Stolen!

One of those questions things I stole from napkinplease.blogspot.com

Accent: Gay Carmarthenshire

Breakfast or no breakfast: Always banana and yoghurt

Chore I don't care for: Cleaning the bathroom

Dog or cat: Dog

Essential electronics: Computer, mobile phone

Favourite cologne: At the moment Tesco’s Ginger, Vanilla and Pink Pepper

Gold or silver: Silver, I’m too cheap for gold

Handbag I carry most often: My manbag with a Vespa on it that Katie and Lee bought me

Insomnia: All too often

Job Title: Volunteering Officer

Kids: I have 2 nephews and a niece, I’ve learned to not think about having any of my own

Living arrangements: Sharing a house with best mate Simon – he is my straight husband

Most admirable trait: Honesty (to the point of rudeness)

Naughtiest childhood behaviour: I was a good boy

Overnight hospital stay: Hernia when I was three

Phobias: Spiders, being lost at sea

Quote: “Suck my fat one” – Nina Philipps

Reason to smile: Austin Powers

Siblings: One older sister

Time I wake up: Ten past seven, then press snooze until 8

Unusual skill or talent: I can tie a cherry stalk into a knot using just my tongue

Vegetable I refuse to eat: Celery, yuck

Worst habit: Being a stupid ass

X-rays: I’ve had my neck done when I had whiplash

Yummy stuff: Boiled eggs, at the moment

Zoo animal I like most: Don’t like them in zoos, I like them out in the wild

Birthday blues

I remembered why birthdays suck after all.

Never mind, homemade pizza and old movies will fix things.

Good news

I've just been told that my contract has been extended until October.

Seems I was right to be feeling all that optimism.

My 31st Birthday

Is rapidly approaching, and I'm feeling strangely optimistic. I was horrified to turn 30, and I thought I'd be the same this time but I'm not. My Mam always tells me that she loved her 30s, and I'm finding that to be the case too.
I've got loads of projects that I'm working on: setting up my theatre company and applying for funding; releasing my free novella, and organising the event to launch it; trying to find new funding streams so I can carry on working at RNIB Cymru; launching the expansion of my Millennium Volunteers project in Carmarthenshire... lots of things to keep me going.

Birthdays do seem to mean less the older you get, and I'm treating this one as a chance to get loads of mates together, have a drink, then go out dancing. See? I've got my priorities right.

Meeting Jenny

I'm working late at the moment, we have two Lib Dem MPs coming in to see our Accessible Learning and Information Centre and I'm giving them a demonstration of our studios. We're plying them with cakes and tea and I'm going to try and get some transcription work out of them: mainly by schmoozing!
Wish me luck.

I'll do anything for volunteering!