I'll Stay With You, The Walls Will Fall Before We Do

Good week - not quite as eventful as the previous week..but decent all the same, and it allowed me to regain some sense of normality!!



Monday - Borrowed my dads bike, and i was gonna cycle down to leith to fill out some forms for my disclosure, my phone was dead at this point so i made a pit stop at polwarth to charge my phone for a bit. Just as well i did because i got a phone call telling me not to go. that wasnt that interesting, but it was true haha! Cycled down to johns, and i decided that i dont like cycling on main roads - i'm just not sure where to position myself when turning right. On the inside of the road? outside of the road?? Also it was fucking windy. Went down to the bank to try and sort some stuff out.. but the woman wasnt in. I maybe had a game of fifa, infact - this could have been the night i beat craig 6-0 - it could have been a lot more, he didnt let me touch the ball from about 65mins. just passed it between his defence.



Tuesday - I did something doing in the morning.. i cant remember what exactly. Mick came over about 2ish to work on some tunes. We got two songs pretty much sorted. I dont think the guys(or me) realise how much i am influenced by cheesy pop from the 80's. One of the songs had like 4 key changes in it haha. we liked it, andy wasnt too keen so we've cut it down to 2 key changes. Mick suggested the idea of a kebab. I was against it, but in the end i needed one. This is now 3 days after the weekend ended, my hangover has ended and i feel great. I took 2 bites out of my kebab, and i had to throw up on the street - this is at 5pm..rush hour, lots of people coming home from work/school etc. so funny. i dont know how it happened! Went over to steels and played a few games of street fighter 4. Its so funny watching steel play it, he gets so excited. he couldnt be beaten. I then announced that i trained as m.bison for when i was 12, and never stopped playing for 10 years(ie when im 22). I kicked his cunt in as m. bison. Came home and played some fifa. bed.



Wednesday - Went into the phone shop to try and get them to actually fix my phone. I was in there about half an hour and eventually managed to get a courtesy phone. Fucking nokia, impossible to work! I've also lost half my numbers - so if ive not been in touch thats why. feel free to drop me a text, im bored! Bought some sunglasses from boots, bloody rip off - i just want some cheap ones, i'm gonna lose them soon! Watched some football, i cant remember who was playing - oh infact it was celtic killie. not a bad game! Huns got beat which was cool.



Thursday - Took me ages to get out of bed, i was so tired. I did something in the morning, cant remember exactly what. Went down to start my teaching in leith/trinity(murrays house) i dont know what the areas called! Still trying to figure out which bus is best to get. Lesson was cool!(btw, anyone want to learn how to play the bass like a god then give me a shout!) Timing on the way home was tough. I sat up the back of the bus for some reason, not thinking that its rush hour and the bus will get full. So at my stop i had to push through a full bus with my bass and amp! Some guy tapped me on the shoulder and gave me my sunglasses. 1 day. still got them. Got home, threw on my work clothes, and ran up the road. Made it just in time for the start. Not a bad shift, total sausagefest unfortunately. Charlie dropped a bomb on us and told us we were there til 4! rubbish. Ah well. I went for a kebab for my tea for some reason, it was absolutely great. I spent a good half hour recapping my weekend to rhona, telling her why it was the best weekend in the world. at the end of it, she goes 'that sounds like a bit of shit weekend?'. words cant explain. i dont know why it was the best weekend ever, but it was. I told some guy 'sorry, you'l have to leave by the door' you had to be there, but it was so funny! Eventually we got in, and just hammered the room. we had to clear 60 tables and 600 chairs. Got out about 330. straight to bed!



Friday - had a band practise, i was so tired - it was a pretty decent practise, got the 2 songs nailed. Although 3 straight hours is a wee bit much.. its bloody knackering. my fingers started to hurt aswell. Got home, i was just getting ready to take my dads bike back when mike came round and played a couple games of fifa. He was going over to steels, then they were going to see Jakil. I phoned my dad and said i was just coming up. he asked if i wanted a chinese.. Ok! So just as i was leaving i noticed that suddenly it had gotten dark. A bit too dark to cycle with no lights on. phoned my dad and he said fair enough..but do you want us to bring your chinese over? yeah that would be great haha! Free chinese, home delivered! After that i decided to go over to steels. I beat mike 9 times in a row at street fighter. Ashamed to say i just used the same move over and over, but i still kicked his cunt in! Steel and Mike went to see Jakil. I just stayed in with Lucy, Bookta and a couple other codgers. One of them looked like he was Shawn Michaels the wrestler.. It was a very strange night, we had a couple beers, listened(and they air guitared and sang) to judas priest and other stuff. I wasnt really up for partying since i had work in the morning, so i went home and felt a little bit drunk.

Saturday - Work all day! I got up in plenty of time to have a shower and breakfast, but i still managed to be 3 minutes late. But dont worry because i finished my work break 3 minutes early, so it all evened out in the end. mental. Each year we have a conference on called walking with god. generally 1200 christians come together to praise and sing and be happy etc. This year it was 'women walking with god'. 1200 women. Now i dont want to say anything that may get me into trouble here so i wont. but some church girls are nice. It was a good conference because everyone was so friendly, noone being a dick. Although towards the end of the day, i must say that some of the women were getting ratty about their sessions being full. Went to Chicken Cottage for lunch with sam. That place is pretty cool. I noticed Kristine was working in Emondo so i popped in on my afternoon tea break to get a coke and catch up with her. its been too long! Hartmanns started working as a tech, so i had some banter with him. It was a good day.
Got home, made myself possibly the worst tea ever. Spaghetti in sweet and sour sauce, with chopped sausages(6 sausages). It was fucking rank. I had some garlic bread too.
Charlie came over with my guitar(finally!) and i tuned his. Let him hear some of the marvels tunes then ran through the rain to scotmid. I got Jammy Dodgers(i love them now) and some buttons. Aids and Mike came up for movie night. Finally, we get to watch Airplane! Mike told us about how fucked he was the night before. He took a shit in the meadows, while Steel looked on vomiting. Fucking brilliant haha. Talking about cheesy chat up lines - i've been told i have to use "Did you fall from heaven? Cos Baby your a star"(click of the fingers and a wink). haha. The thing about chat up lines, is you've just got to tell them the right way, and to the right person and they will work. I bet you i can get that to work.
Airplane is a fucking brilliant film. I fucking love it. Theres just so many gags in it. We watched Airplane 2 aswell. It was probably not the best idea to watch them back to back, since Airplane 2 has the exact same jokes as Airplane, just slightly(very slightly) adapted. That said there are a couple new gags in there, some of which are brilliant. The guys departed and i went to bed.

Sunday - got up and nick offered me a pancake. He made 4 pancakes and used 5 eggs! fucking raj. Heavy assed pancakes. cycled up to my folks to drop off the bike in the snow. made it most of the way, except i had to push at one point cos my bike lost all grip and just stayed on the spot. Had some breakfast then went back to the flat. Had a half hour power session learning some tunes for CATM, then aidan picked me up. Good practise, just learnt a lot of new songs. We now have the capacity for a section in our set dedicated to u2, Michael Jackson, Elbow, and other stuff i cant remember. Nikki dropped me home, then i went into biddys to meet with the manager. So looks like i got a job which is cool! All seems pretty sound there. Walked home in the freezing rain. an old woman asked me for directions to the bus stop(fair enough). I didnt really know, so i sent her to princes to street. She then asked me to go across the road and buy her toilet roll, so i told her to fuck off. Got back and had a couple games of mario kart. seriously i am untouchable at this game. I didnt even have to race the last race cos i was so far ahead. I was fucking knackered when i went to bed, and i think this might have been the first night in ages where i didnt wake up through the night. Excellent.

Next week - Things seem to be on the up. EICC is getting busier, which means more money for me - I am assuming the role of NAPF IT specialist this week. haha. Job at biddys will be starting in a couple weeks, but hopefully i can use this period to propel myself out of this debt ive gotten myself into over the past couple of months. The amount i have to pay for council tax basically gets halved once april starts. Things are on the up. 1f1 marchmont party on tuesday, although i cant afford to go out after. Marvels gigging at the ark on thursday as part of the law society party or something, should be fun! Anyone is welcome to come! We can make a bit of a night of it, i might have a couple beers. Crush and the monkeys start the pub circuit on saturday - got a gig in bonyrigg which should hopefully start bringing us some more monies. Cup final on the sunday too. I look forward to the week!