Update part 2

Landed in Chicago 1 hour early. Hurra i thought i can make my connection. Alas not. 1 booth open. 3 hours later got though immigration and missed flight and got booked in new flight. Just enough time for a Starbucks caramel  macciato and a McDonalds whooper. I heard the are healthier in the States. Jill from work picking me up at airport then straight to Tacos Bell.

God bless American

On side note, the navy is in town. Muscular tattooed arms galore and not i can't take pictures!

Blogging from a United airways plane

Well here i am 36015 feet above Iceland, outside temperature is -60c and i have approx 4 hrs 24 mins to go before i hit Chicago. I then have about an hour and 20 Mins to clear customs, do immigration. Collect bags. Re check bags. Change terminal and go back through security again. What fun!
I have been in the air for about 4 hours and it has been ok. Well up to this point but more about that later. Breakfast was served 20 mins after takeoff. I opted for the waffles and bacon option rather than the bacon and egg option. I wish someone hadn't had eggs. I think Guffy McGuff pants is sitting nearby, someone open a window please. Oh you can't in fear them being sucked out. Your point is?!?!!? It wasn't actually bad. One waffle with some congelled sweet syrup covering a slice of bacon/ham. Roll with marmalade, fruit salad complete.with core and pips, a strawberry yoghurt and i opted.for tea. Just as i was about to get my semi stewed nectar we hit turbulence so the whole service had to be postponed as the cabin crew had to sit on their bottoms as well. Here was me with said trolley parked up beside me and i could even have my cuppa. boo. Once turbulence stopped and tea slurped i thought i would settle down to my inflight entertainment, I was really looking forward to these films. Sherlock Holmes 2, Mission Impossible 50001 (whatever number it is now), The Artist and The Muppets. I love me some Muppets (I've been out with enough of them). Switched on my 8 channels of luxury. OK, my Weekend with Marilyn (saw that last week, keep scanning); Woman in Black (Saw that recently as well, keep scanning); Lady and The Tramp!!!! That's not even recent. I therefore thought, as they have have started Mays viewing on April 29th i would save Woman in Black for return flight. I opted for an episode of a TV series starring Debra Messing of Will and Grace fame about writing a musical Miss.Monroe. How terribly gay, two things about Marilyn on the same flight. I then decided to have my dose of The Big Bang Theory, young justice and Thundercats. As i am typing this it is extremely bumpy and turbulent. If the plane plummets from the sky and someone finds this in the sea. my Dr Who music goes to Amanda EE, my doctor who collection split between Dale and Andy, Greg and Stevie B, my xbox stuff to Layla and my cook books to be given to the needy. Failing that the sea water will damage this beyond repair and you would never know.
I mant my snacks. In the words of Patsy Stone. OI PEANUTS! !
So what happened 4 hours into my journey i hear you ask. Oh you didn't, well tough i'm going to tell anyway.
Seats strategically booked. Seat of three on right hand side so i can stretch my knee.Nothing in front, nothing behind nothing to the side. BLISS. Until now! The fattest man on the plane decides to sit directly in front of me so his son/daughter (im really not sure) can sprawl out on three seats.  After trying to get himself comfortable by pushing back on the chair WHILE KNEELING ON IT. Decided it was broken enough as my tray was now sitting at precarious angle of about 30 degrees he would put the chair back, way back. Back further than it has ever been before in fact it cracked it went that fair back. So far back it was practically the middle ages!. "Oh wait is that's far back as it goes" he says. Erm, that would be a yes as i am very nearly sitting with knees by my chest. I have nothing against fat people as i to am part of the Who Ate All the Pies brigade but that's just rude!. Bouncing.against my.already sore knee isn't going to help. So i move into the middle seat to try and get the remainder flight with some leg room. Getting everything out ofthe pocket on my old seat by pinging the holder like a pair of over used braces. TWANG! Oh i could slide across seats. I think not. Grabbed the back of his seat to pull myself up and leggo. PADOING goes the chair with such force his glasses fell off. "oh sorry, I needed to move as I suddenly seem.to have run out of leg room"

Sweetie don't even try to out bitch me.
Now flying over Canada.only.one thing to say...OI PEANUTS!!!!

Ta Ta fo
Update. Still no sodding nuts however, 1 hour from landing and have been given cheese and ham roll,  salted crisp and a single twixt. School trip packed.lunches are not dead

So..What now!

My last blog all these months ago, I said I would set some challenges... Do you know what.. I can't be bothered ;-)

That seems to be me in general the last couple of months.  I have the motivation aspiration of a squashed frog! Maybe the first challenge is to motivate myself.  Now where did I put that Paul McKenna CD.  Since we last spoke, well I type, you read (or not and I may just be talking to myself) I have had the long awaited operation on my knee.  I can't use that as an excuse not to exercise anymore however, it falls back into the motivational mindset.  I probably have not said it enough but I am so thankful for all my friends that rallied around to make sure I was OK afterwards.. It was very much appreicated :-)  I do feel that I have let some friendships slide though.  This is not intentional, and I shall try and make a bigger effort.

My weekends, as one of my friends pointed out seems to be dominated by housework.  It is not that I live in a messy flat, it just keeps me occupied.  Trying to find things to occupy myself is not easy.  I like it when friends and I meet up for coffee and a chat, it makes me feel like part of society.  I have even seem to have lost the ability to cook at a weekend as I used to. 

Even Firework from Katy Perry made me well up.  I have never watched the video before, or actually listened to the words.  I'm so sad haha!!  If you haven't seen it.. Here it is



This motivational thing is a bugger!!!

To cheer myself up, here is a nice picture of Mr Hemsworth!

Till next time





Expulsion of the Old!

This isn't as bad as it sounds. I am not expelling people that I have known for a while nor am I going on a geriatric rampage. I am purely de-cluttering.  So far today I have managed to bag up 4 bags of clothes and 2 bags of bedding.  When I say bag it is more of a sack and they are heavy... Very heavy... Carting them off to the charity shops will certainly aid in my quest for the ever improved arms.  I am going for the arms of one of the below.

OK, didn't mean to fully take inspiration from Twilight actors that is just the way it happened.  Saying that, if I went the whole hog the chest and thighs of Ben Cohen wouldn't go a miss either

Anyway, side tracked, only I can link in sexy men with de-cluttering of a wardrobe!

Today clothes and bedding, tomorrow CD and DVD's.  I will see if the little music magpie will take any.  I may get a whole 50p back.

What else has been happening in my life in the past week.  Well, no smokes, cut down coffee to about 1 cup a day.. Sometimes I have none and them I also have the every depressing diet.  Believe me I am like a bear with a sore head.  I am starting to think that maybe the diet isn't the way to go.  If I want muscle mass etc I think the exercise needs to improve not cut down on the amount I eat.  As my knee is still knackered running is still out.  The problem with a knee without it's own shock absorber is that it is very difficult to do any exercises that require bending of the knee.  Maybe I will become top heavy and one of these people that walk around like a Neanderthal that can't put his arms by his side.  I have to get something done before my trip to Estonia in July...

Aaaaaaaaanywho, I have had a sufficient rest and now will get back to the clutter obliteration.   Next blog I feel a set of challenges coming on...

Till then

It's about time

Hello soldier! How goes the war?

I thought since I haven't updated this since..... oh about July it was about time I did.  Funny thing, nothing spectacular has actually happened to me in all this time.  I've been to Estonia which was amazing, I've had a birthday, a Christmas and survived another New Year.  Apart from that, nothing. Still single, still moaning and still need to do more exercise.  I am finding that the Xbox Kinect is actually great fun to keep one fit and some of the games are hysterically funny.  Problem is it works both ways.  Now, with enhanced voice features you don't even need to get off the sofa to get the remote.  Everything can be voice activated.  Now to get me a nice houseboy to wheel me around I need never move again.

New Year, new phone.  I am quite excited about receiving my new Windows 7 phone tomorrow.  A nice Nokia Lumia 800.  Whilst I do love the iPhone, I fancied a change and I do like Nokia.

I am sure after 24 months I will want the all new all singing and dancing iPhone but for now I am happy.

So what does 2012 mean for me.  Well a couple of things.  I don't make New Year resolutions anymore (with the exception of 1, that the participant of will know about).  What is the point in setting yourself up for a fall.  How many people actually manage to keep to their resolutions throughout the year?  I am not going to set myself up for disappointment and upset this year so will do things as and when I feel it is right.  This is not me being a defeatest, more of a realist.

So things to look forward to and to try and do:

• Visit my very good friend in Estonia at least twice this year
• Go on holiday for a trip round Wales with fantastic friends
• Meet up with a load of people met through Facebook.  Cracking fellows all of them
• Partake in more Spook hunts. (very nearly typed Spock hunts then)
• Drink less coffee (this will be a killer)
• Use the Xbox Kinect as more of a fitness tool and not a voice activated remote.
• Blog/Vlog more

There are probably many other things to say and do but baby steps.

So for the moment I am going to sign off and dream of hairy chested men and romance.

Adios  y'all

Pesky brain, pesky complex, pesky meddling kids

Well forget the meddling kids but I have a severe problem trying to switch off recently. My brain just keeps going round in circles with random crap to be honest. Paranoia sets in, do they like me? What have I done? Would I really be missed? What's happening now? Why aren't they talking to me? Etc etc
For some reason my whole security side of life seems to be flushing down the pan to coin a phrase. Maybe its the 9 years of singledom catching up on me. Maybe I have delusions of grandure or maybe I'm just a total fruit cake!! Personally I prefer the later as you can get away with more. My whole attitude has been going up and down like 'a whores drawers' and I am really REALLY looking forward to my holiday in September.
If you read this and it doesn't make sense, I've never blogged on an IPhone before. If you read this and think I'm on a downer, I'm not I'm trying to clear my head. And if you read this at all.. Thank you!!

But I want one!

So, here's me, sitting in the office on the own with no one around.  Everyone has disappeared to a Skip Level meeting with a director and, as I report elsewhere I am left here for an hour.  Oh the trouble I could cause in an hour :)

I feel that I need a new toy in my life, which is terrible and somewhat envious of friends around me.  Toys I certainly don't need but, when friends around you have Imacs, Ipads and Tablets my inner child shouts, 'I want one'.  It is becoming a lot harder for older Iain to step in and say 'No... You don't!' I feel like it is a time in my life to start getting rid of my 'junk' and no any American readers, I do mean something else!  I mean for gawd sake I have only just got rid of my Nintendo 64.   Saying that my poor Xbox 360 seems to be careering towards the red ring of death and has started to freeze whilst trying to decapitate a zombie playing card.  You gotta love a tormented, demented Alice in Wonderland game.



Saying about getting rid of all my unused/wanted stuff I've found out that IKEA have a 75% sale off.  Oh how terribly annoying that it is only on till this weekend. To think how much kitchen gadgets I could buy.  I do like my gadgets.

Still save the money till at least September when I go to visit the lovely Greg in Estonia with Mand.... Who knows what I can buy at duty free ;-)