Oh, The Places You'll Go

Friday was a pretty long day. I had nearly straight classes from 9 until about 4:30. It was a pretty good day, though. I felt like I got a lot done. My tutorial was pretty helpful for Vikings! actually, but the lecture was such a waste of time. Kelsie put together a puzzle, Zoe facebooked, and I blogged lol. I went to the library for a little and got some sources for the Vikings! essay. While I was in the library I smelled that certain cologne that loads of guys wear here and I could honestly kill the person that invented it. It's one of those smells that you can really tie to certain events and people and it just really messed with your brain. But anyways, the rest of my day was filled with exciting chemistry lol. The lecture was pretty boring, like always. But it's always funny to hear the most monotoned, dry-humored, nerdy chemistry professor explain how excited he is about the different colors he used in his powerpoint slide lol. I even met with my course coordinator between my classes... it took me forever to find his office. At least I didn't get lost this time, although the secretary had to call him to get directions to his office. Then I had my lab write up session and that was pretty great. I love when everything kind of blends together and works out, and then you can leave early :) After lab I stopped by my Scottish loves' flat and visited with them for a little, which is always something to smile about. At around 5:00 I walked (the long way) to meet up with Bri and the Arcadia people for our historical tour of King's college. I may or may not have nearly gotten lost on my way to the old town center building, but I definitely saw a lot of really beautiful old granite homes all lit up at night. Bri and I hung out with the tour guide for a little and he gave us a good talking to about Scottish accents and terminology lol. He asked us if we knew what a "dreep" was and he gave us a list of options and I said "I really hope it's the last one" lol and Bri said definitely. The last option was that a dreep is a really boring guy, the kind that takes you on a date and you really wish you wouldn't have been nice and said yes. WHen the other Arcadia students met up with us, we started our tour. I was actually really excited that Tomas Sanchez from Wooster who is studying in Glasgow came lol. We had a good time talking. The group was really small, only 8 students and 4 of them were from Aberdeen. Bri and I were definitely the silly ones in the group who made all the funny comments. The King's college area tour was really beautiful at night. The old buildings look amazing when they are all lit up and it was a really clear and nice evening. The tour guide kind of had a good time making fun of me and Bri, but it was all in good fun. Who doesn't enjoy all sorts of jokes about America and women and man eaters?? At one point we walked down a little ally and the guide said that this building was something like a nunnery, and then we walked to a building diagonal from the nunnery and the tour guide got really quiet and said "now this building is something that no one really knows about... except for the young men and boys...". You can imagine what everyone was thinking lol then he all of a sudden says "it's a masonry..." LOL I said "Oh ok I was thinking that building is oddly close to the nunnery". We then walked around the other building and even went into the chapel. There really is something magical about campuses at night. When we were back on high street, Bri said how we have to come back when it's snowing because it would look exactly like Hogsmeade! It's so true, too. The little granite and stone building with the old gas lights on the walls really look like Hogsmeade. I really hope that it snows before I leave. But, no matter what I need to get some pictures of the campus at night! Out tour was a lot of fun, and I think that even the other students had a good time. When we were standing by The Brewery, a random 4th year appears out of nowhere and I accidentally surprise grabbed Bri when I got a fright lol. He joined our group and said how he learned more tonight than he had in the past 3 years of being in Aberdeen. So it was a really nice and informative walk. How the Aberdeen people treated women who broke the law was kind of crazy, and apparently the last man to be executed in the UK was executed in Old Aberdeen lol. After the tour we all piled into taxis and went to dinner. We had a great time talking and eating (for free) on School Hill in town. It's funny to see that place when I'm not going to RGpoo union or a club lol. I really love Bri, we had an awesome time explaining to our American friends about how much we love Aberdeen and how we love our Scottish friends and all sorts of things. it was a very silly dinner, especially with the sticky toffee pudding that Bri and I shared date-style lol. We actually even convinced the 4 other Americans to come to our union and hang out with us and meet our Scottish friends. It all worked out really nice, actually. Bri, Kelsie, Zoe, Lindsay, and I go to union and sat down with some people we knew, and then all of a sudden the other Americans show up and all through the night different groups of our friends kept showing up. When my Bulgarians and Johanne showed up, I kind of could have killed them lol they all really love to remind me of silly things I've done. They think it's hilarious... I honestly don't know what they are going to for entertainment when I go home! They didn't stay too long, though and I was happy to see that my Scottish friends were talking with the other Americans and they seemed to be having a lot of fun lol. We all had a great time ogling at Beautiful William the bartender lol and discussing how there is so much man love/girl love in our group. Seriously Kelsie, Bri, Zoe, Lindsay, and I discuss marrying each other so Bri and I can have citizenship. Zoe and I actually exchanged vows on Friday lol so it's official. AND Kelsie definitely kissed me on the cheek, so it is all very exciting lol. Another interesting topic that always seems to come up are boobs. It's really quite funny lol. Other people would think my group and I are crazy, but at least the Americans seemed to find it all amusing lol. After union closed, the Americans went home and most of the group went back to South House for a little. I had a fun time trying to explain Matisyahu to everyone lol, but that was clarified later on facebook. I love the random little facebook chats that ensue after good nights. 

Saturday was a really great day. It took a while to get started, especially since Bri was practically stuck in South House lol. But we went and met the Americans at the Maritime Museum, after some confusion with the buses and finding the museum lol. We had a lot of fun chatting with the Americans about the night before, and then we started our little trip to Mackie's farm in the country. Since there were only 8 students, 2 professors, and a really lovely, grandmotherly tour guide, we got to ride on a cute little bus. Bri and I of course assumed position in the back row and we drove the 45 minutes to the farm. It was really nice to get out of the city for a little. the countryside around Aberdeen is really beautiful, with expansive fields and rolling hills that grow to mountains. There's also a lot of thick forests that really make it feel otherworldly. We enjoyed listening to all the chatting of the Angela Lansbury-esk tour guide lol and then we arrived at Mackie's farm. I knew it was going to be a great day, but it got exponentially better with immediately receiving free ice cream lol. We listened to the head of the Mackie family, Mackie's is a family run dairy farm that uses only renewable energy, tell us all about the farm and when he went to American and the science behind the turbines and everything like that. It was really great. Then we took a tour of the farm and saw all the really high tech machines that make the ice cream containers and all the cows. Bri and I were really excited to see the cows lol it really reminded us of home. We were like frolicking around in the barn where all the happy cows were lol. I got really excited when I was looking and talking to one cow and it stuck it's head out at me and I scratched her nose and then turned to listen to Maitland Mackie talk some more about the cows and the cow licked my arm! LOL I kind of screamed but it was great. I then of course had to get a picture with my cow. Cow number 149 getting a little too fiesty lol. Then we walked some more and the excitement only mounted when we saw the maternity ward and then all the baby cows!!! Even the Angela Lansbury tour guide got really giggly at the baby cows lol. We saw really baby cows and then slightly bigger ones who were running around and bucking and all excited lol. It was ADORABLE. Then we walked up some hills to see the wind turbines and it was just getting to sunset (like 3:00) and the sunset was absolutely breathtaking! I can't even describe it. At the top of the hill we looked out over the valley and in the distance there was the Benihe (spelling??) peak and the sun was setting right besides it and the valley was all misty looking and it was such a beautiful and clear twilight that there were so many beautiful colors in the clouds. Seriously, imagine the best sunset ever. One with beautiful nature all involved, and then multiple it by at least 5. That's what I saw. Pictures don't do it justice. It was funny when we were walking up the hill and the tour guide said we have to be careful to stay on time, and Mr. Mackie said "well if that's so we better run!" lol so we all ran up the hill. Even Mr. Mackie and Hemish lol. We got a lot of pictures on the top of the hill and went inside the wind turbine. 13 people comfortably fit in it... it was kind of like a space ship I think lol. There are absolutely colossal and when you stand inside you can just feel the power pulsing, it's really cool. Our bus driver drove the van (somehow) to the top of the hill and he even came in and heard Mr. Mackie explain how it all works and stuff lol. Bri and I took some nice pictures together and had a really great time chatting about how wonderful Scotland is and how we never want to leave. The other Americans totally agreed with us lol.  When we had all piled into the car and genuinely thanked Mr. Mackie for everything, we started making out way back to Aberdeen city. We drove around the harbor and saw all the ships lit up and the city looked really pretty. We then stopped and walked around the old fishing village part of footdee (pronounced fuh-tee... I know lol). It was really cute with how little the houses were and how they were right by the sea. We also got to see a lot of ships go in and out of the port, "on queue" according to the driver and tour guide lol. So it was a very nice and fulfilling day out seeing new things :) I really liked when we drove by the big lighthouse that's on the top of the hill right outside the city. It was really old and pretty looking and there were wonderful views of Aberdeen city from it lol. We then said goodbye to all the other Americans and Bri and I did a little last minute shopping for going out clothes at Union Square. It was all lit up with christmas lights and it was really festive and pretty lol. Then we met up with Kelsie, Zoe, and Lindsay for date night at pizza hut. It was a lot of fun. SO many silly things were talked about, like the clap, babies, and "that's not how it went down in my head" lol. We had fun planning what we were going to wear tonight and talking about playing kings... and watching the little boy next to us with how family lol he had a harmonica and a buildabear and a sword and he as beyond cute. We were watching him like crazy people, but it was ok lol. After our date night, we all went home and got ready to go and play kings with with boys. But there were some issues getting out and then the boys weren't actually there and that kind of sucked. So we ended up feeling kind of shitty and going to union before catching the bus into town. When we finally found the boys at RGpoo we kind of decided the best thing to do was buy a lot of drinks and have a good time lol. So things kind of got really messy, literally crazy. I was a major creeper shield for everyone though. Apparently I yelled at some guy to back off and really got in his face lol... "Lydia be crazy". We had a good time dancing, though. Bri and I freaked out when the DJ played "One Week" lol. But all of a sudden shit really hit the fan. Zoe, Lindsay, Bri, and I had no idea where the other half of our group disappeared to, and we had a really difficult time trying to get home. Lol apparently Bri was freaking out about where her purse was when we were in the taxi line, and then all of a sudden I said "wait, here's your purse". I honestly don't remember putting it on my arm, but it's hilarious that it was randomly there. We had a good time in the taxi line, all sorts of crazy things happened lol. I especially liked how Bri's hair looked when Zoe tied it back, and how Callum explained that everyone throws up on union street lol. We then all piled in a taxi, and despite some little issues along the way, we made it home perfectly fine lol. We all get by with a little help from our friends. 

Sunday was a very boring day. Literally like 2 hours after I woke up it was getting dark, already. That really throws off my productivity level lol. But I've decided that sunday is onesie day, and that makes life better. I had a good time talking with my flatmates about the night before lol we always have such silly chats. At least this time we weren't talking about flowers and gardening, this time. Although Mina did get to pet some dogs and I am very jealous! I really love them lol. They can really lighten up crap situations. I was feeling pretty shit on Sunday, but talking with Mina really helped... stupid feelings. I never want to leave them :( Lol we had a really difficult time figuring out what we were going to have for dinner and some crazy antics ensued. Mainly involving delusion from lack of food, and I discovered that I can climb the walls to the ceiling lol. But Mina and I went to the keystore and picked up some fish sticks (fish dicks) for dinner. On the way to the keystore (for the second time in my onesie), Mina and I were really chatting away and we went around a corner and all of a sudden there was this big black guy right in front of me. I screamed in the poor guys face, and had a mini heart attack. He looked at me like I was crazy, and Mina laughed at me for like hours after that. She wondered how a ninja monkey can get so scared... "didn't you hear him coming"... "nope". Lol it was really funny, though. I just got such a fright from some guy being right in front of me. After dinner I went to Bri and Kelsie's flat so Zoe and I could work on the Vikings! essay. We had a good time talking, and I must say that her phrase "amaze-balls" is really catching on lol I say it all the time now. It was kind of cruddy working on Vikings! but I felt good about actually doing something for it, even though I didn't write anything for my essay yet lol. When I went home I had some surprise cheering up from a friend I hadn't talked to in a while and that was really great. I love those little things in life that show you how much other people care about you. Especially after all the places you might go, the people who stay in touch are the ones who really matter. 

A Quick Week

Monday was a pretty normal day. Nothing much really happened... I woke up kind of early and I was really tired and went to the library to finish my dry labs for inorganic chemistry. Those really weren't much fun, so I wasn't too excited about the actual lab this week. I had my tutorial and then lecture and then went to the hub. I met up with Toni and Johanne and some other Bulgarian friends and we talked about Name Days lol. My Bulgarian name day is March 23 and I want to celebrate it for sure! I then had my Arthur lecture and that was great since we had a different professor and I like him a lot. He is always good fun talking about some of the more interesting/strange stories with Arthur. It just really sucks when my 3:00 lecture finishes and it is nearly dark outside... it is really hard to get motivated to do a lot of work lol. But I went back to my flat and worked on some chemistry stuff, obviously putting off working on my essays. Jordan made dinner for flatmates and I. We had a good time helping her cook lol. She made pigs in a blanket and the dough was kind of frozen so we had to like play with it like putty in our hands to make it dough-like. Dinner was really good and we ended up talking and hanging out for a long time. Then I went o Bri's flat and I ended up kind of sitting by myself in the kitchen for a little while everyone else was getting ready. I ended up listening to a lot of 50s/60s oldies that I love and that made me feel really nostalgic... I really like listening to music like that. I was sitting in the kitchen on Kelsie's computer putting on a great playlist and she came in and sang a little with me. We then went to union for a little, but not too much exciting happened. We got there kind of late and just sat talking for a while and then cleared out lol. We might have visited the boys at South House... but I honestly don't remember really. This week has been just a blur.

Tuesday morning I actually went to my Vikings! lecture in the morning with Zoe and Catherine. I actually noticed other people I knew in the lecture that I hadn't noticed before. Although they are kind of doucey lol. I went to the library after the lecture to pass the time before my chemistry lecture at 1:00. I worked a good amount on my Arthur essay, although I'm still kind of wary about writing it lol. I know what I want to say but everything has kind of jumbled together and since I'm a perfectionist I know that it will take me forever to get exactly what I want lol. But I went to my lecture in the Meston science building and got lost trying to find my course coordinator's office... the building is so oddly laid out and huge that even the secretary had difficulty trying to direct me and failed lol. It's just funny when you are walking around in the bowels of the building and definitely smell traces of formaldehyde and other telltale chemicals lol. I then went home and made a potato to eat, was promptly made fun of, and then did some chemistry work. Later on I ate dinner with my flatmates and then went to Bri's flat for a little. Bri, Zoe, and I then went to union and we met up with Kelsie and her twin sisters and their friends. We had a good time sitting with them and talking. It's really interesting to see how similar Kelsie and her sisters. After a while all our other friends showed up and it was quite a huge group of us sitting at the small table. It was a really fun night, especially since Kelsie's sisters were so interested in finding out what Kelsie does at university lol. Basically we kind of had a crazy Tuesday night and it got even crazier when Kelsie went into town with her sisters and the rest of us went back to South House. We played some video games and I was absolutely awful at them lol. The guys found that pretty amusing. Catherine had a bottle of wine and I basically drank the entire bottle lol and randomly jordan showed up and she said that I was pretty hilarious. At least I wasn't the only one. Bri and I had a good time talking with all the boys, and they had a good time laughing at us about not having "normal" things like Jelly Tots (sugar covered gummies) and Knik Knax (snack packs) lol. After settling some discrepancies with the bass player, I dragged myself home. Apparently I made a potato, stood in a very funny "supportive" position, and narrated eating my potato lol. Mina, Toni, and Johanne thought I was absolutely hilarious. They had a good time reminding me about it the next day.

I didn't go to my one class on Wednesday. Instead I stayed in and did a lot of work on my Arthur essay. I have a good start, although it's definitely only a preliminary draft lol. Mina, Toni, Johanne, and Jordan  had a good time talking with me about my crazy antics lol and then we kind of planned what to do about Thanksgiving. I can't believe that Thanksgiving is next week! This semester is literally flying by! I absolutely can't believe it! Bri reminded me that we have one month before we leave and I nearly cried... we plotted to make a time machine/ teleportation device lol. I talked with Erika and she gave me some good advice about cooking Thanksgiving in the UK. It will be a lot of work, but it should be a lot of fun. Mina is very excited at the prospect of eating it lol she keeps reminding me about it and asking me if I'm getting my essays done in time. Lol I'm going to be really busy next week with finishing my essays and working on my labs, that I don't think I will be able to make dinner on Thursday. I will probably do it on Saturday or Sunday. Hopefully shopping for everything will go well. I went over to Bri's flat a little later and hung out there for a while. Then we went to South House to visit the boys and talk for a little. they were going to watch a scary movie so I promptly left lol. I then worked some more on my Arthur essay and went to bed. For being so lazy, it was actually a productive day. I just wish I wouldn't be so busy this weekend with an Arcadia trip around Aberdeen. Trying to find time to write my essays is getting harder by the moment.

Thursday morning I was kind of dreading chemistry lab, but it actually turned out to be quite a lot of fun. There was only one other person in my group and we had a good time working together and making mistakes together lol. It was interesting trying to use the UV-Vis machine, and we were those people in lab that had all the lab assistants/ professors talking to us and having a good time. Having chemistry lab in the morning was really nice. It wasn't dark when I left and the day felt really long! It was great :) I then had some lectures and in my Vikings! lecture I received a bunch of texts from some creep who was absolutely positive that I had any intention of talking to. It was weird and funny. After lecture, Zoe, Catherine, and I walked back to Bri's flat and Zoe and I had strudel and ice cream waiting for us. Lol lots of funny jokes about Lindsay being my eager little housewife ensued. i was hanging out with the Scottish girls, when Kelsie and Lindsay started saying how it would be so much easier if the "americans" were actually weirdos that just hung out with themselves and I said "I would have rather loved and lost than never have loved at all!" LOL it was great. And it's very true. I love them all and although I know it would have been so much easier to leave if I didn't love them so much, I wouldn't change anything about it. I just hope our friendships last and we can visit every once in a while :) After leaving Bri's flat, I talked with Mina about my day and she had a good time laughing about me and my fire-setting abilities. Lol "lydia strikes again!"... apparently this is impressive :p lol a little later Mina and I had another interesting chat. She asked me "what bird talks in the night" and then she made this purring-ish sound lol and I thought she was talking about a dove, but she said no it's spelled C-U-C-K-O-O lol SO I had to explain how cuckoo sounds so she could write her poem. In all fairness, it was a very good poem. Although whether "insects" and "mistakes" really rhymes, I'm not too sure lol. It was funny though :) Then Toni, Mina, and I were sitting in the kitchen and we started talking about family guy and we watched some really funny clips regarding the bird is the word lol. The rest of the night we basically sang that at each other and danced funny lol. After hanging out with my flatmates, I went to union wit Kelsie, Bri, and Zoe. We had a good time sitting around and talking, although there were definitely a group of like 14/15 year old kids there. It was really annoying because they were obviously prepubescent and when they got drunk they started acting like complete idiots. It was kind of funny watching them, but really annoying that they had the audacity to go to a university bar. I can't believe they weren't ID'd. We made them feel pretty uncomfortable, though lol. Bri was pretty merciless. Some of our other friends showed up and we talked until union closed and then went back to South House for a little. Idk why but when we were at union we had some pretty interesting chats... body parts was a big topic of conversation lol and lesbianism lol. You can definitely tell that we have friends with no shame whatsoever lol but that's ok. Sacrifice anything for the sake of banter!

WHERE IS YOUR GNOME?!

I definitely could have slept all day Saturday... and it really felt like I did, actually. The sun was setting when I was just waking up lol. I heard everyone else start to move and I was super curious to hear what they had to say about the previous night, so I dragged myself out of bed and went to the kitchen to hang out with everyone. We had a great time talking and laughing about the night before... some of us had some REALLY good stories lol. After laughing at eachother and talking, I decided to get some work done. I went over to Bri's flat and listened to their stories about the previous night and planned some more stuff for my essay. After a while we decided that we should go to Morrisons and get some food, so we had a nice time going into town. We ended up getting a lot of stuff at Morrisons and nearly had an epic fail trying to carry everything home lol. I went back to my flat and Toni, Mina, Johanne, Jo, and I talked in the kitchen for a little, it's always funny to hear what they have to say about my random things. I was sitting in my room reading an email and looking at stuff on facebook, and I started giggling and laughing to myself and I hear everyone in the kitchen just stop talking, pause for a second, and then start laughing. Johanne said the best part about living with me are all the random things I do lol but I know they all love my "party showers" When I was showering yesterday, I was in the middle of a heartfelt rendition of Hakuna Matata and Jo barges in on my shower to sing a little with me lol. They are all amazing :) after I got ready, I went over to Bri's flat but everyone was feeling kind of shite. We weren't really crazy into going out, but we were going to go anyways for Zoe's birthday. That mood definitely changed when we got to the boys flat, though lol. We played some Kings, and some hilarious rules and events took place... I especially love the rule about no names and hearing all the phrases people come up with lol. Then Bri made a rule about taking off the little gnome on your glass before drinking, and since I was mated with Kelsie I drank and when she was about to take a sip I yelled "where is your gnome?!" at her lol she was quite startled, but it was worth it lol. Beats from heaven is one of my favorites, though. I literally can't keep a straight face for that... it was just a great round a kings lol. We all had a really great time hanging out together, and we got pumped to go into town. When we were leaving to catch the bus, there were some issues with trying to make Greg come to town with us, but he ended up staying with a sick Bri. The rest of us caught the bus, and I must say it was a very rowdy bus. There was a group of guys on it that Kelsie and I kind of know, but they are kind of arrogant jerks so a lot of bantering and chanting was going on lol. It was all really funny, though. It was hilarious with how my guy friends kept joining in the other sides chants against me... they really were out to defend my honor lol. We ran into that group of guys at RGU (RGpoo) union and they apologized, so it's all good lol. We didn't stay too long at that union bar, we all wanted to go into an actual club. We started out at Exodus and had a great time there! There were only 7 of us out, but since we are such a close group of friends it was really a lot of fun. All sorts of memorable events happened and some amazing pictures were taken lol. Kissing and face punching, a random old guy stripping as he sang to us, fun chats, tequila, hilarious but adorable pictures, dancing!, and acting silly were just a couple of things that went down at Exodus. Then we walked to Priory and had a really great time there, as well. Priory is a lot more crowded and creeper filled than Exodus, so that made it kind of sketchier. From what i remember, we still had a lot of fun. Lindsay, Kelsie, Zoe and I may have made a grind train lol and we of course all danced like maniacs! I had my first jager bomb and that was absolutely delicious lol. We stayed there for a while and then headed to McDonald's for some much needed sustenance. I love going to McDonald's with Lindsay because she is such a boss at ordering, as I apparently said a lot last night lol. We all got food and had a good time sitting at a little table and eating. Some other stuff happened, and then we ran like crazy people to catch the last bus back to Hillhead. The bus driver was a bit of a jerk, though. We literally ran nearly the entire length of Union street to get that bus lol. I went back to South House with Kelsie to check on Bri and tell her about some of the crazy things from the night, and then I went back to my room and slept like no other. 

I was unfortunately woken up kind of early by Joe calling me to apologize for his jerk friends like harassing us on the bus lol. I'm not going to lie when I woke up, there definitely was alcohol still in my system lol. I had a fun time talking with my flatmates about everything that happened the night before and some other stuff. I explained how it was such a onesie day and we had a good time talking about how strange Bulgarian is lol. Like for "by the way", they say "btv" pronounced "buhtuhvuh" lol and IMDB and OMG are the same. Very random, but still really interesting. Then I went to wake up Lindsay and Kelsie. They felt about the same as I did... still drunk lol and when Kelsie and I went to South House to wake up Bri, we saw that the guys were basically feeling the same as well lol. We had a great time showing her all the pictures from the night before, some of them are completely priceless lol. Then we went to the kitchen and talked with Andrew and Christian for a while. I love talking about really awesome evenings the morning after... it's great to be reminded of things and hear other people's stories lol. Kelsie, Bri, and I then went back to Bri's flat and we kind of did some work, but as the day wore on, surprise pain kept creeping in. The bruises aren't too bad, but poor Kelsie really did a number to her ankle. It really swelled and she could hardly walk on it. It's just hilarious that we walked to South House and she was totally fine, but then it hit her all of a sudden. While we were in the kitchen, Kelsie's really sweet Lithuanian flatmate (I have no idea how to spell her name) came in and we talked about how difficult english is and talking about other languages and learning languages, as well. Kelsie and Lindsay said that when Scottish kids are really small one of the first things they learn to say is "ta" for thank you and it sounds absolutely adorable lol. But after hanging out in the kitchen for a while, I went back to my flat and ate dinner with everyone. Mina made pancakes and bacon, and it was so good! We even had sliced strawberries! I love our family dinners so much! We really had a good time talking about all sorts of stuff. Then I went back over to the other flat, and basically while everyone else was getting ready to go to the boys' flat (I was still in my onesie) I DJ-ed with showtunes and Disney. It was great. Les Mis was a big hit, and Lindsay, Zoe, and Kelsie heard first-hand the beginnings of my one man Les Mis show lol. Then we went to South House and watched The Beach (a kind of creepy movie) and the Lion King. The Lion King was absolutely amazing to watch with everyone! James had never seen it before, actually, but I bet we were really annoying to watch it with because we were all singing and talking about it lol. Even thought I had literally just watched that movie less than 2 weeks ago, I had a great time and everyone definitely knew it lol. I even noticed something that I never had before, Simba and Nala purr right before the "can you feel the love tonight" scene! Lol I eagerly voiced that thought and was laughed out, oh well. After that we all split to go to bed. I came home and noticed how gross my pumpkin was getting and threw it out the window lol. I even saw a cat walking around outside and got really excited and try to call for it, but that didn't work out at all lol. But anyways, I'm amazed that another weekend has gone by already! The time is literally flying, it scares me. 

DA 4 LYF --> 1D 4 LYF

Thursday was a very productive day, actually. I love those type of days lol. I spent a couple of hours in the library working on my Arthur research and then I had lectures, which were boring as usual. Honestly I was the only one of the group of my friends to go to the Vikings! and it was awful... I wrote down some initial thoughts for the essay and I could have cried. It will literally be the biggest piece of shit I've ever written. Ugh... then I started thinking about how I haven't touched a piano in about 2 months and I felt extremely depressed. I miss practicing and singing so much. I'm going to find the practice rooms here. I would love to play and have Kelsie play :) I had a fair amount of chemistry work to do, so the busy work definitely helped with my mood lol. Then I went to Bri's flat for a pizza night and we had a good time chatting about all sorts of things. We started talking about the Hangover, and we came to the conclusion that Bri is Phil, Kelsie is Doug, I'm Stu, and Zoe is Alan lol. It's unfortunate that Zoe hasn't actually seen the movie so she couldn't get mad at us for saying that she is Alan lol. After our pizza party we went to union for quiz night, and that was really interesting. There were only five of us on a team, and we epically lost lol. We had an awesome team name, though... Dumbledore's Army. There was a mystery round that we really hoped was going to be about Harry Potter, but it was about Friends and that kind of sucked lol. Literally at the second to last round we had 25 points, and a team that dropped out two rounds before us had 24 points lol. The bar staff were making fun of us lol. Andrew and Greg ended up showing up towards the end, but they really weren't much help. We were really worried that one of our team members would have to do the booby prize, someone has to chug a half meter of beer lol and whatever they don't finish gets poured on their head. But apparently the booby prize goes to the second last team... we were kind of freaking out and poor Kelsie would have had to do it in front of everyone at the bar. After the quiz we all hung out in the bar and had some good chats... I really love knowing how close I am with my friends here. It's nice to be able to laugh at each other for stupid things lol :) Then we went back to South House for a little and kind of yelled at the other guys for not coming to help us. Then I went home to do some more chemistry work and go to bed. I wanted to spend some more time in the library the next day.

Friday started absolutely horribly. I was woken up by an angry jerk porter at 8:00 am who was knocking on everyone's doors to "check the fire alarms". But really he just wanted to yell at everyone and interrogate us about who is smoking in the kitchen and setting off the little beepy fire alarm. He was such a jerk and I got really sassy with him about coming in so early and yelling at us and invasion of privacy and attempting to dispose of personal items. He kind of got in my face and I just stared him down and said no one is smoking in the kitchen and I don't know who's lighter and stuff that is. He made me so mad that I couldn't fall back asleep again so I got dressed and headed to the library early. It was totally mingin outside and I was really happy I made it to uni without getting rained on and then I realized that I didn't have my student ID card so I couldn't get in to return my book that was due in like 10 minutes. So I ended up running back to my room and getting all disgusting trying to find my card, I even checked my pants from the other day. I couldn't find it so I went back to the library (in the rain) and frantically asked an info woman about where I can get a new card. But apparently I barged in and made an idiot of myself during the moment of silence for Armistice Day lol. So that was great, and then I had to pay a tener for another card. My card didn't immediately work to swipe in at the gate for the library and I literally looked stupid lol the poor info lady was kind of startled earlier by my freak out and she definitely looked at my like I had issues when I tried unsuccessfully to get through the gate lol. I calmed down and did some work in the library before my lecture, and then I went back to the library to work on my crap labs. That was really shitty and frustrating, but at least I got them mostly done. I walked home, angry knocked (like normal) on Bri's door and vented a little to them all lol. They basically just laughed at me... and then went home. I literally lost it when I had like a flash back and realized that I actually put my ID card into my jeans, not my black stretchy pants! I now have two ID cards... fabulous. But to calm down, I ate and cuddled with my donkey and watched Aladdin lol. That was really great to make me feel better. After some relaxing, I did more work and then got ready to go out with Toni, Mina, Johanne, and Jordan. We were acting kind of crazy because we all had kind of shit days so we kind of had a power hour lol. Then we all went to union, and that was literally crazy. We sat with Bri, Kelsie, Lindsay, and Zoe and we were definitely not on the same level as them at all... it was kind of ridiculous lol. But we had a pretty good time there and we even got Lindsay to come out with us to Exodus! We had a good bus ride into town, with a lot of talk about going to Bulgaria in the summer. I'm seriously considering it :) Then we finally got to Exodus and it was kind of dead at first, but it really picked up! We all had a great time dancing and acting crazy lol. We stayed there for like 4 hours, but I was sad that the DJ didn't play the song Johanne and I asked for. It was a really interesting night, especially when I saw Greg come out of nowhere lol. It took absolutely forever to get back home, though. I think it was worth it, though. We all had an interesting night, it made for great stories on Saturday lol.

Oh Karaoke night, how we love you!

Definitely the feeling of waking up super early didn't really last. When 8:00 rolled around and my alarm went off, there was no way I could be bothered to get out of my cocoon of warmth to go to the most pointless class in history. So I set my alarm back and decided that today would be a day that I get a lot of random work done, so I could start researching for my essays tomorrow. I did a lot of work for my chemistry classes and finished dissecting my primary source about Arthur in medieval Welsh hagiography. I even washed my clothes AND vacuumed my room lol. I was pretty much on a roll, and it really felt great to do work. As great as it felt to get the busy work out of the way, I definitely wasn't looking too great lol. I was stomping all over Hillhead like a troll in black boots and baggy brown sweat pants. At one point when I was carrying Bri's vacuum back to my flat to clean (ours is broken),  I walked by a guy and he definitely looked startled to see me lol. After doing all sorts of work, Toni started cooking dinner for us so I helped cut potatoes and do little things like that. She made schnitzel for us and it was really awesome. But definitely the funniest part was how excited Toni and Mina got when deciding to make the Shepherd's salad tomorrow... you would never know how euphoric a salad can make a group of girls lol. But after our family dinner, I went to Bri's flat. We hung out in the kitchen for a little. After drinking some nasty Black Current sourz, I made apple juice come out of Bri's nose with my Jabbah the Hut impersonation lol. Very good times lol. Then we went to union for Karaoke, and even though we got there kind of late we didn't hear any music. After I voiced this problem, Zoe said "Lydia, the party doesn't start until you walk in!". Literally right after she said that, the music started. It was unusually dead in the bar, but that definitely didn't affect our fun lol. We grabbed our usual corner area, and met up with our usual friends and let the Karaoke-ing begin! It was a really great night. We all sang and danced and had a great time lol. The best part was how it was basically just my friends singing. It was a lot of fun. I can't believe that I sang "Like a Virgin" in front of a bar full of people lol. One of the best parts was how basically all the bar staff know us now (since we are there all the time) and they say random comments to you. Like the one guy who saw me try to fall asleep on the booth and then accused me of spewing, said "you aren't going to puke again, are you? you promised you wouldn't get sick again!" when I was trying to order some water. Lol but anyways after listening to Martyn and Kelsie sing, and then dancing like a fool when Kelsie sang Time Warp, the night kind of got messy. I ended up climbing over a toilet stall to unlock a door and chilling outside when someone decided to crawl out a window lol. But the night ended in a nice way when I sang Summer Nights from grease with my friend Liam. It was great since my entire group was up there singing the back up parts and dancing like a group of crazy people lol. They are the best! After union closed, I went back to South House for a little, only to make sure that the boys would actually sing next time at karaoke. Hopefully we will go the the Bobbin on saturday. Money goes to the best karaoke performer! woo!

Today has been quite productive for me, actually. I got up early with every intention of going to my tutorial and then going to the library for some research. But on the way to my tutorial I found out that it was cancelled, so I got an extra hour at the library! The library is really nice and hi-tech. It felt really great to just sit down and get through a lot of work. I also really like the feeling of libraries, and this one is magnificent, so it was that much better lol :) I feel pretty boss for mastering how to find books and borrow them lol. After working in the library for a few hours, I went to the hub for some food and then went to Bri's flat. Reminiscing about karaoke last night was a lot of fun. It's always funny to hear about different things in detail that you don't completely remember. After that I went back to my flat and did some more work and read some Breaking Dawn lol. I then helped Mina and Toni cook dinner. Mina made lasagna and Toni made Shepherd's salad. Both were really hardy and delicious lol. AND I finally properly learned how to make the gravy sauce that Mina makes! It was a very fancy dinner, served in two courses which was definitely a good thing because we would have way over stuffed ourselves with eating the egg, meat, cheese, and vegetable salad and cheesy meat lasagna all at once lol. But Toni, Mina, Johanne, and I had a really nice time sitting in the kitchen and talking about random things. It's always nice to have relaxing and fun conversations when you're eating dinner lol. After eating, I strutted over to Bri's flat in my onesie to see what they were up to. Lindsay made a big deal about me wearing a trench-like coat and a onesie underneath lol. But I suppose it's much more common for a girl to wear something sexy under her big coat, as opposed to a onesie lol. After some funny talks and nearly unzipping my onesie to make a point, we had a night in. A very much needed night in :)

The title of this post is a direct quote from Kelsie Ann Hamilton :)

Really Love Your Peaches

SO I was really looking forward to sleeping for more or less the entire day on Sunday. I literally felt like I didn't fall asleep until somewhere in the 10:30 am region. But Bri texted me nice and early (in the 12:30 region) reminding me that we had to go to town to get the rest of Zoe's birthday present. So I dragged myself out of bed, threw on the first clothes I saw, and walked out the door in less than 5 minutes. It was pretty ridiculous, especially the part about running to catch the bus. But we had a nice time quickly going to Morrisons and getting the cake and stuff for Zoe. Carrying the groceries back was not so great, though. My arms felt full of lead, but it was totally worth it. Zoe really liked her gifts and the poem card I made her. That was such a struggle to make, the creative juices were NOT flowing on Sunday lol. But after hanging out with everyone in Bri's flat, I went home (with every intention of doing some work before going out to union) but I ended up skyping with Max for over an hour. That was really awesome. I miss him a shit ton! I can't believe he's in college already! Lol but after skyping (instead of doing something productive), I helped Mina make a really tasty chicken, spinach, and cream sauce dinner. It was absolutely amazing! She really needs to give me her recipes lol. When we were cooking she said she's definitely going to teach me how to make the gravy that I love lol. I still need to give her the chocolate chip cookie recipe! She keeps reminding me about it. During dinner, Toni, Mina,  Johanne, and I talked about all sorts of things lol. I love the nicknames that we come up with, especially the ones like Flower that are so fitting lol. I had a great time hanging out with them, I'm going to miss them all so much. When I went over to Bri's flat later we decided to listen to some Christmas music while we were waiting to go out to union. That kind of brought down my mood... listening to the Christmas music really reminds me of being home with my family. I'm not always so conscious that I miss them, but listening to that music really made me realize it. I played some Lakeview Madrigal music for Kelsie (the one where I have the solo) and that really made me feel nostalgic lol. But we all cheered up to go to union and celebrate Zoe's birthday some more lol. Bri played some really American music, like Steve Miller Band and Toby Keith lol and that was kind of ridiculous. It's really pretty funny that we are always at the union bar, but I like having a place to go where we all can go at the end of the day and hang out. After union closed, we went back to South House for a little and we ended up listening to a ton of sad country songs for some reason. I guess Bri felt like Martyn needed to learn some, but it just made us all feel like crap actually. So after Zoe and I left, I decided to watch the Breaking Dawn trailer to cheer myself up and that definitely worked. That movie is going to be ridiculous and I can't wait to see it!

Monday was a pretty normal day. I had my physical chemistry tutorial and then lecture. While I was sitting in the lecture, I literally watched the shadows from the sun move across one wall. It was 1:30ish in the afternoon and the sun was setting. It's crazy how dark it gets here in the afternoon! But I was cheered up when Zoe found me in the Hub and I found Bri, Kelsie, and Jo. It was nice sitting with them before my Arthur lecture. After my classes I went to Bri's flat and hung out there for a little before going back to my flat for dinner. Jo cooked Shepherd's pie for us and it was pretty good. It was fun sitting and eating in the kitchen with everyone. Callum came over to eat with us and he must have felt kind of awkward lol. We were talking about cute youtube videos, babies, and cats lol. We ended up sitting in the kitchen for a few hours watching all sorts of videos. It was hilarious. Callum showed us this one about a sloth crossing the street and it was HILARIOUS! I was the only one who found it really super funny, they all just laughed at my reaction lol. But for some reason that was like the best video I had seen! We also talked about random topics, like the Cold War. I described it quite well as a conversation between two people, kind of like "what are you doing??"... "nothing, what are you doing??" lol. Then somehow youtube came back into the conversation... it's kind of hard to stay away from the laughing babies and cute cats. But out of the blue we get a flyer from the union bar saying that there is Karaoke on Tuesday! I pretty much freaked out lol Karaoke is the best! After ardently admitting how much I love Karaoke and everyone saying that they will go and be my groupies, I went over to Bri's flat with Jo. We stayed there for a little bit before going to South House and watching School of Rock. It was nice to sit and watch a movie and relax with everyone like that lol. The boys hadn't seen me in my onesie before, but they of course approved. They understand the magic of onesies lol. After the movie was done I went home to bed. I had every intention of waking up nice and early and getting things done on Tuesday lol. That definitely didn't play out as well as I was hoping. Aberdeen weather just makes me really tired, and more or less not feel like moving lol. I haven't felt sunshine in days. It's just very overcast in the morning/early afternoon and by the time the sun kind of peaks through the clouds it like 3:00 and it's setting... it's kind of depressing.

Remember, Remember

Friday was basically a normal day. In the Vikings! tutorial we talked about essay writing and bibliographies. Generally I really like organizing my sources and making the bibliography, but I'm really frustrated with how different the format is here. It's just going to be a pain to worry about whether    I'm getting everything technically correct. At one point the tutor (Lisa Wotherspoon who literally looks like Cheryl from Miss Congeniality) asked what we think is acceptable for a first class mark. I literally muttered under my breath to Kelsie "Be amazing" and somehow Lisa heard me and laughed lol at least she has a good sense of humor. I actually went to Vikings! lecture, even though no one else went with me lol. I sat in the back with Momo (one of my Bulgarian friends) and we had a good time laughing about how random the lecture was, and looking at the people that fell asleep. The topic was Horses and Vikings... least to say it was absolutely riveting. Apparently stallion fights are a great form of entertainment. I hung out in the hub while waiting for my next lecture. It felt good to do some work and plan my essay for the Arthur class. I'm not too worried about writing the essay, just getting a hold of the sources I need. After my inorganic chemistry lecture, I did some more work for my essay and then went to town with Bri, Kelsie, and Lindsay. We had a really nice time walking around and then we went to TGIFriday's for a date night dinner lol. We had a really nice talking about our families and things like that. It's funny how you can feel the moment when you have really bonded with people. It's like a moment when you know that you can talk with these people and they will listen and not judge you, but understand. It's really great when you get to a level of friendship like that with another person. We had a perfect viewing position for all the cute babies that went by with their parents. We were hardcore pedo creeping, but in a good way lol. We all love babies. After our date night, we went to union with Zoe and her sister, Katie. We had a really good time pre-celebrating Zoe's birthday. Before we got to union, we literally made Bri take her furry, biohazardous pumpkin out and we disposed of it in rapey park which was a lot of fun lol. We had a good time at union, though. We played some great music and had a lot of fun singing! :) Some silly shenanigans went down, as well. But overall it was a very tame night.

Saturday I slept like a dead person. It's really difficult to get anything done now-a-days since I sleep in so long during the day that by the time I actually get around to working the sun is setting and darkness is encroaching. I'm definitely not going to get used to how short the days are here. But I made a really nice breakfast (definitely putting off work lol). I actually made french toast and it was really delicious. I made too much, so I took some over for Kelsie and Lindsay and they really enjoyed it as well lol. At one point Lindsay turned to me and asked me if I would marry her, I immediately answered yes. Lol a quick way to acquire citizenship in Scotland sounds fabulous to me lol. After brunch, I skyped with Erika and that was a lot of fun, especially seeing her babies and Bob lol. Ugh I really miss her and I'm pretty sad that I'm missing Thanksgiving at home this year. It's really a special time for us to be home in Ohio and have that time together. But I'm really looking forward to Christmas. I just hope that everything works out like how I hope. After skyping, I did some more work and then quickly remembered how I was supposed to go to the Guy Fawks firework show at the beach, so I showered and ate some dinner like a tornado (my flatmates thought it was hilarious) and was out the door in less than an hour. Unfortunately, I hurried for no real reason since the fireworks started later than we thought and we had to wait for everyone. I had a good time hanging out in South House with everyone, though. Just a small group of us went to the beach, but it was a lot of fun. It was a really clear but chill evening and the sea looked so pretty. It was an absolutely beautiful night and we had a great time walking down. I'm really going to miss everyone, and it makes it even worse when everyone starts to say how they are going to really miss you as well lol. All of a sudden we are all really good, silly friends, hopefully it will last. I'm sure it will. The fireworks were literally minds blowing. We were standing nearly right under them and the show was amazing! The finally was unlike anything I've ever seen. I'm really glad Bri was taking videos lol. You randomly here silly comments like "Holy cow" (me) or "At the end I felt like I was in another dimension" lol (Eddie). Overall it was a very patriotic and wonderful time. I'm so happy that I went, it was pretty moving. All that was missing were the two fireworks at the end like in V for Vendetta. After a nice (but long) walk back to Hillhead, we got ready and went to union to really celebrate Zoe's birthday. Everyone had congregated and we had a timer for when it struck midnight. We immediately started screaming and singing happy birthday lol. Zoe got her gifts and her reaction to Kelsie's present was absolutely perfect, she started crying! It was a really great night and I'm happy that I was there to celebrate with everyone. It was a great night. :)