Can haz! Well for about a day and a half.

Hello kids, I have finally returned after what I am now coining as mudfest aka v fest. Alas it’s probably the muddiest festival I’ve been to and camped at and I have much to tell and an insane amount of photos for your viewing pleasure. But because I only have a day and a half at home, and I’m off to Reading in a day or so I hence forth have a zillion things to do and I’m probably going to be running around like a headless chicken.

Going to take a small mo to chillax mind. And get a brew. Despite my body feeling like it’s saying ‘nooo morees!’ I’m dead excited about this weekend. My first Reading, better rockier line up, hanging with my uni mates, my bloke - I’ve been saving myself energy wise just so I can kick off at Reading like mad. You can’t believe how much I want to rock out after this weekend.

Also excuse my LOLCAT speech of late, I’ve been doing it all weekend - I find it rather amusing trying to translate english to LOLCAT - I get an odd kick out of it :/

Anywayyy, I need brew, breakfast, to unpack, to repack, to dry a tent (somehow), to work out how to make my body stop aching. and then sort my zillllion photos.

Can haz time freeze plez?

Here some random thoughts while I eat…

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WP is now up to date. (You happy now Bob?)

Been productive today, after a feeling pretty miserable over work.

400d body and 18-55mm lens are getting pick up tomorrow to be repaired/looked at. This will hopefully ensure everything is sorted out with my AF issues. Plus I can do the ‘Week of point of shoot’ challenge I’ve been meaning to do. The idea being I am going to demonstrate that it’s the photographer not the equipment that makes for good photography, I’m quite excited about the challenge - it’ll be like olde times.

I really really miss being in Southend, I don’t know why that is, I think it reminds me a lot of uni times, living close to mates, just going around not doing much apart from gaming or going out somewhere random for drinking/socialising.

I can’t wait till V fest, not for the festival actually but for the fact I’ll be back in old familiar turf and I can catch up with some mates as well. It’s a bit bad, as each day goes on and I grow more poor I get more and more tempted to sell the weekend ticket and just take up Bob’s plus one for the day. I haven’t even paid for my ticket yet, and hence the temptation is strong. I’ll just have to trust that the company will be cool and will entertain and that the couples there won’t just eat each other alive with their mouths

I suppose I can look at the bright side; I can punch Will young fans. Then again this isn’t Reading/Leeds or Download, V is going to be filled with aging indie fans. Ohh what would I give for some crazy metallers to start a circle of death in the middle of a V crowd. Maybe for Muse I can knock out some of those “I WANT YOUR BABIES!!!11!!! MATTTTTTTTTTTTTT OHHHHH I LOOVVEEEEEE YOUR SKINNY ARMS AND FINGERS AND RAT-LIKE NOSE AND I WANT A MANSON JUST TO BE LIKKKEEE YOUUU AND WEAR YOUR CLOTHES TOO AND THE WAY YOU PLAY THAT INVINCIBLE SOLO MAKES ME CUMMMMMMM COZ ITS THE BEST SONG EVARRRRR!!111!111″ fans for entertainment. (Well except Karis, I suppose she can be excused).

I really really want a good gig sometime. Nine inch nails might be on the cards after they’re done in the US. But it seems we have hit a dry spell in the gig world again.

Been listening to lots of Mansun yesterday, chilling out in the garden, with headphones in my ears - Kleptomania is a somewhat underrated and ignored album by them. But it’s amazing really. It’s such a pity I won’t ever get to see them play live. I bet their gigs would be awesome.

My throat feels a bit off, I hope I’ve not caught a cold. Though it was there last night and this morning it’s still there :/ Erk. The last thing I need is a cold round about now.

Am pretty sleep depraved this morning too. I seem to have got into the bad habit of talking to Nick on the phone till not-a-good-idea late. We need to stop that, not helpful.

It’s less than a month till the Festivals kick in now, am feeling all a bit ‘I can’t be arsed’ about it at the moment. I think that’s because I feel a bit lazy about the whole affair of being sat in a field and being stupidly skint because I’ve paid a stupid amount of money to be sat in a field where I could have used the money to go on holiday somewhere nice. I think it’ll be alright when the ball gets rolling on that crazy fortnight, though will most likely be shattered by it all - I dunno, the idea of just being curled up in a really nice hotel room with big fluffy cushions and something warm and grrr manlike next to me somewhere nice in Europe sounds like a good way to go right at this min…hmmm. I could really go for a dose of that at the minute.

I need sleep.

“Nothing worth having in this world comes easy”

So, it’s like everyday I feel like I need a constant reminder of why I should keep on trying, the little reminder comes in many forms - sometimes it catches you unaware, and other times you can seeing it hitting you before it’s even locked on target.

So just an overall jist of the weekend…

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Hurrah! Download tickets have arrived - means that it’ll soon be right on the doorstep…In fact it’s literately a week away. Eeep I hope it doesn’t rain, and I need toilet roll and wet wipes and soon I will be unshowered, unwashed and looking my oh so most attractive while slumming it out with rockers and metallers and all sorts.

I kinda can’t wait, but at the same time I’m kinda not that excited either. I’m just totally not in festival mode at all, maybe it’ll hit me eventually when I’m finally going or something.

Been a kinda boring two days, but I got quite a few odd things done - nothing major just tidying and organising, my files etc are everywheree there’s kinda organisation but only just. Am trying to stop hoarding, or at least organise my hoarding ha.

Still a bit at a lost with some things at the moment - pressure is on to decide, I’m worried I’ll make the wrong choice. But I shouldn’t be thinking like that though - I shouldn’t be thinking in terms of right or wrong choices but more so - no, the important thing is that whatever I pick or choose, in the end I must be willing to take whatever consequences - be them good or bad - that come with it.

Okay, after some mild thought I’ve realised that I do really need to think about bands to see at the festivals I’m going to. I mean the line ups are like a big mix, it’s like 50% hurrah and 50% who the hell are they?/Crapp. Pity I can’t create my own hybrid of festivals by merging the bands I like into one heh.

Fortunately there are practically no repeats between line ups which is nice, as unless they were someone exceptionally awesome I wouldn’t fancy paying lots of money to see the same crappy bands over and over.

I should probably wait till the line ups are pretty much all announced before I start making decisions and I do a cheeky by downloading and printing off rough pdf times from the official sites.

So yeah a low down of upcoming festival goodness.

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