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 :)
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| me and benny at the airport |
according to the news, as of 1st 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
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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.
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| 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
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| 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:
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!
Have a nice week,
Peace out yo.
