Part 95: Tissues, Not My Shoes!

Today was a good day :D

Currently, I am sitting with Sally next to me watching me type and failing miserably with the amount of typos I have made in this one sentence. FAIL.

So! I shall start in the morning where I woke up at 10.30 (sleep in!) and then sat around the TV and laptop with Louisa and the Davidsons watching random stuff on telly. Sally would like to add that she was absent as she was sleeping. She claims to not have seen me at all this morning. I have no idea. Memory. Fading.

So at 12ish Louisa and I went into Glasgow with the intentions of going to the Kelvin Grove Art Museum. On the train trip we went through our coupon book we found the other day and realised we were hungry. Fortunately for us the coupon booklet had a 10% discount for a lovely little teahouse named the Willowtree Tea House. We went there. Good times. The building was designed by some dude named Mckintosh (Louisa spelt that) I wouldn't be able to explain if that means something or not, but its apparently a feature of this particular place making it unique. We were going to just have tea and a dessert but got sucked in by the menu making us have lunch and dessert (for me, Scrambled eggs and lemon meringue pie) it was epically awesome and with our discount, still bloody expensive but worth it... sure.

After lunch we toured around Glasgow buying a camera for me... yes, I bought a new bloody camera; FINALLY. Its a cool one too and only costed...too much for me to say (not that much really) We also saw kids running around with bubbles which was awesome. I like bubbles. I should mention that the streets were SO crowded it was amazing. We took photos, on Louisas camera so sorry, none for you.

When we finally decided to go to the Kelvin Grove place it was 3ish and took us about half an hour to get there by foot. It was a nice walk full of complaints and whinges (not all by me!) and many-a-photos (by me!) We finally got to the museum which had free entry so we went in and ripped the museum to shreds with our mad picking-on skills. Not really! It was a fun little museum to hang out in and I really enjoyed it, actually. Its no Louvre, but its cool. The building was pretty epic too and there was Glasgow uni behind it which was so impressive to look out. Win.

We then caught a bus back into the centre of the city and then walked around a bit before catching the train back into Muirend. When we arrived back home everyone was busy but we did have a brief chat to Al about our day and his. The kids had a nice day in the park with a Boomerang... Aussies. hehe.

Eventually we watched MORE tv (win!) and then Al, Louisa and I sat outside with a beer in hand and the sun shining for a lovely afternoon chat. Well it was a nice afternoon chat until, dun dun duuunnn! AJ came along with his bloody water pistol and squirted us. Oh and Sally was there too. Yes, so he squirted us and then I was all
"If you squirt me one more time, I will throw you over the fence" - he stopped.
Then after more squirting of the others, Sally and Louisa decided threatening was the only strategy for getting what you wanted so they said:
"If you squirt me one more time, I will throw you over the other fence" - he stopped...temporarily until he 'accidently' squirted Sally. This led to outrage! AJ didn't want to get thrown over the fence so, the only reasonable solution was to make AJ our personal slave. For the next 10 hours. Duh.

Our first devious instruction for the poor little AJ was to bring us all food and also the box of tissues for me. AJ ran inside, desperate to not fail and bought us back each a snacky item (malteasers-win) and also my... shoes. The poor kid. He thought I said 'My shoes' not 'tissues' so ran into my room to find my shoes and bring them to me... sigh. He did figure out his mistake when I was disappointed, but in hysterics *facepalm* (that was Sally)

Then when it began to cool we sat back inside and the rest of the day was wasted... in front of the TV and laptop..Its a good life. :D

Would Sally like to add anything?

Yay!!! I want my own blog, but I'm not allowed one
D:

Right now, well, I'm sitting here... typing...
*duh*

Byez!

P.S. My favourite word is awesomesauce. xD

Catchya! (OMG COLOUR)

Part 94: Cant. Breathe.

I cant breathe. I am bloody sick.

After waking up at 9.00am I couldn't breathe thus I watched Smallville- it makes sense. I then went back to sleep and woke up at 12.04. Had a sandwhich Al made, watched TV. Watched TV. Watched TV. Louisa and I were both so sick that we couldn't be stuffed doing anything. I couldn't anyway. I really wanted to but kept dozing off all day. We'll do something tomorrow.

To make up for this crappy blog/day I will do two things:

1. Get you into these two songs : "Plan B, She Said" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjh9H-ymK4) and "Biffy Clyro, Bubbles" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxUb9Yzr1sE) The second is a scottish band which are huge right now and they are, admittedly, awesome.


2. A picture from yesterday: Nessie!

This was taken Just infront of Loch Ness, well.. Its across the road :D

Part 93: Highland Hospitality

Today was way too epic. I am exhausted and I hope my blog does today some justice even in my rushed fatigue...

So, I have included a really quick comic that I did that was going to be more but laziness took over. I just really wanted to draw Nessie, thus the pic.

I woke up this morning at 6am and went and got Louisa and we got ready to go up and out, touring for the day all around the Highlands. We left the house at 7am with a pre-packed lunch and intentions on making it to the station to catch the 7.15 train to Glasgow Central. I say intentions because we missed the bloody train thus making us late for a tour. We had to wait half an hour for the next train which arrived 5 minutes before out meeting time at Georges Square. Luckily, they called us to see f we were coming and waited for us. It. Was. Amazingly lucky.

We caught the tour van, which was cool because it was better than a bus. So comfy and so much nicer than a bus. Good times. The tour started at 8.05 in Glasgow and our first stop was just after a drive along Loch Lomond and a bit past the Loch Lomond National Park in a town called Inverulas. Here, we had a tea and looked out over the amazingly beautiful scenes of the Loch. It was also good because our driver/tour guide had a chat to me and Louisa and he was pretty cool. He was named Keith...

Anyway, back on the van the landscape began to change as we climbed up into the Highlands. The first thing we noticed was the most desolate place in Europe, Rannoch Moor we drove through here all the way up to Glencoe where we learnt a bit about the Glencoe Massacre. We then made a stop at these three beautiful mountains which were named in memorial of the massacre of the MacDonell (I think thats their name) family known as 'the three sisters'. We got out into the rainy weather and took some photos for a little bit, stretched our legs and where back in the van where we drove up to Fort William which is right under Ben Nevis (Ben meaning Mountain) which is the largest 'Ben' in Brittain. We had lunch here and pondered around our first Scottish gift shop.

We drove some more and went through the great Glen (valley) which was cool and took us to the Caledonian Canal which then connected up to Loch Ness. The Loch Ness. It was pretty mad! Oh, we also went past Loch Lochy at some point hehe. The Loch Ness was pretty much the same as the other lochs but still, it was cool. We got to stop here for lunch and so we went and touched the water, got our photos with Nessie and ate. We also boughht stuff from the souvenir shop. Unfortunately, a snowglobe was as close as we got to the real Nessie, but still... We also learnt the history of Nessie which was about monks telling a monster to stop attacking them and go back under the water. For some reason, Nessie obeyed and never showed himself again. Poor Nessie.

We then rove through Inverness which I would be keen on going through again and looking around properly but ... later. We then had a huuuugely long drive back to Sterling and then over to Glasgow again. Of course on the way, we had many many things pointed out to us and of course, I dont remember half of it but still, there are photos which I would add to this except the Camera is with Louisa who is asleep.

I didn't mention on the there was 4 other people. 2 Italians and a Brazilian and a Portuguesean (is that a word?) anyway, the Brazilian and Portugeusean talked to each other all day and were a bit annoying (hehe) because they kept asking questions and takling to the driver. How awful haha. Yea, good times. The tour was incredibly long (12 hours) lots of driving but definetly fun checking out the Highlands. Theres a million more things to see there but I am happy I have started. Win.

So when we got back, we had tea at some chinese place then came back home and crashed. Good times. Today I have started to catch Louisas cold which isnt good because her cold is really bad and involved vomiting (sorry for pointing that out...) but I do not want to catch it. So I already started taking Lemsip and/or nurofen. I will NOT get sicker =_=*

Anyway, Highlands lived up to the expectations in my head. I have heard much about them MUCH about them. I loved it. I really did. OH! And I went to a place called Perth. It was cool because dad is in Perth too...but in Aus :D

Okay!! Must go sleep. So. Tired. Its 12.30.

Night!

Part 92: Grasgrow

Theres a bloody something stuck under my space key so it makes me grumpy.

So today I woke up to the sounds of the kids getting ready and the dog snorring in my room. At 9 I went up and woke Louisa up because she had arranged to talk to her friend on msn. During her msn time I had breakfast, showered and bummed around until at 11 we were both up, dressed and on our way to the station for our day in Glasgow city.

We had no plans becuase we're lazy like that but neither of us could really be bothered being 'tourists' as such, we just wanted a day in a city which is what we got. It was quite good. We started by walking around and orientating ourselves. Having been there only two times, I was impressed with myself because I knew exactly how to get to the main two streets which was cool. We walked down to a shopping centre near by and then found a shop named Primark. It. Is. Legendary. Everything is so ridiculously cheap. I really want to go back there and buy some shirts because mine are all getting a bit ...well, I am completely over them so it will be nice to get some cheap, but pretty awesome, new shirts. While we were there Louisa bought some new shorts and I bought new thongs (flip-flops) which were : omg. So awesome and comfy and 1.50pounds. Onefifty. I was amazed. Thes like $3.00AUD. Haha. Seriously. Cheap.

We then toured a little bit more in a shopping centre which included lunch. I had chinese. Good times. More walking around looking around the town and the pretty cool buildings. We eventually stumbled into the main square which had a tourism office just next to it. T'was good, not because we wanted a tourist office, but because they had maps for future reference and also gave us the opportunity to book our tour on Friday. We are going up to Loch Ness and around down to a castle which is famous and I am too tired to think of the name of and look up. Good times. Yea, it wasn't too expensive at all and will be a nice day out-I hope.

Oh, we went out for a milkshake at Caffe Nero (yes cafFe, not cafe) where we had a really nice person serving us who talked for ages about random shizz that was cool and it came up I need a job. She gave me application forms so thats another place to apply. She said there were no jobs just yet, but they pop up randomly so I might be in luck.

So I will tour Glasgow at some point as a tourist with my map. Elsetime. We're now looking into Edinburgh and London. I am also looking at my bank accounts. I need a job. Now.

I called my (great) Aunt Moira today too but she wasn't there, so I left a message. I will call again tomorrow.

More touring around aimlessly. Train trip home. TV. Talking to kids. Supermarket to buy more milk....TV and talking to Al and Louisa. Was good. But I did have way too much energy and thus was a bit restless earlier. Now I am just tired and want to go to sleep.

G'night.

Part 91: Louisa Returns

Good evening,

So again I have not alot to say today but this should begin to change soonish! This morning I woke up and then finished bits on my CV and msn'd until Al took me into the city to print out my resumes and pick up Louisa.

We started off driving into Als office which was cool to see, its an office but still, its his and now I can say I know where he works. Do I remember? Not a chance. We went in and I printed out my resumes and that took all of 10 seconds. Al also got conned into doing a tiny bit of work to because he answered the phone. Yep. We then drove into Glasgow and went to a shopping center. We didn't feel lke shopping so we went for a coffee at this dodgy little restaurant which ad the WORST coffee I have ever had. There was a random layer of skin forming on the top of it and there was no options for sugar which was disappointing. I also burnt my tongue. I am never going there again, thats for sure!

When we left the coffee store we walked to Central Station to meet Louisa who was late and delayed so we stood in the middle of the station talking for about half an hour waiting for Louisa to get in. It was good to chat to Al for a while. Louisa eventually got in at 2.10 and it was very cool to see her again even if she had gained an extra HUGE heavy bag. Thankfully, this time, it wasnt me who carried it because Al got in with the offer before I did.

We drove back in to Netherlee and then went for a coffee again but this time I had coke and the three of us chatted until Al had to go pick up the kids from school so Louisa and I just stayed in the coffee shop chatting and catching up on our last month or so. It was nice and we had much to discuss. Eventually Al came back picked us up and then we got home and after the grand tour, we grabbed a beer each then again, the three of us sat outside and chatted. It was nice.

Later, we watched telly and then yea went through each others photos and talked some more. Then we had tea...HAGGIS. I had bloody haggis for dinner. I can honestly say its really not that bad but I cant see myself eating it again... for a looong time.

Right, thats it now we're watching a movie. Oh! I also have been researching jobs online. Good times...

Part 90: Camera

So, I am again doing a quick blog only because of the lack of stuff I did today. I also am feeling lazy with blogs and tired all the time so excuse that. Its happened before but I will get back on track!

In a word my day was good. Wow, complex word I got going there... I woke up at 8.30 to the smell and sound of Sparky, the dog, barging into my room and then sleeping on the floor. I got up and said g'day to the kids and Al before grabbing breaky and sitting outside in the sun. Yes, it is sunny once again.

After breaky I went on the net and had a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong conversation on webcam starting with mum and the nmoving on to Lachlan and Tor who had just downloaded skype. It was awesome fun. I was a bit vague though with mum (sorry!) and of course, money dominated our conversation but it was fun talking to Lachlan for the first time in a loooong time and when we werent talking about money, it was great talking to mum too. I've missed my computer. When the convo was finished it was 2pm and so I grabbed lunch (a nutella sandwhich hehe) then went out for a jog/walk thing around Lin Park which is a nice park not to far away that I went to the other day. 45 minutes later I was back home watching TV with Sally.

After a while of TV I sat outside with Al and a beer and chatted about stuff until he had other things to do and I had TV to watch. Oh! I also finished my CV today and sent that off to dad for checking. I really REALLY want a job really soon because, well, I cant say it now but if I get a job much good will come of it!! So excited!

Louisa comes tomorrow :D we're meeting in the city I also am going to try and get some stuff for my project which has fallen seriously behind. I might also get a new camera soonish... dunno. I am a bit worried about buying a new one because they're so bloody expensive! We'll see.

Right thats it. The picture I have included it a prnt screen from the convo I was having. I makes me laugh because I was talking to both of them seperately and could see them both and they couldnt even hear each other. I would reply to one and the other would be all 'what?' and then I'd giggle.

Good times.

Part 89: Paragraph

I really dont have anything to write today but I feel like I am getting into the skipping blog habit which is not bad really, but I liked the whole daily blog system so I'll keep it.

I can sum up today in a paragraph I think, lets see:

I woke up and watched Smallville then got up and said goodbye to Jilly who was leaving (so now Al is in charge) then had a shower. After, I did not a lot. I read for a while outside which was really nice because the weather was stunning even in Scotland so I sat and enjoyed it while I could. It was what I did for the majority of the day...okay I lie, it was a while but maybe 3hours max. I also watched TV, played Wii (online!! It was mad, I was playing with people in Spain and France good times. I was epic fail though NB: Doug sucks at Mario Kart Wii) and I dunno, bummed around. Sally and I also discussed anime which she is a fan of and also watched an episode of Love Hina which is an Anime that I've watched before with Lachlan and Victoria and I thought that she would like it. Now I am watching Friends and typing this while Al is watching Friends and doing something on his computer. Good times.

Day. In. A. Paragraph. Grammatically correct? Not really. OH OH! Louisa comes on Tuesday and I got in contact with Elizabeth Gatens who is one of Tams friends living in Scotland atm. Win.

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