The amount of days I’ve been been alive up till now…

This isn’t a soppy post, more of just a ramble about how I enjoy the way I live and love (which is very little), and it finishes the trilogy :p

So, what’s going on with my love life? Not a lot; I don’t have anyone in my sights, nobody has their eyes on me and I’m not in any particular hurry to find someone.
Paul Simon once wrote “I am a rock, I am an island”, and that’s how I like it.
I have a very specific type of person that I like, and I don’t like to compromise, which makes it very hard for me to find somebody I like even if they like me. Oh, and my very low tollerance of annoyances helps keep me isolated.

It’s really hard to find a girl that listens to rock/metal in gravesend, seems this place is full of chavs and foreigners (unfortunately not the rock band foreigner).

Hopefully I’ll age into a very bitter and miserable person, I think it’s the only way to go

Laters.

Yep, after last time you must have guessed it, there’s 223 days left of the year!

What do I intend to do with them?!?!

Spend less money on booze, I won’t be buying any to drink in the house for a good while now – seeing as it all just goes so suddenly once it’s opened. Of course stopping drinking is a silly idea, I’ve tried that one as you might have read :p

I’m going to take a good look at what I own vs. what I use and start selling stuff I never use on ebay, starting with a POD XT that I bought and have barely used. I’ll be able to get around £100 for that if I’m very lucky.

Gotta be more organised with everything, I have piles of junk that are just scattered around everywhere and never get filed/tidied. Gotta go with the work approach to this of “a place for everything and everything in it’s place” so some cheap plastic boxes to organise stuff will be the way. Of course I’d like to buy some nice storage units, but I don’t need them – and after the last post I won’t be buying them :p

Next comes to acommodation, which is a tricky one…

Do I like where I’m living?

Yes

Do I like my housemates

Yes, both awesome people

Do I like the company?

Yes, most of the time

Do I like house sharing again?

Not really.

After living on my own for a year, to living with a couple of people that I work with, things have changed a great deal. I love the place we’re living at, and the guys I’m living with are a great laugh, I just don’t think house sharing with more than one person is for me. The great smoking divide is what is making it hard for me too – both of my housemates smoke and as such spend a lot of time together smoking outside, both at work and at home. I’m finding that there is a definite Me & Them vibe to the household which is getting me down. It’s nothing that they’re deliberately doing at all and I don’t dislike them for it, it just gets to me.

So what am I going to do?

Stick it out, last till the end of the years contract (even though there is a 6 month breakout clause) as I do enjoy living here, enjoy the company, and like gravesend, then see where it goes from there. I’d be able to save money if it weren’t for my personal inability to do so, so I’ll do that and then look into the possibility of moving in with somebody else maybe, or getting a place of my own again if money allows.

Oh what’s a girl to do?!

Matt.

Today is the 142nd day of the year, over a third of the way through the year, and what have I accomplished?
Not a great deal really, life trundles on, I accumulate more things.

I set out to save loads of money this year, but instead of doing that I’ve pissed quite a lot of it up against the wall and the rest I’ve spent on things that I will need at some point in the future when I’m a little older and a little lot wiser, but don’t really need now.

I bought a BBQ and a Gazebo!

Very useful but did I really need to spend £50 on a BBQ right now when a £19.99 one from argos would have sufficed.

I spent £400 on a fridge/freezer

It was the one I wanted, lord knows we don’t need it this year and buying one second hand for the year I’m living here and splitting the cost with my housemates would have been a more economically viable option.

I spent £400 on a new guitar amp, because I wanted it.

I could have spent ~£50 to fix the one I already had but I didn’t want to.
I suppose though this amp is a lot simpler and more effective at what it does, so I can kind of justify this one in my own mind.

I spent £70 on a microphone when, and here’s the great part, I can’t sing to save my life!

I again could have spent £19.99 on one that would have done the trick.

People think I’m good with money as I don’t have tons of useless crap, which is true I suppose. I seem to have the need to get the best of whatever I want which usually I don’t need. I just don’t think it’s worth it to spend half the price and get an inferior product that will either break or I’d never be happy with. I don’t like buying something to throw it away when I’m done with it.

I want to save money in order to either be “P45 proof”, or to save up for a possible deposit on a place!

I need a little person to tell me “you don’t need that now, buy that one when you’ve got your own place and a better job” when I’m about to press the buy now button! Any volunteers?

Anyways, that’s the first of my posts today – It’ll probably be a trilogy.

Matt.