the stig.

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Today is looking to be a day of cake-festing, with my friends birthday & all. my friend & i were going to make him a load of cookies, & little cakes, & a big birthday cake, but a trip round the supermarket resulted in the rediscovery of those ready-mix cake & cookie packets (remember them?), hence, in a state of sincere nostalgia, we abandoned our plans to make little foodstuffs, with the excuse that, you know, we'd still be making the big birthday cake & all (planned to be a white chocolate gateau). anyway, whilst returning the cream, margarine, etc that had been required for the cookies & little cakes, we stumbled across the cake area & lo & behold we found a Top Gear birthday cake with THE STIG on it...!! Regardless of the fact that any one of us would have adored a Stig Cake, my friend (whose birthday it was yesterday) is actually a massive TopGear fan, & loves cars beyond belief (more the classic cars though).

so...er... it turns out that we really havent made very much of the food in the end.

im feeling a bit guilty to be honest..

however, we actually put a great deal of effort into decorating the little cakes (everyone has a personalised little cake now- mine has a rainbow (= ). i had to get up early this morning to do the cookies because we spent pretty much all day decorating the little cakes. haha.

anyway, id better go get ready..

hope everyone's having a nice day:)

peeeace.x

nerd/mathclass

currently working on adding music to this blog (used to have it & accidentally deleted it a while ago:()

most played songs on my ipod right now:

• 'at the hop' - devendra banhart
• 'west coast' - coconut records
• 'pull my heart away' - jack penate
• 'flagpole sitta' - harvey danger
• 'sleepyhead' - passion pit

soo it'll probably be that kinda thang.

& amazingly, via the wonderous facebook, ive managed to find two out of my three future flatmates! & they're both really lovely:)

ooh.

im going back home to the west coast.

since i last wrote anything about myself,i have:

• made the oars for my wee dinghy a staple ornament in my car. interesting & handy for spur of the moment boat trips, yes. impractical & uncomfortable for backseat passengers, definitely.
• hardly been in my wee boat at all:( it's been raining for ever here. & no chance of sunshine anytime soon either..
• scratched Rambo, the beloved ka. on a massive pillar. whilst attempting to park. i'm really, really bad at parking.
• come round to the way of thinking that actually, the white scratches look cool on the black ka, as if im magically travelling so fast, the back end is all a blur.
• gone to a few parties, mumbled & bumbled around the house about how sad it is to leave.
• finished working at my job (just a temporary set time thing).
• got rather inebriated, went to the beach with friends at 1.05am, wrote in the sand, looked at the stars (saw TWO shooting stars..yuss), got cold, met an old architect in a suit who told us all these amazing stories about how one time he'd met Jimi Hendrix, & been to see the Beatles & everything. everyone crashed at my house, we ate a lot of biscuits.. it was a good night:)
• begun planning some sort of gathering for a friend's birthday on monday.
• remembered how lovely & comforting a log fire is.
• realised that i am now officially addicted to tea, & slushies (purple tastes best i think).
• & now it is.. 13 days till i move up to edinburgh & begin university!

songs of the moment are all sad & about leaving, fraid to say. currently loving Coconut Records, & just Jason Schwartzman in general (loved Darjeeling Limited & I Heart Huckabees & recently watched Rushmore.. & loved it too..). Jack Penate - 'Pull My Heart Away' kinda sums up my feelings about moving away entirely.

& it is now my mission in life to see '500 days of Summer'. Darn the local odeon! (the only cinema within 20mins from where i live). sucks much?:(

peeeeace.x

everything is magic

duuude.. its summer..

ahh! i havent posted in aages! ive been reading loads of amazing blogs, just not been bothering so much with my own.. except now, ive got this huuge store of pictures on my beautiful usb that il have to share..:) tbh, ive just been working & reading quite a bit.. still stuck on 'nausea' by jean paul sartre (although stuck is the wrong word.. im reading it slowly to make it last longer, its reeally good).
hope everyone's good & enjoying the beautiful weather! its been raining the last week in scotland, typically, but it should be getting better soon:)
happy happiness y'all:)xx

bob dylan

i wanna be yo lover.

i feel like going for a bike ride. hedgehogs swimming are possibly the cutest thing ever (just saw it on some vet programme). being on a boat kills my appetite, mais apres boat, im constantly hungry. i honestly cant imagine life without music, or my ipod (esp. johnny flynn, as per normal, devendra banhart, beck, the cave singers, belle & sebastian, m.ward,etc..). andy murray, love him, shame about not beating roddick. ..am going to see the new harry potter film, & despite having read the book aages ago & not remembering much of it, i am insanely excited. partly because my last dose of popcorn was waay too long ago. im currently on a mission to find out why the tea at work tastes so different to the tea at home (its not the milk, im taking in my own tea bags tomorrow.. & yes, i am reeally sad). today made me realise that everyone needs someone to talk to, even if they dont say much at all. everythings working out really nicely at the moment (not including the impending leaving for uni).

i hate driving when its all sunny, & walking seems like a much better idea (minus the distance). especially when my cars been sitting in the sun all day :/ makes me wish i could fly home instead (i honestly wish i had wings quite a lot, it would be so cool).

il post some of the amsterdam pics later, there are waay too many (something like 400 in total, from my friend & my camera). mainly its just us with random things we came across (including a great deal of cannabis-related items - the number of them were insane, & the ingenuity of people is hilarious).

okiedokie, ima go. tireddd.x

i <3 my usb =)

Yay! My USB arrived! Now my plans to barrage you guys with pictures of the last goodness knows when (the first picture is from when i was 12 i think) are possible. so, um, bewareee:)x

i took this photo like five years ago? & i still think its my most favourite photo ever, at a park in the town i live in.

we had an 'eid picnic' for one of my friends who's Muslim (at the same park, love that place) & my friend has a motorbike...cue lots of close-up pictures of us with compressed cheeks -yea, i spared you guys that utter torture=)..

my friends 18th meal at this reeeally nice italian place

what we would look like if our heads were joined like this..

this is only one of SEVERAL attempts to get the sand-spinney-air-thing timed perfectly. me standing at the front like a goon. nice beach, but jellyfish were everywhere.

also, the only picture of the three of us in the air, at the same time. i love this picture soo much:)

us as superheroes, drifting off to rid a beach of a jellyfish plague

last day of school :( ..& the self-named 'nerd' gang (we were really nerds tbh, but we had hand signals & everything... impressive, no?)

fun times in rambo, my teeny wee car (who now smells like toast).

this place we went to last week, where there are really big rocks (a la the righthand side of the picture) & really deep water. terrifying the first time, but loovely:) (except for one time i accidentally jumped & hit my butt off a big rock under the water)

peace&love.xx