Mince pie

Been quite a while since I last wrote something on here. Life has been trundling on at it's usual pace.
Got a new car, apparently it's a racing car. It's a 2.2 civic EX. And yes it is very fast.

Well I've signed off, my last working day for the army is in feb.
I said I'd only do 4 years but at the 4 year point I decided to do some more. Wish I hadn't. This place really is a shit hole.
The army is at a whole new low with the RLC.
Offering voluntary redundancies and now apparently a promotion ban is on for 2 years (not sure how reliable my source is though.
There wanting to shed 5000 people over 5 years. I guess in 6 years time there will be a massive recruitment drive on to fill in all the gaps they've created.

At this point in time I know I've made the right decision, just wish I'd made it a bit earlier.
Still I've made a fuck load of monies and made some great friends along the way. Oh yeah and there's something about life experience in there too.

So what am I going to do next? Who knows. Not made any real decision at the moment. Not sure if I still want to be a chef.
Although I do enjoy cooking and still get that buzz when service is in full swing.
Loads of people have said I could do so much more though.
Maybe a nice office job working 9 till 5 somewhere is required. Preferably by the beach, with a company car. Too much to ask? Maybe.

Dan x
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Location:Arsehole of the universe.

I like butter.

Well times are bad. After Falklands my view on cheffing in the army has taken even more of a downward fall.
Fed up of all the childeren that seem to have been taken on. Looking for a new turn on my career soon.


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Location:Colchester,United Kingdom

Well its been a month since ive been back so its time to write a follow up to the follow up i guess.

The first follow up was pretty much spot on, being a chef is not best thing in the world.
Took me about a week to get over the jetlag, although my mum still belives i've got it because i loose track of thought very easily....... ooooo look a bird...
What? where was i?
Oh right yeah. Well if you havent heard already, im single again. 2 weeks left of the tour and we split up. I'm not going into it on here. But i guess it'll be good advice to anyone in the future who's thinking of going out there. Dont go if you want to stay together, do go if you don't.
I'm on leave now in sunny sheffield.

Well, thought i'd write something to conclude the conclusion.

Dan

Far East Movement - Like a G6

End-Ex on The Falklands

Well i suppose i best conclude the Falklands experience and put it to rest. At the moment im just above Dekar, traveling at 580 mph around 35000 feet and its -45 degrees out side.
If i think of the tour as a daily thing, even weekly i would say that it was shit, a joke and would never come again. But if i think of it as a whole i would have to say i really enjoyed it, all though i wouldnt want to come back i could handle it again. Ive met some awesome people, made some great friends down the line. Yeah i know the RAF are all pink and fluffy and the army are green meat heads but some of us do actually get on really well.
This tour has also made me make a definate decicion to transfer which im gonna start soon as i can. Got about 2 months leave to take too hahaha. Shame matts joining up so soon, not seen him in 6 months. STill i get a couple of hours with him in the car before he gets dropped off.
Well been in the air 13 hours up to now, got the muchies but air food dont really do much for me, I have however got some fat water, which is totally calerifick.

Looking forward to freedom, family, polution, decent bacon, driving, double bed, nice grass, no goose shit, car, new clothes!, better tv, Radio 1, Civilisation, Real fucking milk, Broardband, big tv, nice carpet, shopping, getting off this plane, new films, some bass, propper roast, Thunder, not been woke up by the planes, no more block jobs, Fresh chips and a rissole. OMFG Helmands mayo!
Well thats just a short list for now. Cant wait.

So, falklands. If i had too again i would, but not as a chef.
Met some great peoples.
Realised flying for 18 hours isnt funny.

Knock knock
whose there?
daniel
daniel who?
daniel headford.....
sophies joke not mine.

All the best to the people that are still stuck out there, soon be over.

Mood - Happy for it to be over, but sad to be leaving some people behind.

One(your name) - Sweedish house Mafia

9.3

My Birthenday

Well im 25, quarter of a century. Jeeze. What have I achived? Seen a fair part of the world, got my own car, enough money to keep me happy for a while and i survived the reccesion spending happily like it didnt even happen. In a way im glad i joined up when i did, good money for what i do and a few perks. But there is a bad side, Keeps you away from your family and loved ones alot, puts alot of strain on relationships and this posting is by far the hardest yet for that.

Well last few weeks has sailed by with out much really happening. Last week i did guard, a whole week of watching films and drinking brews (a whole week out of the kitchen though) Had a laugh and slept a fair bit. Next week im in pastry for a week. A whole week high on sugar, maybe there will be moshing also.
Only got 4 weeks left, 30 days. Maybe even less if my replacment get here on the 16th. Wooooooo the end is nigh.

Other news, few blogs ago i talked about a certain annoying person here. Well he's leaving a few months earlyer than he should be. Cant really say much at the moment but turns out he's poked too many people the wrong way, things snowballed, complaints were made and the fuzz were asked to get involved. Mary fookin LOLins only think i dont like is he's getting out of here before me, but still maybe i'll have a more peacfull and happy last month. So'long

The weather has been nice on and off, its like ooooooooooooo the suns out [goes outside. Ahhhhhhhhhhhr so is the wind!] This place would be a hell of alot better with out the wind, indeed.

Song - Katy Perry-Peacock [seriously you need to listen to this, i am quite confused but strangly aroused by the song, got a feeling there wont be a video on MTV any time soon though]

Mood - i really dont know, im happy its nearly done, but i know that im still here for the now.

6.8




Stab me with your lasers....

18-8-10

Well it official, ive hit to wall, lost my drive, its like groundhog day, every day seems like the one before only the weather changes.
Its happened on most excersises before bar one, which was jordan. I thank Davie for that (and Charles Dellon) I really cant type the hatered for this place that im feeling, it doesnt help when ''he who shall not be named'' is being a complete tool and doing everything in his power to either divide the kitchen in 2 (RAF/ARMY) or generly not doing anything on shift, bar watch tv and sulk. He managed to get the tv confiscated because all he did was sit and watch football.
So onto another thing, the flight. This is the single most boring thing i have ever experianced, 18 or so hours stuck in a room,with only the things you bring. Sure music is good, will it last for 18 hours? do you grow tired of the music that youve probably heard many times before? Books are good but will you grow tired of looking at the letters, forming them into words and sentences picturing what they are telling you in your minds eye. Who knows, two months time i'll find out again for the 4th time, at least i'll be in the knoledge that i will never return to this hole and if i have too, it will not be for a very long long time indeed.

So the week was well.... the same as any other week with the added difference of well nothing worth mentioning.
I changed my room round that was the high point of it all,
not even the lows of bone shattering bass bring much enjoyment any more.

The only good thing about this place is that you can think, alot, but thinking about that now is it such a good thing?[see, this is what im talking about, im begining to babble about nothing in particular to fill the void ]
So with the thinking, i dont want this job any more there are other things i feel i would bo better.
Im good with computers, always learning new things but have no formal qualifications to show what i can do, so as much as it pains to say there out of the window till i can prove my work.

Diving, yes i know that diving jobs are few and far between in the army but i though i'de trow it in the mix because i really do enjoy it.

Dog handler, strange i know, this on bit me in the ass when i was here, dont need any qualifications for this one, i like dogs and i think i would really enjoy the job.

The final option literaly will be the last straw, where i have no other choice and have to do something. I cant just come out of the army as i am now and get a job in civvy street, yeah im a good chef but i want to stear away from it for a while, i enjoy it but i need a break. So i come out, and have a couple of options, computing/diving. I really do suck info up about computers and grasp what im doing fast, there averywhere aswell so it wouldnt be too hard to get re-employed when ive done the propper training.
Diving, there are tons of places that do dive training round the world, ranging from 5 weeks to 6 months train time. There are also a number of avenues that i can go down, Instructor, Marine Biology, Marine conservation. Under water wood welder[UWWW], dolfin trainer.
So, even though i've thought of all these wonderfull things i'd like to do i'm still undecided. I still think that the econamic climate is unsettled and employers are still being carefull, too carefull if you ask me.
I know what ever i put my mind too i will achive it, i told someone once that i really wanted to go diving and they said it was just a pipe dream that i would never achive, well i fucking showed you didnt i. Went and dived the Zenobia init blad.

So i think i best draw to an end as im sure youve had enough. I feel better for writing this, the wall feels one less step away now. But it has been hit i will not deny that, i sometimes wonder what i'll think when i read this in a years time, problably be like ''jeeze i moaned like a bitch, why did people read this''

3.2

Song - Massive Attack vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Teardrops Under The Bridge

Mood - Fuck this, i want to be a pirate. ahhhhhhrrrrrrrr!

6th and 15th

15-8-10
Well as time slowley grinds to a halt in the land of falk...i write yet another post. slightly tired, been working for a number of days of which i dont care to remember. And my roommate insists on keeping me up with his vulgar snoring to the point of me shouting his name a few times till he stops, Its really starting to piss me off now. I hope i dont have to resort to throwing the boot, size 12's tend to hurt.
Well ive got around 8 weeks left. I've missed the english summer and had a 12 month winter was it fun? NO. Was it worth it? NO. Would i come here again? NO. Will I enjoy the cash? Indeed i will.
This whole tour is a big learning curve really, I just dont know what i'm ment to be learning.
I've narrowed my future jobs down to 3, diving instructor(ive wanted to do this for a while, every since cyprus), Computing- few areas in this one, Systems analyst, ethical hacker, networking), and if i need more qualls for them then i would go for dog handler.
Michelle asked me last night where i would be in 5 years jobwise. I really didnt have the fogiest to be honest, i mean would you? literally anything could change and happen in that time. I live day to day not year to year. I go with the flow. as i find it a hell of a lot easier than being dispointed and frustrated.
Well ive been on earlies and im starting to nod off (already ''Ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp'ed on the blog once) so gonna try wake up. Maybe watch a film.

Musicings - 3oh!3 - beaumont / Pendulum - watercolour

M00d - Tired, increasingly bored, slighly stabby

6.2




6-8-10
Well i feel compelled to write another blog. Since i came off nights i've not really slept well, ontop of that i picked a big box of grated cheese up and have done something to my back not sure what but it doesnt feel good. I eventually get to sleep but not as much as i would like. Any how i had a really wierd dream last night cant really remember much of it but i know it was wiered.
Work has been well the same really, no change, same shit. Had an easy day today, was a ''function'' 50 people for curry, 40 people for chilli. 8 hours.... Was told to make the chilli super hot, so i did. It was so hot that it burnt through 2 metal spoons. (really? No not really) But it was damn hot anyhow.
Passed my fitness test finally, In the process ive gained a cold 6 pack(of Dr Pepper). Gonna keep up with it but not go over board and become a meat head.
We've had snow here, 4 days it fell for, side ways, round ways, down ways. And when it eventually stopped the sun came out, which was nice, apart from the snow stayed, even with the blazing sun, got up to about 16 degrees aswell but still it stayed. Its gone now, Im getting slightly tired of snow.

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