Welt

After watching Snow, Sex and Suspicious parents, (and accidentally calling it Sun, Sea and Sexy Parents) my housemate and I have been on Urban Dictionary finding the best insults to send to each other. You see, what started our search for the best/weirdest insult was the fact that there was a foolish boy on Snow, Sex and Suspicious parents who got the word 'Welt' tattooed on his wrist. He claimed that he had made this word up, but lo-and-behold Urban Dictionary disagreed, telling us it actually was a Scottish slang word for penis. (If it is not, then I am sorry Scottish people)

So we sat and laughed at this guy for unknowingly getting penis tattooed on his wrist in front of the whole nation and wondered what other funny words were floating around in the world. Here are a few of my favourite examples:

Thot

Poopsock

Ya Nob

Slut Chops

Buff My Shit

BFMB

Fuck Muppet

Grossy Ass Bitch

Doggyknobber (my personal favourite)

I hope at least one of those gave you a giggle. I have been laughing at them for the past 2 hours. 

Right, I am off to use welt in my every day language, speak to y'all soon.

Sunday Round-Up #3

// So, it seems that everywhere I go shops are blasting out the Christmas music and the German Market is in town. FINALLY (37 days!!!).

// I have been meaning to do an online food delivery from Asda for the past 2 weeks. My cupboards are practically bare and I am living off a diet of potatoes and oranges. Oh and we made faghetti-wich's again this week... Yep I am still making those bad boys.

// My housemate text the 'TGIF Welsh guy' on my behalf. She put a winky face when I told her not to the pesky so-and-so. On the bright side, he added me on Facebook and my housemate and I spent half an hour going through his Facebook pictures. He makes a good smurf...

// Uni seems to be going past at the speed of light. I don't like it.

// I have indulged in faaaaar to many Peppermint Hot Chocolates from Starbucks this week. It doesn't help that there is a Starbucks in uni, it is far too tempting. If you haven't tried it yet, then what are you waiting for? It tastes like after eight chocolates! It is one of their Christmas drinks this year I think- If they don't have it on their boards, just ask for a hot chocolate with a shot of peppermint syrup and enjoy the deliciousness.

I hope you have all had wonderful weeks and are wrapping up warmer now that the colder weather is setting in. Can you believe its forecast to snow in some areas this week!? 

It Happened

I 'accidentally' played Christmas music today!

(it wasn't an accident)

Now that Halloween and Bonfire Night are out the way I can focus on Christmas! 

I do love a bit of Christmas spirit. So much so that around a month ago when Primark got their Christmas stock in, I had to hold myself back from buying anything. It was the hardest thing I had ever done. 46 DAYS.

I hope you are all well and that this past week has treated you well. I went home for reading week, hence the lack of posts, and had such a wonderful time being surrounded by my family and best friends. 

//On Friday we went out to Walkabout to celebrate my best friend's birthday. Lets just say that it was an extremely fun night. We danced a lot, my friend got lots of free drinks for her birthday and I got promised a date to TGIF with a Welsh guy who plays rugby. So all in all, a success. 

//Saturday my little brother had a house party. They were all drinking berry cider, the rebels, and thought they were drunk. They were not.

//On Monday my best friend and I went on an adventure through the local woods/park. We came prepared with wellies and jumped around in mud and waded through shallow waters. We climbed trees, kicked leaves and spent the whole afternoon walking round narrating our journey as if we were on an Australian nature program. 

"..And here we have the very rare yellow coated fisherman.."

I love my best friend.

// Oh, and I made a faghettiwich. You don't know what this is? Then Daily Grace is gonna teach you how to do somethaaaaang: HERE

BFF in Reality

When you are at school you are blissfully unaware that in a few years time, most of the people who you call your friends, won't care about you anymore. You will write in your friends books that you are going to be BFFs (best friends forever), tell them they are the best people in the world, that you are definitely going to keep in contact when you go to different colleges and universities because your friendship is so strong, and you repeatedly tell people that you wouldn't change them for the world. Or at least that's what I did, because thats what everyone else did too.

After school, you go to college and you know those people that you called your friends but weren't that close with? Well it is most probable that they will go and find new friends and cut you out of their lives. Peoples opinions change, peoples morals change, people's taste in music changes and hence forth, so do the people they hang out with. So down the stinker goes your BBF tag that you had for the few years you knew them at school and you both go separate ways. There are people who are lucky enough to have friends who stick around, how loyal. For me when college came around, for the first few weeks we all met up in the middle of town for lunch, as it was the mid-point between our two colleges. Then one of my friends went off with her new friends saying that she didn't think she was ever going to talk to us again. How delightful. We wondered for a while what we had done wrong,to make her feel like she didn't want to hang out with us anymore... it turned out she was just a bit of a bitch. A few months after this one of our other friends got a boyfriend and we started to see less of her, which we totally understood. We hangout with her and her boyfriends friends as much as we could, to show that we still cared about the friendship. Soon enough though, as it approached the end of our first year of college, things went tits up and lets just say, the two people in our friendship group who were closest, weren't speaking at all. Our friend kept choosing her boyfriend over us, and I think that was the last straw. Bros before hoes and all that. The three of us that were left in our school friendship group grew closer and came to terms that we had lost yet another friend in the space of a year.

I found that after college is when it gets really tough. They say that long-distance relationships can be hard, but they never specify with who it can be hardest. I still talk to 3 of my closest friends from college at least once or twice a week. I speak to my best-friend about once every two days and we snapchat on a basically hourly basis. I am glad that I have managed to filter my friends down to the people that I really enjoy spending time with and that I feel comfortable around. Its just an element of growing up I suppose, loosing friends and gaining new ones. But there are always people who it is harder to see go than others.

The other day I found out that one of my oldest friends has moved universities. How did I find this out? Through someone else's status update on Facebook. The last I knew she was still at the same university as me and commuting back and forth to see her boyfriend. It was only after the Christmas holidays that we lost contact completely. This was someone that I thought I was always going to be friends with. 

They say that if a friendship can last 7 years it can last a lifetime; I don't agree. 12 years I had known my friend, that is the majority of my life, and for it to all just slip away that fast tells me that maybe we weren't as close as I thought. I feel closer to people that I have only known for a year, than I do her right now. I know we have both been in brief contact since the summer and I would love to see her again when I come back for Christmas. I would like to think that nothing has changed and that we will get on like a house on fire like we used to, but that is something that I cannot be sure of. 

UK Storm: The Small Aftermath

As I write this (1am last night) I am trying to get to sleep, but the sound of rain (which is normally soothing) is joined by a loud howl of wind that is literally throwing the rain at my window. I didn't believe that the storm was going to be this severe. The MET office normally over exaggerate what is going to happen, but in this case I think they were right to call it a "hurricane like storm". I went downstairs earlier and peaked out the back door. I saw that next doors fence is on top of our now flattened garden table and the matching chairs were nowhere to be seen. Then I stepped back from the window to step in a puddle, where water has been getting through the gaps in our door and making a pool of rain water. We're not the only ones, of course! Many of my friends have had power cuts and another friend text me to say that his shed door was flying around the garden. 

Here is what our garden looked like this morning...

It may not look like much, but it was god damn noisy last night when the wind was moving around the fences and the chairs. I hope it isn't the same tonight. Go away horrible weather, you are not welcome!

Sunday Round-Up #2

I hope that you have all had a wonderful week, despite the awful weather that has hit the UK. It has been a more relaxed week for me, yet I have got more done! Hooray for productivity. So without further ado, here is my weekly round up:

// Hello, Im Grace, and I am a Snapchat addict. Friday night was a good old party. Two of my housemates had some of their friends staying, which obviously meant that we had to show them a good time in Bournemouth. Ring of fire was the game of the evening and far too many shots followed. This ended in me sending around 20 snapchats to everyone on my contacts list and many more to the people that actually replied. Oops.

// I got through my presentation on Monday without dying. We did finish half an hour earlier than our lecturer wanted though so I am pretty nervous to find out our grade.

// I love the fact that it is not cold enough to wear coats. I mean, it would be nice to be able to wear the new leather jacket that I bought the other week, but I am happy to still be wearing tops with just a light hoodie. I am liking the crunchy leaves though, they are so satisfying to trample on.

// With only 8 weeks (or so) till Christmas I am debating when to watch Elf and when to whack out the Christmas music. My housemates aren't ready for the amount of Christmas spirit I have.

// Have you all survived the first night of the "storm"? Last night we were nice and snug in our kitchen staring at the trees as they were thrown around in the wind. It really is incredible how powerful wind can be.

// I am going home on Friday as I have a reading week next week. I am SO excited and it means that I get to see my best friend for her birthday. I am planning on cooking some meals when I am home to help my Mom out, so you never know, I might blog about it... ;)

Speak to you crazy kids next week.

Lightning, Pizza and Aristocats

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Last night the skies were angry, I can only guess why. The only light outside came from flashes of lightning that looked so beautiful as they made the black sky purple for a few brief seconds. And it was those seconds in which we began counting, waiting for the roars of thunder to tell us how close the storm was. At its peak it was half a second away. Does that mean half a mile? Who knows! It was this storm that rudely interrupted our viewing of The Aristocats. The static from the storm made my fairy lights flicker, and through my net curtain we could see the occasional flashes. We were so interested in the storm that The Aristocats took a back seat to us viewing the lightning show for half of the film (until 'Everybody Wants to be a Cat' came on- How can you not sing to that).

It was only as the storm finished that we decided that we needed some food. Pizza Hut delivery was the option of the evening and gosh darn it was worth the wait. Every time a car drove past our house or paused outside I would run to the window shouting 'FOOOD', and every time I was disappointed. 40 minutes after ordering our food we finally received it, ate it and enjoyed the parts of The Aristocats that we had previously missed.

Last night was a good night and the calm after the storm this morning is bright and beautiful, even if there are far too many puddles on the road.

PS- I am totally disappointed that Ruby didn't win The Great British Bake Off, but congratulations to Francis for winning the prize!

Sunday Catch-Up #1

I have decided to get my ass in gear. Not only with this blog but with my university work too because let me tell you, they weren't lying when they said that second year was going to be fast paced. I am always saying that 'I am sorry' about not blogging so much, but then I take a look at life and I realise that my university degree is more important than this blog and that my work should receive my foremost attention.

// I managed to catch up on all the TV I missed for the last couple of weeks in one day on Saturday. That's right I had a Downton Abbey/ How I Met Your Mother/ New Girl marathon and it was fab. Don't judge me internet.

// Our course is having a masquerade ball just before Christmas and I am overly excited. I want to buy a thousand beautiful dresses, find the perfect mask and be driven to the ball in a pumpkin carriage. Prince Charming, I am coming for you!

// Presentations are a lot more daunting than you believe. It's not the standing up and being stared at by people that scares me, its the forgetting information and stumbling over words that makes me nervous. I can't get through a normal conversation without twisting my words, stupid tongue, always getting in the way. My first graded presentation of the year is tomorrow (technically today) and I am dreading it, so much that I want to stay in bed all day and not do it at all.

// "There is only so long you can hold onto one sided love".

// I am loving our units for PR this year, we get to be so much more creative! This is what I signed up to university for! Throw the theory out the window and focus on the practical.

// It is my Mum and Dad's Wedding anniversary today (technically yesterday). 23 years and I don't know how my Mum has coped ;) I want a relationship like theirs. Full of love and respect. Congrats you crazy mofos.

// My friends and I went down to the beach for the first time since being back in Bournemouth, on Friday. It was wonderful to see the waves crashing against the sand again, it really is a beautiful beach rain or shine.

Its Sunday

Its Sunday and you know what that means...

Sitting in bed til 2 (or longer).

Skyping the family.

Doing presentation work.

Eating far too much bad food.

Taking far too many snapchats.

Sitting staring at my phone, waiting for people to distract me from doing work.

Catching up on Downton Abbey.

The usual.

Oh, and its national no bra day, I don't know what it supports (un-intended pun, I promise), but it seems that today I am going to be participating! Until I get a shower that is.  

A Quick Catch Up

It is now October, which means Blogtember has come and gone and I should be back to normal blogging. Even though I didn't manage all of the days in Blogtember I think I gave it a good crack. This coming from the girl who normally only does 3 posts a month. 

Life is getting busier now, with university starting and assignments being set. This year we have to look for a placement for our 3rd year, so if there are any brands that want me as their PR/ media/ comms intern for a year, hit me up. I will be on my computer daily searching for internships, writing up my CV and writing cover letters and I am actually excited about this. Really, I am.

I am growing up guys, it was always inevitable. 

#17: Mistakes.

Day 17: A mistake you made. 

I seem to mess up quite a bit. But thats the whole point of growing up, right? To make mistakes and learn from them. However the mistake that I make everyday and am still not learning is that I think that I am "not good enough". In my head I have something that stops me every time I go to do something. I can hear my Mom in the back of my head saying "get a grip Grace", and I agree I should get a grip. It is all completely psychological and if I keep working at it then it will probably go away. But there are people who say things and do things that put me back to my starting place. I should overlook it all, I know. I should think "F you all", but I don't, I take people's opinions to heart. That's my mistake.

#15: Life Lately

Day 15: Life Lately.

As you may well have seen last week I only posted once. I knew that Blogtember was going to be hard for me to stick to, but I also thought that I would maybe have given it a better go. I am actually quite disappointed in myself but there are a few reasons and excuses that you probably don't want/need to hear. 

Life lately has been confusing and emotional. So many things happened last week that I had to question and you know what, life was actually going quite well until Wednesday. Then drunken mistakes were made and people got hurt. I literally cried for 24 hours and apologised from the deepest crevices of my heart on Thursday, then got a train home on friday. In some ways I feel as if I have run away from the problems I have left at university but I also think that the person who was hurt by what was said understands the situation a little better now and knows that I am not the sort of person who would be so malicious. I am sorry. I don't expect to be forgiven, but it was just a drunken mistake, I would never EVER say those things to you and I hope that we can be friends again soon. I am sorry.

I am extremely livid at one person in particular who will NOT for the life of themselves apologise for what they had a major part in (if not a whole part) and justifies not doing so by saying "I don't talk to the kid". GREAT. So now I am basically on my knees crying over something that is extremely out of character for me and they are showing no sympathy or taking responsibility for the part that they played. I think I can forget about this, but forgiving may take a VERY long time. 

On the brighter side now that I am home I can hug my family and friends and try to forget about what has happened and put it to rest. Hugs from my little brother were all I really needed. Reassurance from my parents that they know that I am not the kind of person who would intentionally hurt someone really means the world. Acting like an absolute fool with my best friend has made me so happy after what has become one of the worst few days that I have ever had. I think I am ready to go back to university to face what I have left, I am ready to apologise ten thousand more times and I am ready to start work and stay out of the way of more trouble. 

Sorry.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. 

I can't say it enough. 

#10: Love Letters

Day 10: Write a public love letter to someone in your life. 

// That small one that I call my friend. Oi, I just want to thank you for brining me chocolate philly the other day and sitting with me to watch Honey Boo Boo. Its nights like the other week that confirm that I have the most fantastic best friend in the world (and throughout the universe) and that everybody else should be jealous. I miss you massively but I am so glad that technology allows us to send beautiful snapchats to each other. See you soon Baker, Love from your Kites.

// The rents. What can I say, you guys are the bomb diggity. I love you, I miss you and I wish I could stay with you forever and ever...but we all know that is a stupid idea. Love from your favourite child ;)

// Brodre and Alejandro. I am so glad to be your sister, you guys make me smile far too often and make me extremely proud...Even when you annoy me. Love from Grapes.

// The groupie. That last message you sent me... I don't get it. It has made me all kinds of confused so I hope I see you in the next week or so to get you to explain. Also prepare to loose this sword fight, I get too competitive. Plus thanks for noticing that my hair has changed, I think you were the only person who noticed. Love from Birmingham.

// Ryan Gosling. Thank you for being you and for letting the internet have your face in many different places. Amen.

// Strange people sharing my humble abode. Thank you for making the first week in your new house so amazing. Settling in has been easy this year and I think its because we have been having so much fun. Paper tennis, foam sword fights, silly string and running away from spiders.. what more could I ask for? I hope that for the rest of the year we can have so much more fun and cook some more scrummy meals!! Love from the paper tennis extraordinaire.

// You lovely people on the internet. Thank you for all that you do, in terms of reading my blog, reading my tweets and occasionally replying to them. It really makes blogging more fun if you get to interact with the people you are reading about. This month I started up a twitter for my blog and I think it was one of the best things I have ever done. Being able to connect with people has really helped my blog and has made me more inclined to want to write and create content for you all. I love you all, Love your fellow blogger.

Berlin

For the second part of our holiday we went form a beautifully warm and relaxing Kefelonia to a not so warm and rather fast-paced Berlin.

We mainly went to Berlin because my brother doesn't like "hot" holidays AND he was studying about the war in his history class so we thought it might help him to visit the places where some of it went on. 

There was a lot to see in Berlin, and it is a really spread out city, meaning you need to get a train or bus to get round it all. One of the best views of the city was right outside our bedroom window from which we could see the Berliner Dom. That building was beautiful both from both the inside and out.

I really enjoyed Berlin... Not as much as New York, the atmosphere wasn't the same, but I would definitely go back. There is SO much history in Berlin which is interesting but really quite emotionally draining. The Jewish memorial, while... can I say fun? (playing hide and seek seemed to be a favourite with young children) on the ground is extremely moving and emotional when you go down to the memorial museum below.

If you go to Berlin I would recommend getting on a bus tour. Mainly so you don't have to walk everywhere but also they give you a lot of information on the sights as you are going round the city.
ALSO try currywurst... YUM!

(The view from our hotel room)

(Berliner Dom- Berlin Cathedral)

(Jewish Memorial)

(Jewish Memorial)

(The dome on top of the Reichstag)

(Brandenburg Gate)

(Inside the Berliner Dom)

(On top of the Berliner Dom) 

(This persons hand was the same size as mine. I was so amazed I took a picture)

(Parts of the Berlin Wall)

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Kefelonia

At the end of August I was MIA. I was chillin out, maxing out, acting all cool. Playin some b-ball outside of the school... No.
Well, I was actually on holiday. I had the pleasure with going with my wonderful family, on what was quite possibly our very last holiday together (unless me and my sister hijack next years holiday). We visited two places during our 2 week break, both extremely different to the other. Kefelonia and Berlin.

Kefelonia was our first destination and was in abundance of beautiful sunsets, breathtaking scenery, crazy Greek drivers, trips to the beach, friendly stray animals, HOT weather, wasps and gorgeous food.
Our villa was up a rather large and steep hill which felt like a full body work out every time you would walk up it. However the view once you got to the villa was pretty darn awesome. We had the mountains, which always looked like a green screen, in the background and the beautiful blue sea in front of us. It truly would have been one of the best places we have been if it wasn't for the millions of bugs and wasps.
SO here are some holiday snaps of the beautiful Kefelonia.

(Sami)

During our stay we went to a few places on the island; Sami, Poros and Argostoli but we mainly stayed in the local area (Lourdata) and just enjoyed the sun. The local beach was beautiful, if not hard to walk on because of the pebbles. There were cocktails and restaurants lining the promenade and it was generally a nice area to be. So if you are ever in Kefelonia I recommend you go to Lourdas (Lourdata) Beach!!

(Poros)

(Sami)

(Sami)

(Lourdas Beach)

(The cat we be-friended)

 (Argostoli)

 (Argostoli)

(Lourdas)

Next post will be the next stop, Berlin. I hope you liked the pictures and that you are ready for or German Adventures.

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#9: Self Portrait

Well it seems that this week has not been my week for blogging. I probably should have written all of these posts in advance, but hey, where is the fun in that? I have missed day 7 & 8 but I am back and ready for day 9.

Day 9: A Self Portrait. 

Hey there, my name is Grace. I am really bad at going to bed at a sensible time, I am rather excited about the thought of a new Harry Potter film, I cant sit still for longer than 2 minutes, Re-watching New Girl fills me with joy, A good fairy cake is the way to my heart, My hair hates me, So does my skin, My new housemates are the best people in the world, I miss my best friend, I can't take my own advice, Someone told me they want to be my groupie and now I don't know how to feel.

Pleased to meet you.

#6: When life took a turn..

Well it was inevitable, I missed a day of Blogtember (#5). Ive been busy decorating my new uni house and making delicious food... please forgive me, I have done todays early for you:

Day 6: Describe a distinct moment when your life took a turn.

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I swear these things are getting harder and harder to answer, I have been trying to think of what to write for this post for ages. There are many twists and turns in life, non of them interesting enough to write about or they are too personal and I don't want to write about them.

I have settled for the day that I moved to university. 

I know, I know, how boring and cliche of me, but I really think that at university my life took a turn for the better. I learnt a lot about myself and the people around me, I made a ton of new friends, lost old friends and got closer to the friends that I knew would never leave me. 

Going to university really does make you grow up, it makes you see life in a whole different perspective. I mean, I learnt how expensive food is.. It made me sad. 

You have to learn to look after money, decide how much drink is too much, deal with grown up problems that your parents probably sorted out for you a couple months before; and on top of all that you are possibly in a new place, with new people, starting a new course that requires you to give 100% for every essay. It really is hard work, even if everyone else thinks we have it easy. 

Now that I am going into my second year I feel more confident with myself and ready to tackle all the hardship that is going to come with this year. I don't know where m life would be without university, I like to think that if I would have taken a different path that I would still be having the time of my life. But for this turn in life I am enjoying myself and loving the people that are in my life, old and new. Hoorah for life, it is a funny thing.

So if any of you are going off to uni now or in the next couple of weeks; good luck, enjoy it and actually go in to uni and learn something, don't waste your time by just drinking, it doesn't get you anywhere.

#4: Screaming at Spiders

Day 4: A story about a time you were very afraid.

There are far to many stories to tell of when I have been afraid. But, if you will, cast you minds back to September 4th (3 days ago) I shall tell you my story.

 It was a pretty normal evening, my best friend De was round and we were catching up with the latest series of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo when out the corner of my eye I saw a shadow. A shadow that was moving quickly and was an unusual shape. I turned my head in order to find out what this shadow was, and to my horror it was A SPIDER. The beast was literally the size of my palm, one of its legs was probably the size of my finger.

My first reaction? To scream and inform De of the presence of this intruder. This lead to both of us running and screaming for the door. We then took evidential pictures for the non-belivers of our story before it jumped and made us scream once more. What were we to do, we asked each other. Where had it gone?

By this point my heart rate was up and my breath was heavy. It was an extremely stressful time while we couldn't find the spider and I was ready to poop my pants if it ran across my feet. We eventually found the spider on a bag and quickly threw it out of a window... not the bag, of course. Our overdramatic scare fest with the spider was over. We were safe... and the spider? It was back where it belonged, OUTSIDE!