Me,My Life & I

DAY THREE - PASTA CRUISE

Slept in until half ten,which was nice

On the way heading back over to the Eiffel Tower and River Seine for the cruise we'd planned we spotted a Hotel called Romeo and Juliet.

After wandering under the Eiffel Tower again we hopped on the cruise we'd planned for the day before. We paid for a pasta cruise and what a joke that was. The start was lovely; pretty scenery,nice pictures etc. But then the problems started. Basically, Jamie,Laura and I missed the entire cruise because we were inside waiting for what eventually turned out to be STILL FROZEN pasta! And on top of that, Kirsty,Gina and Gemma didn't even get the pasta they'd paid for - they got cheese and ham crepes! BOKE. All in all - rip off. The picture below is a cheery one of us,before the encounter with the fart in a trance boat guy who was badly microwaving pasta in between fannying about doing nothing. Yes I'm still bitter!

 

After we got off the boat we walked,and walked,and walked trying to find the fashion museum, or Notre Dame, whichever one we came to first. During the walk we bumped into a palace, a museum and suddenly we found ourselves on the Champs Elysees and looking up the road at the Arc De Triomphe. We kept walking down and had some crepes and fed some birds. They were cute,but the monster pigeons that followed weren't! After the crepes the walking continued and we found ourselves at the place de la concorde. Took some pictures of the obelisk and then we walked therough the gardens up to the Louvre. Turns out Jamie was lying to me about spotting Anne Hathaway's [Shakespeare's Wife] bed.Gutted. We found the fashion museum but we only got to go into the shop because the museum was shut by the time we got there. We got back there later in the week though,so all was good. After that we hit some gift shops and each bought an I LOVE PARIS jumper. Not that we're total TOURISTS or anything. I also bought a photoframe to frame one of our group pictures in front of the eiffel tower. Then it was home for a dinner of cheesey pasta,super noodles,cheese and ham baguettes,crisps and wine. As prepared by everyone. Classy.

We sang along to some Britney songs, pulled the curtains down by accident and there was a whole lot of I WANT YOU.....TO BE MY WIFE! Plus I had a wee breakdown over my hair (when did I turn into a depressing drunk!?) but hey,lets not go there.

Until Next Time

Megan x

 

 

 

 

DAY TWO - THE EIFFEL TOWER!

Up, had a breakfast of cocoa pops, tea,bread and butter, pieces of orange. And some people had jelly.

We had out first encounter with the metro, and headed to the eiffel tower.

I took a million and one pictures of the eiffel tower from every imaginable spot in Paris over the course of the week, so I'm of course not going to include them all in this blog, but here's a couple from the walk over to the tower. A nice tourist guy offered to take some group pictures of us in front of the tower so they're here aswell.

On the way over the the Eiffel Tower Jamie achieved some mighty haggling. There were men peddling various goods under and around the Eiffel Tower,and they were pretty diffcult to shake once they started talking to you. So I was pretty pleased when Jamie got them at their own game, haggling for some keyrings. Initially these keyrings were

Hey all, hope you're well. As promised, here's my Paris journal. No shit - taken right from the page. This is what we got up to.DAY ONE.

[Here's the situation, if you don't know me. This October I headed off for my first trip abroad with my friends. Paris was our destination and we were there for 8 nights. Good times were had and this is going to be a blow by blow record of them.]

So:

DAY ONE: TRAVEL

I was up at the early,early,early hour of around 3am, barely any point in going to sleep really, but ah well. Headed to Laura's for fourish and headed off in the taxi to Glasgow airport at about half past four. IN THE MORNING! The things I do for fun.

Check in was at six thirty so we spent some time eating breakfast (cheese and ham toasties and a mocha from Starbucks) and taking some early morning pictures. CUE THE FIRST PIC OF THE BLOG

We were, unsurprisingly given our excitement, the first ones at check in. All was fine with the tickets and suitcases, however we did have one little panic when Kirsty's suitcase went on and came up at 23.3kg on a 20kg allowance. It soon settled at 19.9kg though, so we were lucky there!

Once through departures those who hadn't had breakfast yet snacked up, and I had a red bull, meaning after that and a mocha, I was fully caffienated and raring to go!

Going through security - Jamie, Laura and Kirsty were the unlucky few amongst us who got frisked. It was gonna happen to at least one of us, inevitably, so better that it was three together lol.

Flight was fine, and contrary to popular belief , I went for a pee twice. That's an improvement on last year's bathroom run in on my Florida flight (I know,I know, TMI. But those of you who know me, might understand where I'm coming from!)

Once we'd got our luggage, which all successfully came through without having been broken into or anything, we headed off for the train into the centre of Paris. And what a walk that was! MASSIVE,MASSIVE,MASSIVE Airport, which I think we must have walked the length of by the time we actually got to the platform. On the train:

After we got off the train is where we experienced our first problem of the week. We walked, and walked, and WALKED, but apparently the directions I'd printed off to get us from the train station to the apartment were wrong somewhere and what should have taken us about ten minutes ended up taking about half an hour!! Eventually we got there though and Giovanni knew who we were and let us in. The apartment was lovely but we had little time to settle in before it was off to try and find the fashion show at the Galleries La Fayette. We found a guy who was walking there aswell and so went with him (all the while Kirsty was insisting we were going to get kidnapped and sold for trafficking!? Really glad that I didn't watch Taken before we went!). Sadly though we weren't in time and so missed the show We split up into two seperate taxis, Jamie, Gemma and I in one, and Kirsty,Laura and Gina in the other.

Once we got back in, Jamie and I went down to the shop underneath us, taking about five minutes discovering how to open the front door of the apartment block, and bought milk and sugar so that everyone could have a cup of tea with the tea bags Gemma had brought. When we arrived back upstairs the others had got home, after being dropped in the wrong place by their taxi and having to walk it home, they'd stopped off at Macdonalds on the way and this made Jamie,Gemma and I hungry. So out we headed to grab some big macs. What a lovely first meal in Paris!

Other things that happened on that first day were Jamie and Gina having a sing along to We Belong Together

Gina made some jelly that was put in the fridge for breakfast the following day.
We sang 'I've got a feeling' with the lyrics 'this week's gonna be a good week'

Me and Jamie went to Macdonalds and bought caramel sundaes for everyone at midnight they sadly came with nuts

Overall, a good, but tiring first day.

Until Next Time

Megan

I apologise for my prolonged absence, but I have the following to come (this week hopefully)

A Day by Day report of my Paris trip (with pictures?)
Review of Julie and Julia, which I seen more than a month ago!
Review of Jennifer's Body, which I seen in Paris.
Review of This Is It - which I seen on Wednesday.

And OCTOBER'S ROUND UP!....hopefully.

See you soon.

Hey all, hope you're well. Sorry for the gap in my writing. I'm in a slightly less crazy place than I was earlier this week, but I think as soon as I've not got my Paris adventure with my friends to distract me, I'll be back to this crazy,upset state of mind. Oh well, I'll deal with that when it inevitably comes.

My apologies for my lack of blogging.I've been more than a mess lately and blogging about it wasn't really very appealing to me. So now it comes to the night before I go away and I figured I should probably update you before I head away.

Basically I'm currently considering leaving school - no real reasons to stay,it's only adding to my stress. The only reason I'd like to still be there is to see my friends,and I'm gonna see them on nights out etc anyway so its not as if I'd never see them.I'm not enjoying my courses,don't feel any less stressed than last year and could really do with earning a bit of money to put behind me to take to uni. So I think I'm gonna leave and try and get some work for the coming year. So that's that. Thoughts?

In other areas, I'm completely torn between two universities. I'm going to apply to both along with some others, but if I get accepted to both I'm going to have a very hard job deciding which one to go to. It doesn't help that I've got one parent who's totally for one of the places,and one who's completely for the other. Decisions,decisions.

And now my dinner is ready so I'm away to eat and then it's off to sleep so I can be awake at the bright and early hour of THREE AM to head off on holiday with the one group of people actually helping to keep me sane right now. It's going to be a fun filled week in Paris! And it's all kicking off tomorrow when we head to a fashion show as our first outing in the city of lights. Wish us fun,and safety.

I'll be blogging about each day of the holiday once I get back, much like I did with my Florida holiday last year. So, faithful readers,you'll have that to look forward to,along with some MANY pictures.

Oh and before I go, for the first time in almost two years I didn't post a monthly round up at the end of September. Sorry about that, I'd been blogging every day and it totally escaped me until I really couldn't be bothered doing it.I'll shove any important September happenings into my October round up when it comes, along with September's quotability.

Have a good week everyone, and I'll see you when I return, if I return, from Paris.

Until Next Time

Megan x

 

I wish I could clear my mind enough to think of something other than this.
That way I could blog and let other stuff out.
But I can't,because it's all suppressed behind this stupid,stupid,stupid thing.
And I need to sort my head out because if I don't I don't know how to keep going.
Now would be a good time to step in and help me,God.

Lord I'm tired,
So tired from walking.
And Lord I'm so alone.
Lord the dark is creeping in,
It's creeping up, to swallow me.
I think I'll stop,rest here a while.

And this is all that I can say right now
And this is all that I can give.
And this is all that I can say right now
And this is all that I can give, and that's my everything.

Lord, didn't you see me crying?
And didn't you hear me call your name?
Wasn't it you I gave my heart to?
I wish you'd remember, where you'd set it down.

And this is all that I can say right now, I know it's not much
But this is all that I can give, and that's my everything.
And this is all that I can say right now, I know it's not much
But this is all that I can give, and that's my everything.

I didn't notice that you were standing here.
I didn't know that that was you holding me.
I didn't notice that you were crying too.
I didn't know that that was you washing my feet.

And this is all,this is all that I can say right now, oh I know it's not much,
But this is all that I can give, yeah that's my everything.
This is all that I can say right now, I know it's not much
But this is all that I can give,yeah that's my everything.
This is all that I can say right now, oh I know it's not much,
But this is all that I can give, yeah that's my everything.
Yeah that's my everything.
Yeah that's my everything.
Yeah that's my everything.
Everything.

x

All I Can Say - David Crowder Band

 

Hey all, hope you're well. How's the mouth Kel? I'm doing good and am majorly excited for my trip to Bradford to see my film screened in a film festival. But anyway,that's tomorrow. Today was a good day. Went to the Edinburgh College of Art Library to get some info for my AH English dissertation. Then headed back into school for dramaramarama. Just been to see the higher shorts and I must say that they were better than what we put on this time last year. Now for today's main news item....

I'm going to learn how to cook. I'll not be doing it every day because,y'know,time. But every so often I'll post a wee story about my needless to say, interesting, adventures in the kitchen. I figure I'm going to be moving away soonish,I'd better learn how to look after myself. That means learning to cook,clean etc. I decided to start with cooking because it's the most appealing......

Moment of the day: Drama shorts.

So my question to you today: Any beginners cookbooks you'd reccommend? Or recipes?

Until next time

Megan x

 

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm doing good, but am shattered. Kirsty and I went up to Robert Gordon Uni open day today. It was good, with some things being better than Stirling,others being worse. Overall I can't currently make up my mind between the two of them. I guess I've got some time.

So, today I thought I'd write about how much media is changing,particularly online media. We all get tv online now, whether thats through legal sources such as iplayer etc, or through illegal streaming. I'm trying to decide whether this is a good or bad thing.

Of course the internet allows for cult followings and fame to develop quickly. It provides a medium for shows that might not have anywhere else to go (see Dr. Horrible) and lets people access a wider variety of programmes and information in the form of video than ever before.

Thats all good, and it was all good, whilst it was a seperate thing to youtube. I thought it was all fine and dandy as long as youtube was a project of its own, youtubers themselves weren't making money off of it. Tv online could be seperate from youtube and they wouldn't cross over. Now though, there's the so called 'youtube celebrity' and people making money off youtube. The youtubers have sold out a bit really, and it upsets me because youtube COULD have been this alternative, non-profit [for the users] thing to come to to get away from the growing online media.But alas, all things come to money in the end.

This is just a rant really, I've strayed far away from my original topic and I can't remember where I was trying to go with this.
Sorry.

Moment of the day:Singing along to various songs,actions included,with Kirsty on the way home from Aberdeen.
Question of the day: How many of your tv shows do you actually watch on tv anymore, do you watch a lot online or?
My answer:I watch almost everything online nowadays.

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. Nothing much to blog about today except I read this kind of ironic story earlier. It's not funny, but kind of makes you think, isn't life a bitch.

So there's a news headline "Robbed,Beaten and Shot:Bad Week for this OAP".

I thought YOU DON'T SAY.

Turns out the guy was eighty, which makes it sad. But here's how it went.

The OAP in question got broken into and beaten up, the theif then proceeded to steal some stuff from the old man. As if the poor man's luck wasn't bad enough, a few days later after recovering the man was at a self defence class learning to use a gun and his son SHOT HIM IN THE HAND! Bad luck,or bad luck? The irony of this just made me think : isn't life just a bitch sometimes?

Kirsty just told me another story that, despite being kinda sad, made me laugh.

A woman is sitting in her car outside a dough or bread factory (or somewhere) and she hears a loud noise. Then something hits her in the back of the head and she feels like she's been shot. She feels the back of her head and it feels like her brain is falling out, so she sits there scared for six hours,holding onto the back of her head until finally she realises that she wasn't shot,her brains aren't falling out and in fact she was just hit in the back of the head by a big lump of dough. Yes, you read correctly. DOUGH. Again I say, life's a bitch.

Moment of the day: The 'firedrill' at lunch.
Question: Will any other readers come out the woodwork and answer my questions?
My answer: TBC.

Until next time

Megan x