It really does feel like I’m about to get a new life again. A while ago I was going to write a blog post about needing some kind of shake up in my life, and I feel like this might be the exact thing I was looking for. I’ve wanted to work for myself for some time, I’ve just never had the push I needed to get started. Well, this is the push. And now it’s time to step up to the plate.

In other news (just to make sure I ever get the chance to be bored), I’ve challenged myself and Daveto design a poster a day for the next 365 days. We’re currently on day 10. You should come and check us out. You’ll like it.

The Novl Cuisine Challenge.

That is all.

The biggest thing I’m trying to change in my life to combat these feelings is to start doing something useful on an evening again, even if it’s not something big. For the past few months all I’ve been doing is going to work, coming home, then sitting playing games or lounging in front of the telly. I knew I needed to change it, but I really couldn’t be arsed. There’s a few project ideas I’ve had in my head for a while now that I’ve decided to start, so I’ve got something to do on an evening again, other than just games.

Also, I’m trying to eat/live healthier, which is proving far more difficult than doing something productive on an evening again. I’m starting to get into the habit of going to the gym again, but it’s the eating properly side that’s bloody hard. I’ve never eaten properly in my life, so changing a lifetime habit of eating shit is, well, changing a lifetime habit. But I’m getting there, slowly. I feel better because of it already, and I’m already starting to be more aware of foods that are bad for you.

I’ll keep you updated over the next few weeks how the life-change is going.

Yes, another new portfolio. It’s about time I made a proper one, because I spend so much time designing other people websites that it’s about time I got a decent one of my own. I’m working on it all this week fingers crossed, with a view to launch it around the end of the month.

The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that The Last has finally launched again. That’s been the main project that has been niggling at the back of my mind for quite some time as I’ve been desperate to get it up and finished, but I’ve just not found the time. I won’t lie; I’m finding it incredibly difficult at the moment to get used to doing it every week again and finding a place to do it regularly every week, but I’ll get there eventually.

I don’t quite know when it happened, but these days I seem to have no time. I don’t seem to have many more projects or good things to show for it either, it just seems that time now goes faster than every before. The ironic thing is is that I used to get more done when I got home an hour later.

Anyway, toodles for now. Look at that, I managed to write 279 words of utter balls, and I didn’t even try.

And as I’m so used to being busy all the time, I find it almost impossible to just sit down and do nothing. The simple matter of doing nothing is nowadays such an alien activity to me that it feels like I’m wasting time not doing anything, even if I don’t have anything to do.

Many people have told me over the past few years that I work too hard, that I’ll burn out, that I should relax. But this is me, and this is what I love doing. I wouldn’t change being busy all the time for the world.

Well, I probably couldn’t change it for the world.

I’ll give you a moment to scoop your jaw back up from the floor.

Yep, I’ve never seen Star Wars, and nor had I had the desire to either. And after seeing the first one on Saturday (the first one in chronological order, not the first ever one), I have to admit that I’m completely indifferent to seeing the rest too.

I just see Star Wars as a prime example of a wider societal hiccup that we all fall prey to far too often: hype. Star Wars is so ingrained into our culture as being an epic series of films, that you’re looked at as if one of your eyes has just rolled on to the floor if you announce that you’ve never seen it.

And I know it could be argued that I shouldn’t base an entire series of films on 1 of the 6, but I feel that the film was spoiled beyond repair by people telling me how bloody amazing it is, and when I watched it I just felt a little bit deflated. A little bit like the film would have been a lot better if nobody had told me how good it was in the first place.

So society, stop telling me how good Lord of the Rings is, and how much I should see it, because I’m going to make it a personal life goal to never watch The Lord of the Rings.

Retrospect note: I wrote this rambling piece of writing at 12.55 on Monday morning. I made loads of spelling mistakes. Most of it didn’t make sense. So, if after reading the above it still doesn’t make sense, I apologise for writing a rambling piece of bullshit at 12.55 on Monday morning. You can take solace in the fact that I’m sad loser that writes rambling bullshit at 12.55 on Monday mornings, and how much better than me you are.