Day 141 - Devvo!

Forgot to blog didn't i. So this is a major short one and I'll do the results tomorrow for the beard test.

Went to see Devvo tonight with a friend from college and it was awesome. Here's a little picture

Day 140 - Too much food | Day 60 - Beard test

Wow. I think last night we made the nicest thing I've ever made, every little taste was perfect. Don't think I could eat it again any time soon though, tomorrow I'll post all the photos, I did them in different stages. But here is the final photo.

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The final photo. I'll have this one and my first photo, and the mid photo to compare. Again, not expecting much difference.

Day 138 - The official start of another assignment | Day 58 - Beard test

It's another Friday, which should mean I should be basking in the knowledge that my weekend starts very soon. But I decided yesterday that I wanted to make a decent start on my next assignment which is now in for this time next month, which also means I want to try and get some done this weekend as well, just so I have made a big dent in the 6,000 words they want. I say 6,000 words, the maximum is 6,000 and the minimum is 3,000. But I don't want to flake out as soon as I get to 3,000, I want to get a decent mark on this assignment so I can get a good overall grade for the year, as this in worth the most. Along with my final meeting where my boss gives me a grade of my performance in my industry. I am not too worried about that really, but I have a little feeling she will not be the most generous person with the grading. I won't go into all that again after yesterdays little rant.

We're planning the "Pizza Cake" tonight and hopefully going shopping before tomorrow so we can have everything ready. We can cook this badass pizza in the afternoon and then slip into a food coma for the rest of the weekend and not have to leave the house. Sounds like a perfect way to get us back into the student mind frames we once had for July. All we keep talking about when we all get in how crazy next year is going to be, and the three of us living together are the most easily influenced people in the world, so we'll be out most nights I'd imagine. Already planned what we want to do on freshers, because the last two years we have been pretty calm when it comes to freshers we thought we'd go crazy and try and do a pre-freshers weekend and then do every night of freshers, it'll be tough and probably make sure seriously ill but its final year and we want to go out with a bang, if you like haha.

Last night we thought we'd give an album a listen on Spotify instead of sticking a vinyl on. We went for Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, and just like the title says, it is one hell of a crazy trip. With spoken word sections and mental keyboard solos you can tell a lot of LSD was being taken when he wrote that. It wasn't an album that sticks out in my mind, but I'm really happy I gave it a listen, it just added fuel to the fire that is my love for the 60s. It really was a crazy time back then, with all the drugs and good music going about. To be honest it has only been this year that I found my love for the 60s, but boy am I glad I found it, cannot stop listen to The Doors now.

I think it's time to official start my weekend and eat an insane amount of food and try and get a little bit more work done.

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The "beard test" ends on Sunday, but the plan is to have a normal Sunday and post a picture then we'll pull up the first picture, the day 15 (45) picture of the pill test and then the Sunday picture to see if anything has changed. Going to put it out there and say already that the pills didn't have much effect, but we'll see on Monday.

Day 137 - Busy. Panic. Busy. | Day 57 - Beard test

I thought it was going to be another normal day in the office. It was all morning, I sat her typing away and thinking about when it's about to turn to 12 o clock so I don't feel bad about eating something haha. So it gets to the afternoon and I check my old university email account and see an email from my tutor, in which he is reminding us about the deadline that has been moved from the end of the course to the end of April. Which is just one month away. So now I have to try and sort out an entire evaluation report about my time working here in just over a month. 6,000 words. On a placement that I haven't even finished yet. I think it's mainly to do with the fact that I started my placement a little late than most people, most people start in Summer but I started in September. Which in a way is good because then I can work right up until I start my final year later this year and not be poor throughout Summer. But I think it might be more to do with the Placement Unit here being the most unorganised people in the history of human beings being able to organise. Plus on top of that my personal tutor is extremely old fashioned when it comes to marking work and personal meetings. He is a big fan of paper graphs and telling me I might be stressing because some line on a chart says so, but chances are I'm just a little fed of being treated like a child. But hey ho, I'll crack on with this assignment and then see what he has to say. No doubt he'll pull out his little graphs and tell me all sorts of "important" information I need to know about finishing off my placement year.

No idea where that came from haha. As I'm sure you're aware I am a big fan of Shay Carl and his vlogs. I started watching back in my college days and was surprised to find out he was still going strong after stopping watching for a while. He hit 5 years of daily vlogs last month and is now selling his production company he started up a few years back to none other than Disney! Pretty big news for a guy that started out vlogging his family in Idaho. But he said something on his latest vlog which really got me thinking. Shay selling his company is going to change his family life forever, but he then went on to say that it will probably change his entire family tree which is a very deep thought, and very true. But it's not just money that can change a family tree, just the little things in life can really have a huge impact on later life. I really made me appreciate the little things, little moments you might have during the day which could change everything in the long run. One different move during my day could change my childrens childrens lifes massively in many many years to come. Reminds me of the film Cloud Atlas, great film about how a little thing in time could change something in the future all together. If you've not seen it and a got some time to spare to properly watch a film then go watch it. It also has a fantastic soundtrack.

For the first time today I think I did non-stop work, which is different for me. I usually do an hour blast of work and then give myself 5 minutes, but what with all this work I've been having to work non-stop, which is great really. It is want I wanted from this placement all along. I almost forgot to blog again, was just getting my coat on when I remembered that I'd forgot. Even though last night I set up all my posts for the next 10 days.

Playing on making some Epic Meal Time style food this weekend. We're getting 2 pizzas and just covering it in cheese and cooking it and we're just going to eat it like a cake and destroy it. Tempted to even tweet it to Harley to see what he thinks. But no doubt he'll be making something 10 times the size of that and then laugh at my tiny little beard haha.

I think I'll call that a day. I'll brave the train stations of the UK and meet some of the rudest people in the world. A man actually pushed me out of the way to get on a train last night, how nice of him.

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Getting close to the finish. Still no beard in sight.

Day 139 - Pizza day | Day 59 - Beard test

Today is the day! It's pizza day! We went to Iceland late last night and picked everything up in advance just like we planned. But last minute we decided to stuff some extra toppings inside the pizza cake. Got some BBQ chicken strips, so now it's going to have the added height haha. I'll post a picture in tomorrow blogs!

So the plan is, make nachoes, put the pizza cake in the oven to pre-cook, war nachoes whilst it cooks and then slam on loads of cheese and garlic sauce for the final few minutes so it melts nicely. Then begins the food coma. So if I've not blogged tomorrow I'm still in a coma haha. Going to go for a run in five so I don't feel total crap when I eat all this food haha.

It's a purely chill night tonight, no going out, no drinking. I want to try and get in bed early as well because last weekend I messed up my sleeping pattern and was knackered for work the entire week, wouldn't want to repeat that again.

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Tomorrow will be he final photo. Can't believe it's been 60 days already.

Took this in the sun like a fool so of course it looks even more poor than normal

Day 136 - Look! I didn't forgot. | Day 56 - Beard test

Here I am, blogging before I leave work like I should have been doing for the past 2 days haha. I have a pretty good excuse for not doing it at work though, it has been a crazy few days what with this new project and getting settled with it. The ball is officially rolling though now and we should have some logos and a society set up very soon. Still can't decide if I want to join it or not myself, what with setting it up and coming up with the ideas I feel like I should do, but then if I get involved with every project I get given I'll have so much more work to do. So I'll just see how these next few weeks plan out. It is really nice having some of my own responsibilities again rather than just being given little tasks now and then. I still get the odd phone call asking for advice but I can deal with that along side this work I have now.

Totally forgot that I was going to see Devvo next week. A friend of mine popped up on Facebook and mentioned that he'd seen something about Devvo doing a comedy set in Leeds. We went to college together and use to spend hours on end watching Devvo videos that we use to watch back in High School, so it should be a good laugh next week getting to actually see him. Still makes me laugh that so many people think he isn't a character and there is this actual chav roaming the streets of Doncaster selling bus tickets, well...maybe there are a few haha.

I think I've finally started to get use to getting up early on a morning. I always find myself wide awake before my alarm goes off on a morning, and I've actually been managing to get up before I have to leave without any rush or worrying of missing my train. Only taken me 6 months haha. Even on weekends or if I've had a really bad nights sleep I get up early, but I'm sure once I'm in the final year of being a student again I'll be back to sleeping in to some ridiculously time. Putting the money down for our house for next year tonight, got me excited about all the things I've missed about Huddersfield.

Firstly, my all time favorite bar, the bar where my band started out, the bar that has many a drunken story. Parish. I have a feeling we'll be spending an uncalled for amount of time in Parish next year. Of course just up the road from Parish is Camel, even though it is a bit of a dive at times, and most of the time the music is terrible, we have had some laughs in there in the past. But that doesn't count Fridays. Friday night is Bedlam, which has incredible music and some of the nicest people go on that night. That is one of the only nights I really enjoy going to Camel, and you don't even have to be stupidly drunk to enjoy it. Me and Jonny went one night and must have spent less than a tenner with no pre-drinks and had probably one of the best nights we've ever had, purely because of the great music and people. In between them two beautiful places is a little place called Burger Time. It only open a few months before we left Huddersfield but we went/ordered from there at least one a week or something stupid like that haha. I'm sure the first day we move into our new house we'll visit all three of them places haha, and then the next day, and the next, and the probably the next and if I'm truly honest many, many, many more days after that.

Leeds has been a lot of fun, and I don't regret moving there for a year, it is really nice to have a change and have something different on a night out, but it will be really nice not having to get up really early to get to work and not having to get two trains to get there. I'll be able to walk to and from work which will be great in the last few months of my placement year. Yup, bring on July so I can get back to Huddersfield (never thought I'd say that).

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Hmm, I think the pills have worked a little. Been trying to stop myself from comparing the first photo I took to this one, but I think I'll wait it out until the final day, which is very close. (This Sunday, I think).

Day 135 - I forgot again! | Day 55 - Beard test

Yup, forgot to blog at work again, god damn it. Everything was going so we this morning I knew something was going to go wrong haha.

Actually managed to get up nice and early before my train for once, maybe I'm getting use to these mornings after all. I had some food before I left which is very rare but had to have a black tea because I forgot to buy milk yesterday like the toolbox I am. Work also seemed to go nicely as well with a steady flow of work, but then I remembered on the train that I forgot that one part of the day, sitting down and blogging. I'll actually do a beard test today because it has been a while.

Got the email from Gladtonbury this morning telling me to pay the rest of the ticket money off next week which makes me excited and crap at the same time. Not a fan of paying all that money at once but it has to be done so I can actually go haha. Also to make it so much better The Black Keys have been confirmed which is great news, they're a band I've been wanting to see for a long time now and I'll finally get to see them this Summer.

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Nothing new here. But I guess all these vitamins are still good for me in the long run. I'll have to see if anything changes when I've stopped taking them. Maybe all my hair will fall out haha.