Woah, woah, woah, calm down ladies, find another place to fight.

The Boxing Day sales Mania continues.


Lewis and Halle made me drag myself out of bed at 7.45am so I would be at the bus stop to meet Lewis at 9.15am.


Guess what?

I was still late.


I started watching Batman Begins and eating toast, match made in heaven. Christopher Nolan? How could I love you anymore?


Anyways, Mum insisted on giving me £30 (Thank you Mum!!) and making Dad drive me to the bus stop cause I was running late for Lewis again (what's new?)


Turns out someone got stuck in the snow, blocking off the end of our street, so it took longer to arrive at the bus stop... fail!


And I was still earlier than Lewis. Kachoooooow!


He had brought his shiny new iPhone 4, still new, in it's wee box, he's so proud of it.


So we had to go to Orange shop first, so we were waiting to cross the road

ME: Do you like Nicholas Cage?

LEWIS: Who's he again?

ME: Sorceror's Apprentice, Ghost rider,yah know... That's him there, on the bus stop!

LEWIS: Where!?

ME: Outside the orange shop!

LEWIS: The boy cleaning the window?

ME: ... No! On the poster! NUMPTY! 

LEWIS: Aww... I was going to run over and get his autograph.

Oh LOL!


Orange shop gave Lewis his sim card, did you know that you've got to use a TINY little key to open the phone to make it accept a sim card? Crazy.


Off to the Trinity centre after that, Lewis was trying to find a nice case for his iPhone. It's really difficult to find a nice case that is masculine. So, unless Lewis wants to wander around with a bedazzled, butterfly case, he would have to make do with some plain colours.


Or, in Lewis' case, a bright yellow one.


Hey, at least he won't be able to lose it.


Went to Argos after that, have you ever tried searching on those wee LCD screens you get there? We've never.


One of the funniest things I have seen in a long time, just watching Lewis trying to type in "iPhone 4 covers" on the touch screen...


"iPhoo"
"iPhonnn"
"iPhone"
"iPhoner"
"iPhone4"
"iPhone4covvve"
"iPhone 4 cover"

DA DA!


Could imagine that screen going through the window.


Halle jumped into our day (literally) whilst Lewis tried to do that too, Amigo day out began.


Lewis was on a freaking roll.


Me and Halle (despite being women and obviously designed for shopping, we were being the ones that followed Lewis around, not spending any money) were just having a nice chat, and she showed me a photo of a guy... she took this on the bus into town... not as pervy as it sounds.


It looked like Wagner. 

RAWR!

Oh! Oh! Rejoice subway fans! No longer do you have to make do with icky Baguette express!

Seriously... eww. It has no test. You want to eat? Eat this.

It's cardboard... but it sure looks good.

Subway Union Square has arrived. And it has lots of tables. And it's got a timer on the toaster.

It's got a freaking timer on the toaster!!!

As you can tell, I love Subway. Tastes like a slice of heaven. If heaven was edible.

OMFG CANDYFLOSSS!!! There is a god.

Me and Halle wanted some of Pulp's cute T-shirts.

It's just TOO cute!

But Lewis was being so critical...

LEWIS: Slitting your wrists is part of the dress code here.

Okay... it was fairly hilarious but... STEREOTYPING!

The town was so busy today... there was actually a queue to cross the road.

Yeah.

Snow was melting too so the amount of times I got dripped on was ridiculous.

Mum bought me this GORGEOUS coat from Jane Norman. LOVE YOU!!

Went to see Ashleigh in her work too, she said that she was just in Starbucks and some lady fell over and her hot chocolate went flying over her shoulder... Ahhh you can't help but smile to yourself.

Schadenfreude for yah.

Oh, and HMV was crazy today, too many good deals in such a cramped space, people were going crazy...

ANGRY WOMAN ONE: DID YOU SWEAR AT MY DAUGHTER?!?!

ANGRY WOMAN TWO: NO!! I SAID "**** THIS" *she trails off*

Oh wow. Thought I was going to see a fight break out.


The queue upstairs was right along to the box set sections (it was huge) and I needed to see if they had One tree Hill season 3 so I was bending down to crotch level in the middle of the queue... 


Note to self: Do not look left in those situations.


Went to yo sushi for some Chicken Katsu Curry (NOM!) and there was a new member of staff there.


She's really sweet, and she looks like Cameron Diaz.


Sorry... she WAS Cameron Diaz. Yeah. We got served by a successful actress. Jealous?


Haha, one of the chefs got angry with one of the vegetables... she started pounding down on the knife to try cutting through it. Adorable.


Met up with Ross after that, we were meant to go see "Meet the Parents Little Fockers" but...

HALLE: You say it.

ME: No, you say it.

ROSS: No! Because I'm going to swear!

LADY BEHIND DESK: *looks at us as if to say COME ON!"

ROSS: Three tickets to Meet the Parents.

LADY BEHIND DESK: For three of you? *Taps on LCD screen* There's only seats available in the second row from the front...

HALLE: Doesn't matter then.

Gutted.


So, we just wandered about.


OH! And we tried to guess the passwords for the Sony Centre's laptops.


":)"
"LOL"
"Applestoresucks"

You see... things started to happen when I typed in "Applestoresucks" and the welcome screen started to show.


I was away to burst into fits.


Turns out that wasn't the password... but Imagine if it was?


And the escalator stopped working.


But it took a moment for that to register with me and Halle... we looked down at our feet and said "Oh!"


Kind of just went home after that...


Me and Ross were waiting at the bus stop for a 21, and the bus came (and stopped RIGHT in front of a dripping bus shelter... grrr) and we got on it. 


So, I turn around and see this lady running for the bus... :

LADY RUNNING FOR BUS: Ahhhh just in time *runs face first into drip" WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!! 

I was so tempted to laugh, I'm not going to lie to you.


Met Michelle (Irish Michelle, not one of my bestos Michelle) on the bus... well that was awkward.

MICHELLE: You's two are cute together!

 *Awkward silence*

ME: Ehhh... We're not together.

MICHELLE: But you'd make a cute couple

Whap oot the awkward turtle... QUICKLY! This is an emergency!


(Oh! Happy Birthday Hayley Williams!)


I ate myself into a food coma once I got home... Was bad.

Had Soup, Turkey Sandwiches, Trifle AND skittles.


I couldn't get up. Honestly.


I rolled to grab the remote.


My Mum thought it would be funny to tickle me into an Elmo LOLing oblvion.


You think that's funny? Well, DO YAH?!


Would you tickle a tortoise that was lying on it's back?


Oh, and my Mum failed so hard.

ME: 50% off perfumes in the perfume shop

MUM: Oh!! Do they have... pussy?

*she's meaning Katy Perry's "Purr"*

ME: No Mum... they don't sell Pussy in the perfume shop.

Left: Pussycat.

Right: ... You fill in the ellipses.

Lauren out xxx

I used to work in Hogwarts. Oh, and one of my relatives used to dress up as Sully to scare me on Christmas Eve.

*sighs* The weird people I know!!


How are you all today? Good start of the week I hope!


Can't believe it's only 12 days before Christmas!


Got to school in plenty of time this morning.


Everyone was talking about X factor final, do you blame them? Was awesome.


Not a lot of people too chuffed about song choices for the winners songs mind you, mainly Biffy Clyro's "Many of Horror" (to which, they changed the name of the song? It's a cover guys, you have to respect the original)

ENGLISH

Not much was done in the first period. Fairly boring again. Had a nice chat with Lee though, the kid is such a hun.


Lee has been hacked by a New Jersey hacker... WTF?

Why would someone want to hack someone else half way around the world? Can you tell me that?

Yeah. Hacker. I'm speaking to you. You big blue headed, monkey like FREAK!

Let Lee back onto twitter. I miss her.

It was the next period of English that was eventful however.

Lee wasn't in English last week, so she didn't know about Mr Inness (a little bit of a nut).

So I warned her that we MIGHT have him.

Guess what.

We did.

I shot her this look that just screamed "Watch your back, This guy's a nutcase" and sat down.

He was... odd.

He told us that he worked in Hogwarts...

MR INNESS: I used to work in Hogwarts

LAURA: Oh did you? Me and Rhaegan used to go there.

MR INNESS: Oh!!

RHAEGAN: Yeah, I was in Slytherin.

LAURA: I was in Hufflepuff, not smart enough to be in Gryffindor.

RHAEGAN: What did you think of Dumbledore.

MR INNESS: *Wavers hand around to express that he's unsure* Ehhh... I don't know.

 Billy broke his glasses too (I didn't even know he owned a pair) so he went next door to get cellotape and post its to fix them.


Katie sung a song about Fixing glasses with a plastic spoon (clearly an original) and Billy says "Oh yeah, I know that song".


Man. We must be high on something.

MR INNESS: You should really twitter about breaking your glasses.

EVERYONE: TWEET!

MR INNESS: Oh yes, tweet, sorry, we use Telepathy in Hogwarts.

LAURA: Really? What's he *Gestures to Sean* thinking?

MR INNESS: Oh you don't want to know. And neither does she. 

Then we asked him about his pink, flowery tie.

LAURA: What kind of flowers are on your tie?

MR INNESS: Their not flowers, their images of flowers...

LAURA: ...Alright...

MR INNESS: They eject poison onto..

Yahda Yahda, Kids a nut. 


KELLY WAS BACK! Yay! Missed that kid and our COMPLETELY random banter.


Halle is well psyched about Katy Perry next year.

7,500 tickets gone in one hour and my Mum scored us some?


Why would you NAE be!?

Hopefully she hasn't ate her watermelon.

I feel like it would add massively to her tour.

I love Katy Perry. Not as much as Pink or Hayley Williams, granted, but still, she's awesome.

And she likes watermelons. What's not to love.

BIOLOGY

Circulation!

Yeah, we were learning about circulation.

Or rather, Dr Robertson was trying to teach us about circulation.

We don't listen to him on a Monday, makes me sad, cause he is such a nice guy (who, we learned today, is as thin as a toothpick!)

Abie wants us to apply for jobs at Toys R us, I'm totally up for that for two reasons:

One: Toys 'R us? Why would you NOT want to work there.

Two: Working with Abie? Would come home every night with sore ribs from laughing too hard.

DAMN! That reminds me, we still need to do our film quiz on Tuesdays!

DR ROBERTSON: If you're running, Blood flow will be directed towards the muscles such as the legs instead of the kidneys...

JASON: So exercise is bad for you?! 

ABIE: Ahhh... Need to work my kidneys!!

The class is nuts. 


We finished off the class by measuring people's blood pressure, with an old school pump...

Scream and run away in sheer terror.

If you're still reading, then you don't quite realise the severity of the situation.

Linzie is the one taking your blood pressure 

Yeah. That shut you up.

She just kept squeezing... I thought Abie's arm was going to explode.

ABIE: ARGHHHHHHH!!!!! *looks at arm, bulging over arm strap*

When it came off, you could clearly see a giant red mark! 


Then it was Abie's turn... 

Queue evil laugh.

LINZIE: *SCREAMS*

ME: Oh, she's gonna get her own back!

ABIE: I wouldn't do that! *Laughs*

DR ROBERTSON: I wouldn't trust her, she just laughed.

LINZIE: *SCREAMS*

Went to town with Sara after that.

Caught the bus with Katie as well, she's a right nutcase that kid! She's always high!


High on life. Jealous!

Yeah... High on LIFE...

No. Seriously though, high on life. 

I asked her what she ate in the morning, she said nothing.

Remind me not to eat breakfast tomorrow morning...

NOT King Kong. Me tomorrow at 12.30 (without breakfast)

Me tomorromow at 12.30 (with breakfast)

Either way, I'm still a Damned, dirty ape.

KATY: One of my relatives dressed up, like fully dressed up as Sully on Christmas Eve one year, like, ages ago, and he just sat on my bed...

Uncle Billy?

Went to the food court for some Noms. We both got a BBQ chicken wrap, was godly.

Sara really disliked the huge musical baubles! Suppose, the song did get on your nerves after the first time playing...

Had a really good time with her ^_^ Nice to catch up!

Her work colleagues seemed to jump out from EVERYWHERE!!

One was just walking down the street and started tugging his ear and looking at Sara... I thought he was a drunk and then she said that he just slagged her off a lot for wearing huge earrings :L

We were looking for more huge earrings in Primark, I kept pointing out really big ones and then she said:

SARA: I don't want to look like Pat Butcher!!

LOL!

She was singing "Come on Baby Light my fire" and this guy is listening in and then said "It's a no from me."


CHEEKY!!!


Got home and had an epicly long convo with Chloe....


About Alpaca's...

Cute Alpaca, looks like he's wearing uggs!!

 And Whoopi Goldberg in a bathtub of Milk.

As you do.

Go ahead and google "Whoopi Goldberg".
Then go onto Google images.
Can't get away from this image.

By the way, did you know you could get "Stud Alpacas"?

Don't believe me?

Evidence.

The thing that disturbs me is the two type of "stud" services you can get...

"Drive by" or "Mobile mate"

Good times.

Although... Now I need to get Chloe an Alpaca from Christmas...

Or a diamond encrusted tree trunk.

God... I love my friends.

Lauren out xxx

GROOVY BABY.

You know the snow is beginning to melt when the buses are semi-decent to you.


Only had to wait a minute or two at the bus stop, It rocked. Simple pleasures in life eh?


Ashleigh was meant to make events on Facebook... Jeeeezo. Hold on a minute....


Done. Wand Wednesday next Wednesday... Well... It was hardly gonna be next Friday was it?


Anyways, just get a stick or something and make bad Harry Potter pick up lines.

Have you heard of Platform 9 and 3/4? Well, I can think of something else with the exact same measurements.

Interested in making some magic together? My wand is at the ready.

Is that a wand in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Kachow! Their pretty awesome.


Also, Ashleigh really suits my stupid Dappy hat...

She almost made up for this guy.

Almost.

Seriously, grrrr! The girl can suit any hat in the world!

There was an assembly... Can't even remember what they spoke about. Think it was something really boring like UCAS forms and homework. Iccck.

STUDY

Still no teacher (Mrs Murray is in Canada/New Zealand/Africa/Timbuktu) so we were just chillaxing in our study room.

We were playing hangman, was the shortest game I've ever played. They put me up and asked me to do a film... after ten minutes of thinking, I thought of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

Niamh got it in one (FML!)

Hangman master!

The difficulty with Niamh wasn't in the guessing, but in the creating, didn't have a clue what to put down! 

Then Kirsty came in, just had a lovely chat with her. Her Boyfriend was stuck in Aberdeen cause of the snow! He moved about 5 miles in an hour or two (Ridiculous huh?) So he had to turn back.

She was telling me about her Birthday too :)

MATHS

NOTHING was done. Not even kidding you, I didn't finish one question.

He was yabbling on about this stupid site called glow.

He's putting our homework up online, so of course he's going to get stupid excuses weekly!

You want examples?

"Oh... My computer's down. I couldn't get it."

"...My internet isn't working." 

"Only facebook is working on my computer... What a problem."

And he gave us a lot of pep talks and how we won't pass if we don't do our homework.


It took 45 minutes for that rant to finish.


And then we started a question... we never got to finish it like. So was a bit of a wasted period.


PSYCHOLOGY


We went in (and for one of the first times, Torry kids DIDN'T attempt to trip us up because we were all wearing jackets. CAMOUFLAGE!) to our classroom and the first thing Dod tells us?

DOD: We'll be learning about Pasta today.

ME: Did I walk into H.E. by mistake? 

But wouldn't you be a bit confused? He held up a packet of Fusilli and I made a face in confusion.

Renowned for it's Psychological research on why you comfort eat.

So he asked us to brainstorm... why WOULD we use pasta in psychological research?

SARA: Well, we could ask participants to memorise a shape made out of pasta, then we could send them out of the room, cook the pasta and then ask them to make the shape again out of other bits of pasta.

LUCAS: We could put the pasta pieces in a jam jar and ask people how many pieces are in it. Then we show them eachothers answers and see if they change their answers.

ME: (Spoofing Milgram's Obedience Experiment) We could ask one group of participants to hook up a confederate to an electric shock machine, ask them to give him a shock for every question he gets wrong and see how many people would give him the full 450 volts. THEN, we could do the same experiment with another group of participants, but we could feed them pasta before they do it and see if it changes how many volts they are willing to go up to.

Best one by far was from Leoni's table

"We could try and classically condition someone to have a fear of pasta"

LOL.


Dod then said that one of us had the right answer...

ME: PLEASE let it be the fear of pasta experiment.

It wasn't. We are doing Lucas's suggestion.


TEAM NINJA TURNIPS!


So we had to test this experiment. Dod held up Fusilli and asked us to guess how many pieces of pasta was inside it.

187

234

170

240

517

200

So MOST of the guesses were around the 200 mark.


Then Katie had to guess

 KATIE: Uh.... can you come back to me?

DOD: No, just say what you had down!

KATIE: Ummm... 1,065?

It wasn't 1,065.


BUT someone had it spot on.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzYRvaD-xkQ


Shannon got it spot on with 517.

Dod was impressed with this.

DOD: We all know who to go to now if we have to guess how many pasta pieces there are inside a packet of pasta.

Cause that's a very useful skill in today's society, don't want to be cheated by pasta companies!


The next things we know, we're being asked to Operationalise the Hypothesis "People find food more attractive if they are hungry".

PWHOAAAAAR.

Lucas told Sara and I to look up http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ and http://aberdeenaberdeen.com/ for it's second video.

They are so stupid, you've got to laugh.

Awww! I said Sara looked like a sexy Austin Powers in her new glasses.

They REALLY suit her but they do make her look slightly Austin Powersish ;)

It was because she was doing the "peace sign" over the eyes move.

Groooooovy.

FREE

What happened in Free period again...

Ummm... Bev showed me her Schuh tag. So cute. She is employed!

Kristina and Lewis were chucking paper aeroplane's around the study room.

Not much happened if I'm honest.

ART

Ermmm... didn't do anything.


Went into town with Michelle and Jennifer after school.


It was nice to see Michelle again, she left school at Summer and have hardly got to see her since.


Was meant to be getting Christmas presents. Failed miserably.


Even worse? Found out who I got for Christmas Santa.


Curses.


One of these years, it will actually be "Secret".


Getting Inception though, couldn't ask for a better present.


Well... I could, But why would I want one? DiCaprio and Nolan? RAWR!


Was trying to look for Dad's present in HMV. Cause he wants a DS game, but I didn't know which one to go for. He wants some old school game heroes, you know the like, Mario, Sonic, Donkey Kong... the classics.


Michelle's idea on what to get him?

MICHELLE: What about Hello Kitty?

ME: Oh yeaaaaaaah... that's really my Dad (!)

MICHELLE: What about Camp Rock 2? 

ME: You're really not helping! 

Went to Burger King after that, was fine! Michelle was totally stealing my Juice and my chips though!


Cause she was one her "Diet".

MICHELLE: You can't spell diet without die!

Indeed you cannot.


Also, noticed that a lot of my friends cling onto me when there's ice around.


ME!


I'm the least stable person EVER on ice.

CONFESSION OF A MOVIE GEEK: 

I once stood for half an hour behind two stewards at an Ice Rink because the only reason I was able to stand on the ice was because I was edging myself along the wall that they were leaning on. I cannot balance.

Lauren out xxx