Author: Olly

  • Fix up, look sharp.

    Well, things have really turned a corner since the last time i blogged about my life. Gem and I have managed to give our bank balance a kick up the arse, and that is a lot more positive now thanks to selling anything we didn’t need, and replacing gems car with a 1.4 TD fiesta (From £120 (max) down to £20 per week on fuel!)

    Work has turned a corner too, Dave and I are now pretty much salesmen – ive spent more time sending quotes out over the last two weeks than I ever have before in my life. Its fab through because we have enquiries and quotes bouncing all over the place, and im now lining work up for weeks in the future as we are getting very busy.

    The new starters are doing amazingly too, Sian is getting on well with her Admin tasks, Danny is now a social media wizard, and Ashley is becoming a SEO expert overnight! I really hope that by the time their 6 months is up we can give them all a job as they are 3 switched on young people!

    My aim in life now is simply to become financially stable, so that if something happens that i need £500 for, i pay for it out my bank, then save that £500 back up again. Whereas at the mo, i’d have to wait for the £500 to be saved before i could rectify the problem.

    We’re not thinking about houses, marriages, new cars, expensive holidays…. None of that! Just to become financially stable. Thats it!

    We’re off to a brilliant start, though 🙂

  • Spartacus Blood and Sand Season 2 On the Horizon!

    I was totally stoked when Adam introduced me to the Spartacus Blood and Sand series – it was everything i like in a TV show 🙂

    Then when I found out lead man Andy Whitfield had blood cancer, I was gutted! Not only for him, but for all the fans of the series as they couldn’t just leave it at season 1  – its only just got started!

    Anyway, i decided to check out IMDB and i noticed at the bottom of the Spartacus page there were some forum posts, and one stated…

    Spartacus star Andy Whitfield, 35, has been given a clean bill of health and is already training for his return to the set of the hit Starz series.

    “I’m raring to go,” Whitfield told Deadline.com in a phone interview from New Zealand.

    Whitfield was diagnosed with treatable Stage 1 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in early March. “After the initial shock — I was a healthy young man and had no idea that this could happen — it was frustrating that the first season was ending on such a high note and we could’ve been rolling into season 2.”

    He began treatment immediately while production was put on hold. About five weeks ago, he was told he was cancer free.

    Before production begins on Season 2 of Spartacus later this year, Whitfield told Deadline.com he’s planning to be at next month’s Comic Con in San Diego along with other Spartacus cast members and producers.

    Source

    Bangin’ news for everyone!

    Roll on Spartacus Blood and Sand Season 2!!!!!!!!

  • Worst month for a long time

    Well – sometimes in life you get so carried away with what you are doing, that you stop looking a the bigger picture – and things start to slip!

    Both Gemma and Myself have been busy working, living and enjoying ourselves that we let the maintenance of gemmas car slip, and it died again at a really awkward time! This lead to some serious decisions being made – some that we never thought we’d have to, but then every so often life catches up with you and reality bites – and it can hurt a lot!

    We came to the conclusion, that i would have to sell My Caddy so we could buy a new car for gem, then sell her car and use the money to start our savings…

    This put me in a deep (deep) state of depression.. I’ve honestly not felt as low as that since i was 19 and FLAT BROKE… It effected my life and mood so much we had to re-assess what we were doing. The day after we put a plan in place that outlined a more sensible way to get the money, and thankfully it didn’t involve selling my car. *phew*

    We are currently selling gems Ronal Turbos and a load of other shit and we are living on a budget at the mo so that we can save as much as possible.

    But until we can sort a new car, Gemma and Bonnie are having to stay at her Mum’s which means im home alone 🙁 and that makes my mood even worse :'(

    Then today i went to post some stuff we’ve sold, put our card into an ATM machine and it had no £10 notes – so in a bid to NOT spend money unnecessarily (i only needed a tenner) i pressed cancel…

    “We have retained your card”

    What the fuck??

    So now im home alone.. with a broken car (2 actually).. no money.. No Gemma… No Bonnie.. :'(

    Where the fuck is my silver lining this time? Eh?

  • Posing for Daddy

    My dad is always taking bloomin photographs of me – this one was taken when we were in the back garden playing with my tennis ball. I quite like having my photograph taken to be honest, its cool! 🙂

    He trys to make me sit still all the time which is annoying but its not like he takes pics every day!!

    He said that he’s gonna put some more pictures on soon too!

    Hope there is no embarrasing ones!!