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Hey all!

Happy New Year!

As you have probably noticed there’s not been much in the way of blogs coming from me these past few months. It’s not because I’ve been doing nothing, it’s just because I’ve been too lazy to sit down and write about what’s been happening.

So, in summary:

• lots of work
• (one set of) snowboarding lessons
• designing and making Squage mugs
• saving money
• eating too much…
• drinking too much…socialising lots
• going to the gym… a bit…
• …putting on weight
• making a Christmas tree out of cans
• presenting a show on SGR Colchester
• starting to learn guitar again

I’ve probably missed lots off that too. But hey, you’ve now got an (at least vague) idea of what I’ve been up to in Nov/Dec 2007. Overall, it’s been a good year, helped largely by the whole “traveling in Oz” bit for the first half :-)

2008’s going to be a great year. I’m going to do the following:

• Drink less (maybe not at all, we’ll see how it goes)
• Get to a good weight and stay there
• Make money with art
• Be less stressed
• Get really good at the geetar
• Do something good for the world (somehow)
• Stop being bitter and single :-)

That’s the plan. Hope you’ve got a good list of things you want to achieve – and good luck with them!

Here’s to 2008!

*chink*

Pat

Minesweeper The Movie

“WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE CLOCK REACHES 999?”
“Nothing… you just suck.”

Pat

So, the Quiz Dating thing was actually good fun. Quite a few nice ladies there and with just my mate Mark and I on our “team” of blokes it made things more entertaining. And I tell you what, going abroad for a year is a great thing to talk about :-)

Anyway, alas I was not really making proper notes and so when it came to the day after I only remembered 2 of the girls who I’d liked, so just said “Yes” (via the Quiz Dating website’s “Yes/No”-atron) to them and “No” to t’others. Annoying, as I then received a “Yes” from someone I’d said “No” to… but because I said “No”, I can’t find out who it was.

The two “Yes”s received nothing. I never liked them anyway :-)

Next time I’ll just tick “Yes” for everyone. Or, say, make notes on who the hell the names related to on my sheet.

Pat

What dating? You might ask. Well, you’d be right to. It’s a strange idea that I’d only heard about a week ago courtesy of a good friend of mine. Essentially, you’re in teams of 8. 4 men, 4 women. The men “help” the women in the first round, then they move to another table of women for the next round, and so on. The purpose being that all the men get to be on the teams of all the women, so everyone gets to meet everyone. Less 1-on-1 awkward silence inducing than speed dating, I suspect, but I’ve no idea if it’s any good or not yet!

As you have probably guessed, I’m going to do the aforementioned “Quiz Dating”. Tonight, in fact. In London’s Soho. Why so far away from here? Well the single people I know who are coming along are, well, in London and I figured I might as well give it a go anyway.

I’m terrible at quizzes. Mind you, I’m probably terrible at speed dating too so I guess combined the two negatives will make a positive and it’ll be happy days, right?

Right?

(Hmm, maybe I should get my £20 back…)

Toodles,

Pat

Howdy!

Squage here, just about recovered from the ordeal of traveling in a ruck sack around a fair portion of the southern hemisphere and ready to let you know about a new and exciting drink that Pat and his brother discovered last weekend: Off Your Face Juice.

“What’s Off Your Face Juice?” you rightly ask. Well, allow me to explain. It’s vodka with skittles in. You could be forgiven for assuming such a thing would be called “Skittles Vodka”, but frankly that doesn’t describe its power quite enough. Here’s a guide for how to make your own Off Your Face Juice:

1. Get some vodka
2. Pour around 400ml of it into a 600ml empty water bottle
3. Pour the majority of a family pack of Skittles into the water bottle:
   
4. Allow to settle for 5 minutes:
   
5. Shake the bottle occasionally over a few hours
6. Add a label (optional, but recommended for full excellence):
   

Your delicious Off Your Face Juice is now ready for your enjoyment!

WARNING: Off Your Face Juice may cause an otherwise sensible evening to turn into a mostly-forgotten drunken mess and may lead to the entirety of your next day being written off. Consumption of Off Your Face Juice is not recommended if you don’t want to wake up on your sofa at 9am feeling like your stomach’s on spin cycle and your head had been smashed into by a truck. In fact, it’s probably just best not to make it in the first place. Just have a smoothie or something instead, it’ll taste better and you’ll not feel like you’re about to die, vomit or vomit to death.

Toodles for now,

Squage

…but the blog isn’t deleted – merely moved!

Check it out at the new and exciting location:

https://www.squage.com/site/bigadventure

If it’s not working that’s because I’m half way through botching it still. Hooray for editing live sites!

This blog, despite it currently using the “Big Adventure” theme, will be my “normal” blog, documenting the various things that go on in my life back in the UK. Firstly, though, I need to get it looking pretty. Priorities were always a strong point of mine…

Pat