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busyxchildx143x 
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[Jun. 3rd, 2008|07:17 pm] |
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werd up. SUMMER TIME!
best part of the year. this country is cold as hell, but weve had a few bursts of nice weather recently which has been nice. last weekend me and some of my housemates went camping out at the Nine Ladies Stone Circle, which was pritty cool. It was nice getting out of Manchester and into nature instead of being in the city constantly. We found a ton of other people up there who were camping so we went and chilled with them and had a few drinks in the night time, which was cool. Today was pritty cool too, I walked into the city with Andy and on the way back we found a skip full of computer shit, so we brough home 2 backpacks full of mice, webcams, digital cameras, leads, speakers, and monitors, so were deffinately e-baying all of that shit, cash it in. There were a few TVs there too, so were gunna go back in Rob's van tonight and pick those up too.
Im done with university for the summer now, I can believe how fast this year has gone, and its a crazy though thinking that its been 2 years since i moved back to england. I need to find myself a job for all the stuff that Ive got planned this summer, this month I'm meant to be going to the Scotland this weekend, then the Isle of Man, going down to Stonehenge for the summer solstice on the 19th, fishing trip the week after that, Beatherder the week after that, tubing trip and Robs birthday the week after that, hahaha, its never ending, but is all going to be fun, so im looking forward to it.
My 21st was a few weeks ago aswell, which was a really good time. I had a really fun weekend, Anisa and Delyth both made me really fucking tasty cakes, and i got to spend it with all of my good friends here who came round. I ended up passing out by 1am that night, but it was a brilliant birthday.
Aight aight, i think thats all thats new, now its time for me to make some food.
Take Care. |
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[Feb. 2nd, 2008|05:41 pm] |
hello livejournal. its been a few months since ive been here, i guess alot has changed since then. i am going to university now, studying the environment, and then after that hopefully i will go on to do my PhD. when i dont have classes i work for the city in the recycling department, doing various jobs, and i ocassionally do some freelance design work, ive just started a website so it will be nice to get $2,000 in a months time.
other than that things are good i guess, ive met alot (more) new people recently and been out to some cool places with friends, but nothing super exciting. i will be turning 21 in may, and i want to do something fun for it, and see somewhere that ive never been to before, im thinking a tropical island in the sun with some cocktails sounds good. im going to try and do as many things as possible this summer and avoid working at all costs, which isnt likely if im going to be doing tons of stuff but it will be worth a try, hopefully the weather will be nice for it, but this is england, so thats doubful. i was thinking about going to australia for a year of university this summer, but i would have to leave in 2 or 3 months to do that, and ive been moving every 2-3 years for just about all of my life that i can remember, and i have only been here just over a year, so i think i will probably stick around here for the next 2 years while im studying, and then maybe spend a year or two travelling and then start my Phd in some nice sunny country. haha, who knows though, life is pritty crazy, and you never know whats going to happen next, so theres no way that i really know what i will be doing in a few years time.
Christmas and new years was pritty cool, i ate alot of really good food, drank lots of wine and watched lots of shit movies over christmas with my family, and then at new years i went to Hogmanay in Scotland, which was alot of fun and Trans Global Underground played there right after midnight, which was cool.
so yeah, all in all things are going fairly well, nothing spectacular but im happy. im constantly busy, but i enjoy what i do so that is good and i can say without any doubts that i am more than excited for summer and warm weather to come back. |
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[Aug. 1st, 2007|10:53 pm] |
Holy shit, so all of a sudden I have 3 jobs.
I work daytimes for the council distributing information about recycling
Evenings I work from home for my old design studio
Weekends I work freelance.
Hella not fun for the next 3 weeks, but I should be getting a few PHAT paychecks.
mmm, money. |
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[Jul. 18th, 2007|05:40 pm] |
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whoa, its been a while since i was on here.
well im coming back to america AGAIN. this time it shall be August 22nd to September 12th. Wheatland is gunna be fun as hell, and im looking forward to chilling out for 3 weeks in the sun......its rained here almost non stop since the end of may. All of this travelling is starting to get nuts, every time I blink, im somewhere new. Since my last post (when once again i was about to bounce to the US) I've been to canada, scotland, the Goyt Valley, up in the hills in the Lake District, and tomorrow I will be going 8 hours south of here somewhere to glade. Before I know it, i'll be back on that airplane again, that will fly by, and before I know it, I will be going away for christmas, and then it starts all over again.......time flies.....
This summer has been nuts, I've been so busy, my life wont stop changing. In a few weeks I will be starting University to study Environmental Science and Conservation Research, so I can be a professional hippie, haha. I'm quite excited for that, I think it will be alot of fun. In other news, I will be starting my new job soon, which I'm also looking forward to alot.
mmm, so growing your own food is the best thing ever....a few weeks ago we had the first harvest of potatoes, which were damn good. Ive got sweetcorn, tomatoes, peppers, rasberrys, watermelons, and a lot of other stuff to look forward to in the coming months.
New Years seems like it was only a few days ago, but if I think about whats happened since then, its been forever. I've got a job, and im moving onto my second, I've got a house, I've got a garden of vegetables growing outside my window, I've got bills, I've got money, I have neighbors who I never talk to. It feels good to be completely independant, I dont have to rely on anyone for money or nothing.
This country aint where i'm going to spend the rest of my life, but for right now, its working out alright.
Overall I am happy, much happier than I was a few months ago....it finally feels like I've got a little bit of a future ahead of me. Life isnt perfect of course, and theres always room for something to get better, but things really arent that bad.
aight aight, i gotta go get some food and pack before going away tomorrow. |
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[Apr. 22nd, 2007|03:52 pm] |
i shall be visiting america may 11-24
its gunna be great |
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[Feb. 24th, 2007|09:34 am] |
do you ever have a dream thats just so intense...theres so much feeling, so much emotion...that it takes over your soul?
i think i enjoy dreaming more thank waking life.
i feel very inbetween at the moment. ive got an alright job, but im not satisfied. i've got my own place to live, but i dont feel settled. i know people and i have friends, but to be quite honest i dont really like most of them at all. theres a few of my roomates that are cool, but everyone else is stupid.
i feel like i deffinately dont belong here.
it feels like im spending everyday of my life just trying to figure out what it is im actually doing. i would love to run away and dissapear and forget the world.
i just want to be myself, but i dont really know who that is at the moment.
i want ihop. i want a vacation. i want to go home.
--- nothing changes, just re-arranges. and im left somewhere in the middle. |
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[Feb. 2nd, 2007|09:27 am] |
hello hello hello. Im alive and well.
so whats been happening in my life recently. well i have a job now, im working as a web designer, so its cool to be making money. umm...i have an apartment now. its actually in the citys oldest house, so thats kind of cool. its in a shit area, but the city is just a few minutes away on the bus, and theres lots going on there. ummm...what else...tonight there is a zombie movie being filmed at my house. that should be pritty damn cool. im trying to get more and more back into art, and its going slow, but its working. by june or july i am aiming to have my t-shirt selling company operational, so thats going to be fun. wheatland is in september, so ill be over in america for prolly 2 weeks at the beginning of september.
what else...
i want to take some classes at a college, but well see if i actually end up motivated enough to do it.
but im deffinately going to sell shirts. its gunna happen.
alright im out.
peace |
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[Dec. 27th, 2006|11:00 am] |
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[Dec. 22nd, 2006|11:18 am] |
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well here i am in edinburgh.
i love this city...its so beautyful here.
i think i would like to live here. the place where i live at the moment isnt really anything special. work is going alright i guess. ive been offered 10% of the profits of the company, because i play such an active part in running it. so thats good. i do find myself wishing i was doing something a little more exciting though...ah well. one day. my plan is to save up money and start a t-shirt selling company. i think theres alot of promise in that. i got paid yesterday too, that was tiiiight. and i get paid next week too, and i dont even have to work for it. heh!
its a lovely overcast 48 degrees here. im going to go to the store in a minute to buy ingredients and make a christmas cake. yay.
and my sister has a $50 bottle of wine, and were going to make sangria with it. score.
righto, i hope you are all fantastically well.
lotsa love |
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[Dec. 5th, 2006|02:25 pm] |
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okay, i am so tired that my brain is about to fall out of my head. so if you dont mind, then ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be a quickie.
heres a summary:
sunday i went to the ocean in Southport, which was fun. it was nice to go out for the day and see another place. then we went out to eat at some fancy prince of wales hotel thats like a bazillion years old, and that was cool.
yesterday i worked, which was alright i guess. and then yesterday night i went to the theatre and saw a comedy, and that was funny as hell. it was only a small theatre, but it was sold out and it was a really good atmosphere.
and then today sucked. i am unbelieveably tired. its bullshit. i didnt want to go to work --- i have to wake up before 7:30, and thats just rediculous...i should deffiantely be asleap at that time of day. then it takes me from then untill 9am to get ready and then get the bus and then walk a mile to work. and by the time i got there i was even more tired than when i woke up, but i managed to seal a deal for a website that I will be doing, which will be one of the highest paying ones that the company has ever done. so i guess i should be happy about that, but in all reality, I find myself starting to seriously hate this whole working thing. its getting old really fast. ive only had my job since friday, and im already sick of it. i just cant be doing with dealing with making websites and HTML this and CSS that and all this technical bullshit. i think this whole work thing really isnt for me. so ive decided that the only use this job is for me is to first of all pay rent and food and what not, and other than that, im going to use it to save up enough money for me to be able to start a screen printing comany and then i can spend the rest of my life living wherever I want to, designing and making t-shirts. ahh. now that sounds nice. better than all of this crap i have to do right now.
tomorrow is the same old shit with work.
oh, and heres how the weather likes to work.
*its dark when i wake up
*when i go to get the bus it starts to rain
*when i get on the bus it stops raining
*then i walk to work, and it rains again while im walking there
*then stops raining while im inside at work
*and then its nice and sunny untill my lunch hour when i get to go outside, and it starts raining again
*once my lunch is over, the sun comes back out untill i have to go home, at which point it starts raining again.
*and by this time its dark again.
ready, set, reapeat. its done this every day now.
so all in all im sick of work already, although i think when i get my first pay check, that should help with things.
and maybe if i can find someone to make friends with that would be good. everyone here is stupid though. seriously....like everyone is a complete dumbass...it pisses me off so much. the people here irritate me.
ummm...thats all. |
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[Nov. 28th, 2006|05:08 pm] |
i am so happy.
i just walked over to my aunts house (yes, they live that close to me), and i visited her and my (kind of / more or less) uncle, and cousins, and it was really good. ive never ever lived this close to my family. and this is the side of my family that i actually like...the other side is ok, but they piss me off. but anyway, these people i can actually talk to, and i can have a decent conversation with them, and that makes me really happy. i spent like 2 hours there just chatting and drinking tea and getting along. more or less just being family. that is something that ihave never ever had before. and i feel lucky to have it now. and my grandparents are tight too. at first i wanted to move out of this place and be far away from my family, but now i quite enjoy seeing them, and i think that i would like to live somewhere around here when i move out. (which now that i am employed, shouldnt be toooo long away)
i am enjoying my life, and i am enjoying being an adult. i enjoy people respecting and treating me like an adult now. i dont feel like a kid anymore. ive grown up, and all that i have to say is here i am world. letsgo. |
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[Nov. 28th, 2006|03:02 pm] |
all i can say is
hell.mother.fucking.yeah
i am now (very) successfully employed.
i had my interview tonight, and i met the owners of the company and they were really impressed with me. things went really well, and we all got along great. they liked the work that i had done for them and they WANT ME TO START ON MONDAY. yayyyyyyyyy.
moneyjobmoneyappartmentyayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
ok, so not only that....they were so impressed that im not just some shitty designer in a low end job....i am now the head of their design department, and i will have trainees working under me. that means that I, Peter Orrell, shall be a manager and a boss. hell yeah. i get a base salary + a comission for each job i do + bonuses. fuck yeah. the people who run the company are tight too...they are all younger (under 30ish), and they are laid back, and i think im really going to enjoy working for them. and i can wear whatever i want to when i go to work. and the company is growing like crazy. they are moving into bigger offices in the center of the city in january, and they are going to employ a ton more people. im really lucky to get involved in a company like that, i think its great. lots of chance for me to succeed and do well. and the job im actually going to be doing is fun as hell. i will be designing web pages, but also doing a ton of graphic design work and photography and advertising. so my dad to day activities will vary alot, which will keep things interesting.
so hell yeah. i am happy. i am soooo happy. so happy.
things are finally looking up.........they have been bad for so long now........its been....well....a long time since ive had happiness in my life.
you know that things really cant be that bad when before you leave, the last thing your grand mother says to you is: "theres cold beer in the fridge for you when you get home, good luck lad"
i love everyone and everything and i love life and i love god and i love my family and i love you. |
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[Nov. 27th, 2006|11:28 am] |
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well i could sit here and complain about how my interview has been pushed back till tomorrow.
or i could sum up my day in the previous sentance. |
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[Nov. 25th, 2006|04:02 pm] |
hello everyone everywhere. you all suck because you dont love me enough. ummm...whats new im my life. well tonight i had an amazing revelation --- i didn't know that i liked martinis, but my grandparents helped to solve that mystery. it turns out that marinis and lemonade are FXN delicious. ive been drinking alot of high class things since ive been here, its great. and theyve all been freeeee. mmm, aujus and cassis was good too last week, but i couldnt drink that on a regular basis.
what else what else.
well my job interview went well last tursday --- there were 14 people who applied, 3 people got interviews, and they were so impressed with me that i was the only one who got called back for a second interview. yay. so this weekend ive been busy building a website to show off my skills, and then i go in monday to meet the owner and have the second interview and (hopefully) get hired. YAY. infact they were so impressed that initially the job was going to be a trainee position, and i would have gotten paid, but not alot, but they said that i can offer the company so much that they want to pay me on a SALARY, and i get a COMISSION for each job i do, and i get BONUSES, and PAID VACATION, and BENEFITS.
so all in all FUCK YEAH. im going to be riiiiiichhhhh. its about damn time for it. i shall hopefully be coming to visit y'all next time the sun comes around. and im planning on going to wheatland too. OH, and speaking of the sun, i hope its snowing like a bitch there in the good old USA, cos its sunny and nice here. and there are flowers everywhere and the grass is greeeeeeen and weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
however, i am bbored though. and i have no friends.
but life goes on.
i hope your all well, and i hope to hear from you, cos barely any of my "friends" have actually e-mailed me since ive been back. so. i guess that says something.#
all in all peace out. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2006|07:06 am] |
hello my little darlings.
i am happy to report that i survived my plane ride(s), and i am alive and well. england is...well..ok i guess. could be better, but it could be worse. i think things will start to look up once i get money coming to me and a place of my own to live. i signed up for unemployment the day after i got here, and i have an interview on wednesday about that, and they are going to tell me what else i can get for free --- maybe a free apartment, so that should be cool. the minimum i am going to get is like $100 a week, so thats not too bad...thats $400 a month for doing nothing at all. ive been searching for jobs like crazy, cos when i get one i will be earning way more than that, and life shall be good. i actually got hired the other day for a little while...i went to a club to see if they had any jobs and the manager hired me on the spot, but it was working from 10pm to 5:30 am, on friday and saturday nights ($10 a hour). the only problem was there were no busses home untill 9am. and i didnt want to be waiting at a bus station for 4 hours at 5 in the morning. so i gave up on that idea, but im hoping to get a design job soon. ive handed in lots of applications, so hopefully something will go right.
in other news i went to a hoe-down last night with my grandparents...all i can say is Getting drunk with the elderly, Square dancing with old ladies and Line dancing with the aged. It was fun as HELL. seriosly, old people here drink so much beer, its great.
today -- as it is sunday -- i shall be resting and taking it easy
well gotta go.
love you all, and email me --- teh.petar@gmail.com |
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[Nov. 10th, 2006|11:42 am] |
OnE tWo THrEe GO
today i am going to see a movie with my mum, and then im going to ravenna to see serra and giz
tomorrow is Wild Chef with my brother, which is gunna be tight and then after that is DJ Irene which should be fun
sunday is empty
monday is tinos pizza place opening = free pizza, and then my leaving party + a keg in the evening.
tuesday is goodbye.
then after that who knoes.
in other news i applied for a job this morning...if i get it, i'll be re-touching photos of models. i will be beyond happy if i get that job, because i am way over qualifited, so it will be easy, and i will be getting PAID. having a job lined up before i get to england would make me really really. i am hoping. i am praying. |
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[Nov. 9th, 2006|08:06 pm] |
Friday Saturday Sunday Monday and then im gone.
im so close to being done with packing.
its time for me to leave this place, theres nothing left for me here. i cant work, cant earn money, cant live by myself, cant buy a car. Freedom? not for me. and i barely have any friends left here. everyone has moved away, and now im going to.
leaving party is on monday, everyone and anyone is invited, call me for details.
in other news, gwen stefani is hot.
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[Nov. 8th, 2006|11:21 pm] |
I hate packing with all my heart and soul. Seriously. Ive been packing for weeks, and its still not done. I packed almost constantly yesterday and today, and it is seriously interupting things. ive had no free time to go and chill with people, and i want to see everyone before i leave. And so tomorrow im hoping to get close to being done with all this packing bullshit, and then tomorrow night im going to go out with my friends. i dont know where or with who, but im going to find something fun to do.
6 busy days to go.
Questions in my head:
what oh what shall i do? Nothing.
what should i feel? Nothing.
where am i going.......its like driving down a road alone, with no other cars around, and you dont know where this road goes.
lots of people have asked me how I feel about moving and the answer is....it feels like i am terrafied and worried and excited and hopefull and lost. and then at the same time it feels like im just numb to all of those feelings. they are there, but ive done this so many times before...you get used to it. and you kind of feel nothing. and just go with it. and then when its over its almost like nothing ever happened.
and then its like rinse and repeat. everything starts again, and repeats.
all untill i move away from this next place. which going by my track record will be 2-4 years. and who knows where ill be moving to then. and then once again the whole thing starts over.
but to be honest i am really ready to settle down somewhere and stop moving. im ready to stay in one place for a long time.
life is a blur. life is beautyful.
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