All About Mal

Things you should probably know about me

Who is your favorite music artist, band, or performer?:	Many.... to name one: The Beatles
What is a movie you would watch on a first date?:	A rom com: something like 50 First Dates
Are you single or taken?:	single
What is your favorite color?:	Blue
What is a movie you would never watch on a first date?:	My Bloody Valentine 3D or any horror
How important is physical attraction to you?:	50%
Who is your favorite actor?:	Will Smith
What are your top 3 favorite songs?:	queen: killer queen Sam Sparo: Black n Gold Beatles: Let it be
What is your most notable quality?:	unique-ness
Who is your favorite actress?:	Eva Mendez: HOT! lol
What is something you would never say to your partner on a first date?:	Fancy a shag.
What is your favorite drink?:	Coffee
What are your 3 top favorite movies of all time?:	Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars
What is your favorite food?:	Sunday Roast
If you could change something about yourself what would it be?:	my teeth
Where did you grow up?:	In my hometown of Widnes, Cheshire
How do you describe your personality?:	Straight out crazy
What makes you mad?:	hardly anything, but guys who are gits make me mad
If you were to die right now, where would you go?:	i'd like to cuddle with someone in particular, but anywhere really, as long as i was welcomed.
When you're alone, does it bother you?:	Mostly Not.
What is something you have that you know would attract the opposite sex?:	good personality....i hope and a nice bum??
What gets you irritated?:	Mr know it alls
Do you want kids?:	yes. i have one already: Kallam 15 months
What are your long-term goals?:	Get a place of my own, get driving, find someone special, live happily ever after.
What makes you happy?:	my son, friends and family
If you found out you had 24 hours to live, what would you do?:	probably kill myself. In the 24 hours i'd have probably worried myself to death anyway
What's the first thing you look for in a woman's character?:	how caring she is, sense of humour and how lloyal she is
What do you like?:	I like: Music Movies Games Designing LOVE Photography My son
Have you ever been arrested?:	no, and dont intend to
What is your political view?:	Let's all just do whatever the heck we want
What confuses you?:	women, but i like to think i understand them more then most
What are some unknown facts about you?:	i have arthurits in my left knee due to a footballing accident and it hinders me from walking properly.
What do you appreciate in other people?:	i appreciate people who are genuine and are not two faced
Besides her beauty, what is something a girl must have in order to spark your interest?:	an amazing personality, including a good sense of humour, outlook on life and lovingness about them.
Where would you like to spend your honey moon?:	A beach city.
What is a country that you would like to visit?:	Austrailia
If you could choose the ethnic race of your girlfriend what would it be?:	Any. Not like i am desperate or anythin :P
What are your favorite international foods?:	Pizza, Special Fried Rice, Lasagne, Spag Bol, Curry
Where were you born?:	Widnes, Cheshire, England, UK
What is your favorite CD, Album?:	Queens Greatest Hits
What is your claim to fame?:	I stood outside of Tommy Lee Jones House in San Antonio
What is your worst fear?:	Spiders! agh!

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musical genius in the works?

Urgh, I seem to go in and out of phases of wanting to blog. I don’t seem to be motivated to blog often, which is bad I must admit.

I’m going to make a conscious effort to write more blog entries and hopefully, make them more interesting starting from today and you’ll have plenty to good entries to read. Hopefully I’ll live up to my end of the bargain.

I’ve been wondering why it is that I take up a hobby and after a few weeks or months lose interest and fling the hobby to one side and go onto different things. I’m thinking its due to my creativity. Leos, like myself, are natural born creativity freaks. I love designing, playing guitar, singing, creative writing and all sorts, I just can’t seem to keep up one long enough to improve my skills, its frustrating.

From now on I’m going to keep my mind focused on one, maybe two, hobby/ies and see them through and see where they take me. At the moment I’ve been thinking of recording my own songs. I can play guitar, sing, play the odd note on a piano and have a good ear for music, so naturally I want to showcase my talent to friends and maybe a mass audience, either from blogging or MySpace or whatever. I’m thinking of downloading some audio software, getting my rusty old mic for now that I’ve had for over 10 years just until I buy a new one and do some covers of some songs I feel I can do. I’ve got my eye on a few tunes, namely some acoustic songs by some of my fave artist. I’ll decide later tonight which ones I want to cover. I found chords for Sweet Child o Mine by Guns and Roses, so I might do an acoustic version of that to start with. That should be fun. Wish me luck.

If my good friend Dave Hearn, who likes to be called Dave Love can make his own songs at home, i'm sure I can. Heres one of his songs called "Super Fuckin Man".

If you like this song, there are more songs of his on his myspace .

As for recent events, the weekend went by without anything interesting happening. I know boring. I had my son on Saturday, and took him over to my sisters. She was mad busy sorting a party out for my niece, who on Saturday turned 16. I felt really old, especially when my sis goes and puts pictures of her up around the house, some with me in them. It got me thinking how times flys. Only seems like yesterday when she was a toddler, learning to walk and talk. Got me thinking how I shouldn’t waste time and I should get out and do things and make an effort with making the most of life while I can. A little motivation would be appreciated, but where on earth can one find a life coach? Lol. (Saturday night and Sunday were uneventful.)

A friend, who I met online a while back, came forth and confessed to fancying me. Wayhey! Problem being, she’s seeing someone and she lives across the country. Just my luck. Someone comes out of the woodwork confessing that they fancy me and they are unavailable. It’s happened now a couple of times. Seems everyone I take an interest in or has an interest in me, is unavailable either due to distance or relationships. That’s what you get when you make friends online. It’s a great thing, the internet, but can get on your nerves with the long distance thing. So, she announced to me that she had fancied me for a while. I said I was glad she thinks that way, as it is a confidence boost, but that’s given me a mind job, as she is seeing someone and no way in hell am I going to be an affair kinda guy. I’ve got morals and principals to adhere to dontcha know. I’m going to suggest friendship is the best way to go for us.

That’s it for my update. See ya.

Hello New Year!

Its 2009.. Who would have thought it? I'm a 90's kid and always will be. Never did I think towards this far into the future (even though my imagination has always been very wild and sci- fi).

The year has started off well, which is a good start indeed. I'm hoping with fingers and toes crossed, that this year will be one to remember, unlike last year which pretty much stank of old socks dipped in blended bad eggs. I split with my ex, which on one hand was a god send, but on the other I don't get to see my son as much as I'd like and I am back living with my parents. Not the worst off I could have been, but still bad.

Late 08 was a bad one for the family, which kind of makes 09 more of a new start. My sister had troubles at home and so did my dad and his girlfriend at New Years. Plus I had an accident Christmas Eve, where I damaged my dodgy knee again whilst being a drunken idiot and left me hobbling around ever since. I'm Only just getting over that one, but at least I never had to visit hospital or anything. Apart from that though, Christmas was great, I spent Christmas day with most of my family and had a great time.

I was stricken by anxiety recently, as the great UK recession hit my workplace. Many stores and firms within the UK have been affected by the recent recession and many employees have been made redundant as a result. I thought I was going to be one of the "R crowd" yesterday, but was relieved when nothing happened and my boss didn't provide me with my unemployment papers. My thoughts go out to those who have been made redundant however. These are hard times and many of my colleagues in work have been made unemployed, some of which have worked within my company for more years then myself. I wish them every success in the future and good luck with finding a job.

Now that I am quite sure my job is safe (but not totally sure....), I can start planning on improving my circumstances and making 09 a successful year for me. First things first. To feel good about myself, I need to get out of my parent's house, therefore, I've started to look for a modest one bed roomed apartment in the local area and hope that come pay day, I'll be able to afford one. Fingers crossed. The next part of my action plan is to then see about getting my driving lessons back on the road. Driving is something I will need when it comes to visiting friends, family and most importantly collecting and dropping off my son.

Back to the apartment hunting through... I've gotten myself all excited about the prospect of moving out, I'm dancing all over the show. I've recently seen one that's very "swank". I'm not getting my hopes up as anything that looks this good is normally not for real. As you can see below though, the apartments are situated on the River Mersey and have a brilliant view of the nearby bridge, which is a smaller version of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The price is only £375 per month and it is fully furnished. I've requested more information on the apartment so watch this space.

It seems I'm back at the blogging game. I hope many people come to view my blog as I would like their opinion on goings on in my life. I may add a review every now and then to spice things up. See ya soon!

The joys of winter...

I hate winter for obvious reasons. Namely:

1. the cold..
2. the fact that most are susceptible to catching a cold in the winter.
3. you have to buy more clothes to keep warm.
4. the gas bill sky rockets.
6. the cold...brrrrr

I much prefer spring/summer (apart from the bugs). I feel like I am coming down with a cold. It put it all down to the cold and a bad choice in footwear. I wear converses. They let the cold in real bad and I felt yesterday like my feet were in fact in blocks of ice. I’ve made a mental note now to wear my other trainers when going out. They are made out of the white leather stuff normal trainers are made out of and not material.

My weekend wasn’t bad in all honesty. It all kicked off on Thursday night. I went to a local bands gig and got wasted with friends and had a great time. Friday night came and it was a works night out. It was to be held at Formby Hall, an exclusive spa and golf resort. I enjoyed the night, which mainly consisted of a five course meal, followed by free champagne and a comedy act, which had me in stitches.

Before attending at the works Christmas gathering, I felt my confidence had come on leaps and bounds, but the first sight of mingling with other work colleagues, I went back to shy ole Mal, and just sat off on my own for some of the night. A few drinks later though, I was having good conversations with others. Overall it was a good night. I got back at 2am in the morning, and went straight to bed not before taking a pic of myself in my smart attire.

Later that day I awoke and went to collect my son, but as it was cold out, we stayed in. I had them overnight, as his mum, my ex was going out. She seems to be going out a lot lately and I’ll need to make a mental note to not agree to have them overnight as often. On the plus side though, she is paying me back some of the money she owes me bit by bit every weekend.

Sunday came and I had a great time with the kids through the day waiting for the ex to return to the house. As usual she took her time and I left hers at 3pm. I waited around for a bus for a long time being a Sunday and the cold got to me badly and later on I gradually felt worse for wear and sick. I couldn’t get the sleep properly as I was having violent shivering bouts and because of this my sore back really hurt. It has been hurting for a couple of days now. I’ve never felt anything like that. I was retching in pain and shivering really bad. I managed to get to sleep eventually after breathing deeply and the shivering subsided. This morning though, I have no energy at all and still feel bad, but I’ve made an effort to go into work. If it gets worse, I’ll ask for sick leave. Fingers crossed that I get over this quickly and it doesn’t worsen.

Apart from the doom and gloom I feel lately, the Christmas spirit has eventually caught up with me and I’ve been humming and singing Christmas songs around the house and in work. It’s contagious. I was tormenting my son and step son with repetitive OH OH OH!s and they did likewise. It was fun. I’ve made two Christmassy designs recently and I thought I’d share them with you good people.

Will update you all as to how I feel and what I get up to soon.

Smells Like Xmas Spirit

Me (aged 5?) with my best friend at the time, Old St Nick

The time is almost upon us when we swap presents, reunite with family and friends and everyone seems to be happy. Yet still, I find it increasingly hard to get into the spirit of things.... maybe its because I am single again with no family of my own any more to come home to after work, or put decorations up, to see excitement in their faces every day.. it puts a dampener on things and is like a dark cloud hanging over my heart. As does thinking about those not so fortunate, those who are homeless, have no families, those who suffer from day to day with no jobs or homes. My thoughts go out to them.

I want my son Kallam to get everything I did as a child, plenty of toys and all the sweets he can eat. In many ways I was spoilt and got nearly everything I wanted as a child. I now appreciate the effort my parents put into giving me the latest toy I was into just to make me happy. Now I want to do the same for my son, especially with me not being around as much since me and my ex split up back in March. I've bought him something already, but will buy more just before Christmas when I get paid. On an afterthought though, I definately do not want him to be as spoilt as I was, not taking getting toys for granted and knowing he'll get anything he wishes. It will be something I will work out as time passes, i'm sure.

As for recent events, Its been same old i'm afraid. Not much to report on. This weekend however I was asked to go out on the town by a friend and he said he would give me £10. How could I refuse?! I went out into the misty cold night with my friends going from club to club and had a good night. Can't ask for more then that. The next day I had my son, Kallam and Rhys for the day and minded them over night to give my ex a break, as she has been having a bad time with her relationship and her dad, who is terminally ill. Its the least i could do. It was good to have them, but equally stressfull. We had a great time though and it was good to spend the next morning with them watching childrens cartoons and chilling feeling that I am the luckiest guy around for having just a brilliant son. He means the world to me.

I am approaching the end of a great book series called The Dark Tower by Stephen King. Its been my reader's digest for over a year now and i've been hooked. Its all building to a climax. To explain the story would take forever. Click the link above for a wiki on it though. What is good about it is that its basically a fantasy/western epic story, which is set in the future. It follows the main character's journey to save the universe from evil by reaching The Dark Tower. He is aided along the way by three people, who are from a parallel universe, who he trains up to be gunslingers like himself. I'm totally emmersed in it and I am enjoying it so much. It will be sad to put it down after reading it all. I hope there is not an anti climax at the end... I will write a review on the whole series soon.

That is it for now. I will write another blog in the not so distant future.