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Taking the brain in for an M.O.T.
Posted Apr 23, 2007
After spending christmas in spain with my parents and much chatting. Followed by a visit to the doctors and much waiting list shenanigans, I went last week for my first counselling appointment to see if i can't do something about this mess whuch for want of a better description i shall call my mind.
Very strange for the 1st introductory session to talk to another person about all my issues / concerns / fears etc. But it was also very theraputic and hopefully as the weeks and months go by i should see some results.
More updates as the weeks go by
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Latest reply: Apr 23, 2007
So this meet thingie....
Posted Apr 23, 2007
I'm not going!!
but with a very good reason 
Last weekend i got an e-mail from an old mate of mine from university, who isn't often in the country these days. He works as a TV contractor for the A1 GP (like formula one, only well not really) He's managed to organise some VIP tickets for this weekends race and asked if i like to go.
So this weekend i shall be off to brands hatch for qualifying and the race, with pit access and lots of free booze in the vip tent 
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So Very, Very Bored..
Posted Mar 9, 2007
For Bob's sake this is driving me up the wall!!
I've had no laptop for about three weeks now (this is being posted in a few stolen moments on a friends machine)and i've started to realise exactly how dependent i am on internet access for my entertainment.
I've spent the last few weeks vainly trying to amuse myself, searching desperately for anything worth watching on TV, for any books i haven't read at least three times and any console game i haven't played to death.
I've even gone to bed stupidly early on more than one occasion, having completely given up.
Bah i say Bah!
No PC + No money makes Northen Boy very very narked off.
If anyone needs me i'm off to watch some paint dry!
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Latest reply: Mar 9, 2007
Bleurgh!
Posted Sep 25, 2006
Bah! not feeling particularly good at the moment, i suspect the upcoming birthday combined with having spent the last week at home by myself. I really wish i knew what i wanted at the mo so i could do something to stop feeling like this. if anyone needs of i'll be half way down a bottle of gin
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Latest reply: Sep 25, 2006
The stigma of singledom
Posted Sep 13, 2006
Oh dear i hear you cry not another moan or a rant, well no not really but this is something that's been buzzing around in my head and i thought i would whack it out and see what people thought (oh dear the tones gone downhill in the opening section )
Over the recent bankholiday i was invited round to my old housemate and mucker from University days house for the traditional barbeque and falling down session.
So rumbled along to be greeted by a group of old mates i've only seen on and off over the last few years as well as my more regular friends, and within the first few mintes i realised just quite how far our lives had diverged. With the exception of myself everyone was there with either wife/husband or long term partner.
Now just to make it clear that doesn't bother me in the slightest, i'm pretty much resigned to singledom and really have no desire whatsover to change the status quo, but it was fairly easy to see that my singledom was in some way marking me out in peoples subconcious as that little bit more odd than normal. I don't think this is something that just occurs here but rather in society in general, you pay more to go on holiday as a single person, you get funny looks if you see a film by yourself and god help you if you go out for a meal alone and i just can't help but wonder why, whats so wrong with being me, myself and i and not part of a couple. Great for those that want to be like that but why is it that if your single your seen (in most cases subconciously) as that little bit defective?
Meh anyway that's that off my chest, although i would be interested to hear others opinions
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