OMG!

No, not Oh My God, Open Minds Group! I recently recovered the login details for that website and have been working all day on a new design, I like to think its coming together quite nicely.

Go take a look! comments if you want to leave them...

How's it going?

Well, since you asked, I'll tell you...

So my brothers wedding was last saturday, all fun was had, though the brides father collapsed of heat stroke in the middle of the ceremony, I was able to do my duty and hush everyone from their commotion (I was an Usher, get it?) Luckily my Auntie Gill who was there is a nurse, so she took charge of the situation and all was well, Derek had apparantly had a few drinks while they where getting ready that morning and, well combined with the heat of the church, I suppose it got to him, silly man!

They went away to Egypt early sunday morning, and I had the pleasure of heading down there in the afternoon to start my two week house sitting duties (They have a dog, a pup to be exact, and I didn't like the idea of him going in kennels for two weeks.) Well, when I got there, you wouldn't believe what it was like. Seriously I cannot describe the mess I saw, and I will not be going into detail here, needless to say, I don't know how they allow themselves (and their eight year old daughter) to live there, let alone a dog. Ugh... just thinking about it makes me want to scrub myself with Ajaxx, so I'll move on.

I didn't know what to do, I was at a total loss, I knew I couldn't stay there, but I knew the dog couldnt either! We have our own two dogs at my house and with Lucky (thats the dogs name) being a giddy young pup, he would be able to clear the fence of our back yard. So I did what I always do when I have nowhere else to turn, I went running to mummy and daddy. My parents, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to pull the troops together, and we are now in the process of cleaning the whole house up, which is going smoothly. So since tuesday, thats what Ive been doing, well that and working, see I've also had to take on all of our michaels shifts at the club, so everything he did, I'm doing.

I'm not complaining at this mind, the money is good and the people in the club are practically extended family (hell, some of them are family) so thats fine. Between cleaning, working, and preparing to move back to my room at home which is not almost ready, I am a very busy duck, in fact, your lucky to even get this update, so you can thank me later.

Student finance my arse

The system is so totally backwards!

First when filling in the form is told me to give my passport number, even if it was invalid (out of date) so I did, and waited for a reply. Two weeks later I get a letter through the door telling me that my passport has expired... ..Duh! and that I have to supply my birth certificate or a valid passport, so I grab my birth certificate, and send it off.

I wait another three weeks for a reply, this time its a letter telling me that because I am proving my identity with my birth certificate, I need another signitory, along with a couple of forms they have posted out to me. Is it that hard to believe they could get it right the first time, or atleast tell me everything I need to know, without wasting the cost of a stamp?

Don't ever go to Uni if you want an easy life.

Its a classic!

I've started reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Im using the '100 Classic Books Collection' for the Nintendo DS, and I must say I am very impressed at its convenience!

I have already gone through Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and am halfway through the collected short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, should I havn't quite reached his famed story, 'The Tell-tale Heart' about which I have heard nothing but good things~

Its nice having all this free time at the moment, I am very lucky to be in this position.

Vanity, thy name is Sye.

Just recently I was thinking about being alone, and not being alone (as one is naturally drawn to think about, after thinking about being alone.)

I have a few friends (that's not a punchline) that talk to me about feeling alone, about wanting someone to be there, to cuddle up to and to love when the evenings are cold and void of company. They tell me how crippling and despairing the feeling of being alone can be.

But my friends, you are not alone, and neither am I! I used to feel those feelings as well, when I was angry at the world for making my appearance not to every ones liking, for giving me stupid round glasses and big frizzy hair and spots and making me gay and therefore harder for me to find someone. I was feeling alone, and desperately in need of company. Then after a few years, a few guys came and went, but none of them fit, let me try to explain...

It was only when I was about 19 years old that I decided that there is no-one to blame for my appearance than me, that I can't expect to have a good looking bloke if I don't at least match the amount of effort, which I soon realised all people will go through if they want to look good, and attract a mate. So I coloured the hair, and tamed it somewhat, I started to shave the muzzle more often, used my glasses only when reading and computing (which is what I was supposed to be doing) and started to lose some weight (it would take me another few years, but I did it.) After doing all this, a few guys started to notice me, the first memorable one was Joe.

Joe was a sweet guy, but as mature as I thought he was, he was almost totally obsessed with sex! I told him from the beginning that I wasn't all that interested in sex (this isn't really true, I just wasn't interested in sex from the word 'hello') and that it would take time for me to get used to being in a relationship, which he told me he totally understood. Now I don't even refer back to my time with Joe as a relationship, we hugged a few times, kissed (the way you would kiss your Grandma goodbye) but I never really felt for him, and therefor did not want to get close. Then about a year ago there was Ian...

Ian is a cute eligible single Young man, he was 18 when he noticed me and we started back and forthing with text and IM's, you heard me right though, he noticed me! I was so shocked when I heard someone had a crush on me (in hindsight, I should have seen that something was awry because of his use of the word 'crush') and so through friends we got each others numbers, and started to talk. He seemed like such a sweet guy when I talked to him, and although a bit twinkish, I figured he was smart and independent enough for me to look through that, but most of all, with him having two jobs, I figured he was mature, you see by this time Id realised that maturity was what I really wanted in a man, someone I can have fun with of course, but someone I could also hold a conversation with for more than five minutes. Soon, things started to go sour, after talking with him for a while, it was soon clear that he was in the pub with his friend Lorna way too much for me, I mean I don't drink, but I hang out with friends at least three nights a week, so I'm not particulars prudish and in no way a saint when it comes to things like that, but we are talking almost every night he would text me drunk from the Tudor, which I could understand, but it was when he handed his phone to Lorna that things went bad. His friend Lorna would sent texts such as "I want to fuck you now" and others to that effect, and when Id text back or messege him my obvious dissapointment, he would simply say "It wasn't my fault, it was Lorna". Well I make no apologies for anyone who uses my possesions in a way that would hurt other people, but if it was me who offered my phone to someone else to use, then I would be responsible for it. Soon after the textx became more frequent, until I was certain he was sending them himself to annoy me, which made me angry, and I was soon able to put a stop to it (I hate resorting to threats, which made me even angrier.)

That was my last experience with a man, I think what has annoyed me the most is that perhaps under different circumstances I could have fealt something for Ian, and maybe in the future if he matures and ditches Lorna I could feel something for him (although I am not quick to forget those who tresspass against me) but at the time, it meant something to have that in my life, and for it to go wrong the way that it did, well, it jaded my confidence.

So what does one do when ones confidence in the world has his rock bottom? you turn around and realise that what you've been looking for has been available in abundance this whole time. I have friends and family who I have been closer to than anyone I've dated, they are my lifeline, they are my company, and have always been there when I've needed them. So you see, they don't expect me to look a certain way, I change my appearence to something I think looks good for me, not other people, and I daresay I could never feel lonely with such people around.

In closing, people don't believe me when I say I am happily single, because there is a stigma in the word which says that no-one is complete until they have found someone to complete them, to those people I say, that if it takes an external force to complete them, they could use some alone time of their own.

Bored?

Yeah, I think that's what it is.

I read before bed, I have a DVD on in the background (usually the Golden Girls) and sit at my computer. That is pretty much my day, and not content with settling back into the couch-potato routine, I try to inject a little variety into my days, Ill nip to my parents house to see the dogs, walk them, nip to the shop (most of the time for other people, or for a snack) or I could nip into town for lunch with a friend. But I will always end up back home, at my computer, with nothing to do.

This month my FFXI account is active, but I didn't realise exactly how off-the-game I have become, and it bores me to even log in now. It got to the point the other day were I was genuinely considering activating my Warcraft account, which would be a total waste of money, money which I do not have. Although I am reading a Warcraft novel at the moment called War of the Ancients, which was lent to me by a friend and so I'm probably just pining to get back to that game and play out that story.

I should take up knitting, I would carry on with my comics except I'd rather Wait to get to my scanner, and be able to do it properly rather than the doodles I try on my graphics tablet. I think ideally I want to do something that totally breaks away from this room and this desk, I can be as creative as I like but at the end of the day, being in the same place can have an adverse effect on inspiration, unless its blogging.

Quick post

...Just to let you know least there be any confusion. I have posted all of my previous blogs from aldodesigns.co.uk and the blog section of when Aldo Designs was a business website.

I only have information on the months that I posted them, and they tapered off after March because I focused on my uni work, so there you have it, enjoy!

Lizards rule!

Right, this is a serious post now. Did you know that there are people who believe in a secret race of lizard people?

I'm not normally one to be disparaging about other peoples beliefs, but that does not extend to conspiracy theorists. David Ickle (found at his website here) is an avid 'New World Order' conspiracy theorist who believes whole heartedly that there is a group of reptilian humanoids that has command over (or are, I'm not quite sure) most of the major world leaders... ..and people actually believe him.

He refers to Lucifer, and at one point referred to himself as the son of Christ, (All this can be found on wikipedia but the sources check out) but later goes on to describe how large organised religions (amongst other things) are set up to control humanity and spread anguish, which these 'Global Elite' reptiloids apparently feed from.

You read is and you just think this guy has seen too many episodes of the Twilight Zone, or sat a little too close to the telly whilst watching the Matrix, but other people are buying into this!

Sorry, I don't mean to be disparaging, obviously I'm suffering the mind control of the Global Elite and they are forcing me to say such cynical things, but I'm going to leave it to you guys to read up on this stuff, but in case you need a little push, here's a video...

Wow, if that isn't just the most damning evidence, I don't know what is! Seriously, I'm convinced (no, I'm not.)

Instincts confirmed

So I'm decided to log onto FFXI today and Ive it another chance. I was thinking to myself "I don't really want to play, but I might find something fun to do, and I've paid for it so it would be wasting money if I didn't give it a shot. So I try logging in, I say try because there is a new security feature which I unfortunately bought into, where by as well as a password, you put in a randomly generated six-digit password you get from a Security Token, I got all the way through the PlayOnline viewer, got onto the game and just at the character select screen, I got disconnected.

Which would be fine, happened before right? except when I got DC'd this time I had to input my passwords again, which is a hastle to begin with. I tell you, Warcraft is certainly winning at this point.

So I get onto the game, and decide with nothing better to do, that I might as well join campaign battle. At this point without going into too much detail, for those who don't know anything about the game, there is alot of emphasis on team play, which is unfortunate because it means you can't advance your character without a party (you and five other people with roles that support each other in killing monsters,) which wouldn't be a bad idea if not for the fact that Europe lives in a hole, the Americans are either asleep or at work, the Japanese are either asleep or at work, and what your left with is not enough people to lift a fat chick at Glastonbury. Campaign battle is a small scale operation themed on a war effort, you join countless other soldiers (that are NPC's, 'Non-player characters controlled by the game, sort of like when you play chess against the computer, NPC's are the computer.) Unfortunately, these NPC's are not too bright, and my character died fighting a monster while five other NPC's stood around doing nothing

You can imagine my opinion of the game has his an all time low, and I really regret paying for it this month, but hey, that's my loss.

So yeah, I would say that World of Warcaft is winning out so far, maybe I'm just being too cynical of course, and maybe I just need to give it time to get back into the swing of things (I have been off for two months,) who knows, by august I might be wanting to stay~

Bye bye FFXI

So I think I've decided to leave Final Fantasy 11 behind now, its just so dull and boring for me. Its a cliché within the game now but there really isn't much to do besides grind your level, besides which with all the additional scenarios you can now download (for a price) they just seem like they are clutching at straws.

I think after this month on I'll say goodbye (or atleast, 'Until we meet again') and give my account some much needed rest, I have other things to occupy my time so Im not too worried. I'll just wait for Final Fantasy XIV to come out, it looks awesome!

See!

Some funny videos

Here are a few of my choice vid's from good 'ole youtube, all of these are safe for work (as long as you have your headphones in I guess.)

This one is a parody of a clip from Family Guy, and in my opinion way funnier than what Seth McFarlane did...

Next up is an advert for the Discovery Channel, I love the song, it gets stuck in your head!

This one is a cute little song on the first series of the Muppet Show, it was so funny and it makes me smile every time I see it~

The last video in this installment actually caused a bit of a scandal in America, people thought that this group called Yatta are actually a real pop group/boy band in Japan, they are not, this is a parody of what I think is a western concept of Japanese pop culture. Either way, the video is funny, and the tune is so damn catchy

Happy hunting guys, Ill post again soon with more youtube gems!

Summer summer summer

All this free time! I don't know what to do with myself, when I'm not busy marinading in my own sweat that is.

I've recently reactivated my Final Fantasy 11 account for another month, for those of you who don't already know I like to occupy myself by not only making inane comics, but playing two online games (not at the same time, I alternate each month.)

For those who just audibly scoffed and turned up your nose in snobbery, I'd like to point out that not only am I only spending at most £10 a month, but was I to have both accounts running at the same time, it would still be cheaper than the average person drinks and smokes in a month, and I'm not damaging myself at the same time, so get over yourself.

Also its a nice way to keep in touch with my friends, especially when I can't really afford to do anything that resembles fun. I'm finding it increasingly hard to find fun things to do that doesn't involve staying in.

I'm going to post some of the pictures from Tuesdays rimmsie-bash onto my facebook for any of you to get your peepers on.

Edit: And just for your delight, here's a summer related comic...