Wales: Day Three/Four/Five

So I may or may not have completely forgotten about blogging. On Wednesday, I got into bed and remembered about blogging just as I was about to fall asleep. I remembered it in the morning, and promised myself I'd blog yesterday, but I had to leave the guest house quickly and I forgot about it afterwards. But here I am, on Friday, back at home, blogging.

Wednesday was a pretty dull day and can be summed up in one paragraph. The weather was miserable so we stayed inside the entire day, doing crosswords and reading and drinking tea and watching TV. You would have thought I'd have squeezed blogging in there, too, right? Alas, I'm an idiot, and I forgot. So ... that was how I spent Wednesday.

On Thursday, we went to a small town about twenty minutes away by bus, and we shopped. It was pretty fun, actually. We got gifts for most of our immediate/close family and friends, Mum got some clothes, I got a purple hoodie. We had lunch in an ADORABLE little coffee shop called Perky. It had forty-seven (yes, forty-seven, I counted) milkshake flavours, which is nothing compared to what you can get here in a little milkshake shop called Shakeaway, but for a normal cafe, it's pretty impressive. I had a ham, cheese and tomato panini, which was absolutely delicious. My pineapple milkshake was pretty damn tasty, too.

Once we finished shopping, we headed back to Criccieth ... and, hey, I'm not there any more, so I don't mind telling you which town I was staying in. We went to the pub for dinner, and it kind of sucked, but the onion rings were scrummy. Then we went back to the room and started packing, I drunk at least four cans of Diet Coke, and my mum had vodka. There was an honesty bar downstairs so we just kept going to get more all night.

Today, we had breakfast, finished packing, and then headed to the train station, which was just down the road from where we were staying. Hopped on the train, spent four hours staring out the window, writing stories in my head, reading, and solving Sudokus. We then got off the train at Birmingham, got a drink and wasted an hour, before heading to our next train. We sat on it for ten minutes without it moving, and then the train was cancelled because the train manager hadn't shown up. So we had to rush from Platform 4 to Platform 2 (which involves going up one set of stairs and down another ... with a heavy suitcase in my hand) to catch a train that was declassified and adjusted to suit the passengers of the original train.

Mum and I ended up standing between two carriages amongst six other people because there weren't any spare seats, and when people started getting off the train, we didn't dare move in case someone got to the spare seats before us and we would have just had to move back to where we were before. At one point, however, about thirty people left (through the door we were next to) so we managed to snag a seat for the rest of the ride.

Then, after an hour on that train, we finally got where we wanted to be, so we left and waited for my grandad to pick us up. We came home, had pizza for dinner, watched Neighbours, and I've done nothing but hang out on the internet since.

Half an hour until the end of the day, so I'd better post this. Pictures will come later, when I can find the lead that connects the laptop to the camera. Please dear god, don't say I've left it in Wales.

Drabbles IOU: 5

Wales: Day Two

I really should start blogging earlier in the day. I'm a procrastinator, leaving things until the last minute (or in this case, thirty-three minutes) is what I do.

Today has been a pretty fun day. We woke up and had breakfast (in which I was quite content eating a bowl of cereal but Mum made me eat a slice of toast, too) before setting out. We went to the beach, which was literally a  two/three minute walk from the guest house (we're across the street from it, but we have to walk down the street a little way and along a little side-street thing to actually access it) and empty except for one other family. It's pretty rocky but we walked along it for a while and I got some gorgeous pictures of the ocean. We found a little stream-like thing further back on the beach, by the back wall, and it was really cute but it got my mum's feet soaked. I slipped on one of the rocks and grazed my hand, but it's alright now.

So we went to a cute little café* just off the beach and sat down outside with tea (for me) and coffee (for mum). It was really nice and peaceful. Once we finished our drinks, we began walking up one street to get to the town's castle ruins, and it's a very steep street. This is probably TMI, but I'm on my period right now, and when I'm on period, I get a lot of discomfort in my lower stomach. That discomfort turns into pain if I push myself too much, and then my joints start getting weak and I start feeling faint. I got pain on the coach yesterday from sitting in the wrong position for too long. The discomfort started as I climbed up this street. You can probably tell where this is going.

We got the mini-gift shop/reception desk and we paid our entry fee to the castle. We then had to walk up a MASSIVE hill with steep steps to get to the castle ruins, and while it was extremely gorgeous, it took ten minutes to get up there and only five to look around. In which time, my stomach got worse. When we'd gone round the entire ruins, my joints were feeling weak and my stomach was killing me. So I very carefully but very desperately made my way down and my knee gave out twice along the way. We went into the gift shop and I desperately bounced back and forth to distract myself from the pain while Mum oohed and aahed over things. We ended up getting an adorable little lamb teddy, some slate coasters for my grandparents, and a couple of postcards.

We then began making our way back to the guest house and, even though it only took a few minutes, I felt like I was dying. My knees kept giving way and at one point, I had to sit down before I crumpled in a weak mess on the ground. We got there in the end, and crap I just noticed I only have five minutes until the end of the day quick Steph type faster, and then had to climb the TWO flights of stairs to get to our room.

I curled up in bed and dozed for an hour, then Mum woke me up as it came closer to one and I was feeling kind of better so we went out for lunch. We went to a cute little* ice cream shop that we'd passed on the way to castle, and had cheese and ham toasties. I had two vanilla milkshakes (because I finished the first one before we got our toasties) and my stomach still kind of ached so I didn't finish my toastie. We'll probably end up going back there and getting ice-cream at some point during the week.

We then got some bits and bobs (three minutes left!) from the pharmacy and a load of junk food from a nearby supermarket-type thing. We also went to a crystal shop, which I want to go into detail about but we only have two minutes left so I'll blog about that later and just say that I bought seven crystals.

We spent the rest of the day indoors, relaxing and eating junk food for dinner. It's now nearing midnight, my mum has been in bed for nearly three hours, and I should probably think about going soon. One minute! Crap, I'd better post this. See you tomorrow!

*Just about everything in this town is cute and little. I love it here.

Wales: Day One

Today has been pretty tedious, I'm not gonna lie. I got an hour of sleep and then had to sit on a train for five hours. I had stomach pains, discomfort, tralala. It wasn't fantastic. I watched an episode and a half of Gossip Girl, but I didn't read the multi-chap fic because my head was pretty bad.

We went to the guest house we booked a room in, and it's extremely friendly and homely and I love it here. We're staying just across the road from the ocean so it's pretty windy but the view is gorgeous. We had fish and chips for dinner, which was delicious, and now we're settled in our room, Mum in bed and me in a really comfortable brown chair, watching Friends and waiting for Glee to start (ten minutes!). It's Blame It On The Alcohol (2x14) and I LOVE this episode.

I'm kind of annoyed that I haven't gotten the chance to speak to Katie yet, because she hasn't been allowed on the computer since Thursday and I miss her like crazy and I missed my chance to speak to her today. Hopefully we'll be able to talk tomorrow, though.

So ...

I'm really tired and Glee is going to start soon, so I think I'm just gonna go and get into bed. See you tomorrow! Hopefully I'll be more awake when I blog tomorrow, and I'll be able to type more.

Type Steph Type!

I have thirteen minutes to write and publish thia blog post, so this is going to be really short. I was going to blog earlier but I had to have a shower and it slipped my mind.

I'm all packed for Wales, aside from things that need to be put in last-minute (i..e toothbrush, laptop charger, etc.), and we're just about set to go. I've got things to do on the train to keep me entertained, too. I'm going to let a couple of episodes of Gossip Girl load before we leave, so I can watch it even without internet connection ... and there's a multi-chap fic that I want to read so I'm going to open all of the chapters in seperate tabs so I can read it all.

Have you ever sat in front of your computer with the intention of writing, and you have a bunch of ideas to write down and you want to get it down quickly because you're really psyched about it? And then you put your fingers on the keys, and the ideas just drain out the side of your head? So you stare at the screen blankly for several minutes, wondering what you were going to do?

That's happened to me several times over the past few months in regards to creative writing, but it also happened right now, with this blog post. I knew what I wanted to write when I opened the tab, but I've hit a blank and cannot remember a thing.

And so, with five minutes to spare, I have managed to acheive yet another day of BEDA.

Drabbles IOU: 3

Aloha Cousin!

There are twenty minutes left until midnight and I'm half-way through watching an episode of Glee, but alas, I must blog! From here on in, I've decided to avoid talking about how crap I feel and focus on the positives. At least until April is over, anyway.

Today, I got up way past lunch time and watched Lilo&Stitch, Lilo&Stitch 2, and Stitch! The Movie with my little cousin. We were going to watch Leroy and Stitch as well but he would have been picked up before the movie finished so we didn't see the point.

I love the Lilo & Stitch movies. I always have, and I always will. I was actually obsessed with Elvis when I was younger because of these movies. They're great. There's something about them that never fails to get old, even if I watched them a million times in a row. Whenever I'm bored and nothing seems to interest me, I'll usually turn to Lily & Stitch. And, without fail, they'll brighten my mood.

We had Chinese for dinner, which is awesome, because my love for Chinese food is ridiculously strong but we don't eat it often. So every time we do decide to get Chinese, it's awesome.

Tomorrow, I'm going to spend the day packing for my trip and downloading as much Glee music as I can so that I can listen to it during my holiday. I only have about thirty songs, which just isn't right, so I'm going to make amends.

And with four minutes left, I shall publish this post and leave you to dream sweet dreams and stuff.