How blue can you get?

[Johnny B]

Man... skint, no girlfriend, no job, no prospects, no surfing (!!!) and in 9 days i'll be 21 and all alone in the fleshin' south of England while all my mates are up north.

How blue can you get?

[Johnny B]

Sorry. I just realised I'm wasting space here. Hardly making a useful contribution to this online community.

[drowningbitbybit]

Um, happy birthday? Does that help?

[essex sucks]

yeah happy b day mate

[isaluteyou]

think of it this way, it could be worse

[RJD]

bejesus, go out get plastered and root a stunner, its your birthday!!

[Stone Fox]

Happy birthday dude.

Don't you know anyone in Guildford? If not, why are you there?

[Johnny B]

Thanks folks, I appreciate the kind words.

And no, not a soul, I've moved down here to stay with me Ma (Urg!) until I learn to drive and sort out what I'm doing. I thought it was an opportunity I aught not to refuse since not having to pay rent will be allow me to save a bit so that when I have a proper plan and made arrangements I have some financial backing (and the driving thing).

I've only been here 3 days and I'm regretting it already. It's seriously strange living with a parent again and Guildford feels...I dunno...isolated. Hmph! It should get better once I meet some folk, but right now it's hard to look on the bright side of things ya know.

As you say, it could be worse, I should stop moaning really.

[long_man]

are you not doing anything for your 21st birthday

see if you can sponge some money of your ma, jump on the train from Guildford, go pay your pals a visit and get absolutely rendered

have you got the intershnet

[Johnny B]

Arg! The surf's looking killer for midweek next week (and likely on my birthday) on the east coast!!


Why must you torment me sea!?

[Katza8uk]

it could be worse i have no money either (im £14,000 in debt already and im only 20!), have no job, no boyfriend and no idea what im doing!

admittedly im a student (hence the debt), cant be bothered and am to busy to get a job (good excuse i thought), am getting along quite well without a boyfriend. o and i know im going to the beach today.

so could be worse!

[long_man]

Hey Johnny, just thought id see if things had picked up a bit for ya

have you started sketching again to keep boredom at bay

how was your 21st, did you get upto anything in the end, like get bladdered and pull a moose

[Johnny B]

Hey, thanks for the concern Long Man!

I dunno, kinda, hopefully I'll get a job soon, that should at least distract me if nowt else. I've applied for a fair few, a couple of lab jobs in particular that I'm very keen on, though I'm not sure what my chances are. I've also started volunteering once a week (started on Sunday) with the Surrey Wildlife Trust. That's OK, nice to be doing some physical work, I was kinda hoping to meet some people doing it though but they're all old gimmers. As fer drawing, I guess yer right, there's only so much job hunting you can do, there's a fair amount of waiting for calls etc to do so aye, thought I may as well have summat to show for me time.

My birthday is tommorrow, i'm gonna celebrate it on Friday though, my sis (only a couple of years older than me) and I are off to Brighton on Friday clubbin'. So it won't be too bad.

Thanks ...J...

[libby]

Wahey your volunteering?! Someone actually listened to me

[drowningbitbybit]

Someone actually listened to me

Did somebody say something?

[Stone Fox]

dunno, wasn't listening.

[surferdude_scarborough]

i didnt hear a thing

[libby]

[DaveM666]

dude, I know the rut your in, but with the added disadvantages of being bi polar so everything seems worse sometimes, lol





just remember things can't get worse, only better, and volunterring somewhere will be the best thing you can do while not working, sending cyber hugs your way mate (manly hugs though)

[drowningbitbybit]

the added disadvantages of being bi polar so everything seems worse sometimes, lol

...but better sometimes too!

just remember things can't get worse

Course they can, things can pretty much always get worse. Think of the very worst possible situation you can possibly think of ever... and then add athletes foot or something equally unpleasant.
Things can always get worse, so always look on the bright side today