Back at Uni

Well it was weird to be left at uni by my parents again. I didn't cry this time of course but still, it's odd, I didn't know how to feel. It's rather quiet here, I've only had the pleasure of bumping into Tom, Ellie's boyfriend, in the kitchen earlier (my God he made me jump) so I decided to knock on Ellie's door and say hello. We had a quick chat, so nice to see her, I've missed her. I'm going to see Lewis, Matt, Rach and Emily this evening, we're walking to Blockbuster to go and choose a film to watch together. Should be good, will be nice to see Lewis, Rachel and Matt especially, missed them so much!

Earlier, I went to Gormet burger kitchen with my parents because we had vouchers and I love it. After stuffing ourselves we went looking round the shops for a bit, they came back to mine for tea and then they left. And that's been my day really. It's so odd to be back, gotta get back into the routine which won't be much fun! Especially as I have a lesson at 9am tomorrow...groan. But then I'm free for the rest of the day after 11 so yay! Just hope other people are free tomorrow.

Hmph

Well, I woke up rather late this morning to a text from Marnie saying no one wanted to go out this weekend because people had got mixed up with it and therefore had already made other plans. 1) I am not sure how people could have got mixed up since the last time I saw Marnie was on Thursday, the day before I went to Jen's, so it couldn't have been that weekend. 2) I was sort of relieved but then realised we were just going to have a quite night in with a film...I would have actually enjoyed that. So 3) now I just feel no one can be bothered to see me before I go away. Ahh well. To be honest I know I don't make a big enough effort with people anyway. I'm just not one for arranging things I guess. I'm bad at it.

But somehow Alex has dragged me into arranging MGO for him tonight. I've managed to round up a few people but who knows who'll actually turn up. Alex better fucking turn up or I'll kill him. Today has been a bit of a shit day if I'm honest. I've basically had the place to myself but I've found myself bored all day. I miss my friends, can't wait to go back and see them. I miss my social life, ha! I'm pathetic really aren't I? I cannot cope by myself, I need people. I hate being alone. Thank Christ for my uni friends. I'd go insane without them.

Currently listening to: Champion-No heaven
"Oh lord, there ain't no heaven."
From the end credits of Borderlands. Love it.

First Platinum!

Woo! You would have thought my first plat was to be Resi 5 but ahh well! That shall be number two. It's oddly satisfying though to get a platinum and I don't just mean for the sake of having it, because I would never be one of those people *cough* Stewie *cough* who just earns them for...well the sake of it! I only want to get them for games I truly love, such as Borderlands and especially Resi. Me and Alex are so damn close now it's frustrating but it shall be done, one day! Plus when Resi evil Gold edition comes out with extra stuff...extra trophies too maybe?! It has got to be done. It's our game!

Not much to blog about really. I'm really looking forward to going back to uni, I miss my friends, I'm just not looking forward to the work. Ahh well, going to have to get used to that as that's what I've supposedly gone to uni for after all!

Brought the zombie pack for Borderlands too, me and Alex just took down Ned, twice. Shame the trophy "Ned's undead baby, Ned's undead" is a hidden one. Pulp Fiction reference ftw. Was a fun pack but unfortunately, being level 50 with uber powerful weapons did make it a bit easy, never mind, still got a few missions left to do there. And you can't argue with a few easy trophies...

Close to my first plat

Well this morning I knew I would be close to completing the game of Borderlands. I did the drying up and hoovered up to make sure I wouldn't be moaned at by my parents and therefore interrupted. It didn't take me long to complete from where I was, I won't spoil it here but it was pretty awesome though I was a little disappointed but only a little. I saved the last claptrap I'd missed, got the trophy for that, found the speedway on youtube (it was where I suspected it to be) and did that for an easy trophy. I also started a save with each different character to get the trophies for each of their abilities. Done. Killed a skag like an Italian plumber, done. Basically, I've done every single trophy (excluding the DLC ones) until I get to level 40 and then level 50. Once I reach level 50 it's platinum times! Woot! Cannot wait, I NEED one just so I can have one...if that makes sense. After that I must go back to Resi 5 with Alex and we MUST plat that together. After all, it is "our game". And Gold edition is to be coming out at some point, which is MUST HAVE!!!! Cannot. Fucking. Wait.

Jenivere's Minion Meet!

I haven't written a blog in a while and since I just had the most epic of weekends, I don't have an excuse NOT to write one really! Though, with the amount of craziness, I'm not sure I could possibly write it all down here!

Friday

I started travelling at 3:30pm where I got the train. That was not plesent really as it was ram packed and there was an annoying school kid who was being disgusting and annoying. When he was gone I was joined by a group of older teenage boys who weren't any better than the kid! Typical...Anyway I put up with until I had to get off at Southampton central. Waited for 15 minutes, I spent this texting Moo and playing games on my mobile until my train came. Again, it was packed but I managed to find a sit next to a very nice man. We both sat there and read our books for the rest of the journey although I was so excited I really didn't feel like reading.

When I got there I rang Jen. No one else had arrived yet so she and her dad came and picked me up. Typically, I was on the wrong side, d'oh! So I crossed over the bridge and met Jen in her HUGE boots! We had hugs, I chucked my stuff in Jen's dads car and it was a short ride away from Jen's. No one else but me had arrived yet so no one was waiting for us on the doorstep! Jen took me up into her room and we patiently waited for others to arrive, looking on the PS3 and having a quick chat. The Jen got a phone call from Alex and Moo who were lost and just about surviving on a dying car battery. Matt was trying to direct Alex but all me and Jen could here was Alex going absolutly mental in the background, it was so funny. Do not ever lock that man up for a couple of hours...Me and Jen went outside to flag them both down as they came down the road. It was a sad sight that mazda...only one headlamp was actually on, the other one was almost dead, they battery was definatly going! Poor car! The guys were knackered/hyper (it's not a good combo trust me!) so we had quick hugs then hurried on inside out of the cold.

Next to arrive was Iain and Holly and then Martyn was last to arrive. We ordered some Domino's pizza and walked down the shops to get stuff to drink. When we came back the pizza was there so we grabbed it and went upstairs to eat, Alex was very over-protective over our BBQ pizza...nom nom nom! After that many fighting games occured, Iain was the Tekken 6 dark horse! There was mental 7-way Bomberman all I remember hearing was "Bomber! Bomber!" over and over again in a crazy Japanese voice...as the evening drew on Martyn was falling asleep next to Alex and Moo on the bed as four of us (Me, Holly, Iain and Matt) played LBP together. I was the zebra sackboy! We played one level, again and again because it was amazing. You had to run away from sharks which burst out of the water and tried to eat you! Eventually, I completed the level as the only one left...sharks 0...zebra sackboy 1.

Eventually at about 3am ish? We all went to bed. Jen had her own bed to sleep in, me and Alex took the downstairs double airbed in a small room and the others were upstairs together. That airbed...oh dear what a fail! We stayed up for a bit chatting and listening to Jen's dads snoring in the room above us! Whilst the others upstairs said they watched Family Guy. We were lying there when we heard this hissing sound...the bed was deflating! So Alex had to get up and turn on the air pump thingy except it sounded like a fucking vacuum cleaner! We paniced, worried that it had just woken up the entire house (though I was most worried about Bruce to be honest!), he shoved a pillow over it to muffle the sound which didn't make too much difference. Oopsy! After that we tried to get to sleep but it wasn't the most comfortable nights sleep we'd ever had!

Saturday

Alex and I heard someone was up so we got up to see who it was. Matt was in Jen's room with her so we sat with them before going to sort out some breakfast. More people started coming downstairs to eat and we watched takeshi's castle and another simular show but it was more serious. Those kind of shows are too damn addictive...
After all that we went upstairs and played some Rock band which was awesome times. I sucked at drumming but I rather enjoyed playing Bass. Think I'm getting better at the old pretend guitar! Great fun! Moo did a great job at singing along on the mic and me and Martyn had a sing along too. Yeah, it didn't sound *that* good! After that was more Tekken before we popped off to lunch. We were off to meet Allan Hayes from the OPM group, he was nervous but we were excited! We all got on the bus and arrived at Poole's town centre. We went to Yate's for lunch because it was two meals for £7. Win. Allan came in and found us straight away. We all budged up and let him sit with us and he joined us for lunch which was lucky because it made things even! We had a chat and ate, twas quite nice. Allan was absolutly lovely, he didn't seem nervous at all and we had a good chat about various games. It was funny when Alex asked me if he could have a bite out of my burger, I gave him a "if you must" look and he said in return "you can have a bit of my sausage if you like", neither of us could keep a straight face and I burst out laughing and Allan remarks "Ahh it's just like the facebook group!". Made me giggle.

Afterwards some of us wanted to do some quick shopping before hitting the arcade. We went into the 99p shop and oh my God it smelt awful. Like rotten eggs. Alex wanted to go to phones 4 u to see if he could upgrade his contract so I decided to go with him as I couldn't stand the smell and didn't want to buy anything. When we got there the guy he spoke too was one of the funniest and most honest shop assistants ever! He was really nice, Alex couldn't change his contract yet, they spoke about phones for a bit and then we left to go find the others. The gate was down at the train crossing and Alex joked about me running across just to see if I make it. I didn't of course and as we crossed the bridge the train went by and I said "I think I could have made that, mind you it would have been difficult to get my leg over the gate". I suggested he did a Chris-Sheva throw but then remarked he didn't have crazy big arms like Chris. His response to that was picking me up and swinging me round in a circle! I really did think he was going to throw me for a second! We couldn't find the others where we thought we would so I rang Martyn to find out that they were at Gamestation/Game.

Then we walked to the arcade. It wasn't much but Iain and Matt amazingly won a fiver between them! After that we went for a drink in Weatherspoons and talked for hours about various things before the manager started giving us funny looks (we weren't buying enough drinks) so we thought it was best we leave before we got asked to...
We walked to the bus station, said goodbye to Allan and headed off home in search of warmth. We spent the evening gaming, mostly rock band with 4 guitars! All your bass r belong to us. Epic. Dan, Jen's partner, came round. It was great to finally meet him he's an awesome guy and I'm so happy Jen has found someone who seems to perfect for her! She deserves it. Dan joined in in some rock band and Worms which was brilliant fun.
When it got a bit late we moved things downstairs for 8 way bomberman, bishi bashi and retro street fighter, oh and I got raped by Alex and Jen...that was...interesting to say the least! Gaming was mental at that time in the morning but the turbowine kept us going (which is the best drink in the world by the way!). After that we watched the Peter Serofinowicz show, the Christmas show. I love that show and not everyone had seen it but they all seemed to love it. "Somebody call nine hundred and ninety-nine!" fucking epic times. After that we went to bed, Martyn and Iain were in the small room downstairs this time as me and Alex needed a bed to sleep on after the night befores sleeping troubles! Alex was intent on watching Family Guy before we went to sleep though so there was a bit of an epic struggle getting the PS3 set up again in Jen's room! Oh dear, 4am failure! Iain came up to join us and then headed off to bed after the first episode. Me and Alex were the only ones left awake so we watched another but I could see Alex was falling asleep by the end of it though so I switched it off and I fell asleep straight away. Was shattered.

Sunday

Woke up (at the hand of Martyn texting us all) at 11:30! Oops! Guess I wasn't going to catch that 12:30 train then! Holly told us that we were all snoring last night, Alex said I sounded like a mouse...erm okay interesting. Eventually we hauled ourselves out of bed to have breakfast with everyone else downstairs. Iain got out his furry little eyepet out again (so cute) to show Dan whilst various people, packed and left. Alex and Matt were the first to go, then Martyn, then me, Holly and Iain left together because they were kindly giving me a lift to the station to catch a 2:30 train. Unfortunatly we got a bit lost and I didn't make the 2:30 train but I didn't have to wait long for the next one so it wasn't too bad. I listened to my music all the way home so the trip didn't seem to last as long. Go the station at about 5ish and rang my dad to come and pick me up, I would have walked but I didn't think about how heavy my bag was and how cold it was. It was funny waiting for him because a chav couple of kids came and stood next to me. They were having a raging arguement. The girl wanted to be left alone but the guy wouldn't quit (yet he would fucking spit out what he wanted to say). First he said she was a slag who slept with everything then he said he loved her. She called his mum dirty because she slept with a 14 year old...erm okay...the arguement continued with lying, swearing and stupidity. I was glad to get the fuck out of there and get in my dads car. I had a roast dinner waiting for me when I got home. Good times but I miss the minions already! Can't wait until next meet!

Out with the girlies

So. For the first time in forever I was going out clubbing, with Marnie and Yaz. I thought there was going to be more people but many people couldn't or didn't want to make it, so it was just the 3 of us. We eventually decided to go to Liquid, which although the most popular club in Pompey, I've never been to. We spent forever deciding what we were going to do though and it was raining, which was not ideal. Coats over heads it was! So we quickly got pissed at Marnie's, spoke about a few things. It made me realise, as much as I love Marn and Yaz. They don't support me, not as much as my uni friends at least. Maybe it's because the situation is different or something but it makes me apprciate my uni friends, sometimes, they understand me a lot better than my old friends do. Ahh well, I spose we have different friends for different reasons. No one is perfect. Especially not me.

There was many, many giggles though. Especially when Marnie told us she didn't know what the IRA was!!!!! Where has she been?! She thought it was short for Iraq, WTF! Ahh well, blissfully ignorant I suppose...

Before going to Liquid we went to V bar and had a few shots because they're £1 and they have a HUGE selection many with rude names such as blow job, clit teaser, etc. I had a silver bullet, mainly because it had butterscotch in, it was lush. I also had a very fruity sex on the beach, nom nom! We danced for a bit until Liquid opened and we headed there. It was 2 for 1 drinks and entry so that was a pretty good deal. It's really nice in there, very cool. Marnie rushed to the loo whilst me and Yaz queued up to hand our coats in, £1.60 to store them! Outrageous! Anyway, whilst in the queue there was this horrid foreign guy behind us. He was hitting on Yaz saying "very nice", etc. I told him she had a boyfriend she thanked me for the save but he couldn't leave her alone. He was touching her hair and I swear if he'd kept it up I would have done something. It was pissing her off which made me angry. He was talking in his native tongue to his mates and pointing at her. Rude bastard. Luckily we didn't bump into him again.

We got some drinks and sat down for a bit before getting up and dancing. The music wasn't bad but V bar had better music in my opinion. After dancing Marnie wanted to buy two more drinks (2 for 1) so we sat down again for a little while. Two guys came and sat down opposite us. All I could think was, oh here we go...the confident one, who'd made the move to come over, was chatting up Yaz. Though he asked for all our names, took our hands and kissed them. He was nice but it was a bit weird/cheesy. He asked us all what we were currently doing with our lives. Yaz and Marnie are of course still at college for their 3rd year. I said I was at uni, he asked which, I said Kingston, the response? "Fuckin' hell, brainy!". He then asked what I studying, I answered and got the same response again. After that he leaned into Marnie and said "My mate here thinks you are stunning". His mate remained quiet the entire time bless him. So yet again I'm with two way too gorgeous girls (even though Marn doesn't believe she is, no matter how many men she gets hitting on her) and I, of course am just the brainy one. Okay, so it's not so bad, being called brainy but that's how I've always felt. I've been "the smart one". It was probably the alcohol but it seemed to bother me for the rest of the night. It's a stupid thing to get caught up on but (especially with girls) things are always a competition, even if none of us want to compete. We do. It's hard to explain but easy enough to relate to the animal kingdom...

We all got tired way too quickly and ended up going home at about 1:30am. We got a taxi back. It was a good night overall, I just wish the music was better, we didn't have someone trying to constantly talk to us while we were dancing (there was a bloke bothering us on the dancefloor the entire night) and that we weren't all so tired. Still, it was nice to see Yaz and Marn again, especially Yaz.

Borderlands!

^This will be me and Alex on Saturday^

At last! After one week exactly (not including sunday) Borderlands and all the other post arrived! And boy was it worth the wait...luckily for the postman I was in the shower so he avoided my violent revenge, curses!

By this time I'd luckily already had breakfast and everything so I stuck the game in the machine, waited for all the various things to install for it and got stuck in. Out of the 4 characters I chose The Siren, predictable I know being female but she's pretty kick ass and there's not *much* between the four characters except their special abilities. Most people play as the Sniper so has a pet bird which will kill enemies which is pretty cool, he seems to be the most popular character. My character goes invisible and is very fast for a few seconds then releases a shock wave that hurts nearby enemies by a small amount. It's not amazing but it's pretty cool and I can upgrade that ability as I level up. I love the game. It's so addictive doing the missions, leveling up and collecting bigger and badder weapons. I played it all the way through until lunch when I stopped to have a bacon and fried egg roll with my dad and we watched South Park together. Then I was back on it!

I'm level 13 now, trying to catch up to Alex who is level 30! We're going to try and do a bit of co-op on Saturday as he wants my help and I don't think he's tried it yet. Iain has also ordered Borderlands so hurray for 3-ways! Should be good fun but I can see my parents getting in the way. Sigh. I cannot wait to get back to uni, I'm treated like a child here.