Sunday 30 January 2011

Success!

After posting that last post last night, I sat and deliberated over what the hell was wrong with it.

I figured it out. I was being an idiot.

Me, being a 'computing student' I should know what bit should hold HTML and what bit should hold CSS. Obviously I wasn't thinking straight though, I woke up this morning and tried it once more and finally succeeded. I'm well chuffed.

What do you think of it? Any suggestions? Is the logo too big? On my flatmate, Cassie's computer it opens up and overwhelms the page but on both of my screens it comes up normal sized. Whats it like for you guys? Would appreciate the feedback.

Over and out.
x

Saturday 29 January 2011

Banter, baking and birthdays.

Today has been my first day in the last week or 2 that I've actually not had any plans or essential work to be done, it's been pretty cool. Well, cool in a way that I can sleep and kick about without having to do my hair or anything and watch stuff online. Not so cool when I start attempting to fix things on my blog and fail miserably. 


I added a typekit and tried to embed it in but it's not working at all. No idea why, it should be working, but it isn't. You guys used TypeKit before? If so, fancy giving me a suggestion with what I've done wrong? I really should get back to what we had to do last year at uni and relearn how to make a website! I managed it before, it's just all left my head somehow. 


Anyway, this week has been blog-less for no good reason to be honset. I think I've been busy but looking back at my week I'm not too sure what I've been doing other than my usual boring java work and kicking about with the flatmates.


One thing I know I did this was was to have a random but yet amazing night on Thursday with my mate Clare. Our plan was just to head to Art Society for an hour or two and then finish our java to be handed in the next day. It was our first experience of the art society as we'd heard they were doing a printing night so we thought we may aswel see what it was all about. It was a right laugh. We got chatting to everyone and got a couple of free drinks there and got pretty hyper while attempting some lino printing. I'd done it before but Clare had been wanting to try it for a while. Check out what we did - 


I did a bike, but used way too much ink

Clare made a lovely wee cupcake! 

After Art Society we went back to try get some work done but Clare was on a mission to make me go out to the union. Turns out it was Neds & Nerds night so we had a run about trying to find things to wear and we were pretty damn successful! 

please mind the stupid face, 
but it's too funny to not post. 

All in all, it was a damn good night. 

It's been good being back at the flat. I love my flatmates and can't wait to move into our house next year. It's going to be ace. 

Mattress fun in the hallway at 3am. Great fun. 
Cass took photos while we all looked like idiots! 

Cass and I mucking about last night.

We also had a bit of a mental bake sesh last weekend.
It resulted in a carrot cake, 
an attempt at red velvet cupcakes,
and banana and chocolate cupcakes. 
NOM! 

My aim for the next week is to actually start listening to a french speaking cd to get a bit refreshed for heading off. I hope I actually get round to it. I seem to be getting really really good at avoiding doing stuff at the moment. It's terrible. 

It's my 21st birthday next month and I've been so distracted and not managed to arrange anything to do with all my mates in Edinburgh, it's a bit of a shame. Hoping it'll all come together and we'll all just head to a pub and catch up. I'd be happy with anything as long as my mates are around me. Anyone from Edinburgh know where I could head? I was thinking Lebowski's, a brilliant white russian bar which is pretty spacious so it could accomodate for a random amount of people turning up. Other than that, no other thoughts.. I used to be so good at arranging things! 

Over and out.
x

Wednesday 19 January 2011

Help..

Okay, this post is a bit of a call for help. Well, not help, just pointers and advice. 


So has anyone ever been to Paris before? 
If so, where did you go? 
What did you see? 
Go to disney? 
Any little shops you came across you'd recommend? 
Or, any restaurants? 
How much money did you need?


So as you know, we're heading to Paris in.. 36 days. I'm on the lookout for things to do and places to visit. Also advice on how much money to take, we're going for 4 nights arriving at like 9pm first night and leaving like 9pm the last night. Turns out theres loads of bloggers which do exactly that, they recommend things to do. Thing is, i can't afford things that cost like 100€. One thing I know is I'm trying to find a branch of Ladurée which is a renowned Parisian Bakery which has been selling the legendary french macaroons. I've never had one but hey, I'm heading to Paris, may aswel! They look beautiful. 







I've been to Paris before but I was 14 and just went on tour buses and to Disney. So I don't remember anything that stands out in my memory except from meeting Goofy. Thats not to say that we're not going to Disneyland this time. Tom has never been to Disneyland ever or even Alton Towers! Poor boy. It's such an experience. (A childish one at that but yeah..) So we're pre booking tickets for a discovery pass to a day between Disney and Universal which will be ace. But we've got 2 other full days and an evening to spend seeing Paris. We need inspiration. 


Other than Paris chat, the last 24 hours have been rather stressful. As a student, getting a flat with your friends is vital and my flatmates and I have been hot off the mark for looking for a big house to share and we found one. It's a 9 person town house with 3 floors and a basement with a den in it! It's beautiful. We put the holding fee down today and just found out they're kind of screwing us over with the deposit. They didn't tell us we had to pay the first months rent, an admin fee AND a deposit. It's a nightmare. But hopefully it'll get sorted out tomorrow. Check it out, it's not the clearest of photos but this is it on Google Street View. Gutted the trees are in the way, but check it out, we have columns at the door!




It's also got an old school spiral staircase all the way up it!
I'm so happy! 
We move in in July. 

Over and out.
x

Monday 17 January 2011

Stumbled upon..

I've been getting tad distracted lately. All I can blame is StumbleUpon. If you fancy checking it out or already have an account, you can follow me on there to check out some of the links I've been liking recently. It's a great way to procrastinate but not the best way to start a new semester! Silly me.


Here's just a handful of some of the things I came across on it.


I absolutely love this last one. It's to the point and beautifully blunt. 

Other than stumbling, I've not been doing much this week except from being extremely domesticated and making soup and knitting. How quaint! So far this week I've made some beautiful home made mushroom and philadelphia soup, some yummy chicken enchiladas for the flatmates and some curried parsnip soup. I'm pretty proud. I also came across this local fruit and veg shop that sells 'Soup Bags'. Basically in a soup bag theres a recipe, which rotates weekly and all the ingredients needed for the soup in the recipe. This isn't just the veg, this is the veg, the spices and the stock for 4 servings of soup. Not only is it a great idea, it's a bloody bargin! It's only £1.95. I've been raving about it all day to folk in my class but I'm so happy I found it. My aim for eating healthy at uni this year was to make soup for lunch. So from now on, at least once a week I'm hoping to pop down and get a soup bag. 

Slowly but surely it's getting better..
Nom, chicken enchiladas! They were a hit with everyone too.

Finally I'm going to leave you with the most random toilet graffiti I've ever witnessed... and if you're curious, it was in a Tesco toilet, nothing in anyway related to Scottish Power!


Over and out.
x




Friday 14 January 2011

Paris!

So just a quick post to express my extreme excitement. We're actually going to Paris! Booked the hostel and the Flights today. Going 23rd to the 27th of Feb for both Tom's and my birthday. His is the 22nd and mine is the 27th. Which means on the day of my 21st I will be waking up in one of the most beautiful cities ever. We've got a 9pm flight home so I'll have time to go birthday shopping in Paris (If I have any money left after Disney that is!). 


So happy. 


You can check out the hostel we're staying at here. It's looks pretty nice and the reviews are ace. 


40 days and counting 


Over and out. 
x

Thursday 13 January 2011

A new year, a new you?

I personally don't feel new years resolutions are what people need, they just need willpower. I feel like I shouldn't be saying this as I have no willpower but to be honest, I've never seen the big deal with resolutions, yeah you want a new you and to feel better about yourself, but the date shouldn't have anything to do with it! I have been aiming on doing better with eating and being stricter with general health and fitness but it's not a resolution, it's just an aim.


I have a few aims generally but they are just small.


- Get a tutor for computing.
- Re-find my creativity!
- With said creativity, learn how to knit and get better at baking.
- Start a new hobby. I think I might look into Roller Derby. My friend Clare is well into it and it sounds like a right laugh and it's meant to be great exercise.
- See more of my family.
- Go to Paris as planned for my 21st next month.
- Stop being so silly with money! (She says after saying she's going to Paris!!)


Okay, so some aren't necessarily gonna happen but I can at least try. Have you gone for the Resolution approach or are you just choosing to be a bit better than you were before? Everyone seems to have a different view on it. All I know is I'm happy that I have at least attempted one of my aims!


My aim is to get Tom's mum to teach me how to 
make one of the beautiful headbands she makes. 
(See my newest one I received in the next
picture down!)


I've not had the best week, or at least not the best luck. In my week of bad luck I've managed to


- Break a brand new charm my best friend had given me 2 days before!
- Burst my necklace for the 2nd or 3rd time in the last year!
- Got a chip on my windscreen and can't get it fixed as there's a huge chance the pressure of the repair will smash it and I can't afford a completely new windscreen at the moment.
- Whacked my face off my car boot.
- Got stuck going in a exit at Tesco and panicked so much while being boxed in by a bus and 2 cars. It was horrible and it all happened because I was rushing to pick up my brother!


NIGHTMARE.


Anyway, rant over. Good news is I've finally got back to Dundee to get back to uni again and I got my results back today, got 2 B1s and a C1. The C1 is bothering me as we didn't really have many hand ins for that module but I don't care as it's the least important one. Also, I came back to the flat to find my satchel! I've been waiting for it to come back in stock for ages and I managed to buy it on Monday and it was sat infront of my room door when I arrived in the flat today. Winner!


Not only is it beautiful but it smells SO good. 

I start back at uni on Monday to endure a 22 hour timetable with 5 days a week in at 9am! It's horrible, most of my other mates have like 6-9 hours in uni. But to tell the truth I'd rather my timetable than no classes and loads of reading and essays. I hate that stuff. Creative courses are the way forward. So anyway, I'm hoping to get a night out squeezed into the weekend with the flatmates before we all get to our new grueling timetable. Thank god we're all in the same class! 

Over and out.
x

Tuesday 4 January 2011

Inspiring

I was checking out the New York Times 'Most Popular Moments of 2010' when I came across this beautiful image..



It's called a 'Ghost Stroller' and is a stroller thats been placed randomly in a street in Brooklyn which has been painted pure white with 3 coloured roses in it. No one has any idea who put it there, and why it's there but a lot of people have assumed it's there for a memorial to a child, similar to Ghost Bikes. Ghost bikes are painted white and chained to a fence near when a fatal bike accident has happened, like this one.. 


The 'Ghost Bikes' are the work of the New York City Street Memorial Project who paint and chain bikes all over the world as beautiful memorials to those who have been lost. The projects even started to make it's mark in the UK. This one is in Carlisle in commemoration for a cyclist called Colin Rae, an old cyclist who sadly lost his life in a collision with a lorry in September.


I think this whole project is absolutely beautiful and should most definitely be continued. The website even informs you how to install your own ghost bike if need be. I really hope this project continues to make it's mark to commemorate the poor people who lose their lives while cycling. 

You can read more about the ghost stroller, if you fancy it, here.
Over and out. 
x

Sunday 2 January 2011

2010 in Photos!

2010 was a great year for me and I thought I'd share it through the of photos I've taken.

January
I got my nose pierced, against my parents will! Ha. 


February 
I turned 20 and got the best birthday card
ever from Cassie. Love it.

March 
Our course had a 'tachebash! It was an amazing 
night. Winner. 

April
We took some 'conceptual' photos for Finlay's
birthday. Silly personal jokes all in one photo!

May 
Tom and I went down to London to go to his
cousins wedding. It was beautiful. They had old red
buses to take the guests from the ceremony to 
the reception. They took us a wee tour round the
city too, it was great. 


June
We managed to bag some tickets to the free Rage 
Against the Machine 'Thank you gig' in London. 
It was absolutely epic. Not only did we get to see
Rage, but Tom and I travelled down in style, our
mate drove us down in his old school VW camper. 

July
A group of us ventured down to the Wickerman 
festival. It was epic. Not only was it a great festival 
but a bunch of our mates were playing. Was so cool. 


August 
It was the Edinburgh festival. I didn't manage to see
a lot of it during the day as I spent my days serving
tourists and getting shouted at by angry people. But when
I ventured out the pub, it was fab. Saw so many amazing
comedians, even got to meet Jim Jeffries! We also
got to go to The Edinburgh Dungeons for the first time. 
To make it all better one of my best friends was one 
of the actors and he pulled Tom up and tortured him! 


September
We moved into the new flat. Along with the 
excitement of the new flat, it was also freshers
week. Oh the debauchery. This was only part of
our recycling pile! My dad also had a bit of a midlife
crisis and bought a canoe.

October
We had a fun filled Halloween.

November
It was a work filled month thanks to our final hand
ins and exam but I still managed to enjoy the 
amazing snow. Luckily it kinda kept us in the house 
so made me do work.


December
Well, December was one of the best months
of my year. It's been amazing. We had an early
Christmas dinner at the flat which went great. I
was in Edinburgh for the majority of the month too
so I've seen Tom so much. I've loved it. 

Bye 2010, you were a good year. Bring on 2011! 

Over and out.