Has it been 4 months already?

Four months have past since my last post. I'm not going to bother commenting on how difficult it is to keep this up to date. This is just how things roll these days I guess. Before I started this I had a quick read of my last post to see where I left off. Following on from the last one I have stopped going to the gym but have increased my squash playing. Still in the same job and still finding it quite easy. To be honest I'm just grateful that I have a job at the moment. Things are looking quite grim at the moment in the economy. So many people have been made redundant recently, about 50 people in our companies just last week. I should be safe though. I make a big difference I feel. In fact, from next week I have an additional role within the company. I am going to be a fraud investigator. Will be nice to do something different once a week. Maybe I should buy a Sherlock Holmes hat and magnifying glass.......

I still have the motorbike but I don't use it at the moment. Winter is here so riding isn't much pleasure. Still deciding on what I will be doing with it to be honest. The bike is too small and not powerful enough for me now that I am a little more experienced. Not too sure yet if I will be going for my my full licence in the new year to enable me to ride a bigger bike. At the moment I think spending my money on ACCA will benefit me more.

Over the past few months nothing exciting has really happened. One particular highlight was going to the Wales - New Zealand game a few weeks back with Shrek. A fantastic all dayer Mikey Rayer occured and it was one of the best days in a long time. I only wish days like this would occur more frequently.

Keeping A Blog Up To Date Is Hardwork

Despite my previous promises I have found it quite difficult to keep this up to date. Working life has made finding time to do this hard to come by. The new job is still going very well but I find the job extremely easy but at least here I have things to aim for. I know that if I stay with this company I can move up the career ladder. I'm still spending a lot of time in the gym but I am finding it a bit boring these days. I have found another means of exercise a lot more exciting. Squash. This sport is one of the most exciting that I have ever played. I can't stop smiling as I am playing it.

The only other news since my last post is I am a motorcyclist now. For many years I have found driving a car boring so I wanted to bring a bit of excitement into travelling again. My father and my brother both ride motorbikes so I felt as though I was letting the team down. The main influences for me however were Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. They made two TV series where they went on two epic journeys around the world and they travelled through many countries on the back of motorbikes. That's definately a dream of mine - to travel the world on a motorbike. I bought a bike using my winnings from the Grand National and I am absolutely loving riding it. The only problem is the weather. I'm not having many chances to go out for a ride. This summer has been terrible. I was lucky a few weeks back though when I had a week off work and the weather was nice all week. Had a brilliant day out on the bike with my dad. I also had a memorable day out on my mountain bike in the Brecon Beacons National Park. Absolutely beautiful stuff!

The family are away at the moment in Sicily as usual. It is really nice having the house to myself. Very relaxing.

Settling In Nicely

I've completed the first two weeks of my new job now and I have to say it has been great. My collegues are great, the company is great and even their plans for me are great. The differences between this job and the old one are staggering. I have settled in quite well though I feel. So many job duties are new to me and it will take me a few months to get used to the way all those duties are done but the feedback has been good from my manager. What I am enjoying at the moment is having enthusiasm again. It's great. I hope it will last but as my manager has already pointed out, they are hoping to move me up in the company as soon as I am ready which I am sure will help keep the enthusiasm there as I will have something to aim for and look forward to.

It's been a good day financially today. All down to the Grand National of course. I picked the winner two years ago and won £240 but I totally smashed that today by picking the winner and netting myself a cool £1000. That's a new personal record. I cleaned up in poker as well last weekend so at the moment I'm on a lucky streak. I hope it continues. Life is good!

Moving Up In The World

I am starting my new job in a days time. I'm looking forward to it so much. For a long time in my previous job I was feeling so down because I didn't have the challenge I think I deserved and I knew that I had gone as far as I could with that company. In fact I started thinking that only a few months after I started. Even my manager told me I was the best employee he had ever had so I'm sure if it were his decision I would have been moved up within the company to reflect my ambitions and abilities. When I finished on Thursday I was so relieved as I felt as though a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. That job wasn't right for me. Especially as I had no faith in the Managing Directors and to be honest they were not very good bosses. That company would have went bankrupt a very long time ago if it were not for one of them coming from a very wealthy family. It has been a great expereince for me though. I have learned so much and as my dream is to set up my own company one day, I have learned how not to run a company. No looking back now however. I know that in Euroclad the opportunities will be there for me and I am eager to gain the enthusiasm that I once had. MNG was so full of promise to me when I first started but that quickly fizzled out. I am sure that won't happen again.

Away from work, everything is as average as it was before. I still feel out of place living in Trehafod. I haven't spent a night out in Hafod for many years. I don't even spend time with any of my old mates anymore as I don't want to spend every night sitting in the pubs. There are people that live in this village who have done that all their lives and I don't want to end up like that. Am I snob or do I just have ambitions? A bit of both I guess. This place hasn't felt like home for a very long time. Over the past few months I have started to get close to Rhiannon and Gemma and they want me to move into a house with them. I hope this happens because I think it will be great but one problem may be coming to some sort of agreement on where we would live. Myself and Gemma have similar views but Rhiannon seems to be more in love with the local area than us. Hopefully we can sort something out.

Over the past few months nothing much has really changed. I am a member of a gym now and I absolutely love it. I have been a bit unlucky over recent weeks with injuries but I have managed to stick at it and I feel fitter than I have done for years. The only problem is I haven't really lost any weight as I still have a problem trying to eat healthier and of course there is still my achilles heel - chocolate. Hopefully the start of a new job will encourage me to start a healthier lifestyle, especially as there are no pubs around the area so I won't be having pub meals everyday anymore. My love life is still non-exsistent but I only have myself to blame for that one. Over the past few years I have built up a sort of wall around myself and I won't let anyone get close to me. Even if I am out I don't even try chatting up women and if I do meet someone on a night out, I don't even bother asking for a phone number, so I never have the chance to see if anything will develop. It is going to take someone really special to overcome that wall but I am sure she is out there somewhere.

Seeing that I have started the blog again from fresh, I will try to keep it up to date more often. I have said that before though. :-)

The Start Of A New Era

I have just spent the last half hour reading all my posts on this blog since starting it back in 2006. It is quite funny reading over them all again. That was one of the reasons I started the blog in the first place. I was hoping that one day I could read over them all. Some entries made me laugh, some brought back good memories, some brought back bad memories and some even made me cringe. I did however notice that my feelings went from extremely happy to the verge of depression gradually over the two years. The reasons for this downward slope is mainly down to moving back to Trehafod from Cardiff and working for MNG. One thing I have noticed however is that I feel I am a different person now than when I first started. This is mainly down to the fact I have grown up a lot in that time. Therefore I have deleted all my previous posts and have decided to start over again. I'm sure my blog will be as popular as ever amongst the masses.