Friends: Old & New...

Last weekend we had arranged with a couple of our old friends that we used to play World Of Warcraft (WoW) with for them to come up to us and spend the weekend just chilling out and having a drink and a good old time and what can i say it turned out to be a crazy and utterly amazing weekend, not only did our 2 old friends that we used to play WoW with come but on that Friday that they were arriving i was contacted by 2 girls from Norway that i also play WoW with currently saying they were on a road trip and coming through Sweden and wondered if it would be alright if they popped in for a coffee and a chat.

Well we are never ones to turn down meeting new people, especially when we have been playing with them (or well i have been playing with them).

So they had contacted me and said that they planned on setting off from Norway on the Saturday morning but after a quick check on Google Maps it became apparent that there was no way in hell they would make it down to us on Saturday if they left that morning so they set off on the Friday night/Saturday morning instead and after a 17 hour drive (Yes 17 straight hour drive) they arrived.

It can be quite strange meeting new people because some of the people i have met that i play online with are completely different from who they are online to who they are in real life, but the 2 girls from Norway were the exact same people in real life as they were in the game which was pretty amazing.

But we had a awesome weekend filled with alot of laughter, i would say a little to much alcohol and some really great BBQ food.

We even got invited up to Norway to where they live, which is certainly something i would love to do as the views up there is like INSTAGRAM heaven, every which way you turn there is another stunning picture ready to be taken, so yea i think that at some point i will need to head up there to visit them, have a good laugh and take some wicked pictures, plus Liss has promised to give me a Gnome Welcome, i have no idea what that entails but she said something about blowing stuff up and stuff so i have no clue!

But what an amazing weekend it was, and i'm so glad we all had the opportunity to meet up again with our old friends and got to meet some new ones! I'm having my 30th Birthday next year so i'm thinking off trying to organize a massive get together with all my friends i've met and some ones i haven't had the chance to yet!

But for now i think i will bid you all farewell i currently have the man flu and it's killing me so my mind is not 100% on blogging, so until next time, have a great weekend! 

Our Night Out Adventure..

I have been now living in Sweden almost 6 years this coming July and believe it or not but in that whole 6 years i have not once set foot inside a local pub or nightclub. If i'm totally honest the reason is that i'm not much for going out, i find it alot more enjoyable asking a few friends to come around to the house and just sitting out the back and enjoying a nice cold beer and a good laugh, without having to deal with the idiots that you normally find out in pubs and clubs.

But seeing as Kaeshan had come through from the UK, Marie decided that it would be a good idea to go out one night and have something to eat before heading onto a pub.
Let's just say, that was a adventure.


As most people are aware i am originally from Scotland, and well normally when i venture out in Scotland especially on a Friday or Saturday night you are guaranteed that the establishment is going to be that full that A) You cannot hear a single word each other is saying and B) You probably can't move without banging into someone or something. But out here in Lidköping i have never seen a pub so empty in all my life.
Now that could say something about the Scots more than it does about my local town here in Sweden, but either way i have blown away at how empty it was.
Marie had said that by 23:00/00:00 the place would be packed or at least there would be a good amount of people in the pub, however it didn't happen. Sure more people came but i wouldn't even compare it to anything i have ever seen in the UK. Perhaps it's because most people only come out to enjoy themselves at pay day or whatever i have no idea, it was however just rather disappointing.

However later on in the evening, things became rather strange and by strange i mean people who were in the nightclub section of the pub really began to worry me.

There is a mirrored wall that is right next to where the bar is, so myself, Marie & Kaeshan are sitting having a good laugh and a drink, when out the corner of my eye i noticed some guy standing at this mirrored wall on his own with his drinks placed on the little ledge that was in front of mirrored wall, now you might be thinking to yourself so what? Well he wasn't just standing there having a drink he was standing looking into the mirror and having a full blown out conversation with himself, normally i try and not stare at people especially when im in a nightclub or a pub because you never know how people will react, but i couldn't take my eyes off this guy, it was quite possibly one of the strangest things i have ever witnessed in my entire 29 years of being on earth (Yes! I used to live in space!) I mean seriously i thought he was completely demented, but he had come up to me earlier in the night and asked me to watch his slot machine because he had money in it and was needing to go and use the bathroom so i knew from talking to him earlier that he seemed at least semi-sane. It only got worse because not long after he decided to go away 2 more guys did the exact same thing. I actually began to wonder if there was some sort of trick and there was someone behind the glass they were having a conversation with, but Kaeshan decided he would go and investigate and found that the glass was infact solid and that nobody was actually standing on the other side to talk to, so out of the very few people that was in the nightclub we had 3 guys who enjoyed having a drink and talking to themselves in a mirror and a elderly woman who must have been in her early to late 60's who was sitting in a nightclub at 00:00 in the morning playing a slot machine.

However even though we seemed to be surrounded with not quite sane people we still managed to have a great night, Kaeshan did what he always does and was making his 5 fingers talk to my face alot, which by the way really hurts! and then after a short period decided that biting Marie's head would be a good idea, i have no idea what this biting of the head is all about but from what i can gather it's his way of showing affection lol.

Not only did we have a great night but Kaeshan even managed to make a new friend, we had noticed that on a board it stated happy hour finished at 11pm, so Kaeshan being him decided to go and ask the bartender if that was Swedish time or UK time, yes he was trying to get us cheap drinks and it worked, we didn't get it for the happy hour price but we only had to pay 10kr extra which was pretty damn cheap, i think the bartender had a little thing for him i'm not sure, but he kept looking over to us and sticking up his thumbs in the gesture "Is it good??" not only did he give us cheap drinks, Marie managed to get him to bring us over 3 shots for nothing since she decided to clear all the glasses off our table and take them over to him which was awsome.

Can't actually remember what was in the drink, Zambooka and Sprite is all i can recall but either way it was a damn good drink and made a nice change from drinking beer all the time!

So although i was surrounded by strange people and getting worried that the bartender had a thing for my friend it was a fantastic night out! I'm hoping next time i am able to head over to London and spend a few days over there with Kaeshan and he can show me the wonders of going out in London, something i have never done before :)

But until next time have a great day folks!

We Finally Met.

Well now that things are sort of back to normal, after what i can only call a truly amazing few days i thought it was about time to get back to blogging and tell you about all the adventures we got up to while Kaeshan was over here in Sweden visiting myself and Marie.

I think in my whole life i have had about a handful of what i would call "Amazing Birthdays" and i would have to put the one i just had up there in the top 3, having Kaeshan over for his visit was something that was always in the making for about 4 years + now and finally it happened and not only did it happen it happened the day before my birthday which made it even more special than it normally already is for me.

We had such a great time, or at least myself and Marie did, can't really comment on what Kaeshan though. But just having the opportunity to spend a few days with someone that i had been talking with online for 4 years + was absolutely fantastic in my opinion. But how to describe him?

Well to sum him up in one word: Entertaining


I mean it's not like i was expecting anything different as i already had a good idea of his sense of humour and how he words things etc but spending 4 days listening to him honestly cracked me up so much that at times i thought my sides would burst open in the laughter, it's not exactly what he comes out with that keeps me so amused but the way he words things. I mean he is a very intelligent person so when he comes out with witty remarks you can't help but find it hysterical, or well at least i can't.
I just wished i could share some of the stories that he did with us, but i think that most if not all of them are probably rather inappropriate for most of the people that come on and read the blog. But if i could i'm pretty sure that you would all find it rather amusing to say the least.

It was just a pity that it was only a 4 day event, and it was quite sad to see him leave, but i'm more than sure this is not the final time we will ever meet as i am hoping at some point either at the end of this year or start of next to fly over to London where he is now staying to spend a few days over there.
But the 4 days that we had over here consisted of alot of whisky, beer, a massive amount of humour and some really fun new experiences.
I knew before Kaeshan came that he was into role playing games, and up until his arrival it was always something i wanted to try out but where we live in not exactly filled with people who are in to that sort of thing, so when he came over here showed me the ropes on a online version of one of the games he plays and i got to say it was absolutely amazing, it's honestly something i could see myself doing on a weekly basis with a group of friends, so i really can't wait to head over there to try it out for real, since he has alot of friends over there that do that as well.

But i think i will leave it there for now, i'll have another few posts coming out over there next few days that will continue with what happened while he was over here including not only his first Swedish Bar Experience but also mines, since in 6 years of living here i have not been out drinking ever, but seeing as Kaeshan was over we decided to do it, and of course i'll be writing a post about how awsome my Birthday was.

But until then, have a great day folks!

Busy Few Months Ahead!

Well it seems that these next few months are shaping up to be quite the busy period for myself and all in the best possible way.
You can possibly recall i wrote a blog post about how living in the sticks or as i like to call it Hillbilly Town really can suck sometimes because a very close friend of mine who i met while playing the game everyone loves to hate World Of Warcraft was unable to come and visit me after looking into it. I got pretty down about this because i have been wanting to meet this person in real life since well the first day i met him really which was around about 4 years ago coming on 5 i believe.
So anyways... The company he worked for made redundant alot of people and he was one of them that decided to take it and is now moving back from Ireland to London so because of this he will not be able to get a direct flight from London all the way over to Sweden without having any lay overs or anything like this so on the 10th May he will be arriving in Göteborg Airport and i will finally get to meet him! So happy happy times! Best thing is the next day is my 29th Birthday as well so it will be special to have such a close friend that i have never met in real life to be there for it.

Then to add on to that, a couple of weeks after he leaves all the kids will be breaking off school for the summer holidays, which hopefully will mean lots of nice sunny days spent outside in the pool while i sit back and chill out with them and possibly even get back to reading my books that i still have sitting here unfinished.

I know how dare i have books that i haven't finished reading, but when you have a fiancée like mines who refuses to let me read at night in bed, because it means i have to have the bedside lamp on then it doesn't really give me all that much time :) I could possibly do it during the day but then i always end up with other things to do.

And then we move onto the final thing, which is probably the thing i am the most excited about and that is that at the end of August the whole family will be flying over to Scotland to visit my parents, i think this is probably the thing i'm most excited about because i haven't seen my Mum or Dad and dare i say it, yes i do! Sister! in nearly 2 years, which if you are as close to your Mum as i am really really really sucks big time.

So you could say that i'm really excited about the upcoming few months, if everything goes to plan then it's looking to be one great couple of months, now if only i could find a job within those few months to i think that would make it even more special, but we shall have to see on that front as of right now there doesn't seem to be all that many going around.

But until next time i hope you all have a great day!

Sometimes Living Out In The Sticks Sucks.

About 6 years ago i met a guy online playing World Of Warcraft called Kaeshan, he had joined my guild that i was currently in and the guild master off as his guild had decided to sum what merge with mines and after getting to know the guy we became extremely close friends. But unfortunately we have been unable to meet each other in real life which has kind of sucked a bit.

He had booked tickets about 3 years ago i think it was when myself and Marie had decided to put on what could only be called a Geek Barbecue in which we had invited pretty much our full guild that we were running to come to our house in Sweden for a good drink and a BBQ and get to know each other in a more personal setting, everything was set and we had one of our other guildies sitting at the Göteborg airport waiting to pick him up, when i got a call saying that he had missed his flight out of London due to traffic on the way there which was totally shit to put it bluntly.

So a few years have gone by since then and no matter what we have tried we have been unable to meet up, so when he informed me the other day that he had a 4 day holiday and was looking to finally come over to Sweden to visit myself and Marie i couldn't believe it. I know it's kind of a strange thing really wanting to meet someone you have only spoke to online but our conversations as i said before have dated way back into 2005 and we pretty much speak at least once or twice a week or even sometimes more depending on what's been going on.

But once more the plan has fallen flat on it's face which is very disappointing to say the least, it turns out that since he lives in Cork, Ireland and me in Järpås, Sweden that the people at the airport have decided that attempting to meet each other is going to require alot more hard work than it is to even go and visit my parents. No matter how we looked at it, the flights coming into Sweden were just absolutely retarded and there was no way in hell i was able to get to Göteborg to pick him up, well not unless i have a car.

So once more we are unable to meet and i got to admit it feels really lame, i was so looking forward to it and now there is nothing we can do. But i think now i am even more spurred on to get myself a job and get my drivers licence so that people coming to visit will not have any problems since i will be able to drive to Göteborg and pick them up! But i guess for now i shall just have to try and plan a small trip myself over to Cork at some point and meet up with him. Pretty crap news but unfortunately there is nothing that can be done.

But until next time i hope your having a better week than mines has started out, hoping that the rest of the week goes a little better that's for sure!