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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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??

choppy slicey stitchy

Firstly i would like to share this picture i found just now of max coz it makes me laugh, this is from sunday dinner one day when i made him whisk lots of things and he hates whisking, ha

I have been back and forthing between leeds and preston the last couple of weeks coz things keep coming up but I don’t mind coz its nice to see the fam etc and leeds it’s a bit quiet right now coz no one is around. Anyway this week I came home coz my dad was having his carpal tunnel done, its quite a simple surgical procedure and hes already had it done on his left hand but this time was his right. It causes him lots of pain, wont bore you with the science but basically its when theres pressure on the main nerve in your wrist and the operation releases it.

before

Hes a tough cookie so normally I wouldn’t bother coming home, would just send love from afar and send a card with a get well soon turtle on or something. But he was getting it done at a private hospital in euxton by a guy called dr malarkey (ironically he didn’t tolerate any malarkey) and we convinced him to let me go into surgery and give him a hand… slightly stretched the truth and told him I was a second year medical student with lots of medical experience but what he doesn’t know doesn’t hurt him… my dad maybe, but I was reallyyyyyy careful lol.

Originally the appointment was at 8am which I sighed and moaned a lot about but then got changed to 11 so that’s good but we got there and got bumped down the waiting list and they were single gender private rooms which is ridic so I wouldn’t be allowed in so we sat in the waiting room with no signal for like 4 hours blehhh no facebook or anything!. Spent many of these playing rack stare and hungry hamsters on my phone and I broke the coffee machine oops so we couldn’t get anything to drink and I broke the crisp machine oops so we couldn’t get anything to eat.

Eventually we got called in and I scrubbed up (which I later stole as a souvenir) and dad had to wear one of them gowns with no butt. It was all very official when we went into theatre, there was like 5 other people messing with lots of machines and a table full of knives and stabby tools, dad must have been scared but he was very brave.

after

First they squirted loads of local anaesthetic in his hand and cut off the blood and it went all white and shrivvely then made like a 2 inch cut at the bottom of the hand/wrist through all the fat and muscle which has got to be pulled open so you can see what youre doing. Then they split the transverse carpal ligament in two which releases the nerve but coz they have to cut through muscle to stop any bleeding they use this super hot pointy tweezer looking thing to burn the fibres which causes coagulation which = no bleeding. Was gross when they were doing that, there was bits of fat flying all over the place, like cooking bacon. Generally though it is all very clinical, I didn’t really know what to expect coz only ever messed about with cadavers but living flesh is very similar, just like doing dissections so I wasn’t really phased. Would have been well embarrassing if I passed out or something! The whole way through malarkey was quizzing me on my forearm knowledge but luckily I predicted this was coming and spruced up my carpal anatomy in the waiting room.

It was all successful and hes bandaged up and happy now so I wish him a speedy recovery J

so true

Recently iv moved house from my halls in Clarence dock to a big house with my girls in headingley. This has possibly been the most stressful experience of my life and it was made much worse coz I was the one that had to sort everything. Theres 7 of us living here… Me, Stacey, Zoe, Rosie, Kate, Lottie and Jess but theres only me and Stacey staying over summer so seeing as we are the ones who need water and electricity and stuff, we need to organise it. It must be annoying for the rest of them handing over money and worrying about things that arnt going to affect them for a few months so I don’t blame them for not getting too involved. I don’t really mind sorting everything but its still very stressful with moving all my stuff, having to buy loads of new things, natwest shouting at me for getting overdrawn on my already very large overdraft, sorting 7 people worth of bill paying, gas, electric, water, internet, tv, etc etc especially when iv been working lots but somehow still have no money and its lots of peoples bdays and fathers day and saving for holiday and have 2 rents to pay, the whole situation is one massive sigh! But I got called weaksauce twice today so iv manned up and everything is fine now. Doesn’t help when it’s a bad time of the month lol, my ovaries have been going crazy this week firing out hormones like theres no tomorrow! Do ovaries squirt hormones? Maybe the womb? I should know that probably…

my new room, appreciate how tidy it is

Well anyway we are all settled and happy now, got the internet today wooooooo which I couldn’t be happier about! Been cut off from the world far too long. Andddd i still cant do any grinding coz all my money was on full tilt like a fool :( on the plus side though my room is really cute, its got a pretty fireplace and iv bought lots of new stuff and stuck all my pictures up and I finally have a double bed so all is well :D Zoe has been to stay for a few days which has been nice, been out for tea a few times, visited some pubs, had some nice days out but shes gone home now and staceys not back til next Saturday so im on my bill for a few days, back to naked cooking it is. Plus its our housewarming party on 18^th which im very excited about! Everyone is welcome as long as you bring us a plant or beer or something :P

for some reason i dont have a pic of us all together so this is stacey, jess and me

Rosie, Kate and Zoe (left to right)

And beautiful beautiful Lottie

Going home on Monday coz I got us tickets for Jeremy kyle! Thennnnnnn tickets for x factor on Wednesday! Exciting stuff so watch out for me on tv soon :D

That’s all for now, stay classy leeds

Selina x

Wear Sunscreen

Might sound a bit weird but I listen to this one song literally every day, it called the sunscreen song and its by baz luhrman who also directed Moulin rouge which is definitely without a doubt my favourite film of all time! If anyone fancies whisking me off my feet one day id love to see the Moulin rouge in Paris and go for tea down the chanselise, my birthday is coming up too… handy ;)

Anyway the sunscreen song is like a famous speech/song he does and I like it because its filled with fabulous advice and stuff and really makes you think and I reckon if I could live my life like that I would be happy every second forever. Its like a 7 minute song and I know it word for word so maybe its about time I found a new song but I just love it so much!

My personal favourites:

1)      Be nice to your siblings, they’re the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

2)      Be kind to your knees… you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

So true... it will change your life.

I’ve been thinking a lot about general life and happiness recently coz I finished uni a few months ago and don’t go back til October, so that’s a long time to do nothing for! Gives you a lot of thinking time which can be nice and generally im not a very emotional thinking type person and im just happy all the time but makes you wonder what you’re doing with your life.

On the whole I’m a ‘cup’s nearly full’ person rather than a ‘cup’s a bit empty’ person, don’t see where worrying gets you but maybe that’s coz im lucky and don’t really have any major worries? I hate being around depressing moaning complaining people which is why I try and be happy happy, this becomes much more difficult around that time of month so best to avoid me tbh… ask max and he will tell you about the time not so long ago he was winding me up walking through town and I took a swing at him lol, missed dammit, the big girl was horrified all the same. Pretty much the only thing that really stresses me is results day, maybe if I stressed more about exams I would worry less about the results?? it’s a vicious circle of sadness so im not going to be doing that lol.

As a girl, I think too much about looks and guys and things (standard), wish I was skinnier, wish my boobs were perkier, wish I didn’t have sausage fingers blah blah blah but the other day Stacey said possibly the nicest thing I have ever heard,

‘Its your imperfections that make you perfect’

Which is a lovely way to think about things, rather than when I posed the question to Jamie lee and his words of wisdom were,

‘men age gracefully, women sag… gravity owns them’

my friend jess in our kitchen/lounge/communal
area, we ran out of bowls

And over the past year I had to make loads of random choices without really thinking and everything has changed completely but its alright coz I like the drama, anyway after I’ve moved up to headingley next week I hope I will settle more, im so excited to have a couch and a double bed! Living in halls is fun, so many parties and new people and vodka and no responsibilities but defo had enough of it now and want to live in a proper house so people will come visit… my mum ran away from my flat in fear and my dad is yet to come see where I live because ‘halls don’t count’.

Im missing all the poker boys too, they are balling all over vegas and all my uni friends have gone home for summer so its just me and Stacey for a while but we have fun so its ok :) I still hope they hurry home soon though, mainly because I’m jealous they are having fun without me but also coz I miss Sunday dinner and watching many hours of Disney with davey nic and many episodes of whatever shit series robs on at the moment and makes me watch.



dave's packing for 2 months holiday :/



Im going back to preston for fathers day this week so that should be nice to see my pretty papa and everyone, always miss my sibs when im in leeds and going to meet my mum for lunch one day. Also may has just got back from vegas so I haven’t seen her in a while and im sure there will be lots of juicy stories to hear so hopefully the long late night Sunday train journey will be worth it.

Pops

Til next time,

Selina x

Sciencedam

At Leeds every course has a society, I’m not sure what they are for coz ours doesn’t do much but anyway it’s called fobsoc (faculty of biological sciences society). I like to think I’m not a nerd but fobsoc is definitely a nerdy society to be in. However, in February they organised a trip to Amsterdam so I snap thought omg yeh this will be so cool maybe fobsoc aren’t so bad! …then they called it sciencedam :/

We only went for a couple of days and it was very dramatic but I enjoyed it a lot so thought I should dedicate a blog to it :) plus Helen felt left out…

For some reason the theme for the journey there was prehistoric so me, Hannah, Helen and Sarah dressed up as cave girls as I am a big fan of fancy dress ha and I tend to get really into it! But then we got to uni trekking through town looking like idiots and turned out everyone else wasn’t so up for it as we were… sigh, oh well id started drinking by this point so didn’t really bother me!

So the coach was really late and we got on the wrong one then when we found the right one it drove off in the wrong direction so we were quite behind schedule, and a bit drunk. We only set off from leeds at like 10pm or something so we were driving all night down to dover (why we didn’t either fly or go from hull I will never know.) We ended up getting to dover at like 4.30am, turned out the ferry was at 4.15 sighhhh so we sat on this sweaty coach all tired and hungover til the next one at 6.30 and everyone was shattered so we all piled on and collapsed everywhere and coz there was like 100 of us plus regular people, all the couches and stuff were taken so I had to sit in this tiny space amongst lots of real people judging me for looking like a drunk, skanky cavegirl. None of us were feeling great anyway from the drinking and not sleeping but this was the most choppiest ferry you could imagine, so so windy literally couldn’t stand up! But I didn’t really think anything of it all I thought was ‘I just want to not be in public or travelling and get to sciencedam’. Then about 40 mins into the 90 min journey Helen poked me and then pointed to the little virtual journey screen and the mini boat was turning around back to dover! The captain guy came on the speaker and said ‘due to a fault with the ferry and adverse weather conditions we are turning back to dover, even though we were already half frikin way there, sorry im such an ass, sit tight’ so there was a big uproar and everyone got extra mad then 10 mins later when we were nearly back, Hannah, who was curled up asleep on the floor bless her, woke up and looked outside and said ‘ohh I can see the port, its calais! Were finally there!’ no babe… we’re back at dover. To which she replied ‘*$£*&%^$”*^**£$!”^%&* fucking ***”$%!”^&*£**$”’. Ah but we can look back and laugh.

helen, sarah, me and hannah in this steakhouse restaurant

In the end we went back, got the next one at half 7, having been awake for like 25 hours now and eventually got to Calais, drove up to dam but by the time we got to where we were staying it was like 5pm so just went straight up to our room to get ready to go out like true lads. After much moaning off Hannah and Helen about being tired we decided to spend the night sat in a café doing things you do in Amsterdam and had a very hilarious night and I collected lots of mementos for my forever box J

None of us had been to Amsterdam before so we had loads of stuff planned, van gogh museum, red light district, Boddingtons factory, anne frank museum, buy some clogs, get some hookers etc etc (kidding about that last one) but we only got up dead late so we just went to the sex museum right in the city centre which was abso incred! Definitely recommend it.



i think this sink was meant to be
a vajayjay



At night we got tickets for this ultimate bar crawl thing which was pretty good coz like everyone from our group went and it was just basically a massive pub crawl round Amsterdam and they give you a free drink in each. We scammed our way into free vip t-shirts so we got whatever we wanted and these guys came round every 2 seconds with big bottles of spirits for communal drinking. Few missing scenes there so I’ll move on.

penis bowl

It’s crazy how many bikes there are there, literally EVERYONE rides bikes, hardly any cars and as it turned out, bikes are really hard to avoid when you’ve had a few tee many martoonies/much more space cake than the guy recommended. So be warned.

We did lots of other nice things too, went to hardrock café for tea which I had never been to before but its awesome, such good nachos! Which reminds me of when we went to hooters in Nottingham for tea one time. That place is epic, its packed full of guys and football screens and we got nachos there too (tough competition) and serves all American things and the hot waitresses all mince around in tiny shorts and crop tops, very amusing. But yeh we saw lots of general Amsterdam sites, wandered down the red light district, did some shopping, bought some winkie pasta, had a nice time.

Thankfully the journey back was much more tolerable and we stopped at a chocolate factory in Belgium which made me happy J.

I like Amsterdam coz its really pretty and quaint, maybe not so much at night when theres lots of drunk stoners around but on the whole its lovely. All cobbley with a beautiful canal running through and loads of bridges and little cute shops. I would definitely like to go back… right after vegas that is… and maybe after Thailand too… oo and new York…