I’m really enjoying my course, we’ve started actual dissections and have dissection the back, shoulder and upper arm so far and tomorrow we move on to the lower arm and then onto the hand. I honestly didn’t think rooting around fat and fascia in search of nerves would be fun, and it’s not really gross at all once you get into it.

Aside from studies, went on the Anatomy social last night. Began with a quiz in the Anatomy museum in which we came, what, third from last? Haha it was fun anyway, although a little odd sitting getting drunk among body parts and lecturers! Then we went to the pub and got more drunk! Was a really good night though and got to meet some new people. Think I should stop being so antisocial and get out more!

Jamie is wanting to get rid of our cats which I am not in the least bit in favour of! Okay they run about like mad trying to launch themselves out of the window most of the time, and yes they fur up the carpets meaning I have to hoover daily but they’re my babies! I can’t get rid of them! Have tried asking around to see if anyone is looking for a couple of cats because I’m not taking them back to the cat’s protection as then I won’t know what’s happened to them and if they’re happy! Tried to persuade my parents into having them but they’re not up for it. We’ve been talking about getting a house in maybe Troon after we graduate, and that’s only a year and a half away. If we got a house we’d be able to let the cats outside and maybe they wouldn’t be so mental. :( I don’t know what’s going to happen.

Oh and I totally forgot…

CELLS AND TISSUES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE A3
REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT                A4
NEUROSCIENCE AND BEHAVIOUR                    A5
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY                              B2
DRUGS AND DISEASE                                     B3
MOLECULES OF LIFE                                        C1

As I write this, I know deep down that there is a million-and-one other things that I am supposed to be doing. We; we being Jamie and I, are off to Salou, Spain on Thursday for two weeks and I have set myself the mammoth task of packing. I thought I would begin by laying out all of my “possibly” clothes and from there I would set out outfits, mix and matches and have it all narrowed down to a neat 7.5kg in a matter of half an hour. How wrong. Having decorated every inch of the spare room with my clothes (much to the delight of the cats, who think this new “climb the clothes” game is the best thing since tuna) I realise I am no further forward. I have managed to, in about 6 hours, narrow my collection down to about 20 bikinis, 40 tops, 20 skirts, 10 shorts, 20 dresses, and don’t even get me started on shoes. And another thought has just dawned on me. This is not even my whole clothes collection. No doubt when I go to my parents tomorrow evening I will rummage through my “old” wardrobe and drag out all manner of forgotten clothes from the late 90’s and decide I want to wear them.

There is a plus side to all this; I have realised that I certainly do not need to go shopping tomorrow as previously planned to buy clothes for Salou… Or ever for that matter. However Jamie, the last-minute man, will no doubt decide he hasn’t a matching pair of shoes or something and thus we will be forced to go into the city and shop, resulting in me buying yet more clothes and digging myself a bigger hole really.

I also got my hair done today, having trawled the internet for a picture of what I wanted. I wanted a sweeping side fringe coupled with long layers and an all-over chocolate brown colour. It mostly has turned out good, I think she may have cut the fringe a wee bit short so it tends to prefer to flap about in my face rather than cooperating into the sexy sweeping fringe that I intended. But it’s still long and has a nice shiny colour and long layers just as I wanted.

The cats are already getting excited about the prospect of us going on holiday (well okay they may just be hyper from the aforementioned “climb the clothes” game). As soon as the cat carrier comes out tomorrow evening they will known they are destined for “Grandma’s”. My parents are looking after the cats for the two weeks we are away, so they look forward to bowls of fresh tuna, lickings from the cream carton and the occasional pork pie (that’s the cats, not my parents.) No doubt my Father isn’t looking forward to the whole ordeal, considering the whole pork pie fiasco last time they were cat-sitting. And that was only for a couple of nights. I fully suspect we may come back to a rather more disciplined pair of cats when we return.

Since I last wrote, we have double glazing! It’s very nice, however I won’t be sad enough to post photographs. We opted for white PVC with a wood surround which frames them nicely. They were fitted over Monday and Tuesday and we have spent the rest of Tuesday and all today cleaning up the dust! We had to send the cats to my parents as they would have just loved to leap care-free out of a gaping hole in the wall. Missed them so much! It’s actually so lonely without them haring around like mentalists. They were misbehaving at my parents, my Mum shut them in the kitchen to stop them running up the hall all night and they ate a pack of pancakes and then escaped, got into my parents bedroom and woke my Mother on a Sunday morning by standing on her face! Aside from that, my Dad was making himself a nice lunch of pork pie and in the space of time it took him to nip to the toilet, Bailey had eaten his pork pie. Aside from that, my Mum has still given them tuna, custard, roast beef and seemingly anything else they meow for!

I’m alone tonight, for Jamie has gone home for the night so I’m supposed to be busy studying for this damn Molecules of Life exam on Friday, which I do not have a hope in hell of passing. I have been to one lecture since LAST SEPTEMBER and don’t even have notes for the 40-odd lectures I’ve missed. And half of the exam is on calculations and labs which I paid next to no attention in. Oh well, wish it was Friday and it would all be over.

I’m looking forward to Saturday, my first Saturday off in a while and Mum and I are going shopping :) Not been shopping with my Mum in ages! So we’re gonna have a girly day, and then as it’s my brothers 17th birthday on Saturday, he’s opted to go to Pizza Hut for dinner so we are meeting Jamie from work and Dad and Ben from football and then going for dinner and no doubt the parents will want to inspect the new windows. Also might be attending Imogen’s birthday that evening so should make for a good day.

Give me more loving than I’ve ever had
Make it all better when I’m feeling sad
Tell me I’m special even though I know I’m not
Make me feel good when I hurt so bad
Barely getting mad
I’m so glad I found you
I love being around you
You make it easy
Its as easy as 1-2-1-2-3-4

There’s only one thing
To Do
Three words
For you
I love you

There’s only one way to say
Those three words
That’s what I’ll do
I love you

Give me more loving from the very start
Piece me back together when I fall apart
Tell me things you never even tell your closest friends
Make me feel good when I hurt so bad
You’re the best that I’ve had
And I’m so glad I found you
I love being around you
You make it easy

When I last wrote, we had decided we were not getting double glazing however we have found a local glazer who has quoted us about £3750 so we are going to go for it and get sexy new windows! This does probably mean however that we will not be going on holiday. I’m looking forward to getting new windows but it’s awful expensive!!

Aside from that, I was at the BCA cheerleading competition last weekend and what a weekend it was! We drove down on the Thursday and spent the night in student halls and competed on the Friday. We came 7th for medium dance, 3rd for small dance and FIRST for level 4 advanced all-girl cheer! So we are the champions at cheer! :D We then had a toga party on the Friday night which was very drunk and absolutely hilarious fun! And we drove back up on the Saturday morning which was the most horrible drive ever as I generally don’t care much for bus rides, especially not with a hangover!

Was back to work on Easter Sunday which was a pretty chilled day as nobody tends to want to phone the bank on a bank holiday! And apart from that I’ve been typing up my neuroscience notes which i WILL have finished today, I only have 4 or 5 lectures left to do, and then I shall move onto Reproduction.

Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now

It's like I've been awakened
Every rule I had you breakin'
It's the risk that I'm takin'
I ain't never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace

You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby I can feel your halo
Pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo

Hit me like a ray of sun
Burning through my darkest night
You're the only one that I want
Think I'm addicted to your light

I swore I'd never fall again
But this don't even feel like falling
Gravity can't forget
To pull me back to the ground again

I can feel your halo

Well that’s me finished second year, I’m now off (save for a few exams in May) right up until September. Woo! Although May seems an awful long time away seeing as it’s not even April yet, I am being the ever-studious being and making sure I’m all up to date with my notes. And it’s there I strike my first problem. I have attended about 5 out of 20 neuroscience lectures. And as for Molecules of Life; I have been once. So after spending the whole weekend at work as usual, I vow to get all my notes copied up by next weekend. And I realise I am being over-ambitious with that, so lets make it the weekend after. Then I have a full 3 weeks to actually study.

However all this may go to pot as we have decided to paint. We’re going to paint the kitchen, hall and bathroom as they are a bit scabby looking and got sort of overlooked due to lack of funds when we were painting the rest of the place. We have also looked into getting double glazing so we called the contractor who did the rest of the windows in the block and he gave us a quick estimate over the phone of £3500 however when it came to getting a written quotation, it was suddenly £7900 so we’re giving that idea a miss. Instead we shall spend many tedious hours sanding, filling and painting our existing vintage windows from the 1950’s.

So as we’re not spending half our life savings on windows; we may be going on holiday. That’s IF I can get time off work. Apparently I can’t have a weekend off until December. So we’ll just have to see. We’ve been looking at Salou, purely because Jamie’s been before and it sounds like a pretty well-balanced holiday. There’s loads of stuff to do, yet there’s lovely beaches and sun for sitting doing nothing.

Hey there Delilah… What’s it like in New York City… It’s amazing!

So to please my Mother mainly, I shall write a wee bit about our trip to New York. Not quite as a detailed blog as my Mum would do however.

We got up very early on Thursday (well 5am) and Stuart drove us to the airport as our flight was at 09:00, however on approach to the screens, we found out it was delayed until 09:45 and we weren’t sure what time we had to be checked in and stuff by so we were there really early and check-in took only a few minutes. So we commenced our unhealthy-ness with a large full Scottish breakfast before sitting around playing my Dad’s Nintendo DS for ages before we were finally called to board.

I had my window seat and as we were told it was a full flight, we were expecting a random to be sitting in the seat next to Jamie, however nobody showed up and it was the only empty seat on the flight! So it meant we could spread out across three seats which was quite good. The flight wasn’t bad, I played the DS most of the time and Jamie watched some films and the first episode of season 5 of House! Unfortunately we were sitting on the ‘wrong’ side of the plane as those on the left got a lovely view of New York City as we came in to land. We didn’t get into Newark too much later, despite our delay at Glasgow and we got through customs and got our luggage pretty quick and headed out to get a yellow taxi. I was of course amazed driving toward the city as it looks exactly like it does in postcards!

We checked into our hotel, the Sheraton Hotel and Towers and to my disappointment, of a 50-odd storey hotel, we were on floor 5. We didn’t have a fantastic view but we could see the street and watch the eternal tide of yellow taxis. So after we got checked in we went for a walk to see what was close by and we found we were literally 3 minutes walk from the middle of Times Square! So we had a leisurely walk to the Rockefeller Centre and saw the people ice skating. It was absolutely freezing so we passed on going ice skating and instead went to Dean & Deluca’s which does the best hot chocolate! (Better than Starbucks!) And we listened in to all the rich stockbrokers in the coffee shop talking about “$50million here and $50million there” which made Jamie decide this will be him in a few years.

On our walk we were touted by a ticket salesman and we bought these $80.00 tickets which gave us; unlimited bus tour for 3 days, nighttime bus tour, entry to the Empire State Building, entry to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, entry to a museum of our choice, a 2-hour cruise on the Hudson and a $10.00 voucher for Planet Hollywood so it turned out to be a really good deal. We also went to see Grand Central Station which was lovely.

In the evening, just before sunset we went up to the top of the Empire State Building which has one of the fastest elevators and gets you all the way up to the 86th floor in seconds! And your ears pop as if you’re taking off in a plane! At the top it was even more freezing and SO windy! But we braved the cold to get some good photos and then we hid inside until the sun set and we were able to get some night-time views. I think we were up there for at least 2 hours, it does have the most amazing views!

After the Empire State we decided we would go to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner as we were quite tired. It turned out the restaurant was really busy and we had to wait AGES to get a table. However the meal was excellent, we both had pulled pork burgers which were lovely. And after all that we were glad to cosy up in the big comfy bed and enjoy some American TV before going to sleep.

Friday we were up really early due to the time difference and we headed straight out for breakfast. We found a little diner where I had a stack of pancakes. We then headed for the bus again to take it down to the financial district and had a little more of the tour where we saw the flatiron building and various other sights. We got off at Ground Zero which had a good museum/memorial bit with a timeline of events but the actual “ground” is just a building site at the moment so not much to see. We then took a walk in the financial district we went to see the New York Stock Exchange with its HUGE American flag outside and listened to more stockbroker conversations.

We then decided to brave the cold and get the Liberty Island ferry to see the statue of Liberty. We stayed indoors on the ferry as it was just SO cold! The statue of Liberty is HUGE and from the island you get fantastic views of the city. We also took the ferry across to Ellis Island which is where all the immigrants landed to be checked and granted entry into America so lots of history which pleased Jamie. After braving the cold we of course had to go for another hot chocolate at Dean & Deluca’s before getting back on the tour bus to complete our tour around China Town, Little Italy and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Back in the city we decided to visit the museum of Modern Art which I thought was excellent! Lots of random things and obscure forms of art. After spending some time in there we went and got on the night tour bus which was lovely and offered great views through Times Square and Fifth Avenue and then took us over the Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn where we had time to get off the bus and get some pictures of Manhattan. It was of course freezing! After our full tour at night we were knackered and decided to go back to the hotel and go straight to bed for an early night.

We awoke pretty early on Saturday too due to our early night the previous night and went to a different diner for breakfast which turned out to be really expensive but nice nonetheless. We had bagels and lots of coffee! We then walked to Central Park as it was a really lovely day. We spent quite a bit of time wandering around there and playing on the swings! We then walked the 40-odd blocks through the "motor district" to get the Cruise which we were told leaves at 12:30 however it turned out that it wasn’t leaving until 4pm! So we didn’t really know what to do with ourselves so we went a walk back to the city to do some shopping. We first went into Macy’s and Jamie was looking for pyjamas; however he didn’t find the ones he was looking for so got a bit fed up and that was the end of shopping! So we went a walk again, including some coffee and cake, to the Upper West Side and killed some time until 4pm when the cruise was leaving.

The cruise itself was lovely and had awesome views of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, everything really! And it was nice and warm inside and we opted not to venture out onto the deck! After our trip we walked back to the City and went for dinner at Planet Hollywood where although we had a wait, it wasn’t too long. Jamie had sizzling fajitas which much cheered him up as he was in a mood about Macy’s; and I had lasagne. After Planet Hollywood we took a walk through Times Square, which was SO busy, and went back to the hotel.

Sunday we found another little diner for breakfast and I again had pancakes and lots of coffee. It wasn’t as nice a day at Saturday so we decided today would be museum day. We took another walk through Central Park to get to the Metropolitan Museum first of all. It was quite interesting although just far too much stuff to take in and read! They just have SO many ancient things, I especially liked the reconstructions of the dark age bedrooms and such. I particularly wanted to visit the museum of Natural History so that was our next stop and we both found that really interesting. They have a tree that is about 30 feet in diameter and they house the third largest meteor to have hit the Earth as well as displays of every organism to have lived, including a huge section on dinosaurs. After that we decided we were quite tired of museums so we went a walk back to Times Square to the Ticket Booth to see what Broadway shows were available and we were lucky enough to get tickets for Chicago!

Before the show we went for an early dinner at TGI Fridays where we both had burgers and smoothies. We had a little while to spend before the show so we went into the big Virgin store on Times Square which was closing down so had lots of deals on. We then went to the Theatre to see Chicago. We both enjoyed it very much, unlike the whole row of Chinese students students sitting in front of us who slept through the whole thing! We then went back to the hotel to watch the Oscars while eating big cookies and drinking Mountain Dew.

On Monday it was a lovely day again so we went back to Central Park and got a horse and carriage through the park which was very romantic :) We then went to the Rockefeller Centre and went to the Top of the Rock which isn’t quite as high as the Empire State but I preferred it as it was enclosed with glass so wasn’t windy or freezing and offered amazing views of both the Empire State itself and of Central Park and beyond. We stayed there for a while and then took the Subway to Ground Zero which was an awesome adventure! We went to Century 21 and bought Jamie his pyjamas which were really cheap and then headed back to the City on the Subway again as it was time to collect our luggage, say Goodbye to New York City and hail a taxi back to the airport.

The flight check-in was very quick and we again had ages to wait before boarding, however take-off we were on the right side of the plane and got fantastic views of Manhattan, especially as to get on the correct flight course the pilot pretty much did a round trip of Manhattan so we saw loads! I went to sleep on the flight and we were back in Glasgow on time and unfortunately neither of us got to go to bed as we both had uni that day however we slept all afternoon!

Before you ask… Yes there is photos, lots of them! Click Here

Good afternoon! As promised to my favourite overseas friend, I re-commence blogging. Gotta keep the world updated on the wonderful world of me! So Happy New Year! Last time I wrote I think I was over-run with studying for exams. Exams are now over with and results are published. Mine being ABBBC which although at first sight seems pretty good, it’s screwed me for getting into medicine this year, and so we begin plan B of life. I had a lovely Christmas, I went to my parents back in Carluke for the traditional Christmas dinner and I was then working later on at night which was the easiest shift I have ever done, for the most money ever! For New Year I took Jamie to my parents and we just sat and played Monopoly and drank Baileys. (The liqueur not the cat.)

We have since returned to University, which I am most please about as I get depressed having nothing to do all day. I have a nice timetable this year, although I am in at 9am four days a week, I am never in later than 2pm and I am off on Tuesdays. :) So far I have only missed one day and that was yesterday due to being ill and I have been keeping up on my lecture notes etc. I actually do enjoy learning, I’m a geek at heart. I’m liking most of my subjects, with the exception of Molecules of Life which I have been forced to continue on with from the first semester, it’s all about DNA and such; in my opinion, there is only so much to know about DNA before it becomes incredibly repetitive and boring. And Drugs & Disease which has a rubbish lecturer, too much writing and way too much scientific jargon for my liking.

Jamie and I are still very happy together, having completed the flat with the addition of a lovely chocolate and cream fireplace which my parents bought us for Christmas, and a Dolce Gusto Nescafe coffee machine which although was such a bother to finally get (rant later), it’s brilliant! We have also got a new coffee table and a new bookcase to match. We had our Christmas tree up for so long that when we finally took it down we thought there was such a big empty space that we’ve decided book-collecting is the way to go!

So about this coffee machine. Jamie's Mum & John bought us it for our Christmas and Jamie decided it was making too much noise. So we got his parents to send it back, which took a while to finally get it refunded and went in search of another one as cheap as possible. So we landed upon Argos as we get 10% discount and had a £5 voucher lying around which could also be put toward it. So we went online to reserve one and found out there was only one available near us, and it was away out at Braehead. But we were desperate to have it for the weekend for our morning espressos so we went out to get it, in rush hour, which took us about 2 hours. Upon getting it home and unpacking it, we discover it has been used! Not only has it been unpacked, but had smelly coffee still in it and most of the sample coffee pods were gone! So Jamie called to complain and they said there was none in stock except away out at Silverburn and this could only be reserved until 7pm the following day, which was Saturday. As this was the best on offer, we asked to reserve it and after finishing work at 6pm had to rush out to Silverburn and pick up this new machine. Thankfully upon getting it home, it was properly packaged and not used. However after all that, it makes the same noise.

We have also taken the risky decision of investing in RBS. As a staff member, I get discounted shares. So we are investing £15,000 in RBS in the hope that after 5 years the share price will have increased from its dire level of 10p up to at least £1 and we shall be rich. Or up to £10 and we shall be millionaires! Ah I do feel all financially knowledgeable with my shares. So people put your faith in the RBS :)

So the plan for this evening. I am going to Tesco to do the shopping, then I shall do my houseworking tasks. And then I am going to copy up the lectures I missed yesterday. We’ll maybe go to the cinema later to see 7 pounds.

You're the nicest thing I've seen

I wish I was your favourite girl
I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world
I wish my smile was your favourite kind of smile
I wish the way that I dressed was your favourite kind of style

I wish you couldn't figure me out
But you always wanna know what I was about
I wish you'd hold my hand when I was upset
I wish you'd never forget the look on my face when we first met

I wish you had a favourite beauty spot that you loved secretly
'Cause it was on a hidden bit that nobody else could see
Basically, I wish that you loved me
I wish that you needed me

I wish that you knew when I said two sugars
Actually, I meant three
I wish that without me your heart would break
I wish that without me you'd be spending the rest of your nights awake

I wish that without me you couldn't eat
I wish I was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep
All I know
Is that you're the nicest thing I've ever seen

I am not at work this weekend. I am instead sitting studying like hell for this energy metabolism test on Monday. To be frank, I’m pissed off with my work. They still haven’t changed my hours, despite the fact I asked for it months ago to fit with my uni timetable and now that uni has only one week left, it’s been a completely pointless expedition as my timetable will be different in January and I won’t have a clue when I’ll be able to work. And the fact the phones are really busy and people have left the group and no more have been employed to replace them so those left are having to do extra work.

I’m also annoyed with uni and all the work that comes with it. I’m trying to prioritise and just do my lectures and stuff but having your own flat and kittens comes with its chores that also must be done. So I’m caught up with millions of uni work and the fact that when Jamie has been at work all day; he expects to come home and the household chores are done, the cats are fed and dinner is on the table seeing as I’ve been at home all day with “plenty” of time to do all this.

I want exams to be over, I really do. Christmas will be good!

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 99...Wear sunscreen

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you cant grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked...Yore not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing

Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind...the race is long, and in the end its only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what to do with your life...the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium

Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you wont, maybe you'll have children, maybe you wont, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary...what ever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either - your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can...don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, its the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance...even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you'll never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, price will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time its 40, it will look 85.

Be careful who advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than its worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen...

This song, titled "Wear Sunscreen" is actually formed from an essay titled "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" written by Mary Schmich for the Chicago Tribune in 1997.

Anyway. Life is complete. Jamie and I adopted two kittens from the Cats Protection Agency last Wednesday. Bailey, a fluffy orange tiger, and Cassie, a pretty little girlie. They're utterly adorable and I love them to pieces. Yes they are pretty annoying as they leap around, scratch things they shouldn't, race up and down the corridor, chase each other and whine for us to play with them. Bailey gets far too carried away with playing with his mouse and actually GROWLS! I did say he was a bit of a tiger! And Cassie is just stupid to be honest, always falling over and running into walls and stuff!

We have been spending money this week like it's going out of fashion. We bought a sexy new fridge freezer yesterday. Click here to see it! So that was £350 odd and it's being delivered on the 21st which is just as well considering our resident fridge is making what I can only describe as "growling" noises. It's not a happy fridge, not to mention the fact it has become incontinent and is pissing water all over the floor. We also almost bought a rug, a rug we've already tried to purchase twice and been told to come back when the delivery is due, and we were back today to be told the same story... Delivery didn't show up. And since they refused to give us any discount for our inconvenience, we told them to shove it. In a slightly more polite way.

Getting into the festive spirit, we spent over £150 on Christmas decorations today. We've reserved a tree that Hazel is picking up for us, and have bought a lovely array of red and gold decorations to match our living room decor. We've also got a wreath for the door and one of those Jewish candle things... I forget what they're called. We drove all the way to Cumbernauld. YES CUMBERNAULD! To look at these decorations in Dobbies garden centre and felt like such old farts donnering around a garden centre in the middle of the day! We honestly were the only people there under 60!

I'm now sitting writing up some lecture notes as I have a horrific week in a couple of weeks where I have a test/lab/post-lab EVERY DAY. That's just cruel. And it's scary to think that we only really have about 3 weeks left of lectures before exams are looming and semester 1 is in the past.

Anyway, this was just a quick update, I shall be getting back to my studying :)

This is truly shocking. I haven't written in my blog for over two months. I sincerely apologise. I have been SO busy. University has started back, the flat in finished, and life is generally good. I'm going to get back into blogging because it's a hobby I've had for years and I don't want it to slip away due to the fact I forget to write.

I have joined the cheerleading club. I vowed I would join a sports club this year and I'm not sure if cheerleading is indeed a sport but it's probably the closest I'm going to get to being sporty! It's much harder than I thought to be honest. I'm rubbish at the dances, I can't remember it all and it all goes so fast! I'm not too bad at the stunts where I am a side so I do most of the lifting which is tough on the wrists!

Well although I haven't written anything in the last couple of weeks, a hell of a lot has gone on! We have moved into the flat and successfully moved in all of our furniture, built up all our flat-pack, painted all of the rooms, organised all of our belongings and only now after two weeks are we getting time to just chill in the flat. I really can't honestly believe this is all actually happening. I have never been happier. Honestly. It's been hard work yeah moving and painting and running up three flights of stairs 50 times a day but it's just awesome now that we've got time to lie on our big comfy corner sofa in our perfectly decorated living room with a glass of wine watching a movie. It's what life is supposed to be like!

I've adopted the role of the wee housewife. I sadly got excited about the prospect of having to do washing and ironing the other day! And I love cleaning the flat and doing general wife-ish things haha! I've actually quit doing too much overtime at work now because I enjoy being in the flat. It was even good when Jamie was away the last few days doing his motorbike test - he passed by the way - because being home alone meant I got through about 7 movies that I'd been meaning to watch for months.

I'm looking forward to going back to university because I fully guarantee I will work hard this year - I mean come on, we've got two studies - and I shall achieve what I was born to achieve rather than some just-passing shit like I did last year. Life's gonna be good :)

Hey and Jamie and I have been together a year next month, wow. Not got too bored of him yet, haha!

This weekend has been pretty great, considering the fact that nothing went to plan and we're not yet in a wonderful new flat. We found out on Thursday that we definitely wouldn't be getting into the flat on Friday, so Jamie and I decided that we'd make it a good weekend anyway. So we went into Glasgow and went shopping, Jamie bought me DVDs and spent loads on himself. Then he took me out for dinner at Di Maggios then we went to see the Batman film. It was a really good day and I really enjoyed Batman despite me thinking it would be a boy film.

Then yesterday, Saturday, my grandparents were over and we had a barbeque and Jamie got to meet my grandparents, and then we spent the rest of the evening watching all the films Jamie had bought me. We watched Wedding Crashers, Knocked Up and Superbad. So even though we didn't get into the flat, this weekend was the best in a while. All the better because I had no work :)

We're meant to be getting into the flat tomorrow or Tuesday... But we shall see.

Well we moved out of Cooperage this morning. That's certainly the end of an era there! So I'm at home just now and Jamie's coming down tomorrow to stay for a bit. I'm also ill. I was working my ambitious 12 hour shift yesterday and was fine for the first wee while but then it was like 9pm for hours and I somehow developed a cold in the space of that hour between 9 and 10. So I've now got a really sore throat and I'm tired and really can't be bothered doing any housework. I've worked the washing machine twice and ironed a bedsheet so that's me for the day.

It's a bit lonely in my big house on my own. Especially when I'm ill :(

Since I last wrote a lot has went on. Dominated by exams of course. I sat my exams in May, and to be honest did okay in biology and chemistry and royally messed up forensics. But that wasn't my fault. Stuff happened with Jamie and such and therefore I had no sleep and had spent most of the morning prior to the exam in tears and not really knowing if Jamie and I were still going.

However! I have recently got my results back and I have an A5 in chemistry, a B2 in biology and a D1 in forensics. First off... OMG I GOT AN A I AM A GENIOUS! A B, meh, about what I expected. And a D was much more than I expected for forensic medicine. But having received back the broken down marks, I actually got an E (lowest in the whole class) for the exam and a C for the essay which thank god was worth 50% of the overall grade, hence, my D.

Other news, yeah we have bought a flat! We move in on the 25th July and I'm so super excited. WE ARE HOMEOWNERS. Of a flat. in the West End. Yes we are posh snobs. :)

Gemini

May 21 - June 21

Thursday, May 1
It should be a great day for you to spend a little time alone [It's never a good day when I have to spend it alone] and try to get in touch with your most deeply felt needs and desires. [I need and desire NOT TO BE ALONE!] It's a good time for a little spiritual reflection on your part, and you could find yourself feeling spiritually re-energized. [I'm fecking knackered!] So try to ignore any minor annoyances [Like the fact I have no energy and I'm still ON MY OWN?!] and focus on what's truly important right now. [I've tried to study... I really have!]

Load of shite really. I really really really want Jamie back. :(

I EFFING MISS THIS BOY.

I wish it was summer. Or more accurately I wish it was 5:30pm on the 23rd May. Because then I'll have finished all of my exams and I'll be most of the way through the training for my new job. Which now doesn't sound too good, seeing as I'll be working weekdays and Jamie will be working weekends so we'll actually never see each other, which will obviously suck seeing as I can't survive being away from him for more than 2 minutes. I was meant to be staying in Glasgow and getting on with the studying while Jamie was in Troon all week. He went home on Monday... And I ended up in Troon by Monday night. Haha. So I've been there until yesterday when I came back to Glasgow for my RBS induction. I did kind of survive last night by myself, although I didn't sleep and as a result I'm too tired to concentrate for any length of time today.

Gotta remember to clean my flat soon as they're doing flat inspections and I want my deposit back! Gotta clean the kitchens in both my flat and downstairs too seeing as I've been living in them both! My room isn't too messy I don't think seeing as I've not really used it for quite some time!

The flat hunt is still ongoing, we're now kind-of considering one bedrooms seeing as we might be able to get an awesome 1 bed for the same price as an average 2 bed. We've not been to see any more recently, we're kind of getting on with the studying but come the 23rd May we'll probably be right back into it! Can't wait for a new flat with a proper office space and a pretty kitchen and a BATH (hopefully!)

Well lately I have been putting a lot of work into catching up on my university work. I realise I've kind of screwed up first year by not attending lectures and as a result I've not done particularly well in the January exams and I'm struggling to do well in assignments and things as well which has obviously stressed me out a bit and I feel bad about myself for it. But I have put a considerable effort into catching up. I've caught up on all my biology lectures, all of the chemistry lectures that are currently online and although I haven't yet started on Forensics, I know I have ages until the exam for that, a whole two weeks where I will have already sat biology and chemistry and can just concentrate solely on forensics.

But as a consequence of putting all this work into keeping on top of work, I seem to have neglected my friends here. I miss the times when we all lived in 2.1 and we sat around all day doing nothing and watching Top Gear. But we've all got commitments now, we're all getting jobs and putting more effort into passing these exams and getting ourselves a ticket to second year, but for some reason I seem to have balanced work/friends particularly badly and I kinda feel like I've now got no best friends apart from Jamie, and I've still not got myself to a position where I can walk into an exam confident of passing. Not to mention the fact I've pissed off Jamie loads lately because I keep stressing out about all this - my studies, my friends, etc. I've felt like I can't do much right the last few weeks. I just keep getting things wrong.

I'm going to make more of an effort with my friends here, but I also don't want to screw up my studying and of course I don't want to spend less time with Jamie. It's got to be a balance. But right now it's a balance I seem to be getting wrong. To the people at Cooperage, upstairs, I miss you guys and I love you all to bits and I really don't want to be distanced from you as I miss the times when we were best mates just having a laugh without a care about where we were supposed to be or what we were supposed to be doing. I realise we all have places to be and things to do but I just want, you know, the laughs back. I'm sorry for not making more of an effort lately.

Bring on summer, months of just friends and laughs, hopefully. :)