Author: Steve Antipolo

I love this country of ours, because of you there are so many glorious colours all around us. The grass is as rich a green as anywhere on the planet. Beautiful blooming flowers to brighten our days, we should be so very grateful.

Can I ask though, would it be just too much trouble to move those clouds elsewhere, you know, perhaps during the day? Let a little sunlight through, we all need a little sunlight and, part of your job is to ensure a balance, not too much of anything.

Could you, perhaps, offer us some truth and honesty? I mean, each day you tell us tomorrow will be fine and sunny and then you give us cloud and rain. No one likes a liar, just be honest with us. If you got out of bed wrong today then, that’s fine, it’s cool, I get that but, every day? Surely if it is every day you’re doing something wrong my friend.

Perhaps you need to relax, lower the bluster, stop crying those tears, let the sun shine through, it would do us all good.

Hey, nice of you to be listening, I appreciate that ray of sunlight on my keyboard right now but, if it isn’t too much to ask, we need a little more.

Thanks for listening, I hope you’re better soon.

That’s a bit like Valentines day isn’t it only, not February, more sort of, well, if Valentines day hadn’t been chosen for February then it would have been July, I am sure of it. Not that it makes much difference because the love of my life lives 6,688 miles away on the assumption I was a very strong crow that can fly that far. It would also be a rather dull trip not flying over anywhere well know at all. Thankfully we have airplanes. The quickest route is a direct London/Manila flight, that takes 15 hours, add two hours to get to Heathrow, 3 hours waiting around at the airport, another maybe 2 hours from Manila. I could be there, if I left right now and a plane was waiting, at 10 to 6 tomorrow evening only then it wouldn’t be 10 to 6 tomorrow evening (Weds) it would be 10 to 1 on Thursday morning but, that’s so dooable … if we assume I could afford £650 right now and that a plane were actually waiting at Heathrow which it isn’t. So, even if someone had already seen sense and changed Valentines Day to July 14th it would still be the 16th before I could be with the man of my dreams. If I had the money I’d do it even for just 24 hours together because I am a little mad like that.

Love is not having to deal with things alone. Knowing that no matter how stressful the day has been, there is someone there to cuddle at night. I feel a lot happier knowing that there is someone somewhere on the planet, someone amazingly clever and funny that I am also attracted to, that there is that someone thinking about wanting to be with me too.

It is often comforting to know that the special someone is looking at the same sun and moon as I am or, it would be were we not constantly covered by thick cloud! Am totally sick of this dank weather. Forecast says it’s going to change Thursday so perhaps just the one more day of wet and chilly. I actually put a jacket on earlier … true, it was only for a few minutes until I realised it had got warm and muggy but, why should I even think of wearing a jacket?

Tomorrow morning I am having a lay-in, a good relaxed sleep knowing I can get up when I feel like it .. how many times do I promise myself that one?

Am wondering, will Dennis like things like ‘Bar Rescue’? Hmmm … How about Science Fiction? Actually, I’ve nearly finished all episodes of Stargate so he won’t have to watch that but, well, they’ll be more Star Wars and Star Trek coming out … hmm.

Dennis likes Disney, this has to be a very good thing. We have amazingly close taste in music, another amazingly good thing. Not sure about food yet but I think we’ll mash together a good selection of foods we both like … no bones and I am probably fine with it  🙂

I really want to snuggle on the sofa and watch some good movies together, how awesome would that be … hell, some people might even think we’re a proper gay couple, wow, that’d be amazing! We are, of course, a proper gay couple but, being single for so long makes it feel strangely exciting that anyone will think of us as part of a couple again. It is rather cool I think.

When Dennis applies for his visitors visa in January, I might ask some of you to write supporting letters if that’s OK? It’s not required but it can’t hurt right to show that we’re genuine people who are not trying to fiddle at all? We’ve got plans beyond that but, let’s stick to that for now.

Now I think I need to get on and finally get the track selections on the ipod so I have stuff to listen to in the car!

Not that I remember much of it and, no, no booze involved just busy and enjoying life.

Dennis makes me stupidly happy. I could just sit and look at him all day but not today. Today he helped me with something I was going to do on my own. I am not used to this having a boyfriend thing so, was glad when it just sort of came together. I needed to get a collection of tracks together to listen to in the car. My last one was a bit too familiar so I needed some good music to add. Dennis came up with quite a few I’d forgotten I loved.

The past couple of days, thanks to tech, we’ve had meals together, me, Dennis and the family over there. It’s good to discover what we’re each eating.

Obviously I wish he were a short or even long drive away, it’s horrible not being able to be together but, we can wait, we’re making plans.

We’ve had Matt, Anne and the children over today too which is always good.

Started playing Minecraft on the Xbox One tonight. Matt & Sean had been at me for ages to do it. It’s not so bad as it happens, 4 hours seemed to just go. I don’t think my first attempt was so terrible at building.

I turned up this morning at 9am and we went through all the possible issues which could still exist with the Ray Ban glasses. It didn’t make sense that if they were the same prescription as the Superdry glasses I am wearing that they should be OK.

Now, on the subject of the Superdry glasses

I was given these because when the lenses turned up, or so I was told, they were not verifocal but single vision lenses. I discovered today that they are verifocal so, in effect, there is no real problem with these glasses.

Anyway, we decided at 10:45 that we’d get my sight checked again and rather than trying again to get lenses in the Rayban frames that I’d prefer it if they used the Ted Baker frames instead.

So, I had a short break then went back again at 12:20, got my eyes checked and they are going to increase the prescription slightly but not so much that I cannot switch between glasses, my vision should be just slightly improved using the Ted Baker option.

Left there finally today at 1:15

All I need to do now is wait as long as it takes to get the Ted Baker pair back and, with any luck, I will be able to see through them.