lazy days...

I'm still here! Really... I am. I've just been... enjoying... life! Kicking back and going "aahhhhh" while fighting off stress attacks which creep up on me and say "WTF are you doing??? Why aren't you studying???" to which I have to remind myself that I don't have to study! Not for a while anyway....

My trip to Belfast was successful despite me worrying about getting on an airplane with only a backpack and not a very full one at that! I always feel like I should have lots of luggage when travelling by plane.

Then my family came up and we had a little drive around Scotland which was very very cool, everyone should do it someday! Sure there's a lot of sheep and cows though.

When I got back to Edinburgh I went cow-hunting, shopping (I bought a dress!), organised and took my grading (I'm a brown belt now, yay!), packed up, had lunch with some of my favourite people, and came home to Birmingham. I've since watched 4 episodes of Lost and 9 episodes of Alias. I simply love Alias! So much that when I went into the office today (got called up at 8 something this morning for work, which I'm not too bothered about as I need the money!) I thought about posing as someone else with a different accent doing something completely different (say a single parent, lived in England all my life, was halfway through uni doing English until I got pregnant and dropped out to look after the kid after the bastard of a father left me?) but I didn't. I don't think I can quite pull off the English accent. Yet! Irish, maybe....

My sister has an interview coming up and my mum and her have been dragging me to shops to go shopping, and I ended up buying a red polka dot dress (at last!) and a camping bag for the US.

I went to visit a friend in hospital yesterday, he had a heart attack on Thursday morning but he seems completely fine. He's only 21 (22 today), so it was a real surprise to everybody! He walked into the ER though, so it wasn't like his heart had stopped beating, which makes me feel a million times better. After visiting hours were over, I came out of the hospital with two mutual friends and his girlfriend, and all three of them, right after coming out of a hospital, lit up a cigarette! I couldn't believe it. I'm not that unhealthy but after seeing J I feel like staying away from junk food for a while!