Because The Night

Hey all, hows it going?


So I've had this nagging urge to get on here and talk about my night out last night before it goes out of my head. Especially with working 10 hours today and being in tomorrow - it'll definitely go out my head.


So I've known Sam since like high school, of all the people and friends that I knew and made at my high school, me and Sam hit it off straight the way. It's actually fun to look back and think the reason we became friends was because we got seated next to each other in a maths lesson - both of us being rubbish at it. Hard to imagine that that one day back then would lead us to today, we still laugh about the various maths lessons together today.


So last night was typical of any of my nights out with Sam, we always seem to end up going on a Friday night, I work till 6pm and we normally meet at 7pm. So I rushed out of work - well I say rushed, first of all I got stuck on my till as every person in Loughborough and the surrounding areas decided that 5pm would be the perfect time to come shopping!


It didn't matter that I'd been sat there doing nothing 4 hours before hand. Had to tell a rather rude woman that I was closing when she proceeded to have a go at me, before impolitely walking off before I had a chance to explain. Fair enough, I only had one thing to say anyway, "Been here since 9:30am love if your that desperate to come to me."


Anyway, finally made it off the till and headed straight out and in to my worst nightmare, road traffic hell, one of the main roads that leads down the road into Tesco is closed in one direction for Gas works or something. So they're digging it all up, which means all the traffic is diverted to the right through the side roads.


Now baring in mind I'm already late getting off me till, be the time I actually make it to a position where I'm using third gear, it's around 6:30 - I need to be around hers for 6:45 to get there on time - takes me 20 mins to get home - normally. *Big grin* So I made it home, got changed and was on my way to hers by 6:50pm because I'm just awesome like that.


Yes it probably did involve driving past said speed limit, but its not like I do it all the time. (On a plus note car's much better now after the breaks locking incident that scared the hell out of me Monday, dad's let some pressure out of the tires and it seems to have helped, though I'm still fighting with the stereo which I'll talk about in a bit maybe :p)


Finally got to Sam's and had just enough time to nip in and meet her fiance Gaz and say hello to her dad and Pian (sp?) who I haven't seen for god knows how long - probably since we went to L.A. in 2004.


First off let me say Congrats to Sam and Gaz on getting engaged. First time that I'd met Gaz last night and he seemed like an awesome guy - someone I can really see Sam loving, definitely the type of guy I thought she'd end up with, though that thought has nothing to do with the fact we both had our palms read three times in San Diego. :p


So after brief introductions we left and dived in the car to go the 3 miles up the road to the entertain park. When I say "entertainment park" I don't mean roller coasters and what not I just really cant think of any other way to describe it. (If you haven't been there then where the hell do you go of an awesome evening??)


The "Meridian" As its known to us Leicestershirians, is like an entertainment park (consists of a bowling alley place, Vue - the cinema, is it "Cheetoes" Or something like that - a bar and food place, Frankie and Benny's - Italian food restaurant, Ball Pit place (which I cant remember the name of but have taken the nephew and niece there before), LA fitness centre, Pizza Hut and a few others I know I'm missing.


I mentioned to Sam she must have brought luck our way as on the way in we came across a car park space in the middle of all the hell, like that *clicks fingers* (If I'd been continuing my lucky streak (heh) since trying to leave work, we'd still be looking for a space now :p)


So we headed off to Frankie and Benny's first for dinner. I hadn't been there before, it was a really nice place, not hugeish enough for me though, seemed like everyone was crammed in, with all the business they were doing you'd think they'd extended it. Meh. So we'd pre-booked a table and were politely shown to our seat where we were offered a garlic bread pizza thing as an appetiser whilst we glanced at the appropriately over sized menu which had me laughing before the ordering.


we were offered a drink, both of us thought about an alcoholic drink but both decided on a coke, since I was driving and all, didn't want to end up plowing my car drunk driving. So started our evening and I finally sat back in the seat and sighed heavily, thankful that we'd both made it this time, that we were relaxing and chilling out, with everything that was going on just lately we both needed it. I've been stressed out with work, Sam with her own personal things (wont go into too much detail since I don't have her permission to :) )


I'd asked her about Gaz about the personal stuff going on, she told me about her trip to London and how relaxing it was with Gaz and how it helped her get away from it all. I mentioned it sounded awesome and we laughed and chatted about things that had been going on, from work to silly stuff, about her wedding plans, where she sees it going down, big or little wedding and she made me reiterate that I would have to be there so I'll say it again :p


I'LL BE THERE!!!!!! :p


So then the moment came, the perfect moment I thought, to break the news. I haven't really talked about Dave and myself on here, and how that all came to be. Not because I don't want to just because I never felt like I needed to, Dave's a part of my life, the best part of my life and I don't want to write him down like a novel in some best selling porn novel somewhere. Either way the time had come to tell my best friend that I was in a relationship. And it wasn't just like saying "Oh yeah and by the way I'm having a relationship with someone we should double date next week!!!!!!!!!!!!"


I didn't know how to broach the subject, I was dying to, dying to scream my lungs out about him, so when the conversation turned silent for the moment, the food arrived and I totally forgot about it.


Now Sam ordered the chicken pasta (was it with pesto?) Big hugeish bowl filled with pasta and big chunky chicken pieces. Yes I ordered a cheeseburger, decided to stick with something I knew, since I hadn't been there before, I wasn't too sure how I'd react to the food, thankfully as of this morning I have reacted well to it.


Both of our dishes came well presented, looked absolutely delicious and to be honest tasted the same! So we tucked into our meal, drifting from subject to subject, mostly how we've been lately, we were (or should I say I was) laughing harshly at the birthday music and the lights dimming from time to time as the events going on around us took place.


So as we were on the subject of relationships and I had just finished my meal, I donned the fork on the plate and just blurted it out. "So I'm in a relationship" How perfect did that sound? :p I felt like an idiot for putting it that way once I said it, what I really should have said was "I think I'm finally happy"


I think Sam knows what's been going through my head more than I do growing up, though shes had her own problems shes always been able to read my like book. She knows when I'm happy, when I'm sad and most importantly to keep nagging at me till I spill the beans which I suck at doing.


So you know what, I just said, just came out with it in one long incredibly unbrokensentencemovingfromtopictotopicsothatnoonehadthechancetointeruptitwasreallyquitehypnotic...
Lol anyway at first I blurted it all out, hoping that would be the best way, staring down at my plate moving the fork around wondering if she though I was crazy for going for it. Telling her about Dave and what he meant to me and how good he is to me e.c.t...


She was (I think) shocked at first, but then happy, I felt relaxed to talk about him to her and promised I'd send her (which I have done) a gorgeous photo of him in the email. :) It went better than expected, though could have gone down better if I'd actually thought about what I wanted to tell her before I'd said it.


So anyway I'm waffling :p speaking of waffles PANCAKE DAY ON TUESDAY WOOP WOOP! Totally off subject but thought I'd mention it :p


Anyway we talked about that, sat and gossiped for a long while and then was ready to order dessert. Sam had the warm chocolate brownies with cream, I decided on a toffee sundae which absolutely fantastic! Layers of toffee ice cream and cream. Oh yeah and it had brown balls in! This had the pair of us laughing hysterically as when it arrived I pulled out what could only be a "malteaser" from the centre :p


The desserts were awesome, a real treat and the perfect end to the perfect meal. Unlike some restaurants I've been to, I didn't feel like I was going to be sick at the end of the meal. Like you've ate too much and you just wanna burst. I really enjoyed it and like I said to Sam, having the meal before hand gives us a chance to have a chat and gossip about everything and anything as we cant really do that when we're in the cinema.


Awesomely enough it wasn't too expensive either, we ended up paying £32.86 I think it was for the whole meal. Expensive enough at just over £15 a head, but not over the top. So we chatted for a bit before looking at the time - 20:50pm - I suggested if we left now then we'd make a 9pm viewing at the cinema....HA I knew my bad luck wasn't quite through for the day.


Apart from going out wearing a flimsy shirt and cardigan and being absolutely stone cold standing outside whilst Sam went inside to check what was on at the cinema whilst I finished my fag. The only half decent film starting at 9pm was "Push" and neither of us wanted to hang about outside for 45 mins for "Bloody Valentine" to start.


So we decided to go for it, I'd thought I'd seen the trailers for the film and I really didn't remember it being quite the experience it was when we actually watched it. We grabbed a bucket of popcorn and medium coke between us (as we do usually) and made our way in - slightly delayed...


So we sat and watched the 1001 pointless adverts for half an hour until the film actually started at just gone 9:30. I was looking forward to watching the film, I'd sworn it was a horror film though before going in, maybe I'm thinking of something else? Anyway, "Push" starred Djimon Hounsou, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Neil Jackson and Chris Evans.


Basically (from what I gathered) the films about these people who have extra special abilities. People who were being tested on during the Second World War. The Germans were trying to create super soldiers, using telepathic abilities to help them win the war. They were secretly testing people for something or other and then those people with special abilities were injected with a drug that would enhance their abilities greatly - if they could survive the drug injection. Kira Hudson (Camilla Belle) gets injected, but then escapes the "division" as they call it where she's being held and the film kicks off with the plot basically being about the "division leaders" needing to recapture the girl (and the drug she stole in the process.)


So you introduce Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning) whose basically telling us the story. We're told at the beginning there are all sort of different people, from "movers" to "pushers" and Division leaders who control the "movers" and "Pushers" who are actually "movers" and "pushers" themselves.

I wont go into too much detail, don't really wanna turn this into a spoiler alert, so sufficed to say I did enjoy the film once I'd settled down in the cinema seat and started actually watching it. Although the actors played their parts fair enough I couldn't help but sit there and literally think of them acting this film out. The roles seemed put on and I really don't think they cast the film very well.

Maybe it was a low budget movie but I'd still have preferred to see Samuel. L. Jackson as the lead bad guy and possibly someone like Keanue Reeves or Brad Pitt as the lead main good guy. It would have made it so much more realistic. The show felt plastic and though the special effects had gift, they lacked a certain something extra that we're used to in most films these days.

Overall I'd give it a sturdy 7 cat stars out of ten, this film is a rent only, seriously don't waste good money on buying it.

So after the film we left feeling rather grunted and tired, it was around 11:30pm and we made a dash through the cold night air and the massive car park to the car and dived in blasting the heater, listening to some tunes and trying to sort out when we can meet up again.

Overall it was an awesome day, really enjoyed it. I don't get to see her very often so when we do get together we seem to make an awesome night of it. We'll definitely be doing it again next month :D Watch this space...



Peace all take care, love ya xxxxxxxxxxx



Currently listening to: Because The Night - Cascada

Note To Self

My life is perfect :)


Really contradicts my last post, but what the hell it needed to be said, I couldn't be happier right now :D


Peace all love ya xxxxxx




Currently Listening To : Counting Crows - Accidentally In Love