﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>D_Bat's Xanga</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/</link><description>Latest Xanga weblog from D_Bat</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>The Weblog Community</title><url>http://s.xanga.com/images/xangalogobutton.gif</url><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/</link></image><item><title>Tuesday, January 24, 2006</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/431487132/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/431487132/item/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:13:53 GMT</pubDate><description>Dunno how many of you know; I know *one* of you does.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Kate (Pixel) and I have split up; mutual interest. We thought it was for the best.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Just sos that you all know and shiz. Happy New Year, d00ds.&lt;br&gt;
</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/431487132/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Sunday, October 16, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/368377950/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/368377950/item/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:01:03 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;Well, I'd like to say a lot has happened since last time. It has.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I've been to America and shit. 'Tis an awesome country.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We got into LA at I think about midday their time having had no sleep, which was fun. The flight lasted 11hrs but, because of time difference, it actually ended up lasting only 4hrs. So we left the UK at 8am and got to LA at 12 Pacific time. That was fun. First day was wasted and I'm glad it was, too knackered to do anything that day. Second day was more interesting; we went into Beverly Hills and did a tour ^_^ The tour guide was called Brian and I got to sit in the front and talk to him about how Frank Sinatra's favourite sweeties were 'Tootsie Rolls'. It was ace ^_^&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The day after brought Disneyland which, as you'd expect, was packed. However, we got there pretty early, so at least we got some fast turns on stuff. The 'Star Tours' Star Wars ride is ace ^_^ Space Mountain was a disappointment though, which sucked. We went all around the park and went on lots of cool rides and stuff...plus the Winnie the Pooh one...and it was generally good fun. Favourites included Indiana Jones, and the Tower of Terror. The Tower of Terror is so weird...you get pushed so far up and then you can feel whatever's holding you up on that floor just disappear... You just drop and it's really really weird, but excellent fun. We also saw the Aladdin stage show, which was awesome ^_^ Aladdin is one of my favourite Disney films ever and the stage show lived up to expectations.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;From there we went to Palm Desert, where we lazed around in the resort for a couple of days. That was exceptionally fun. Going on to San Diego, we found it to be a rather nice city with amusing tramps on every corner :P Incidentally it was full of hotels whic,h you got the feeling, looked far too much like the Tower of Terror from the outside (which is actually a huge hotel-sized building inside Disneyland btw, it's quite worrying o.o) and you got the feeling you just wouldn't want to stay in them if they had an elevator...However, we went to the zoo, which was awesome. We saw loads of aminals, even wee ducks ^_^ They were so cuuuute! The pandas were lazy though, but I got a nice postcard of one to send to Katie - yup, that was me :P&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;We drove back to LA before we were due to fly out to Raleigh, and we went to teh Cheesecake factory, which is officially teh best restauraunt evAr. EVAR. It is genuinely awesome food, not just great dessert. I loved it. And you know why? It was my birthday eeeeee ^_^ I got a Rangers shirt, lots of dollars, a towel and some other stuff. Great fun.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Next day was less so. Full day of travelling, it was so very boring. However, I got to ring Katie, so all was well in the world :P Finally got to Raleigh and flopped to sleep. I don't remember much specific after that until we left for Myrtle Beach. All I remember is that, as we were leaving to go to Myrtle Beach, I thought bad stuff was happening with Katie...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;On the way to Myrtle Beach, we watched DVDs *nods* I saw Meet The Fockers for the first time, which is awesome funny. Then watched The Pacifier, which isn't nearly as bad as it looks. Finally saw National Treasure which was truly cool and a great film. Nicholas Cage rocks in it (and in general) and the tech geek looks like Matty SSMMDD o.o The house was nice as usual, and Myrtle Beach...I hate to say it but it was kind of boring. We'd done everything already =/ Despite this, we found new stuff to do which wasn't quite as good. We played lots of miniature golf which was fun for filling time; we went go karting indoor which was only really good at the end when I got good at it :P and we didn't go to the beach because it was always raaaaaaaainy. Finally we got to a Best Buy on our last day in Myrtle Beach. It is a fucking great shop. Go to &lt;A href="http://www.bestbuy.com/" target="_new"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000050&gt;http://www.bestbuy.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; to see what i mean. Seriously. It has CDs, DVDs, games, electrical awesome shit and loads more. I got Interpol - Antics, Coldplay Live 2003 and a present for Kate, which she knows is APC - Thirteenth Step. Finally I bought Mario vs. Donkey Kong. I'm going to post about that game some time in the future, because it is honestly a fucking great game and I'm still only half way through it. I love it.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Back to Raleigh we went. I never thought Neil, whose family we stay with over there, liked me; but in the second visit to Raleigh I realised he did, which was funky. I saw Hitch and talked to Kate for one last time before going home.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Going home? The plane journey was nothing, literally nothing. I fell asleep throughout it, took a blanket and pillow from the plane and upon being chastised by my parents for doing so, dumped them in a bin in a toilet in Heathrow. We took a taxi to Kings Cross in which I fell asleep; took a train from Kings X to London in which I fell asleep and then got home to a power cut. Fucking great.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;So that happened. Then I went to see Katie again.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I woked up before 7 on Saturday; half past 6 to be precise. It hurt ^_^ Got on the bus, got on the train, yadda yadda yadda. iPod broke before I'd even got onto the bastard train, I got to listen to something then Travis then one second of Interpol. It was rather ghey. So I was content to sleep on the train, only to encounter England fans on the way to the match in Cardiff. Stupid Bristol Parkway. I did not sleep and eventually gave up, buying cola and *gasp* COFFEE. The coffee was probably very nice to those who are used to it, but I wasn't really much of a fan. I put milk and, like, four sugars in just to tolerate it and keep awake. I spoke to a bloke who was off to Paignton until I got to Taunton. Got off the train, went down the steps and was exceptionally happy to see Katie walking towards my platform. :) We hugged and kissed and stuff then walked down into Taunton. We went round the duck area until I saw a grassy place that looked like it would be fun to sit on for a while. I am informed it is Goodlands. We sat and talked for a long while and asked Cir via text when would she turn up, god damn it!! She did eventually, though not before we'd been into the guitar shop (again) and sat in the waiting room thingy in the train station for twenty minutes...ten of which she'd been waiting outside the station for &amp;gt;_&amp;lt; 'Twas on to LaserQuest from there. I sucked at it ^_^ Couldn't play for shit. At least I managed to not get hit for about 30secs though...there's my victory. I also didn't get a minus score, which I consider a success. Go teh me. ^_^ Kate won as is apparently per usual, but she did work there previously, so methinks it was inevitable. It also wasn't as good as Sheffield by far. o.o We then took teh bus to Williton and checked in at The Huntsman. Let me just say that I have only once before been more scared, upon viewing a room, than I was then; and that was in France, where everything sucks. The room was teeny and made up of 80% bed, which is always fun. Despite this, we got comfortable somehow and Kate was amused greatly by the fact we had a cupboard which was teeny weeny. We then&amp;nbsp;left for Cir's. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;At Cir's...well...I did nothing. Really really nothing. I sat and watched mostly Cir, sometimes Kate, play StepMania. I also tickled Doodie's tummy. Doodie's cute. Apart from that though...genuinely nothing. When Kate and I finally left to go get pizza, she excused this at first by saying 'Yeah, but I haven't seen Cir for ages'. Fortunately, at that exact moment, she realised what she had said. All was forgiven when we got pizza. It was huge :D Uber 16" diameter funnage! We ate it on a wall opposite the shop, even though there were perfectly good tables in the actual pizza shop. Go us ^_^ It was then off to Cir's house for a wee while and on to the pub! I played pool against Phil. It was funnerific ^_^ I actually did well and nearly beat him a couple times, which is good considering a) he plays all the time and b) I suck at pool. I guess it's kind of random as to how good I am. Meanwhile, Katie in truth was getting giddy despite having had the sum total of 1½ vodka and Cokes. There was a reason I didn't drink; all I had was water and one J&lt;FONT size=1&gt;2&lt;/FONT&gt;0. (Apple and Raspberry rules forev4r!!!) But yes, we were amused by the jukebox, amused by pool and eventually went out to teh beer garten. It was really lovely...sitting there with Kate (and Cir admittedly, and eventually Phil) was just really nice...until Phil sat down on the ground, legs wide open. I said "Damnit shut your legs unless you're dilating!" Of course, his response was...&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;"I'm dilating!!" XD&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Phil was awesome actually, I was kind of worried about meeting him because Katie liked him so much. Usually people that Katie likes loads, I either like too or am repulsed by. =/ But Phil was the former, he was indeed funnerific. We finished drinks and went back to collect the MegaDrive from Cir's house. It occupied our time at the hotel, even if we had to tune it in :P It's notable that I suck at BomberMan, and am not so good at Sonic 2. I should've been better, only at first Kate insisted I let her win. I refused, so she started to get good instead. Damn her skills.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I slept OK. I am however informed that I steal covers. I have given Katie instructions to slap me in the face to waken me up in future, then to tell me that I'm nicking&amp;nbsp;the duvet&amp;nbsp;again.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I'm a bad person. ^_^&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We woke up late and checked out (not leaving our phones behind &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;) then went over to Cir's only to receive a text on the way informing us she was still to get ready and stuffs. We waited outside her house for a bit, all the while hearing the barkings and scratchings of Sammy the&amp;nbsp;neighbour dog&amp;nbsp;on his door. Cir saw us through the window and came out to bring us in. We played N64 to our hearts' content and muchos funnage was had. I played GoldenEye for more than 20mins \o/ and we also played Mario Kart and Pokemon Stadium, which r0x0r3d. Nearly beat Cir too. Lucky caah :P&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Eventually I had to go back to Taunton for the train. I was supposed to go change at Bristol, but I'll be honest; I didn't want to. So Katie and I stayed in the station for 45mins and waited for the direct train to Doncaster to come destroy my life. It did come and I was upset, but I was greatly cheered up by two people: Leah, aged 2; and Luke, aged 6. Leah and her mother were already on the train when I got on, and her favourite word was 'Hello', which she said many a time. Then Luke got on the train with his mum. At first I hated this little boy&amp;nbsp;- he had no idea how to deal with a two year old. He kept hitting her (not maliciously, but he just did) and called her nasty things, including a 'waste of space and time'. Poor Leah. I don't think Luke was very tactful, or understanding. However, he was a bit of a character really. Apparently, not only is he at primary school, but he is also a train operator. At nights he teaches at universities and colleges, and he is going to grow up to do three jobs; Train Inspector, Ticket Officer and Train Driver; though not all at the same time. He is also going to train his own children from the age of three. That's after he gets married of course. He was great fun to talk to&amp;nbsp;in the end&amp;nbsp;^_^&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;And so ended the&amp;nbsp;wonderful weekend. 'Twas fun and needed. I missed Katie a lot; more than I'd realised until I finally saw her again. Damn you America.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;That was roughly a month and two weeks ago. Not too much has happened since then except me getting a job at a supermarkt. It's not bad, but I'll like it more once I get paid.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;DB@ out, just like all the cool kidz say.&lt;/P&gt;</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/368377950/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Sunday, June 26, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/292020273/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/292020273/item/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;So my dear sweet Katie has left once more, banished to the train to
Taunton with no Ribena for sustainance! Fortunately, completing Super
Mario World meant I could let her have that for teh ride, so she should
be OK for a while.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I think this might actually be my favourite visit ever. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1" target="_new"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So she got in at 2pm-ish on the Friday, despite me having been
waiting at one platform for about half an hour previous, i fortunately
found out her train came in at another one. I'll be brutally honest -
this time, I was a little worried about seeing her, because I wasn't
sure how things were going between us. At this point, I'd like to
confirm that we have never been stronger ^_^ I love every single little
thing about her; from her hair down to her feet - I don't care if she
says they're ugly &lt;IMG height=15 src="http://www.xanga.com/Images/smiley4.gif" width=15&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But alas, I'm getting sidetracked. 2pm and I saw her come off the
train. We kissed, and hugged, and kissed, then walked to the bus
station. In all this time I don't think I stopped smiling. I nearly
forgot to get us off the bus, but get off we did, and we got home to
unpack Katie's things. We then proceeded to piss about on MSN and watch
a wee bit of Radiohead's DVD (again), as well as the Cillit Bang Remix!
OMG&amp;nbsp;tis funneh ^_^&amp;nbsp;before dinner. Dad agreed to take us to the cinema
at 9 to see Sin City, so there was that to look forward to. We watched
Scrubs and decided when we were going to go to Leeds before leaving for
the cinema. Much as I would love to do a huge talk about how
fezzexcellent Sin City was, I actually enjoyed having popcorn fed to me
too much to not mention it ^_^ However, Sin City was indeed excellent,
and so concluded an enjoyable day for teh me - though probably less so
for poor Katie who'd been on the train. At least she was here now.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Saturday! Woke up about 7 to find Katie already awake from half six.
I actually have no recollection of what we did on Saturday morning, so
can't help you there o.0 I do however remember having to go to band for
2 1/2 HOURS &amp;gt;_&amp;lt; Thanks must go to Katie for going with me even
though she was clearly bored out of her mind &lt;IMG height=15 src="http://www.xanga.com/Images/smiley3.gif" width=15&gt; I appreciated it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From there 'twas off to Leeeeeeeds! To see Matty! And Deets! Matty
came right after we got out of Leeds train station and was exactly as I
expected him to be :P however, Deets was deepvoiced and decisively less
loud than either me or Matty. He brought along his friend Vicky, who
was a very pleasant girl and seemed cheerful and friendly. I must admit
I did not talk to either of them nearly enough, and would be very
interested to get to know both at a different time...Only problem is,
any time I go to Leeds I will probably want to see the Matty o.o; Ahh
well! In Leeds we played DDR, OutRun 2 and Time Crisis 3. 'Twas ace,
even if Matty beat everyone at everything : P the git! We missed our
actual train home, but we said bye bye to Deets, Vicky and eventually
Matty, then&amp;nbsp;got one later on and huggled all the way home. It was just
so lovely. &lt;IMG height=15 src="http://www.xanga.com/Images/smiley1.gif" width=15&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Finally got a bus home only for the parents to be back. Ah well, we
watched teevee for a bit and listened to Matty on WP Radio, then
watched Coldplay on Glaaaaaaastonbury too. They were great. Katie was
tired, and she fell asleep on my floor. I gave her my blanket and went
cold for a while, before opting to join her under it. It was much
warmer there. Eventually though, I couldn't sleep there either. The
rest I will leave out, but anyone who knows me well can ask me about it
on MSN.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This morning was sleepless and a teensy bit awkward...Katie felt
ill-ish and I wasn't too good either. Despite this, we seemed to have
fun just dossing about on the computer and such. (Schwifty-five!) Then
at 1 it was off to meet the friendels. We showed up at bowling, only
for Jenni to come straight away. Kate went quiet and shy as I expected,
but Jenni was also awkwardly quiet. For once, I felt like begging for
the noise of&amp;nbsp;Simon and Shelly. And it came, thankfully. They were
pleasant and such, and I had booked a bowling lane for 1. However, due
to stupidity on my part, Kate didn't actually want to bowl, and I
apparently ignored her telling me this =/ This was a wee bit of a
problem, as it meant me pressing her and such until she started to want
me to go away : &amp;lt; This saddened me. We bowled and left...there
wasn't much of an event really. It was only on the way to McDonalds'
that, after a previous failed attempt to clasp hands, she grabbed my
hand, kissed me and apologised. It was one of the nicest things I'd
heard all day. We kissed lots after that and had a decent conversation
with my friends in McDonalds'. I was just glad that it was out of the
way, but we did have a good time. We went home to find barbecue food!
^_^ 'Twas lovely. Afterwards, we just kind of sat about in my room on
the computer and fiddling with the TV and stuff. I would at this point
like to point out that kissing Katie is the greatest joy I have ever
known and I never want it to stop :"&amp;gt; / :$ (delete as appropriate,
former is YIM, latter is MSN)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Eventually, the station beckoned. Daddy took us there and I took
Kate onto the platform. The train was, of course, right on time, but it
didn't really matter. I kissed her goodbye and let her get on the
train. Looking at the clock, it said there were two minutes left. I ran
onto the train and kissed her one last time (I always like my 'one last
time' kisses for some reason) then got off again. Moments later the
train moved off and, having stuck my tongue out, waved and told her I
loved her through the glass, I left the platform to get back into
Daddy's car. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thus ended another amazing weekend with Graeme and Katie...except
not. She left me three messages once I got home. One on her LJ, which
made me blush lotses; one texted to my phone, which made me blush even
more, and finally the sweetest, cutest phone reminder you ever did see.
At 7pm it went off and I was initially surprised, but it was just the
cutest thing...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I don't know now whether I'm upset or not. All I do know is that we had an amazing time. &lt;IMG height=15 src="http://www.xanga.com/Images/smiley1.gif" width=15&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Graeme. I know that's my name, because my pretty Katie calls me it. ^_^&lt;/p&gt;
</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/292020273/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Monday, May 09, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/258955084/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/258955084/item/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 06:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description>Yes, it is Monday, and I'm home of course.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
So last Friday I went to Taunton to surprise Kate for her birthday. It
worked! I was stood just inside the bowling when Kate and her mum
pulled up outside, and when Kate's mum phoned me up I walked straight
out and up to her car. Katie's first words to me?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
"I hate you! Hello" *kiss*&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
She actually ran back to the car to make sure her mum knew that she
hated her, too! But methinks it was all just because of the surprise.
She calmed down later, and we had a great night - bowling was fine, I
think I won - then we went to Pizza Hut for dinner. I'm pretty sure we
were supposed to tell them that the Osborne party were there...but we
didn't, and got free garlic bread with cheese. Woo for that. As we
waited for Kate's dad, some chav girl behind me thought it funny to
shout, and I quote; "Get a room! Get a room! Oi, didn't you hear me? I
said get a fucking room!" Something stopped me from turning round and
shouting "And I said FUCK OFF!". Not quite sure what it was that
stopped me from doing that...&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Ah well. Saturday, went over to her
house in the morning and the plan was to go to Weston. However, we went
to the train station and there was no Ciara. Thus, it was probably for
the best. So we went into Taunton - went into Martian Records and I got
Definitely Maybe, then we went into Virgin and Kate got 100 Broken
Windows (Idlewild) and Maximo Park. This wasn't our last visit to
Virgin that day...&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; We went back to Kate's house, played
with Conor and Aidan for a bit, went on the trampoline for a bit (Yay
for doing flips!) and eventually had to take said wee brothers out to
swimming. Kate took Aidan in to get changed whilst I stayed outside and
entertained Conor for a bit. Kind of made me wish I'd had a wee
brother...but then again, if I did, it would've meant a lot of
babysitting as Kate has to do &amp;gt;_&amp;lt; So I guess I can't really
comment. After swimming, Conor and Aidan went back to the house with
their mum, whilst Kate and I went into town. We went to Virgin, and I
got Garden State on DVD, as well as a Libertines T-Shirt which turned
out to be too small...and I am sending it back.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Later on, after an incident which I
won't disclose, we went out to get something to eat, and eventually we
sat down to watch said Garden State. I really enjoyed it - Zach Braff
has clearly done a good job, as he was not only a good actor in it but
the whole thing seemed well-written, and the direction was well
thought-out. All in all rather good.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; And so to Sunday. Decided to get a
later train, and subsequently spent the day trying to fix up a tent for
the trampoline. This proved to be pointless as, after hours of
struggling, we eventually gave up. We went to Morrison's for her mum
and dad, then returned back to her house to watch a DVD and cuddle a
bit. Conor kept interrupting, but he's only young and I couldn't blame
him. We then left to go stand on the green for a bit before my train,
only for me to forget my sandwich. We had to go straight back and then
straight to the station, which kind of messed up our plans...'twas my
fault entirely &lt;img src="http://www.xanga.com/Images/sad.gif"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Katie started to cry as we went to the
station the second time. She wasn't the only one, but it hurt to see
her so upset over it. I couldn't bear it either. As we got to the
platform, the train wasn't to leave for another ten minutes, so we
stood on the platform and kissed for about seven minutes. I put my
stuff on the train, and said goodbye...then about one minute before the
train was to leave, I ran off the train and kissed her one last time,
told her I loved her, and that I had to go.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Thus concluded my weekend in Taunton. I
miss her terribly, but that's to be expected. I love her so much.&lt;br&gt;
</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/258955084/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Tuesday, April 19, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/245594328/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/245594328/item/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:21:59 GMT</pubDate><description>KING MULZAR says:&lt;br&gt;
What is SEX?&lt;br&gt;
GAME says:&lt;br&gt;
&amp;gt; Sorry! I do not have the neccessary knowledge for that QUESTION!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Best convo ever.&lt;br&gt;
</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/245594328/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Friday, April 08, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/238347274/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/238347274/item/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:54:39 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;br&gt;This entry is devoted to the person in this picture:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://img229.exs.cx/img229/214/picture7194sr.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;She is the most beautifulest person in the world and I love her lots.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*me kisses Kate*
</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/238347274/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Sunday, April 03, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/235133347/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/235133347/item/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:09:48 GMT</pubDate><description>I have nothing good to say, for I am boring yet content.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
All I say is this:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Boogie ^_^&lt;br&gt;
</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/235133347/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Saturday, March 26, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/229469618/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/229469618/item/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:54:55 GMT</pubDate><description>I'm off to Italy later.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
See yer.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
DB@&lt;br&gt;
</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/229469618/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Saturday, March 12, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/220672176/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/220672176/item/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:34:22 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;P&gt;Been thinking about something a few minutes ago. It struck me as to why Kate's last visit was so different to me going down there.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;See, when I went to Taunton she and I still didn't know each other in the flesh all that much, and as such we had a great time, but it was still somewhat fresh and new. Case in point: the first time, we held hands from the station platform all the way until we got to the Lock, but didn't kiss for quite some time. This time however, we kissed virtually as soon as she was off the train.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Another thing is that our (and flibs, i beg you, do not taunt me for this) 'physical' displays of love last time were something very new to both of us -&amp;nbsp;and whilst it was really lovely it was also very nerve-wracking. This time, we seemed to feel a lot more comfortable and I definitely felt a lot closer to her two weeks ago than I did back in Dec/Jan.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Most of all though; Kate and I seemed to be enjoying being together a lot more this time...she smiled a lot more, we kissed a lot more, we had a lot more really amazing moments...I might be wrong, it might just be because she didn't know anyone in Doncaster and knew she wouldn't embarrass herself, but it seemed to me as if she was having a lot more fun with me this time.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In conclusion...&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Our relationship goes from strength to strength. &lt;IMG height=15 src="http://www.xanga.com/Images/happy.gif" width=15&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;DB@&lt;/P&gt;</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/220672176/item/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Tuesday, March 01, 2005</title><link>http://d-bat.xanga.com/213888508/item/</link><guid>http://d-bat.xanga.com/213888508/item/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:25:19 GMT</pubDate><description>I consider myself to be far too open about certain things, so
therefore, my entry about the visit by Kate will probably be a bit more
detailed than hers...(which i forced her to do v.v)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
So as you may have guessed, my lovely girlyfriend came to stay over the
weekend. She came on Friday and left Sunday; so thus I am slightly
miserable, because i miss her v.v&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Friday afternoon, then. Got into town far too early so I went and
bought some Ribena because I know she likes it. Received a call about
3:20ish from the girl herself saying she was just getting on the
Sheffield-&amp;gt;Doncaster train. So I went eagerly to the station and
waited around, to the point where i actually watched the clock count in
her train. Then all of a sudden the Scunthorpe train was at the
platform and i looked in the window to see Kate just making her way off
the train. We kissed and walked off holding hands to the bus station
(where I met one of my mum's friends &amp;gt;_&amp;lt;) and then to the big
test...meeting the parents, neither who turned out to be home but came
in at the same time unfortunately. Still, it all went well and we went
off to meet Alex and Nicola in Dad's car.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
We met said Al and Nicola in McDonald's. Kate was uber-quiet to the
point where i worried if i should've brought her at all, but she gained
in confidence more over the night which was reassuring. Perhaps in
retrospect we were a bit unfair to Alex and Nicola as we maybe didn't
talk to them nearly as much as we should have, but meh; they seemed to
enjoy the gig anyway. Anechoic were tolerable; they weren't the best
group ever but they were listenable, and it was cool to stand behind
Kate, with my arms around her, listening to and watching the music
being played. They finished up and the push for Embrace began. People
shoving everywhere, it was rather amusing; especially since the usual
Donny tarts in less clothes than they need showed up as usual
*rolleyes* However, Embrace were, to put it bluntly, fucking amazing
and they were an ace live group as I suspected they would be. Ashes,
All You Good Good People, Come Back to What You Know and My Weakness Is
None Of Your Business were all ace, but Looking As You Are I believe
stole the show. Just about nicked it from Ashes mind you, but it did. I
don't think I let go of Kate for the whole concert, which in retrospect
may have been unfair to Nic and Al, but they both knew we hadn't seen
each other for nearly two months, so I think they understood. All in
all I really really enjoyed it; I think we all did. Outside I was
giddy, admittedly; James(let) was the unfortunate recipient of it, as
was Kate. Alex went home and Kate and I walked to my Dad's car. She
called her mummy whilst I received some rather unpleasant news; I was
to go to my concert band tomorrow. This was bad, as we had planned to
meet up with friends and such as well as teh James. So we called him
and told him plans had to change.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Saturday morning, didn't know if Kate was up or not 'til I heard her
moving about in her room. I went in to see she'd been up for a while,
but too scared to come out, which was rather cute. Mum and Dad both
went out, whilst Gillian stayed in her bed. Kate and I kept ourselves
to ourselves really, messing about on the computer and such. She
decided to come to my band with me, after I phoned my friends and told
them we probably wouldn't make it. James was due to come later instead,
so I got through band and we went to the train station to pick him up.
We then bussed it to the bowling alley where we had been due to meet my
friends two hours ago, and found...nobody. We stuck around for an hour
or so; Kate played PIU, James and I played air hockey (which he beat me
at...twice &amp;gt;_&amp;lt;) and pool (which i beat him at, as he potted the
black too early...though i had potted more balls at the time anyway).
Having not seen any reason as to why my friends would exist, we walked
up to the Dome, site of the concert. DDR had long gone much to our
dismay, but James and I played Point Blank (Which I WON, I swear) and I
played Time Crisis. Kate beat James at Sega Rally...TWICE, so James is
unmanly :P We went across to Frankie and Benny's next to eat pizza.
Dave was there...though oddly he was ill off school from last Wednesday
and was off today :S It came to time for James to go back to the
station, and we had to go and get a bus so that we could get home in
time. Unfortunately we had missed the next bus, so we had to phone my
dad so that we got home before they went out. We got home, had
spaghetti bolognese and settled down to watch some DVDs in my room. It
was...interesting to say the least, but I shall say no more. Kate and I
alone will know how the night went :) We watched the Travis 'Singles'
DVD, and Little Britain too. 'Twas excellent.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Sunday morning. This time I went into Kate's room virtually as soon as
I was up, though she had been hiding again...I made her some coffee,
and we left my mum to eat her breakfast. We went on the computer for a
while; I made her CD for her (which turned out not to work &amp;gt;_&amp;lt;)
and then we went downstairs for lunch. Beef is nice. Then, my dad
pointed out we had to go. So he took us to the train station only for
Kate to reveal her train wasn't for another hour &amp;gt;_&amp;lt; It was all
good, though; we went into Music Zone and she got the Idlewild single,
the only Kurt Cobain biography she didn't have, and eventually an A
Perfect Circle DVD. I myself bought the first two Snow Patrol albums,
which I shall now make a point of listening to. The time had come to
return to the station, and we did so. I stood holding Kate in my arms
on the platform feeling rather lucky that this wasn't what it could
have been; the final goodbye. We got on the train to Derby and stayed
engrossed in each other for the whole journey. The train ride was
another insight for me into how strongly I feel about Kate and how much
love I really have for her.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
And now to Derby. We got in and Mike was having problems with his car,
so wouldn't be able to pick her up for a while. So we went into a cafe,
I bought her some coffee and she bought a sandwich, whilst I bought a
sandwich also and some Lilt. I stupidly then sat down, did something
wrong and proceeded to spill coffee - all over Kate &amp;gt;_&amp;lt; She was
dripping with the stuff and I could do nothing but mop it up. This
proves my stupidity. Fortunately she is very patient and lovely, and
was OK about it all. Thank goodness.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I decided to get the 16:42 to Sheffield and then one from Sheffield to
Doncaster, as it was the only way home I could see. So we waited around
in Derby and kissed a lot, then finally the maroon Ford arrived
carrying Mike (Kate's uncle) and his girlfriend. I took her bag over to
the car, kissed her goodbye and ran onto the Sheffield train feeling
more than a little miserable (no change THERE then). Got to Sheffield
and proceeded to run onto the 17:24 to Doncaster...which turned out to
be the train that stopped everywhere -_- Those trains do not hold fond
memories for me, but I got to Doncaster, rang Dad and he picked me up.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
So there it went...yet another amazing weekend with the most lovely girl in my life.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I love her so much.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Graeme&lt;/i&gt;;</description><comments>http://d-bat.xanga.com/213888508/item/#firstcomment</comments></item></channel></rss>