A message from 18 year old me

It was pretty exciting yesterday. I received an email from me in THE PAST! It's pretty crazy, I remember last year I used futureme.org to save an email and send it to me a year later. I had pretty much forgotten about doing this, I just thought it had forgotten me. But yesterday I got the email! Check it out:

The following is an e-mail from the past, composed on Friday, January 19, 2007, and sent via FutureMe.org
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Dear FutureMe,

Hey man whats up!!?!? it's jan 2007 here, i'm in the middle of my exams! Still laughing about Julian's war face when we woke him up!! Just blogged it!

How are you? Still enjoying life as much as I am!? You got a girl? a band? if not don't worry!! Just remember Dobi was like 24

I love you man, your amazing, unique, interesting and not stereotypical. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!

P.s. what house did we get in the end!??!

Hahah, ahh what a looser. Bit over the top on self compliments. Anyway, I honestly didn't think that message would ever get back to me. I'm going to do it again though I think. Only, leave it longer than a year. Probably 5, wow, I'd be 24! I also think it would be pretty cool to team up with a friend and tell them exactly how you feel about them in 10 years time. What a neat idea!

Aww, me at sweet 18. Well, me, there's quite a lot "up" at the moment. I'm also in the middle of my exams. Yeah! I'm still really enjoying life! I always try not to take it for granted how infinitely unlikely I am to be alive. We are all ridiculously lucky. No! No girlfriend! Sorry man, I know that meant a lot to you. But I do have a band now! We got a really nice house in the end and we're staying here next year too!

So the other day, night before an exam, I thought I'd quickly make a cheese toasty for supper. It's really easy, just put cheese between two pieces of cooked toast. Then leave it on top of the toaster to warm it a bit. It was all going great! As usual! That is, until I noticed some smoke so rushed to take it off the toaster. I ended up slipping and dropping cheese all over the toaster (butter fingers!). So as it's all melting inside I turn it upside down crumbs go EVERYWHERE. I took a knife to the insides to get the cheese out (don't do that without an adult), but this thing couldn't be saved. So instead of a 10 minute snack I was in the kitchen for about an hour cleaning and washing the grill for the guys to have toast in the morning. All while they thoroughly ripped it out of me.

May was really pleased with our new toaster!

Get this, it's called the "iToast"! Say no more! James didn't really care:


Don't my house mates kick ass? They must think I'm so weird getting them to pose with toasters. They do it though.

The good thing about exams is that I get to spend a lot of time with my friends going on nice walks to exams and eating food out. But imagine my confusion when I returned from ordering my food at the bar to our table only to find Speed had left the pub to go across the road to use a payphone! Firstly, I didn't know these things still existed. Secondly why was he using one? Me, Ali and Julie were left at the table wondering if this guy we thought we knew was actually a hit-man, pimp or drug dealer. Julie ran over the road a got a sneaky picture as evidence:


Anyway, turns out his storey was legit. He just left his phone in the car and needed to call work. We still trust him.

ahh! 'till next time.....

Oh p.s. Phil just text me with some philosophy: "Do blind people have eyes?". Sure they do, they just don't work, right? Help me out if I'm being simple... 'shanks!