what i had for lunch

 Lying in till about 1pm makes eating tricky. SO i decide to go for a cheese and onion omelet for brunch/lunch/dinner. Because technically it wasn't brunch because brunch is a meal typically eaten late in the morning as a combination of a late breakfast and an early lunch, and it wasn't lunch either really because it was after 1pm and it wasn't dinner because it wasn't passed 4PM...   

Another Statistic amongst other things

Well i feel the habit of being a blogger may have slipped a little. But i do pledge to do better, i now have a working computer, it took at least twice as long as expected but i have a computer  and i have all my music which is great. 

But alas it would seem as soon as i get one thing back i loose another.  I now have no phone or wallet. I would go into great detail here as the story is really quite exciting it involves police cars head-butting a broken nose but i have said it so many times now i really cant be bothered. TO sum it up on Saturday night after work i became another statistic in the ever growing London crime wave. Luckily my two attackers spared me the mercy of a knifing, which i am truly thankful for, but what really does gets me is that one of the guys had prayer beads in his hand. Now i am not religious but i know for a god dam fact that no religion says its ok to 1. steal 2. kick the shit out of someone. All in all utter utter twats. My advice if you do get approached by two guys with beards and prayers beads run, either they're going to mug you or they are going to start preaching. And no one likes the preaching.. 

As a result of this i am in a bad mood. Last night my list of new things multiplied, which in theory is good but the reality this time it was bad. I had to call one of those annoying call centers to cancel my card. Ok so your on the phone, with the automated service from hell, press 2 to cancel your card, you press 2 after being told your call is really imported you are transfered to one of the trained advisors. TRAINED. By what a donkey?! these people sold their souls long ago, they are scripted robots from watchdog hell. So you pressed 2 right to cancel your card, first question they ask "how may i help you today?" well five minuets early i pressed 2 to cancel my card so lets have a think shall we? "You can help me today by canceling by card, my card was stolen". follows by "OK sir may i take your card number please". what?! "My card was stolen e.g. i don't have it anymore..." so this goes on and im put on hold again and again "your call is really important to us" it goes on like some patronizing advert selling dentil treatment. Anyway after i use my whole vocabulary of swear words i manage to eventually cancel my card. Then it was time to start on the phone, and when i ring up and say "my phone got nicked." they pipe up and say "good news we are now pleased to offer you an extended talk plan" pricks.. 

I did plan to make this first blog back a bit of a catch up because i have done a lot. I went home to Bristol Annabel met the parents, the parents met Annabel, i also stayed on a boat which was lovely. Sadly i went to one of my best friends Dads funeral, that was really hard. I cant even imagine what it would be like to loose Mum or dad or anyone close.. I played pub golf i got absolutely bungalowed i cant drink, and i cant play golf. Annabel and me also sort of broke up twice i don't know how but it was drink related so does that count? I also wished my very good friend and house mate Chris a happy 21st, and i also have developed an ambition to one day grow a mustache. 

To try and squeeze a bit of positivity into this rather gloom filled blog i suggest a visit to this shape shifting cult figure that is Tim Ten Yen. http://www.myspace.com/timtenyen enjoy! 

My Computer died.

This blog is a little later than expected… My computer broke! This is possibly one of the saddest things that has happened to me for a long time. It won’t turn on, I don’t know how or why but it wont work.. NO computer means no facebook and more importantly it means I can’t get onto my Itunes! This is something I actually miss quite a lot.. it isn’t all bad a person who lives on my road actually fixes computers so for a price of one hundred and fifty pounds I should have a fully functioning computer (I hope) on Friday. So that’s the reason for a little less blogging.

Its been a good week Annabel moved in on Monday not permanently just for the week, she moved out today thank goodness, (joking). She would kill me if I said that.. I also went to the ‘Trendy’ part of Old Street I think they call it Shoreditch.. I spent Friday night in a really cool bar/club called the Macbeth: http://www.myspace.com/themacbethuk really worth checking out if you like 50’s disco, Kaitie Perry and own a pair of skinny jeans. Most of the guys have modeled their appearance on the great Noel fielding, and all the girls seem to like red lipstick. Annabel and me went along for Spuds leaving do, it also provided me with a chance to catch up with Dom who I went to Leeds Festival with and Julia who I only ever seem to bump into when out with Spud. It took a while for us to get there as Annabel got us lost but it was a real laugh everyone in the bar was dead friendly although some woman wanted her picture taken with me because she thought I was the Eoughan thingy from the Xfactor. Bad times. Although randomly Gavin from Gavin and Stacey was leaving as we arrived, he did look like an Emo but I think that can be excused.

The rest of the week was spent collecting a few bits for a prank on Stoobie, shopping with Annabel (we did an epic tour of all of London) for some shop reports for her course, and working on a few Radio bits. I also have applied for a job as an Assistant Producer and cooked more that I have ever done before. Have I done anything new? Well I am pleased to say I have. Number 37 Talk to the cleaner. Today I spoke to the cleaner and we had a chat about the weather then she started hovering. I came close to completing Number 14. Meet my neighbours. The guy his name is Lorry lives down the road and he is currently mending my computer, I also nearly did number 11. Meet an A list celebrity. In the form of Mathew Horne (Gavin), well he walked passed me, but you know I’ve got a while yet and he’s not quite on the A list.. January is shaping up to be a lot of fun, although I think I really need to crack on with my list.

I now shop online

Its Saturday and I'm now back in London and already i have a slight hangover going on.. The results of one pint turning into about eight, courtesy of the local weather-spoons. Quite a lot of friday was spent traveling back from Annabel's i managed to fall asleep on the train so i ended up at London Bridge which meant i had to travel almost the length of London to get home. 

Its nice to be back at my uni house, i managed to catch up with Danielle, she managed to spend most of her Christmas working. Chris who i feel so proud for had his first experience of "alcoholic induced vomiting"! if you have ever met Chris you would no that is an achievement. Stewart well he is not back, who knows where he is. Finally Denis and Barry seemed to have conformed to the stereotype of an irishman and spent their christmas holiday drinking Guinness.. Nothing changes. 

Yesterday also saw me try something new. I'm feeling confident i can do this challenge although this new thing wasn't actually on the list... I did my food shopping online! It took me twice as long as a visit to the shops would have and i spent at least three times more, but it was fun. Online shopping is such a magical invention. Most of my purchases involved me buying the heaviest things possible. This was me thinking i was being clever, cheating the system, bringing commonsense to Kenton. If i brought heavy things, this meant i wouldn't have to work up a sweat struggling back from the shops.. The truth is though i didn't really need 10 liters of orange juice or 14 tins of baked-beans i don't know why but i slipped into the mind set of a recluse. I shopped like i was never leaving my house again. This lasted about 5 minuets after i found that my shopping wouldn't be arriving for another three days and i was hungary. So after all that i ended up doing an online shop and a normal food shop. God my life is boring. But it was nice to wander round Sainsburys i nearly contemplated purchasing Christmas cards reduced to 99p but then i thought i would look a bit weird buying Christmas cards on the 2nd of January.  

The rest of the yesterday was spent in the pub with Barry, Denis, and another irish person called Jay. Jay smiles a lot but the smile seems to increase depending on how much he drinks. By the end of the night his face must have really hurt. We where only going for one pint but then we decided there was nothing on TV apart from living on the edge which isn't that great so we found a table and settled in for the night, telling tales of how much we ate over Christmas and deciding it would be almost criminal not to have turkey on christmas day. I sometimes work at this particular pub and it is full of old men and nothing tends to work. For one the heating is broken and the electrics go of at least once and hour which results in all the drunk people cheering and and all the sober people leaving. 

i actually have to go to work now so i will finish this later! 

A New Year, another day.. But a good one!

Its 2009. And i have a blog! I was thinking of just leaving it like that, playing it cool and not saying too much on my first entry but, i think i might as well explain to you what led to me sitting down here on the end of Annabel's bed writing these words of very little wisdom. 

For the last 15 years or so, i have made resolutions and have never ever ever ever kept them. A popular resolution that i attempted to keep was to give up Chocolate. I failed. And when i said i failed, i failed big time a second after i had said: "This year my new years resolution is to give up chocolate." i was offered a delicious succulent chocolate eclair. I ate it, I felt so ashamed. Please don't judge me. 

To this day I don't understand why i would have attempted to give up Chocolate as Chocolate is something i adore, a passion shared by another fellow Phil, Phil Landers who i go to uni with. Talking of chocolate Annabel has just given me some more Thorntons. Life is good! Today i have already eaten one whole pack of chocolate raisins. I could probably just dedicate this blog to Chocolate but i think its time to move on... i think i might have a problem. 

Back to the failed resolutions and the reason for this blog. 

New Years Resolutions why do we bother? My sisters always used to say as theirs, "This year we are going to keep fit". And if you saw them today you know they failed. My friend at uni who i wont name famously said "this year I'm not going to leave my work to the last minuet". Guess what he failed to. I think New Years Resolutions are almost impossible to keep unless you actually want to do it and this year i really want to have a go at this. So here it goes, my New Years Resolution of 2009 is to try something new. Well its actually 52 new things possibly one for every week. And i can already tick one of i have started a blog, thats new! 

There are rules, most of which are in accordance with common sense:

1. It must be completely new not something i have done slightly before, it has to be new or it doesn't count. 

2. New things can be completed at any time of day or night.

3. It would make sense to do a new thing a week but due to work or uni commitments that might not be possible. 

4. All new things must be completed by the 31st of December 2009. 

5. I cant think of any more rules right now. 

So those are the rules and here are the new things:

1. Start a blog

2. Visit a new country 

3. Make a friend called bob

4. be quoted in some form of publication

5. discover a new cure for the common cold

6. try a new hobby 

7. break some form of world record

8. write a song

9. visit a new part of the UK

10. make contact with a person i went to primary school with 

11. Meet an A list celebrity 

12. Actually stop and talk to one of those annoying charity people in the street 

13. Learn how to make a decent curry 

14. Meet my neighbors 

15. get a new job with an email address 

16. compose a ringtone 

17. Actually remember to do an Aprils fools prank 

18. find out how much i walk in a week

19. do something i sadly have avoided. Open top bus tour of london 

20. invent a cocktail 

21. complete the circle line pub crawl 

22. be herd on national radio 

23. try an exotic new food

24. make a piece of art 

25. talk to a random person on the tube 

26. make a fashion statement 

27. celebrate thanksgiving 

28. be part of some sort of march/demonstration or parade 

29. be involved in some form of test or trial 

30. double £100 

31. learn the basics of a foreign language

32. help someone else try something new 

33. break my personal record of not showering. 4 days no showering. (Annabel will love this)

34. do something for charity 

35.  take more pictures

36.  Stop biting my nails

37. Talk to the cleaner, i have worked at this particular place for about 5 months and have never said more than, "Alright?"

38. Complete the 50 mile walk in 24hrs i had go once and i stopped at 30miles. (You might be thinking well you have already done this, but the new thing is to walk the 50)

39. Start baking 

40. visit my grandparents and take them out to lunch

41. leave something for the future 

42. stay awake for 24 hours

43. watch sex in the city the movie

44. eat 3 prawn mayo sandwiches in under 3 minuets (Something for Denis)

45. learn the short cuts on word 

46. Adopt 

47. Win a pub quiz

48. be on a poster 

49. be able to say the alphabet backwards

50. get a letter from the queen

51. give up something for a week

52. Do something really meaningful 

52 new things, the fun begins. Happy new year by the way!