Danny Storm Born First Of Her Name.

finally had the fifth instalment of the swinger diaries (which is a whole other post of its own)

lyles parents arrived from south africa to stay with us for 5 weeks (which is a whole other post of its own)

and my mum got section 2ed (which is a WHOLE other post of its own)

ok i’ve probably been stronger than i am now, and it’s definitely not the fittest i’ve ever been, but this is by far the most beefcake ive ever been, and im fucking loving it.

lyle keeps telling me off for showing them off too much but it’s not my fault everyone keeps asking me for directions….to the gun show.

honestly, i’m insufferable. a bit of a baby bicep and i’m ready to climb into the ring with tyson fury.

for this purpose, we’ll call him “jake”. anyways so jake and lyle obviously worked together before i got there and actually became pretty good friends, at least so far as coworkers go. as expected, with spending all day with together and getting on, they’ve share lots with eachother about their lives, including lots about their wives. and subsequently, lyle has come home and talked about jake plenty of times.

although jake and i had met in passing a number of times before, it was only once i started working with him that we actually spent time together. however, though lyle, we already felt like we knew eachother. because essentially we do. in fact, lyle had to kind of debrief me on what he’s shared with jake. obviously nothing that would be a problem, but clearly this guy already knows a lot about me. anyways, my point is, we instantly clicked and started chatting like old friends. we’re both actually notorious for being able to talk someone’s ear off so plenty of jokes were made about which one of us would run out of breath first.

again, obviously, lyle knows us both, and was even the instigator of many of those jokes, so when i come home and ramble on about the shit jake and i chatted about all day, he just finds it amusing that i come to the same conclusions about his friend that he has.

on the flip side i think jake has gone home and chatted about spending the day talking to me (again he’s notorious for not being able to stop talking so there is a zero chance he’s not talked to his wife about me). we’ll call her “jan”. now jan has even met lyle and knows im his wife, and i know she knows about me because i know about her. through lyle and jake sharing stories and then decompressing to their wives.

however jake has been in this job for 8+ years and never worked with a woman and (through the aforementioned grapevine) i know he and jan have… been on rocky ground… since the beginning of the year. so last week wednesday jan picked jake up from work, and though jan and i kinda sorta know each other but dont really, we’ve never actually met. so that would have likely been the first time she put a face to the name, as it was for me. i didn’t get a chance to actually introduce myself to her, just a last minute wave when i realised who she was (which probably hasn’t helped).

anyways, jake wasn’t in work the next day and then on monday handed his notice in. completely out of the blue. he’s got another job but his reasoning for leaving is “because he needs a change”. he’s also not actually worked with me since, despite him supposing to be my team leader and before last week wednesday i was shadowing him to learn everything.

lyle and i actually came to the same conclusion seperately. jake’s gone home and chatted about me in friendly way and jan, may have felt a bit jealous initially, but once she saw me, decided i was threatening level of attractive, they’ve had a fight and he’s said he’ll quit then so as not to work with me/ make her feel less insecure. he’s gotten a job “with a mate” that he says should pay more but sounds so… vague. he’s giving up a well paid leadership role in a job he’s been in for nearly a decade.

as i said, lyle and him are actually pretty good friends, so lyle asked him straight if this was the case. he denied it, but the way in which he did and some comments he’s made has completely confirmed it for lyle. i’m still not sure if i’m just being self centered here but lyles convinced this is the real reason he’s quitting.

it’s frustrating because honestly i get it. if lyle suddenly came home chatting about a female coworker, after years of never mentioning women at work, and i saw her and thought she was attractive (especially if he’d not mentioned that she was before), id be jealous too. in fact the only reason lyles not been jealous about me coming home and nattering on about another guy is because he knows jake so well. and i mean lyle and i are also very open and if i thought there was an issue id of told him.

life lately.

i don’t know if i’ve said this already, but i fucking love my new job. ngl i am knackered by the end of the day but its the best kinda tired. it feels earned.

i did all those hedges all by myself! and using the hedge cutter for a few days has made me fall in love with my own biceps. i’ve got a little farmers tan going on and heck of a watch strap tan line.

my very first attempt at striping (and first time using that big boy mower in the background) and i’m pretty fucking proud of it. also, yesterday i was strimmer kept stopping. so i put i took it apart, figured out the problem, fixed it and put it back together all by my self. my hands were filthy and i had black mark on my face the whole afternoon, but damn, i was proud!

multiple of the lads have gone to my boss and told him they’re impressed with how hard of a worker i am and what a good addition to the team i am. And it’s been openly stated multiple times that the whole moral/vibe of the team has gotten so much better. though i won’t take the full credit for that, as there’s two other new starters that are also great and one guy (who was apparently quite a dickhead) quit, but they all do nod in my direction when they say it.

i’ve slotted right in with the team and it genuinely feels like i’ve been there for ages already. obviously it’s helped by the fact i do know some of the guys plus lyles been working there for years so even if ive not met them before, i know everyone. plus i already know the whole site and im actually a natural at it.

and i fucking love it, have i mentioned that.

i know i’m still in the honeymoon stage and im sure before long ill be moaning about it just like any other job, but whiles it’s fun i’m going to enjoy it.

plus i’m kinda loving how it’s bringing out my masc side more. and i am going to get so jacked, peep my little baby bicep pump from just this week.

we lament this every year, and every year it’s getting hotter too, but this country is simply not built for the heat. it’s designed to trap heat and keep it there.

in addition, more scientific research must be put in to finding out why england’s temperatures work differently! because i know you americans are look at us like “93°f and your country is actually ceasing to function?? what the fuck?” but it DIFFERENT!! i don’t know why, clearly im not a scientist, but for some reason, there’s a magnifying glass over the entire country and the temperatures are at least 50% higher than they seem.

i’ve lived in south africa, where it regularly gets ABOVE 40°c and this is worse!

plus there’s a heatwave and the entire country of england actually ceases to function above 32°c so the schools are all shutting half day, which means i also have a half day. so i’ve technically only got two hours left of my last shift

and absolutely zero fucks to give!

the dr i saw was absolutely wonderful. she listened to me explain my symptoms, asked a few questions and then said she believes i might have migratory arthritis. which is exactly what ive self diagnosed, but didnt mention incase i was way off. she went through it some more with me, and as i expected, my symptoms line up pretty perfectly with that diagnosis. i went for an ultrasound on my hands, which was weird, but also suggested that it’s not traditional arthritis.

so my bloods have come back negative for rheumatoid, but she took bloods to test specifically for this type of arthritis. basically she said it’s very uncommon so they only run the test for it once a month (rheumatoid tests are run multiple times a day) so the results will take a while but she’s confident enough without the bloods to prescribe me medication for it. and also a steroid injection, which goes in to your ass cheek and is not fun!

so i went there, they said this is the problem and this is how we treat it, gave me the treatment and sent me home!

i haven’t got my hopes up. i’m fully expecting to be told “its one of those things” or it’s just stress/lifestyle related or absolutely nothing will happen and i’ll have more tests or referrals to go to in the future. basically i’d love to go to this appointment and have them say ah yes “this” is this problem and “this” is how it’s fixed, give me the treatment and send me on my way. but i just highly doubt that’s what’s going to happen.

i also did a bit of off the clock training for my new job. i’m sure the majority of them think i’ve either got the job just to work with lyle and don’t actually know what it entails or they think ill find it too hard and quit after a few weeks. so im determined to go in and blow them out the water. lyle did overtime yesterday so i went and joined him and practiced with all the power tools. so that when i do my actual training, ill already look like i know what im doing.

i’m gonna get fucking jacked!