I am my own worst enemy

So much again over this week and i'm way to tired to remember everything but i'll go with the last 3 for ease

Sunday, nothing really, working and half way through asked, why the hell is it so busy today? "Chris you do know it's fathers day? right?" ha so we got hit hard all day, but there offer was giving away half a pint of pilsner to every father, me and chloe took full advantage, pilsner and steak. win

Monday started off by rolling out of bed 15 mins before i needed to head out and play tennis with ash, was all good besides missing breakfast and until we turned in the car and went "so have you got any tennis balls, no, do you, shit?" ... never the less went on a hunt in botley with no real luck but rikki's back and just round the corner so headed to his for a catch up and to steal his balls ... :) ha.

Played for 30 minutes at westminster but these are court's we aren't surposed to be on, never been caught before but being summer there starting to watch the courts now i think so we got asked to pay £7.50 (yeah laow) or leave, so took the latter option but she was lovely about it. Anyways this was followed by food shopping, and sneakily adding to the trolley prawn crackers and a pasty for brunch, then out to playfield for football times with sam adam etc always fun times, cycled back home to sort myself out, sweaty muddy football look isn't really in this year ...

15 mins later meet up with harry + his nans own alcohol concotion and cycle it in.
Chilled at sarahs with the usuals + wine,
headed to red lion + rose and saw tash kaur and alex which was cool as its been ages.
Then briskly off to bridge for free entry + double vodka's and lem, shots and 2 friends birthdays, yeah i was out £10 and managed to get a little messy, thats bad but bridge was just so so good :). Although event of the night was one of those moments that when you hear about you shouldn't laugh but you just do, about half way through the night, the friend on her birthday got messy, as you do but triped on the outside stairs at bridge, fell penguin style downwards and spent the rest of it in a&e getting stichs. Just Oh bless

Today, woke up hanging, badly. Really badly. helped around the house and finishing moveing rooms around now my sisters is painted, this ment dismantling, peice by peice, the hefty bed of jennys, lame but then doctors, the lump on my face i've just decided to leave there for the time being, i can't be arsed with it anymore but made it worth while as i got my hayfever stuff ... well i would of done but i didnt realise i have to pay for it, as i'm now 18. fml but football at playfield, bbq by the river with matt, then sams for whats known as a burnout session, this means gossip and catch up on recent events, our new plan for the summer? he has a hot tub, we are going to get in the chinese whilst in the hot tub before any night out, take a stroll down the river in the sun and get on it ... same goes for after getting on it, hot tub in the early hours with chinese left overs? i can't think of any plan better than this.

Oh and some pictures that just aren't fb worthy and some You me at six. night




























The theres about 10 others that are just colours like this:

I’ve a smile on my face

Ok i'll do this now as i'll be working most of the week and just wont get round to it, here's the post but with some added phone pictures as i've finally stumbled across the USB lead for it, also you know when you come across a song you won't get out of your head for the rest of the day? i came across this and had to put it on repeat, loudly. Click here.

Haha, here's one that sums up the morning of last weekend. Death, slightly warmed, this being after breakfast, Rawring at milk? Yeeaah

Thurs, Fri basically just work, Sat was a little different. Had work from 5 but it was the first england match of the world cup, bit lame i missed out on heading to Adams with everyone for it all but they have a mini tv behind the bar at browns so watched it on that whilst having a laugh with some of the customers, mainly at englands expense, 1-1 to the usa? fuck that but yeah was cool, i got invited out to a work friends 21st birthday do at Milano's down cowley? I have no idea what or where that is but i didn't finish till 12pm so laowed, Adam and his general group where heading out after the england game and sam fancyed man banter times so funded me to come on with after work (as i have no money for a few weeks) and headed to Thirst. Everyone was beyond smashed but it was dam good times.

A few jager bombs later, left them to it and headed to kukui to meet harry and a few others, they had closed the doors but i managed blag not only entry ... but free entry ha Then me and harry blagged free beer and shots. Win so raved it up there till early hours

Met back up with Sam after and headed on down to ali's van. Ali is a legend to us as we went there all the time last summer, he only had a dribble of curry sauce left, so gave us another box of chips for free. The headed on down to sarah's as she offered a mini house party and then beds, although it was many a banterous time before we actually got there and met up with her

She then couldn't get harry or esther to open the front door, as they couldn't hear us and where more than likely in the garden, so not really thinking me and Sam went straight into action, he boosted me over an 8ft fence, to which i then scaled 2 back gardens, but just as i was jumping off into her garden, Sam and Sarah came through the back door and met me, harry let them in, so was completely pointless ha but pretty fun.

Plan changed, Sarah was heading to Esther's house, so after more banterous times out the front with harry, Sam, Esther and a random Australian (waiting for Sarah to, well, i'm going to go with pamper her nose whilst Hugh helped haha) me and sam set off back to kennington, add in being followed by chavs and nearly being arrested we didn't get in till around 5.30am at least, next day had to leave at around 11ish to walk it on back to work for 12 - 6. Longest walk and shift of my life to then get home and have to paint my sisters room pink. Wonderful

Today I've sat around and done sweet fuck all as its my day off from work, well mainly sweet fuck all, i did fix both snapped cables on the bike, so no walking back from oxford anymore and blog, productive enough for me today

Oh here's some others pictures too, All terrible quality being phone pictures

Drunken man banter with Chris and Greg between pubs?














When ella came to visit














Random ones of the Courteeners gig with hannah ages ago at the 02 Oxford

Your a Catastrophe ... Well your Redonkulous.

I was going to blog... then cba and watched Shrek: Forever after or the 3rd one,
Credits always = win



xo

I'm a bartender, Not a clown

So much has gone on over this weekend its insane, so this will all come out in a jumbled and long arsed mess probably as i remember stuff, so get some tea if your planning to read and good luck

Friday, work then plan was to meet up with people in uni parks and chill in the sun but idea's that happen spur of the moment the day before tend to flop as this one did, so laowed headed home and mum was planning a bbq with family friends, with me as the cook, win. chris came up to as a similar plan of his flopped, had pimms and beer and put a ridiculous amount of bacon on the bbq, as any true man should to make the man burger, it had A LOT OF BACON ... and cheese ... and MORE BACON, Yeeah

Saturday, Work, then cycled home, changed, cycled back and met up with esther, sarah, alice (ross) harry and mel at red lion. Instantly though me and harry laughed as we had both busted out the shorts, win. They where just finishing up lunch and plan was to go back to sarahs and then onto a house party, so me, harry and mel did a beer run, now i've been pouring peroni all week but hadn't actually had the chance to drink one, being on limited funds, but we pooled what we had together and came out with 4 big bottles of peroni, vodka and coke and red bull for sarah as currently she can't drink. headed to hers and it was just nice and chilled, music drinks and laughs, love these times and its just like last summer, apart from the group will get bigger as people get back from uni etc, also most of the photos are on fb already and they are BUFF ha

Finished up and headed out to the party, we got out the front door and a group of people ran past shouting "quick we need to get to thirst" ... if only harry had kept his mouth shut haha, he went "what, they wont get into thirst" ... she was small, black and came at us all with the attitude, "what you chattin about?, you don't know neffin, wanna see my ID" ... ha, but one of the boys pulled her away to which harry mentioned he'd only just got out of prison, lovely but by this point me and esther where in fits of laughter, The girl heard this as she got a few metres away and came back, "what you laughin at", esther ran and closed the door, i stood in the way and she went straight for the nipple push ha, she cleared off after this and it probably could of turned ugly at any point but at the time we where all laughing to much to worry or notice, just not many nights start like this ha

headed to cowley and found zak along the way who not only had busted out the shorts but the same ones as me ha, primark ftw, but it was pretty much your standard house party, lots of random people, beer pong, lots of booze (although rum was a bad idea), richard castle, music, pretty standard night, but headed on back to sarahs with some others in the early hours, guestimate of around 4-5am (not sure when though as i passed out on the sofa basically on arrival).

Sunday, 7am in the morning = looking and feeling like death. The just ill feeling, but harry cooked an uber breakfast and i set off by 8:30 back home, changed showered etc, then back to work for 12-5 ... longest shift of my life. Got home chilled and watched the finale to 24, i haven't watched the series really but wanted to see how they finished off jack bauer, one of the hardest men on tv, ... tense, clever with hard man moments but he didn't die, should of watched the series as it would of made more sense and seemed less lame of an ending.

Monday, was just one of those bad days that you just can't control, just have to shut up and get on with.

first off i nearly ended up in A&E, Headed out for work at 12 coming down cumnour hill at really fast pace, car didn't judge it right and pulled out where the speed camera is, to go across, i pulled on the back brake i have left and managed to miss it by a few inch's but the cable snapped. If there was any traffic that day i'd of gone clean into the back but there wasn't, someone likes me up there i guess, feet out but i didn't stop till the seacourt bus stop, then walked the rest to work and bit taken back by it.

Got there and they had a Spanish tour group of 70 people booked, jesus christ is all i have to say. It was insanely busy to the point me and chloe where out waitering food and cleaning the tables to help, then doing 50+ coffee's when the machine can only do 4 at a time, so lame. but there was 8 bottles of wine left over, the waiter who's table it is gets to decide what happens with it, he took 2 and left the rest for everyone else so i got a bottle of red, little win for the day. At 4 headed off on break to uni parks with the same crowd as sarahs + curry, hugh, alice (foreman), hannah (collier) and harry (score) they where pre drinking before bridge so generally just more laughs, again another little win for the day, Got back to work for 6 after 2 carlesberg to again another fully booked restaurant. lame

One of the biggest groups in the evening was a 19th party for around 20-30 of them, this is when it dawned on me just how preppy/rich kid infested browns is, some of them are lovely but some are very stereotypical and in a word cunts (leaving aside the fact the phrase "i would" came up a lot), but want to know how much there tab ran up to? ... take a guess and i'll post the answer in the next one, but they had both red and white wines, 2 courses and numerous beers and champagne cocktails. anyways i was supposed to leave at 9 - 10ish for bridge monday and to catch up with a friend for her birthday and got offered to. but heres a question i put to you, what would you do?

• Say ok, change and head off to bridge and the birthday, when both you and your bar manager know you would be leaving them in the shit as the big party wouldn't finish till half 10, adding in you need the money for a flat and your mum would castrate you if you lost the job. but you wouldn't get to go out to bridge and see a certain someone you like and enjoy a birthday with a close friend letting her down, and shes not the understanding type.


• Say no, stay and work till 12 to help them out, to be in your managers "my god i owe you a favour" book. giving up bridge (miss free entry, no funds for later) and seeing the person you like, then let your close friend down on her birthday.

I took the second as much as i didn't want to and worked till just up until midnight, finished up and tryed to ring jennie/text to find out where they where, no reply to which i realised i had a bike with no brakes, so had to trek the whole 8-9 miles home on foot, it wasn't just raining it was pouring and only work stuff, i'd had nothing to eat all day besides sugarpuffs and 2 carlesberg, so just so epicaly uber lame. but thinking back, on long treks all you can do is think really, i like to think of it as the more mature choice, putting responsibility's over social life, then got a text saying "I hate you." ... oh good times :/

Tuesday, again work in the morning and asked to do the evening as another favour to help out, so 2 hour break, on break i just read a book mum found on the parachute regiment to kill time, dam interesting as it tells you why the army did things the way it did in Afghanistan and the thinking and logic behind it, or the lack of it in some cases from higher command but yeah. Evening shift though it dawned on my just how much i love my job, and how much i'd learnt in the week i've been there. I've been given crash courses in everything, been thrown in the deep end and can do everything on the restaurant side of the bar now, i know all the wines, champagnes and the mixers, i.e pimms royal, bellini etc beers, soft drinks, how to make all coffees, i have my own card for the tills and can work them, i'm dealing with all orders on the coushty bar (hes Czech and loves that word, and its his side of the bar) which is basically the bar area, where i deal with customers and waiter all the tables there. but I'm just excited to get there and learn something new, sounds a bit gay but still, oh and having made latte's for all the kitchen staff when they want i get free food now when ever, win. but i start on the cocktails properly next weeks so ill post how to make them as i go when i get davids bible as some are dam nice.

Today, done fudge all. literally, although i think its well deserved, hannah (brookes) popped over for a catch up and now its time for me to clean up my room and do something productive besides blog ,fb, doctor who and listening to music

laters

xo

Rise of the Vulture

Laptops on 10% from chilling in the garden so this is going to have to be quick

But i'm back from my mini adventure to wantage and it was pretty awesome, Wootton - Wantage = Such an easy bike ride too, maybe around 12 miles but its just one straight road so i was there in no time, averaging like (major guestimate) 20-25 miles an hour which is always fun. theres something about going fast on a bike

Anyways went there to go and see a friend katy, we basically just had a huge catch up as its been years and i got shown the joys of wantage, blockbuster is the place to be however ha just because it has sash who i haven't seen for ages either, i didn't realise they knew each other till about a week ago, small world but had pub times at the swan, park times and even played in the sprinklers, like the ones in abingdon. yeah we are that cool but made the most of the sun. It was just an all round good time. Stayed at there house and in the morning i got introduced to Bizarre ER, pretty self explanatory from the title but its so bad in some places just from showing horrific wounds but is so intriguing and pretty funny, it hooks you in, watch it on bbc i player. I would be but i'm watching outnumbered. I also had a few bits of katys stuff round my house still from ages ago but forgot to take the labyrinth with me, i remember not liking it to much first time round but not much else about it, so watching it again tomorrow

I also didn't realise just how badly burnt my neck was until i cycled back home today, its rather sore and just as i get back the last of the aftersun is gone. lame

Anyways, watching that and heading to bed as i start full time work tomorrow at browns, i rang and accepted the job, i did have the interview with the royal oak and it went really well. I was supposed to go to the trial shift today but i'd just much rather have the chance to do bar work than chef work so didnt go. There looking for bartenders too so might ring her back, apologise and see if she needs some more part time, just to get more hours. Also on that front a company called Silver servers (Catering company who do events, waitering chefing, bartending) rang me up today (i applyed online last week) to arrange an interview, i'll talk to them properly tomorrow but be the same thing, part time for more hours.

So yeah, laters xo

This kept me cycling, fast! ha as did the whole album, Bring on reading :D

If I was to have just one more day, I'd make sure that I spent it without you

I've been chilling to a few things this morning, I was watching a top ten unsighned list yesterday and these guys came up, i'd almost forgotten about them

Now setting off cycling to wantage



And a bit of canterbury, Naturally ...

Yeah Yeah i forgot to add it in

Heres the list of stuff we came up with:

• Beach, somewhere like bournemouth
• Theme park, either drayton manour or thorpe park as adam offered to drive
• World cup ... yeah nothings going on until thats over but we thought of heading to london for one of the important games as there bound to have a big screen there, also find a pub in town to use for the world cup
• Blackpool, beach and theme park in one?
• Coral reef, because its awesome
• Uni parks, spend most sunny days there instead of playfield as its generally more social tbh
• wales, as theres a festival going on or something or other, ask sam
• Strip club, Thirst lodge is one aparently so fancy checking it out
• DRINK ... in caps across the whole book
• Zoo in london
• Europe trip, amsterdam was mentioned, heavily
• Slip ash drugs/get him hammered, hes a friend whos a little socialy retarded in clubs with his gap jumper, so what a nice way to create entertainment ... did say they got creative and optimistic