Caleb and Leanne's Wedding, July 2015

Sometimes Love conquers all and on Saturday 24th July, I witnessed two blessed souls join together in holy matrimony, Caleb and Leanne. 2 Kindred spirits finally did it last Saturday and brought happiness to each other and to all their friends and family that day. I'm so proud and so happy for them both!
Here's a wonderful story on how 2 great people found love.

Before I begin, let me go back to the start. I met Caleb way back in May 2010 through his older brother David who also has Aspergers Syndrome like me. I met David during my 1st year at Collyers through a girl that I liked and in the end chose to turn my attention to him instead of her (oh well, her loss). So I met this funny, loud, optimistic and caring mate at College and since then we have been talking for years as well as quoting with each other whether it's Shrek and Donkey or talking about Anime, Films and even the fact that David helped teach me how to get strong at the Gym (as I mentioned in my Gym posts).
So anyway, a while later, I was invited to his house and got to meet his caring family and meet Caleb. Caleb has been one of the most laid back, friendly, supportive and all around good guys I've ever met and has always been around on the rare occasion whether it's hanging out, speaking to each other for some support, reassurance or just catching up as well as open to Anime, Films and almost anything just like David. That's what makes those guys so awesome and just real keepers in my life, love those guys from Zimbabwe!

And I got to meet his gorgeous girlfriend Leanne in November 2013 (funny saying "girlfriend" because now they are husband and wife *sniff* ha). She was shy at first and to be honest, I've only seen her a few times since but the thing that's most key is that she makes my mate feel amazing and I know she's a wonderful caring person and is just perfect for Caleb. And now I can get to know her even more in the future as those two continue their loving life together and from the moments in the future where I'll be there too with the others to celebrate and make more memories.

So anyway, I received a letter invitation in the post around a month ago and RSVP'd right away. And at last, the day came when I would be all suited and booted but unfortunately it was on a rainy day that just never ceased. But the weather didn't seem to get anyone down because it wasn't stopping these 2 love birds from getting hitched.

I turned up about 1.50pm and luckily parked almost the same time as David and his father Kingsley just arrived and we ran inside to get sorted. I was most relieved to see Chris again (one of Caleb's friends) so I asked to sit next to him and I also ended up making 3 new friends Dan, his fiance Abbie and their friend Adam. I saw all the Heymans at the front and was waiting in excitment (well maybe no where near the level as Caleb). Soon it was all time! Destony had called everyone together! And there she was, Leanne looking all beautiful as she slowly walked down the isle towards her man.

The Vicar was a lovely chap and performed the service with passion. We all got involved in singing songs such as Cornerstone, Amazing Grace etc. I was a little deep down uncomfortable due to not really had any experience (or much) of being in Just to be safe, I won't go into detail why I don't believe in God or any Religion otherwise it will offend/ annoy others. But I didn't let any of that stop me from coming to support my friends!
Church and singing like this before and it's also because of my beliefs.
The Ceremony ended up going for about just over an hour but during that time, everyone's hearts were all high and in awe for Caleb and Leanne.Even Caleb's Mum, Nicky gave a beautiful song that she chose for her son.
Two fascinating moment that I most enjoyed was that the Vicar actually read out a funny poem by Pam Ayres called Yes, I'll Marry You My Dear.

Yes, I’ll marry you, my dear.
And here’s the reason why.
So I can push you out of bed
When the baby starts to cry.
And if we hear a knocking
And it’s creepy and it’s late,
I hand you the torch you see,
And you investigate.

Yes I’ll marry you, my dear,
You may not apprehend it,
But when the tumble-drier goes
It’s you that has to mend it.
You have to face the neighbour
Should our labrador attack him,
And if a drunkard fondles me
It’s you that has to whack him.

Yes, I’ll marry you,
You’re virile and you’re lean,
My house is like a pigsty
You can help to keep it clean.
That sexy little dinner
Which you served by candlelight,
As I do chipolatas,
You can cook it every night!!!

It’s you who has to work the drill
And put up the curtain track,
And when I’ve got PMT it’s you who gets the flak,
I do see great advantages,
But none of them for you,
And so before you see the light,
I DO, I DO, I DO!!

That's brilliant, right?!
The other was a curious, symbolic and interesting new look at a Toblerone Chocolate Bar. I can't remember it all off the tip of my tongue but it involved symbolic references to how we always go for the chocolate right away and that this means what we rush into love without looking at the layers such as the box is what kept it all together and the fragile tinfoil is torn because of maybe irresponsibility and that the actual shape of the triangles represent a graph or so or how it goes up and down like a love life will flow. We must always be there through thick and thin of our love lives and cherish everything and even continue with the friendly/ small things and not change them just because you get married, this man knew quite the guide to love and that really had me interested and think deeply over his amazing words.

We had 3 chances during the Wedding to get up and take pictures as the Vicar had asked up to keep our phones switched off until he said it was okay to come up and take pictures.
As we all followed the leaflet/ guide book on the songs and layout of the service, time began to move on and some truly beautiful stories came through that Caleb and Leanne shared one romantic memory that each other had cherished and shared with us all. Caleb's was spending a fun packed surprise day at Thorpe Park with Leanne during their 1st anniversary together as a couple. Leanne's was a sad but truly beautiful story about how unfortunately with her coming from Wales, it's been hard to keep contact and maintain the contact since having moved.
But a quote that she shared from the philosophical Dr. Seuss "Sometimes you'll never know the true value of a moment, until it becomes a Memory!" Wow! That sums up my thoughts clearly. But her story was about how she had to confess to Caleb at dusk in the park that she was sadly moving away. Caleb did the remarkable and told her that it mean't nothing and ended up dancing with her and that's when she admitted to us all and knew to herself that he was a keeper and look at them now?!

Before I knew it they were exchanging their honest and passionate wedding vows for each other and I heard the words we'd all been waiting for, "I now pronounce this couple, husband and wife!" And Caleb and Leanne got to the kissing before the Vicar could say "You may now kiss the bride" haha.
We all slowly made our way outside after they went first and as the rain had stopped momentarily, we all shared some pictures outside the church and whilst the families stayed in the church for more, Chris, Abbie, Dan and Adam and I popped to the Sussex Barn to share some food and have a drink (I couldn't as I was driving and had no ID on me anyway).

Christ ended up buying one of those share platters and we all dug in just as the sound engineer for the wedding, reception and in the band that performed the music to the hymn's today, Peter.
I understood that everyone knew each other from Sundays but they were all so polite and friendly and I got to know them well despite giving my reason for not believing but they fact that we all knew and loved Caleb and Leanne, it was enough to wash away this difference between people.

We all walked over to the Hall (behind the church and right near Sussex Barn) at around 5.10pm as we heard that it was now cool to head to the reception. I saw that my table was next to some of Caleb's friends that I've met and hung out with before including the other Josh, Deborah and Andrew. I also got to make new friends with Alex and a lady named Michelle from Germany. We all took pictures, well we were "The Cool Table" and Chris got jealous and came over and joined us haha.

Is it me?! But doesn't Alex look a little
like Tom Cruise from 'Jerry Maguire' film?!

Andrew was part of
The "Cool" Table too

Soon, the newlyweds arrived and joined us all and right after it was time to grab food from the buffet.
I noticed that everyone had these adorable and delicate Butterfly boxes that turned out to be filled with small Heart shaped biscuits and Love Hearts sweets which had been customized to say "Love Hearts Mr And Mrs Heymans" on the wrapping, aww.

The speeches soon followed through at about 7.00 ish, Leanne's dad was first. He gave a funny and heartwarming speech about Leanne growing up being "daddy's little girl" aww and even mentioned a story about how when she was around 10 that she gave his car a wash, to his unfortunate surprise, she'd used the Kitchen Scourer... awe, yikes... but it sure was funny and we all laughed after all done responding in shock and awe haha.
Caleb's heartwarming speech was perfect, he spoke a lot in sarcasm and slight embarassment but with a big smile on his face as well as admitting and re-telling so much of his history with his family, friends and his lovely bride. Wait a go, mate!
And David's was just as great but also awkward and funny thanks to this honesty (coming from an Aspergers Mind) but seeing him perform great gave me inspiration to write a speech as good as his someday if I'm a best man at a wedding or give one at my sister's wedding someday.

Up next was a funny and test of knowledge game that the newlyweds had to play, JENGA!Haha that was a funny moment as their were about 6 questions I think each for them both to answer correctly through Leanne's Dad's sheet. A correct answer meant moving one piece, but get it wrong then you had to move 2 pieces! Leanne was very swift and good at it as we all saw in excitement and Caleb had a few close calls and ultimately it was him that lost but he did it in style. It reminded me of when Leonard and Sheldon play a big version of JENGA once on The Big Bang Theory, though in this case none of them were wearing a safety hat haha.

After the tables were all cleared, we were reminded to partake in a lovely scrapbook idea which involved us all having our pictures taken by Jess and her Polaroid Camera and then placing the picture inside the album and writing a little something. Perfect Idea, may even use that for my Wedding someday. Oh yeah and me and the guys all got an impressive back massage from Michelle whilst waiting in the queue, I certainly felt refreshed after that with her hands as did the others haha.

Afterwards it was time for everyone to begin dancing but not before 2 very special dances first!
First our Bride and Groom took to the floor and had everyone in a trance of peace and love as those 2 shared a precious moment and even bought tears to many eyes including me.

Next it was the Father of the Bride's turn and their song was Heartland - I Loved Her First (had to look that up after hearing the lycis), I loved it, slightly reminded me of Brantley Gilbert a little.
I kinda feel deep down that I wish I had mentioned this song to the couple before the wedding incase this was an idea for their song, but I'm still pleased they had one anyway. Caleb and Leanne, this one's for you!

David and his sister, Hannah

Before we all came onto the dance floor, a little surprise had been lined up for everyone, the Bride, Groom and the Best Men and Bridesmaids all did "The Cha Cha Slide", haha brilliant!

Then, it was time for everyone to get their feet onto the floor and just go nuts. Taylor Swift - Shake It Off, Coldplay - Paradise, Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk and several more tracks all played and got us all pumped up and show off a few talented and funny dance moves, even in a circle.
Everyone had drinks, me, I had Fizzies. I caught up with Dan and Abbie for a sec as they were looking into a lift but found one in the end anyway.

By 10.30pm, a funny surprise happened which involved Caleb carrying Leanne away home... in a Wheelbarrow... yeah! That's one way to carry your Mrs out of somewhere haha. And with them gone, it was time for everyone to begin packing up, clearing up and heading home.
I said goodbye to everyone and made a few plans to see others again sometime or someday. Most likely, Andrew's 21st is when I'll see a handful of them again.

So as you can see, it was a wonderful day and I'm just so happy for Caleb and Leanne.
And I end this story with a small reminder for them both and for anyone else who is a Christian.
I've been meaning to show this to them for a few months after discovering it, but here's a little video from the one and only Owl City who is also a Christian. I reckon and believe this song will help them with a few dark days/ moments in their lives and help remind them of their love for eachother and for him. I may not believe too but that doesn't mean I can't show this to those that do.
Thank you so much guys for having me on such a glorious ocassion. I wish you both the best and look forward to the next time I see you two again as well as continue to share many more wonderful memories and events in our lifetime!

Ant-Man (Film Review)

Big things come in small packages and this guy packs a wallop! Paul Rudd is amazing and plays a great Marvel baddy turned goody with humour, seriousness and heart. I give you Marvel's latest instalment in the MCU and last film of Phase Two and newest Superhero, Ant-Man!

 

Our weird title but awesome story features Scott Lang/ Ant-Man "Paul Rudd" (Anchorman, Wonderlust) leaving prison after doing time for being a talented master thief. After trying to go straight for his adorable daughter, he does another job to get money, not knowing it's about stealing an important suit owned by Hank Pym/ Original Ant-Man "Michael Douglas" (Last Vegas, Wall Street). Hank decides to give Scott a chance of redemption to help them both save their daughters whilst also stopping baddy and Hank's old assistant/ protégé Darren Cross "Correy Stoll" (The Bourne Legacy, Salt) from replicating that power.

Me and several people from my best group of friends since College along with Lewis from the Mudder (I last saw them at the Jurassic World premier, by the way, that film is a MUST SEE too!) all wanted to see this film because we all knew and figured it was important thanks to it being the film before Captain America: Civil War (plus Lewis spilled the beans on facts that I had no problem hearing anyway on the fact that in the comics, Ant-Man is a HUGE character in the whole Avengers origin and stuff but also explained the difference that the film has portrayed compared to the original character). Lewis was the most psyched and buzzed up man for this film thanks to Ant-Man being one of his all time favourite heroes and I too agreed with him on the fact that the Marvel film gave him super strength when he's tiny to make him more cool and powerful instead of just looking like a pointless Ant-Man that people would just laugh at (well, compared to the laughing we all did during the film anyway).
Picture were from http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Ant-Man_(film)
 

 

Paul Rudd played an exceptional Marvel character who had a criminal history and now had a shot at turning his life around, I gotta say that his character was more different to the c*cky, happy and charming funny dude from the comedies he's famous for. This time he played the serious, good hearted and skilled thief who gets a shot at redemption and makes a character that sounds stupid, actually turn out incredible... whilst again still sounding ridiculous. The fact that he was the successor to an original hero makes it more interesting and different to many Marvel heroes we all know or have seen on screen because they were the originals whilst Scott was a replacement.
His training wasn't easy let me tell you that as he had to train hard as well as go deep underground to meet his new friends as well as learn/ suffer their qualities which was funny for all of us to watch. The Ants were all so intriguing and were able to perform amazing and funny tasks like passing the sugar haha.

The humour is silly and sometimes just turns this film into a comedy which is good since their can't be action everywhere. Mills and Craig even pointed out in the credits that the awkward, silly and talking too much idiot that helps Scott in his thief life was actually John Leguizamo who's famously the voice actor for Sid The Sloth from the ICE AGE films. He was a big part in everyone laughing because when he tells Scott how he heard about things, his voice dubs over everyone including ladies which was just silly and brilliant at the same time since a lot of people usually try to make impersonations of others to make it sound more convincing whilst this guy made no effort and just made it all stupidly hilarious.

Every Marvel hero has a unique quality about themselves, Iron Man built his Armour and has a unique degree in Engineering and Narcissism, Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider and gained spider abilities, while this guy can control any type of Ant and uses a suit to shrink down to the size of... yeah, you guessed right, an ant!
The Ant collection was a nice touch instead of being plain common ants and helped show their features and nature in a co-ordinated manner that helped benefit Scott's plan but also showed how these wild animals could be reasoned with thanks to a secret that you'll have to see for yourselves.

The camera work was just wow. We get to see the world from a tiny/ huge perspective and also see how things look so different when we really think about it but actually see it for real. I wonder if Paul was always near a green screen since it sounds illogical to actually shrink himself down to acquire that level of detail on camera?! But I really liked it, the fact that people would be shooting the camera's on him and from his and our final perspective, he's watching bullet projectiles fly past him whilst he hops and runs around at a close angle, even running along the gun itself to slug the baddies up close.

The attention to detail was heart pounding especially during the intense moment way later on and reminded me of Interstellar as I was breathing deeply whilst trying to keep my cool because of how scary, mind blowing and deep the moment got when it comes to disappearing into a Subatomic Quantum Realm. Imagine just diving deeper and deeper and deeper into a realm that looks too intense to fathom like when I watched Lucy or Interstellar because it sorta showed me on how I think too deeply on things like the future and what's out there above us and I think it shows us just how "small" we really are compared to the details that's all around us and what makes up everything around us and the planet. Yeah it was that intense...!

It was way cool to see how Ant-Man and YellowJacket fought it out with their own suits with the same powers (only the baddy of course gets a better looking suit cause that's the way it works) and like the trailer shows us all that it may look not so intense, epic or convincing on damage when we see them fighting from our perspective in real life but that all changes whenever the camera zooms in on them and we see it all in much more detail that's brutal like looking through a scope (this case a Microscope), that's when it gets you.

I did like the fact that what everyone said is true that this film is tied to Avengers: Age Of Ultron and by the very very end it will link to Civil War... war is coming up next in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
We even saw a brief and funny fight between one Avenger and Ant-Man *spoiler alert* along with a brief re-appearance of Steve's "old lady" and like I said, the ending will practically lead up to Civil War, so make sure you TRUE Marvel fans stay to the end of the credits if you wanna see it all!

Honestly, whilst I was writing this up on Saturday afternoon/ evening, I actually had Spider-Man in my head thanks to Lewis and me talking for an hour after the film after dropping him off home. We both got talking about the X-Men movies and how that's turning out better, Thanos appearing in Infinity War and Civil War knowledge that we both know from the comics and why Spidey is a key character (I still need to read those chunky volumes before the film comes out). And how we both watched the Spider-Man: The Animated Series and X-Men: The Animated Series growing up (I'm currently up-to-date on the Ultimate Spider-Man: The Animated Series). It was very pleasant and felt good to go all nerdy with someone which I hardly do somedays now and it felt relieving for me to talk about so much knowledge that I bottle up and share with the right people.

Anyway, about Spider-Man, I went on Marvel.wikia.com and checked out the Spider-Verse having remembered about the big list of Spider-Men that there are in the Multi-Verse and I came across the plot (which I read a lot and discovered many characters like Silk, Shathra, Gatekeeper and Ezekiel Sims etc). I also remembered to purchase one of the Spider-Island issues which is now on the way through post. Plus I learned about Peter Parker's "re-birth" and how his shell lead a new villain into the picture...

But most of all, I re-discovered The Other "Ero/ Arrow" whom I've been searching for many years (this sums up a lot of her), I actually discovered her through a quick read through a Spidey comic that I found in English in Greece around5-6 years ago. the cover had Symbiote Spider-Man fighting a woman who has spider powers and by the end, was about to shove her egg sack of spider babies into Peter's mouth... lovely! I think it was during the dark issues of Back In Black.
According to wikipedia: "Ero is a genus of pirate spiders in the family Mimetidae . . . Spiders in this genus are specialised spider killers. An individual will attack a potential victim by biting one of its legs and injecting toxins. It then retreats and the prey spider quickly becomes paralyzed. The attacker then advances and starts to feed, sucking out the body fluids of its victim". 
Sorry for the spoilers and for going off topic, I just wanted to talk Marvel, ya know?! Anyway, right now I have the final issue of The Amazing Spider-Man as well as the first 5 issues of The Superior Spider-Man. Think I'll talk Spider-Man someday since I know so much on him along with Pokemon, Star Wars, Kingdom Hearts etc. Sorry about that. Just shout "NERD" at your computer monitor ha ha.

ANYWAY as you can see, this film does have an exceptional story, history and stuff compared to what anyone who takes a quick glance at the title or thought of a character like Ant-Man, it did change my thoughts on Ant-Man originally after seeing the LEGO version of him in the Lego Marvel Super Heroes video game. Plus I liked it was quite humorous as much as Guardians Of The Galaxy and not to mention the obvious fact that it's a Marvel film, duh!

A Month Of Fun With The Best People

A lot has been happening to me over the last month and a half since May, I've been out nearly every weekend enjoying myself and been working hard with my friends in the weekdays (like I'm living the "normal" life). But before I get round to writing up some serious and times from my past posts along with an emotional The Fault In Our Stars post, I wanna share with you all on how weekends have become eventful recently instead of the usual lie in on the weekend and lounging about with little enthusiasm thanks to my sleeping pattern.

I'm now enjoying the Summer and things are beginning to get busy and bring people together for many joyful occasions and my Summer's already got some plans along with a Wedding and Stag to attend to at the end of July. Plus I'll be participating in a Lip Sync Battle round Mills's for her birthday on August 1st and sometime this summer, finally get round to visiting Jody and Sean at last.

But right now, I've been feeling good since the Mudder and my 22nd Birthday and have been taking it easy with AsperJosh and the Gym (which I only just popped back into on Thursday) but I still got it and almost picked up where I left off though I have been feeling a painful and satisfying burn since which means that I'm still on my way to gaining strength.

My first day n' night (like the Kid Cudi song) of partying began on June 20th because my main man, Lewis from my group of college buds was hosting this weekend and the following round his house with a handful of my closest friends to play boardgames and play the Wii-U. Around then, the Sun was beginning to rain down on the UK with scorching heat which was nice to enjoy every so often in the week whilst on lunch at work, but for us that weekend, we secluded inside for nerdy shenanigans and it was a good call.
On the Saturday, Lewis and the others and I got round to playing very eccentric boardgames that Cathy had purchased from Horsham's BattleQuest Games shop (owned by the generous Andy) that I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh Cardgames there with Lewis, Liam, Martin, Warwick etc. These games weren't your normal Monoply or Cardgame that general families are familiar with, No... these very complicated but intriguing boardgames got us all excited and left me scratching my head at just how confusing they really were.

I arrived just as they were playing The Settler Of Catan games, a Trade Build Settle game involving cards and different types of hexagon panels which resembled wheat, grasslands, minerals and having to create settlements and roads along the lines of the hexagons to take control whilst swapping resources with other players.




The games that I played with them, was a Pit stop boardgame called Formula D, that's a dice rolling game with 6 different shaped dices and having to use gears like an actual Formula1 car and you would take damage depending on your actions on winning the race.

Another was a game called Revolution, which was about taking control of a board which was a birds-eye-view of a town with a harbour and you would each turn put a small gold token, a blackmail card and a red force fist on 16 choices which would affect your possession of the settlements and other people's control of the town.

And the other (which actually happened the following weekend), was a cardgame called The Resistance: Avalon where we all got given either a good guy card or a bad guy card based on Camelot/ Merlin and someone made up a quest scenario and narrated it and we'd all know who was our on our team and decide whether the task during the quest would succeed or fail (it was most enjoyable and funny thanks to Craig's hilarious and naughty quest that he thought up for us) whilst Alex and Stevie were secretly on the same team and trying to keep quiet haha.

Plus we did have an intense fight on the Wii-U and played games on both Saturdays including Super Smash Bros. For Wii-U, Splatoon and Mario Kart 8. It was all laughs and giggles along with intense faces whilst overtaking/ beating up our friends in Lewis's front room and we even got 6 people playing on SSB Wii-U.

On the night of the 20th June, I had to attend another party which was hosted by my Awesome friend, Amy and it was a themed party of dressing up in school uniform because she had finished her University life. I turned up in a brand new white shirt and trousers but I did find my Forest Tie and old school shoes. I also met lots of my friends from Forest and got to know better during Collyers.
I got a lift through Mum and was sharing a Taxi back with Vicky and later a girl I met at the party called Becky. When I got there at 6pm, Amy set me up with 4 tiny sips of drinks that I had never tried yet because I'm usually the designated driver. I tried sips of Malibu Coconut (Eugh), Archers (Nice), Dark Rum (How do Pirates love this, maybe I'm not used to it yet?!) and Strawberry Pimms (Nice). I'm surprised I didn't shake myself or jump up and down like a cocktail haha. I'll tell you what, my head was spinning or I felt light headed a little during the first couple hours but I still felt fine and got chatting to people. I'm glad my wingman mate Matt (and Katie again) was there along with the other Matt (he wouldn't stop flirting with me, *sigh* just like College days hahaha), David (and meet his gf Debbie), Aaron, Alex, Alexander from Forest were all there and it felt like old times except this time I had friends and was more close with people. Plus I got to see Leanne and Vicky again since College plus I made friends with new people like Laura, Chloe, Sam and Becky and a couple others who's names have slipt my mind (sorry ladies!).
I got chatting to Laura and Chloe about Tough Mudder and exercising as we all love that plus I was showing everyone a few of my impressions like Minions, The Joker (Heath ledger) and the other Dark Knight Villains and a couple Family Guy characters (I love showing people and making them laugh and getting all excited, though learning when to stop is still something to pick up on or learn haha).
Amy's parents and sister were all so polite and great hosts plus her Dad was in charge of the BBQ and the whole night was great, full of dancing, Becky messing about with the CDs and Matt cuddling me. I had a wonderful night and went home with Vicky at 3 in the morning.

Dad celebrated his 22nd Father Day with his Muppet "Grub". Love you, Old Fella!

During the 22nd till 26th June, I came in with many of my mates during work for the Stock Take. As you can see, I got quite dusty, I can't believe I coped with it just by focussing during those long hours (8-4.30 usual hours + till 11pm with Pizza included). Felt like a Soldier on Monday and Wednesday (that's no comparison really, but it feels like long hours and other people say it anyway).

But I couldn't par-take on Friday, because Amy and I were seeing Minions that afternoon and had some giggles whilst sitting in the cinema with children everywhere (good thing they all kept quiet and didn't talk and only laughed like us) ha.

I already mentioned in my previous post about the boys/ kittens turning 1 years old, so thankful to have them in my life everyday!

Oh Yeah, My B-E-A-UTIFUL Sis Rebecca turned 18 on that day as well "Wooo" (fireworks exploding, crowds cheering in the background) haha. So me being the good bro that I am, I bought her an Animal Crossing Nintendo 3DS XL Bundle (Pre-Owned) for £200 off eBay. Her best friends Em, Ryan and Katie and I took her out that night briefly as it was a Wednesday and went to Horsham's Lynd Cross for a few drinks and after looking around to see where else we could go but with no luck, we decided to save the fun for the Saturday or a time that we all had money.

Luckily, Mum and Dad, had planned for a week or two, on Saturday 4th for gathering a handful of Becca's bestest friends Em, Katie, Sakura and Lauren round ours and all of us and them to go out to a restaurant as a surprise (which turned out to be Ask Italien) and we all dressed up, shared some pics in the garden and went out for delicious Italien cuisine.
Before I continue, I'll also add in a little party I also attended in the day whilst Rebecca was enjoying herself with her friends.

 

The day before, on Friday 3rd, I went out that night with Lewis, Neiren, Mac, Jimmy, Mark, Owen to Horsham's Sussex Barn and by chance, I met Leanne and Ben again after Amy's Party, we couldn't chat really as she was celebrating her 18th which I Facebook'd and said to her in person, but what surprised and made me smile was that she asked em to join her, Ben, Matt and Amy for tomorrow at Horsham's Superbowl for 2 games. Sad to say that I slept till the last minute on Saturday and got ready and showered and had breakfast within 40 mins and got there 15 mins late after 12pm "D'Oh!".
I can't believe that Amy sung Grease and Disney songs when Leanne and me were bowling and funny enough, we scored a Strike/ Spare, Amy's a good luck charm it seems haha.
Surprisingly I beat everyone in both games by luck and got 2 strikes on both games, plus another dude David turned up who had a great taste in Kingdom Hearts, Anime and Metalcore Music, very glad I made a new friend that day whilst celebrating with the others and Leanne! We ate at The Anchor Pub and laid in the sun in the park whilst enjoying an Ice Cream (perfect moment) and we organised to meet up again later after I'd celebrated with my Sis.
So anyway,as Mum and Dad went home after we'd all eaten, the girls went out together and I headed out to look for Leanne and the others to celebrate her birthday with the same people from today along with many more.
I was Leanne and Ben's ride home as I found out that they live up the road and round the corner (small world, right?!) and it was the least I could do after she'd invited me out today to celebrate. We all went to Horsham's Mungo's Bar (best place, really) and saw basically almost everyone from Amy's party (it was excellent!)

Might as well add this in too that on July 3rd, I took Lee from work to the Hollywood Bowl to show him a special arcade game that I knew he'd enjoy, the Star Wars Battle Pod Arcade Machine. I discovered this awesome machine during Kurt's 20th when we popped to the Hollywood Bowl and I couldn't play it then, so now was a good time for us both to enjoy it. I played First Death Star run and Lee sorta failed on Hoth but it was epic and so much fun as well as spiralling around whilst shooting Tie Fighters everywhere! Definitely gonna go again more often and show more people!

And on July 20th, I joined the Saturday work boys (Sam, Lewis, Ewan and Luis) along with Tommy, Brooke and Kurt to celebrate Tommy's 20th. Finally got them to come to Horsham's Sussex Barn.
Funny night of them attempting the Challenges and then bowling all the way in Crawley Hollywood Bowl.
Can't believe I got annihilated and even with the lanes down, ARGH no matter how straight I tried to bowl, it kept curving and going down the hole almost every shot in both games. God, that was embarrassing and frustrating though I did get one strike per game so not all bad, Lewis just wouldn't shut up and stop being a c***y d**k haha. So a lot has happened and has kept me busy as well as me really being a part in lots of big and small moments which are getting more and more better and are only the beginning to what I believe will be an excellent, fun packed and bright Summer for me and for everyone else. This week, I'm at my Auntie's house in Copthorne because I'm showing my Cousin Tom around work as he is doing work experience. I'll maybe mention it or write up a story on Friday or something.

I look forward to more nights out and with great company, good thing I have different circles of friends because not everyone's always free plus some might like one kind of activity and others don't, ya know. I guess that's what's helped bring me out my shell and helped me mature, and become a better person.

Oh yeah, I saw this on The LAD Bible and wanted to share it on here, it might give you a good laugh even if you do or don't like sport or can't keep up with Football (like me) haha.

Up next on my agenda, um I'm going to Caleb and Leanne's Wedding on July 24th and then the following day, it's my American work mate and MARVEL bro, Dave's Stag do in Brighton (plus the wedding is 29th August which I can now make and it's the day before my holiday to Greece again). But the thing that's got me excited and sick in fear to my stomach, is Mill's birthday on August 1st where it'll be the annual pool party but it'll also be a Lip Sync Battle... yeah. I was interested in doing either Owl City - Fireflies or Issues - Mad At Myself or even Eminem - Love The Way You Lie. But because none of those are really appropriate or seem fit for a moment like this (a karaoke party, maybe) so I thought of a good beat song that everyone's bound to know (like when Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson sung Taylor Swift - Shake It Off on Lip Sync Battle), I decided in the end to do this...

Now I just need to find a hat like that, don't think I can get a pink suit anytime soon so I'll make the most of it and just take notes from the video and give it my all that day... and make sure it's recorded so that everyone can watch it again and again as a laugh.