I miss this
July 13, 2011
It’s been pretty much a whole year since I blogged on a regular basis, and I must say I have missed doing it. I’ve been at home recently, and it was pretty awesome to look back and read all the past entries that I made, some of them sad, some of them downright angry and others just freaking hilarious. I really regret neglecting this blog, so this is once again where I say “I’m not going to neglect you anymore”. I’m not even 100% sure why I managed to neglect it in the first place. It was either a) I was too busy and never had time or b) just couldn’t be bothered. It’s not like I didn’t have anything to blog about, I think it was more finding the time and energy to actually blog.
I fly to Florida next Tuesday, and day by day I have been sorting more things out. The only outstanding this really is to finish my planning, which I plan to do at some point over the weekend when Daria gets here for my birthday. I have a rather extensive list of things that we would both like to do, and I don’t want to wait untill the day arrives to do them. I want to wake up in the morning knowing exactly what we plan to do that day, unless we are having lazy days by the pool, which I would like a fair few of!
Sunday it is my 21st Birthday, and I have already had a freaking sweet present. Adz got me the best of Valve 2011 pack…which is confusing because it has plenty of games made before the year 2011. It’s got some real classics, including the entire Half Life series, and even the latest portal. The only thing is, I don’t have my mouse here, and I could really do with playing some of them so I haven’t even got round to downloading them yet, which should be interesting in itself.
Over 9000
There’s a huge selection of games on there, which is going to take one hell of a lot of space. So, when I’m in Florida, I’m going to try and get myself a cheap SATA drive. (Yeah, going to Florida to get computer components, go figure!) so I can upgrade my laptop. I’m already running lower than I would ideally like.
I also have the tricky decision of which one to install first and play….it’s probably going to be the half life series because since my little stint on it a few years ago, I have wanted to go back and play the games back to back.
I’m not sure if I like the idea of turning 21, partly because hey, it’s the last major birthday untill I’m 30 which means the next 9 years are going to be pretty mediocre compared to the 16, 18 and 21 birthdays. Why has it been arranged so 3 birthdays in the space of 5 years are classed as ‘important’ or big birthdays. It’s annoying. I’m going to make 25 a special birthday, just as like a half way mark to 30. Congratulations, you made it half way to 30! Hell, I’m going to do that with every birthday from now on, once you reach the halfway mark to 30, 40, 50, 60, etc make it special. The other reason why I’m not sure of turning 21 is because I feel like I’m genuinely getting old. Yeah I joked about it when I was turning 19, and even 20 when I wasn’t a teenager anymore, but this time I really do think I’m getting old. What frustrates me too, is that I’m 21 and still really haven’t achieved much. If I had played my cards right the first time round, I actually would have graduated University this year, and what a 21st Birthday present that would be. But on the other hand, if I hadn’t have made the mistakes I made back then, I wouldn’t be where I am now, and I most certainly wouldn’t have met the guys from college, all of them being the kind you wouldn’t want to lose touch with. It’s funny, it’s been a year since we left college and we haven’t lost touch, which for me is a personal best. Admittedly we haven’t met up that often, but even so, by now most people I wouldn’t have so much of spoken a word of digital text to and more than likely would have deleted permanently from my life. I have a reputation for being like that, and it is one I’m quite proud of. My Facebook profile says it all, I have 32 friends, and I would say a good ten of those are family. That leaves 22 people on my facebook, all of which I could say I speak to on a regular basis. I don’t see the point in including people that you have no intention of speaking to, and those who have no intention of speaking to you, it just baffles me. Come to think of it, I do need quite a clear out since I haven’t done one in a long time.
I have been back in Birmingham for nearly two weeks now, and it really is starting to take its toll on me. The main reason is that I miss Daria so much, but I use my age old technique of losing myself in the video game world to keep my mind of the fact it has been two weeks. I can take regular breaks through the day, but then it starts to get to me and I have to play video games again, except two weeks in, they are starting to get as equally frustrating and boring. Luckily, there is only two more days until she gets here and then like I said we go to Florida for a full two weeks in the sun! Waheeeey.
Today I went for a Contact Lense check up and apparently I have a lot of scars on my Cornea which is irregular for contact lenses. The woman asked me if I had anything go into my eyes recently, and at the time I couldn’t think of anything that had particularly been any trouble, it was only when I got home that I realised what it may be. A few weeks ago, I was helping my uncle paint his walls that he had recently got plastered. As with any new plaster, I had to sand down the walls first which created a hell of a lot of dust in a room that was about 10×10, it was tiny. I was really struggling to breathe and there was a tonne of crap going into my eyes. When I was speaking to my dad he went crazy and said I should never have done that without a mask and glasses and gave me a set incase my Uncle wanted help again.
As I have been writing this, I have been listening to the House M.D OST and I really do miss that friggin show. I’m tempted to watch a few episodes this evening, possibly the end of Season 4, which is by far my favourite end of season of any show I have ever watched. I will never forget the rollercoaster of emotion I had when I was watching those episodes.
