New beginnings

Just a quick post to say that I have handed my notice in at work and I am going back to University to do a masters.

The times they are a-changing.....

Hannigan

I'm a bit Blog crazy today. I think it's because it's a Monday morning and i'm in the office and I could think of many better places to be!

But I felt I had to say something about Lisa Hannigan.....1 word sums it up = WOW!

I mean this girl is amazing. I saw her play live at 'the Fleece' in Bristol and she was just mesmerising. One of the best female vocalists I have heard. I have seen some really good female vocalists in the past year. My top 3 would be 1. Lisa Hannigan, 2. Anni Rossi, 3. Priscilla Ahn......Honourable mention to Regina Spektor.

Lisa Hannigan has some amazing songs....But it is her effortless smiley performance, humility, beautiful looks and spellbinding voice that leave you completely bowled over by the performance. She also plays pretty much every instrument known to man. Very talented lady...Check her out on her tour.

From the Mundane to the Random to the Future

I like the randomness of life and I like everything to always be exciting. Life annoys me when it becomes mundane and I always try to stop it from being mundane. But there are times when it simply has to be mundane due to a lack of money or you need to really have a think about your future. So you need to make it mundane so that you can have some time to think.

Life is good and I really have nothing to complain about compared to the majority of people in the world. There are wars raging, disease spreading and people starving or being inhumanely treated all over the world.

And I live in a cool city, have a job that pays the bills, good friends, food in my fridge and yet I still moan. I suppose this is a human trait. But it does annoy me....I suppose it's selfish, but I just always kind of want more out of life and it annoys me how I have to wait for it...I am quite impatient.

I have applied to do a masters degree. I don't know yet how i am going to fund it. But I want to change things for my future so I am going to do it.

My friend that I live with in Bristol will be moving to London soon to embark on his dream job that he has wanted since he was a child. I think this is amazing but I am slightly envious, well very envious...I have never known what I wanted to do in life and have always floated and I never really tried hard trhoughout school, college and university. I just assumed that I would always end up doing what I wanted....I had a blind confidence (or maybe arrogance) when i was a kid. So I think this has spurred me on to go and do the Masters and actually work for something for once and I am really excited about it.

Last weekend I went to London with some friends and watched Oasis at Wembley Stadium. They were amazing and have inspired me to buy a guitar and try and learn their songs!
We also met 2 american girls who were in college and were travelling for the summer. They were really cool and they hung out with us for most of saturday as we drank and showed them some of the debauchary in soho and camden. It was fun and they were really cool. Weird how you people come in to your life and then vanish without a trace.

Glastonbury & beyond

I’m sure I’ll learn the best way to write these soon. But for now I am literally just going to tell you what I did a couple of weeks ago around the time of the Glastonbury festival.

Ok here's what I did.

I had the week off work. I went to Glastonbury festival last and it was brilliant. It was 5 days of heavy drinking and doing other things! and watching bands in fields and living in a tent and hardly sleeping and dancing and laughing and meeting people and talking rubbish and watching the sun set and rise and lighting lanterns and watching them sail into the sky and thinking "this is what life should be like everyday"...and then also thinking “I’d probably be dead in a month if this is what life was like everyday”!

When I got back to Bristol I slept for a very long time and the next day I went back up north to see my family for a day which was nice and my mum fed me up because I don't think I actually ate at Glastonbury....Well maybe the odd dodgy burger.

The next day I went and met up with loads of friends and we went to Alton Towers Theme Park and went on all the rides. Weirdly I used to be scared of rides when I was younger but now I absolutely love them. They don't bother me one bit and the scarier the better.

I think a trip to Disney Land with my ex-girlfriend sorted out my fear for rides as I had to pretend to be a real man and hide how scared I was! But I loved the rides by the end of that holiday.....So I do have to thank her for that....If little else!

Then I stayed at a friends (resols) that night and went and sat on a canal and had some beers in the late day sunshine.... and then it was friday and we headed back to bristol.....followed in turn by resol who has bought a motorbike (a 125cc wildhog) and he drove down on that. when he got here we went out on the friday and we met 2 australian girls on a night out. They had been in bristol for a day and were going to st.pauls carnival which was on the following day. In the spirit of travelling and knowing what it is like I said I would meet them and they could hang out with all of our friends at the carnival and we would give them a proper cool day in bristol. The carnival was amazing it is a carribean festival....So there was a big parade and Carribean music...The streets of bristol were jammed full of people dancing and there was amazing food and lots of rum to be consumed. So I ate jerk chicken, drank rum and danced for most of the day...then we all headed out for the night. It was a brilliant night. But I was phenomenally drunk!....It was a long day in the sun drinking a lot - so I have that excuse.

I need to cut down on booze and cigarettes as I am running the Bristol half marathon on September the 6th. So I’ll keep you updated with how that goes.....Although this weekend I’m off to London! There is always an excuse!!

A bit of an introduction.....

A brief summary so far.....

As a child I wanted to be an Astronaut or a footballer. I even had aspirations of becoming a comic book artist or any other type of artist or a writer....But I knew I was destined to do something cool or creative or exciting or something that would make me massive amounts of riches. As such I went through my teens thinking I was too good for school and college and felt that I was better than the teachers. Which obviously they hated and thus hated me!

I then went on to University where I didn't really think about what I wanted to do career wise. I just assumed everything would work out for the best and even though I knew by this time I wasn't going to be a footballer or an astronaut.....I was certain I would still land on my feet and everything would go swimmingly.

As it turns out I am now 26 and I have had serious relationships, I have bought a house with a girl, split up with said girl and sold the house. I have worked in both Sales and Marketing (both of which I did not enjoy), I have travelled the world, I have amassed debts, I have an acute awareness that I am getting older and have no clue what I want to do with my life, I do not have a significant other in my life at present and have actively avoided this for possibly the last 6 months....But I do have great friends and am generally happy and funny and am not bad looking. So I do have some things going for me. I am just slightly lost.

So this blog essentially is to speak to the people who are exactly the same as me. The people who woke up in their early-mid 20's and thought "hang on, I never wanted this"..."I didn't want a rubbish job, with rubbish pay and a house with a girlfriend, who I didn’t love anymore!"......

This is for the uprising who say "NO" I actually want a bit more and then the ones who act on this and reach for more....

Because this my friends is what I did. Yes, I am still trying to find my way and Yes I am still a little lost but I am out there and trying to make a difference and change things. In the last year I have been travelling, I have met great people along the way. I met a great girl in America who came back to stay with me and then went back to America. I have returned to the UK, I have moved to Bristol......Where I party a lot, I enjoy myself, I do what the hell I want and I do it in style. Unfortunately I am still in a job I don't particularly like - but I know it's not permanent as I am trying to plan how to change my life and how to eventually grow up!