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So far 2012 has been good to me, I think this year is going to be incredible!

 In September I will be turning 21 which means im going to be a grown up and need to start taking on some responsibilities… not having so much fun anymore… be sensible… go to VEGASSSS and gamble me life away and spend all my money on sex and drugs and rock and roll! YAYYYYYYYY! but its all good, im talented at roulette, always win, just got to choose the right numbers ;) so really it should be a super fun and profitable trip :D

Had lots of exams in January which ruins the start of the year and kicks it off on a bit of a negative vibe and they aren’t going to be off my mind until results next Friday… if I don’t tell you what I get it means don’t ask!

Apart from that iv had lots of fun so far this year, my timetable means I get Wednesday and Thursday off most weeks which is good coz I work Saturdays and Sundays so its nice to finally get a weekend! It also means I can do some fun stuff I the week. Tbh regardless of uni we go out whatever day we like coz in leeds every night you can find some mischief fun.

I LOVE tiger tiger, not sure why, it’s a bit chavvy and sticky but I always have such a good night there! I went last tuesday with Hannah and Helen and zoe (who you may remember from http://selinaboardman.blogspot.com/2011/06/sciencedam.html) and had a hilarious night :D except we had a bit of a party at hannahs before hand and apparently they don’t do glasses in their house so she provided me with a vase to drink my vodka pineapple from, biggest mistake iv made this year… man I was wasted. Was meant to be staying at hannahs that night but after lots of tequilas at 4am it seemed like an amazing idea to just get a taxi to bed so off I went. Me and the taxi men were like bffs! Bantering away, let me hold the wheel, gave me a nice cuddle… until we got to my house and I had no money no keys no nothing, then he turned really mean! Started shouting at me and scaring poor drunk me so I woke up all my housemates to let me in and ran upstairs and just gave him everything out of my piggybank! Unfortunately it was all coppers and 5ps, 10ps tops… he was not appy. Anyway when I woke up in the morning my knickers, bag and half a subway were on the stairs so not sure what went down there.

from left to right- zoe, me, hannah, helen

Ever since may has moved to London I really really want to go visit but iv not had a week spare so far :( I came home for a couple of days this week to see my dad on his birthday (more on that later) and he is going to London today to see her. She’s got him the best present! Taking him for a delicious meal in Mayfair tonight and tomorrow afternoon going for afternoon tea and champagne at the ritz… that’s like most typical English thing to do I cant believe iv never done it! I would have loved to have tagged along so I checked out the train times this morning but £200+ is just out of my price range :( hope he has fun there though, hes the best dad in the world ainec.

As you may or may not know im a bit of a science nerd and like to keep up to date with goings on in the world. Recently there has been some very exciting news. They have figured out how to turn brain waves into words so you can literally read peoples minds! Its still in the early stages but soon they will be able to know what paralyzed people people in comas are thinking and apparently its going to lead onto being able to see pictures which means people will be able to watch their dreams back and watch eachothers thoughts! Crazy stuff.

cundall won a special strike drink

Ben came to stay a couple of weeks ago which is always lovely, he only stayed a week because he only brings his laptop and cant play very much poker just with that but at home hes got his whole set up and can play a million games at once. It was good coz while he was here ben and matt came up from London for a few days and they are always good for a laugh so one night we met them at nandos along with scuba steve (chris hall) and Helen. Then we decided to go bowling, iv not been bowling for a long time and im not great at the best of times after lots of practise but for some reason this trip I felt in the zone. The first game I came last. But the second game I was all STRIKE STRIKE SPARE STRIKE and came second which may as well be first so yay me! Ben really doesn’t like losing and at the bowling thing we went to one of the pins glows in the dark and occasionally it gets put at the front in the ‘1’ position and when this happens you have to call over the commentator guy and he makes a big show of it and announces your name to everyone and the whole room watches coz if you get a strike you get a free drink. So on bens turn this all went down and he goes to take his shot with everyone watching and the boys going ‘ooooooohawayyyyyy’ and he looks at me with a ‘this is too much pressure’ look and spent ages selecting his ball and lining it up and for a minute I thought it might just happen but he chucks it and it bashed all around the alley and went straight in the gutter! It was hilarious poor benny, he really doesn’t like to lose.

Helen hadn’t had strike the whole time and it came to the last shot so ben cundall jokingly said if she got one he would take his last shot naked and BAM strike! We were all like ‘wheyyyyyyyy’ but suddenly he refuses despite everyones mocking and anger, for future reference ben cundall is not a man of his word!

Half way through they had this music bingo thing and initially we were running pretty bad, losing all the 1 line/2 line etc prizes but who needs them! ofc our team won the main prize thanks to chris. We won a bottle of delicious cheap champagne, sprinkled with the taste of victory and lots of free games which I shotgunned in case you forgot chris…

We went for some drinks after and it was fun night all in all.

the jellyfish tank

For my mum for Christmas me and max got her tickets to the ballet in Manchester which I forgot was on the same week ben was there so I had to abandon him for the night- sorry ben. I met mum and max in manc at a thai restaurant called chaophraya, I know theres one in leeds too but iv never been, after this trip I think I might make an effort to coz it was an awesome place! They have just invested in a £10,000 jellyfish tank which was really cool, iv never seen something like that before. It was very posh and the food was really good, we shared this big fancy taster starter thing and then I had seabass which was cooked in lime and ginger and chilli and came in a big banana leaf, was sooooo good! We must have got a bit carried away coz we were a bit late for the ballet. One of my most favourite memories from our childhood was how we had the VHS’s of all the Disney films that ever existed and my mum used to watch them with us every day, one of our favourites was beauty and the beast so we thought it would be really nice to see it on stage so that’s what we saw. We had some of the best seats in the place coz that’s how we roll and it was really beautiful. I love the ballet so  much and they did their own take on the film so it was a bit different but I loved it and I think my mum did too so that’s good. I would def recommend it and want to go again as soon as I can! Heard the  lion king is coming to Manchester this year so id like to see that :) max just got dragged along a bit but secretly I think he liked it too… the men wear skin tight leggings and I caught him checking out the main guys package har har har was impressive though tbf.

beauty and the beast

Since then iv not seen ben so its been a while and I miss him lots. Im going to Cardiff next week though for a week and a bit for valentines day :)

Like I said before I came home for my dads birthday and last night we went out to this new restaurant called langs. My favourite ever place is in churchtown called botanic bistro where I went on my 18^th birthday and this place is owned by the same people so I knew it would be good. We all dressed up nice and smart and I gave my new dress a test run… the only thing I brought to wear and just before we left max told me it looked like a bin bag, cheers blud. So he came bounding into my room asking to borrow a black belt… I know hes a little camp but still a bit weird and he came back in 2 minutes later wearing a replica of my dress he had made out of binbags :( not funny. I didn’t want to admit it but it actually did look a lot like my dress so I def wont be wearing it again.

Apart from feeling like a bin man all night it was really fun, my dad and brothers are really good company, they amuse me a lot. My dad’s favourite cocktail is a kir royale but they don’t sell champagne by the glass there so we just got a whole bottle and the bar man spent a good 15 mins constructing them and they were amazing! Better than any other one iv had, little flute of heaven. We ate lots of fabulous food and drank lots of fabulous wine and they brought over this fancy big dessert with a firework coming out of it and sang happy birthday and all that jazz.

Max is 18 next month, hes a little rascal so im sure there will be lots of fun going down and coz im 21 this year too we are going to celebrate our mid-birthday in june :D never turn down an extra birthday!

biz

'Super'

I have literally just realised this second how much essay writing I have been doing! Too much. Just caught myself trying to do a plan for my blog… ‘specific subheadings will make it flow and an easier read, keeps everything neat, a plan is important’

FU UNI!

It is just reaching the end of exams and I don’t think iv ever been so stressed in my life :( My two main modules this semester are ‘neurobiology’ and ‘cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology’ and there is so much to learn for both to the point where I genuinely think my brain is full (which I know is a bit ironic because it’s a stupid theory and im meant to be totally clued up about the brain because of my supposed fullness of knowledge…?) oo controversial. So I did what I do every year and think il just start learning after Christmas… then I think I should probs get new years out of the way then start learning… and BAM a week to learn about 10 billion things that I don’t understand. And the thing is its like trying to learn another language when youre doing about stuff like cyclic adenosine monophosphate dependant protein kinases and sphygmomanometry half the battle is remembering the word!

Sigh anyway iv really struggled with these exams so keep your fingers crossed for the results.

A good thing about uni though is that we practically finish for summer in march coz lectures finish then, then its just exams and we are free til octoberrrrrrrrr :D

After this week there’s no break between exams and lectures starting again but I could really do with one so im hoping somebody will whisk me off my feet for a weekend in paris or new York or something similar… long shot though, will be getting an extra lottery ticket this week.

Cant get too greedy with my trips though, it was my lovely boyfriend Ben’s birthday just before chirstmas and coz im such a good girlfriend I took him for a few days in Amsterdam :)

me and benny at the airport

 according to the news, as of 1^st jan 2012 only Amsterdam residents can smoke weed in public there so I thought we better get in there for a final trip before all the fun is sucked out but now its been delayed til 2013 so everywhere in the Netherlands is banned except Amsterdam for another year. We only went for a couple of days but it was really really good. Not going to lie, we spent a large proportion of the time in coffee shops (drinking coffee ofc) because we had both been before we weren’t really up for all the touristy stuff done to death (but actually we did get lost and stumble upon what looked through hazed eyes like anne franks house if that counts) but we did go to this Christmas fair they had on and ben won me a turtle that looked like a jaguar so I named it jagwar.

 And we walked down to the red light district and I wanted to get a hooker but wasn’t allowed, most of the girls were actually quite hot, thought it would be dead skanky and aidsy but it wasn’t so bad, creepy as the day is long, but generally just amusing.

Fact for the day:

Did you know the red light district is called that because back in the day when the Railway workers used to be working at night but they fancied a bit of hoohaa they would stroll down to hooker row but took their red railway man lamps and hung them outside the door just incase there was an emergency so their friends could come find them and would know which cubicle they were in. Remember you heard it here first.

One night we were there we went for an amazing meal at the Gauchos in dam. If you’ve never been to gauchos you are seriously missing out, theres one in leeds and London and I think Manchester and I didn’t even know there was one in Amsterdam but I saw it and was like :o lets go! So we did, and we got delicious delicious steaks and lots of wine mmmmm good.

One place I have frequented recently is Cardiff. Before the past few months I had never been to wales at all before but Cardiff is lovely I would highly recommend it especially for shopping. Anyway I went just before Christmas for Ben’s birthday. We had a bit of a party beforehand at dan owstons house and ben got abso wasted then we went to town and ben got even more wasted and everyone else caught up. Ben doesn’t do much dancing but when he does I think its adorable and hilarious... hes like the dancing guy in the white suit from the skype smilies lol you all know the one. So while we were dancing I left my bag with all the boys and turns out they thought it would be funny to steal some of my birth control pills and put them in bens drink. Personally I don’t see how it would work out good for anyone, either I get pregnant or ben starts ovulating or something! I didn’t realise til a few days later and it was too late so if theres a little degenerate running round in 9 months we know who to blame!

Christmas

Christmas was a fun time. Usually we go away but not this year which was actually nice for a change. Had Christmas day at my dads and in the afternoon we went for lunch at this dead nice place called Ferraris in longridge, its really pretty set back into a little woods bit and its really popular for weddings which I can see why. The food was alright but my dad makes the best Sunday dinners and I know everyone says that about their dads Sunday dinners but my dads actually is the best! so I wish we had just done that instead. But we did a nice present swapping thing and its just nice to get together because theres so many in our family its rare we are all together. Speaking of rare, im loving the rare dresses collection in topshop! But they just don’t have enough selection so I bought some awesome dresses and accessories online the other day, may discuss this in more depth later they are that fabulous. And also this awesome shoe shop in town called garage had this thing on where you buy one pair of boots and get another for £1! Amazing! Naturally I was sold and will be going back this week for another hit.

me and may and pop

But yeh Christmas, was nice, we do a secret santa in my family and my dad got me which is good coz he gets awesome presents. This year he got me and Ben a voucher to stay in this fancy hotel right in the ribble valley with a 3 course meal and breakfast and some afternoon stuff, all very romantic! so thank you very much pops. I think definitely the best present was mays… she was last to get picked out the hat which someone was then meant to give to my grandma as she wasn’t present at the time but somehow that didn’t happen so it got to xmas and my grandma says ‘are we not doing secret santa this year then?’ and may got nothing lol lol lol, she must have been bad this year. At least getting nothing is better than getting coal which is what my little brother got me :/ bast.

such a mistake getting a bunch of boys big guns to play with

Fakemas

all 5 of us :)

We had another Christmas day on boxing day at my mums which was also really nice. My favourite bit about xmas is all the smoked salmon and my mum always makes a really nice effort with food and drinks. Instead of cooking a big meal which takes loads of effort and time she goes to marks and spencers and gets all the most delicious things and puts a big buffet on which was fabulous and we had bucks fizz and kir royales in the morning, don’t think it gets better than that :) my mum got me some really nice stuff for xmas, got some beautiful boots from river island which is just what I needed, a jumper, a new charm for my Pandora, some slippers and lots of other things, she spoilt us all. Maxs friend harry came round and we played some games then we went out to wigan town to party. Its like a boxing day tradition everyone, and seriously everyone goes to wigan in fancy dress so we had to partake. Me and may were supergirls, max forgot to get a costume so he went as a nerd (which didn’t require any dressing up har har har), oliver was pharaoh and Austin put a Christmas hat on, weaksauce. We all got super drunk before we went, we wanted jagerbombs but had no jagerbomb kit so I fashioned some from mugs and eggcups. Right at the start of the night we lost may and harry right til the end but apart from that it was a really fun night, we met some very strange people. Saw one guy dressed as Mr T who threw snickers at us just like the real thing! (seen above)

max is probably off chatting up some boys somewhere

New Year

So I was back in Cardiff for new year, ben’s friend Ben has just bought a new house and he was having a party. I reckon on new years eve house parties are def the way forward, town is way too busy and expensive. Was an awesome night, there were lots of good people there who make me laugh a lot, lots of banter and alcohol in excess. Don’t remember so much, just snippets of pretending to know the words to auld lang syne and yelling at everyone to link arms and being told to get a room and trying to initiate a threesome and playing wii golf? Crazy kids.
This is the london fireworks from this year, they are possibly the most amazing fireworks iv ever seen, i would like to be there one year to see it for myself:

Some of the girls I live with are doing a year in industry next year so we have to split up and find a new house but coincidently ben is moving to leeds around that time too and i wouldnt want him being all sad and lonely so in summer we are going to try find a nice flat in the city centre somewhere I think :) so that will be fun and also means a trip or 2 to ikea!

Until then im still loving headingley, even if it is cold and we are having a party next week for lottie and rosies birthday and on Thursday our exams finish at 11 so we are going straight to the bar then everyone wants to go to town for some shopping for a bit but il probs just follow them round with a bottle of vodka then we are getting more drunk and probably going out to mission which is the Thursday place where you can get a beach bucket of mojito if you want to.

Have a nice week,

Peace out yo.

Thou Shalt Not Commit Sobriety

Im in 2 minds about life at the moment. Generally, as a lot of people will confirm, im a happy person but recently im troubled.

Wont bore you with the details but basically I have a problem which is occupying my mind quite a lot right now and there is no easy solution. Because I study science I tend to think about things very logically and everything has an answer, its either right or wrong and more often than not, you can google the answer ;) cant be doing with all this interpreting stuff you do in English and philosophy etc which is why its quite frustrating for me not to know what to do.

me and stacey macey

On a brighter note, im really excited for September! Theres just so many good things going on :D firstly, all my friends will be moving in. All summer its just been me and Stacey which has been really fun but we are in a 7 person house and its way too big for 2… plus I think I must be driving her crazy by now ;) all the girls I live with are some of my best friends and iv really missed them over summer, come homeeeeeeee

on my 18th

Another good thing is its my birthday :D and I always like my birthday! Except for my 18^th… that was the worst birthday iv ever had and its meant to be the best! It was unfortunately the same time there was that swine flu outbreak and it just so happened I got struck down! Was so so bad, I couldn’t leave my bed or eat anything or drink anything close to what I intended to :( on my actual birthday day I forced myself up and my dad took me to this really cute restaurant in churchtown called botanic bistro and maylis bought me into my first live poker game at blackpool G so wasn’t all bad :) but anyway apart from being terrified about turning 20, I think this year will be fun! Im having a luau party at my house in leeds and lots of my favourite people are attending from all around the country, im so excited to see everyone!

More good news, its student loan day coming up! Speaks for itself really…

Probably the best thing in September is freshers week… it’s the most funfilled week of the year without a doubt. I don’t think non students understand just how good it is. Being a student has its downsides… very poor all the frikin time… have to go to lectures (I tend to sack off the early ones but still have to go to some)… have to brave the dissection room hungover… millions of essays and lab reports to do… but nobody cares coz its still awesome!

This is just a couple of points iv selected from what we call ‘The Student Bible’...

• Thou must treat Fresher’s week as thy holy week.

• Thou must Purchase Asda's own kentucky Brand Whiskey and own brand cola to remind you that you once drank Jack Daniels and Coke.

• Thou must never throw an empty pot noodle away - for it is, from then on, a cup.

• Thou shalt practice the art of minesweeping when funds are low, and continue when funds are not low as practice for low fund times.

• Thou shalt ask "do you do student discount" before every single purchase, even if its Primark and thou already knows the answer.

• Thou shalt always choose thines favourite bar based on the price of Jagerbombs and not on the quality of the establishment.

• Monster and/or pro plus is thy holy sacrament.

• Thou shalt faithfully worship 'The Overdraft’.

• Thou shalt not commit sobriety.

• Thou shall shout "bogey" when in lecture and that bogey will be received by a louder "bogey", to which you will deploy a louder "bogey" this will continue until one or more boogers are expelled from the lecture hall at which point remaining boogers will chant "bogey, bogey" in protest for fellow boogers to be re-instated to their seats.

• Thou shall wear a hat in lectures when still drunk, because hats disguise all.
  
  

• Thou shall never under any circumstances attend lectures before 11am or after 12 noon.

• Thou shalt claim that thy mother and father "ruined my life" yet shalt rely on them for money, as thou has no job and is "too good" for thy dole.

• Thou shall flirt shamelessly for a double vodka red bull.

Amen.

Exploding love ants

start my blog how i start every day

Finally got my laptop back! Been wanting to write a new blog for ages but its been away for up to 21 days with pc world but its good news coz turns out it came under the warranty thing so they made it shiny and new for FREE! Can you really put a price on convenience though? I say yes, I definitely would have paid coz I have missed it so much!

Its been a while so im trying to think what iv been doing all this time but generally its just been dossing tbh. I went home to do some work for my dad which is maybe the worst job possible but beggars cant be choosers :) thankfully got cancelled on the Saturday night so me and my dad decided to go to Grosvenor in blackpool and play some poker. It was only some £15 rebuy or something with like 50 runners (max.) but I was on a really fun table, even though G are too stingy to provide dealers so I had to do it! Anyway I made the final but ended up bubbling as standard when I had QQ and some guy called with J4o and rivered a straight :/

My little brother max is off college for summer so its just us in the house so we end up spending a fair bit of time together. As sad as it sounds we sat in this little café called orchid on multiple days for hours and hours playing heads up for various parts of lunch, obvs he sucks HU so most days I bagged myself free lunch… and coffees… and cakes… but he won a couple ;) This picture makes me laugh though, there was this really creepy man that looks like he wants max dead!

Think iv been hanging round with them poker boys too long coz iv turned into a proper gambler! We went bowling one day near where we live and its safe to say im not the best bowler in the world but still I chirped up and announced that the loser had to pay for everyone at the cinema, the winner got to pick the film and whoever came second got to pick what type of popcorn we have. Scores were as follows...

I was love dove (ofc) so somehow me, the poor poor student with lots of bills to pay, ended up paying for everyone, to watch some film I cant stand, with frikin salty popcorn, poor me! Also lost a big stack playing 10p/20p cash down the longton arms somehow. I run bad.

giant cocktail

My dad very kindly agreed to bring me back to leeds to check out my new house and stuff so me him and max went for tea at ‘leeds kitchen’ at alea which was so so nice! Definitely up there in my favourite leeds restaurants so if you are ever down at Clarence dock make a point to go there. Was a bit rushed though coz we were playing the poker at 8, which again I bubbled (sigh) but my dad won so yay for him :D was max’s first live game and he made the top 10 too so im proud of him :) Stacey came to rail me and I spent the whole night trying to teach her what the difference between an ante and a blind is but im sure she still has no idea lol, one day you will get it babe. Also davey nic and rob came to meet us for a drink which was nice of them but I was obviously very focussed and already drunk enough as it was :P caught up with them a couple of days later when it turned out dave, Jamie, rob and joe stevenson were getting tea at chino latino just down the road from where me and Stacey were getting tea at prohibition so we were just going to go for 1 drink but ended up going down call lane and between lots of jagerbombs and some crazy giant cocktails we were very very drunk, well I was anyway. Dave said something lovely that stuck in my head, he said if me and girlX were being chased by a monster and he had to run 50m to save her or 200m to save me, he would save me :) such a sweetie.

one of the many pictures stacey took of herself on the rail

Last week my true life purpose came to me. I probs shouldn’t tell the general public who, but I have been doing some very successful matchmaking :D one individual described me as cupid on crack but I think it’s a gift!

Which also brings me to something Stacey said the other day which made me smile.

she said: ‘love is much more beautiful when its between dwarves… or gay men, otherwise it just makes me sick’

Im not sure where her mind goes sometimes, but I think that is definitely one for the history books.

The amateur poker association and tour (APAT) had the world championships of amateur poker (WCOAP) in Nottingham at the weekend so I went to go play that. Im not the biggest fan of Nottingham but I like dusk til dawn and I like all the people that were going so its guaranteed to be a fun weekend. I had to work Saturday at lento but finished early and ran straight home to get ready. Having to get the train there didn’t make me very happy coz trains are awful but I spent the whole time sticking my fake nails on which turns out to be much trickier than I thought, that’s something the biomedics department doesn’t teach you. Also at the train station some hobo looking man asked if he could see my boobs, but I said no and we laughed about it so all was fine.

i know this picture of pog doesnt make sense but its cute and i havnt put in a picture in a while

On the Saturday night I only got there about 7 and most people were playing day 1a of the main event so me and matt (dent) and ben (cundall) decided to play the £50 FO which none of us did particularly well in except their friend vik who did alright I think. Gradually people busted out and we got fairly drunk, well I did ;)

the ridiculously big windowsills in our hotel room

I was sharing a hotel room with maylis and I told her to book a twin bed room but I know what shes like, she lives on her own at home so when she gets the chance she likes to get as much closeness from me as she can! So obvs she booked a double and I caught her in the morning trying to spoon me so I batted her away, pervert. Also she got mad coz I woke up bright and early with no hangover boom! And I wanted to play the 3 in the bed game so I started singing ‘there was 2 in the bed and the little one said..’ and tried to roll her but she got stabby with her nails and I was told to leave the bed.

this is mitch

We met our friend ben young and his friend mitch for some nandos which is always fabulous. Mitch is a funny guy and really really genuinely lovely, he was telling us hes been with his girlfriend for like 5 years now but they don’t talk very often and he still doesn’t know her name lol! Apparently she is Chinese and he knows her English name but doesnt have a clue what her Chinese name is.

Speaking of ben, he was telling me how much he likes ants (got a thing for tunnels or something) and I heard this thing about these ants that live in a big colony like ants do, but when theres some kind of danger the ants explode to try and warn the others and scare off the bad guy. How lovely is that though, they explode themselves not even to purely save their buddies, just to give their buddies a bit of extra fighting chance J like suicide bombers I guess except ants don’t read the Qur’an.

May and some others were playing the 6max so instead ben decided it was a good idea to get a taxi to any shop that happened to be open at 5pm on a bank holiday, buy a bottle of jager and go watch a film/get drunk at the cinema. So we did get very drunk, well I did ;) I joke we were both pretty wasted, made inbetweeners all the more funny though. Poor mitch hadn’t drunk in 2 years then he came out with us this weekend and got absolutely smashed!

insta-smart

So the best thing about Nottingham is it has a hooters which is always really funny so we went there for tea with a big crowd and began getting drunk again. I saw lots of ladies bums and about twice as many hooters. I think the plan was the go to oceana (my least favourite club) but some people wanted to go to  a bar first so we went somewhere called blah blah bar which was erm interesting. It has lots of cows inside and someone tried to get in with a hoodie so the bouncers were like ‘tuck that hood in! if I see you taking it out you will be straight outta here!’ lol. Nottingham is pretty lame to go out in, we tried to go to a club after that at 2am ish but it was shut so ended up going to the casino, they always welcome the drunkies with open arms J never get turned away from the casino! Except for that time in London when we got turned away from the casino.

james was worried about his glasses he gave me to look after but he was in a different bar so we
thought it would be funny to send him a picture of them on our jagerbombs, it was very funny

Spent a lot of time with Ben coz we were the ones that had been drunk all day so I suppose we were the drunkest lol. Iv never met anyone that doesn’t like ben, all them Cardiff guys are really funny and good to be around but ben makes me laugh the most, I think we are quite similar so we get on well :) he is definitely up there in my top favourite people list. Just a shame he lives in Cardiff, would be nice to see more of him.

me ben and the cow in blah blah blah

After losing the last of my money on roulette we called it a night and had to drive home the next day… Throughout this day I think I got drunk and sobered up at least 4 times so I had a mega mega hangover! We stopped at mcdonalds and I couldnt even eat my chicken mcburger :(

mum took me shopping for my bday and this is one
 ofmy fave purchases :)

All in all a good trip though. I wish I could have seen my friends Hannah and Helen who live down the notty end of the country but will have to wait we are back at uni, happy happy birthday anyway Hannah :)

Im excited for September I think it will be a really really good month! Got my laptop back, its my hawaiian birthday party on 22^nd, student loan day is 21^st, its freshers week, everyone will be moving in… all good things! Fun fun fun

Peace out yo xxx

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·        returningtoleedsmondaywithmydadtogivehimatour,getsomedinner,playsomepokerateitherAleaorGala,probsAleasowecangotothatnewJamesMartinrestaurant.

·         gotslappedinthefacebyahobo-lookingmanwithafish…twice.andfartedonbyareallyangrylesbian,badday.

·         forcedtogrindTitanpokercozitistheonlyplaceihavesomemoneysigh.

·        spentalldaysundaycookingagiant3courseroast,dontusuallygetthatinthestudentworld.

·        nicetocatchupwithpeopleathome,hopefullybythetimeigetbackitwonthavebeentoodestroyedbythelootingyouthes.missyouleeds.

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me+maxwentto'mysteryteahouse'forsomelunchonsaturday

hegot'smalldragonpearl'

wentwithmybrothersanddadtomycrazygrandmasinLongridgefortea

staceyhasabigbookofpenisesandthisonereallystoodout,ihavetoshareitwithyouallcozitsridicbig

July fun

So I haven’t blogged for a while but that’s coz nothing exciting has really happened. Im loving not being at uni, doing what I want 24/7 and I found out I passed 1^st year which was a relief coz I swear I should have failed pharmacology (ended up getting like 50 odd % but a pass is a pass!) whats pretty ridiculous though is that I must have been to maybe 1 microbiology lecture the whole semester, no joke, coz they are ridic boring and always at 9am but I averaged like 90% in that. Less effort=better results.
Actually, i did go to preston just for one night coz it was my sisters birthday, we went for a big meal at San Marco then an unplanned trip into town, it was really good coz all my siblings were there and we are not all together often and I somehow managed to only spend £10 the whole night! result :)

austin, oliver, max, me and mayve in wall street, happy birthday may

 A couple of weeks ago we went to Manchester coz I got some tickets for Jeremy kyle which I thought would be uber cool! But then I realised it was for ‘jeremy kyle… high stakes’ no I don’t know what this is either but it has been described as follows:

‘Imagine a game show... with the excitement of Deal or No Deal, but where smart contestants can influence their fate...

Imagine a big money quiz... with the drama of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but where skillful contestants need to push their luck...High Stakes is that show!

Sounds pretty good I thought, better had be seeing as I was coming all the way from leeds to watch so I got the train etc in plenty of time then it turned out my sister was coming with our friend james who apparently drives like a slo mo grandma coz they were very late and by the time we got to the itv studios it was full and they didn’t let us in :( we would have been awesome audience members so their loss I say. Instead we went for some tea at this place called taps which turned out to be really cool coz you get your own beer pumps at your table with whatever beer you ask for and a mystery beer! So you serve yourself and it tallys up how much you have in half pints… I tried outsmarting the little electric thing and poured just under half a pint so it wouldn’t know but when the bill came it said ‘7/10’s of a pint’ you win this time sneaky clever table.

Then later that week I got us tickets to watch the x factor auditions in Liverpool (not to actually audition which was a common misconception among people, that would have been horrific) which was actually really fun, went with may, max, Austin and james and there were a lot of angry scousers but also A LOT of beautiful irish men which I loved! The best part was when we met Ollie murs coz I think he is lovely and I swear if it was free I definitely would have voted for him. We didn’t even meet him on purpose and I wish I had made an effort to look nice coz as it turns out we are going to be on tv a lot so nobody is allowed to watch that episode coz it will be really embarassing :( they must have liked the look of us coz the cameras were following us everywhere! And Ollie murs just turned up next to us for a bit of a chat and they did some interviews and stuff… and he called me babe! …and he touched my hand, on purpose! It was awesome! We’re pretty much dating now :D it’s a bit humiliating how excited we got and how many times we jumped around going ‘I’VE GOT THE X FACTOR’ so I hope to god they don’t put that on tv.

Since Stacey has come back off holiday iv stayed in leeds with her, the boys are back from America and JZ came to stay for a few days so I have lots of friends again :D while jess was here we did a fair bit of partying, one night was very unplanned and we ended up getting very very drunk and wandering the streets looking for a party… we just followed the music into some house and partied with some randomers, bit like the pied piper. Unfortunately I had work at 9 the next day and got in trouble as per.

Ask any student and they will tell you the best night on a Monday is quids in at halo, mainly coz its cheap but also coz halo is a church converted to a nightclub so its really sinful and always gets the right amount of busy. At the same time its also very scummy and chavvy but we went there anyway after a pre party at tom and jess’s new gaf. That night I was wearing the ‘preppy pirate school girl’ look apparently… but theres no pics :( so cant show you all :( it was cool though, take my word for it, I will personally show anyone massively intrigued. That night we had lots of these shots called agwa or akwa or something which are basically jagerbombs with chocolate liquor in, don’t remember so much if they are nice but they sound amazing!

Chilled out on the partying a bit after that coz its very bad for me, health wise and also natwest aren’t happy. Tom also came to stay so went for a day out to krispy kremes and ikea and helped niall and sarah move into their new place at city island which is lovely.

My friends ben and matt who live in London ish were coming up for my party but coz they were coming all the way from there they decided to stay for 2 nights along with maylis and max. So we went out for tea to wasabi which is definitely up there in my top leeds restaurants so that’s always entertaining. Ben and matt really amuse me, they talk very posh and I think matt is posh on the inside too as he is a very clever pro sng grinder and was on countdown lol but ben is pretty crazy. Some of you might have seen him at APAT, he was a pro skateboarder and is a big fan of tailored suit shorts, he makes me laugh a lot. One new years eve they decided to go to the top of a freezing mountain and get naked and throw paint over themselves, very random anyway I think this sums him up quite well… watch from 30 secs.

ben one new years eve night

One place I still really reallyyyy want to go is anthonys, heard lots of nice things and its got a good rep so that next on my list. Anyway after wasabi we went down call lane to all the classic places, Oporto, vodka revs etc and got my favourite birthday cake shots and got tricked into having a chilli shot which are crazy hot! Especially seeing as im a lemon and herb girl :( 

I intended not to drink that night coz the next day it was mine and staceys party but wtevs, them boys are bad influences. Pretty hungover after that but got back on the kopperberg pretty quick like a trooper and went to sainsburys to spend much more than intended on beer and vodka and Malibu and wine and skips among many many other things.

we played HU for who had to get dinner :(

I was saying to someone the other day its really weird coz literally all my friends at uni are girls, I live in a house of 7 girls, friends with all girls off my course… we always moan theres not enough boys around! But at our party the ratio was massively shifted to the male side, I guess coz all my uni friends are at home dotted around the country. I don’t think the boys were very happy about this lol but its only fair coz we are having another party in freshers week coz my bday is then too and that’s guna be mainly girls so everyone wins.

Someone deleted all the pictures off my camera which is really annoying but mays friend Helen took a few. A lot of scandalous things happened that night but I am not at liberty to share them with the public… all I say is a lot of sex went down (mainly with Carla, the poor girl) and including a threesome, too much drinking, silly boys fighting, blah blah blah.

dave taking a bit of a liking to carla

A lot of people from the poker world turned up but that’s good coz I like that group a lot. Jake, perrins and ash mason brought us some gifts for the house, that was nice of them I guess… they got us 2 lettuces, beechams sachets, a ‘reduced for quick sale’ plant, an ‘I love you husband’ card, multiple get well soon cards, cornflakes, lenor, a mini bottle of wine… “haha selina its coz youre mini haha”… not funny. A small packet of sweet, mens fitness magazine and some dog food (we do not have a dog.) all very appreciated. We had a game of flip cup but somehow I got stuck with jp Kelly next to me on my team and iv never seen anyone so retarded when it comes to flip cup! Somehow he has playing incredibly complicated cards down to the ground, but flipping over a plastic cup blew his mind lol. We won anyway even though them bastards on the other team accused us of cheating! tbh that’s fair as we did cheat a lot. Got a giant shisha in the basement that people seemed to enjoy but 4 days later it still stinks of bubblegum down there.

I haven’t been to tiger tiger on a Tuesday in a long time but we decided to go mid way through my party and it was really good! And for some reason we didn’t have to queue or pay to get in? Amelia said it was ‘coz we are girls’, sounds reasonable to me :D I had a great time there but salfi later told me he woke up in hospital without a phone or wallet and didn’t know why so he discharged himself and ran away lol.


before the basement shisha area got trashed

Anyway I would like to thank everyone for coming :) my friend brooksy is leaving for a year in china next week so was lovely to see him. The house is still a tip and very sticky but I don’t really care, all in the name of fun. Like true animals all the boys went for another night out the next day and rob went to Sweden or somewhere random, they have such crazy random lives.

To finish, this is a picture of a happy goat i found that always makes me smile so i hope it brightens your day.

Btw whos is the dom perignon I found in the front garden??