Settling in...

So we've pretty much got everything unpacked and in it's place, the place is starting to look really nice. I never really thought of myself as that kind of girl, but I'm thinking things like "A nice rug would look good there" or "A throw would go well there".

Not really seen as much of Dan as I'd like lately, to be honest I probably see no more of him now we're living together than I did before, yeah we always sleep in the same bed now, but he's so busy with work. He's technically just bar/general staff in a pool/snooker hall owned by a "kinda mate" of his (Rob). Now this Rob also owns a pretty upmarket night club, a bar and a restaurant, of which he manages the night club and pool/snooker hall, and employs managers for the other two. Now for one reason or another Dan's pretty much managing the Snooker hall, so he's out a lot, sorting out time sheets and deliveries and stuff, every night this week I've been asleep before he's gotten in, I've tried to stay up, but not managed it. And tonight he's asleep and I'm not...sods law.

But he's happy, and the extra money is proving quite nice...but it's hardly a substitute...

So anyway, on a lighter note I drove Dan's Merc this morning for the first time. Now I put it in first to pull away, and it went backwards, Dan pissed himself laughing. Turns out it has some special gearbox for racing, and first is left and back, and reverse is left and forwards, how bloody stupid is that? He probably wouldn't have been laughing if I had hit something...

Well, nothing much more to report for now.

The changes that a'came

Well, quite a lot's changed recently...

1. Moved into a flat with Dan, nice little place, technically two bedrooms, but the smaller one you could barely fit a single bed in, so we just have a desk in there, with 2 computers, and some other crap. Big master bedroom, really nice bathroom, nice big living-room/dining-room/kitchenette. We got a balcony and a double garage too!
2. Dan's got a new car, a, now let me see if I can get this right, a Mercedes-Benz C 190E 2.5 16 Cosworth. It's really nice, although I'm a little scared to drive it.
3. The photo-shoot went really well, might have another one soon!
4. New net, 16 megs of pant wettingly high speed!
5. Got some "wikkid sounds in mah car blud, innit!" Two 12" subs, a 1000watt amp and some nice speakers. Dan fitted it all for me, I feel so girl-racery. Must admit, Justin Timberlake's new album sounds really good through it.
   

Ok, so maybe not that much has changed, but the first thing is pretty major. Mostly 'been listening to Justin Timberlake, Amy Winehouse, Nelly Furtado, Aim and Beck's newest albums. Just watched "A Scanner Darkly", great film, would recommend it, I wanna see the new Ray Winstone films (The Departed, Breaking and Entering), but dunno when I'll get a chance.

Well, that's pretty much it for now, ciao...

Finally back on the net...

So I moved into a flat with Dan, so we've had no net until today. I'm all behind on lots of things, tons I wanna talk about too, but I've gotta do some stuff, so I'll go into more detail later or tommorrow.

Another week down

Not a particuarly stressfull week, but I still feel knackered. I'm still really excited about Monday, the restraun Dan took me to last night was great, had a real nice night, including after we got home, if you know what I mean.

Just spending tonight in, infront of the telly, nothing special on either, might watch a film or two, got a nice big tub of Ben n Jerries Phish Food I'm going to pig-out on at some point too. I like leaving it as long as possible until I tuck into it, makes it that bit more tasty. Dan's home tonight too which makes a nice change, will be good to spend some real quality time with him, including last night it's two night on the trot we've been together for more than a couple of hours, yay! Might find some other uses for the ice cream...

Woohoo!

So my tutor from my photography course put my name and portfolio to a friend of his in an advertising company that's doing a shoot for some perfume company (doubt it's something like Channel) and they want me to shoot for them this Monday! It's not anything major moneywise, but it's an insanly great oppertunity to build my portfolio and create some contacts. I'm hopping all over the place in excitment. Dan's taking me out to celebrate tommorrow night, he's working tonight otherwise it'd be tonight.

In other news I took the day off, I just felt really icky this morning, I don't think I've got anything but I just really couldn't be bothered, and as I've not had any non-leave time off in almost a year I thought sod it. Still going to go kick-boxing tonight, gotta leave soon actually, might rent a film or something on the way home...

Blastin' some sounds...

I woke up this morning and he was already gone, I'm a pretty light sleeper, but he never wakes me up, for a big guy he's pretty stealthy. But there was no note or message waiting for me, and I already felt a bit blue, so I wasn't exactly that happy, and the day hadn't even started. Best cure for feeling a little blue? Well, one of them, blasting some really good music while you're driving. My choice today was some Feeder (Shatter, Just a day), some Muse (Bliss, Starlight), some Foo Fighters (Learn to Fly) and ofcourse, some Nirvana (Smells like teen spirit ofcourse),as well as some Jaimeson (Comeplete) and Roots Manuva & Ty (So you want morre?), fancied a little bass I guess.

I might even buy some decent speakers, amps and a sub, and get Dan to install them. I used to think anyone who spent money on a sound system that was anything above the factory standard was a chav/boy racer, but Dan and his friends have otherwise "educated" me that this isn't true. Why should wanting to experience your favourite music in the way it was designed to be listened to make you a chav? I guess they have a point...

With a bit of luck I'll still be up when Dan get's in, I'm usually aware of him getting into bed and giving me a cuddle when he does get in, but it's not the same as actually being awake.

I've got kickboxing after work tommorrow night, might post after that, don't know, guess it depends on if anything worth posting happens.

Monday morning blues...

I've never really had them, I like monday's for a couple of reasons. One it's the only day me and Dan have to be at college (me work, him student) at the same time and get out at the same time. So it means he's not already gone when I wake up, granted if I have to go out before him he usually gets up too. Also it means we get to travel together, and these days any extra time I get to spend with him is a bonus. He also drives a Land Rover 90 Defender, which I really like being in, probably the only vehical that would suit him more would be an old 60s Mustang or Charger, or one of those huge twin cab pick ups, big, strong, reliable, tough and a little rough and rugged. He's installed a great sound system in there, and it's raised up a little, so it really demands respect, all he needs to do is get it resprayed, if you'd seen how much of a rust bucket it was when he bought it and started work you wouldn't think it was the same car.

Another reason I love Monday mornings is because we always get up and out early enough to grab breakfast to take away from Tommo's, one cup of tea and 2 sausages in a soft roll with brown sauce for him, one cup of coffee and a bacon bagel for me. Tommo's is the cafe/sandwich bar under our flat. It's funny, I'd only been in there once or twice before I'd met Dan, but now I go in there alot. The owner already knew Dan, everyone know's Dan. He's kind of a drug dealer, only his drug is information, you mention any name, and he's knows who they're going out with, who they're doing some buisness with (dodgy or otherwise), if they've got any family in prison, who they hand around with. If you want to buy something, he knows someone selling it, or knows someone who knows someone who's selling it, or knows someone who works in a shop that sells it that can get you it cheap. His aunt's laundrette got broken into once, they only got the change out of the machines, which had been emptied recently, but they busted the locks up pretty bad, on the machines and to the back room. Within an hour he had two people round there, one guy to fix the door to the back room, another to fix all the machines, within 24 hours he'd found out who'd done it and had all the money back, without having to use any force. It was kind of intimidating when we first got together, wherever we went locallly, someone knew him, in the pub four or five guys would say hello, in the cafes, bouncers at clubs, the guys in the kebab/indian/chinese/fish'n'chip shops...but now I really like it, I'm "Big Dan's" girl, I know it's kind of cheesy, like something out of some 30's set mob film, but it give me a nice feeling. I honestly think networking is the wrong career path for him, he should be a PI or something...


And speaking of PIs, I watched Vincent tonight, with Ray Winstone, great program, should really give it a watch, he's one of the best actors around these days, still want to see "The Departed", he's in it too, not such a big part 'tho I think...

Anyway, tommorrows one of those days he's out before me, the fact that he usually leaves me a note just saying something simple like "I love you" or "Missing you already"makes it a little more bearable, but knowing I probably wont see him till gone 10 I hate, alot of the time I'm already asleep, I keep telling him to wake me up when he gets in but he never does...

Lazy Saturday

Spent most of the day in bed watching TV. When I woke up this morning I just felt so content, the room was cold but I was nice and warm in the bed just the way I like it, the sheets where fresh on last night so they where still lovely and crisp, he was already awake but not up, and I had that tingly feeling downstairs you get the morning after some great sex. After a little while he went out and got us brunch at half eleven-ish, bacon, sausage and egg bagel from the cafe underneath our flat, and a mug of tea, heaven! It's ironic that I find a man getting dressed sexy, I don't know what it is, maybe the way his muscles move as he pulls on a shirt or something, but as I was lying in bed watching him get dressed to go out I was getting turnt on, it happens alot...so while he was out I took care of that. He knew as soon as he got back what I'd been up to 'tho, he always does.

New QI on tonight, gotta watch that, although it's the 3rd in the series, I must have missed the 2nd one...

Looking good

So Dan's made me a temporary header until I decide more on what I definatly want...I updated the links too, added a forum I hang out on and two other blogs I read, check them out. I'll add more as I think of them.

Had a pretty slow Friday, went for lunch with Dan, had Cajun chicken and chips, was lovely!. Went out for dinner with him, his mum, his sister, his aunt and his cousin tonight too as it was his mum's birthday, had a great time. I've not got any plans for tommorrow, we'll probably just wake up slow, maybe go for a walk or a drive, not got any plans for the night either, might go out, might stay in, we'll see. I really want to see "The Departed" too, will get round to it at some point hopefully.

Pretty much it for now, will post tommorrow if I have anything to say.

Bring on the 4x4s...

So I'm walking around in a t-shirt and sunglasses in the middle of October...
and they said global warming was bad...

Although the downside is I haven't been able to wear this cool sheepskin-collar denim jacket I bought a while back, shame.

Made a few changes to the blog, going to make (or maybe get Dan to) a header, probably, tonight. Other than that, it's been a pretty boring day.

Ciao

Once upon a time...

So I've decided to create a blog, it seems to be the done thing these days. There's not really going to be a theme to this blog, other than me, really, and my life. All aspects of it, love, work, fun and yes, sex, afterall, that is pretty much the meaning of life, reproduction and all. This first post is probably going to be pretty long, going to get most of the intro stuff done in one hit. After this the posts might be a few words to a few paragraphs, who knows?

First things first then, me. Who am I? Well, as it's probably not hard to figure out, my names Leah, I'm 21. I live in a four bedroom flat in Sout-East London/Essex with my two best friends Natasha and Jenny, although it would be pretty safe to say Jenny's boyfriend, Mike, and my boyfriend, Dan, both live here, which is all good, but more on them later. I am currently employed as an administrative office worker in a local college (the same college Dan attends), but that's a job I pretty much just fell into, not to say I don't enjoy it, and it's pretty easy money, but it's not very fulfilling. What I really want to do, what I love, is photography, I've been doing it seriously for 5 years now, slowly building a portfolio and contacts and working towards a BA in Photography and Fasion&Brand promotion. In my spare time I do yoga and kickboxing, as well as the photography, or you'll find me in a pub or bar with my friends, just having fun, maybe playing some pool. I've kinda grown tired of the whole club/rave scene, but sometimes I enjoy it. Although, most often I'll be at home, with Dan, Mike, Nat and Jen, watching tv/films, or playing on the Playstation/PS2/Xbox/SNES/N64/Dreamcast...I'm a bit of a gamer.

Music-wise I listen to almost anything, I used to be pretty hardcore Indy, but recently I've started to listen to alot more music that can be best described as, well, Indy-Hip-Hop, well, it's how I like to describe it. Stuff like Roots Manuva, Ty, Kano, Mos Def, A Tribe Called Quest, Aim, more mellow and soulful than your generic gangster/playa rap shite. I like nu-soul/acid-jazz/trip-hop too, especially stuff like Martina Topley Byrd, Aim, Babybird, Sia, Natalie Williams. But the best band ever is The Commitments!

I suppose I should probably go into the other players in this theater of life, so here they are, one by one:

Dan: My boyfriend and probably my best friend, he's 19 and a IT Networking student. Kinda young physically (although he'd pass for 25 if you saw him) but more mature than alot of men I know ten years older. We will have been together four months on the 24th of October. He might post here in the future, maybe not, we'll see. He's a really down to earth guy, I don't think I know anyone who has a bad word to say about him, not anyone who actually knows him atleast. And I know the way this is going to sound, but he's pretty much the kinda guy almost any girl would love to be with. He's kind, caring, witty, funny, passionate, dependable but not boring, considerate, stylish, hunky, buff and handsom but not so's he knows it, he doesn't spend ages making sure he looks good infront of the mirror, and that why he looks good, I like 'em a little rough around the edges. He's romantic but not cheesily/overly so, honest, open but still really masculine. He's full of an insane amount of almost completly useless facts, can fix almost anything and is probably the best cook I've ever had cook for me, bar my nan. And what's more he's a dynamo in the sack. He does have some down sides 'tho, he's the most cynical person I know, think Gregory House levels of cynicism here, although he is still quite optemistic. He's also about as rational and fair as they come, he's great at seeing all the sides of an argument, which while it sounds like a good thing, can be REALLY annoying when you're pissed off with someone but you know you really shouldn't be. Oh, and he can be a sarcastic bastard sometimes. But most importantly, we connect, he knows what's wrong when I'm upset, he knows what's bothering me when I'm annoyed and I know he'd move heaven and earth to make me happy again, in his arms I feel like there isn't a force on earth that could hurt me.

Natasha, Jenny and Mike: The three other people who live in the flat. Natasha's 21 and likes to describe herself as trysexual (I'm sure you can figure it out). She's not a slut, not by a long shot, but she knows what she likes and what she likes is sex. Her, Jenny and me have been best friends since we all still had baby teeth, we know everything about eachother, we've been through ALOT with eachother, they're my family. Jenny's 21 too, a bit ditzy and a bit carefree, but she's good to the core and I can't say anything bad about her. Mike's her boyfriend, he's 25 and on the surface he comes accross as being the kinda goofy joker, but when you get to know him he's alot more mature than people think, when you need him to be you can trust him.

My family: I use the term family in the literal sense, I class all the people above as family, family to me doesn't mean blood relations, it's the people who care about you regardless of anything. But that includes my blood relatives. I have quite a big family. Dad is an architecht, Mum is an interior designer. The older of my two big brothers, Frank, is an architecht too, married with 2 kids. My big sis Becka is 25, married with 1 kid, and my other big brother is Dave, he's 23 and an aspiring DJ, kind of a career jump from his previous occupation of Priest.

Dan's lot: Dan has the same philosophy to family as me, his Mum and Sister are great, his Dad left when he was young. Tyrone, Kev, Nick and Chris are his best friends, this is getting kind of long so I wont go into them in detail, but they're like brothers. They'd do anything for him, and because of that they'd do anything for me, and that's a nice feeling. Nikki, Laura, Gemma and Jodie are his best friends too, they hang around with the other guys, if the guys are his brothers, they're his sisters. Some girls might be jealouse of his relationship with them, especially Nikki, but I'm not, I know them all, they're pretty good friends of mine too, I know he doesn't even look at them in that way.

So, I think I'll leave it there for now, it's a bit longer than I envisioned, but what the hell. I'm gunna head to bed now, I'll probly play around with the layout and stuff a bit tommorrow.