Adding to the Guilty Pleasures this week...Kilts and Darth Vader

Having not long returned from work where I catered to an awards ceremony I felt the urge to blog. The awards dinner was a rather formal affair and so this called for kilts and tuxedo's. One of the many great things about living in Scotland is the fact that men can wear multicolored skirts and actually look incredibly dashing (...in fact I daresay Sexy. Damn sexy).

I also took a trip to London last week and while I still love the city I was suddenly hit with how lonely it could be. With all the thousands of people living there and constantly being bombarded by pedestrians left, right and center - particularly if, like me, you occasionally confuse your left from your right and walk on the wrong side - if you don't actually know anyone you can feel so alone. It began to feel as though each new face I saw was a reminder that I was on my own there. It made me realise that if (or preferably when) I do make the move there I will be starting from scratch.

I was only there for one night and barely had time to catch my breath from all the running around I did and the underground STILL confuses me! I needed to find an internet cafe and after wandering around for the best part of an hour looking for it I gave up and took the underground to the nearest station to it...it turned out I was two doors down to begin with! I will figure it out one day!

Another disaster happened when I was buying some mid-evening snacks from the Tesco next to the hotel. I had decided I didn't need a basket (once again momentarily forgetting I have only evolved to the stage where I have two hands not ten) and had crouched down to pick up an apple, except, just when I thought I was balancing to perfection I wobbled and literally fell with a thud on my bum...in the middle of Tesco...in London...Looking back it does make me giggle but at the time I was, as you can imagine, mortified.

Oh, look who I met when I took a trip to the London Film Museum...

...this was actually the original costume used in the movies. I had to stop myself from jumping up and down on the spot. I also caught glimpses of R2D2 and C3PO resting in an actual piece of the set (!) but due to issues with George Lucas charging royalties for photo's I couldn't take any. There was the option to have professional photo's taken so I am now being forced to drag along some poor hapless soul to smile nicely while I go mad and yield a lightsaber while grinning like a loony for a photo.

Well, my laptop battery is about to die and I feel that I've rattled on enough about useless things (once again!)

May the force be with you *grins*

xoxo

Just a short one today but in reference to my new hobby of cupcake making here's a picture I thought I'd share with you

Obviously the cupcakes I will make in the near future will appeal to humans too......hopefully!

Ok, so let's see what I've done this week that's worth writing home about....

Actually, if I'm completely honest I'm going to let you all down. My life, it seems, has turned into nothing more than one big library session...fun huh. So instead of whittering away on the masterpiece (!) that is my dissertation I thought I'd whitter away on here.

I've actually been here, in this wonderful library, for hours yet the only thing I have achieved is crawling into a printer like one of the 'borrowers' fruitlessly removing paper jam after paper jam after it refused to print more than half a page, and was close to believing it was a sign. However, I am now dutifully sitting back at my desk (well not my desk, but it may as well be) about to embark on a solid days work. To be honest I'm not too grumpy about the whole dissertation business - it gives me a lovely excuse to sit in front of a big pretty Apple Mac all day. I do feel however, that I'm being a slight traitor to my Microsoft Compaq PC sitting unused on my actual desk at home. Part of me hates to say it but I have succumbed to the power of Apple. I got an iPhone a few weeks ago and I've had it in my hand so much I'm sure it's going to begin using me as a 'host' anytime soon (if you are confused what I mean I highly highly suggest you read 'The Host' by Stephanie Meyer - it's entirely different to Twilight but entirely amazing)

I have also decided that my new hobby is making cupcakes. I am yet to actually make a single cupcake but I have a book that will enable me to make the most splendiferous cupcakes the world has ever seen. I'm waiting until dissertation is over but then the oven gloves are on! I would like to apologise in advance to my flatmates for the mess :)

Right, I suppose I should do some work now ... or get coffee ... or go for a walk ... or facebook ...

(Also, I am one step closer to my dream of posh coffee and oyster cards but I'm not going to say yet, I don't want to jinx it)

Paper Coffee Cups and Oyster Cards

I'm writing this at a time when I should really be working on my fourth year dissertation but once again my mind has wandered. It's easy to get distracted when my research is focused on children, diving into the past and conjuring up memories of childhood has proven to be much more time consuming than I first thought!

Anyway, before I get any further I should probably introduce myself. I'm a twenty something student who is mere months away from graduating (hopefully!) and after graduating with a degree in Business I'm dreaming of the day I can grab a takeaway coffee and swipe my Oyster card in the big city of London! But until that day arrives I'm muddling through trying to equally balance studying and work with the much more fun side of life; copious amounts of American TV shows, frequent cinema trips and shopping. Well I say equally balancing...

We all know that Valentines Day is fast approaching. The dreaded day where all the lucky single girls hide under their duvets with nobody for company aside from two very yummy and delicious men...Ben and Jerry. This year however I have even more exciting plans. A group of single friends and myself are planning a Vampire Themed evening. Nothing better to overcome the ever present single status than lusting after non-existent undead vampires!

I mean really, can you blame me...?!