First Post and the Last Post...

Well this is the last post for a while - going up to Stoke so dear diary I must leave you in silence for a while.
I've kicked myself up the arse again after feeling down and found another gear, and was helped by the wonderful news the post lady brought - the driving licence!!! YAY! I ran round the house like a fool for a few minutes and was punching the air so hard my arms hurt. I was convinced there was going to be a delay or some problem with my ID after changing my name, but no, straight in there! Silly little green plastic thing with a red "L" on the front and my mug shot. So now the world awaits! haha!
I've already spoken to mum about it and I'm getting everything out of the loft (violin, antiques, anything worth money!) and selling the lot and that jet black RAV4 will be mine!! Mine with red "L" plates on for now, but never the less ~MINE! I know Sammi will sit in with me and maybe Clare will on the beach or something, and probably Anita too at a push. I should have another 5 women to ask in a month's time the way I'm going anyway! lol. I'll get Hugh or whatever his name is on the phone when I come back and then it's "gentlemen start your engines!" Hugh used to work in Cheddar so it will be interesting to hear what he thinks of the whole sordid romance debarcle too...
Abi informed me that you can get provisional insurance, so that's all I need to know. I can drive anyway - I spent long enough driving old formula one cars on that game, and I'm sure modern Toyotas have better gearboxes and clutches than a 1973 Lotus! I did have a couple of months driving a 1984 Nissan Sunny up and down the A-Roads in Leicester in 1991, so hopefully it's all in my head somewhere. It's just road sense I need and awareness, so I will need to pay attention and be very consciencious with it. I need to swat up on the Highway Code too - must buy it from Smiths when I am in Stoke. The RAC website does a mock up of the theory test so I will do that to death when I get back as well.
I think dad had 9 lessons and then did his test, so I have to beat or equal that - maybe I might even drive by January, who knows, Easter at the very latest. I'm not worried about any of it apart from reversing because of being a short-arse. I'll need a cushion that's for sure! Alain Prost was only 5ft 4 or so and Rene Arnoux was 5ft 1, so if they can do it so can I!!
It will of course mean I can live anywhere and work anywhere! There's nothing that can stop me - I don't care what shit life throws at me, I will wipe it off and keep running! Christmas 2007 will be spent in a Welsh cottage, with a roaring fire, with my car parked outside, me lying on a comfy settee and having a glass of mulled wine! That's a promise. And my job will have paid for it all. Who knows if I will have company or not, probably the dog of course and anyone else who cares to join me, but despite the fact I said I wasn't going to go on any more dates I seem to be irresistable to women at the moment - since I put my profile up on that dating site I've had 742 women click on me! It's mad! They probably think I've always had a six-pack and a positive attitude to life - well I'll always have it from now on, so it makes no odds! I even find myself turning women down! Like I have a choice! hahah! Jayne is coming over when I come back from Stoke and she seems keen to stay in with a DVD and a bottle of wine. She wants to see Shrek, Peter Kay or A Knights Tale (what is it with that film!?) and even more of a worry she wants to "crash" overnight! Hope she doesn't grab my goolies! I haven't used them in ages and I don't even know if they still work! At least with all this fitness training I should be able to keep going for hours! lol - kidding! eek! No, I will be a gentleman of course and make up the bed for her and sleep on the sofa. I will even if she gets other ideas - I'll say I'm a born again Christian or something to put her off! Doesn't hurt the ego for women to be after you though does it!?

Good night dear diary - I must admit you are a very theraputic friend!
I will see you when I return - the man in black in the car in black! HEHEHE!!!