Moved... Yeah I'm here... http://www.platform27.co.uk/UDMJA now. So if you want to come read more semi-interesting rants about my life just pop on over   All are welcome too if you want to stay... (unless you're a spammer then you'll feel the admins boot where the sun, it dont shine :P )

26.2.06 20:45 Permalink / comment

The day of reckoning... So yesterday, interesting day.    I stayed up all night (my first mistake) to finish off my kitchen picture, then went to hand in my Drawing and Composition ICA (i.e. the pictures), I wasnt totally happy with it but I never am with my work (well all but a few pictures). Anyway I set off, and I'm on the bus and realise I forgot my railcard, so I totally had to pay full fare then I was really early for the train so I was stuck in the cold station for a while. But got to Uni and handed them in, I had a photocopy taken so I could share them and in case they lose them or I dont get them back next year (because art is so subjective it takes all year to mark them) I'll have a record of the pictures. Then lets see, I went to the History of Games lecture, and we all laughed hystirically to 'Thumb Candy' a documentry on computer game history which was about 6 years old? not exactly upto date. There was one guy he looked like a Zombie from shaun of the dead, no joking it was "ok dont look, laughing so hard, cant, breath" moments, and then the eccentric British invertor... OMG! , he's a prime example for why a programmers need to get out more.... weird!  After that hilarity I came home, cold, hair all a mess, tired because I still hadn't had slept... and I fall into bed, getting 30 minutes sleep is all I wanted, I reduced it to 10 but all I got was 3, 3 minutes with my eyes closed getting SET hugs. *sigh* Then I was dragged out to the party, hair still a mess, no scarf or jacket like I wanted *sigh* Now the party, well as I understood it the 'bad elements' would be there, fights and bickering would continue along with ill feeling. That day I just couldnt take the drama so like I'm with the girls doing the last minute shopping thing and I just feel the weight of the world on me, I'm frantically texting Special K, telling her that "I'm in hell" but it hadn't even started at that point. Then I get dramatic... We're making our way to the restaurant and I turn to the girls, calmly saying, "I'm tired, I've not had much sleep, I'm cold and I'm just going to be annoying all evening so I should go home". OMG! the look of horror on there faces, I feel so bad about it, I really thought I was being such a pill they'd welcome my volunteering to go away. Obviously not, and Karen said harsh words in the moment.... I went off, they did too, I phoned my rock, I needed to hear her voice, I needed to bitch, I needed to rant, I needed to scream, I needed to cry. Then I heard her voice, her concern, she reminded me I had to go but without saying it, I had to find my girls. I couldnt let them go away angry or be alone. I found them, they weren't so mad, I think they got that I was upset and just had to get away from them for a few minutes. We enter, the bad elements are not there, I'm so relieved, and think, "well maybe I can survive the evening", and you know, some parts I dare say I enjoyed. Perhaps the lesson I should learn is that "family, is very important". The 'bad elements' should not be allowed to come between me and the people I like, and more importantly, my girls, they're so much more important than the feud and fighting.   So the plan is to try and be more social, Sunday I'm going over to the pub with them, then Sunday lunch at my Aunts with the girls. Hope it goes well and the 'bad elements' are not there. As for today, since my Sunday is full of doing things I'll be doing my Sunday 'lay around in bed' thing today :D should be fun hehe.   Can I have some hugs please? even though I've been an ass? xx

14.1.06 09:32 Permalink / 6 Comments / comment

Dual Core Blogging So this'll be the first (and maybe one of the few) double blogs on 20six and on platform27 depending on where you're reading this. I've still not decided which to go with, but if the community is heading to 27 then 20six is alot less appealing.   OK now on with the daily ramble....   So after sleeping in yesterday till 5pm, only going swimming and for a bath I decided it would be a good idea to stay up since I had an early start. This worked out it seams because I'm still awake and I stayed awake during the Drawing and Comp. lecture (we'll just forget about the studio tools on :P ) and learned stuff too! Then after that we (moe and I) head over to the dorms to chill before I catch my train and he goes for all y ou can eat pizza hut! , he was kind enough to show his pictures, the street still had perspective problems but was good and then his kitchen, I just wanted to cry the shading was so good. I'm like "MOE, shut up!, its good!" So we go to check out what David is upto, and how his is going... yeah, he's not a 'drawer' and I just wanted to tell him to start again and get the perspective right! he shaded things in without checking it was ok... silly boy! but on the up side, he'll know better for next time and I'm still sure he'll get a pass. But really I felt so bad that he didnt have more time, I just wanted to give him hugs (although that could've been my tiredness too).   After fighting off the urge to give hugs I near ran for my train and got back to Newcastle. On the train I completed a shopping list, simple things, and managed to get everything on it later, even the lip balm (mmm watermellon) Oh and it was during the shopping Lee met me, we made plans the night before to 'maybe' go to the chinese and in my tired state today I didnt want to fight so I went along with it. I needed to though, my weight if nobody gathered had gone from ok to bad, quick! So I needed food, it was good fun like it always is with Lee. I laugh hard at least once when we talk :D Ok so that was my day so far, hope to do more sketching after my bath and tonight, anyway I hope it wasnt too boring. Oh and last night and yesterday proved it, I have the best girlfriend ever! and I love her and everything about her.   She's my rock, my muse, my one and all. And I wouldnt swap here for a million Jaffa Cakes. :P xXx

11.1.06 20:56 Permalink / 1 Comment / comment

Shit, this is not what I expected... Right so today I went swimming again, for the first time since before Christmas (like nearly a month). So that goes ok, my left knee is still 'broken' and not feeling great. I think just rest it for a day and it'll be ok for Thursdays swimming.   Anyway, the thing is, and its pretty bad, is that I promised myself before Christmas that I wouldnt step onto the scales until after swimming again. Today was the day I went swimming and today I found out my weight. Lets just say it wasnt good, or what I expected.....   Michael x

10.1.06 18:57 Permalink / comment

FAB DAY! After the fun of the 'Seven Things' quiz I decided to make my own, if you want, feel free to do it yourself or use it on your blogs. Whatever, its just a bit of fun! TODAY!  Most beautiful thing you have seen so far today? The sky and ocean became one while somewhere a clock was ticking. Times you got lost today? Just once, so far :P Third thing you bought today? Essential Poems (To fall in love with) - Edited by Daisy Goodwin, I've already got a favorite (I'm such a girl!) What are you looking forward to the most today? Seeing everyone and catching up, all be it briefly in lectures. Hows the weather? Bad, it's never good in Middlesbrough (well thats what I've learned from my time here). Its cold and wet, my lungs felt asthough they were burning, I couldnt breath it was so cold! Most beautiful thing you will see today? Katie, my girl, my one, my all, when we talk until the wee hours of the morning, and giggle like we do :P Last song listened to? Snow Patrol - Spitting Games, while falling asleep on the train hehehehe ----- So I'm back in Uni after the holidays. I missed the place, I didnt miss the travelling much and getting up at the ass crack of dawn to get here, but I still missed this place for some reason :P . I'm reminded of one of the many things I look forward to when I move out to middlesbrough for next year is having alot more time on my hands and alot less spent travelling to and from. So more time to nap, now how can that be a bad thing? Oh and not only am I a very rich man in spirit and in friends, I'm also wealthy in my bank account :P , Yes thats right, my student loan has come through so I'm minted, holidays, tickets to gigs all sorts of things I can do with the excess cash hehe (maybe even pay off some overdrafts) Today was the day I got back professional studies ICA mark.... so if I were to say, I passed... would you believe me? how about I passed 'well' would you think I was lying? What about if I said something like.... I got a B? would you expect my nose to grow at extraordinary proportions allowing birds to nest upon my extended nasel cavety? hehe... So B, thats 80% which when weighted (i.e. this was half the mark for the module [50%] , so 100% on this ICA would = 50% for the module, with 50% still left to get, following me?) so can anyone in the back tell me what 80% means?? Yes lil'Johnny? "It's 40% overall achieved sir" thats right! gold star!, and we all know that 40% is the pass mark for any module (usually) so yay! I've passed Professional Studies! Now the sad news of the death of 20six, I'm really gutted, I love my blog, I love the people that visit it, and I'll be sad if nobody does anymore. So today I started working on making the 'concernedabout20six' blog I made look similar if not the same as my current 20six one. I do plan on keeping the 20six one, just depending on how the 'upgrade' (I cringe when I say that, it feels like a downgrade) goes I'll either stick with 20six and keep updating here or move on with everyone else to the new site. You'd all still look in on me if I was on 20six right? Everyone thats going? ...but really I could manage 2 blogs, and just update them both with the same entries. Whatever should be interesting, I guess it all depends how the community goes and how much html I can do (which isnt much lol) Ok kinda a long entry, well done anyone who finished it, you get *+3 hugs* thats one from me, one from SET and one from my goldfish who is looking 'ok' but could use hugs back. Michael x :D x

9.1.06 23:32 Permalink / 1 Comment / comment

Seven Things (totally stolen from topo) - Seven things to do before I die 1. See my soulmate, and one day marry her - (I miss her so much) 2. Move to a cottage in Scotland with soulmate - (ooo, yes this'll be fun! and I get to wear a kilt hehehe..) 3. Finish Uni and be successful - (Must Not Drop Out! , Must Get Good Job!) 4. See the world - (We live in a beautiful world, perhaps one day you could all stop to just look up at the sky and the clouds, just stop...and do it) 5. Understand my family - (they confuse me alot, well Dads side does. will I ever get my head around this feud? do I want to?) 6. Be better at Art! - (Because right now I'm not so good...) 7. Have more friends - (I know I have some here on 20six, and away from here too, but I'm greedy, I want more!) - Seven things I cannot do 1. Feel much better - (the flu is getting me down, that and other things...) 2. Refuse a staring contest with random passengers on trains or buses 3. Have all charvs rounded up and dumped on Skull Island - (a.k.a. the Island with a really really big gorrilla!) 4. Not look after my girls, they might not want or need it but I have to look out for them just incase. 5. Stop being a worrier  6. Stop loving my girl, it'll never happen. We'll be in love forever! 7. Get hugs, my source of hugs is far away and right now, with everyone ill, nobody wants hugs... but me *cries* - Seven things I love about blogging 1. Its easy - (well it was before the 'Upgrade') 2. I found so many good friends on here 3. My soulmate, I found her and she found me here on these pages 4. Oh I can show people my art and they rarely critisise me or it! yay! 5. I love writing! 6. Its great to get things out there, out of my head. Maybe other people too will understand me better or just know what I'm going through... 7. Nice comments! you're all so nice to me *hugs* - Seven things I say most often 1. Be Careful! - (again with my worrying!) 2. Whatever - \/\/ - (used often is many contexts, one is sometimes to remind my soulmate if she says she's not looking good... that... well... its all lies! and she has to accept she's FAB!) 3. I love you - (I dont say it enough to the people I love, but I do everytime I speak to my soulmate... because I love her, and I've never felt this way before) 4. *Silence* - (Ok so often I'll say nothing at all, thats how I got a nickname as 'Quiet Michael' which I HATED!!! guess I'm just too shy and reserved sometimes, but her why change? it seams to work for me and its different with my friends - I talk, I shout, I giggle! hehehe...) 5. Sorry - (I say this alot, alot of the time I'm wrong or in the wrong. Also used when I'm late which is often! and when I cant be somewhere I need to be, I've let people down) 6. oops - (yes I can be pretty clumsy sometimes) 7. Thank You - (I say it to everyone! even people who didnt do much, spread some good karma today everyone, say thanks to someone who opens a door for you or gives you the correct change... anything , just share the love hehe) - Seven books I love 1. BFG - (Rohl Dahl classic, check with Katie for correct pronunciation hehehehe) 2. My Japanese phrasebook - (it makes me giggle hehe) 3. LOTR books - (geekyness again) 4. My Dilbert book - (hehehe Dogbert makes me laugh) 5. Collections Poetry - (Can I have that as a book? I love reading it thats for sure!) 6. errr omg this is hard 7. I give up! - Seven movies I love (I hate this, I cant think of an order because I like them all so much) 1. All Star Wars movies - (<-- geeky hehe) 2. Shaun of the Dead 3. Pinocchio - (another one that makes me cry, and I have not seen for like years and years!) 4. Waynes World - (The first movie I can remember seeing in the cinema) 5. A Matter of life and Death - (people, go see this film! get it on rental whatever, its great in a tear jerker kinda way) 6. Jerry Maguire - (did I spell it right? I hope you'll know what I'm on about, its the one with Tom Cruise and his 'I'm not letting you get rid of me' scene, and she says 'You had me at hello' oh I;m such a girl! but I love that film) 7. Ghost in the Shell - (the best anime ever? hehe)

8.1.06 18:01 Permalink / 3 Comments / comment

Resolution Fulfilled Remember that resolution to do 1 stupid thing per week? well....     6am + Permanent markers = the first stupid act of the year! (it'll come off though right?)

1.1.06 17:01 Permalink / 9 Comments / comment

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