Another year older, definitely a bit wiser. A lot more focused on getting out of Boston, the old CV has been updated and made to look as sparkly and appealing as possible and will be submitted to anywhere I think would be a good fit for me. I'm not sure if I want to carry on in the hospitality industry, after all I've been doing it for over 20 years maybe it's time for a change? I'm not going to rush into anything, it's got to be the right move for me but that's enough serious stuff for the minute, after the last entry I need to lighten the mood around here!
The reconnection tour continued this past weekend with a long overdue trip to Grantham and a visit to see my sister from another mister Ashstar. Now a few things you should know about Ash. 1) The first time we met she spent over an hour and half absolutely rinsing me about anything and everything. 2) After a drunken night out she took part in a TLC match and and ended up jumping off a ladder. 3) She has an amazing aim at throwing empty
lambrini bottles when someone annoys her. I hope this paints a little picture of what Ash can be like, the other side of her is that she is one of the most caring and loyal people that I know and her husband, Alf, isn't bad either! After a proper catch up and testing her new cocktail machine, a trip to a pub or two and some drunken face time messages to people on the other side of the world (sorry for waking you up!) it made me realise two things, one that my ability to consume alcohol was not at the level it used to be and number two real friends are hard to find.
I think when you get older it's a lot harder to make new friends, and in this day and age it's harder. I met most of my best friends in bars and pubs, Which I don't really go to much these days, I've got lots of people I would call acquaintances but very few friends around the Boston area. Not people I could hang out with for hours just wasting the day away with arguing about anything and everything. I remember we once had an argument about who would win in a fight between Chuck Norris and Mr T that lasted a week, or the immortal womble game, which is as simple as it is entertaining! Basically you take a film title and replace one word with the word womble for example instead of Full Metal Jacket it becomes Full Metal Womble.....that one kept us entertained for months. They were simpler times and I miss them greatly.
This reconnection tour has brought it home that there are people out there on my side. When me and my soon to be ex wife broke up I lost a lot of people who I considered friends, true they all came out and said that they were still my friends but it was obvious to me that things had changed and as they were pretty much 100% of my social life around Boston, needless to say it's been hard to find people to hang out with on a regular basis that are local to me. This is why I'm spending so much of my time travelling the country and seeing the people who know me, they've helped remind me of exactly who I am, what I can do, who I want to be and to quote the wrestling legend that is DDP.....That's not a bad thing, it's a good thing!
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