I love snow. No, I really do. When I was at school there was nothing better than snow days and having the day off because the snow (admittedly not even that bad compared to most parts of the world) made it too unsafe to drive. There was nothing better than running out and having a snowball right or building a snowman etc. Or stomping around in the snow, screaming your head off. So yes, I love snow … or I did when I was kid / teenager. Now fast-forward a handful of years to when I am the ripe (not so) old age of 28. I hate snow. No, I really do. It’s so annoying. Trains cancelled. Road’s ungritted. Black ice on the roads and pavements so damn slippery. It was fine when I was a kid and I could take the day off but now that I am working, it’s another matter. I finally see what my parents were complaining about all those years. I am really sick of it and I just want it to go away.

I had a training course booked last week, when the snow hit Manchester. Manchester town centre (where my course was) was thankfully not that bad but where I live, it was bad. Really bad. Anyway, we still managed to get out but the trains into Manchester were either cancelled or delayed. I had to rely on Taxi’s (don’t drive) from my dads work to get into town. Needless to say, I will be very happy if I don’t see snow again this year. Don’t get me wrong, despite my ranting I do love snow but eh, it’s nice around Christmas time when I don’t have to work (sorry to those who do work Christmas time) and I can go and have some fun.

In other news, I found out that I was a victim of credit fraud. :eek: It’s very scary to know how easily it can be done. I am very careful about where I shop online or use my card but in the end, it still happened to me. I can’t even begin to tell you how annoying and frustrating it is. And especially when you know it might not even be your fault as some banks have been fined for losing bank details of customers. Seriously, how irresponsible can you be. You try everything to be careful and then your bank goes and leaves an unencrypted CDs will all your details lying around. Pathetic.

So what is everyone getting for Christmas (I can’t believe it’s not that far now). I have bought all my family their presents and have even bought myself some (what I like buying things for myself). The best part is, is that my parents gave a budget of how much they will give us and so I have decided to put that towards a Gucci bag. Obviously, I will also have to put some towards it but I am so happy ‘cos I’ve always wanted on. I was going to buy it online but after my card fiasco, I think I will go into London and buy it from Selfridges. Eee, I can’t wait as I know which one I want. Aw man, I have to wait until the weekend to go into London but oh well, it will be worth it and I can’t wait.

This weekend is my work’s Christmas party. Hopefully, it will be fun but I can’t believe I am missing the Xfactor finals and Strictly Come Dancing semi-finals. Must sneak out to do some votes!

Rah, back with a new layout as you can see. Rather proud of it actually, though it was a bitch at times to code. For some reason the bottom sidebar refused to stay in colour. Ah well, worked out all okay and I hope it looks all right in your browsers. Any problems just let me know.

So these past few weeks have been interesting, from having a slightly disastrous date, to me having a melodramatic tantrum fit (eh nothing new there) to um err actually not going shopping for two whole weeks. SHIT two whole weeks and I haven’t been to the Trafford centre, arrgh not wonder I feel like crap! Oh well, I know what my plans are this week.

But yea, not really wanting to go into it, mainly because I am so over it (the date) and I know that I was right (the melodramatic tantrum) about the situation so yea, it’s all good.

Anyway moving on, I’ve decided I need to be doing more with my life so that means less browsing the internet (I can so see this not happening) to more studying (I know for a fact this won’t happen). But seriously I need to get more focused with my life, I need to actually do something, I am going to be 28 this year and I need to actually say I’ve done something different than from when I was 26/27. So that basically means that nothing will happen, I won’t do anything and by this time tomorrow I will decide than I can’t be arsed (yep, I can really see this happening). :grin:

Nah, I need to get a bit more study in my life, I’ve only really been doing about an hour or so here and there in the week and it’s not good enough. I plan to really knuckle down and learn some PHP so I can get my portfolio back up. And with that decision I’ve decided to let my old portfolio domain name go as it’s time for a change … nothing to do with the fact I bought another domain name that I have no use for so I decided to use that. No I would never be that irresponsible *coughBULLSHITcough* Actually that’s not quite true, I’ve always wanted a domain name with my name in it and so my favourite domain extension and my name were free so how could I not buy it? Although I was planning on using it for my blog but then I wouldn’t know what to do with this name so I thought I would make hkarim.net a parkon domain name and have it point to huma.me so they can both be used for the same thing? Or maybe I will turn huma.me into my blog, although I won’t be getting rid of any of my .me domain names, I love them too much. Although if I decided to turn huma.me into my blog I may give away glum.me, hmm oh well we shall see. [edit] Not going to be renewing hkarim.net, will be using huma.me as my portfolio, sorry had to clarify as I got some emails regarding glum.me.

Anyway, better stop there before I ramble on with .me domain names and yes, I can really go on and on. Oh just had to plug my hosting site, and welcome my new hostee to the network. I am hope it finally picks up a bit as I have loads of space on here so.

Right best get back to playing SoulSilver studying.