Tor's visit and general cahoots
Tor arrived safe and well, even after sitting opposite a drunk dood for half the way, on Wednesday afternoon, and as soon as she arrived, we hopped straight to the more interesting and funky part of the student lifestyle.. with a trip to Morrisons. We discovered that they were selling Ben and Jerry's for under £2 (actually beating ASDA - the wonders will never cease), and that handwash can be rather expensive. After trekking to several different shops (Morrisons, Netto and Iceland, we like to shop about), we settled on pizza and corn for tea.
Yes, those were big bits of corn, but we battled valiantly to devour them.
Ahh, our tasty modified pizza. No, we didn't manage to eat the whole thing in one sitting (that would be greedy), but, we can tell you, Iceland are clearly onto something with their £1.50 pizzas.
After the pizza, we went to see a play that was on at the union, "Narcissus!". A very interesting, very strange, and very captivating performance. We both really enjoyed it, and its innovative use of blood beads. We almost missed the bus home, because, yet again, I managed to look at an old version of the bus timetable (that's the last time I use the Metro site for anything), which said the bus went to the bus station, when it didn't. Luckily, practically round the corner from one of the stops for the bus home, the bus driver stopped and asked us where we were going, and explained that we would never be able to reach our destination. So, a close shave, but we got home ok in the end :)
The next day, we decided to do a spot of shopping and exploring Leeds. We tried on many nice clothes...
As you can see, they made Tor look beautiful.
I managed to find, FINALLY, after many years of searching, some heels to wear!!! Ok, they ARE kids ones, but they're copies of the adult ones, and they're not velcro!! wooooo!!! I also managed to find a rather nice top for £2 :D
In the evening, we went to see Stardust at the local cinema. We decided, since we hadn't got round to eating it, to bring the Ben and Jerry's with us, since it was going to be difficult for Tor to take it back on the train. Looking around in the cinema, I could see people eating popcorn, pick 'n' mix, chocolate, nachos, even Pombears.. but we were the only ones digging into a tub of icecream with metal spoons. Go us :) The film was brilliant, and, for once, better than the book.
We weren't able to get up to much on the final day, since I had a class until 12, but we watched some stuff (Tor is now hooked on Yakitate, tee hee), ate some tasty food, and by 5ish we were ready to set off to the station, equipped with Pombears and Ribena. We took some final nice piccies:
And off she... chuff-chuffed, into the sunset...
And the rest...
I haven't been feeling 100% over the weekend, as it seems the lack of sleep caused by sharing a bed with my twitchy sister resulted in me waking up on Saturday morning with half of the top of my lips swollen with coldsores. I looked like I was mutating, so I stayed in the house over the weekend to hide my mutant shame. Luckily for me, my TiE group had decided not to meet on the Sunday since the host had the flu and one other member wouldn't have been able to attend anyway. So, I basically spent the weekend camping out in the house, dozing in bed (I've been REALLY, stupidly tired recently), reading for assignments and classes and generally moaning to Phil about feeling yucky. Hopefully this will have all passed by the weekend when he gets here!
Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the mark for the presentation I did a couple of weeks ago, so fingers crossed for a good mark (even though it's only 20%!)...
Fishy Update
The fish are fine, and the levels in the tank are finally reading as normal every week - woop! Pearl seems to have fully settled in, and they're both healthy and love foraging for food. So they're living the good life :D I haven't got any photos at the moment, but I'll try and put one on here soon!
Several other things have happened, but they'll have to wait for another time, this post is already epic enough!
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I would have never guessed your sister would like Yakitate. Looks like you had fun with the clothes, its a shame that dress was so much, it was very pretty!
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