A Yorkshire blog

Really wanted to progress things with Ella tonight, but totally bottled it. I dropped some hints, but I just could'nt do it outright. I'm seeing her again on Saturday, hopefully I will stop being a chicken and ask her out properly! We were having such a good time though and I didn't want to spoil it...

I've learnt her favorite aftershave is JOOP, so guess who's going to Debenhams or somewhere in the next couple of days. Is Joop expensive? I don't know, but what I do know is that for Ella it is worth it!

Goodnight

xx

Can't believe it! I got all phsyched up to tell Ella how I feel and guess what..she doesn't turn up, and when I ring her to ask where she is, she said that she thought it was next friday...bugger! Now judging that Ella and I have known eachother for nearly two years I know that this was a genuine thing and she isn't in the business of letting people down, even if she is not always the most punctual of people. We have agreed to another meeting next Thursday. Apparently I had put in a text to her on Sunday to meet NEXT Friday so I guess I should have put THIS Friday. My plan now is (and perhps some advice to you all) is to put the precise date that you mean, e.g Friday 29th February at 9pm.

On the note of it being February 29th something that I started doing in 2004 was to write a list of questions and then answer them on the following leap year day (i.e Feb 2008) So these are the questions I posed myself on Feb 29th 2004.

1. Will I have a girlfriend?

Err no, might have done if Ella and I hadn't crossed wires though!

2. Will England have won a major football tournament?

Yeah right, we were crap in both Euro 2004 and the World Cup in 2006.

3. Will I have a paid job in the media?

Err not currently, but I did work for BBC York and Leeds in 2005

4. Will I still be living in Leeds?

Yes

5. Will I be an uncle?

No, but I have an adorable step-niece and nephew.

6. Will there have been a terrorist attack in BRitain?

Sadly yes on the 7th July 2005 in London.

7. Will there be a Conservative government in power?

No

8. Will the England Cricket Team have won an Ashes series?

Yes, in 2005 and it was fantastic, shame about the return trip down under the following year.

9. What division will Hull City be playing in?

The Championship and by 2012 it could be the Premiership!!

10 Will Manchester United have won another League Title?

Of Course!

See if you can think of any questions to be answered on Feb 29th 2008!

P.S Ella just texted me and she's sorry about tonight and honestly didn't realise that I'd meant tonight, instead of next Friday, and she seems keen to meet up next Thursday!

Gives me more time to rehearse in front of the mirror I suppose!

So, I'm going to meet Ella tonight. I want to tell her what I have wanted to say to her for the past year, that I love her and want to us to be together, as I think we have wasted enough time being friends......

Wish me luck!!

Have we all recovered from the earthquake??

I spent all day at work thinking about what "earthquake" songs I could play at my next gig..I came up with these..

MARTIKA - I Feel The Earth Move under my feet"

JERRY LEE LEWIS - A whole lotta Shakin' Going On"

"Shake Rattle and Roll"

JONNY KIDD AND THE PIRATES - "Shakin' All Over"

We are also very fortunate that in Britain, on the rare occasion that there is an earthquake, we can all talk about it the next day... despite having a dodgy government and crap weather etc, we are very lucky to live in this country of ours...

In other news..

Currently I am seeing a girl, called "Ella"... well,.. just as friends at the moment. She used to work with me in the shop, but she left last summer. I still meet up with her nearly every week and we are really great friends, I do like her a lot and want to get with her. The only thing that was sort of stopping me is the fact that she is eleven years older than me (36 to my 25). However, I have come to the thinking that if she really is the one for me, then I have to go for it and try and see if I can get it together with her. As we are meeting tomorrow night (Feb 29th) could she be thinking the same thing?? We have known eachother for nearly two years, and when we go out together we have such a great time and there is definitely a spark between us. Well, let's see what happens...

...and yes I did text her asking whether the earth moved on Tuesday night!! (yikes!)

So another weekend is upon us. So what is in store for me? I have no disco tonight. I feel fidgety round about 6pm on a Friday when I've no gig. I feel I should be loading the car up with my equipment and driving off to my residency in South Leeds, or going to some dodgy Working Mens Club and DJing at somebody's 40th, watching everybody drinking, dancing and having fun, while me, the soberest person in the house plays all the family favorites..."Come On Eileen," "Staying Alive" and "Greased Lightening". Nice work if you can get it though. It's certainly better than stacking shelves! Also on non-disco Fridays I keep checking my phone, in case anybody has rung wondering where I am because I'd actually had a booking, but forgotten about it.

It's 9pm, nobody's rung..I'm OK! Nobody's expecting me.

I do have a disco tomorrow though. A much-awaited 13th birthday party. Bless them. They've e-mailed me a 4-page list of requests for me to play and so have spent the past hour sorting this list out into "arriving songs", Dance and Rnb etc.. Been fun though and a good test of my music knowledge of the past year. I think I am just about in tune with Thirteen year olds musical tastes, Rihanna, Cascada, and that flippin' Soulja Boy record, that's swept the nation...

It should be a good night. It's amazing how thirteen year olds have such a better time than their adult counterparts and they don't even have any alcohol to get them going!..at least not that I am aware of!

So tonight instead I'm playing gooseberry down the pub with Scott and Kirsty, (housemate and his girlfriend). Hopefully our friend Mark will be there too, another single bloke, It won't make me feel as bad as I watch Scott wipe the floor on the pool table, to the sickly adulation of both the pub and an onlooking Kirsty.

By the way, my local pub is probably the worst pub I have ever drank in. Even on a Friday Night the place is empty, save for a few hardcore locals who sit, drink and play pool (and on a good night put some tunes on the jukebox!!), the place is a moth-eaten hole, of which you wouldn't even wish your mother-in law to go in...but it happens to be very near our house and Scott thinks it's the greatest pub on earth (for some reason).

I got bored with Facebook! Quite frankly logging into my account and finding 10 new notifications asking me to "rate my sexiness" was really making me crave for something more intellectual and rewarding to do on the Internet. Don't get me wrong, it was nice for a while to catch up with old friends that I've lost contact with, and yes if I had to rate my sexiness, I suppose it would have to be about 6 out of 10. - (7 when I'm in a going to the gymn phase!) But please, does everything really have to boil down to the lowest common denominator?

So, I guess you want to know a bit more about me then? I'm 25, single and looking, (i'm a bloke! I don't do "I want to be single" phases). I have two jobs, one is very dull, working for a well known supermarket chain and the other as a self-employed DJ, who does birthday parties, weddings, etc around where I live. I enjoy that far more and is my real vocation in life I believe, but as yet is not enough to pay the bills!

In 2003, like many graduates I was faced with a stark choice. Do I stay in my adopted city, or move back in with my parents, who live in a very small town in a rural part of Yorkshire, where there are no jobs and precious little to do, other than sit in the same pubs every night, wishing you were somewhere else!

Luckily my housemate, who I met in the final year at university who for the purposes of this blog, will be known as "Scott" (as I'm sure he will crop up from time to time ) had a similar choice too, and way back in 2003 we decided to stay in Leeds and have been housemates ever since. Scott now has a girlfriend of three months, "Kirsty." I like football, supporting three teams, Manchester United, Hull City and Farsley Celtic, the latter of which Scott and myself attend matches regularly

On a recent note I was at Old Trafford the other Sunday for the Munich commemoration derby game with Manchester City, which it was a privilige to be involved with and something I don't think I will ever forget, hopefully except United's dire performance on the pitch.

As it is my first blog, I don't want to ramble on too much, so there we go, my first ever blog...comments please!!