Electric faces seem to emerge

I had a multiple whities this weekend. Oh my days. I had to take myself into a corner several times over the weekend to have a word with myself. Needless to say, Thursday to Sunday is a good effort.


I am sad summer is ending.

Gutted Lance Armstrong didn't win.

Finally have 10 days off work and everything that could possibly go wrong on my ultra diarised planned activities, has.
I am coming down with something, so far it just seems like a chest infection. I hope it's not the bloody Swine flu, even though it's pretty stablised throughout Europe now it's still going to be nasty. Our web designer guy in the UK has it, apparently it came to his 'village'.

Staying in on Friday AND Saturday night? Boo.

The Air France crash is constantly on my mind.

I think The Green Mile is one of my top 10 favourite films.

Spanish bank holidays do my head in.

Further more, I am moving tomorrow and absolutely dreading it.

Going out on a Monday night is never a good idea.

I am moving apartments, AGAIN. This will be the 6th time in just over 2 years.

Summer definitely calls for a beach side apartment however and the views are great...but with Marbella comes older, typically Spanish apartments which isn't my cup of tea as I'm not old and typically Spanish.

I have so many holidays planned for this year and I'll probably actually carry out one of them and maybe, just maybe, go through with getting on the flight rather than wasting the booked ticket because I didn't feel like going, haha.

Madrid, Barcelona (for my 21st) and Rome...I reckon I'll make Italy.

I love blue skies and sunshine.

At a loss for words.


I can't believe it's Spring and the half way mark to my birthday. Surely Mallory and Heather were here almost 9 months ago; where's that time gone?

I am dreaming of old friends/people I used to know recently, especially Stephanie and Kyle for some odd odd reason.

A teenager collapsed after playing online combat game World Of Warcraft non-stop for 24 hours. The 15-year-old had reportedly invited several friends round to his house in Laholm, western Sweden, for an epic bout on the newly-released version of the game, Wrath of the Lich King.

He collapsed and had to be taken to hospital after suffering symptoms that reportedly resembled those of an epileptic fit.

"They played all day and all night. Maybe they got a few hours of sleep. They ate a little food and breakfast at their computers," the boy's father told a local newspaper.

Doctors told the father that his son had been suffering from the effects of concentrating for a long time without enough food or sleep.

The game sees millions of people compete against each other in a virtual world of mythical creatures.

It has sparked worries that players can get addicted and experts warn that some of them end up withdrawing from the real world.

One French gamer has been hailed by the online gaming community after achieving the top level in the new version of the game after a 27-hour stint.

For most players, achieving the feat would take weeks, or even months.

Known as Nymh, the 21-year-old had a friend on hand who played another character alongside him throughout the entire period solely to help him achieve his goal.

Sarah Palin has refused to rule out running for US president in the future but said her decision would be guided by God.
Giving her first television interview since last week's historic US elections, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate said faith played an important part in her life.

She said: "Putting my life in my creator's hands, this is what I always do.

"I'm like, OK God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray. I'm like, don't let me miss the open door.

You're like, what, Sarah?

"If there is an open door in 2012 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plough through that door."

Mrs Palin could also seek re-election as the Alaska governor in 2010 or challenge Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski for the senate.

There is also uncertainty over the fate of Senator Ted Stevens, who is leading the vote count in his bid for another term, but could be ousted by the Senate for his conviction on seven felony counts of failing to report more than £100,000 in gifts, mostly renovations on his home.

If Mr Stevens loses his seat, Mrs Palin could run for it in a special election

"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer..."



HARRY J ANSLINGER

TGI Friday 2 4 1 cocktail hour


After we won at the casino. No, nothing big, just a few euros to keep us going for the night.


New recruit


Work crew + flat mate and minus 3 of the lads.


yeah yeah


At the end of the night obviously


Complete end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones_(film)

A new book has just been released by Quentin Letts which points the finger at fifty seemingly scrupulous characters for the 'demise' of Great Britain. Some examples:


1. Jeffrey Archer: "His crassness, his boastfulness, his social mountaineering, his pushiness, his sheer screamingly obvious dodginess, were traffic signs to his character and should have prevented him getting as far as he did."

2. Howard Schultz: The man who put world domination on the agenda for coffee chain Starbucks.

3. Tim Westwood: "Middle-aged Westwood is a Radio 1 disc jockey who has so immersed himself in the music of black rappers and American-style hip-hoppers that he has started to talk like one - and is leading thousands of young listeners down the same ill-guided alley."

4. Tony Blair: "There is a good, rough word to describe Tony Blair but we had better not write it out here in full."

5. Paul Burrell: "After Burrell, we expect less of close confidants. And we are less surprised by his sort of treachery."

6. John Prescott: "Prescott, a revolting specimen with the manners of a flatulent caveman, demeaned our public life."

7. Sir Jimmy Saville: "There are other examples - Tony Blackburn, Sir Paul McCartney, Keith Chegwin, Chris Evans - of egomaniac idiots whose refusal to submit to age infects our society with immaturity."

8. Richard Dawkins: "Anti-religionist Dawkins, the best-known English dissenter since Darwin, is the merciless demander of provable fact."

9. Janet Street-Porter: "This ageing non-revolutionary helped to mould a London media elite who are now hooked on youth."

10. Sir Alex Ferguson: "A man who has helped to drive the fun out of football and who often seems to forget that the contest between two teams of 11 lads is merely a game, not a struggle between right and wrong."

11. Richard Brunstrom: "The traffic-crazed Chief Constable of North Wales Police has pursued motorists to the point of frenzy."

12. Margaret Thatcher: "It was in the pursuit of the trade unions - specifically, Arthur Scargill's National Union of Mineworkers - that Mrs Thatcher did lasting damage to our country."

13. Princess Diana: "The sorry truth is that this adored concept, this packaged, airbrushed Diana, weakened our society. She made us more neurotic."

14. Charles Saatchi: "Does Saatchi never stop to consider what it does to the nurse or the soldier on a basic wage to see such fecklessness as Tracey Emin's 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With' hailed as a masterpiece?"

15. John McEnroe: "McEnroe helped spread bad sportmanship to a generation of youngsters."

16. Stephen Marks: The man behind FCUK is blamed for "contributing to the coarseness of language in public."

17. Frank Blackmore: The man who introduced the mini-roundabout to Britain's roads. Enough said.

18. Alan Titchmarsh: "Alan is 'doing his bit for the environment' by joining something called the 'Saving Planet Earth' project. But after so much Alan Titchmarsh, will it want to be saved? Or will it plead for euthanasia?"

19. Richard Beeching: Behind the closure of a long list of railway stations. "To this day, there are traffic jams and bottlenecks which can be traced to Beeching."

20. Edward Heath: Heath was blamed for creating a climate of political terror about immigration.

I hate that I don't feel the same on my birthday's. Last year was all right. This year I walked around Puerto Banus and had my friends carry my patent heels. I loved that Heather and Mallory were here for it and I love that I have someone coming to visit me in September from America too :). I am the most tired I have been in a long time. 3 days of non stop walking, talking, late nights, cocktail hours, beach and cooking.
I love that I know I will be leaving Spain soon. I cannot wait. I've gone past the point of appreciating it here. I need to leave before I have horrible memories of this place. I'd love to go France next...I don't know.
My parents are looking for change too...it's all in the cards.

I need something new. Years of constantly moving house, changing schools, changing friends, changing cultures has made me get bored every time I almost settle down. New friends, new experiences and a brand new place. That's what I need...again.

I broke something, Old Man.
How badly is it broken?
It's in a million little pieces.
I'm afraid I can't help you.
Why?
There's nothing you can do.
Why?
It can't be fixed.
Why?
It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.









13 days until Heather and Mallory are in Spain with me!

I lost my damn phone in the Marbella shopping mall. Damnit.

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AREA CODES AND COUNTRY CODES REQUIRED!

Good. Good. I just had a phone interview for an amazing job. I really want it and it would change my life, forever.




Go change!

My dog, Fergal, died this morning. Some of you might remember him if you came to my house before. He was poisened. Why, why would anyone do that...




Another shit day. Bring on tomorrow.

Bring on May.


In other news, leaving party's rule.

I´ve been sitting at this hotel for the last 3 hours. I´ve ordered some chicken and vegetables. I´ve tried to read some of my new book, The Gathering by Anne Enright. I finished a very interesting book last night, Drugs and the Irish Middle Class. I am desperate to go home, home as in Spain, which really is just a place I find myself a couple of times a week, on average. I think I want to quit this job and stop trying to do things I shouldn´t be doing at my age. I am not enjoying myself. Christ, you´d never think I was 19. My job is a constant battle between me and 35 year old men acting sleezy and constantly talking about sex. Give it up, no wonder none of them are married. I´m freezing. It´s -16 c today and that temperature has never made me more depressed. I find myself losing control of the simple things. I mold to the older class and their silly night time antics; their evening to mid morning drinking and God knows what else kind of drawn out parades they are partial to. This place is made for people that have fucked up or are constantly fucking up without feeling guilt. This place is cruel and backstabbing. This place is coporate.


I am saving money now. I never saved one single cent of what I earned last year. Saving and exiting starts now.
I constantly have dreams of old friends in America, which is strange as that stopped happening a few months after I left.


Also, this place looks nothing like what Borat described and people don´t even look like anyone in that movie.

 Sundance, my cat, died yesterday. Valentines day. Fucking fantastic.

I am going to Khazakstan on Monday for two weeks. I think a 'WTF' is in order.

In Sweden. It's been snowing. I tried rooster, it wasn't very nice. I will be back in Spain tomorrow and then off to the UK on Thursday then possibly Russia the week after. God it's cold in these places. Pictures soon!
I can't believe it's already Febuary. I can't wait for the summer. I can't wait for some more free time to travel. I am going to travel this year, I won't lock myself up in a job all the time, it's not right really.

:)

I hope everyone's 2008 is starting well. In the meantime, I'm absolutely in love with this song:

Breathe it in and breathe it out
And pass it on, it's almost out
We're so creative, so much more
We're high above but on the floor

It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side

The deeper you stick it in your vein
The deeper the thoughts, there's no more pain
I'm in heaven, I'm a god
I'm everywhere, I feel so hot

It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side
I'm not an addict (maybe that's a lie)

It's over now, I'm cold, alone
I'm just a person on my own
Nothing means a thing to me
(Nothing means a thing to me)

It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side
I'm not an addict (maybe that's a lie)

Free me, leave me
Watch me as I'm going down
Free me, see me
Look at me, I'm falling and I'm falling.

It is not a habit, it is cool I feel alive I feel...
It is not a habit, it is cool I feel alive

It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side
I'm not an addict (maybe that's a lie)
I'm not an addict...


Maybe this year I'll be seeing a few of you :)

I know I've already updated a lot, but my dog just got hit by a car!


He's been put to sleep :(


Stephanie, don't be sad, he'll be OK!

I love stephanie ritter

Another Christmas eh? Well, Merry, Happy, Christmas.

What is everyone doing for New Years?


My brother wants everyone that knows him to message him on myspace. He hates Livejournal because it has a format.


We're so cool.

eventually...






Christmas is so soon!

Hugs and kisses from Spain

Christmas is coming, I love Christmas. Things are going well at the moment, better than usual.
Dinner is so formal and it makes everything so awkward, agree? Having lunch is worse, it's daylight, you're eating, we're trying to talk...how...awkward. Dinner is bad though, you've prepared something, trying your hardest and there's this certain element of, 'what if I hate this?' and the other thinking 'Oh my God I hope this is good'.

Anyway, I had dinner the other night with someone and it was exactly that. I had to have a friend give me the emergancy 'It's 11 o clock, here's the call', and then there's me saying 'Oh God, you're joking? Really? I'll be there right away'.

Useless.
And yes, he totally knew.

Anyway, I remember doing this a year or two ago on LiveJournal, a picture with my brother around Christmas time. So here's an updated one. I hadn't seem him in like, 3 months. Work.
And yes, both he and I are well aware that his eye looks fucking weird in this, but hey, it's a picture worth having.

Stare



I love you I hate you I love you I hate you
I can't keep my hands off of you
I love you I hate you I love you I hate you


Oh my god,
I'm not supposed to say this
'Cause i know that you're trouble but...
Is that your real name and why are you doing this?
And how did I get here?
Ok..no more questions,
No worries
It's destination unknown
So dive in
The waters great
Listen i'm starting to speak like you

working hard

Knackered, absolutely knackered.

I have so much to do over the next couple months. Christmas will be probably just as stressful. Geneva? Rome? Milan? Florida? At least this time I have the funds and means.

It doesn't have to be this complicated and it's just been shown how much weight is being put on the scenario. If that's the way it's going to be and the situation is going to be perceived, then forget the whole idea.

Yeah, maybe it was said and deemed a very big deal. Fuck, it is. I haven't been back in a year, regardless of any one/many people, it's a long way to go and considering I work seven days a week, means sacraficing new friends and family. Maybe I'll bring a friend? But if it's getting too much, too soon/late, then no problem...but it'd be a lot easier if I could know sooner rather than later.

And someone would have to let me eat their Christmas dinner ;) Stephanie? Laura? Hahaha.


I may go to Dubai or Hong Kong in November for work! Cross fingers!


Other than that, I don't regret leaving Lakeland. I loved what I did and regret nothing, even if it cost me a few skipped heartbeats from almost getting locked in jail or something, but it was good.

I wouldn't live in Spain if it wasn't for the job and England is entirely out of the question. Time will tell, time is fire in which we burn too, you know. ;)



Good flat, great flat mate.

This is a beautiful place. Because it's so rural and green, it even effects the people and their outlook on life.

I'm getting a cold and all I can think about is winter. Christmas. Time. Where will I be spending it?


I wasted 8 months not acting on a state of being; feeling and everything that has come from it since has been frustration and anxiety.


I can't close a chapter, theoretically, until I've revisited the pages to make sure everything's tied up and the punctuation is in all the right places.


I have to go back or delete because I can't keep wondering, wishing and missing.


I can't change what happened, what didn't, what should've, what was best to have happened, or not, but I can change and complete this drawn out one act that contains too much filler and not enough direction.

Help is all I ask.

God I got so sunburnt today. I have two days left of my holiday then it's back to work for another 4 months straight.
I haven't even acheived much. I was going to go to Morocco but just wasted time going out.

Speaking of which,


I LOST MY WALLET AND PHONE LAST NIGHT


Can you believe it? Last night when I got home I realized I'd lost my UK phone, not my Spanish one which I suppose is a bit of luck and then it wasn't till this morning I fucking realized I'd lost my freaking wallet as well! My card, 200 euros and other random shit was in it.
I lost it at the beach, I think, around 5 in the morning because my bag tipped over and I had to pick everything up. Clearly I didn't get everything.


My wallet. I could not believe my luck. Like I have time to try and sort that shit out. I had to call the emergancy number today, and since I have a Spanish bank account, the customer service was in Spanish. Just as well I literally scraped by and managed to close my account.

Let me know if you have my old UK number and I'll have to give you my shitty Spanish one.

In other news...I have that weird, fist day of middle school feeling in my stomach. I'm so anxious about going back to work and I don't know why.

At work again. This week I am in Leicester fromm 9 till 9, Friday-Monday then on Wednesday I go to Ireland for a Bulgarian road show, then back to Spain for one night, move my stuff to San Pedro then fly to Belfast for an OPE show...
Summer= July 30th to August 13th. Must use wisely.



My birthday was an absolute success. Everyone was great. Puerto Banus was great. All the guys in suits, all the girls dressed up. VIP area. Loads of drink. Small little bar, what a night!
Broken thumbs and toes came later as well as accidently knocking myself out. One guy fell asleep outside.
It's nice to drink and know I'm legally allowed. I haven't been I'D'ed once since I left the states.
I can only handle going out every other week or so...the nights when we go out I don't get home till 7am then I have to drunkenly pack and get on a plane. This isn't a glamourous job and people that think it is need to think a little harder. I haven't had one single day off, including a Sunday, since Feb 12th. Yes, I am selling property kind of successfully, but it takes a while before the money comes through like for any real estate agent. Good news? We have a huge head quater office on International Drive where I can get a working VISA if I needed to.
Whatever, this is boring talk. I hope everyone's OK and life's a little more simple than what it was two years ago. Mind you, it's always been simple but everyone makes things so complex.

My brother left Spain and tried to start up in the UK but he's been offered a job back in Spain. He wants to go back to FL really badly with me for a holiday...we'll see.

I'll tell you one thing though, I have never worn suits so much in my life. Not once have I worn jeans and a t shirt except when I'm on a plane.
www.myspace.com/georgia__anne for a picture. Plus my public myspace has been updated with pictures from my birthday, www.myspace.com/fadeawayandradiate
Love.

I miss a lot of people. The funny thing is, I can't remember a lot of specific people when I think about the groups of people back in Florida I'd hang out with.
Stephanie Ritter, you know I love you to bits and I will try my bestest to see you and give you the biggest momsy hug possible when I come over in July.
Vampire-you're always my right hand gal and we message each less often now but you're always in my thoughts.
There are some others but ... I'll let some of you know when I'm coming and when my fucking flights are booked as this job is taking every waking second out of me.
I have stopped smoking now and I barely get to have a drink anymore...even though it's legal and I haven't been ID'ed since October!
I hope July is good, whether it's 10 days or 2 weeks. I need to plan this carefully as some people are in different locations...Lakeland, Orlando, Gainesville.

I love and miss some of you tremendously though and cannot wait to see your lovely faces!!

Comments are screened on this because I don't have much time for myspace messages anymore so I'll just check this and write back long meaningful comments.

I hope all of you are taking care of yourselves as well!

Wow. That´s all I´ve got to say.


I will be in Lakeland, Florida from July 2nd or 3rd onwards.



Lets keep ourselves dreaming and lets keep feeling.

Here I am at work, again. I did a 12 hour day yesterday. Why? I have some serious thinking to do and I have to come to a decision in less than two weeks. It could mean the difference between a proper career and a dead end job. I don't know what to do. It'd mean me moving countries-again. It'd mean having wasted these last five months which includes friends I've made.
Money over happiness? Or is that just me being stubborn?

merry christmas from england and spain.



Spring break-WICKED



Everything else...mince pies and christmas pudding.

Touching makes us stronger.
Heat makes us faster.
Breathing makes us pace-pace-pace.

PACED.



I'd like to swear I'm not-but I am.
It's just a dance to the penthouse.
Give the birthday boy a dance!
A dance?
Redbull and vodka please, if you're asking.


You are.


( the next step's the best.. )

Week days-work work work work work. 10-12 hour days. One of the two is for sure.
Friday/Saturday night-bar hop bar hop pub pub pub train train taxi taxi penthouse?
Saturday-buy food buy food eat watch tv be bored.
Sunday-Roast dinner.



December 22nd-27th-Spain

New Years-?



Lemme get that fry up.

So I have a small, small flat all to myself anddddddddddddd



I just got a job!
And, better yet, the agency that got me the job asked me to work for them for the rest of the week!



But, I won't start counting my eggs just yet...


But still, yay!

I just got a flat!

My heart is filled with HOPE. 
I seem to know: this is REBIRTH. 
I seem to know: this is an act to SAVE MY LIFE


"INCONCLUSIVE": The heart´s fate.
Out of the void, one to assist.
(Not a nurse.) (Not yet!)

Being (sort of) MIA in England in the pubs and busy towns is getting to be better and better each day!





It's slowly coming together.



DK Fashion company in London? mmmm

Being over-qualified for a secretary job is kind of nice...but being told it by the big firms is even better :]!!!

I'm here but I haven't necessarily made it yet.

This is really hard. This is and will be harder than the last time. There's a lot of things I'm going to miss-even the things and people I shouldn't. I've learnt a lot of things these past couple of months and hung out with old friends and some that I had stopped hanging out with even before I left the first time. I've also met some great new people, and this time around, it sucks even more than before because these are the people I would want to have as permanent friends. Friends I see at least once a week. Friends I see and spend countless nights at their houses/apartments. I'll always stay in contact with a few of you, and some I just know that it won't happen, but I can try....trying's what I do best lately. I just have to try really hard once I get to England otherwise I don't know what I'll do. I feel like I am stuck in this huge pool and I have to wait for the sun to shine hot enough to evaporate the water so I can get out....it might take a while, I know; that's the whole point. This is going to take a while. This is going to take some getting used to.
Jessica/Austin/Zaki/Aubree/Tracy/Chaz/Royce/Brandon/Mackenzi-you've all managed to take up a lot of my time these past two months and I wouldn't change it for the world.
Stephanie, you know I love you to pieces and it's going to be just as hard as it was the last time for me to say goodbye to such a loyal friend. You're going to do great things even if you don't quite know what they will consist of yet...but you're extremely smart and you have a good head on your shoulders. Don't let anybody bring you down. Ever.
And Jessica, tonight was hard, tonight was really hard...I don't even know what to say about our friendship. It was (is, and will be) so honest and close that it's weird we weren't good friends before. I can tell you anything and I'm pretty sure that goes the same for you. Get on my level? Been there, done that.