2008 - A review

Firstly let me start by saying, congratulations to South Africa for winning the test match in Melbourne, making it the first time Australia have lost at home since 1992..RIP Australian cricket.

So, last day of 2008, wow. Well over the next few minutes, I hope to inform you, the reader, on all the major events of this year concerning me in a false yet some what beleivable philosophy that you happen to be interested.
Well, January, I don't think much happened in January, certainly my journal is almost empty, I wrote FUCK OFF over one page covering two weeks, so we will just assume that January was poor and the year had got of to it's typically shambolic start.
February, again, nothing much happened, same with March...So let's just skip to April, well it was my Birthday...Though that happens every year, err...Oh I got an iPod, which I can safely say has changed my life, mostly for the better.
Around about May/June the cricket season for me got underway, this year being slightly more suuccesful than previous years, no massive injuries and I did acheive my highest score so far, that being a majestic 54.
About this time, I thought I was in love, but that ended with a series of dissapointments.
In May I started Jack Beckett, my novel about a man weirdly simmilar to myself, this has taken over far too many hours this year, yet I love doing it and it's good to break away from Sci-fi novels concerning black holes and the damnation of the human race.
Around about July, I became hugely obsessed with Oasis, I always liked them before, just now started buying Oasis cd's, not quite sure what brought it on, but glad it happened.
July 31st, one of the best day's of my life, saw England V South Africa at Edgbaston. Was a great day out, despite England loosing, seeing my favourite players for real was quite something.
So along came September, a predictably dull start to the year, nothing really happening, there was a rather nasty incident concerning a nutter, but thankfully I cleared that up remarkably well. It was about late September though, that I thought I might be in love with E, however, I decided back then to try and block this out as much as possible, pretend it wasn't happening and move on. This failed...(Thank God).
Mid-October I couldn't really help myself and told her in what ranks quite high in my list of: most terrifying moments of my life. A few weeks later, we started a relationship and I've been unusally happy ever since. Despite the fact I still moan about nearly everything and care about cricket a little too much, I owe it to her for making this year the best since...since...err...since...2000, I dont think in 2000 I really had a care in the world.

Well there you go, that brings us up to the present day, tomorrow I will write out what I want or expect to happen for New Year.
Thank you and goodbye,

Tom,

Bands I paticuarly enjoyed this year: Oasis, Muse, The Corrs,
Cricketers I now hate: Graeme Smith, Mitchell Johnson, Ian Bell (sorry Bell I know you try).
Random tv series I discovered and enjoyed: Survivors, Band of Brothers, IT crowd, Scrubs, Peep Show (best sitcom ever).
Quoations I remember from the year: 'Well Seb...Your just a...A fucking tree,'-Me,
'We can get some fighter jets to fire conkers,' - S,
'No, I'm not out Tom, I'm staying here and there's nothing you can do about it,' - Campbell,
'Tom, that's not a very convincing Badger,' - McHenry.
'The French...Aren't they the ones who love noodles?' - My American chum

Let it FAKE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!

I'm happy. Was really pissed off and depressed this morning, but I've decided to forget about that now.
Earlier I found PREMIER FAKE SNOW SPRAY!!!!!!! Which then led to me and H patrolling around town spraying various things, we wrote LOL on the road, sprayed a couple of trees...Oh and attacked a bench, admitedlly we were a little hyper.
Then got back and made a sketch about Brian and Ted, two Flight Simulator addicts.
But tomorrow afternoon, (well hopefully tomorrow afternoon it might end up being Christmas Eve due to something concerning my Father's work,) I'm going back to Edinburgh, HOORAH!!! Where it might even snow, according to extremly unreliable sources anyway. But I can't wait to see my Grandparents and various good chums.
Other news, me and a couple of others are hopefully going to see Oasis live around July time (can't wait!!!!).
Anyway I must do some work on my book.
I probably won't be able to write anything in this blog until Sunday at the earliest when I get back, so goodbye everyone.

Lastly, Merry Christmas to all,

Tom,

P.S: Oh and E, if I don't speak to you before, hope you have a good Christmas, will miss you.

I'm feeling supersonic, give me gin and tonic,

I never used to like 'Supersonic,' but it's turned out to be one of those songs which has grown on me. Bit like...Chasing cars and just all of Socuting for girl's work.
Today, got an AMAZING pen from E, it changes bloody colour!!!!! And my favourite chocolate Galaxy, finally some decent chocolate, sorry, no offence, but I'm getting a bit sick (literally) of chocolate buttons.
I also went home at a CRAZY time...Well only an hour and twenty behind when I usually go back, but that's enough to shake up my beloved routine and make me feel light headed. Of course there is a reasoning behind this, that being it's the last day of term 2008...Woah, scary stuff.
The holiday's have got of to an unexpectedly exciting start, me and Campbell playing a Cricket 07 match against South Africa...Christ it was tense, went down to the last ball, 2 needed from 1 delivery, then Mother walks across screen blabbering away about something vaguely important!!??!?!?!?! Me and Campbell both remained remarkably calm, just went up to our rooms in complete silence much to the bewilderment of my Mother.
Will the remainder of the holiday's be like this? Well probably not, apart from Scotland, the possibility of seeing E at some point and of course Christmas, the majoirty of my time will be spent in solitude. Mainly writing, revising, dreaming about scoring majestic hundreds for Hampshire etc...
But it is Christmas soon, very soon in fact, I can't tell you how far away it is BECAUSE I HAVEN'T GOT AN ADVENT CALENDAR!!!!
Do I have any plans/goals concerning the working aspect of 2009? Well not really, just want to secure my GCSE'S and if possible a place on the school cricket team.

Time for me to go,
BYE BYE!!!

Tom,

Thursday 18th December 2008...Yeah....I'll admit to not being so great at this title business

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Have got terrible writer's block, I decided I would aim to finish my book by Christmas a few months back, that's looking extremely unlikely. Not that I need to finish it by Christmas, I have years, would be nice to finish though. It's not that I don't know what to write, it's more how to write it, everything I type seems so shit, this paticular chapter is vital for the whole series and I really want it to work.

Chocolate...So much chocolate, I've eaten loads of the stuff recently, my stomach is beginning to complain, an entire sack of golden coins, two slices of chocolate cake and about a thousand chocolate buttons...All in the past half an hour.
Blimey, last week of term, so a constant stream of videos, what did I get today? The Pianoist and then a Beautiful Life, fine yeah, brilliant films and yes I think everyone should watch them, especially the Pianoist, but it's Christmas for God sake, do I really have to watch Hollocaust films at Christmas?

However, I did get to see E at lunch today which was great and England are playing tonight, so shouldn't complain.........But will, I hate Christmas cards with glitter in them, you open them up and the stuff just falls out everywhere, 'What you doing this Christmas?'...'Well HOOVERING!'

BYE EVERYONE!!!...I say everyone, who reads this?

Tom,

MY BROTHER ATTACKED SOMEONE

As the title reveals, my brother attacked someone.
Moving on, isn't the Bible an odd book? I hate the way it's all full of riddles and just plain nonsense, sorry but Genesis is simply weird, talking bloody snakes and apples of evil...It's ridiculous.
What happened today?....Ok well school was a bit of a drag, apart from ICT, where I discovered DOODLE...A crazy little game where you control a grinning hyper active man with a sword who jumps around various platforms murdering rubber men.
So yes my dear brother punching someone for abusing his perfectly ordinary name (Campbell), I'm not sure if I support him in his decision to punch them though. He could have just found some way to out-wit them, but ah well, been playing Cricket 07 with him for over two hours now. Currently going through one of our getting along with each other really well phases, which will hopefully last out to Christmas.

Urg....Last few days I've been eating so much chocolate, I need to stop this, though I'm not really running any danger of turning fat all of a sudden, if anything I need to eat more.
Christmas holiday's coming up, do I have anything planned? Well I'm going up to Edinburgh to stay with my Grandparents, where I will be able to see some dear old chums and annoy them ever so much with my accent. Must help a traumatized friend who's girlfriend attacked him with a knife quite recently, he wasn't hurt and I think he might have been exagerating it slightly, but still it would only ever happen to him...I hope anyway. Oh Edinburgh, how I miss thee, the 1 o'clock cannon, Portobello beach, Arthur's mount...

GOODBYE EVERYONE!!!!!

Tom,

Who the hell's Mandy?

Ok time for a proper entry.
Tuesday today, quite a good day, well I can't complain, E seemed to like her Christmas present. Though I feel really sorry for her, she's been working damn hard after school and everything over this yearbook thingy and it's not fair at this time of the year.
In other news, yet another conspicary is working against me, we have an advent calender in our tutor, I pick out names every morning, I have never been chosen and by the looks of it never will, despite cosntant resuarances from my tutor, I simply have to go along with the theory S has burnt my name in a fit of rage.

After watching last weeks Survivors I may have developed a very small crush on the character Anya, this weeks episode....Turns out she's a lesbian, how fucking typical. This is simmilar to Claire in Lost, she turned out to be a nutter and then an Australian, why did it take me so long to figure out that accent??????

God...Listening to Barry Manilow, if only the name Mandy was replaced with Emily it would be one of the more perfect to me song's ever. Oh I mentioned her name on the blog...Am I allowed to do that? Wait who am I asking this question to? Christ I'm quite the schizophrenic.

Better go,

Tom,

Sorry, but it's not like this post really has a point, so neither will the title.

MORNING (for those reading in the morning)
Swindon radio came on earlier and they had someone phoning in who lives in Southampton, why? Why does that man listen to Swindon radio?

Bye,

Tom,

Blarg ne farg

Going to make this brief today. Just washed all the crap put of my hair, a pillock decided to pour the contents of a gutter over me 'accidently'.
Been watching videos all day and drawing disturbing images, when I say disturbing images I just mean smiley faces.
Had an AMAZING idea for a book so will finish this up now,

Tom,

P.S: Congratulaions to S who's very recently started a relationship with a complete lunatic, well I think she's mentally insane, but he loves her, so hell, well done and I'm glad your happy S.

I've done some thinking

As the title suggests, I have indeed done some thinking. I've reached only a couple of solid conclusions, I'm a complete nutter and I like cricket just a bit too much.
I'm not a nice person, I'm not someone who I would wish to even know or befriend. I spend half my time moaning, the other half mocking something or other.

I have a girlfriend, but I don't know why, she's fantastic, but me? I have three books about Nazi Germany and the Third Reich for God sake (admitedlly those were birthday presents...I still read them though). I've got a friend who's going through a really crap patch at the moment and in the wake of Christmas it really isn't fair, I try to be there for him, but nothing I say can make any difference, I'm completely powerless and I hate that.
But this isn't just some bizzare confession of a nutter, because I'm thankful, I really am, I'm thankful for E, (should probably give her a new code name because by saying I'm thankful of E...I sorta sound like a bit of a druggy). But yeah, I'm thankful for her, for being so wonderfully brilliant.
I'm thankful for my friends who put up with so many rants about why me losing my Bugs Life pen and how it is most likely the fault of the Dutch. I'm also thankful for my family, who are subjected to me near 24/7, but I'm especially thankful to my dear cat, who does actually put up with me 24/7 and literally knows everything there is to know about me.

Sorry for the random outburst of emotion, but know that I've got that off my chest, I can press on writing about other events and thoughts.
Cricket yes cricket...I'm obsessed but it isn't even the season, well it isn't the season in England, however as nearly every cricket playing nation is in the lower hemisphere, it's the season over there. Which is probably the problem, so many games going on in so many beautiful grounds in lovely hot sunny countries...Excluding India, that place is quite frankly terrifying.

I really feel like I should be doing some more to my book, I've got up to a really cruically exciting bit...Well exciting for me at least. This weekend I'll have a good session.
Anyways, hope everything is good for you and if it isn't, well keep going, the good stuff is really worth waiting for, trust me.

Tom,

P.S: The ghosts on Pacman keep cornering me

A sitcom, drama and who the hell is Amjad Khan??

TODAY IS SUNDAY!!!!...Just thought I'd announce that in caps lock. So what have I been doing this Sunday? The majority of the morning was spent watching a couple of Series five Peep Show episodes and some random stuff from Ashes dvds all from the comfort of my bed. A luxury for me these days, my ps2 decided a few months back that it just wasn't going to have anything to do with dvds.
My brothers however plays them all perfectly...Last night I simply swapped Playstations, cunning I know, no seriously the SIS should employ me. The best bit is, he still hasn't noticed.

The rest of the day was spent writing a radio sitcom with H, it's loosely based on World War Two set in a rather bizzare Cotswold village, quite brilliant....Ooo I just had an idea for a song, might have to write this down.
Oh good lord, fun bouncing Drama has been tottally destroyed, until February I am working alongside two of the most frustratingly annoying girls in the school on a play about child abuse. It is quite ridiculos, we could pick any topic we wanted as long as it was educational to the audience, for some reason they weren't too keen on: Why Communism doesnt work, with me playing Stalin.
I mean why child abuse? 'Because it's deep Tom.'

Pah, this is going to ruin my Friday afternoons now, having to play an abused child until February... Well better look on the bright side, its Christmas soon, there's the brilliant E, cricket might be on in the near future.
Though England have picked some bloke called Amjad Khan....Now I follow the county game intensely, but I have never heard of this mysterious bowler from Kent and on that basis alone I've decided I don't like him.

Tom,

P.S: LOOK AT ALL THE CRAZY CHANGES I'VE MADE...NOW YOU CAN PLAY PACMAN DAMN IT!!!! Psychedelic or what?????

That last entry was pathetic,

That last entry was pathetic, I'm going to write a better one.
Still with a slight problem on what to write, crap is my life really this dull?...I have been playing Flight Simulator 2004 for quite a long time, is my life that sad?
I don't have an advent calendar as well, I'm now too old, pah to that...Here I go with the moaning again,must stop this.
Update on the S situation: he has engaged the doctors in a brutal fight involving foam disk guns, the Black Watch are apparently moving into position.
In the general scheme of things though, life is pretty good, it's just those little things which really get to you in this weather, like my ipod, the advent calender, exams etc... S decided to give out sweets to E today.....Suspicious, I'm watching you S, oh and if you happen to be reading this, so are the Black Watch.
Why do I have a mallet?...Anyway, yeah, Woolworths is going, I never really liked that shop, never saw quite what it's point was, but I'll miss it for the pick n mix.
What this country needs to steer it through these troubled times is........Me.
I would do a brilliant job, I've alerady got this all sussed out, the economy needs a little kick to get it started again, what better way than by building a HUGE tourist attraction? I'm thinking....The Great Wall of Shropshire, obviosuly Shropshire is a tiny county, so this wall will (unlike that wall the Chinese have)be tall rather than long, and when I say tall I mean 6000000 feet.

With a slightly better but more absurd entry,

Tom,

P.S: S...There behind you,

O dear

Ok....I'm finding it hard to take in what I've just heard, S is playing Runescape.

Moving on, I had three exams today, that's just mental! I had no break, little lunch and I had to actually use jedi mind powers to controll my table in the Drama exam.
Other news, my ipod is still broken, I'm going to have to phone Appple tommorow, either them or Childine, maybe both (I'm not taking it well).
Is Benjamin Linus the best Lost character ever????????????? I reckon he must be, just imagine if that man was put in charge of a large military nation, woah!

Well I'll finish this up, as I'm running out of stuff to say as you can probably tell,

Tom,

P.S: The doctors are already at S's house, he's being taken to a sponge room, we can all relax.