Holidays!

It’s finally here.. Tomorrow me and Siobhan are jetting off to Rhodes, Greece for a week’s break! After me having broken my foot + missing most of this summer, this is just what I need to salvage this summer from being one of the worst ever

It is home to alot of firsts too
My first time abroad without parents
Siobhan’s first time abroad (I don’t count a daytrip to Paris as abroad, she may)
Siobhan’s first time on an aeroplane
etc etc

I think we’re gonna have a whole lot of fun and probably drink waaaaaaaaaaay too much alcohol.. I’ll be making Siobhan take her camera so you can probably expect to see some snaps too .

I have nothing else to say really, just don’t miss me too hard , oh and also. The redesign will be finished + released after my holiday. Drag Racer will also have to be untended while I’m gone and I’m not looking forward to how it is coping when I return

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Stephen

I’m fixed :)

It’s true!

Today I got the all clear from the hospital and have since given back my [url=http://blog.groomi.net/The_loss_of_a_limb_:(-,22]moon boot[/url] and crutches!

The hospital appointment was very uneventful but I just figured I had better let the one or two regular blog readers know that I’m working again.

The loss of a limb :(

Hello,

It has been just under a week since I last blogged to inform you of my first night shift in hell. Since then I have had my foot broken and thus cannot work, walk and can barely leave the house.

It all happened in the early hours of Sunday morning when I walked home from the pub following some trouble. I woke up Sunday to find my foot was absolutely wrecked and I could barely hold the weight of the sheets on my bed without massive pain. Many painkillers and a trip to casualty later I was informed I had two broken metatarsals in one foot and it is likely I’ll be out of action for quite some time.

Monday saw me, my mother and distressed yet endlessly supportive girlfriend off to hospital again to get my foot fixed. I was fully expecting six or more weeks in plaster but was given what they call a [i]moon boot[/i]. I was given this and a set of bigger crutches to what I was given at casualty and sent on my way with an appointment to return in early September. Despite the photo below, the "Contour Air Walker" as it is better known is alot less like a big shoe and more of a hot, sweaty burden on my day.
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Footwear aside, I have to applaud all paraplegic people (I feel I used the wrong word there so sorry if I did) for coping with how difficult it is getting through a day without one or both legs. Firstly, I can’t drive and for me who spends on average around 22 hours a week driving it is absolutely heartbreaking. Then, the next priority is walking! I walked about a quarter of a mile taking Siobhan to the bus stop and back (back to driving.. I couldn’t drive her home :@) and I was as tired as if I’d ran a marathon.

Also, when you see people on crutches, they seem to be walking as you’d walk with your feet all smooth and natural like.. but noooooooooooooo, the first two days I spent getting used to my crutches almost had me more injured than I was to begin with, I was bouncing off walls, tripping on steps and more…

I’ll end this blog there for now though as you must have got the idea by now that I am bitter and unhappy and grumpy and missing my foot. Look out for more bitter blogs over the next 5 and a bit weeks aimed at you 2 legged folks while I sit here waiting for someone to come help me get downstairs

Love
Stephen :wave:

Working Nights :)

Well, this is officially the first night shift I have ever worked, and believe it or not, I’m enjoying it.

Those of you who know me will know that I have recently got a new job at a food processing factory near my house. As I expected the work is terrible and so is the pay (Just a little more than minimum wage) but when the paycheck comes at the end of the week it seems more than worthwhile.

Tonights shift started at 10pm and I was already exhausted by then. 2 Pro plus gave me the lease of life I needed and off I went. So far I have been packing boxes of ‘Morrisons Potatoe Crunchies’. Whatever way you pack, the twelve bags you are supposed to fit in each box the do not fit, so I am seeing some odd, burst, underweight and misshapen boxes go off my production line .

It is 12.20 now and this is my 2nd 20 minute break :O. The production line has also stopped now so it looks like tonight will either be a boring or easy shift, depending on how the time passes. So far though, what people have said about night shift is totally untrue and I am finding it no more difficult than the equivalent job on day shift. The atmosphere is also so much more relaxed due to no-one working as hard as during days because there are "Less gaffers on nights"

The only gaffer I have seen did make me tape up my earring (which has been ignored on days) but apart from that, I think this is far better than working days. For the extra £4 a shift it may just be worth the losing of my mornings too..

Anyway, time to go back to the potatoes, they are calling.. I may be back on my last break at… 3 am with a different opinion to what I have now after 3 hours of cleaning.

Wish me luck, any luck you don’t give me red bull will compensate for however

Stephen

18th birthday

So there it goes, another milestone in the dance of life. I am now legally an adult. Very little has changed except the ability to be kicked out of home at any time and the ability to buy alcohol to console my self if that were to happen .

Also now I can be bitter at life and complain every birthday that I got a year older.

I am being pretty bitter already, I have had a great time so far. I got great gifts and money so that I can start piecing together my home studio . 1 day of heavy drinking is out of the way and 2 more are to come.

PS. It is true, drinking is less fun when it’s legal. Get it all out of the way when you are <18, and if you are in one of those silly states with a 21 limit: sucks to be you

Love
Stephen