Reflections on my 25 year old self
30 Jan 2011 1 Comment
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I turned 25 last Friday, I think it was one of the best birthdays I’ve had in years.
A busy, busy day at work, but all my wonderful work friends made it lovely! Bacon Roll breakfast, happy birthday sung to me, beautiful tea pot and cake stand and card from all my colleagues. Home to the flatmates cooking me steak pie and apple pie for dinner. Just perfect! Then a drink or two in the pub with friends who were visiting from London for the weekend.
My 24th, a nice day in work with a birthday lunch and cake from my two colleagues and lots of pretty wee presents. Followed by a Burns Supper and ceilidh in the evening at work. I was a school dinner lady for the night, and spent a lot of time explaining to International Students what Neeps were.
My 23rd, out for dinner and cocktails with a friend in the Social, but spent the whole night trying to figure out why the boy in my life at the time was so rubbish.
My 22nd, up North for a quiet day with the family. Out for lunch in the Morangie and then home for a nice home made cake.
My 21st, a big party with all my friends and family there. It was such a good night, and I was totally overwhelmed by all the presents I got. People were far too good to me.
My 20th, friends came down from up North and we took one of them to get a tattoo. Dinner in China Buffet King, drinks in Driftwood and dancing in the Garage. A good proper studenty birthday!
My 19th, spent being so ill I ended up in hospital (Gastroenteritis for those who may be interested). The rest of the day was spent trying to sleep on the sofabed in the livingroom while workmen fixed our smashed bedroom window.
My 18th, a birthday party up North with my family and friends, and some of my new Uni friends travelled up for it too.
My 17th, out for dinner in the Eagle, and then sneaking into some of the pubs for a few underage drinks!
My 16th, dinner and a sleepover with my school friends.
And that’s as far back as I can go.
All in all though, this year was definitely a high, nice and low key. Not finished yet though, got a long-weekend in North Berwick next weekend to look forward to!
365days
20 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
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I’ve been a bit rubbish on here of late, but I hate saying that. It annoys me on other people’s blogs when they apologise for not writing, seriously, it’s not like everyone is sitting poised at their computers for days/weeks waiting for you to post!
That said, it had been my intention to get better at posting, instead I got sucked back into the world of 365days. 365days is a photo project, where you take a self portrait every day for a year.
I first successfully completed 365days in 2008/2009 not missing a single day. Since then I’ve tried a few times and never managed, I did get to about 200 days another time, but gave up. This time I’m trying to get my motivation back, and hopefully by starting on the 1st January it’ll be easier to keep with it.
So far all my photos have been taken with my trusty iPhone, as my wee point and shoot camera has pretty much died – think it got wet and now all my photos have a fuzzy look to them. However, by the end of the month I’m going to have a shiny new camera* and the photos will get better again!
If you happen to be interested, here is the link to my flickr account and my current 365days project. Flickr
*If anyone has any recommendations of a good point and shoot camera then send them my way! There’s so many out there I don’t know what I want. Actually, that’s not true, I want a good camera that can take pictures at night too as my old one was useless for that!
Winter is Blue (part three)
02 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
in All about me, Winter is blue
Yo Sushi
The first day that snow closed my work, I was in town for a meeting, so I stayed in town and started my Christmas shopping. I met up with my friend, and she took me for sushi. It was a first for me and I loved it!
Line Up
We laughed a lot when we created this Line-Up for my flatmate to find when she came home – snow days definitely leave you with too much time on your hands!
Snow!
More snow than I have ever seen! My work was absolutely crazy, soon after this we got sent home! As much as I’ve moaned about the snow, I do find it quite exciting.
A room with a view
Having a view like this from your office window is incredible! Sometimes I wonder how I ever get any work done, it’s so beautiful. Though less beautiful when full of students and not snow covered admittedly…
Winter is blue (part two)
01 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
in All about me, Winter is blue
And after a longer gap than intended, my favourite moments of Winter 2010 continue.
Christmas night out with work. Now most people who know me know that me and Christmas nights don’t mix. I have a bad track record, and this year was no better. The night always starts out nice and dignified, and ends up a drunken mess – as the photos above indicate. I had a wonderful time though despite the snow, and happily don’t remember parts of the evening!
The long walk home. I’ll never forget the day that the snow brought Edinburgh to a halt. The trains stopped, the buses stopped, everything stopped. Not knowing if/when the buses would restart, we decided to just walk home from work. 5 miles and 2.5 hours later we made it, after battling traffic, walking on busy roads and snow as deep as my elbows! Maybe not something I enjoyed at the time, but defintiely a story for the grandchildren!
Seeing the Gaslight Anthem (excuse the truely awful picture). The Gaslight Anthem have definitely been the soundtrack to my 2010. When things were terrible I’d sit in my room listening to them through my headphones and block the rest of the world out.
No not the ice-cream, the whereabouts of the ice-cream. Winter 2010 was when I started volunteering with the Brownies, this was taken at the Gang Show. I can honestly say I’ve loved every moment of volunteering with them, long may it continue!
I know my love of coffee has already been mentioned, but this was a special moment. Sitting in the window of Starbucks on Princes Street, with the snow falling outside, the snow stopping and the light being just right to catch this shot of Edinburgh Castle.
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