Growing Up Girl

In response to:I think it's safe now

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:03:22 +0200

Haha, of course!

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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:02:24 +0200

Haha noooo, I'm ok where I am!! I can't do commuting!
I had a placement in London once, for 2 weeks, and after 1 day I was like NO WAYYY am I doing this, So I quit lol.

In response to:I'm becoming a housewife. oh god.

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:56:29 +0200

I swop you for 4 weeks. No more, no less. Oh but I draw the line at sleeping with Mike!

In response to:I think it's safe now

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:08:58 +0200

Oh right. That kind of Sex Line Operator. I've never called one myself (why would I when I get enough at home?) so can't imagine what you may be letting yourself in for. Still if the moneys good, you can tollerate a load of perves giving their old fella what for while you tell them what you wouldn't do to them if they were in the same room and it's safe, go for it. Just promise me one thing. Send me a PM and let me know the funny bits.

In response to:I think it's safe now

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:07:16 +0200

Haha, Well I thought that I had been messaging you quite a few times, I might as well update on here!
A sex line operator - basically its those premium rate phone lines that you get in the back of magazines - and I'll be the person at the end of the line- 'phone sex' I guess.
I thought I'd give it a go ;) lol

In response to:I think it's safe now

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:44:45 +0200

Oh yeah. Meant to ask. What's a Sex line operator do exactly?

In response to:I think it's safe now

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:42:50 +0200

FOOK me. I nearly fell of my chair when I saw you posting entries again.

In response to:swamped

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:09:29 +0100

Seriously there are 2 things that motivate people - Money and power. As a designer I don't think your the power hungry type so money will be your driver and no qualifications = crap job = not a lot of money.

How's that for a motivational speach?

Crap I know.

In response to:swamped

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:52:34 +0100

haha, no I wasn't thinking that.

In response to:swamped

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:25:03 +0100

More shagging won't help motivate you to work if that's what your thinking though it might be responsible for your bad back.

In response to:Better

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:09:26 +0100

True it does take time but you seem to be well matched :) Plus the best are worth waiting for and you can saviour them more :)

take care :)

x

In response to:Better

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:06:38 +0100

Thanks for reading my blog, and for the comment :)
Me and him are getting there, but it takes time.

x

In response to:Better

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:48:40 +0100

I'm glad for you its the first time i have read one of your posts but i amd happy that you and mike are enjoying a loving relationship and envy you the sponteanous sex (which has always been more paasionate in my opnion lol). I hope you and mike have many more exciting times and life is good to you both :)

Take care and Be Lucky ;)

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:57:07 +0100

Well don't waste time sitting in front of the telly and shagging mikey boy half senseless. Get your pens, pencils and paper together and make a start. If I remember right you had a website with some of you work on and if my memory serves me correctly, what I saw was quite impressive.

You shouldn't worry too much about people already in the industry either. Everyone has to start somewhere and whilst there's no substitute for experience, interviewers recruiting somebody taking their first job will be looking for people with ideas, opinions, talant and confidence in themselves and their abilities. On top of that, everyone knows what it is like to leave education and enter full time employment. In my experience a good interviewer will do all that they can to make an interviewee feel relaxed so that they can see the real person behind the nervous front.

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:44:31 +0100

Aww thanks, I've a really massive head now that you have said those things.
I still have yet to put these thoughts onto paper and in research though.
In my first 2 years of uni, I was very strong at research, I got really high marks for research, but now... possibly because of what has happened, I can't seem to put pen or mind to paper.

Unfortunatly, also, I am very scared of the industry and all of the people who are really good at graphic and print design, and I am taking the safe route and next year hopefully being accepted onto a course for teaching art and design.

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:07:43 +0100

For fucks sake you have been thinking about things. Not many people give the design and layouts of their favorite read a second thought but you obviously do and your right to do so for the reasons you mentioned. I'm impressed.

Unfortunately costs and the onset of digital delivery has already started to stiffle creativity in print. That said the major publishers have already or are developing a joint print/online offering with similar design styles which the reader should recognise whatever meduim they prefer. So again, your echoing current thinking from the trade and IMO your right to consider the relation between the 2 mediums and your target market.

Keep up this level of creative thinking and attention to detail and I'm sure you won't struggle to find a job when you leave Uni. I've seen so many graduates come in for an interview who when asked, are opinionless about things they really should have an opinion about. In fact I interviewed a bloke yesterday who may have made it through to the 2nd interview had he done a little more homework and given some thought as to the job ect. As it is, I doubt I'll be putting him through.

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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:58:19 +0100

I think magazines are more personal. The magazine I buy from abroad- IdN is a deisng magazine, and it's amazing, each issue always has pull out and different weights/textures of papers, have spot varnished images, includes a dvd, and often has weird quirky things like the images of an article will be folded up and in an envelope in the middle of the mag. There is no obvious reaccuring grid system within the magazine- which I like also, as the other magazine i subscribe to seems to have an overused grid system which bores me a bit.

These kinda things lets the reader interact, and feel personal to the magazine. This is the kinda thing I want to create, but i was to create a zine/magazine/artists book type thing- it's not going to be either / or any of those.
I also want the final piece to have some relation to the internet, I do have a few ideas at the moment, I'm just keeping them under wraps at the moment. :)

In response to:Better

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:29:12 +0100

This post made me chuckle. I read the bit about you getting hot at work and thought 'Hello. Here we go, She's jumping on Mike at work now'. And then you go and dash my assumption and tell me your only going out for a smoke.

I then read on and see we're back on track with the amazing sex you enjoyed Sunday evening. Lucky bastard. I have to say I find spontanious sex is usually the best kind so enjoy it while you can. The Enemy and I don't get chance for spontaneity anymore thanks to 2 little urchins who keep interupting things whenever we get anywhere near each other. I'm sure they have some kind of alarm in their head that detects and rings when mummy and daddy are getting too close to one another. Oh how I miss those lunchbreak moments and the odd BJ after a hard day at the office.

Looks like your learning about relationships too. You will NEVER know everything about Mike or what's he's done or doing etc. We all have parts of our lives our partners know little or nothing about which is a good thing. I'd be bored sensless with a person after a few years if I thought I knew everything there was to know. Him buying the braclet a month ago is a good sign too as it shows he was thinking about you when trollope was on the scene.

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:12:06 +0100

I can't tell you how good it is to hear a person of your age say they like magazines becasue everything is slowly moving on-line and if we don;t keep buying mags, publisher will just close them and move everything to a digital format.

Let me know if you need any info re your Uni project. Whilst your right, my job doesn't get me involved with the design side of the industry, you can't help but learn how the industry works and current trends etc. You may also be surprised to know that my job isn;t all facts and figures either. In fact the vast majority of my job is supply chain management whereby I source, appoint and manage the relationship between the third party suppliers we use to distribute each issue of each titles.

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:50:07 +0100

Your job sounds good. I love magazines, I subscribe to 2 at the moment, one is computer arts project, and the other one is IdN- a magazine from overseas, so it's really painful on the old bank account, but I love it.
I'm guessing your job deals more with figures and stuff rather than the design and layout- which is what I'm interested. I'm researching magazines and stuff at the moment for a project at uni.

I don't think I'll ever get takethateroids lol. I didn't ever like them even when I was young. I think Mike would beat me if I ever listened to them lol. I think he doesn't mind leona because she's a woman. :-p

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Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:12:08 +0100

You haven't heard of Reverend and the makers? You must of done, or at least you must have heard their most successful song. It's that one that goes, 'He said he loves me, he said he needs me, he said to Kealey, he thinks I'm special'. Anyway the gig was blinding thanks and the support band (Twisted Wheel) are one for the future. Remember you heard it hear first. I'm also sorry to hear you've struck down with a bout of Leonaritis. You really need to get that seen to before it developes into anything worse like TakeThateroids.

In answer to your question about my job, my full title is Group Circulation Manager for one of the uk's major business magazine publishers. Basically what that means is my team and I are responsible for fulfilment and distribution of some 30 odd magazines via subscription and to a lesser degree, the shops. Most people don't think it's a very exciting job but I've been doing it so long now that I have a good reputation in both postal and magazine industries and most of all it pays reasonably well. Only thing is I've got to travel down to London every day.

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:34:38 +0100

Grooming lol. By the way you saying that has totally pulled something off my mind. I was trying to think of the word 'grooming' the other day when I was explaining something to someone, but all I could get in my head was 'stroking' and I knew that wasn't the right word lol.
That has been bugging me since then.

I hope you have fun at the gig tonight, I've never heard of them, but will check them out.
My musical taste has been abysmal lately, I've been listening to paramore, th early november, damien rice, and leona lewis in my car haha, the only other things I listen to is whatever he plays in the flat... which is stuff like stonesour.

I'm sure I've asked you this before, but what is it you do for work?

In response to:A Week away

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:06:01 +0100

I'm glad to hear it. Mens men are a dying breed in this PC world of ours.

In response to:A Week away

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:28:56 +0100

Haha, no he is quite the manly man. I think he may have ended up that way because he saw how much I was hurting?
The only thing he stresses about his appearance is his hair, but otherwise he doesn't care about coming home covered in mud, farting, sweating everywhere after football, and all that other disgusting stuff men do, lol.

In response to:A Week away

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:35:27 +0100

A women! Crying! For no apparent reason! Surely you jest?

Considering what you've been/going through, I think it will take some time for you to feel comfortable with things again and perhaps you and Mike should expect more of the same? I have to say I'm surprised to hear that Mike ended up in tears too. In my experience that's not normal for a bloke but men younger than I seem to be a bit different these days. They're probably more vain and in touch with their feelings than I ever was at that age or ever will be for that matter. I can't and won't therefore judge although my sense of humour makes me wonder if uses moisturiser, has a man bag and/or use male make up too?

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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:26:05 +0100

I'm grand thanks. Work is a bit over loaded at the moment but nothing I can;t cope with or been through before.

You hadn't mentioned you were off for a week away and I was begining to wonder if you were all right. It even crossed my mind that you might have either decided to leave the blog alone again or perhaps Mike knew corresponded on here and was maybe a little concerned I was grooming you (LOL) or something and asked you not to contact me (which would have been a fair request really).

We're off to see Reverend and the Makers tomorrow night in Skegness. Can't think why they're playing Skeggy but I won;t complain becasue I'm because they are blinding live, it's a small venue and Skeggy is less than an hour from where I live.

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:00:55 +0100

Sorry lol, I don't know if I mentioned I was going away for a week?
How have you been?

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:58:13 +0100

I'm taking your silence this week as a sign that your feeling better about Mike and the whole situation?.

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:08:00 +0100

He told me about it, he had already denied the request before he told me, so I'm glad about that.
I am feeling smug too haha.

In response to:Who'd use facebook to play mind-games?

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:44:02 +0100

Can't comment on Facebook as I've never used it. It strikes me that there are 2 ways of looking at her invite. She could be trying to get back at you both/hurt you both etc or it could be she's just trying to get and keep something for herself, something which she could never have hoped to have i.e. Mike

Obviously if it's the former ignore the twat. She'll only get to you if you let her. If it's the latter and Mike continues to ignore her. Sit back in smug satisfaction with the knowledge that your winning both him and the mind games.