Friday 26 March 2010

'Oh? It's a melon? I thought it was a cheese...'

Yeah sorry Liena it took me a while to figure out what all those little pictures were in reference to...in my defence though Helen didn't know what the Descendents reference was about but that's definitely not as bad as me not being able to recognise fruit :( Breadcake/Flamingo Love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thursday 25 March 2010

Distance makes the heart grow fonder...


First and foremost, apologies to Breadcake are in order... I've been slack in getting skype and contacting you. I feel we've been terribly low on GOSSIP without you here!
You look like you've settled SO amazingly in TO... and I'm super proud of you for being brave and going out to a new city and starting out on your own! GO team BREADCAKE! I miss you SO much! We just had a Shelena evening and your presence as always was greatly missed!
Anyway, I'm not going to go all bridezilla on you but just so you know I finally got a killer sparkler on my finger and we have booked our wedding on the 4th June 2011, 3pm. Harewood House! Right next to the penguins and flamingos! So to all you fine ladies, make sure you put it in your diaries... I don't want anyone to book any Texas holidays and miss it! and CAWTHORNE consider this a deadline for your return ;)
As for news on the Schneider-Wilson-Tanaka-Wright holiday, we had a blast and I'm sure it won't be the last holiday we have together... I would love to report back to you all and let you know that The Schneider Wilsons tied the knot at the Little White Chapel but unfortunately there was no wedding - (we all know Nicola, Brian and Evelyn would have to be present!) - plus we never found the little white chapel!
We did all the essentials, checked out the casions, fluttered a wee bit on the roulette machines (Black 4 was a winner for us all thanks to Mr Stanley Sommerville's predictions!) and on the gambling for beginners type big wheel!

We visited the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and did all the touristy things -

Shell and James went to see Penn & Teller one night - I have no idea who they are but i guess they are a big deal! Their show sounded incredible and I'll leave it to Shell to tell all about it! Niall and I went to see "O" which is the Cirque Du Soleil at the Bellagio which was incredible- It was unlike anything I've ever witnessed before with a stage that changed from a diving pool to a regular stage within seconds, about 80 acrobats / synchronized swimmers/divers and the most unreal stage/stage set ever.

Another highlight was the best show I have ever ever ever been to in my life ever! Mega thanks to the Schneider-Wilsons for getting the tickets, we got to go to the NFG 10th Anniversary tour at the House of Blues. Supports were Fireworks (amazing!), HelloGoodbye (amazing!), Saves the Day (boring- Chris Connelly and a backing band) and the incredible NFG who played the entirety of NFG, NFG to which we all new the words to every single song!!! it was just unbelievable! Like a sixteen year old mega fan I got the setlist from the lighting guy and bought a poster and an incredible shirt. All of which I will be getting framed to commemorate the amazingness of the show! SUPER GEEK!

In other news I bought back some grape flavoured pop tarts from Walmart in Vegas and they taste like grape Hi-Chew... hmmm YUMM!!!
Its 1 am at the moment so I must be jetlagged as you all know its well after my bed-time!
Love you all and can't wait till we are all in the same room together!
Bearlove x

Tuesday 23 March 2010

Blogged Down...



Dearest ladies...sorry for being away from the blog for so long, I have barely had time to breathe...I'm very excited for my day off tomorrow which will be spent stressing over bills both here and back home and wondering which limb I'm going to sell to pay them! :(

Liena and Shell I'm so glad you had a good time in Vegas but slightly disappointed that neither of you came back married! Well, not disappointed really because I would have been mad to miss out - however very excited by rumours of your sparkler Liena, I insist on pictures IMMEDIATELY! And don't you worry I shall not miss your wedding day even for the whole world - especially not now you've thrown real life flamingoes into the mix!!

And thank you for being so proud of me :) I'm not doing bad I suppose! I've been keeping in mind that a year travels fast so I've been taking as many opportunities as possible. I'm just super frustrated right now because my money situation is bad but I start my new job on Tuesday so it's going to only get better from here! :) I miss you ladies so much though...everything would be sooo much better if you were around!

Soooo where have I been...well the weekend before last was my most fun weekend in Canada yet! It began on the Friday night with a trip to the cinema with my housemate Dennis (who is HILARIOUS and I LOVE HIM) and his boyfriend to see Alice in Wonderland 3D. It wasn't as amazing as I'd hoped, it definitely was no House Bunny, but it was fun especially as we went to the midnight showing at the IMAX! Tiredness + 3D = loopy! Then the next day marked the beginning of the road trips, I went out to Scarborough to meet Andy because I was staying with her all weekend, we ate pizza and wings with her friend Dan and then their friend invited us to go visit her at work - she's a security guard on the set of TV show Degrassi! I totally shouldn't be putting this on the internet but we ran round the set for about an hour looking in all the rooms and at all the props, and going outside onto the fake streets and into the fake corner shop with the fake cheeses and sandwiches in the fake chiller! I took loads of pics but I'm not allowed to post them online because she could get into trouble(for obvious reasons) so you'll just have to take my word for it :(

The next day we drove to London, Ontario for the Trapped Under Ice, Polar Bear Club, Four Year Strong and Every Time I Die show! <3 maaaaaaaaan too too too good! Unfortunately we Mapquested the directions so ended up driving in the opposite direction for an inappropriately long time, but some helpful policemen by the side of the road helped us, it didn't help that we also drove past a pretty bad car crash on the way there but WE MADE IT and it was so fun! TUI didn't go down too well with the ETID crowd I must say, I just don't think the kids were ready for Jurtice's moves and the amount of camo that was on the stage right then, it looked like an advert for the Terratorial Army. PBC were immaculate as always and I lost my voice singing along, FYS were fun as hell, ETID were good but I'm kinda 'over' them I think! Emmett and Chris Browne kindly sorted us with guestlist for the next night in Kitchener, we drove there the next day super early and arrived at 4pm with nothing to do in the crappy non-town that is Kitchener, we did however find a hilarious German shop (no really) where we laughed at actual-for-real lederhosen costumes and amusing wigs and then wandered into a little shopping centre where a shop was actual-for-real called 'Hip Hop Store' (clearly they didn't employ the services of Breadcakes' Brandnames for their store), but then that was it for the all-too-brief entertainment value of Kitchener town centre so we went back to the venue, grabbed Emmett and went to find where the real fun was - across the road in the Irish pub, where we drank Strongbow and pitchers and ate chicken wings until it was time to go back to the venue, hurrah! We watched the show from side stage (definitely a good thing because the place was rrrrrrrrrrammmmmmmmmmmmmmmed!) and felt like children at Christmas, hung out a bit more after the show and then the fun was over for the weekend so off back to TO we went :( I love road trips so hard!

I caught up with a couple more old friends later in the week too - Erik Perkins and Billy Bean who we know from No Trigger but are now in Outbreak! They were playing a show further up my road (I love being able to say that, haha) so I tottered up there to say hello, then went to Sneaky's for drinks for my friend Kelly's birthday, then after the show the boys came to Sneaks and we carried on drinking and gossiping until 3.30am...and I had to be up at 6.45am for work. Hardcore! So worth it though! They had the best tour bus ever, it was like an actual bus with the sliding doors and the lot, so pimped! It's so funny/weird but awesome hanging out with people I know in a different country...so you kids hurry up and book your flights. Haha <3

Last weekend Andy told me she wanted to take me to a bar she'd told me about called the Madison - it turned out it's a frat bar on a street of frat houses! Too too good! I felt like I was in an episode of Greek with all the houses with the symbols on the front! The bar itself was HUUUUUGE, four floors or something of students and overpriced imported booze (hi @ 14 bucks for two ciders, do one mate!) and it was rammed but super fun! I shouted at a boy's face that HE HAD AN AMAZING BEARD, WELL DONE, and I don't remember being in the pizza shop afterwards but I have had flashbacks of dipping my pizza into some random boy's dipping sauce. I really hope I actually asked his permission first otherwise somewhere out there is one very annoyed sauceless dude.

In other news, basically my current job is so boring it makes me want to rip out my eyes and the eyes of everyone in a ten-mile radius but occasionally a few funny things happen which staves off my emotions temporarily, the highlights of the past fortnight being:
1. Sarah Jessica Parker coming for a fashion launch and her walking past me, she seriously does look like a twiglet in a coat.
2. A man walking around dressed in drag. Not even in an ironic way. I'm not kidding - a full-skirted pink dress, a black floppy hat, a tutu, white knee socks and black pumps. See this would be funny enough but this is what happened next - I texted a message to my friend Kelly on facebook (because she doesn't have a Canadian phone so it's cheaper this way) telling her about the man and wittily ending it with 'I didn't realise Leichenstein was back in town' (our nickname for the boy from Leichenstein she met in the hostel that she's now seeing, and is currently in Switzerland, and is added to my facebook) except I did it all wrong and ACCIDENTALLY SET THE WHOLE MESSAGE AS MY STATUS FOR THE WORLD TO SEE and had to call someone to log into my facebook and delete it before anyone saw. Holy hell, I'm retarded sometimes (all the time)
3. Looking out of the window yesterday and realising a big group of men were sticking leaves onto the bare branches of trees in a park outside my work. Today they had even added flowers. I'm really hoping that it's for a movie shoot of some kind, and not just because the trees were getting a bit cold.
4. Meeting someone from a big Canadian fashion magazine (called...wait for it...'Fashion'), charming the pants off them and them giving me their business card and telling me they'll do whatever they can to hook me up! Whhooooooooooooooop!

But yeah other than that it's excruciating so I cannot waiiiiiit to start my job at Hard Rock next week! I knew I said I wouldn't go back to serving but it's not like it's any old serving job...it's going to be tons of fun :) Plus I had to have three interviews for this job - it must be good!

I will be sure to post up pics of my RRRRRREEEEEEEALLY SEXY HR uniform and let you know how my first shift goes. I have 7 nights of training and then a test on the menu on which I have to get 100% otherwise I have to keep on training...it's so intense! But will be so worth it when I can afford to eat AND pay my rent...it's quite nice when that happens eh.

I thought to illustrate my blog I'd attach some pics :)
1. Katie and I in the German shop with our new hats. You like?
2. Emmett + lots of alcohol = hurrah!
3. Andy has weird thumbs that go at a 90 degree angle...
4. My workmate Julia's glasses party - a spec-tacular success! :)
5. Look! a real-life frat house!

Also, Andy told me a great quote this week that I felt was prolific - 'No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of each others' worth' ...and on that lovely note, I love you all soooooooo much and miss you even more!!! <3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thursday 18 March 2010

Party Pop!

So after a weekend full of work, I only had time to have dinner with Liena, Niall, Shell and James on Sunday night before they left to find their fortunes in Vegas for a fortnight! On Tuesday I had a pretty eventful day....

So 8am Faye, of Junction 27 TGI Fridays fame came and picked me up so we could head to London for a conference we were invited to. DRIVING TO OXFORD CIRCUS IS THE WORST IDEA IVE EVER HAD EVER! What on earth were we thinking! It took us nearly an hour to go three miles!! Jesus wept kidda I was getting frustrated to say the least! Ha well anyway... The meeting was good and we managed to make it back to leeds in 4 hours, which to say we were stuck in 50 mph zones for a long time I was pretty impressed by!

So faye dropped me off in Leeds City Centre and I met Elle at the O2 Academy to see you me @ 6, who, even though I don't listen to them a lot, are insanely good live! I mainly went to see Phil who was touring with Forever the sickest kids, but completely failed! I did see Benji and Brendan though which was amazing and defo worth the trip out!

Then I slept on my beloved sofa in your old house and spent Weds hanging out with James and Elle which ruled :)

Miss your face xx
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Day off!

So last Thursday I decided to get tattooed by Cassie as she had some spare time so I headed to Harrogate and spent the afternoon being decorated :)

Then I rushed back to Leeds and met up with Farrell and Sam and headed to Manchester to see Your Demise, Architects and A day to remember, I actually can't explain how unbelievable packed out this show was, I was stood up on the balcony bit (thank god) and the crowd was rammed even back there! Who knew they were so popular!
The show was great though because the crowd went off for every band and there was a lot of good faces there (kam, stan, saker, sophie, Tom B) so all in all a pretty sweet day!

Oh and getting out of Manchester was hilarious, we got so frikin lost! Took us an hour to find the motorway, thankfully Sam drives like an absolute maniac and we made it back to Leeds in 40 mins! I was petrified to say the least!
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Wednesday 10 March 2010

London says hi

Anyways..

iyer!

:D I miss you all megs bad-
but thought I'd give you a life update.

If you didnt know, I have a new hobby of urban exploration, and on sunday paul, hanran, penny, dale and me rented a car and drove down to west sussex, to visit an abandoned girls boarding school- it had actually only closed a year ago, and the whole plot is for sale- its all in spookily perfect condition





I was literally having seizures with every corner we turned and door we opened, as a grounds man had literally just been, and mustve been kicking around- a cupboard full of keys was just lying open, hedges freshly trimmed- so fresh infact that he had just left his ears protectors while he went and had.. a cup of tea? lunch? a fag behind the bike sheds? I thought we were just gonna walk straight into him..



It was really rad to get my brother out of the house- and the weather literally since march has been PERRRFECCTT down souf.


Here are some pictures of my previous explore- to an abandoned mental asylum in epsom. This one was heaps spooky.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24484647@N06/sets/72157622812571575/

Oh- then after the girls school- we went to have a picnic at the racton ruins.. supposedly an occult church and home to many an illegal hippy rave.





<3 Milo

Tuesday 9 March 2010

Summer Days

So on Sunday the weather took a dramatic turn for the better and finally went above 8 degrees so Laurie and I decided to take the dogs to Golden Acre park for a stroll, but not before she cooked me and Danny Faj, who has passed out on the sofa after the BMX jam, superb bacon sandwiches! Cox joined in for the party, we got super muddy, ate ice creams and mainly chilled on a bench (in sunglasses and massive winter jackets because although sunny its still frikin freezing in Yorkshire!) But its a good way to work your hangover off and we had far too much of a good time guessing the names of every dog that wandered by and watching Pearl and Bert try rape them all!
They also managed to attack Laurie whilst she was having a nap on the bench aha!

Oh and that tiny dog in the pick was our favourite of the day! She was called Lola, Super tiny dogs are hilarious!
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Saturday 6 March 2010

Title Fight and Shook Ones

Oh man, this show, with Polar Bear Club headlining was seriously one of the best shows I have been to in such a long time! Real party mode, everyone in good spirits and a great crowd, the only downside was that the cockpit put it in room 2, it was clearly rammed full enough to have been in room 1!

Anyway, these guys all stayed, ate pizza, watched Jurassic Park and Jaws and lots of ridiculous you tube videos which they killed themselves laughing at! Ill have to post the funniest ones for you!

Other than that we just hung out, spoke about mutual friends, I introduced their vegan kid to hobnobs, he was pretty sold on them! And caught up on the Justice guys as Sike was driving the bands, so all in all pretty bloody good times! Xx
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