It is that time again….where I skim back over the year and post the highlights of the past 12 months. Why? Well, sometimes during Xmas time I get a little bored and it gives me an excuse to post my first blog in….9 months.
January
- Somewhere, after waking up alone in the dark on Michael’s couch with “Jump in the Line” stuck in my head and the beginnings of a hangover niggling in my head, 2011 began.
- Hannah, Sharon and Phil drag me (willingly) to Gala on January 1st and we wind up in a pub with Union Jack’s and pictures of the Queen everywhere.
Hannah and I try not to make eye contact with any strangers in case they decide to “start something” – eventually we head back to the B&B and instead spend our night watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Resident Evil and of course Gok Wan’s ‘How to look good naked’.
- I continue the year by maintaining a pattern of drinking at least one alcoholic beverage a day and not combing my hair. It was a fantastic start to the year.
- I eventually comb my hair but Hannah and I keep our tradition and go out for a few boozy nights and freeze our asses off, only to return back to mine for tea and toast in the wee hours of the morning. Tea which I make Hannah spill everywhere as she tries to walk through to my room and I make the mistake of allegedly saying something funny.
- Lebowski’s, Jekyll & Hyde’s, Opium – possessed glasses, spinning coins, Ozan pole dancing, getting so cold my toes felt like they had actually detached from my body and awesome White Russians.
The biggest pint in the world.
Fun with glasses.
- I remember what it was like to be warm.
- My father and I have a wonderful facebook commenting session whilst in the same house just a few rooms away from each other.
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Alan Fergus and Gerry Walton like this.
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Alan Fergus I remember reading a story about a guy going into a two-day frenzied rage with an early mp3 player because it consistently refused to load an album. Until he realised that it was already on the bloody thing, and he’d never listened to it anyway.15 January at 21:17 · Like -
Lydon Fergus I only listen to about 10% of what’s on my iPod but I can’t possibly delete anything off of it because I feel like I need to expand my music collection, so deleting stuff would feel like a bit of a failure on my part. Could probably do without such classic artists such as Aqua, S Club 7 and Steps.15 January at 21:20 · Like
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Alan Fergus Well look at it this way, it was meant to be diposable in the first place. It’s just “product”, not art.15 January at 22:55 · Like
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Lydon Fergus Yeah but then I’ll have less songs on my iTunes and my collection will look less impressive. I don’t have to listen to it all, just make it look like I’ve got a broad taste (like you with your DVDs, I wonder how many of them you’ve watched?).15 January at 22:57 · Like
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Alan Fergus You mean you wonder how many I’ve not watched? Quite a few; but I’m working my way through them. Honest.15 January at 22:58 · Like
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Lydon Fergus No I meant I wonder how many you’ve watched, I know what I’m trying to say! Even in my fuzzy state of illness.15 January at 23:00 · Like
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Alan Fergus Sorry, my misunderstanding. I’ve seen literally thousands of films.15 January at 23:01 · Like
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Lydon Fergus I’m asking ‘I wonder how many of your DVDs you’ve watched” what’s wrong with that as a sentence?15 January at 23:01 · Like
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Lydon Fergus Aside from the fact I forget to put a question mark at the end of it.15 January at 23:01 · Like
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Alan Fergus More than half, but I can’t be more precise than that.15 January at 23:02 · Like
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Lydon Fergus Yeah but I wonder how many of them you’ve bought and THEN watched, not just seen in your life and then bought on DVD.15 January at 23:03 · Like
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Alan Fergus ”Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…”15 January at 23:05 · Like
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Lydon Fergus This was a conversation that got slightly out of hand, I do apologise.15 January at 23:07 · Like
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Lydon Fergus It’s mostly just due to the fact I’ve had to explain in detail exactly what I meant but I’ve ended up looking like I’m asking you 4000 different questions.15 January at 23:07 · Like
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Alan Fergus But we got there in the end. And that’s what matters more than anything. The answer to your question is-”I haven’t got a fucking clue”. So it was worth waiting for in the end really.15 January at 23:19 · Like
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Lydon Fergus Well, that was worth all the typing it took to get to this moment. Can I have a hot chocolate?
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Alan Fergus Do you want the big yellow stuff in a massive mug, or the hot chocolate, in a massive mug?15 January at 23:22 · Like
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Lydon Fergus The hot chocolate in the massive mug please. I love facebook, I don’t even have to leave the room to request a hot chocolate
15 January at 23:22 · Like
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Alan Fergus Well the “loudhailer system” never really worked, did it? And I’m fairly sure the neighbours didn’t like it.15 January at 23:24 · Like
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Lydon Fergus *looks up loudhailer*
oh right, no it didn’t but I might just set this up in my room and shout directly into the floor and see how the downstairs neighbour likes it.15 January at 23:26 · Like -
Alan Fergus That would be a killer. “You are surrounded! Switch off your horrible, pounding Bass NOW!. Lie on the floor! Legs apart! Hands on head! Now lie there, don’t move AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.”15 January at 23:35 · Like
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Lydon Fergus It’s not even pounding base, he listens to Shakira! I have heard it, I’m a bit concerned about the guy but mostly I just want to kick him or buy him a pair of headphones.15 January at 23:38 · Like
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Lydon Fergus bass*15 January at 23:38 · Like
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- I finish the highlights of 2010 blog….just a little overdue. Oh and famous last words.
I finished the 2010 blog! And it only took me 19 days, God I’m not doing this again next year.
- Hannah and I have a fantastic webcam conversation for several hours “Hello, I’m Angelina Jolieeeee and I’m from Essexxxxx!”
- I continue being far, FAR too addicted to youtube
- Speaking of addictions…..
-Sitcom filming
- Hannah and I go see 127 Hours and swoon over James Franco, there may have been a repeat of this behaviour when we went to see Planet of the Apes some months later.
- Hannah Jay Katz Findlay on discovering that the potato famine was a disease the potatoes had – “…Oh I just thought they ate them all!”
- The trailer comes out for Scream 4, excitement is formed.
- Work remains quiet and therefore boring, thus Bayo and I need to create our own entertainment….
February
- I discover the strangest movie trailer on youtube
- My father and I have a fun night as drunken boys who LIVE IN THE SAME STAIR decide to take a piss.
“ah, drunken youths in the stair. One of them starts pissing on the steps so my dad takes a basin of water and chucks it over the ledge at them and tells them to get the fuck out. One of them says “I’LL BATTER YOU!” fast forward 5 minutes while the guy drunkenly navigates his way up the stairs, staggering from side to side. He reaches halfway up our set of stairs and sees my dad waiting to punch his face in, he doesn’t come any further.
I love Monday night drama.”
- Jamie’s birthday and his birthday bakewell (I even put candles in too….with difficulty)
- I get fully signed off as supervisor and continue doing the exact same job but with slightly more money. Well, if you fast forward about a month, maybe a month and a half, THEN I start getting that pay rise, and unfortunately did not receive any back pay.
- The mystery Starbucks alcoholic continues to frequent the store and leave his miniature bottle of Famous Grouse or Buckfast behind the urinal in the gents toilet every weekend for me to find when cleaning.
- I apply for my HNC course and make myself sound awesome (or just up myself) in my application.
- Ralph assists me with my revision……not.
- Hannah and I do some very chilly hill walking and Hannah hugs the world
- Radiohead release a new single just in time for my computer to stop working so I’m left to listen to it on repeat on youtube before I can get my own copy for my iPod
- My hatred for psychology continues to grow as my brain melts several times a week either attempting to work on my project or listening to David talk about “demon characteristics” (demand characteristics) and going “GRR!” at Danny.
- Early morning history entertainment
Made things more exciting for at least 3 and a half minutes
- Safety first and fun with Sophia
- Choosing watching Jackass over prelim revision (well, I still passed them all so it’s totally doable)
- Hannah links me to Jared Padalecki ‘s wiki page and I get confused when I read he’s married his Supernatural co-star…..surely not Jensen Ackles? No, just bloody fish-lips annoying Ruby.
- “I had a schpill on my bishcyle.”
- Hannah and I contemplate playing Crash Bandicoot…
me – “Though we’ll probably get sick of it in 5 minutes.”
Hannah (whilst holding up one hand) – “I think more like seven minutes.”
me (looking at Hannah’s outstretched hand with five fingers raised) – “That’s still five!”
March
- I get a motherfucking A on my history prelim! Which proves fruitless as I get a C on the source questions then fuck up in the final exam and wind up with a C overall. Still, only A I have ever achieved (and probably will ever get).
- “Sooty has cat flu and in order for her to get better my dad and I have to pin her down in a towel, force feed her a pill and give her eyedrops. Needless to say she is not enjoying it and earlier after we treated her she responded by peeing all over the kitchen floor. I can’t be sure but I reckon that was her way of saying ‘fuck you!’.”
Not to mention the lovely pile of poo she left in my dad’s bed.
- I begin the 30 day song challenge, closely followed by the 30 day movie challenge (again, very hard without a working computer) and manage to complete both (most people dropped out by day 6 or so but not me, I’m a sad bastard). Paul gave me a medal for it which I have kept as proof of my utter lameness in relation to facebook.
- The creepy pissing-in-the-stair neighbours start peeking at me through the letter box every now and again when I’m coming home from college. I eventually snap and hammer on the door demanding they cut it the fuck out. Being the brave lads they are in the face of a mildly pissed off 5’3″ 20 year old girl, they close the letter box (and thankfully cutting off the delightful smell of BO that escaped each time the letter box was lifted) laugh and run away to hide inside their house. They were evicted soon after for the pissing in the stair incident (amongst other things like buzzing every other flat in the stair but their own at 3am) and I was safe to walk the stairs without peering eyes through an open letter box and tittering laughter as I confronted them.
- My PC returns home safe and sound finally.
- Ralph’s cat flu makes for a good photograph
- Hannah and I go see the Supermoon on Blackford Hill. It’s bloody cold and windy and cloudy so we can’t even see the damn thing – we deduce it’s no more spectacular than the regular moon and head home.
- Sharon and Hannah come back from Ireland with a teeny tiny Pow and slightly bigger, scrawny, big-titted Lulu.
- I get a dwarf hamster, Mr Blonde, and after about 5 minutes of excitement I realise I have made a mistake and accidentally lose her in my room for about an hour. Many ‘traps’ in order to safely catch her are set up and at one point I lunge to try and grab her, but I squish her. I pick her up and she looks awfully flat – Oh no! I have killed my hamster on day 1 of having her. No wait, SPROING! In my moment of panic she sees her chance to flee and leaps out my hands. Clever little bastard. Another 30 minutes or so pass before I catch her again and get her back in her cage. Yes, this was a mistake.
- Hannah and I play far too much Crash Bandicoot yet keep it up for some time despite our frustrations
me – “Did you get the golden unk?”
Hannah – “Unk?”
me – “Yeah, the golden unk.”
Hannah – “Isn’t it an ‘ank’?”
me – “Yeah, that’s what I said!”
it was a genuine cool whip moment.
April
- Lebowski’s anyone?
- The cats welcome Mr Blonde into the family
- Wesley’s birthday night out
“have woken up with “Finlay rules!” and “fuck Handod” written on me. Ok then.”
“She couldn’t write “fuck life” because it was too depressing so she went for “fuck Lydon” instead and forgot how to spell my name, so I joined in.”
Yum
- Jahan’s birthday night out, Hannah and I depart soon after (we chose Banshee’s over the Hive) and later find two chairs sitting randomly on Kennedy Walk
- I cook my first ever full blown roast dinner for the father’s birthday and it all goes to plan, realise I am a cooking genius in a slightly better manner than Bridget Jones.
- Hannah and I return to Banshee’s this time for a mass game of Sardines with Shian and any random strangers we seem to come across.
- Cocktails at Michael’s “There a Mojito pouring itself in the kitchen.” And no, they don’t taste better blended.
- This guy astounds me on youtube highlights of Britain’s Got Talent (which I so do not watch)
- My phone drives me insane freezing every two minutes so I cave and buy myself an iPhone 4, take that Sony Ericsson you piece of shite.
-Hannah gets teabagged
- Mike, Hannah and I go see Labyrinth at the Film House and it was fantastic. Not just Bowie’s crotch.
- More drinking with Michael
Hannah – “I like the word ‘fanny’!”
Me – “I don’t….it’s so….juvenile!”
Michael “So juvenile! Lydon’s too good for fanny!”
“The older I get, the more oblong things get.”
“No way! Cher has a twin?”
“He said ‘Shania Twain’!”
May
- Limmy’s show takes off
- Youtube lets me know how lame I am
“just got an email from youtube thanking me for reporting inappropriate videos “We just wanted to send you a quick note to say we appreciate your help and vigilance in keeping the YouTube community safe. It’s the dedication from users like you that have helped make us the successful online destination that we are today.” Man, I feel sad now.”
- Work introduces a “happy hour” which lasts more than an hour and is basically hell on Earth for the duration.
- I discover Portobello mushrooms. So good.
- Ralph becomes King
- Ten years on
- I get an interview for my HNC course
- Hannah and I look after Sophia for a few hours with her chicken pox and realise we’re too old for this shit and resign ourselves to lying down quietly on the sofa watching tv like OAPs
- Walks with Lulu and Pow
Realise I said “walks” and have pasted in pictures of Hannah and I on the bus with the dogs. There was a walk beforehand, I swear.
- Hannah gets review of the week on hungryhouse and we get £25 off our next meal
- I fail at cooking Hannah soufflé and instead manage to cook them for myself and my dad
- The Innocent Railway, no words can really describe that day.
Oh and after the wonderful walk, Hannah and I put that £25 off voucher to good use. Yummmmm. This year has been too much about eating Indian food from the Curry Leaf – it’s so good though!
June
- More dog walks
- Attempts to find other part time work to avoid going full time at my regular job fails somewhat.
- As if we didn’t already know, Naomi Campbell’s stupidity is highlighted in the news and what’s worse is people actually agreed with her outrage, oh God.
http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/media/2011/jun/03/cadbury-naomi-campbell-ad
- I finish college
- I finish watching Lost finally and cry about 12 times at least
- Hannah puppy sits for a few days and vows NEVER to do it again
- Lulu gets a glorious new ensemble which she just LOVES
- Customer at work asks me to stop sweeping because she has a “thing” about dustpan and brushes, speechless.
- Lulu knocks Pow over on the Meadows and lets her get 69′d by an older male Jack Russell. Awkward.
- After very little sleep I go in for my college interview and miraculously find out a week or so later I got in! It seems lack of sleep really has been the key to my success this year. This is worrying.
- Worked the Bon Jovi concert (the only other work I did that Summer other than my normal part time job, this was enough to put me off for good), words cannot describe how unbelievably appalling that entire experience was and I could barely walk for the next two days. Oops, forgot to do my other two shifts CHANGING TOILET ROLL for 8 hours. Bad me.
“love being told off for not doing work whilst actually doing work by someone NOT doing work.”
- Barking cat
- New flat excitement
July
- Hannah, Deedee and I have a night of drinking, Trivial Pursuit and Yahtzee. Deedee leaves and then the real party begins – BOGGLE, oh yes. And at 3am.
- Hannah, Michael, Tanya, Claire and I go see Harry Potter at midnight at cineworld (and apparently because I forgot to put this in first time around, Michael is somewhat distressed!)
- More work insanity “I think that today in all seriousness, a customer – upon receiving his drink, responded with “Thanks a latte!”. And I think…this wasn’t the first time.”
- Resident Evil fun
- Amazon decides this month that I will get 90% of my orders cancelled, refunded and then sent anyway. That’s z0verstocks for you. Oh and they also decide to send me at least 2, maybe even 3 copies of the item I purchased despite them telling me they have no more in stock. Fishy.
- I steal Hannah’s photograph idea and reap all the benefits (i.e. people going “oh that’s nice”)
- There’s a 1984 style Revolution in Edinburgh
Not really.
- Lulu learns a new trick
- Michael turns 21 and much dancing is had and we ‘pretend we’re having fun’
We also finished the scrapbook which Tanya began in 2005
Claire filling in the last page
Christopher and Lisa tell us a very long winded story that goes off into separate tangents for about forty-five minutes, in fact I don’t even remember what it was about because it had so many sub-stories!
Christopher – “It wasn’t so much fornication as mutual masturmation.”
Later Christopher begins to talk into my notebook as I write quotes down
me – “It’s not a Dictaphone!”
- Hannah and I begin shifting stuff to the new flat and celebrate by doing a Jigsaw until about 3am and drink Vodka (Boggle, Yahtzee, Jigsaws? Oh yes, we can party)
- Ralph misses some of my furniture that has moved house already, particularly his rocking chair.
- Hannah moves into the new flat and I follow about a week later.
BEFORE
AFTER
- Hannah leaves me that first night to go clubbing with a bunch of old(er) lesbian ladies and I stay at home and spend 15 minutes trying to open a tin of tuna with 3 different shite tin openers, Friday night life for Lydon.
- Michael also chooses this day to upload all the photos from his birthday. I spend about an hour and all of my internet allowance looking through them and crying with laughter.
A nice sensible one to start….and now……
(I don’t know)
Cool air!
And finally…..
So apparently I was singing…or something.
I must say the amount of alcohol consumed by this point was so great that 1. I do not have any memory of this and 2. about 5 minutes after this photo was taken I began falling asleep sitting up with Claire shouting at me to wake up and open my eyes….though it was about 3 or 4am so I thought it was a justified sleep.
August
- Hannah sorts the internet…..though Virgin does not, so we remain without internet for the majority of the month thus my facebook posts are quite scarce – absolutely outrageous.
- Playing endless amount of Tomb Raider and going crazy getting stuck every 5 minutes and having no phone or computer internet to cheat and look up a walkthrough.
Though Hannah and I manage to rock out to the Jeep music from Last Revelation
- I visit my dad at Morningside and he says he attempted to watch Twilight and failed less than an hour in. I ask to borrow it purely out of curiosity as I’d never seen it and wanted to know what all the fuss was about. My father responds by virtually throwing the DVD at me and when I go to leave the house he says “Don’t bring it back.”
So I watch Twilight for the first time ever and wow, did it change my world. It absolutely 100% reaffirmed my view that Twilight is a big pile of pants.
- Pictures of the night sky http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2031704/Australian-photographer-Lincoln-Harrison-endures-15-hour-photo-shoots-capture-stunning-night-images-star-trails.html
- Hannah and I go see Shian’s play and are moved to tears (or near enough) by every performance. Very proud of my cousin!
- Midnight viewing of The Room with Jamie, Paul and Finlay.
Movie at midnight? Shall we meet 6 hours beforehand? Fuck yeah! And thus began hours of playing consequences and pictionary with Finlay finding any excuse to draw a cock (as usual!) And me having to hold myself back from decking someone for jumping arrogantly in front of me in the queue for my post-hell (festival at work = non-stop queue and insanity) pint.
Eventually midnight rolled round and much fun was had throwing spoons at the screen and hearing others shouting incomprehensible cult in-jokes and tossing around an American football.
- The end of the festival approaches “just witnessed a beautiful sight on the Meadows – the festival being packed up and driven away in little trucks. I think I will celebrate the next 11 months.”
September
- The flat finally gets internet and I am able to access it FROM MY COMPUTER – oh the wonders of technology.
- Hannah and I purchase goods for the house and Hannah demonstrates how to carry your sieve home when your bag breaks
- Shian and Hannah show us all how to scarf dance
- Turbans all round
- Hannah and I throw a housewarming ‘party’ and decide to go a little bit crazy when all our guests leave us. The anarchists in us get set loose
“Attempt #2 at anti-social behaviour (attempt #1 failed when the traffic cone I kicked over simply righted itself again – Hannah’s laughter could be heard for miles)”
- The dogs come to stay and decide I am no longer allowed a bed
- Jinx joins the (slightly dysfunctional) family
It doesn’t take her long to decide she’s a parrot
- This makes me feel a bit better
- I start college and begin my journey towards epic editor extraordinaire, not that I am even remotely close to that yet as I’m only 4 months into the course.
- We film our first short “the perfect cup of tea”
- Twinkle-toes joins the Findlay Jack Russell clan and Sharon secures her position as #1 crazy dog lady in the Marchmont area (wasn’t much of a contest to be fair)
- Derek and I get together after an interesting night of drinking and pool at Banshee Labyrinth then green tea at mine at 1am
October
- More learning how to film etc at college
and not learning at college….
- Floating dogs on youtube
- Jinx begins showing me how insane she is as she attacks my newly bought loaf of bread throwing 3/4 of it on the floor and having a wee munch on some of it.
- Keep looking at those 3 spots over the nose for 10 seconds then raise your head to the ceiling suddenly and stare there for next 20 seconds, what do you see?
- Hannah undergoes surgery and leaves me all alone in the house for a whole week…or two, I go visit her at home and accidentally make her laugh and thus screech and bend over in pain afterwards – she begins to respond by thwacking me violently. I couldn’t help it!
- Sharon allows Hannah out for a cinema trip to see Tyrannosaur – Hannah moving at a slow pace as we need to cross the road (not at the lights). “Don’t go too fast!” she warns as she hobbles, bent almost double to the edge of the road, “Ok” I say as I look right for traffic and by the time I look left Hannah has scurried slowly across the road, I chase after her scolding her for leading me into a false sense of security over how fast she was going to move!
Tyrannosaur was fantastic but shocking and very grim. Hannah and I leave and I pick up a “free” (i.e. help yourself but please leave some form of cash behind) poster for Paranormal Activity 2 which I promptly leave at Sharon’s house, which Hannah then promptly leaves in John Leslie’s, which Hannah does not promptly go to pick up again until a month or so later and it is gone, FOREVER. Hannah, you owe me a poster 
- I turn 21 and many people wish me a happy birthday on facebook, a suspicious amount between midnight and 6am – I know too many insomniacs.
One of Derek’s gifts for me
My dad documents what I look like as a 21 year old….not so different from 20
- Hannah and I throw our joint 21st and both get given beautifully hand crafted dirty shots from Nicky as a “present”….the night becomes somewhat of a blur after that.
Beforehand involved semi-complex games constructed by both Malcolm and Fiske. Fiske later says “It was a good game, right?” “Yes, of course it was Fiske!” I say, “NO, IT WAS A GOOD GAME, DON’T BE SARCASTIC, IT’S A GOOD GAME!!!” he half shout at me, I concede through fear to admit it was a good game (it was…no really).
- I wake up around 3pm the day after (I refused to wake any earlier due to the epic headache chewing my head all morning) and as if by magic Hannah appears not too long after with sushi and orange juice after I concede that I will NOT be making it the ten minutes to Tesco because even stepping out of bed and attempting to dress seems like a challenge – fantastic friend, fantastic hangover cure!
- I try and fail to play Dead Space (other presents from Derek) whilst alone in the house and I’ve not played it since, what a pansy I am.
- I discover a new favourite song – a lot of it may be to do with the gentleman essentially doing the Carlton dance for the majority of the video….
- I’m reminded once again that my brothers are fantastic
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=656093878317
- I avoid Halloween
“oh shit, there’s trick-or-treaters in the stair and all I have to offer them is fruit, going to turn off the lights and pretend I’m not home.”
November
- Sacrilege as the new tenants of the house across from my dad’s flat cut down one of the gorgeous tall trees that cast amazing shadows and light through our kitchen/bathroom/my dad’s bedroom, bastards!
Spot the man in the tree
- Hannah and I cave and put the timer for the heating on – it’s glorious while it lasts, which wasn’t very long. Piece of crap boiler!
- Jinx continues to be insane by eating my hair bobbles, rubber bands, lentils (raw) and tobacco (very dangerous for little kitten stomachs!)
- Hannah and I embark upon a trip of utmost secrecy and mystery
- Strikes strikes strikes = a few days off of college, yay…oh and sticking it to the man of course.
- More “work” at college
(why are we always finding wigs in our classrooms?)
December
- Derek decides he’s Rocky…with 2 hats
- Jinx assists me with the washing
- I get sick, surprise surprise, and attempt to cure myself with copious amounts of fruit, blackcurrant lemsip and sushi – it doesn’t work
- I finally finish my edit for iAssault
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150426116618681
- Scotland experiences Hurricane Bawbag – I love this country
- Jinx starts eating feathers
- me – “I’m so hungry! You’re beginning to look like a chopstick right now….A chopstick?? I meant a pork chop!”
Derek – “What do YOU eat??”
- I refuse to buy Xmas presents until the last minute, but purchase 3 rolls of wrapping paper – a little optimistic
- Gene arrives at the house to be Jinx’s personal punch bag
though I’m sure that wasn’t Hannah’s intention when she got him (or is it her?)
- Cat bonding
- Derek’s mum gets the biggest box of Milk Tray ever, I’m won over instantly
- I meet Derek’s mum and step dad – mini sausage rolls are had before Derek and I retire upstairs to watch Final Destination….
- Xmas day, load of rubbish really and scary trees on the walk home
- Work at this time basically involved a lot of boredom and taking pictures of drains (ok, just the once)
New Year’s Eve
- Another party at Michael and Christopher’s with Tanya and Derek
one grape for every bell at midnight – nearly resulted in some choking but we got there!
snack stealing from those slightly more drunk than ourselves….
Michael drinks Lambrini Hannah style!
slight Dorito spillage, definitely the photo of the night (thank you Tanya!)
Other highlights from NYE includes my failure at being quiz master when I accidentally read the wrong answers for the questions i.e. did you know ancient Aztecs used Bovril for currency? (worst part of this may be that Michael and Derek took this answer with nodding acceptance) oh and Richard Nixon was president of Ireland, yes it’s true.
Michael and I finally got our moment to dance to What You Waiting For in a more official capacity than normal as we were dancing to it on Just Dance 3 – however Christopher phoned halfway through and spoiled it
Tanya slyly stealing Cheeselets (or whatever they were called) from Charlotte’s arms whilst she was looking the other way.
Tanya and Michael pretending to be a couple whilst answering questions for each other during our Mr & Mrs game and failing despite being “together” for well over a decade. They got their asses kicked by the ‘new’ couple of just 3 months (myself and Derek), aha!
Tanya and Michael relive fond ‘memories’ if somewhat (or VERY) fabricated. Through tears of laughter and joy they explain to Derek about the time where I got on a bus and got tangled up in bus tickets on the floor so when I got OFF the bus and the bus drove away it dragged me with it due to the tickets wrapped around my ankle. This is forever engrained in my notebook thanks to Tanya’s beautiful little descriptive drawing of the ‘even’ that didn’t even SLIGHTLY happen yet it always brings a smile to their faces and a tear to their eye – moreso than any real memory the 3 of us have had together!
2011 definitely had its ups and downs and if I could live it over there is definitely some things I would do differently and a lot of nonsense that I wouldn’t have put up with (I would’ve listened to Hannah!) but either way it’s led me here and things are good so I’m optimistic about 2012, even if it’s…y’know, the end of the world…..
