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This weekend I watched two really good movies: The Hangover and The Proposal. The Hangover is HILARIOUS, probably the funniest film I saw that was released last year. Plus Bradley Cooper is nice to look at. The Proposal was a cute movie tho I think it was enhanced by Paula and Kirstin’s presence and quips. The only thing I didn’t like about The Proposal was that it had some immigration stuff on it that brought back some memories and also made me slightly nervous about Tim moving here :-/

I’ve also got Public Enemies and Up to watch sometime soon which I can’t wait for. Anyone got any recommendations for good movies to watch?

Now that we’re into November it’s time to start getting ready for Christmas and boy did I make a start on it today!

Paula, Kirstin and I drove over to Costco in the afternoon and I brought my iPod along since I found the cable to make it work in Paula’s car. Boy was that a mistake! Kirstin found the Christmas playlist and decided we would listen to Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You on repeat. It made us feel Christmassy but also got rather annoying.

Costco was very Christmassy too and had lots of cool toys to gawk at. Then on the way home we stopped at Silverburn and I went to Starbucks and got not only a red cup but also one of the new (RED) Starbucks cards AND an eggnog latte!

Oh it was so good. I’m going up to East Kilbride on Sunday so I’ll try the Starbucks there for some too. I also managed to get a free bag of coffee because the woman forgot to rescan it after she took it off to put £20 on my Starbucks card, so I got it free. Yay!

Tonight we had dinner at Kirstins, she made pasta carbonara and it was really good. There was also cake, photos of which I’m sure will be making their way onto Nicoles Facebook sometime soon.

Twas a a good day.

Awesome isn’t it? It was dead in work so I decided to make a stencil for Halloween. They have these in Costa in the shape of coffee beans and I’ve been wanting to do them so I though tonight was as good a time as any for a first go. I’m gonna redo it at another time cos it’s obviously too small. I just realised if I do it the other way and cut out a bat shape it’ll work better. That shall be tomorrows task. For Christmas I wanna do a tree and maybe a Santa hat or something. Such fun!

I have next week off work as Linzi and I are going to Inverness for a couple days and I have loads of holidays so I figured I’d just take the whole week off. I wanna get out to take some photos and Fallout 3: GOTY edition should arrive the beginning of next week.

I’m going to the cinema tomorrow night with Paula to see Up! I can’t wait, I’ve been waiting to see this film for four months. We’re going to see it in 3D! Very excited!

Oh and this is Debbie’s stencil, it’s a pumpkin.

Well tomorrow I finally (finally!) head off for Seattle and I cannot friggin’ wait! I’m sitting on my break just now at work and I only have two hours left but it feels like eternity.

Once i’m done work I have quite a lot to get done today. I head home, package the Singstar game I have to return, go post that, get the train into town, go to Emma’s office to pick up my birthday card, head over to John Lewis to see if they still have the suitcase I liked, meet Chris for coffee, go to Borders for magazine, pick up various candies for Tim, go home for last dinner, check in online at 8pm, head out to Beanscene for a coffee with Paula and Kirstin then head home and pack before getting a taxi at 4am.

Then it’s only 14 hours till I touchdown in Seattle and summer begins!

Last night after I’d finished work I went into town with Paula and Sabah for dinner and then a couple drinks. It was good fun, though of course Sabah had too much to drink and dived into her boy “troubles”.

We had dinner at this little Italian restaurant I LOVE called Pulcinella in downtown Glasgow. I was going to go for pasta (trying to be healthy) but then I saw a pizza I just HAD to try.

Pizza Pulcinella: cheese, spicy italian sausage and potato. Potato on a pizza! How mental is that? It came along though and it was DELICIOUS. I’m going out for dinner with my Dad and stepmum next Monday for my birthday and I think we just might have to go there. It’s a really cosy little diner and the staff are always a delight.

After there we walked down to Wetherspoons and had a round of drinks, me a Kopparberg Summer Fruits and the girls a “Woo woo” pitcher between them. As we got towards the bottom of our glasses a group of annoyingly loud people moved in nearby so we decided to leave and get the train.

It was a good fun night and I’m glad I went out in the end even tho I didn’t want to to begin with.

I was supposed to be going to see Katy Perry tomorrow with Paula and Sabah, something I wasn’t particularly looking forward to. You see I never wanted to go in the first place, Sabah bought myself and Paula the tickets for Christmas eve after we repeatedly stated we didn’t like her nor want to go, but apparently those cries fell on deaf ears.

After I learned I would be going I downloaded her album and it’s not bad, but it’s not something i’d go see live.

So it was with great joy I learned it has been postponed to August 25th (for reasons unknown to me) when I will be out of the country!

Now Sabah wants Paula and myself to go to her house for “drinks and BBQ” and then stay over. I don’t mind the first two but I really don’t want to stay over as I have a lot to get done on Sunday in prep for my party and going to London.

I’m gonna speak to Paula and see if she’ll get a taxi home with me on Saturday night/Early Sunday morning.

It’s Paula’s 21st on Sunday so today we’re having a party at her house while her parents are away at their caravan. While I don’t think it’ll be a wild party we have more than enough to turn it into such.

We have a bottle of tequila and limes for shots, the leftover jagermeister from Xmas, sidekick strawberry & cream, sidekick cookies and cream, vodka, peach schnapps, red square reloaded (vodka & red bull), pina colada, Malibu, reef and kopparberg. And that’s just what WE bought, we told people to b.y.o.b so that list should get much longer.

Woo! It’s tequila time me thinks…

I went out for lunch today with Paula, Kirstin and her friend Suzanne. Suzanne was one of those people I never really saw at school except when with Kirstin so it was nice to see her again, she’s a lovely girl albeit with an evil sense of humor!

I’m now headed into town to meet Chris for coffee and chat. I’ve not seen him in ages so it’ll be good to catch up.

I also just booked my flights to Seattle! I leave Wednesday 17th and return Thursday 10th September. I booked it through Netflights.com for £424 as it was gonna be £499 through the actual KLM website. How does that work?

Two months tomorrow!

It was such a lovely day today, I dunno exactly how hot it got but when I left work at 5:15 it was 61F. I went for a walk after work with Paula and her dog Cassie to a local park and it was nice. We must’ve walked for 50 minutes or so so that was a good wee bit of exercise. Of course we went for ice cream before hand so that’ll only have worked that off…