August 1, 2006

• Welcome To My Life!

  “..noone ever lied straight to your face, noone ever stabbed you in the back! You might think I’m happy but…”

  
  

  Err anyway! I’m finally making my “back home” update. Its been a week now since I returned from the States and 2 and a half weeks since I got back from Japan and everything is pretty normal and familiar. The recent heatwave is giving way to more traditional British summer conditions (ie. rain). I’ve hung out with friends and spent time with the immediate family. I am also now swamped with a tonne of boring but necessary crap, not exactly fun stuff but it will at least keep me busy, which is probably a good thing right now!!! My car needs insuring and taxing, I have to sort my student loan and arrange some accomodation for September and I really need a job of some sort for the summer. I’ve also gotta start getting into a regular gym routine, now that I don’t have Matt to organise me, and fit regular study spots in everyday, lest I wish to be flayed alive by Takako when I return to UCLan and find my Japanese unlearned!

  
  

     So, this is my house! Or to be more accurate, my Mum’s house which I live in whilst not at University! My room sits above the garage and if you look closely you can see the 3rd place Judo trophy I won when I was 8 glistening in the window. We’ve lived here since I was 15, which is the longest I’ve lived at any 1 house! Fascinating, I’m sure!  

  
  

  And here are our cars! My brother’s shining, shimmering, brand new Ford Focus and my 14 year old, battle damaged Vauxhall Astra! Guess who the successful one is…!!! He also airbrushed the licence plates out of paranoia. Cautious one, is Christopher Moss…!

  
  

  

  
  

  So thats where I live! Nuneaton is… ermm…. not the most thrilling of places, lets say, but I may add pics to future updates just for the novelty! Its as familiar and comfortable as it ever was, being back home, but in a way, its not really home anymore. More like a place I have a history, but not really a future, with! I feel now that I won’t truly feel at home again until I’ve got my own place. “Somewhere I Belong”, eh Sarv?

  
  

  Well one more pic! This is my Dad’s house, in one of my favourite spots in the country, South Warwickshire! Its close to Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace, so it gets a lot of tourists! A lot of Japanese tourists no less…! For the geeks out there (CAlex!) South Warwickshire was also where J. R. R. Tolkien grew up! As a result he based The Shire largely on this area. I think his home village is not far from where my Dad lives… The nearby city of Birmingham is said to have inspired Isengard, because in Tolkien’s time its rapid industrialisation was threatening the local countryside! And the inhabitants are Orcs!!! Kidding! Kidding!!!   

  
  

  

  
  

  And on a teacher’s salary!!! Anyway, my Dad and his partner Juanita’s place, that we visited this past weekend! Here I am with my Dad and little half-brother, Richard!

  
  

  So, still got a lot to do! My insurance is taken care of and my accomodation worries are being dealt with but I still need a job. I’m really looking forward to getting back into fencing again too. I find a good round of combat sport is often the best cure for my angst! Expect a lot of poser-y fencing stuff to appear on my Xanga in the future! Oh and note my sweet new banner! Matt designed and put it up for me, amidst all his heading to Japan as a JET stuff! Legend! Special thanks too to his sister, Beka, who helped me overcome my photo-posting woes by suggesting I paste them from photobucket! We beat the system! Hahaaaaa!

  
  

  I love you, my friends, wherever you may be!

  
  

  Peace Out! “..you don’t know what its like, what its like!!…  “

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