Day 58 - Wow it's getting busy

Really busy day at work today, literally been non stop from 9 til 6. But it did make the day really fast. Hopefully tomorrow will be the same and then I'll have a nice easy Thursday and Friday. Shaping up to be a quiet weekend as well, with no going out. Yup, the second weekend of not going out, I did have a little look through some old photos today which really wanted me to go out this Friday, but nope, I'm going to stay in and save money. My day was made longer by train travel, got on my first train home and the doors broke so I was sat in Huddersfield Station for another 20 minutes.

Going to be booking tickets to see The Wolf Of Wall Street next Friday which I'm really excited about. No often I get excited to see a film, but after seeing the trailers for it, it is looking to be a really awesome film. Read a few reviews of it and they all say it's good so hopefully it'll be a good one. If I'm booking tickets also means I can get awesome comfy seats as well. No forgetting the Ice Blasts, I'm going to be all over that next Friday haha.

Was in a meeting this afternoon talking about social media. So we got talking about Facebook and Twitter, but it hit me how amazing these sites actually are. People complain all the time that Facebook is rubbish, but to be honest, it is more about the people that use them. Because Facebook is a great tool for creating events, staying in contact with people and promoting stuff for business and bands. Facebook and Twitter are both such simple sites with massive potential for both themselves and the people that use them. If you really don't like a social media site that much don't use it, and anyone that complains is just a nosey person who wants to check up on people. Also there are loads of different social media sites out there. Instagram, which again I'm a big fan of, is another unique tool to use. Why complain about people posting pictures of food, it is was it is for, and people love food!

Feel like I've ranted about that, was that a rant? I don't even care haha. I've recently got into Vine, it's not been around long but already a community has started on Vine. I've not really posted any vines, but some people have really dominated Vine with funny or really clever 7 second videos. If you've not used it before go check it out.

Hopefully another busy day with edits and meetings and then I'll be back here again blogging about it. Also feel like I repeat myself too much in this blog, but my life is honestly on repeat during the week because of work. But I know if I didn't have this job my life would be: wake up, watch netflix, sleep. Which to be honest sounds amazing right now but would send me crazy in the long run. So here's to work and keeping me "sane"

Day 57 - Christmas is over

Even though I was back at work a while ago more people will have been back to work today being the first Monday of the year, I could really tell as well. The train was packed this morning on my way to work and everyone was silent and looking even more tired than before. I really thought after a nice long break I'd be back and ready to get back at it but I'm really not. I'm probably just in this frame of mind because it's a Monday, and I guess it only gets better as the week draws in.

Last night I got a stupid amount of sleep and I still woke up tired, and I think after the many months of going out every weekend it'll be a long time until I actually get my sleeping pattern properly sorted, but no doubt we'll end up going out and it'll mess it all up again. Usually when I go home it sorts it right out, but what with all the travelling to see family and going out with friends I didn't do myself much good, but this month of staying in should hopefully sort me out.

It is getting seriously busy at work now what with the new building opening next week, I need to do a lot of work with the University site to get all that up to date. Working in the most unorganised place in the world doesn't help, especially when nobody communicates between departments, so things either don't get done at all, or something gets done twice and two departments literally have to go to war to get that one thing done.

That's enough about work, I wish I could tell you some awesome stories about being at home but I have none right now. During the week especially, it is literally: get up, go to work, come home, food and then bed ready to do it all again. I always said I didn't want a lifestyle and job were it would be the same thing day in and day out. But I guess I have to start somewhere, I'm still young and I'm sure lots more opportunities will show up over time.

I don't think I've ever wrote in my blog about what I eventually would love to do, but ultimately I want to perform music and make a living out of it. It's a big dream and it will take a lot of work. But that hard work and commitment will pay off for me. Of course it is one of the hardest industries to get into. I think with the right attitude I can hopefully make it, I like to think of myself as always looking on the bright side of life and not dwelling on any past events, or letting someones negative comment get me down. I admit I have times I think "why am I doing this?". We're all human and we all think like that, but I think with the right mind you can achieve anything you want.

I'll keep on saying that to myself anyway.

Day 56 - Do not want Monday.

I don't want Sunday to end. Monday is around the corner and I don't think I can handle the Monday morning feeling right now. Today was pretty sick, got the band together nailed some songs and had some laughs.

Got some pasta on, I know epic meal for me tonight...been a crazy weekend for food for a change with takeaways and nachoes so it's time to get back to boring food. Making cheese and broccoli pasta, it does smell beautiful to be fair.

Well I'm leaving this a short one, I'm gonna watch some Sherlock and enjoy the last few hours of my weekend before a really busy week of work. Boo.

Day 55 - Nacho night

Went to Asda today and bought a stupid amount of nachos and cheese, and we're all say here watching crappy TV and eating loads of them haha. Gone for some Adventure time to start with then we're going to get heavy and watch a documentary on space, might even crack on a vinyl as well, what a strange mix of things we're doing tonight haha. Guess it's cheap than going out.

Up early tomorrow and we have to make our way to Huddersfield for band practise, not looking forward to the early morning but am looking forward to playing some loud music, and I'll certainly have my ear plugs in to keep to my resolution.

Literally done nothing else today other than eat and restring my guitar, you really cannot beat the feel of fresh strings on a guitar.

I can't think of anything else that happened in my boring day, am sure tomorrow will bring more wonders...

Day 54 - Weekend already. Yay.

It's the first day back in the house with everyone, got Andy coming up from London, and I'm sat on the sofa about to slip into a food coma after too much Chinese food. The best Friday, ever!

Yeah Andy is coming up from the London and we're going to have a few hours band practise over the weekend. Trying to nail these new songs ready for the studio next weekend.

Wow I'm really tired, these mornings are killing me again. Maybe now I'll start getting use them. I don't think this weekend is going to help me either, even though I won't be going out at all.

I'm determined to wear ear buds tomorrow for practise, it's going to get loud like it always does haha.

Day 53 - First day back at work.

Man it was hard to get up this morning. I thought after a few days of maximum sleep and relaxing that I'd get up nice and easy this morning, but no. It was a killer morning. Even though it was a difficult morning actually had an alright first day back, it's a new year with lots of new work with a new building opening up on campus, so more work for me to look after. Keeps me busy and makes my day go faster.

Keep thinking it's a Monday today but it's not and the weekend is only around the corner. Got the band over for the weekend and we're practising new songs ready for the studio next weekend. Plenty of laughs and subway I'm guessing.

For money and charity reasons we're doing the dryathlon this month. It's going to be difficult, but it means we all save some money and we can afford a deposit for a new house next year. We have started looking for some new places in Huddersfield and we want to get it sorted sooner rather than later so we can move straight from one house to the next. It'll be good to get back to Huddersfield and be in walking distance of work and uni and not have to get on a train. Nothing bad about living at Leeds at all but getting on a train every morning is horrible after a while.

Wish me luck for the weekend

Day 52 - Happy New year, back to reality

It's now officially 2014, guessing everyone has been "hitting" the gym and really looking forward to going back to work. Because I sure am...

Well I thought I'd share with you some of my resolutions for the year. I think to many peoples resolutions are to change themselves, and not advance themselves as people. Yeah you can stay healthy, and go to the gym but don't do it for other people.

The first one that came to mind is a little different to everyone else's I'd imagine but I want to protect my ears more, I play and go to gigs, record in a studio and have my headphones on full blast all the and it really is not good for me, so I'm going to start protecting them more because. Think I'm going to buy a nice expensive pair of ear buds for gigs. I know it seems weird me wearing ear plugs at gigs, but you can still hear everything at a gig with ear plugs in but you don't get the harsh noises hitting your ear drums full on. So there is number 1.

Secondly I want to practise guitar more, at least 7 hours a week, just an hour a day after work, working on scales mainly, I don't want to slip away from my instrument like so many other people have. I hopefully one day want to make my living from something I love doing, so the only way I can do that is to practise practise practise.

My third and last is to keep on doing what I did last year and stay confident in myself and not shy away from anything. One thing I noticed last year after loads of placement interviews I started to open up more and more. Now I actually have a placement and have to go to meetings everyday with different people and speak my opinion or help people out it has helped me massively as a person, so I really want to keep up that mentality.

There you have it!

I hope everyone else has a great Christmas and had a great New Year. I have a feeling it is going to be a good year, and I hope everyone else the same.