Liam's Thoughts

After the long 8 hour day at work it was finally time for me to set off to Scotland. Car loaded, Petrol full I was on my way for the 2 hour drive.

18 miles into the trip up I came to a dual-carriageway, I followed a car onto the outside lane...as it came to a very tight bend the car in front pulled into the inside lane and I stayed wide. The car in-front came out wide into my lane forcing me to brake real hard causing me to lose control over the car. (it was wet) I was 1 meter away from dying, I just missed going through a wall into a fast flowing river.

I was ok though but very shaken up, same can't be said for the car though. The police came and asked me what happend etc and got my car towed away and the took me back home.

Great start to the holiday - NOT!!!

Anyway, the next day arrived and I got a hire car for the weekend to take up there. This time I managed to make it to Scotland, although I had a flashback when I drove past the spot where I crashed.

It knackered all my plans for the zoo, bowling etc but never mind. We had 4 days of awesomeness, really enjoyed it.

I took Adele swimming today to the Time Capsule. It was good we both really enjoyed it but she hurt her foot later on so we had to come out.

I bought them a laptop for christmas, I let them open in on Saturday though as I won't seem them again until the weekend before New Years Eve.

Just got back now, I can't sleep straight away after driving so thought I'd write a blog.

I have to go to the police station tomorrow, well technically today and give a statement and hopefully find out if the guy that caused me to crash is going to own up to it.

Well thats it for today.
Take care,
-L.

Sooo,I'm excited because I go back to the place I love tomorrow for 5 days, I can't wait!

First I have 8 hours of work...now believe me this is going to be the slowest 8 hours ever lol..I'll have to try and not clock watch, could make it an even longer day at work.

I've met an awesome girl too, she said she'll go on a date with me when I come back from Scotland. I just have to think what we can do, any ideas anyone?

Thats it for today.

Take care,
-L

Well my car passed it's M.O.T today and it needed to work doing to it what so ever

I was at hospital yesterday for my checkup. I had some more x-rays and they had a play with it. All seems ok and I just need to carry on with my physio. I have to go back in 8 weeks time for my last checkup, hopefully I will have a fully functioning finger lol.

5 days till I go on holiday now...yehha.

Can't think of much to say today as everything is going Ok.

Take care one and all.

-L

Well I was back in hospital yesterday for my physio treatment. My finger is only 10 degrees bent now, it's slowly coming back to nomality.

I've started to get some strength back in my hand which is good, we done a bit of finger bending action but it was mostly strength exercises.

I go back to hospital tomorrow afternoon for a checkup with x-rays and all that crap, it gets me the afternoon off work though so it's not all bad.

I go back up Scotland for 5 days a week tomorrow, I can't wait, counting down the days now, I love it when I'm up there, especially with Adele and Ashley.

They are off School on Thursday & Friday next week so I'll be looking after them. We are going bowling on the Thursday then we are going to the Zoo on Friday. We are going to the Time Capsuel waterpark in Glasgow on the Saturday and probably Ice Skating on the Sunday.

Really looking forward to it, should be a laugh.

Thats it from me for now.

Take care,
-L.

Been a while since I last posted on here, started to get the bug to update it again.

Well I've done quite alot since I last posted. I went on a camping holiday in October with my Scottish "family" and we had great fun, but a bit on the chilly side. We went on the speed boats around Derwant lake. Me & Adele had one boat and Jill, Jason and Ashley were in the other boat. I drove the boat out of the harbour then Adele carried on when we got in open water, she really enjoyed it.
We went go-karting too, Jason kicked my ass but I got the fastest lap and I just enjoyed powersliding the kart around the bends it was good fun.

After the 2 nights camping we went back to their place in Scotland for the weekend. The Saturday night it was one of the girls in the village 21st birthday party. She had invited everyone in the village and all her friends and had a party in the village hall.
I had 8 pints of Stella and that finished me off. I fell up some stairs on the way to the toilet (so I've been told) and I broke my little finger and fractured my hand. I didn't know what I had done at the time, I was p!ssed as a fart.

I drove home on the Monday with a dodgy hand and went to hospital on the Tuesday. I had x-rays and you could see the clear break in my finger, it didn't look good. The doctor told me to see the fracture specialist on Wednesday and see what he wanted to do with it. I went back the next day and seen the specialist, he told me I would need an operation and screws put in my finger so it would be "normal" again. I asked him when I'd get my operation, he told me the next day (Thursday) jeez they don't mess around do they? I weren't allowed to eat anything from midnight on the Wednesday until after my opearation. With my luck I didn't get called to the thearter until 12:15pm and I was bloody starving. I was in thearter for about 2 hours, when I came back around my whole hand was numb, it was great. I had to rest and eat before they let me go out of hospital.

2 weeks after my operation I went back and got my stitches took out. When I unwrapped the dressing I was nearly ill, it wasnt a very pretty sight. A nurse started taking my stitches out trying to be gentle, she couldn't get 2 of the stitches out so a foriegn doctor came in and just yanked them out lol and blood squirted everywhere, yes it hurt lol!!

I was back up Scotland at the weekend showing them my battle scars from the deadly village hall lol. I went up on the Friday afternoon and got there in time for Adele and Ashely finishing school. They came home and jumped on me straight away the little terrors, we had a play then we went to McDonalds for some tea. I spent the whole weekend chilling really, I helped Jason on Saturday afternoon rip the hall way floor up. Sunday we went for a 3 mile walk up a place called Grey Mere's tale (Google it). Me and Adele were the front walkers setting the pace and taking casual breaks to let the others catch up. The first part of the walk is a killer, it's just steps going up a verticle hill lol. The views were stunning though and definately worth the walk up.

I left Scotland to head home on Sunday night, Adele and Ashley never wanted me to leave and got upset, it was hard. I got pulled over by the police on the way home on the motorway. First time I've ever drove at a normal speed and I get pulled over, it was weird. They looked at my driving license and had a look around my car then they let me on my way, bit pointless really.

I had physio on Monday morning for them to try and get my bent finger back to normal. It was really painful when he first started, but after doing some "warm up exercises" the pain started to ease off a little. I was told that my finger could be straightend if I done exercises every day on it. He shown me what to do and I went off home to do them. (I have to go back tomorrow for a checkup, my finger just looks the same as last week )

I went back to work on Wednesday, I had 400+ emails to go through, and it was total crap.

Anyway, enough ramblings for one blog entry.

Goodnight.
-L.

Ok here's a bit of a life story from the last year involving one girl, I don't think she'll ever read this but I just want to write about it and hopefully not think about it as much anymore...

I started work in November 2005, I enjoyed it and still do, I met some great new people and people that I already knew. There was a South African girl that worked there too, I won't say here real name so I'll call her "Posh Bird" and she was just finishing for Christmas and heading home to South Africa to spend Christmas and New Year with her family.

I didn't know Posh Bird at all hardly and from what I could tell she seemed a happy person and I couldn't wait for work to start so I could get to know her.  After a couple of weeks I got to know her a little better and I give her a lift to work and home a couple of times when her car was in the garage.  One night I went home and I had a email off her, it was her work email address and it said something on the lines of blah blah I really like you blah blah, I thought she wouldn't be the sort of person to write stuff like that in a email but I replied anyway saying that I liked her too.

Next day at work she shown my dad (yes my dad works in the same office as me !) the email that I sent her and she told my dad that she didn't send the one to me. I was a bit confused with it all and felt like a right tw@ knowing that she didn't send it and someone had played a prank on me.  Well this email didn't go down too well with her and we got off on the wrong foot and I got aload of stick for it.

As time went on and on we started to get know each other a bit better and started to have a laugh in pretty much everything we did, funnily enough most of it involved carboard boxes. (don't ask!) I started her to like her more and more as the months went on, but I didn't really want to say anything as what happend when I sent the email earlier in the year, I didn't want a repeat.

I had 2 weeks holiday booked for in August so I went on holiday for a week in Benidorm with my family, it was one of the slowest weeks of my life, in a good way, warm weather, beer and stunning views, what more could you want? but I had Posh Bird on my mind and couldn't wait to go back to work and see her.

When we came back from Benidorm it was birthday a couple of days later so my dad organised a little party at our house with all my mates from work and Posh Bird came too, we had a BBQ and that, but it p!ssed it down (in the middle of summer!!) and messed that idea up so we had a little buffett instead and a couple of beers.  For some reason my head was in messed up world and I couldn't hardly speak to Posh Bird, all this thinking in Spain flipped me out and couldn't say a word, well I could be not what I really wanted to say.

Another couple of weeks went by and I needed to tell her that I loved her or it was going to drive me crazy.  I built up the courage to tell her so I asked her if she wanted to go for a week at the beach, but she told me she had to go shopping - so that feked that idea up and it was back to thinking mode.

I thought it might be best if I kept quiet for now and wait for a more appropriate time, so I did.  Around October time she announced that she was leaving the Country in December and going back home to South Africa to be close to her family. I was shocked, didn't know what to say and a bit upset, the women I love is leaving and I probably wouldn't see her again after she has gone.

We started to txt each other quiet a bit at night after she said that, one night we must've txt'd one another 30 times each, this wasnt your normal txt subject, well it was at the start but by the end of the night she knew that I loved her, I done it the wussy way and told her over a txt msg, I wasn't going to, but as the conversation went on it seemed more and more right, but with her leaving I had nothing to lose.

I think she was a bit surprised with what I said, she sent me a message back saying that if I said something earlier it may of been different and she would be interested in what could of been.  So after saying that I was totally gutted and wishing that I said something a couple of months back and not chickened out and kept quiet. - Will I learn?!?!

...to be continued tomorrow, there quite a bit more to write, but I'm too tired and have to be up at 6:30am for work.

-L.

Well haven't wrote anything for a couple of days, been quite busy really, so a bit of a catch up time.

How great was the ManU v Arsenal game at the weekend? super Henry strikes back again, awesome game overall. It made my Sunday brighter seeing as I was ill, but I'm ok now.

The crappy weather has seemed to vanished from us now which is great. It's started to get cold now so hope it starts to snow soon, first time this winter that I've had to scrape the ice off my car before I went to work, tempreature was 0 degrees, was bloody freezing lol.

Quite a few people have gone off work sick with colds etc, bloody wimps - I was going to do the same but I don't want to use my holidays lol - as I could quite possibly be going to South Africa, depends if my friend wants me to come and see her.

Hey all

Hope everyone is well and doesn't have this bloody bug thats going around like me.

Well I fell asleep last night waiting for Ricky Hatton to fight watched the first couple of fights then KO'd myself lol.  On the plus side I woke up at 9am and the repeat match was just starting so watched it then instead.   It wasn't the best fight in the world or boring, but I think all the hype didn't help the match at all. Saying that Hatton still won and is still un-defeated and he'll kick arse again in June. Well Done Ricky.

As I said before I'm feeling sh!tty at the moment so it looks like it's going to be a boring Sunday.  It's freezing here at the moment and got about 5 layers of clothes on to keep warm, it sucks..!!!

Only 3 hours till Arsenal 'n' ManU start so I'll be curled up next to the fire watching that whilst everyone is drinking and I have bloody lem sip....

Over and out for now.
-L.

Well it's the weekend yippeeee but it's bloody cold, we are meant to get some snow up here over the weekend so it should be good if that happens

I done a bit of work to my car today whilst it was dry, finally got rid of the Vauxhall grill and replaced it with my Irmy one, looks sexy now!

Super news that Chelsea got stuffed, C'mon you Liverpool but the big game is tomorrow - Man U Vs Arsenal.

Looking forward to the boxing tonight, Ricky Hatton is on and I've just booked it on Box Office, should be excellent, fight doesn't start till early morning though around 2-3am so will be a late night with plenty of beer.

Haven't got much to say yet really, I've always wanted to write a blog but I've never got round to it till now.

Take care.