OPINION // CARL CONNIELILNGUS
TRASH HITS & BITS WITH CARL CONNIELINGUS HEY
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LIFE & LOVE - CHAPTER TWO - A QUEER LOVE STORY
FLUID DRAG SPECIMEN HERE AGAIN FOR ANOTHER BITCH, MOAN AND YARN HAHA . . THIS QUARTER I’LL BE FILLING YOU
IN
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CHRISTMAS
AND NEW YEAR AND YOU’LL BE SURPRISED SINCE I MOANED SO MUCH ABOUT THIS SEASON IN MY LAST COLUMN..OOPS LOL I’LL BE EXPLAINING WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE NON-BINARY AND THE STRUGGLES I FACED, SOME MORE “FUN FACTS” ABOUT ME AND THE CONTINUATION OF MY MINI SERIES “A QUEER LOVE STORY”, WHERE I DELVE MY VERY OWN LOVE STORY!! SO, GET YOUR ARSE ON A CHAIR, RELAX AND ENJOY
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR MIRACLE
So last time I filled you guys in on how I met Hayley and how we got together, this time I’m gonna tell you guys how we moved in together pretty much straight away, then the Pandemic hit and how we got through that in a brand-new relationship. Let me start by saying it’s not easy to live together as it is but doing it at the start and through a Pandemic is a whole new ball game. Luckily, we settled in pretty well at the start, having been friends we had already planned to live together to save money, since we spent so much time together already, ironic eh?? Haha Our first couple of months were amazing, we were just flat out gigging, working and not even an official date had been had yet (and still hasn’t..eeeek bad I know lol) then BOOM - A Worldwide Pandemic hits and everyone is bound to their homes. So there’s us just rollin’ with the punches like everyone else, doing Facebook Lives, Makeup Lives and having the best craic but after months and months and months of uncertainty, motivation and moods get low and even though we have our College Courses to occupy us, those are stressful and exhausting in themselves. We had to learn a little quicker how to balance and help, not just ourselves but each other as a partnership, and something we’re still learning to do now cause let’s face it, there’s no handbooks on how to do this shit, we just gotta do what suits and works best for us. As time goes by you get to know each other in the deepest form. Each person’s little quirks, the way they move about their day, their emotions and stresses, their dreams and aspirations, their glow and growth, their facial expressions and like anyone else, those annoying little things we’ve got going on as Human Beings that make us imperfectly perfect lol but nothing prepared me for how much I would fall in love with her more and more every day. Whether she knows it or not Hayley saved my life, unknowingly helping me want to live and love again, getting me through this crazy time and loving me for the crazy fucker I am, for that I’ll always be blessed - Next time on Chapter 3 – Hayley’s POV Q&A
Yes, that’s right I said it, A FRICKIN’ MIRACLE!! For the first time in around 6
FUN FACT
years, I actually had a very pleasant and fun Season and I’m not only shocked but absolutely grateful. It was one of those years where you realise that things can get better and the Seasons only suck if you’re not happy and I was not a happy person for a really long time but I’m slowly getting happier and Christmas 2020 proved that for me..January on the other hand, is an awful dull and down month but that moan is for next time haha . . Hayley and I did dress up like Christmas Baubles for a video project, which was totally hilarious. Here’s a pic to prove it lol
TWENTY SIX // GNIMAG.COM
As a young girl and Teenager, I was a Gymnastics Tumbling Champion, competing all over Northern Ireland and even in Wales. I unfortunately left just before my 16th Birthday cause I thought I was a big girl and partying with my friends was cooler..what a fool I was and little did I realise I was running away from some shitty life experiences haha . . I did go back a few times in my 20’s but then again in my mid 30’s and bitch could still flip, so roll on Gymnasiums opening again so I can get my flip on and flip the fuck outta here to somewhere Sunny..sorry, not sorry lol :* :*
