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A Little About Me
So I'm an Englishman living in Finland. Pretty crazy huh? Most people emigrate to somewhere warmer than their home country! But not me, I moved somewhere where a winter's morning can mean 30 below zero. But I didn't move for the snow and ice, I moved because of a girl. A girl who is now my wife. Well I guess it all started when I was born, on September 26th 1977. I believe it was a Monday around 3 o'clock in the afternoon in a hospital in Newcastle. When I was nine years old my dad got a job in Melton Mowbray, a couple of hundred miles south of where we were living at the time, so we moved. Melton was a nice town in some regards. There were some impressive buildings that are 800 odd years old. But I never felt like that town was my home. At age 11, about one week before Christmas, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. In case you don't know, there are two types of diabetes. Type 2 is the most common, with Type 1 (usually occurring in childhood) making up somewhere between 5% and 10% of all cases. I'm now 30, so that's 19 years of sticking needles in myself. I worked it out that, based on 2 injections a day for the first twelve years, three a day for three years and now 5 a day for the past four years, which is 1825 a year, it amounts to approximately 19,345 injections in my life time. A couple of years later and my parents got divorced. I've hardly seen my dad over the last few years, despite the fact that he only lived two miles away before I moved to Finland a month ago. I used to hope that would change one day, but every time I suggested we do something, like play a game of snooker or meet for a drink, he always seemed to be doing something else. So about a year ago, I gave up trying. Then of course I met Kati. Firstly on the Jenson Button forum, then on MSN, before deciding to take a chance and meet in person on the 4th April 2006. We hit it off straight away and it wasn't long before we were flying backwards and forwards every month or so to see each other. When things got more serious we started talking about the future. Being in a long distance relationship forces you to move at a different speed than normal relationships do. At first, Kati was going to move to England, but slowly that became the less desirable option. Over the last couple of years, my job at Tesco got worse and worse until I could barely stand it anymore. I needed to get out, and I was getting sick of the random violence that seemed to be happening more and more in England. So we decided I should move to Finland. I'll keep you updated on how all that works out. My hobbies include going on bike rides with my new wife, browsing the Jenson Button forum (of which I'm a moderator), TV, films, motor sport, American football, basketball, reading and occasionally writing something. This used to include short stories and poetry (I even have four poems published) however all I seem to write these days is my blog.
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