HOT. PINK.

I've recently started using Pinterest. I do realise that 95% of users are teenage girls posting photos of Ryan Gosling, however I've found it to be quite the time-waster. I find most evenings I'm trawling through masses of photos looking for something that I can relate to, or something that genuinely makes me lose my shit. Such as this:

Anyhow, I figured this probably wasn't the best use of my time. Between work, gym and Xbox, I have very little time to put my feet up and right now, that precious time is spent wasted. I could be Blogging I guess. 

Remember Myspace? Boy did that really die. But a few weeks back I logged onto mine. God knows how I remembered my password. It was strange going through all of the old messages on there, seeing my old profile and just generally taking a trip back down memory lane. Having your top 8 friends was a big deal, people used to actually hold grudges if they didn't make the lineup. And then there were messages like this:

i kno u wnt be up yet

but i am so tuff

onli jus gt out da showa gt loadsa shit 2 do bt im kinda hungry

wots healthy for breakfast??

porridge?

porridge!

shit we aint gt none

ar well i wudda added like 435886 spoons of sugar

im stil tired i duno hw tho :S

i reli do fink its down ta wot im eatin

i KNOW u wont be up ny time soon

cos ur a lazy bum

i bet ur snorin

or like........

humpin a pillow or summit

wish me luck in my test!!

i doubt ur'l be up b4 i leave

so bi bi love u lotsie

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jan 17th, 2007.

You know it's funny, if I ever received a message like that from a girl now, I would never reply. Unless the message is written in the Queen's English, I am not interested. What's worse is that I was almost as bad! If I ever met 17-year old Luke, I would punch him in the face and teach him how to use full stops

Facebook Timeline really made me realise how much of a complete illiterate douche I was back then. Funny how much things change in 5 years. It makes me cringe re-reading those old statuses. 

So I'm back on the old Blog. Here's the current state of play:

I now have a girlfriend. Her name is Grace, she is 18, she has big beautiful eyes and a lovely smile. She is also pretty intense. We've been together just over a month.

I don't know if I can feel the same feelings I felt with Annie again. I was young and stupid then and I just let myself go. I had nothing else, she was my world, and we were inseperable. At 24, with a full-time job, gym five days a week, plenty of football to watch and plenty of alcohol to drink, I don't think I'll ever have that amount of time and energy again. It's difficult to remember what those feelings were like back then, and it's probably unfair to compare a new relationship to an old one; we all know every relationship is different. I'm just not sure how I should feel right about now, one month into this. Nowhere near dishing out the 'L' word, nowhere near. But she would say it tomorrow if she knew I'd return with the same thing. 

Regardless, she's a lovely girl and she really cares for me, so we shall see. Perhaps I'm overly cynical.

I've quit smoking again. It's been one week today, and one of the reasons I'm blogging this evening is because I genuinely feel like killing somebody. 

I'm going to see Train next week in London. So needless to say I was abit gutted when I heard 'California 37' for the first time. It's no 'Save Me San Francisco', is it? Let's hope it's a grower. 

I am going on holiday to Magaluf in less than two months. In traditional fashion (no pun intended), I've bought an entire new wardrobe for a week long holiday. Had I known I was going to be in a relationship, I probably wouldn't have booked this holiday. Magaluf is not the place you want to go when you're tied up. It is a hotbed of hedonism. I'd never cheat. I'm 92% sure of that. But this is a test. 

Travelling plans are on hold at the moment due to the new girlfriend and just genuinely being unable to stop buying clothes. Seriously, I bought a pair of hot pink chino shorts on Saturday. HOT. PINK. 

I can't decide whether Tangled is a better film than Wall-E. Discuss. 

So anyway, I figured I'd turn to here as I've been pretty down over the last couple of days and I can't fathom out why. Perhaps it's Grace, perhaps it's the smoking, perhaps it's because I've been playing Silent Hill 2 again. Iono. I had hoped this would help, but alas I shall resort to the tried and tested formula of Ben and Jerry's and The Big Bang Theory. 

Tell me how you all are. I feel like I have so much to catch up on, so share with me all your life-changing revelations and make me feel like my problems are pathetic. No seriously, because they probably are. 

A song!!

Luke

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