Seriously, without the late Heath Ledger (RIP) playing the Joker, I would have prob fallen asleep. I really can't sum up how amazing I found Ledger as the Joker though. I've never been a huge Batman fan to be fair, so I'm pretty biased I suppose, seeing I'm a huge, HUGE Hellboy fan.

Anyway, Hellboy 2. I really fucking enjoyed it, massive improvement on the first one (not that it was bad), particularly the script and humour. Ron has really settled into the role and it's great to watch him play Big Red. Doug Jones is much better suited to Abe than David Hyde-Pearce, because Abe is never portrayed as being overly camp in the comics. Was disappointed by Johann slightly as he was so overblown, and comically Churmann, really just Seth McFarlane's Klaus character from American Dad redux. Looked amazing though. The whole film did.

I'd also say it was a further step away from the comics, and for the better - it feels like Guillermo del Toro has established his own universe, his own Hellboy, and I felt like it was easier to accept the differences between the two mediums.

Oh, I have another new T-shirt.





I was at a wedding with Sarah last weekend. It was nice to get all dressed up, but I can't help feeling that it was a bit of an odd wedding. But still , good time, decent food and the weather held out. Only thing that was annoying was that it was on a Sunday. A SUNDAY. So I and numerous others had to work the next day...weird thinking there.

Anyway, here's a pic of me and Sarah.



Isn't she gorgeous...

But yeah, I've been annoying her with the whole Penn Gillette thing. He's fast become one of my heroes. Bloody funny git that he is, plus I reckon he's my long lost secret dad or something



You must agree we look similar (and for some bizarre reason, it bothers me not a bit )

So I finish work on Friday for a couple of weeks off. I can't wait to be honest. I've been feeling bogged down as of late, so it will let me get some stuff done. Sarah is off too, so it will be nice to have more than a couple of days with each other for once. But, the best thing about it is that I'm off to Bloodstock Open Air Festival on the 14th. I really cannot wait for this. Can't wait to have a few beers, enjoy the music and chill out with some folk I haven't seen in a long, long time. I'll be sure to take some pics.



Anyway, I'll finish off now. Good little update for all you blog whores out there...we all love it really

What to end with...

Ah!

I have a new shirt...