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Wednesday - 2nd January 2002

This will be new. I am going to keep you live and up to date with how my train journey is going to Peterborough. Live from my GNER seat F54, if you really want to now.

5:30pm: We're off to good start. I got to Glasgow train station to find out that I have to get a bus to Edinburgh train station. I am sure that I booked a train ticket LOL.

7:20pm: The train leaves Edinburgh at 7:20pm, should have left at 7:00pm. Oh well at least that means I should not have to stand in the cold at Peterborough station, waiting for the very nice Mark to give me a lift home.

7:25pm: Now to go off-line and watch a DVD, I will let you know once I finished watching it, how the journey is going.

Note: Has you may have noticed I did not update it after this.

Tuesday - 8th January 2002

Well that's me been back at work now for just over 4 days. It's not been a bad 4 days. Got a hell of a lot done. Got a new and fully updated version of the Peatling website on-line. Please have a look and tell me what you think of it.

At home, Mark and myself have been doing a lot around the house, giving the spare room a big clean out and also putting more floor boards down.

Oh and today at long last we got a new washing machine!! So no more hand washing for me. Thank god. I don't think my hands could have taking much more of it.

Thursday - 10th January 2002
Tonight I was at the Peterborough Greyhound Stadium staff Christmas do. Don't worry I don't work there, I just know a number of people who do. It was not too bad of a night. Other then one of my friends takes her 4-year-old brother, nothing at all wrong with that. Other than I sort of enjoyed helping her look after her brother. I just started to think how much I would really like to have kids one day.
Monday - 14th January 2002
Tonight Mark, and myself went a walk to the local pub, with Jimmy and Pebbles. We asked Neil the landlord if it would be ok, if the dogs come in with us. Neil was great about it, and said yes. Lucky for both of us they were both very well behaved.
Sunday - 20th January 2002
Not really do much at all today. Other then watch a lot of TV and reply to some more of my backlog of email. Some of which I have had for over 2 years, and still not got back to them.

I also went to the local for some soft drinks (has I don't drink and have not done since the start of 2000) and food with Mark. Oh just to clear things up Mark is a friend, my landlord and also my boss when I am at work.

Tuesday - 22nd January 2002
Got up at about 6:15am. So that Mark and myself could be at work by 7:30am. At 1pm ish I made up my mind that I better walk the dogs, because no one else at work was going to do it. It had just not long ago stopped raining. I was hoping to get back before the rain started up again, but no such luck. It started to hail, so me and the dogs got very wet.
Friday - 25th January 2002
Today has been fucking great. OK well let's start at the beginning. I have been speaking to this guy called David now on ICQ and on the phone most nights since, Christmas time. Today was the day that, at long last I got to met him.

When I was waiting for him to get off the train in Peterborough. I was getting really scared. I was thinking I hope that he looks like his photo. I hope that we get on in real life, and not just over the phone and ICQ.

The train has right on the time. When he get on the train I could not believe how cute he was.

Lets just say that when we got back to my place things went really, really well.

Monday - 28th January 2002

David OrangeI had to get up at about 7:00am to see David off on the 8:00am train back to Liverpool. I did not want him to go home. I could easily say that it's been one of the best weekend's that I have had in a hell of a long time. I did not want it to come to an end.

I could not stop thinking about him all day long. I can't wait to see him again in two weekend's time when I am getting the train to Liverpool to see him.

Tuesday - 29th January 2002
I did not really get a lot of sleep last night, because I kept on waking up thinking where has David gone too.
Wednesday - 30th January 2002
It's not been too bad of a day. I feel like I got a hell of a lot done at work. All that has been bad about it, is that I am missing David like mad. I can't stop thinking about him.
Friday - 1st February 2002

I just did it again. I can't believe it. I was booking my train tickets on-line from thetrainline.com to go and see David in Liverpool. And I have sent them to my Scottish address, and not my English one. I am sure that I am not the only person who has done this. Well I hope that I am not.

I phoned up thetrainline.com and asked what I could do about it. They said not really a lot as it is fully automatic, and will be sent in the post later that day. All that I could do is to get my parents to send them back down to me. But if I do not get them by Thursday to phone them again, and they will fax them to the train station for me.

Friday - 8th February 2002

Today is David day. Why is it called that? I hear you ask, it's because I am going to Liverpool until Monday night to see David my boyfriend.

Today mostly went to plan other then I managed to miss not one but two trains to Liverpool. All because I got my train tickets saying that I had a "Young Persons Railcard." So I had to get that sorted out because I could get on the train. At least I have one now, I am going to save lots, and lots of money now going to see David and also when going to Glasgow to see my parents.

The train I ended up getting was at 7:00pm which means that I did not get to Liverpool till after 10:30pm. Not that I cared at all, because I get to see the LOVE of my life.

Saturday - 9th February 2002

Today was just fantastic, well of course it was going to be, because I am in Liverpool seeing David.

The only bad thing about today was that Gareth Gates did not win Pop Idol. But we all know that he should have won.

Monday - 11th February 2002

I went to my first ever lectures at Liverpool University with David. I have never been in a lecture hall in my life. The first two lectures were so boring I did not have a clue what they are speaking about. The last, and third one was a lot more fun. I still did not really know what the lecturer was speaking about. He just had a way of making it more interesting.

The only bad thing about today, was that I had to go back home to Little Bytham. After just having one of the best weekends in my life.

Well at least its not long until next weekend when David is coming over to see me again. I am already starting to count down the hours.

Friday - 22nd February 2002
I did something that I have never done before in my life. Today I got to meet my boyfriends parents. It was nowhere near has bad has I thought it was going to be. I had been worrying about in all week long. His mum even cooked dinner for me.

Then David, and me went to meet his friend called Darren. Then we all went out to a night club in Nottingham called NG1. I liked the place, it's a lot better then most gay night clubs that I have been 2. I think, a good night was had by all.

We all ended up leaving NG1 at about 1am ish mainly because I was to tired to stay out any longer. Trying to get Darren to leave was hard work. I think he had a bit much to drink.

Thursday - 28th February 2002
In todays news Sarah and Shaun have agreed to go on a date. All because of David the match maker.
Friday - 1st March 2002

Why did I not miss the 5:30pm train? If I had got the 5:45pm train I think that I would have ended up getting to Liverpool Lime Street sooner because the train was delayed by about 25 minutes. Oh well. At least I still get to see David. It would have been a lot worse if the train had been cancelled.

Has you may have guessed I am sitting on the train as I type this. I will feel sorry for the people who are sitting next to me, because I have my Gareth Gates MP3 collection playing. Well if they don't like it then they know what they can do, and that is move!!!

I can tell this is going to be a good weekend, well of course its going to be. Because I get to see David all weekend long. I have Monday off work.

I will let you all know how well my weekend goes when I next update my website.

Oh, and before I go, there is David look-a-like on this train, well cute!

Monday - 11th March 2002
It has been a bit of a long day. I have been up since about 5:30am. I had to get up so early so that I could get the 6:22am train from Nottingham to Peterborough, to get to work on time.

I was in Nottingham seeing David. It was not the best weekend because David and me had a number of big fall outs. Lucky we got them all sorted out. More then ever we both now, much we LOVE each other.

At work I went on a Dreamweaver 4, Level 2 course. So that I long last I will have a better idea how to use it. I have been using it for a while now. It has good to long has to use better at more long. I really enjoyed the course. I can't wait till I do the Level 3 one.

Once I got back from work, Mark and myself went a walk to the local to get food. Then I phone David, then it was off to bed.

Tuesday - 12th March 2002
Today I found out why my Killearn, Gay Glasgow and bits of this website are not working. That's because the people who host them, 4dmedia make my their mind that I have breaking their "Fair Play Policy". So deleted everything that I have hosted on this with out telling me. I first noticed on Sunday. They did not send me an email or anything.

I have been working hard at it since 5:00pm ish to get everything back on-line. It's now after 9:30pm and I am still hard at it. I am sure that it will take me the next days of days to get everything fully working again.

Other then that it's not been too bad of a day.

Wednesday - 13th March 2002

Today I booked tickets on-line, so that David, and me can go to the Pop Idol concert, at the NEC Arena in Birmingham. I have ever been to a concert in my life. I am really looking forward to it. It will be great getting to see the very cute Gareth Gates in real life.

Other then that it's just been a normal day.

Saturday - 16th March 2002
Tonight David and me went out for a romantic candle lit meal for two to a restaurant called Ask in Peterborough. It was a great night, I have never done it before in my life. The food was great, the staff were great, and best of all the company was fantastic. Well it was going to be, I did go out with David after all.
Thursday - 21st March 2002
I can't believe what Yahoo have done now, from the 24th April people will not longer be able to download email using pop3. If you want to keep on doing it you, will have to pay them $29.99 a year. There is no way I am going to pay them that. I am just going to have to get a new email address sorted out that lets me use pop3. It's really pissed me off because most of my emails go to Yahoo, now I am going to have to change them all to a new email address.

Other then that it's been an OK day. I can't wait till tomorrow because I am going Nottingham to see my David.

Friday - 22nd March 2002
Today at work I had to set-up six new computers, for a Flash course, that my work is running on Monday. By someone famous, he runs a website that gets a lot of people looking at it everyday. I have wanted to learn Flash for a while, it will be cool because I will also be doing the course 2. If you start to see Flash on this website, then you know why.

After work I got the 7:00pm train to Nottingham to see David. After managing to miss the 5:30pm train. I got there in the end, that's the main thing. We went to NG1, it was a good night. I had two drinks, and I even danced a bit which is not like me at all.

Saturday - 23rd March 2002
Today David and me had to get up early so that he could get to work at 9: 20am. I stayed at this parent's house all day. I did get not too bored because I got to play about on the net all day. God cable Internet access is so fast.

At lunchtime, I walked down to where he works. So that we could walk back to this parents together. His mum had cooked us both lunch. Which was very, very nice of her. She does cook great food.

Tuesday - 26th March 2002

Well, here it is the day I have been worrying about for quite a while, David is finally going to meet my parents...

David and me decided it was time for us to progress in this relationship, so David drove to where I live and when he got there I was still in bed. What I was tired!

Well, later on David and me walked down towards the pub in the village where my Mum and Dad were staying, I had been trying to hint at my parents, but I dont think they got them.

Anyway as we walked towards the pub i saw my Mum and Dad loading the car for the day out to Lincoln, David looked petrified and I was feeling a bit apprehensive but my Mum just put out her hand and said "Nice to meet you" we got in the car and off we went to Lincoln.

David hardly said a word all the way there, it was the quietest he had ever been....it was so nice ;)

When we got to Lincoln we went round the walls of the castle, and David and me even got in for Under 16's.

We had a great day, and I think my Mum and Dad liked David, David did seem to ease up slowly through the day.

I would like to thank David for helping me to write this.

 
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