Dave

June 27th, 2008 by dave

I have been meaning to do a bit of a personal blog post for ages now, just not really made the time to sit down and let it all out..

Well, what a funny few months it has been, since splitting up with my girlfriend (and very close friend) things have been a bit all over the place. I took it badly, very badly infact, to a certain degree it still bothers me, however, I am getting by and dealing with things. The first thing to do was find a place to stay. Thanks to Olly and Gemma I had a roof over my head for a good month and slept in their spare room. It was so strange living with someone again and just having a room. Going from having your own space to just one room is so strange and in a way very demoralising.

From there, I stayed at Robby’s for a week, and also random weekends. Most of our time was spent DJing, drinking and eating. It was good whilst it lasted. Then it was onto James’s for a week, his Mum and fella went away so we had run of the house for a week.

Again, that week mostly consisted of drinking, eating and errrr… chilling in the hot tub.. We had a few friends round and made the most of a rainy week.

That brings me up to now.. I am currently staying with my mate Mark until the house I’m renting is fully redecorated and repaired from a recent flood. Not having my own space is killing me. I have never felt so low about something. In a way I think I have failed, then some days I feel that i’m just experiencing a few minor setbacks and things will sort themselves out in time.

Since having the problems with my back and having the operation things have just not been the same. It knocked me back a good few months and I got well behind at work and totally lost focus. It was only in May when I felt back to normal again and was able to get my head down. I am still getting aches and pains and cannot do certain things but it is a whole lot better I suppose. I just have to take things very steady and not going jumping about too much etc etc..

Work has been a bit up and down for the past month or so. Its officially our 20th month in business, its gone so fast its unreal. We have had some good times and some bad times but the past month has been so scary, in all the time of running a business I have never felt pressure like I have in the past month. I think the whole credit crunch and the state that the countries in has put alot of business on the edge.

Our main problem I think has been, we sell advertising to companies that sell and offer services to car owners. Companies sales have slowly been decreasing and therefore their advertising budgets have been cut. Some have been cut by tens of thousands of pounds a year, thats how bad it was. At one point I didn’t think we would get through it, no one was spending money, bills were catching up with us and money became so tight…

We are over the worst of it now, the sales are coming in again and the whole industry is slowly picking back up again. Thats the general feeling anyway. Luckily our costs are not high and we have no business loan or overdraft. There are alot of other things we are working on thats making money, however they are things that need chipping away at and man are we bloody chipping…

I cant wait to get back on the road again, it seems so long ago since I’ve driven. I am ready I think, sitting down aint as bad as it was so I just need to give it a try and stop when I feel pain and stand up and rest for a bit.

Next car I think will be a Nissan 200sx S14/Silvia or Nissan Skyline R32/33. They have grown on me and have been doing for the past few months. I will always be a Dubber at heart but aim to get another MK2 GTI when I have more money to do the things I want to do with it.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn…….. I think i’m gonna leave the blog for now, can’t think of anymore things to write really..

I am gonna continue keeping my head down, keep the focus and carry on working my ass off. Things are definately looking up and I am not gonna back down for nothing…