BIRTHDAY :D

Thursday morning I woke up and I literally felt like a hippo was sitting on my chest. I really hate being sick, especially when you have that annoying cough that just won't go away. I always feel bad to Johanne since we share a wall and I literally spent half the night and morning hacking a lung up lol. I walked to lab with an  impending sense of doom, feeling really crappy. But lab always turns out a lot better than I expect. My lab partners are really good fun. We always talk about a lot of random things, like quotes from nerdy movies lol... "it's a trap" and "no ticket" were hot topics. I love how nerdy science people all love the same movies. So me and a couple of guys bonded over Indiana Jones and Star Wars. It ended up taking us literally forever to finish the lab, but it's whatever. After lab, I had to quickly finish a surprise tutorial.  Dennis, Kirstie, and I worked on it together so it wasn't too bad. When I got back to my flat I had a package from my mom. It was filled only with nine different birthday cards all from her with different names for me like "my christmas present" or "our hard worker" lol. It was really nice though. I can definitely tell that she misses me a lot. A little later that night I went to Bri's flat and hung out there while they got ready ready to go to union. We had a good time at union with the normal people. Before the guys got there, Bri, Kelsie, Lindsay, and I had a lot of fun talking about the boys lol. Greg is literally hilarious to talk about, he does that strangest things. And James is really sweet and funny. I'm going to miss them a lot. When the guys got there, some of them were pretty drunk. It was great to sit and watch them lol. they are beyond entertaining. Eddie, Alistair bass playes, and the other Andrew were talking about the different accents in the UK. How I remember it, it was something like:


"Seat yir din" Irish
"Please, sit down" The Queen's English lol
"Sit yer dooooooown" Welsh
"Eh sit dahwn" (hack hack lol) Liverpool type
"Aye, sit down you fucking cunt" Scottish lol


Greg was pretty drunk and we had a very interesting conversation lol. Even when he's completely sober he doesn't really have any boundaries, but when he's drunk he will really say anything that pops into his head lol. He is literally fascinated with the pop it, lock it, drop it lol and he came up with a new move to add "pop it, drop it, cock it, lock it". The next time we going dancing, I will have to incorporte that in somehow lol. I taught Greg about male sensitivity and the female psyche lol he said it was very informative. He was especially curious about how Scottish guys compare to North American lol and enjoyed hearing how mountain man-like my brother is. Apparently Greg wants to live in a log cabin and be a mountain man, too. Alistair bass player was extremely drunk, as well. His drunk face is literally hilarious, especially since he kept caressing his his upper lip and saying how much he missed his pedo mustache since Movember is over. He then continued to steal a poster and try to shove it up his shirt lol. Overall it was a really fun night, complete with lots of talk about inappropriate topics and deciding that Alistair bass player should drink with us more often lol. And I showed my tattoo to everyone :)

At an ungodly hour Friday morning I had my Vikings! tutorial with Zoe and Kelsie. The only good part about it is the amount of banter with our tutor, Lisa Wotherspoon. After our tutorial, we were so tired and lazy that we got the bus back to Hillhead lol. We ran into Christian and he voiced how poor of a show that was lol. I took a nice long nap before my chem lab. On the way to lab, I got my chemistry alternative assessment exams and that kind of ruined my mood. I really can't believe it's time to do all my early leaver work... it's really freaking me out. I had a good time in lab, though. There was a lot of good chatting with my lab partners about chemistry stuff and harry potter lol. Dr. Harrison actually talked to me and somehow knew my name. He was all curious about my home uni and how I was liking Aberdeen and everything. He's really a lovely guy and now I feel really awful for not going to more of his lectures. Before leaving lab, everyone wished me a happy birthday and that was really sweet. I walked back to Bri's flat and stopped in to see them all for a few minutes before going back to my flat to hang out with my flatmates for the night. When I got back to my room, everyone was acting really sneaky and it was pretty funny. Mina kept saying "aw Lydia you have a birthday!" lol they all seemed pretty excited to celebrate with me :) We were hanging out in the kitchen and the risk of cholera was kind of out of control... it has now progressed to black plague conditions lol and all because the freaking cleaning lady forgot to give us more bags for the bin and toilet rolls. But after that threat passed, we all got ready go out to exodus. I was only expecting to go out with my flatmates and the Bulgarian boys, but Liam and Ross showed up too which was a really nice surprise. Liam made me a really cute card, too. We all got some pretty good pictures too when the Bulgarians arrived lol. They gave me a card and bottle of wine, too. Lol they are all so sweet. Then I opened all my cards from my flatmates and I very nearly cried. They cut right to the soul of me with their illustrations of flowers, monkeys, and cats lol but really they really are some of the nicest and most caring people I know. I'm so lucky to have lived with them. I know that they will miss me as much as I'm going to miss them. At least I will always be known as the Party Showerer, Singer, Almighty Gardener,  Morning Cougher, and Entertainer lol. But I had a really great night out with them... I just wish that I remembered more lol. We had a good time drinking in my flat and then going out to Exodus. Johanne sung to me in Norwegian on the bus and Mina, Jordan, Toni, and Johanne started a chant of "for she's a jolly good fella" also. Lol I'm just very happy that I was serenaded on the bus. And then Bart and Lola joined us at Exodus and that was really exciting! The DJ really played great music, too, so it was a lot of fun to dance and sing with everyone lol. People kept buying me drinks so I got pretty schwasted, but that's expected on my 21st birthday lol. Jordan kept screaming at me and shaking me if she thought that I wasn't acting excited enough. I was wearing a lot of pins about binge drinking and being a birthday princess, but at least I didn't lose any of them. Whenever I noticed that I lost some of my flair, I searched around the dance floor. When I found them I shoved them down my skirt and tights, so that was exciting later in the evening. It was a really good group to be out with, though. We all had a good time, but some people were definitely really drunk lol. Everyone kind of broke up over the course of the night, so I ended up getting the bus with Ross, Bart, and Lola and I fell asleep lol. At least I didn't puke. Jordan and Toni were back in my flat when I got back, and apparently when I got home I walked into the kitchen, grabbed the 2L coke, said "you're coming with me big boy", puked a little, and then fell asleep. I'm glad that they remembered me grabbing the coke, because it was definitely startling to wake up with the coke bottle in my bed lol. It was a really good night though.

I slept in pretty late on Saturday for obvious reasons. But coke really is my saving grace lol. Everyone was being really sneaky in the morning... I wasn't allowed into the kitchen for a while. I just had to wait in my room and listen to all the clunking and random bits of songs playing lol. I talked with my sister for a little, and enjoyed hearing how she is spending my birthday with Bob and my parents in NYC lol. At least I got to see her cats through skype. When I was finally allowed in the kitchen, Jordan made french toast for everyone and we had a good time sitting around and eating a nice birthday brunch. They stuck a bunch of candles into a piece of french toast and sung to me lol. We had a really good time sitting in the kitchen, commenting on the amount of impending cholera lol. I'm really glad that I was able to properly celebrate with them. After hanging around with them in the kitchen, I went to Bri's flat expecting all sorts of happy birthday wishing and hugs... but no one was there, except Lindsay who I woke up lol. So Lindsay, Tara, and I walked over to South House to find Bri and Kelsie. We talked with Christian and Andrew for a little, then we went back to Bri's flat and sat in the kitchen for a while. Zoe's presence was greatly missed, though :( Everyone sang happy birthday to me and I got a cake and all sorts of really nice presents and cards. I nearly cried while reading Kelsie and Zoe's card... I will probably look at them sometime when I'm in my room by myself and have a proper cry. I can't believe that I've been here with them for so long. I feel like it's still October. But after spending a while in the kitchen, Bri, Kelsie, and I went to the keystore for some necessities. We stopped by Catherine's room and had a good time talking with her and Eddie about spilling rice down your pants lol. I went home and talked with my parents, my mom informed me how my dad was very close to getting lost in Rockafeller center lol. Then I got ready to go out, met up with the girls (minus Zoe) in Bri's flat, and we all teetered over to South House to sit in the kitchen and drink. It was really nice to hang out in the flat with everyone. We really are friends with the most hilarious group of guys lol. I wish I could remember more details, but they always say the most interesting things, listen to the funniest music, and dance in the literally craziest ways lol. The amount of man love in the group is slightly worrisome, though lol. After lots of singing, and multiple listenings of the Evli Scotsman by Billy Connlly, we caught the bus to town. There was a lot of chanting, of course, lol and then we got off at school hill. We ran around between RGpoo, Exodus, and priory for basically the entire night. It was a lot of fun to be sung to in every place that we went lol. I was pretty proud of myself for getting all the girls to dance with me. It was very exciting in Exodus when they played a Green Day song lol. It's just a shame that people didn't have more money. A few people got pretty drunk, but a lot of us were just at that awkward half way point. Some people went home kind of early, so a smaller group of us went to Priory. I really do love dancing to ghetto music lol it just sucks that Priory always has all the really creepy people. I've never had to get in so many people's faces before in my life. When the club closed at 3, Christian and I had to wait and get our checked coats, and literally out of nowhere he was belly button drunk! It's always exciting when he gets that drunk and pulls out his belly button... it's kind of nasty but pretty funny. We then went to McDonald's for some late night food. And then for some reason, we decided to walk home instead of spend our non-existent money on a taxi and wait for years in the taxi line. I always forget how long the walk back to Hillhead is from town, though. It really sucks, especially when it's really cold. But at least the company was really good lol. Eddie always says the funniest things, and we definitely sang the trololo song for a while lol. When we finally got home, I changed into my long underwear and heated up some tasty meatloaf lol. I ran into Johanne in the kitchen and had a good chat with her about her night out with the Nordic society lol. Then I went into my room and tried to read... and woke up cuddling Harry Potter in the morning lol.

When I woke up in the morning I carefully put away my Harry Potter book and realized that I was secret stressing about all the damn school work I have to do in the next two weeks. Literally all of a sudden I have less than 14 days left in Scotland and I'm kind of freaking out about getting everything done and spending time with my friends. I heard all my flatmates up in the morning, so I went to the kitchen to hang out with them for a little bit. When I saw Johanne in the morning, I have no idea how I didn't notice all the different writing on her face the night before lol. She always has interesting nights out with her friends. After discussing our various nights on the town, there was a lot of chatting about snow... I really wish it would snow already! Especially since it's cold enough that the snow would definitely stick. I spent most of the day working on a lot of different chemistry stuff and listening to christmas music, which definitely lightened the mood lol. After spending most of the day working on chemistry stuff, I walked to the Bobbin and met up with Daniel for a drink. I have to remember to send his mom a thank you note for being so awesome when Bri and I stayed with them. It was nice to catch up with him, and the Bobbin is a really nice pub. It's kind of what you think about when you picture a pub, and it was especially cute sing there were a bunch of Christmas lights hung. The walk home was pretty nice, as well. Especially since it was really nice and Christmas-like cold. I love cold weather :)  I was way into the Christmas spirit when I got home. After finishing some other work, I watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the classic Disney Christmas cartoons. It was really nice to watch those shows on youtube. It reminded me a lot of my childhood. A little later in the night, everyone randomly convened in the kitchen lol. It was really desperate times, though. The lack of food was really hitting us... there weren't even potatoes. It was pretty awful lol. But we had a good time suffering together. It's always nice to reminisce about all the random things, good stories, and questionable decisions that have happened this semester lol. And Mina literally always laughs at the stupidest things. So it was a pretty good way to pass an evening without and snacks and a lack of good videos on youtube :)

Monday is always a kind of blah day. At least I don't have classes until 12:00... but it still is really difficult to wake up at 10:45, which is pretty sad lol. But my tutorial and lectures went pretty well. I love sitting at my Harry Potter desk in the wizagamot lecture hall lol. And that was basically the best thought of the day at uni. After class, I sat in the kitchen with everyone and talked about all sorts of yummy things, like Colin Firth lol. Johanne and I then went to lidl together and bought a ton of food that will probably last us like 2 days. We literally are pigs... when there's food in the fridge we just eat continuously lol. It was nice grocery shopping with Johanne though. I just can't get over that we literally have like 11 days left together. It really hasn't hit me yet. AFter we got back from lidl I quickly made some potatoes (to everyone's delight lol) and showered. The big overhead light in the shower was really rapey, though. It kept flickering at odd intervals so I literally felt like I was going to get stabbed lol. Mina made some tasty pasta cabonera for dinner, and we had a good time have an actual family sit down meal. We have definitely decided that Toni is the baby of the family lol. After dinner, I went on a search for Zoe, Kelsie, and Bri. I found them at South House. So I ended up hanging out with everyone in the kitchen, while casually rocking my onesie lol. It was a really nice night. It's always funny to watch Greg cook and hear his random banter lol. I really do love chatting with everyone, I'm going to miss them all like crazy. After a few hours of sitting in the kitchen, listening to music, and talking about all sorts of random things like hot toddies vs hot totties, we watched Space Jam. It was definitely a blast from the past. I probably haven't seen that movie since the 90's, so it was great to watch it again. I can't believe that it was so big over here, too. It was a good group of people to watch it with, though. We had all sorts of fun chats about the 90's. Bri and I had to explain kick ball to everyone which was pretty funny as well lol. After the movie, Zoe, Msrtyn, Callum, Christian, Andrew and I hung out in the kitchen talking for a while. Ginger jokes were a hot topic of conversation since Callum is so ginger lol. Martyn and Andrew played guitar for a little, too. I really love listening to anyone play guitar. It always amazes me! Seriously I could sit and watch someone play guitar for hours. Listening to the guitar kind of made me miss home and my brother. I haven't seen him in nearly 8 months which is pretty crazy. But anyways, it was a fun night. It just sucks that I actually have to start doing work at some point lol. But I'm going to try and get a lot done this week so I can really slag off next week :)