Pizza and movie night!

Pizza and movie night was a success it was safe to say. There was pizza and there was a movie and there were people - everything you need. Me Amy and Tom (and the cat) sat down with a nice large pizza which only cost £7 thanks to an awesome offer of 3 larges for £7 each. We watched End Of Watch which is easily one of the best films I have ever watcher. It has everything in it from comedy to romance to action and at the end, a tear jerker. If you haven't seen - track a friend down who has it and watch it. Even if they don't say you can - sneak in while they are asleep. They'll never know. Unless your loud. You'll fail. Luckily this time none of us cried but when we saw it in the cinema we all had a little teary moment. BBQ Supreme! Picture down below as once again, I'm going mobile.

Amy also made some chocolate brownies today which also had cookie dough in. I was going to get a picture like I said I would but before I could manage - what happened is also down below. Too slow I'm afraid.

I also got a new arcade game today off the dashboard made by the same people as Castle Crashers so I assumed it would be good. It really is. It's calls Battleblock Theater, not really sure what the name has got to do with anything but, it's all good. The story line is pretty funny and the narrator is really good with a little puppet show to go along with it. It's a mix of humour which masks quite a disturbing story in all fairness. I'd say it is mainly a multiplayer game like most of Behemoths games. It still has a single play campaign with Xbox live compatibility so you could jump on with random people if your friends don't have it. Then again, if your like me, I prefer to play with friends. More comfortable. By the way, when I say it has live comparability, I also assume that it has PSN and Steam compatibility but I'm not sure. I'm an Xbox guy. If you have 1200 Microsoft points then definitely get the free trial and see what you think. Might be worth your while. Here's a link to the website:
http://www.battleblocktheater.com/

Also signed up to LoveFilm today. Some people came to my door, I asked them to come back in an hour and they showed up. Then a girl turned up and she said she would slap them for me - she was nice. They were offering 3 months for the price if 1 with unlimited live streaming to PC's and consoles so I went for it. I was actually thinking of looking into it yesterday so it seems like good timing! Watching one film gets your money's worth so it's cost effective with new and old films ranging in price from £3-15. She also mentioned that they have gay and lesbian porn on there because she gets in trouble for not mentioning it? I found that a bit weird.

What have you been up to on our pizza and movie day? Let me know on Facebook or Twitter or on here or.. Somewhere. We can have a nice chat. Awesome.

Think that's all for today once again. My cat is not making an appearance for those of you looking for him. He's been out a lot and then asleep when's he's in. He's black so the photo is never good.

Hope you enjoyed today. If you want to know whenever I have posted something there should be an RSS subscribe thingy on the left of the page somewhere - probably not on mobile devices unless you view this in the non mobile format. I think it sends an email whenever something comes up on here. I need an easier way for people to find out really. Ideas? Blog you soon!

How was your day?

The EDF energy orange bouncy cute thing is back in the adverts! And this time it is riding a dog. I want one. They could sell them as toys and everyone would buy them. I should make one. I'll be a millionaire! You better know what I am talking about.

So today I am once again posting from my phone because for some reason I am finding it a lot easier to get an entire post done in one go rather than getting distracted by the Internet. Plus I really like typing on my phone. It's pretty fun.

So what have I been doing today? Well it started as a pyjama day but we weren't feeling it. For once we weren't feeling lazy, who knew it was possible for me to get motivated to get dressed. Before that - I moved the sofa out from its place in the living room to try and have a proper blast at the Kinect. I really wanted to be the table tennis opponent on championship difficulty. I did it. 10 Gamerscore. Not necessarily worth it but hell, I got a little work out from it. After this we decided to head to Tesco's to get a hand mixer and a new hair dryer. Of course - as soon as we went to get one, they had none even though they always had an abundance when we didn't want them. Instead we headed to Asda witch turned out to be our saviour!

The hand mixer there was cheaper but still no hair dryer. Amy did get a load of cake mixes to try out so I'm sure there will be some pictures for you to see of these lovely creations in the next couple of days. She did make some red velvet cakes today and it turns out that the cat goes crazy for the icing. We didn't feed it to the cat - some fell on the floor.

Excited for tomorrow - pizza and film night! I'll tell you more about that tomorrow.

I thought I would show you my daily spank picture today - they wanted you to take a picture of a little adventure that you were having today. I went for a picture of me playing Castle Crashers with Mr Tate. We're really into it at the moment. I think the picture will appear at the bottom of the post if you'd like to see it.

Thanks for reading. This casual blogging style is coming real natural to me and I am enjoying it - I hope that comes across in the content. Thanks for reading and I shall blog you soon!

From my phone

So today I thought I would try a post from my phone to try and see what the formatting would come out like. Also it has gotten to this time of night so I don't really fancy sitting on my netbook at this time. So today my Mum and Dad went away for a holiday so I have a free house. Most people would say 'woo party time' but when it's not a weekend, not many people would turn up as good an idea as it is. So me and Amy decided to take the Xbox downstairs and enjoy that on the big TV and watch a load of DVD's and also get some headway into How I Met Your Mother. We are on the last disk of season 1 now so.. 6 more and a bit to go!

We decided to have lasagne today but once again we decided to make it ourselves rather than an oven or microwave meal. We also decided to invite Mr Tate over to say thank you for letting us into his home many a Saturday. I should have taken a picture of the lasagne but to be honest - we demolished it. It was so good! Amy made it all herself so I can't take any credit but we did act as taste testers and we aren't dead so it's all good.

While Tate was round we decided to hit up some more Castle Crashers as we can all play and it is pretty addictive. We managed to beat the main campaign again today and get a couple of achievements so it was all good. It also looks so much better on a more modern HD TV than the one in my room. I shall have to take a picture of that tomorrow so you can all see. We might try the Kinect down there as well, may need to move the sofa but getting to use it without a chimney in the way is well worth it.

An app that you iPhone users should try is Daily Spank. Not sure if it is on any other operating system but if it is - go for it too. It's free and it's kind of like Instagram but it is more addictive to me. Each day you are given a topic and you take a picture based on it, caption it and share it. People can spank it - the same as. Like - and follow you to see your daily spanks. Simple and effective and for some reason quite rewarding even though most of the people are strangers. You also get a daily streak but I'm not sure if that really adds to anything.
Here is a link to the website:
http://www.thedailyspank.com/
Then again I'm not sure if that'll make a URL from my phone so.. If it doesn't I shall sort that on the netbook tomorrow.

It would seem my blogs are getting more bloggy and less factual. It'll be a mix of both just.. This feels right to me at the moment. Listen to my life in your own voice in your head.

Usually I upload pictures from my phone then move them around on the netbook so I have no clue at the moment as to where the picture of the cat went. Turns out he is a bit of power when the camera is out. Here is his ready for summer beach look. Yeah.

Hope you enjoyed today's blog. Bit of an experiment to see how the formatting comes out but none the less - I hope you enjoyed it and I shall blog you soon.

R.I.P Margaret Thatcher 13.10.1925 - 8.4.2013

Hello Again

Sorry I haven't been posting as much as usual - well almost not at all. It's not because I haven't wanted to it is just that I have been really busy. I've been out spending a lot of time with Amy and my friends as we all managed to get some time off at once so it worked out quite nicely. You would have thought that would mean there would be loads to tell you. But there is only so much I can say about going for drives and looking in shops. Although an alarming number of shops that we went to had out of date pet food left on the shelves. We even removed them and put them in obscure positions to try and make them notice - they went straight back where we found them. 

Something I did want to talk about was a buffet that me and Amy tried on Thursday night. It's in Maidstone in the Lockmeadow complex and serves cuisines from all over the world all you can eat. Literally all you can eat. I managed three plates, two of curry and the other a mix of Thai food which I had never tried before. It was pretty good. The price varies depending on when you go - during the week it's £12.99 per person plus drinks on top. On the weekend I think it goes up to £15.99 but for an all you can eat I guess it's not too bad. Depends on how much you can stomach. They do a good deal where if it's your birthday you eat free as long as you are in a group of six - which for a birthday meal I would say is pretty easy to amass. You also your parking fee deducted from the price of the meal, unless it's after half 6 as the parking is free then anyway. I would recommend going there, all the staff are nice and friendly. The food is very well presented and pretty decent which I wouldn't expect from an all you can eat assuming they are cooking so much. Only thing is it was quite hard to find prices on the web at first.
Here's a link to the website if that sounds like something you would be interested in.
http://yummy-yummy.co.uk/

So as most of you know, I have an Xbox and obviously I get emails from them with information and stuff. They have recently started doing rewards which give you points for doing things like signing up to Sky on your Xbox. This time round they are pretty good, play a total of 20 hours in arcade games, buy 4 arcade games, and spend 800 points on each. Now this is pretty good as it works out as you getting a free month of gold, a free arcade game and an exclusive thing for your avatar. I had some extra points so I thought I would get me some arcade game goodness, one of which is quite an old game being 2-3 years old now - Castle Crashers.

The friend we play Kinect with a lot invited us to his house to play Castle Crashers with him as it is four player multpliayer so the three of us jumped in. I enjoyed the game so much I decided to get it myself on my own Xbox. The best part was is when I recovered my account at his house, it transferred all the stuff I did from there to here. Now I didn't know that it did this - it used to be that you'd have to do it all again. The power of Cloud Saving. I would really advise checking it out - more so if you know your friends have it. It is very proud of its multiplayer side. It is a 2D game where you move linear to the screen, button mashing and killing stuff. What more would you want? It is available on the Live Arcade, PSN and on Steam so most of you should be able to get your hands on it. It was 800 points on the Xbox so it should be less than a tenner. It has a huge amount of replay value so your money would be well spent here.
Here's the link to the website.
http://www.castlecrashers.com/

My cat hasn't made an appearance in a while so here he is. He was grumpy because everything was out of the kitchen and in the living room while my dad painted the ceiling. He decided to look like hover cat (Google it) and sit on the back of the sofa. Even though his bed is clearly not obstructed in anyway!

Thanks for reading, posts should be back to normal as far as I know. Unless randomness occurs again. Hope you had a nice weekend and I shall blog you soon.

Short post

Sorry I haven't been posting recently. Just been really busy and spending some time with friends as we all managed to have free time at the same time which doesn't happen very often! This'll only be a short one as well. These last couple of days have made me realise how much value a strong friendship has. Hold onto your friends because they will be there for you when you need them.
Shall blog you soon!

Random Stuff

So this post is sort of a mish mash of things that are floating around in my head today. It was one of them days.

First off, me and Amy went to Frankie and Benny's today for the lunch menu which works out at under £25 for two people, three courses and unlimited drinks which is on the same par as Nando's. We used to go to there a lot to eat, it was the first place we ate out and we like to go there on Valentines so it has a lot of fond memories for us. I'm also pretty sure that my favourite type of food is Italian so that always helps. Carbs for the win. It got me thinking about what is really important when you go out to eat. I'd say for a lot of people price is probably one of the biggest attractions for them, because places like the Hungry Horse boast really cheap meals but in comparison - the food and service isn't up to par with somewhere in London where a glass of mineral water costs £5. There needs to be a balance between quality of food, the price, the environment and the service. To be fair to the Hungry Horse, it doubles up as a pub so you may go there for that banter based environment rather than a serious meal. For me, I would say my favourite place to eat out would have to be Chiquito. The food is always good, the service always comes with a smile, the music is pretty good and the cocktails are awesome. Alcohol. Let me know where you like to eat - what matters to you?

Something I was thinking today is about how people show their idea of being emotionally strong. Some people are okay with being sad or crying in public with other people where as some will feel they are stronger by being able to put on a brave face. Honestly there is no right or wrong here - we are all different, we each deal with things in our own way. Just something I wanted to chuck out there. Because I can.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-is-fielding-military-working-cats-april-1-2013-4

Yesterday was April Fools as we all know and some people take it more seriously than others. I myself don't really do a lot of jokes because it's a bit obvious when you do it on the 1st of April. Just do it at another time of year and call it a joke. Same principle really. I found this article about loads of tricks which companies did yesterday, I think it's awesome that they can actually take the time out from making money to do something fun. Give something to the community.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/01/april-fools-2013
Some of the things like Google Nose where you can search your favourite smell and then smell it. As much as you want. Sounds like the ideal thing for a party - then you get them to smell something nasty.
Toshiba said they were releasing a games console. I think we would stay away from that.
A dating website offered kayak dates.
There were quite a few it is easy to say as there is every year. Just it seems silly that some people may still take a load of them seriously. It's April Fools! Happens every year.
BBC joined by saying that the world had exploded and I'm pretty sure it hasn't or it just so happens England didn't notice and we are floating through space.
The army decided to say they were turning cats into soldiers. It was actually just a picture of grumpy cats head on a soldier. I think it would be pretty scary.

Sorry that I posted quite late today, it was the same yesterday. Just having some busy days in the half term - making the most of all the free time! Not that I am at school but there is less traffic thankfully.
Shall blog you all tomorrow.

Random Bank Holiday

We all like a bank holiday, usually means a day off work and a time to go and have some fun. That's what me and Amy were thinking but we were at a miss as to think of something to do. We were just sitting there trying to work something out and probably not holding much hope for some miraculous idea to materialise. Then we got a random text from a friend offering for us to go to Maidstone so we thought - why not?

It's safe to say that toady was a good day. Indicator would be the lateness of this post as I've literally just got in and am sitting down to do this. We had a full car of five which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't a 3 door with 2 people at or over 6 foot in the back. Little like a clown car where the giants emerge from the back. We popped to Pets At Home again to say hi to the hamsters; who clearly want to come home with us. One of the rats really seemed to have a thing for me but it wasn't to be. We went to TK Max and Hobby Craft and then Fremlin's to have a walk around the other shops. A lot of places were closing early so it was a bit short lived but it is arguably better than sitting in. 

The real fun started on the way home when we decided to take the back roads home. The person driving said there was a zoo just on the edge of Maidstone which turned out to have no animals because it was an old zoo, he forgot to mention that bit. None the less, it turns out what we had instead was a completely empty country park with a play area. Something which with hindsight shouldn't be so appealing to a group of 20 year old adults. All that really means is that we can swing people higher because we are taller and have more muscle. Oh yes; but we were yet to reach that infamous childhood legend of getting the swing to go all the way around. Here are some pictures including some fake cars, a swinging rope thingy (technical term) and a zip-line.

Thankfully it was also a nice day. The 3rd picture is freaking epic - very glad the iPhone camera doesn't blur or that could have come out all bad. After this we went home for about half an hour before then going to eat out at the Hungry Horse in Rochester. It's really good value for money and the food isn't too bad but for some reason something is never quite right. Still worth it though, we managed to get a table with a TV on it so we got to watch a 72 year old body builder lift stuff while we ate. Thank you BBC news.

All this day explained to me is that you don't always need to know what is going to happen. The randomness of life can create outcomes which you would never had thought of and really enjoy it. Embrace the randomness and see where it takes you. We did and it's safe to say we are glad that we did.

Thanks for reading today, once again not necessarily 'interesting' but this is some proper bloggy stuff about myself. Hope you enjoyed it! Shall blog you tomorrow.