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Box after box after box…

I haven’t done a proper update in a while, so I thought I would post one and go through lots of the things that have been going on in my little life in the past few weeks or so. All terribly exciting and I know you’ll just love reading it! haha.

First things first, I went to New Wine which was as usual really good fun. This year I managed to stay away from technical related subjects and was on the Youth team in the cafe for a change, it was actually really good fun. I was a little apprehensive, especially at the idea of having to be a group leader of my own little group of kids but actually it went really well and I enjoyed it! I wasn’t sure I was really up to leading kids in their spiritual learning and stuff but actually I think that by helping them and working with them on the stuff we covered I gained a lot too, so they as much led me as I led them! 

Whilst on the topic of New Wine, in an interesting twist it managed to remain fairly dry all week instead preferring to just fry us alive in the venue, but at least it wasn’t raining! I mean it did rain one day but it was only a day out of the whole week so not too bad! In fact the one day it did rain was the day I spent the most of it out doors going around collecting money for charity, so yeah… bad choice of day for charity collecting!

After New Wine not much has really happened, I’m now just 2 weeks away from the wedding (Yay!) which is pretty exciting, everything is basically ready now, got suits arriving this week and rings were ordered last week and being collected tomorrow. Naomi is collecting her dress later this week I believe and that’s basically it. The only thing left to sort is some dancing lessons for the first dance, it would be nice to actually do a good first dance rather than just shuffle around! haha.

The main thing going on now is me packing up my life, I have failed to find a job or anything and so with a lack of any better alternative me and Naomi are at first going to stay at her parents after the wedding until we both get jobs and our own place to live. I’m confident the right job will turn up eventually, it would have been nice to set up our own home straight away, but such is life. So yeah, my whole life is slowly being packed into boxes. I remember now why moving house isn’t much fun!

So, there it is… update over.

On a side note my “Assides” section is now a fully fledged Twitter feed of whatever I am doing right now, so I will update it with things like “Going into town” or “Eating some tea” etc etc. I quite like Twitter so going to give it a proper trial.

Also, I’ve added a translate function to the site, not for any particular reason but just because I can. So if you’re feeling particularly Chinese in the spirit of the Olympics then feel free to view the site in Chinese - it doesn’t even break the layout too badly!

2:1! Yeah!

I passed! Horray!! I got my results on Monday morning at about quarter passed midnight and I have passed my degree with a 2:1 - I am officially a graduate at last, yes there is still a ceremony bit to go but that is ages away not until September. So yeah, horray! I’m dead chuffed, and of course really pleased that all my friends did well too, so far as I can tell everyone else got a 2:1 so I shall say congratulations to them too in this blog, even though none of them read it, haha.

So yes, degree finally over… what now? Well, did some food tasting yesterday for the wedding and it is amazing, seriously the food is so nice. For those of you coming to the wedding the food is certainly something to look forward too! Plus the guest list is complete, we’ve got a little under 120 people coming to the reception, which is a lot! More than I thought would come so that’s really great. Erm, what else… oh yes, honeymoon booked, we’ll keep the exact location secret, haha. But it’s a really nice place thats really remote in the country near the Lake District so that will be great I’m looking forward to that.

Not much else to report really. I hope those who actually read this blog have enjoyed my fairly recent blog updates of late! Especially my pole dancing bears! lol.

Also, I have discovered Twitter which is a whole heap of fun. Twitter is what I will be using to publish my assides from now on as it allows easy mobile posting via SMS. The assides are little comments I post about whatever happens to be happening at the time. If you don’t want constant RSS updates of Twitter and you use RSS then change to using the blog only feed at the bottom of the page.

That’s it for now, I shall post again later maybe if something interesting takes my fancy to write about! Feel free to comment now and then, I miss getting comments!

The New Site

Ok! So whilst I’m on a roll at this early hour of the morning I thought I would follow up my previous blog and subsequent asside to tell you about the new site!

Let me start by just saying that I am very sorry I deleted it all again, I didn’t meant too this time. I’m going to try very hard not to do it again.

Also, this is now using Wordpress 2.5 and for some reason everything is broken, I think it’s because I’m using the K2 theme which is all very cool but also all very broken. So, give it time until it becomes compatible with this version of Wordpress.

Now then, onto the actual information. Well… nothing really. A few changes of note,

Firstly, you don’t need to register to post comments. It’s possible isn’t working at the moment because, well… I dunno. But it may or may not actually let you post comments, I have no idea, give it a shot. I reckon it is something to do with K2 again.

Secondly, you’ll notice that the there are little mini posts called assides that have a slightly different look to the main posts to the blog. These are sort of like extended status updates like those you’d find on Facebook. They are just a little thought or idea I had that I wanted to share. Rather than a full blown blog update. They are new, and I like them. I’m trying to get it to work with my phone so I can give little updates wherever I may be. But my phone is pants and can’t send emails anyone is able to read… so yeah. I’m working on that one too!

That’s it, haha. New site, the only real visible change is the header image which me and Ed sorted the other day. It is of the London Eye (if you hadn’t guessed) and is rather pretty indeed. I hope you like it!

That’s it for now, three posts in one night is impressive. I sleep now.