The Three P's

Slumped on the sofa watching music channels "Metal Monday" currently Guns n Roses with beer ... after this week its well deserved, loads has been going on all at once and i'm struggling to remember it all

Flat Search, Doctors, Job Centre, Claiming benefit, Browns, Royal Oak, Gym swap, Being lazy will basically sum this up but read on if you like rambley details

Wed, Thurs, Fri me and Chris, without fail each time decided to put off job hunting and follow our profound duty to play more lost planet, it went back to blockbuster on Friday so you know, but we did complete an epic amount

Thurs headed to the job centre to claim benefits, i know i said its not worth it but i sat down on Wednesday and did the call, money is money at the end of the day and it was only 30 minutes long but the centre isn't really what i had in mind, its got more security than interviewers, but you basically fill out a details form, get the claim done and then deal with an interviewer who helps you find work, you have to meet criteria like be up for traveling up to an hour to find work but then he basically searches through job postings based on your background experience. I found out about the royal oak and copa and also learnt i could claim housing benefit which is a major plus, but whilst I'm claiming i just have to go back every two weeks with my job progress and what I've done to find work so they can basically get me off benefits as soon as.

After was the doctors to hopefully get rid of the cyst on my face, lovely i know, plan was to make a small cut and remove the whole thing, job done. Another doctor was with me and the nurse to do the procedure but after having a feel realised just how big it is and how bigger scar it could leave, so instead we agreed to go at it with a needle and see if it could be deflated... was a good idea but it didn't work so when its healed i'm back in 2 weeks to talk it over where most likely they will refer me to the JR and the plastic surgeons. Although if they mention removing skin from my bum cheek or something along those lines, ill be gooone.

Friday met up with Sam (thomas), Adam and Sam for pub lunch and man banter at The Fox as i had half price vouchers left over, so headed on up and i basically got chatting to all the old staff, and nick (manager) asked if i'd clean the pond again, i fancied some extra cash to fund Monday night at bridge so said yes, anyways over lunch we came up with a list things we wanted to do over the summer, in all fairness this was over a few drinks so they get a little more optimistic towards the end but still, here it is

Sat, up at 7 and by 8:00am and i was knee deep in a freezing pond and it was tipping it down, ive mentioned the routine of the pond ages ago when i did it before in another post, so £30 and finished up around 12:15, shower, shave, hair, dressed bag sorted and at chris's by 12:45 and off we popped to town, hit up Royal Oak (got an interview) Then came across Browns and for the sake of it applied (got the trial for 10am on Monday but ill explain that in a minute) Game station and the other one for chris, the headed to the bear (pub) and found Dan on break so had a catch up which was cool, applied there and the mitre pub, the beefeater one slap bang in the centre of oxford. Did try and find copa but we didn't actually know where it was. We then embarked on the treck to the botley road to apply to the military surplus store, first line "hey, i was wondering if you had any jobs available?" ... "well you can have mine if you like and see how that goes" haha he was a dude. Pc world, Currys and Maplins for Chris, then it rained so spent like an hour in pets at home. I could live there happily and wanted the house rabbit there, although it could probably eat the puppy its that huge. so yeah

Sunday, flat hunting, ive been looking at both 1 bed flats and 2 bedroom (ill just find the flat, put an ad out saying im looking for someone to share it with and see what happens) and theres some really nice ones within my budget, i wont have the funds till mid july but something to look forward to and then researching bar tips really for the trial at browns, then pub dinner with family, Gavin and stacy and pulling all the crap back out the attic for yet another car boot...good times? ha

Monday, Got ready and packed in the bag, Black shoes and Black smart trousers then headed to oxford, i was aiming for around half 9 to then pick up a white shirt ready for the 10am trial... no shops open till 10am ... fml but republic and they don't sell plain shirts because they fail at life, but rang up and they didn't mind at all, got the shirt with the pond money then headed on there but ... well... Browns is the most stylish place I've ever applied for so it was a bit daunting. The fact its also a bank holiday doesn't help as it was going to be rammed, but got there and the bar manager was going to be busy for sort of 20-30 minutes anyways and all the staff where sat around having tea and coffee, oh its free to staff, win so got a cuppa but they teamed me up with David (hes french) and Chloe who has also only been there around 4 days, David is a joker and Chloe is rather easy on the eyes :P

To anyone who hasn't been there before theres two sections to the bar in an L shape, the side i'm on we work from tickets sent by the waiters/waitress's so don't deal with the customers. This covers everything from water and Pepsi to all Coffee's and teas (both are from leafs and beans so not instant) to beers/pulling pints and the extensive list of wine's and champagnes. Any cocktails David did as neither of us know how yet, when the drinks are done they go on the bar and the waiter's etc pick them up for there tables. but it was rammed so there was around 8-9 tickets half the time we had to do at once, ha tricky but i pulled it off pretty well. Then theres keeping up glass washing, stocking up the tea and coffee cup stuff, ice runs out dam quickly so needs to be got every half hour or so etc etc little to say it keeps you on your toes. at the end did the stocking up which went ok. So yeah after i'm pro at that side ill move onto the other side of the bar which is a proper bar, where ill deal with the customers, use the cash machine and learn every alcoholic drink and cocktail on the menu... oh did i mention these are free to me too? haha but had the talk at the end with the bar manager and he said "yeah me and you aren't going to have any problems i can see that, so i've got you down for these hours" ... :D yeeaahh he wants to move me over to that side of the bar within like 2 weeks if possible, so good times

Also after headed over to LA fitness as i need to swap to an oxford gym as apposed to the abingdon one if i intend to move to oxford. My God its awesome, It's slightly smaller than abingdon but just awesome is literally all i have to say. I got the tour around etc and it is full of win and they will match my current monthly gym cost, as theres is £59.99 and mines £44.

so yeah after all this i couldn't be arsed to go out for red lion and bridge Monday so laowed, I've got my interview with the Royal Oak tomorrow, Browns know this and said just to ring on Wednesday just to let them know what the plan is. so we shall see

Three P's ... I was born to Pull a Pint of Peroni. :D