Taking on the world...

Well it's been a pretty long time since I last wrote in my blog so
about time for an update. I'm still training hard-kickboxing is going
well and the last few times have shown real promise. I think all the
weights ate going to my head haha-completely lost it a few times
including one fairly notable incident where I mangled a controller in
my house and another where I lost it with a friend. It's all fun and
games though!

Today I decided that I'd like to conquer the sea, so Mathew and I
headed down to Langland Bay to take on nature. It wasn't particularly
cold and in fairness it was a lot easier than I expected. I think we
shall have to try again in the middle of winter for a truer test. My
next challenge will be a mountain anyway... Haha and though that does
make a funny joke if you know the ins and outs of my life I do not
mean it like that haha. I'm actually going to climb a mountain... Like
snowdon or something.

So anyway I bought a signal booster for my mobile last week. It's
incredible... I had to put it up like a tv aerial outside but now that
it's installed I get perfect signal throughout the house. Definitely
worth the money and long delivery process. Finally I can just sit in
the living room and not have to worry about balancing my phone on the
front window!

Got a pretty good day lined up tomorrow hopefully-we've started
running in the park on Sundays for the last few weeks and tomorrow
we're going for the old six miler! If it goes too well I'll be
questioning why I didn't do Swansea bay haha. Got some other things on
too but then I have to keep some things off the Internet right?! Haha.
Anyway it's getting late and u think my iTunes sync is almost done so
can finally throw a movie on. Wish me luck world... First day in uni
again Tuesday!

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Update me!

What a busy and tiring week so far! Firstly... I'm now enrolled at
Swansea Metropolitan University haha. So every Tuesday from the 23rd
I'll be there 9-530 studying for my ACCA qualification. I really can't
wait to get the ball rolling... Been waiting to start some sort of
course for about a year!

I've had my 2nd kickboxing lesson back here and that went really well.
Been really pleased with my progress lately-thought everything was
going great but now looks like Rhodri is I'll and pulling out of what
would only be our third lesson... don't think I can face not showing
up so soon after starting so might have to go alone this time.

So I totally balded the tyres on my car :-( had them replaced today...
At least I won't get any points! Still it's a bit annoying how they go
down so quickly... Someone should invent a special tyre that doesn't
wear. Please.

Oh and I'm still amazed at the boxing result... It really seems like
everyone in Britain hated Amir. Tough break haha. And unlucky Murray
in the tennis-he did really well. gg.

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The weekend has landed

It's the weekend woooooot wooot! Saturdays the only day I wake up
thinking bout, cuz any other day is just another day no doubt...
Something something something... But imma be okay-cuz it's a Saturday!
Haha good game UD Project.

Anyway! It's about half passed midnight and I'm still in agony from
kickboxing. Getting out of bed for work was almost impossible... and
by that I mean a little worse than usual! Annuhooot it's all good.
Still really confused about this whole man city thing... And trying to
decide if I should get up early to get Swansea/Cardiff tickets. I'm
not always this excited about soccer but the last week had been pretty
awesome. You like bananas? I got her number-how do you like them
bananas?! Ahhh Matt Damon you... Boston Rebel!

LOL that reminds me of that film The Game Plan with Dwayne The Rock
Johnson and that little girl. Joe Kingman-the man, the legend. If I
was a successul athlete I would be just like him... pre-nightmare
situation. I watched that film on a flight... Good times.

So I'm going to play some badminton this weekend. Having played it
once before in my life I can safely say I shall suck balls. From what
I remember though it's far more skill based than tennis or squash as
it's so much slower... so at least my appalling fitness shouldn't be a
huge factor! Robot house!!

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Life Maintenance

Don't you just hate those days where you only seem to stop working
just before bed?! I think I got 4 hours sleep last night before
heading off to work this morning, blind to the troubles that lay
ahead. Without going into too much detail, it was a bit hellish today!
Anyway after getting home I immediately began tidying my bedroom-a
mission of epic proportions, the like of biblical tales. By the time I
finished and did a brief workout it was gone nine... So I grabbed a
protein shake and just crashed here on my sofa watching Sky Sports
News! Heaven.

So they just compared the finances of top Premier League clubs... Man
United were 2nd last week with a total of 1.4bn pounds behind them-not
bad. Now everyone knew Chelsea were by far the richest team-apparently
Abramhovic's fortune totals over '11bn! So Chelsea were over ten times
richer than their biggest rivals and managed to buy their way to a few
league titles and a CL final :D - so what on earth are Man City going
to do with their '550bn backing???!??! I thought the shock would end
with Robinho but SSN are seriously reporting that City will pay
whatever it takes to bring in ALL the best players in January-all of
them! So Ronaldo might go, Torres had been mentioned, Fabregas...
they're basically playing fantasy football over in Dubai. Now how on
earth do they have that much money?! Could it be the fact that we're
being raped with fuel prices?? It's no coincidence that the price of
fuel creeps up constantly UNTIL we put up slight resistance and
SOMEHOW they come down slightly. Now surely our complaints should have
nothing to do with it? The price should be the price... Related to the
effort involved in sourcing and transporting the fuel to us. But as it
stands we're being bled broke while there are people in Saudi with
'550bn fortunes playing Championship Manager in real life with the
money they've worked out of us. Surely when there is that much of a
spike in wealth there is obviously something out of place?! Maybe I'm
just bitter but sometimes the economic system this world adopts really
pisses me off! That and I don't like Man City.

Anyway rant over. Really looking forward to tomorrow now-it's the
first kickboxing lesson AND the start of the NFL regular season-boom!
I've been waiting so long for football to come back. We were just
getting into it last year and the playoffs were incredible-it just all
ended so quickly with Eli's incredible evasion and that wonder catch!
But the months of off season turned into weeks, days and now finally
hours!! And on Sunday T.O. and my awesome Dallas Cowboys will be back,
yeahhh!!! Haha just a little pleased. And after a few kickboxing
lessons I'll not only be much fitter like the good old days but I'll
also be able to wear my red belt arrogantly on my dressing gown
again... bonus!

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Fighting for fitness!

So Rhods and I went to check out the local kickboxing club tonight. We
just caught a glimpse of the end but it looked fantastic... just like
the classes I had in Cardiff. I was actually telling Rhodri about
certain exercises we did and almost as if they could hear me (from
over 50 metres and behind glass) they were doing them within minutes.
We're having a free lesson Thursday night to see how we get on-can.
not. wait.

Anyway aside from kickboxing my day has been fairly quiet. Apart from
the car journeys which have been blasting! I have a tune to recommend
to anyone that might ever read this-"only in dreams" by Weezer. Make
sure you listen to the whole thing though so you get the gigantic
beauty of an ending. If I could play guitar this is what I'd play....
well with lots of Sum 41 and "Catch Hell Blues" by The White Stripes.
But anyway it's well known that I'm far from the rock type. Love my
bass music, love my black music. And have really fallen into the blog
trap of discussing bands!

So Mathew has decided we should go to Camden to see this random dance
act at the end of next month. Small venue, dodgy area, unheard of
electronics and over a months notice?haha like I need to think about
that! Should be fun. Now if only we could get Tiësto tickets!

So anyway I tried writing a tweet from the pub today but I don't think
it worked over the edge network... curse this area. Hopefully I just
messed up and it'll either show up later or even next time... But
having to have 3g or wifi would be just a little annoying. Just like
Robinho going to Manchester City! :O

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Just another manic Monday!

So I've finally gotten to sit down... And looking at the clock it's a
respectable 20:30! Today was a fairly average day... My biggest
concerns being the total lack of o2 signal in my office (don't you
just hate those balancing acts just to get one bar) and the
ridiculously long registration time when joining ACCA! The signal
isn't the end of the world as I managed to send and receive a few
texts from my window... geography isn't stopping ME... but I'd really
like to be registered in time for enrolment next week! Fun, fun. Going
back to the phone thing you can buy cell signal repeaters on eBay that
pick up and boost low mobile signals... Think that might be my next
purchase.

So I've been fighting with some birds tonight. They decided to try
building a nest in a relative's porch so I had to make it birdproof by
removing all the ledges and wires they could pirch on-how's that for
an obscure evening?! Anyway job done. Those birds picked the wrong
Welshman!

Oh the biggest news today has to be the soccer developments. Firstly-
September 22nd, live on Sky Sports, it's Swansea vs Cardiff! It's only
the Carling Cup but... It's Cardiff! Secondly it's transfer deadline
day and Bernatov is making all the headlines. Apparently Man City are
in the running now haha! I believe Madrid a bit more but seriously
Spurs are just trying for a last minute price hike. He'll be a united
player within a few hours.

Anyway I'm going to have a bit of a weights workout now... Been a bit
lazy on the fitness front for a few days. Was going to cycle in to
work today but took one look at the weather and went straight back to
bed. Better luck tomorrow maybe!

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