In a part of my life when I feel I have so little time, it's nice to indulge in little luxuries.
1. Lying in bed until midday. On the surface, a waste of precious time. But when you're often up at two in the morning, not so bad!
2. A bath with something from Lush thrown in
3. Wearing perfume at all times
4. Wearing matching underwear - it doesn't happen very often!
5. Watching steam rise from a cup of fruit tea
6. Visiting the deli just up the road for dolmades or bread
7. Walking just two minutes to the beach
8. Getting soaked on the bike ride home - it's great, you can really go for it in the puddles then run in and wrap yourself in towels
9. Cocoa, in all forms
10. Putting on makeup
11. Wearing pyjamas during the day
12. Going out for dinner (a big luxury, I guess, but pretty lovely)
13. Being all warm and snuggled up in bed when it's raining
14. Having nothing desperate to do for a few hours
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Another week, another night out...
What a week. I'm shattered, and have been for days. Yesterday I was swearing that if I stayed up beyond midnight ever again I thought I'd die. So at 2am I was rolling around drunk on my living room floor with my flatmates, Penny and Bethan. Here's how it happened.
Bethan's friend Louise came down. She's basically family and is really good fun. Like most of us, she's got a lot going on at the moment. Her and Bethan went out during the day and when they came back we drank four bottles of various wine and half a bottle of schnapps and went out to Jaks. Now. I didn't mean stay out as late as we did but once I was out...
Jaks, and indeed Swansea in general is quite a lot of a cattlemarket on a saturday night. There were four of us though, and we managed to bat off most potential 'gentlemen' (using the term loosely) but Louise was swung around the dancefloor by quite a few local boys. We were using the danceoff technique, where we swap places and keep moving throughout the crowd so we don't spend too much time near groups of voyeuristic pissheads, plus, we can spot potential stalkers etc. So that worked fine, and the music was great. It can be a bit variable, but last night was good. And the most shocking thing was that Penny has pretty much started dancing. Maybe she's more drunk, maybe there's something in the water, but she is definitely dancing a bit these days. It's awesome, we love drunken Penny. Bethan spilt her drink down my cleavage, and decided to retrieve it with her tounge, which was funny, but I had to stop her before she got ideas!
So we had some shots, and some drinks and some dancing. It was about 1am, and some dancing queen had managed to stand on my ankle with her stilletto (my ANKLE? how? I have no clue, but I do know that it hurt) Bethan caught me and kept me upright; and the girl never noticed. How would you not notice if you just dragged your spiked heel down someones bone? Eugh. I don't mind getting injured, but an apology is always nice.
After a bit Penny and I were knackered, and we all made a move for home. We stopped for food (something I never do, ever) and I didn't realise until then how hungry I was. Were hassled by tramps, which amused Louise, and we wended our merry way home. We got in and tripped over all the stuff we'd left lying around, including a giant glass bowl which I stood in twice. Bethan had managed to break two glasses earlier in the evening which she had already cleaned up ("I've never done so much housework in my life" she said, hoovering the floor for the second time that night) but forgetting this we collapsed on the floor and rolled around and giggled for no reason that I can remember.
Definitely time for bed. I said goodnight to everyone and went upstairs. My bed! I collapsed and fell asleep in seconds.
This morning I was awake at half eight. Why can't I sleep through? It was just as well, I needed to go to the library. Presentation to give on tuesday. I'm going to go work on that now. Asian democracy and values or weak states anyone?
Bethan's friend Louise came down. She's basically family and is really good fun. Like most of us, she's got a lot going on at the moment. Her and Bethan went out during the day and when they came back we drank four bottles of various wine and half a bottle of schnapps and went out to Jaks. Now. I didn't mean stay out as late as we did but once I was out...
Jaks, and indeed Swansea in general is quite a lot of a cattlemarket on a saturday night. There were four of us though, and we managed to bat off most potential 'gentlemen' (using the term loosely) but Louise was swung around the dancefloor by quite a few local boys. We were using the danceoff technique, where we swap places and keep moving throughout the crowd so we don't spend too much time near groups of voyeuristic pissheads, plus, we can spot potential stalkers etc. So that worked fine, and the music was great. It can be a bit variable, but last night was good. And the most shocking thing was that Penny has pretty much started dancing. Maybe she's more drunk, maybe there's something in the water, but she is definitely dancing a bit these days. It's awesome, we love drunken Penny. Bethan spilt her drink down my cleavage, and decided to retrieve it with her tounge, which was funny, but I had to stop her before she got ideas!
So we had some shots, and some drinks and some dancing. It was about 1am, and some dancing queen had managed to stand on my ankle with her stilletto (my ANKLE? how? I have no clue, but I do know that it hurt) Bethan caught me and kept me upright; and the girl never noticed. How would you not notice if you just dragged your spiked heel down someones bone? Eugh. I don't mind getting injured, but an apology is always nice.
After a bit Penny and I were knackered, and we all made a move for home. We stopped for food (something I never do, ever) and I didn't realise until then how hungry I was. Were hassled by tramps, which amused Louise, and we wended our merry way home. We got in and tripped over all the stuff we'd left lying around, including a giant glass bowl which I stood in twice. Bethan had managed to break two glasses earlier in the evening which she had already cleaned up ("I've never done so much housework in my life" she said, hoovering the floor for the second time that night) but forgetting this we collapsed on the floor and rolled around and giggled for no reason that I can remember.
Definitely time for bed. I said goodnight to everyone and went upstairs. My bed! I collapsed and fell asleep in seconds.
This morning I was awake at half eight. Why can't I sleep through? It was just as well, I needed to go to the library. Presentation to give on tuesday. I'm going to go work on that now. Asian democracy and values or weak states anyone?
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