Next Wednesday I break up from school for another holidays, which seems odd considering the 5 weeks I have had off recently with (still to be diagnosed) head illness.

Next Friday I pick up the keys to MY house. The capitalisation is there cus it falls into the first time buyer catagory. The place is in erasonable condition, though the 1980s old man decor will have to be gradually phased out.

I the middle of the 6 weeks holiday there will be a trip to parentals, and LARP to fit in to the mix as well..

..and then there is the wedding planning. It goes well and we have a date. Sunday 29th May 2011. It'll be in Leicestershire to equal out the travel distance for all parties involved (baring my parents who get the easy 10 mile drive down the road).

Can anyone who is able to make an alt, even for just enough time for me to finalise the guild, could message me on Eurybis, Kárli (alt+0225 for the á), Elir, Xianghua or Reinhert asap that would be helpful

Or add me as a RealID friend with daishi.matt@gmail.com

Ta

I'm looking for Warcraft players who don't mind setting up a level 1 character on Vek'nilash (horde side) so that I can sort out the sign ups for a new guild.

Unfortunately things have been getting bad in the guild I'm in and its time for me to try and sort one out for myself for a change.

I can't deny I've had an odd life, in which I have done many stupid things

I do regret a lot of my descision over the years, of loves I have had, of loves I have lost, and of people I should not have been with.

I also can't say that I am well right now, I have no idea what is wrong with me and I really do hope that at some point this DAMN HEADACHES will go away.

I do want to point out though that I am a very very lucky man, I am more in love than I have ever been. I am lucky beyond belief, Pippa is amazing. We are Officially now setting a date of May 2011, location to be determined, invites will be sorted over the next year.

I just thought you should all know.

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While I very rarely get responses to these I also thought I would open up the option to ask me any question. I'm not going to screen the comments though... up to you how far you want to go with this. If you feel you want to know about my feelings towards LARP, teaching, buying my first house (0.o) or anything else then this is the best chance you might get.

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Yeah, not been on here much, been available on other media, but very rarely come back to livejournal to even check what is happening.

I want to apologise to those people who I have been out of touch with, especially those going through a rough time right now. I'm not sure my words would have made anything easier, but I haven't been around for my friends and I am sorry for that. I'm so offmy feet right now it is unreal, but I have done a wonderful job of closing myself off from the world at the moment.

The changes going on around me are harsh, I've moved away from Clowne, am now living with Pippa, and things are going well on the relationship front. However, Pippa is exceptionally ill. It doesn't help that most of the time I can't be with her, and she feels like she is out of touch with people. Its all good and well us coming in towards Sheffield to see people, but when we have to do that every time to see someone it feels like the friendship and the time taken is very much one sided. She is in a lot of pain at the moment, she may well have ME in the worst case, and Anemia in the easiest case. In addition, work went up the spout recently, though this may have been solved with the resignation of a member of our department. Its still not pleasant here though, and if it weren't for the fact that things are going well for me as far as the school is concerned I would think about going

Money also went downhill for a while and I honestly was going to have to cancel every event I was planning on going to and may be even just not go on holiday at all (even though my parents got me a holiday paid for this year, I was going to be unable to have any spending money). Its sorted out now, and I should be able to come to a couple of CP events this year, but I won't really be able to afford to bring the CP group I was planning on making out for this years Renewal.

I've got a bit of a positive, from a geek point of view, in so much as having gained a Beta invite for Starcraft 2. First ever time I've been in a beta, and I got very excited. I'm enjoying the game, graphically its very good for an RTS. There are issues with it, mostly that there is no point in being defensive and "zerging" appears to be the only real way of winning. At the moment it can only be played in vs games, no co-op. I would also assume they won't open up the campaign game as they only need to balance the game, and they will make sure the missions are kept secret til release. Overall so far though its just Starcraft with v2 grpahics. I'm not complaining too much about that though. I'm hoping I can get a few more Beta slots in the future for Diablo 3 or Cataclysm.

My one remaining Wisdom tooth, which my Orthodontist assured me would never come through because of the amount of movement that had occured due to putting a brace on me when I was younger (the other 3 were removed before they even made an appearance, and this one was supposedly covered and stunted by another tooth anyway) has made a clever sidestep and is now causing me all manner of pain and discomfort.

Currently my bank account doesn't have any stretch room, so I'm stuck with this until I get paid and can afford to visit one of the local Dentists. I would imagine the darn thing will then get ripped out, causing me even more pain over a shorter duration.

Does anyone know a nice way of numbing the pain though without having to resort to Whiskey and its numbing effects?

Lots of things happened recently. I've not really been updating for a number of reasons. Mostly right now though things are settled enough for me to put mind to screen (though not in a bouncing off glass sort of way). I'm probably going to cut a fair amount of this to keep people sane.

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And I'm back at work, which has been fine for the past week. I don't really feel like I need to say much about this right now, cus its just been ok in general with no real stress so far. I'm sure there will be more as the weeks go on.

October is looking likely to be the month of parties. I think there is quite likely to be a faction/group party, and a seperate Sheffield types party. This is merely to break it down and not annoy my neighbours too much. October is looking best because I will have been paid again before then, and will be able to afford some relevant entertainment options via a Drum and microphone set for Guitar Hero.

Lots of stuff going on at the moment. Pretty much seem to be doing stuff every weekend for the foreseeable future, and I'm starting to worry if I'm double booking myself.

Also last 2 days of work, which can only be a good thing.

This weekend I have Fayre, which should be a nice break away and a great start to the summer holidays. In the course of this weekend I'm hoping I can stumble across a bit of plot, be generally useful, and not get myself killed by insulting a noble or some such silliness. I'm also interested in seeing if any of the "games" that are going on actually interest me at all. At the moment I'm not really fused about the majority of them. Oh and there is always getting out of the militia to attend to.

Next weekend is my sisters birthday, for which I shall be seeing her during the day, and then hoping off to blazingskies for a bit of gaming and some pancakes.

August 1st and 2nd are taken up on a camping trip.

The following weekend I will be off to see some friends for a couple of days, bit of driving involved, but hopefully will be good. This is unless of course I've been a complete fool and this is flickums housewarming weekend? If it is I will reschedule for the following week. Thus somewhere in this mass of stuff going on I will be also going to said housewarming as well.

Weekend of the 22nd August I should have sorted out a new house to move into. I'm starting the signing processes soon and just have to hope all the checks go through ok. I currently don't see why they wouldn't. I may well need some help with the move... massive Volvo help for instance would be awesome. The aim is to move quite a bit over the weekend (I will have about 3 weeks to move due to the way the pay on current house will overlap), and then use weekday evenings to shift the rest. I'm considering the weekend of September the 18th as a plausible housewarming date at this point in time. However, it may well be a small event as I will be living sandwiched between 2 families, so apologies now if you don't get invited to said housewarming. I will however, be sorting out other events for people at my place, to balance things out.

To make matters even more interesting the last Thursday in August I will be off to Renewal. Looking forward to it, but also pensive about my chances of surviving it. To make matters even more interesting on that front, it ends on the Monday and I'm back in work on the Tuesday. Could be a painful Inset day.

For the information of those people that I get to see on a semi irregular basis at the moment (those of you at CP and those of you I do get out to visit from time to time):

There is a certain amount of kid gloves needed for me at the moment, I'll be going to the doctors this Friday after my final straw broke at work yesterday. I'll almost certainly be back on some form of medication to try and level my mood out. If it is anything like the last time I was on medication then I will probably be ok after a week or so, however I will not be happy about what I'm having to do. I'm not a fan of the health service's solutions for a lot of people who need mental health care (at best its takes a long time, at worse they throw the tablets at you and assume that will be enough).

Anyway, it is probably a good thing that I'm going to get sorted out even if its just medically. The darn things don't work straight off though, so please be aware of this (especially those I will see at Fayre).

Note: I'm not putting this on my Facebook, as quite a few of the kids I teach are on my FL for that media (I find it quite amusing that they FL me), so this means quite a lot of people from CP will not know about this. If you feel there are people that need to know, who aren't on my FL for Livejounal, but may need this info just in case, then please message me first (by email please) before informing them. I just want to keep track of whats going on.