NEWSFLASH

So I know this most definitely isn't my day and i've been MIA for weeks but I just wanted to let ya'll know I was deactivating my facebook...for hopefully the semester but prolly just as long as I can hang on without it! It really is messing with my school work LOL so I'm gonna cut it loose! SKYPE ME!!! I'm always on gabrielle.lacy!!! and I'm really gonna try to send you guys letters. Its only the 5th day of school and i'm already behind lol so wish me LUCK!!! MISS YOU ALL AND SEE YOU IN DECEMBER IF ALL WORKS OUT :)

I'M MOVING TO LONDON!!

Okay, so I know it's not my day and this isn't quite a blog..but I'M MOVING TO LONDON!!
20th Sept, so I'll be there just after you guys!! Very excited..and I'll fill you all in on my actual blog day!!!
Look me up; Peckham, Queens Road Station!
xxx

better late then never, right?

Hello All --

Sorry for the late post, but I've been quite busy as of late. I had Martin come stay with me for about five days, and the day after he left, my mother went to the hospital for surgery. Tomorrow I am cleaning/taking care of my mother. Then I am heading over a few towns to stay with my great grandmother for the rest of the day/night/next day. After that I'm heading to the airport to pick up Simon and I'll be spending time with him until I drop him off at his university in New York City. Whoaa, I'm a busy lady.

I had a lot of fun with Martin when he came to stay with me in New York. My family stuffed him with as much food as they possibly could. Haha. Sharon and I had planned for her to drive to my house the day after his arrival to surprise him. She stayed from Friday-Sunday. It was a pretty busy visit, actually. We went to the beach, Queens, my brother's surprise party, a baseball game, New York City, to the shops, lots of places. I'm pretty sure I terrified both Martin and Sharon with my driving skills. Although we did end up at our destinations alive and all in one piece. Haha.
It was fun having Martin around, I'm really glad that he came to visit me in New York. I miss him a lot.

Today, I sent in my choreography proposals for dance this semester at Arcadia. I don't really know what song I want to choreograph to, so I proposed three songs. Haha. I'm totally uninspired lately. I know that I want to choreograph a lyrical number, so thats really my only jumping off point. I guess I should head to the dance studio as soon as I can and get to working. I think I need to be in my dance environment to get some inspiration. I hope I get some ideas into my noggin soon.

Challenge Time!

Shipa: First off, I fucking hate rude strangers. THIS ONE DAY, I was having a really bad day. Work sucked, my friends were fighting, it was just a shitty day. I went to 7/11 to get some iced coffee and as I was leaving, my phone rang, so I had my coffee in one hand and my phone in the other. I was walking towards the SEE THROUGH GLASS DOOR with my hands full, I couldn't open the door, I had to ram into it with my hip. Meanwhile, on the other side of the door was a fully able bodied man watching me struggle. FINALLY I get the door open, and forgive me, if I don't hold the door for this douchebag man, since I couldn't hold the door and walk through it at the same time. He bumps into me, hurting me and says, "THANKS FOR HOLDING THE DOOR BITCH" What. The. Fuck. I couldn't hold the door for my fucking self, how could I hold the door for that dickhead? I responded with "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE" to which he had no response.

I think you can all think of a time when I wasn't sober and acted a fool. How about that time I swore I was able to walk from Amsterdam to America? Or the time I kept having people in Lindop light my finger on fire. Why don't you comment and tell me your favorite un-sober memory of me. That's my challenge.

I know I didn't complete all the challenges & I'm sorry, but I'm bloody exhausted. I miss you all, a lot. It's almost been one year since we've met. =D

love you much,
xtine

NEW BLOGGER!!

Why hello there flat 10!!
I'm very excited that I've become a real life blogger on this wonderful blog!!!
I apologise in advance for my excessive use of exclamations, I can't help using them, I type as I talk!
Alex is sat next to me helpfully hinting on the 'how to be a good blogger' front. It's officially after midnight so I'm apparently blogging on the right day, and hopefully in the right colour!
Right, onto what's been going down in Bournemouth town in the last week..
I'm actually fishing out my diary to remind me!

So, from Weds- Sunday I was running the children's area at a Homeopathic camp; I took Catherine along as my assistant and we basically just dossed around in tents all weekend eating yummy food that we got free from the cafe and squishing some of the many thousands of wasps on the site!
Catherine fell in love with the compost toilets on site, and a creepy creepy man called Paul (I think that was his name) the 21st Century Troupadour fell in love with her! He did a 'musical performance' on the Saturday night and he was AWFUL!!! He sang about the 'goddess' and her luring him into her bed..and all sorts of other wierd things. He also tried to make us dance like toads!!
We had a masquerade ball on the Friday night, Catherine disappeared and I ended up cavorting around a dark tent with lots of middle aged homeopaths wearing masks! We all ended up bashing into each other as we couldn't see, and the guy who was instructing us led is in a bizarre country/ballroom dance class! Was the funniest thing I've done in a while, I couldn't stop laughing!
At some point over the weekend my Blackberry broke..it's really really sad! I actually feel a bit lost without it, and I'm back onto my old phone..which doesn't quite hack it anymore!!
It's going to take TEN DAYS to fix!!

On Sunday night we all popped off to the pub quiz, we didn't win the cash prize but we did win the 'speed score', a horrible bottle of wine and a kilo of cheap chocolate!

Monday, I went to visit my friend Amber. I don't see her much as she lives in Salisbury but we had a nice time, she cut my hair a bit and 'deep conditioned' it, because apparently it needed it!

Tuesday was my friend Grace's 18th birthday, she hired out a function room in a pub really far away, so we all trekked out to Warminster (which, if you didn't know, is about 3 hours away from Bournemouth!) The room was all kitted out in fairy lights and candles and pictures of her and us through the years! It was gorgeous!
We ordered dinner and ate it, all really yummy food. Then we drank lots and danced the night away! A couple of disposable cameras were left on the table for us, and we took many pictures which we later regretted!!
I left with a party bag and slept at my friend Roanne's in an attempt to get back to Bournemouth early enough to meet Alex the next day!

The buses were horrible on Wednesday so I got to Bournemouth 2 hours after I intended, I boogied to the BIC (Bournemouth International Centre) to watch everybody ice skating. Alex and Shipa were shuffling around the edge of the rink, holding onto the edge!
It was a super hot day and after a 2 hour visit to Asda we decided to go back to mine for a bbq.
We failed at the bbq idea and just ate things cooked the conventional oven way!
Then Chris Lee and Claire came around and we all just lazed about!

Thursday- the day that's only just finished, began with a late wake up..then a wonder into Poole where we took my baby Blackberry to get fixed and saw Chris Lee at work! We then went to Burger King for a meal, and then Spoons for a curry almost immediately after!
We then ventured to Bournemouth to watch the 'world record attempt for the most fireworks set off in the space of a minute', it's apparently a big deal!
We packed Shipa off to the station and then gathered with people in Bournemouth gardens for a bit of predrinking. We then followed the crowds down to the beach..which was PACKED!!! I've never seen so many people in Bournemouth before! The fireworks were RUBBISH and we lost everybody!! The boat carrying the fireworks caught on fire and they all failed miserably!
Then Alex and I came home, and I attempted to make caramel shortbread and burnt my tounge! I also used too cheap chocolate and it melted funny and is now stuck in lumps on top :(
Bit of a bummer!
Anyway, it's now 1:37 am, Alex has tootled off to bed, and I'm writing far too much boring shit about myself on this! Sorry!! I think it's just first post excitement; I'll make the next one shorter- promise!
Love love love- Laura! x

I can't quite work out everyone's challenges..so I'll do the ones I can easily see!

Shar: An experience. Okay, well the most surreal night of my life was fueled by drugs and alcohol (and probably not approved of by most people reading this!). It was at a festival when I was 16/17?! Me and a friend got drunk on red wine, smoked some green, took some shrooms, traded a couple of E's for the rest of our bottle of wine, and then smoked some skunk. She had a wierd reaction to it and went to bed because she couldn't see!?!?!
I had an AMAZING evening, I only remember snippets of it; but I ended up in a cinema tent watching Withnail and I with some strangers, then some crazy lady spilt her wine on me, she kept baa'ing through the film and falling over. I then stumbled on to a wooden structure where some people took photos and showed me the 'aura' lights in them. Then a boy gave me his clip on tail, I fell asleep by a fire, was awoken by people singing, danced the night away, ended up in some bumpercars, drummed with an old Rasta, chatted some shit and ended up back in my tent at 6am! It was incredible but crazy; and on reflection, a ridiculously stupid thing to do! Would never do it again; but yeah, that's my experience!

Shipa: Infuriating stranger. What really annoys me is thick, ignorant people, and I've realised there's a fair few about at the moment. An example is the people on the bus with us earlier. One woman kept moaning 'why is the bus fucking stopping, it's already packed full of people, they can't let anymore people on?' The guy sat with her was one of those men who thinks he knows how everything works and can't possibly be wrong, he kept giving her reasons, all of which were stupid and he failed to notice the real reason..that people actually needed to be let OFF of the bus when they wanted to leave! They were also playing really annoying chavvy tunes through their phone speakers and one was talking about the 'Playboy' bunny tattoo she wanted. Eugh. They were horrific!

Xtine: "When I opened the door, I never expected to see Alex naked!"
He went upstairs earlier and told me that if I opened the door and it slammed into something it would be him getting changed!

My challenge:
I want each of you to write your favourite memory with each of the other bloggers.
Also, I'd like you to write something that reminds you of them!
(Shar, Xtine and Gabs you can't really write about each other..but do everybody else!)

I refuse to believe Lady Gaga is a transvestite.

So how have i been this past week? week and a half ? It has been ABSOLUTELY SHITE. So for those of you who don't know, I failed my french class at QM and they therefore told me that I was no longer accepted. This came as a huge blow as you can surely imagine due to the fact that living and studying in London is MY LIFE.. I don't want to be anywhere else, I refuse to be anywhere else. Also because we had just found a house :-(. SO this past week I have been struggling to figure out what to do to stay and have applied to Greenwich University( which have been fucking me about, and waiting to hear from them). I also called University of East London, who told me to call back tomorrow at 8 and they MAY be able to give me a yes or no answer on the phone. I am keeping my fingers crossed and praying for this! I am switching my major..again! but this is it this time! ( I SWEAR) to TESOL/English Language teaching.

Other than all of that, I have been trying to stay positive mainly. I went to the American Idol Live tour and it was amazing, I was about 3 rows from the stage. Before the concert we decorated our car with paint (pics below). The concert started at 7pm but we left Medina at 9:30 am and got there around 10:30 and stood inside waiting for the meet and greet. I still can't believe I got to meet Danny Gokey, Matt Giraud (my favourite), Lil Rounds, Allison, Meghan(eww), Michael Sarver!, and KRIS ALLEN. I was a bit upset that Adam Lambert didn't come out, but apparently he was sick, and Anoop didn't come out either :-( . The concert was amazing and DANNY GOKEY SERENADED ME!! during one of his songs, I am still squeeing! They are coming to syracuse in September before (if i leave) and I will be going to see them again, we have 3rd row front center tickets!
So as if that wasn't awesome enough, When I opened the door I never expected to see a skype call from thetomgreenshow. Tom Green has an online show that people can skype in and ask ?'s and such and they have a signup list that i signed up for. So there was a message saying they were doing work on skype and testing, so thats what it was. So finally after 3 attempts , I get connected through and my video pops up and theirs does and its just a tech guy and he goes "WOAH, lady your picture is soo clear! " he kept going on and asking questions and what not then he CALLED OVER TOM GREEN and says look at her video! I ABOUT DIED! then Tom waved and said hi and asked me a few questions and my name and generally chatted to me for about 5 seconds.. It was awesome. SO the next day, don't I get another call from them testing and what not, and who's there again? TOM! He was leaving but he waved and remembered my name!!!! I then turned into mush and sounded a bit gaga - ish and said bye haha.

OTher than that not much has been happening in Medinatown, although I want to KILL SHIPA for making me ever listen to that stupid Lily Allen song 'Fuck You' that IS and has been stuck in my head everysince Flat 10. That's a lot of listening to a stupid whore transvestite slag that I don't like! But damn is it one catchy tune!

As per sharon's challenge : i can't explain other than say to watch metalocalypse and watch the episode when they mention chocolate a lot. HAHAHA IT's how they pronounce it, now imagine me doing that and being really...um out there, and add in some guitar hero... yeah...those were the days.

as per shipas challenge:(part 1- stranger danger) most recent time? I work in a hotel... i have MANY examples. best one yet..
S=Stranger M=me
*please note this was after the stranger had attended a phish concert, been evicted from his room earlier in the day for smoking pot in the room and possesion of drugs and paraphenelia, and this was now 2am the next morning , and told at the gate he was not allowed in the hotel, SHOVED the old lady at the gate and walked in*
S(looking down and hands crossed(prison walk position..i was scared)= uh hi I left a book in my room today and i need that book , i need to go to my room and get it, it was a present and its their birthday and i need the book.
m= well nothing was turned into to the front desk lost and found from housekeeping, uhm let me check the back.
*calls security and manager*
basically this guy was crazy and wanted this book which probably had a stash of drugs and finally the lieutenant had to come and take him away..it was really scary
(part 2-eenie meenie ) lets just say this lyric somes it up " to the left to the left, in a box to the left " haha

Monday's Merriment Makes Many Mouth Musicals...

Hi all,

Wow so what a shitty week I've had...

I'll get the rant about work out of the way first! I have been put on cleaning duties 3 days straight! My whole shift has been spent scrubbing and scraping...and I'm on about £5 less per hour than the lazy sods who's job it is to clean! In the end I ended up with a really bad back and was unable to go in yesterday as it was so bad I couldn't get out of bed!

I have also been having major problems getting a guarantor for the new house as both my mom and my dad cannot provide certain sections of the required documents (work references and Proof of home ownership and the like!) And I don't really have anyone else left to ask except my sister. And she will probably say NO!!!

Plus no one seems to have been posting except for me, Christine, Shipa and Sharon...Having considered last weeks challenges from me and Kelly I thought this would not be the case! Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would stop this early :(

Okay about the challenges...

Shipa my infuriating stranger memory has to be ALL the stupid customers at work who expect you to know their order before they tell you! One woman in particular asked me for 8 pops...when I asked her what size and flavour she wanted she turned to her daughter (about 12 years younger than her) and said "You'd better deal with him, I've already had enough of him" I mean WTF!!!!!!!!! I very nearly refused to serve her after that...we can refuse as long as a manager agrees with us or we are being abused...I felt abused!!!

Sharon, It was under the influence of alcohol I once text one of my best friends confessing my undying love to him. My mate, who is straight, luckily took it as a drunken prank and still to this day does not (to my knowledge) know I'm gay. Unfortunately Kim's love interest was a little spooked when he got the same message sent to him off her phone...typed by yours truly. And then someone told her the next day "Alex did it" and she spent almost 8 months blaming Alex Gunter before she mentioned it to me one day and i told her it was me :)

Christine...When I opened the door, I never expected to see Laxmi's boobs...long story and one that could be quite embarrassing if I posted it on here so i shall not...at least not right now!

LOVE YOU ALL
xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

ROAD TRIP!

i wasn't sure if i'd get a chance to post today as im leaving for my road trip at 4am. I'm super excited! my friend casey and i are driving from new jersey, stopping for the night in tennessee (home of country/bluegrass music), and continuing to new orleans (where that big hurricane was). anyway, it's going to be a blast but i'll tell you guys all about that next week.

shipa, when i saw your post my first thought was "what the cute boys?" and when you asked which one was more handsome i looked back at the pics and decided that the boy on the RIGHT in the second picture is more attractive to me than either of the other two.

strangers tend to infuriate me quite often, but most recently it would have to be the stupid spic working at taco bell this past weekend who told me that i couldnt have a spicy chicken crunchwrap supreme. i found out today from a much friendlier taco bell employee that for some reason none of the taco bells have spicy chicken anymore, but she was kind enough to tell me that i could still have regular chicken, so i was able to get that and just put spicy sauce on it myself. the other jerk just told me i couldnt have chicken, thus infuriating me.

christine i dont remember what your challenge was but i feel like since i just saw you im not obligated to do it. (i know it makes no sense) also, where the fuck is everyone else? i feel like were starting to get really bad at this.

challenge is to buy me an ipod and/or give me $250. jkjk i cant think right now, i have a headache from having 7 drinks before 5:00. i need to go buy 5 hour energy. do you even have that in england? its absolutely the best! ... except when you take 4 in one day. ok new challenge (although you are still welcome to buy me an ipod) tell us about an experience under the influence of drugs or alcohol (that is, if you remember it)

kisses!