A new year, a new decade, new resolutions ( Read more... )

Having avoided the parents until lunch, I finally had a grown-up chat with my Mum and agreed that we were all partly responsible and that lessons needed to be learnt. All good ( Read more... )

Christmas. A time for presents, over-zealous consumption and crap TV. Yet there is one feature you canot avoid, arguments. And in my house it's always the same argument, like a broken record. My parents seem to think they can bring me up without actually listening to a word I say. Call them senile, call them ignorant but I can't bring myself to ( Read more... )

Just when I think it's going to be a lonely Christmas, I get an utter dilemma on my hands. Let's recap, Laura, the girl I had a minor flinge with shortly after breaking up with Jenny is back on the scene. Ok, she texted me her last number in a blatant 'let's make sure that anyone I'VE EVER TEXTED has my new number' measure but we quickly got back ( Read more... )

So at least I was told before it got out of hand eh? Yup, the message from Ellie has arrived in which she tells me that she's sorry if she ever led me on and that she simply doesn't have time for a relationship. Not that I believed it was heading that way but it's nice to think I was stopped in my tracks. It may have been awkward seeing her in ( Read more... )

So yeh, nothing more to update on either girl which isn't exactly surprising ( Read more... )

After the latest epic fails in my episodes with the opposite sex, it has been joked that I should start a Sex and The City stylee diary. So here goes ( Read more... )

Thanks Exposed Magazine ( Read more... )

My last post was largely one of tension, of pent up anxiety. Thankfully it was all misguided. Despite this being the 3rd weekend since I started work, tomorrow will be 8th day in and it's gone fine so far. Bizarrely I probably see more of my housemate Ceri at home than I do at work, though she usually takes her lunchbreak at 1 like me, she's on the ( Read more... )

Due to the dates of the financial year, it will be exactly 12 months since I was last employed in an office job. Any period of unemployment is frowned upon, but a year is a long time. A long time away from tedium ( Read more... )