2014 so far.

So, its been a hectic kinda year so far and its almost August. I'm not entirely sure how that happened to be honest with you, but when you work at a tourist attraction the days all just roll into one.

To remind myself that there is fun to be had and that I've had a whole bunch of fun already this year I thought I would do a year so far kinda post. Apologies if I miss anything, but my memory does suck!


January
I think it was a fun month involving not one but two trips to London. One for Elvis' Birthday at The Ace Cafe, which was a rather random venue. It was fun hanging out with Dawn, Max, Lyns and Peck as usual. Peck is always entertaining.

The Glamorous view from the Travelodge

January was also the month I tried Lindy hop- lets just say me and Lindy aren't meant for each other.
It was Mom's birthday too, so we went to Ryde Castle which was nice, if not a little to generic.

February
Josh's 40th Birthday party. A bit random hanging out with my sister and her pals, but interesting none the less and I learnt a few things too.
It was also a pretty quiet month, my car broke, which sucked and I looked after my friends 8 cats, which made me realise that I couldn't be a crazy cat lady after all...

3 of the 8 cats.

March

Yes! March was fun. I got to see the lovely Cassie at the Jive Alldayer in Worthing with the Jive Aces

Plus dancing with Andy my patient dance partner :) I danced with Colin from Brighton Jive and made it through without messing up too much!

March was also the month Mr.B.The Gentleman Rhymer was at Coburgs and Helly bought me a ticket. Man, that seems forever ago now. He's always fun to watch, and not just for the facial hair!

There were some decent films out in March too- Need for Speed- (Yes, ok I was totally just swooning at Aaron Pauls' voice) and Captain America- more swooning at Chris Evans, plus the whole crazy Hydra Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D crossover which was pretty rad.  I also saw an exhibition at the Roman villa on roman sexuality and laughed like a boy at all the phallic shapes.

April

Pretty much the best month so far. Why? CANADA. Man, what an adventure. Now I'm pretty sure y'all have read about that on this blog, so I won't bore you again, but it was massive fun. I got to meet my bestie Sunshine, and another lovely lady called Angela. Both of whom I've been writing to for 5 years! Eep! It was a great experience and showed me that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.

May

May was a bit random really, but fun. Mom and I met an Almost relative, I say almost, because we aren't quite related. It was cool though, seeing how much family history he has amassed, it just wasn't our family!

A non planned trip to the Rivoli in London too to see The Jive Aces again which was fun.

What else? There was the boat trip at work for a Photo Op, as well as Bumblebee coming to work ( that was a pretty rad day)

My birthday occurred. I'm 34 apparently.... then a rather crazy came out of nowhere Wedding in the shape of Cassie and Joe! 

That involved a mini weekend adventure to Burgess Hill, Arundel, Worthing, Lancing then Worthing again.

June

Half way through the year and much fun has already been had- June saw Helly's birthday and me watching Withnail & I for the first time, As well as my favourite  weekender of all The Rockabilly Rave! That was a lot of fun and emotion fuelled by alcohol and a full moon! But I got to hang out with Cassie, my Russian spy pal Nina and I got to meet some lovely new people including Sarah.

I really do adore that weekend. Rockabilly at its best and I got to meet Lil' Mo!

Now, as I am of course crazy sensible I thought what would do after 4 days of drinking and little sleep would be to go to West Yorkshire and buy a car in a day. Normal. So now I have the beautiful Lucille in my life making me drive faster than I should :D

I also got to see Mike Sanchez at the steam railway and the Three Belles at Portsmouth historic dockyards. A pretty decent month really!

July

It hasn't sucked to be honest. I watched the musical version of From here to eternity at the flicks, which I really enjoyed. I watched the original too, and decided that the music defo made it less glum! 

My Jiving pal Andy and Claire put on a Rock'n'Roll night at the Wightrock which was pretty splendid fun! I danced with Max (I think he was more terrified of me), Shoes and the lovely Claire- it was kinda like a roller coaster ride he he. Of course Andy had to endure some more dances with me too.

(sorry about the stolen picture Dawn & Claire)

I also went on a day trip to France with Mama. This involved a lot of ferry and little of France. Just enough time to spend around £100 in the hypermarket on Rum and Cheese. Oh and Hair dye...

I ventured across the water again to see Lucy and drink Ron Jeremy Rum.

It wasn't that good to be honest with you. Ron, you've disappointed me. However the vast amount of Pulled pork and Ice Cream I consumed that weekend made up for it. We went to Its a Sin at The Wedge, but the usual DJ wasn't there so there was less 90s cheese to dance too. Fun none the less and on the Saturday we got to watch men with Beards singing Blur in the Southsea Alternative Choir. Good times.

And that my friends, is pretty much how my year has shaped up so far. I'm wondering what other adventures I'll have this year, and I'm pretty stoked to find out, that's for sure!

Online Dating sites - sigh!

So, I've been single for like over a year now. I'm cool with it, and pretty happy being single and independent & being able to do what I want, when I want.
However, like everyone, It would be neat to have someone to share stuff with, you know, like 'Man, did you see her boobs?' Usual chitchat ;) ha ha, but seriously, it would be cool.

I'm not stranger to online dating, I've been meeting people online for years. None of them have been axe murderers so far. They haven't all been as they've seemed though, and I think the net makes it easier for people to pretend to be something they aren't. I get it. Real life people can be scary.

Why am I writing this? Well, I don't mean to moan,but every time I've attempted online dating in recent years, its getting harder and harder to interact with people. I send messages to people who I think I would get on with, you know, have a decent conversation with, and most definitely people who don't constantly 'lol' but I get few replies. People seem disinterested in actually bothering with other people.

My other favourite on dating sites in 'Wants to date, but nothing serious'. I know what it means really. They want to get laid, and possibly go on casual dates. I get it. However us gals do have a tendency to get a little attached. I most certainly have these things called 'Emotions' which seem to affect my ability to not give a fuck. Darn it.

My point is that society seems to have changed massively, where everything is so instant, and so very disposable. Remember the good ole days, where if you had an argument of some sort, you'd try and figure it out? Yeah, those days are gone. People just break up and move on to the next. I get that the majority of people don't care, and you can only control your own reactions to that. I guess what makes me sad is that people, like everything else, have become disposable. Its all so,umm, soul-less.

I know that I for one, am trying to make more of an effort with the people in my life that matter, and the reactions are generally good. But I don't do it for the reactions. I do it because I want the people who matter to know that. Life is short and goes by so fast. It can be taken away at any moment, so I want to appreciate the people who matter to me, for them to know that someone cares and does love them, because I know we can all feel alone sometimes.

And eventually my Gemini brain kinda got to the point there.

Appreciate each other, make the effort, be Grateful.
Y'all will do what you want, but that's my thinking at the moment.