Valentine's Eve

*subtly reaches for phone in order to remember the events of last night* 

Valentine's eve? Valentine's day eve? wasn't sure what to call this post, last night, Yarm, BeerSoc, Locomotion formal dinner. Anyway. 

Last night saw the last Locomotion dinner (a formal dinner held at Stephenson College, Durham Uni) of the academic year (sobs quietly) followed by a big night out in Yarm (organised by the very organised BeerSoc) 

Ah the locomotion, on Valentine's day, there were a lot of couples, however the singles definitely dominated the field. Standard antics followed the meal, including a poem about roses are red and taking your date to the waterside, cheap skate? was that how that went? Very poetic. Followed by typical photo taking, boys handing out the flowers from the tables to their respective others etc etc

The night moved to Central, for speed dating and ball room dancing (to Spanish music and the Killers, but who's judging?!), the speed dating consisted of people who knew each other having a chin wag (does anyone know what that means?) and the ball room dancing, people attempting to look very classy, the majority of the time it did look really cute, but by this time I was half a bottle of wine down (which I was sharing!) 

I then received a flower(s) from a rather intoxicated, line-out-themed nek-nomination rugby boy (I'll let those of you who know him guess who that is), a change of shoes, a few "we like to drink with so and so" and downing of drinks, running to the taxi, forgetting my blazer, sitting in the front with the taxi man and taking "taxi man selfies", miscalculating how many people were on the bus and somehow ending up in Yarm, with a few opera singing moments on the way. 

Yarm has the be the cutest place ever, after Durham and a few others (York etc etc), however the cobbles are not made for platform-ed stilettos, nevertheless, we made it to the George and Dragon to be greeted by the BeerSoc exec, who after being complimented were very pleased with their organisational skills, which they should be! A raspberry flavoured sambuca later (Blogger always edits sambuca to "samba" why?!) and we were well away to having a good night. The place was crawling with second years, which was really nice as we haven't all been out at the same time in ages. 

Osbourne's for cocktails and dancing to 70's and 80's classics, getting in the way of couple's lovely night out, mingling with Yarm-ers, we ended up in the Keys, with our wristbands like we were some kind of celeb pushing through the queue, or just like on Miss Congeniality when she walks into Starbucks to order her office's coffees and uses here FBI badge to push everyone out the way - it was like that, but better, ish, almost. 

For half an hour, we owned the dance floor. It was R&B night and there were some serious shapes being pulled. Stephenson college had made their mark on the dance floor, only to be made sweaty and frizzy-haired (just me then) by Yarm-ers cramping our style, nevertheless, we stuck to the lit-up trippy dance floor and danced to some incredible, black, bass thumping tunes. Maybe I was in a world of my own but I was having a great time. 

Now, I am not a big fan of Beyoncé's new album (don't judge!) but when Drunk in Love came on, oh my gosh, if you had a significant other you were grinding away like Jay-Zed's and Beyoncé's grammy performance was U-rated, if you were single, there were some serious hip shaking, Beyoncé on the beach style dancing, the bass was to die for. 

It is very fair to say, I wasn't near tipsy at all, but I learnt last night to just enjoy yourself and it was so worth it! - I was dancing to Beyoncé's new album, there was clearly some letting-go. 

What we didn't realise till we were inundated with Yarm-ers was that we were in a traffic-light party! I know, there were people running round (including bouncers) with green "single" stickers on them. I only managed to grab this "taken" sticker for blog-worthy evidence. 

By 1am, due to the heat in that club, my feet had just about given up on me, so we hobbled (ok, I), to a taxi and ate food back at our flat. yum yum. 

All in all, a great night (which you know is true when you wake up at 9am still buzzing off the night before). Newcastle on Thursday could be another one of last night all over again, that would be incredible. 

Whatever you did last night I hope you had a great time and have a great weekend. 

RHS x 

ME #2

1. I always blow into gloves before I put them on to warm them up 
2. Pecan nuts are my favourite type of nut 
3. If I have my hair in a ribbon its either a day of thinking of something is wrong because I never wear my hair up in a pony tail 
4. My hair is naturally very afro-esque 
5. I once woke up with a dead spider in my hand, that i'd crushed, it was huge 
6. I do an awful impression of anything and everything
7. I passed my driving test in May 2012 first time
8. It took me two attempts to bass my theory 
9. I used to go with my dad to his U15 football matches just to watch the boys play football, that got boring when I turned 17 
10. I would send my children to single-sex schools, maybe not if they're a boy 
11. I once slipped a disk in my neck doing a forward roll in gymnastics
12. I used to make forts out of the sofa cushions and put all my toy animals in there and teach them maths 
13. I was at my parent's wedding, I was 5, it was in Jersey
14. I once had a sleepover where I put a chair and a camera in the spare room so people could record what they thought - like Big Brother
15. I love spontaneity - surprise me!
16. Christmas is incredible, I love Christmas, mainly because its my birthday then Christmas than New Year. Christmas
17. I used to eat chalk (no word of a lie, I used to love that delicacy) 
18. I'm really really good at pulling my hamstrings, although I'm getting better
19. I can click my jaw, constantly 
20. I'm double jointed in my shoulders 
21. I was born with black eyes, with the white part too, but just one big pupil I guess
22. I once told people at Primary school I could speed skate  - at 7. 
23. Coco Mademoiselle is now incorporated into my blood stream 
24. I have a weird obsession with muscly backs 
25. I have grade 2 Flute 
26. Prawn cocktail flavoured crisps are the bees' knees
27. Sun bathing is the cats pyjama's (but I get really sweaty - but its all the fat leaving me so its fine)
28. I can't eat chips, they really scare me 
29. Takeaways after a night out scare me even more unless I have had over 4 sambucas 
30. I have huge quads, maybe too big 
31. I have only ever been camping once (when I cycled a long way) and that is the last time, its horrific 
32. Team sports aren't my fave, although I love playing netball
33. I once dissected a rat (it smelt like olives and its intestines were disgusting, as was its brain) 
34. When I finish a run I imagine I'm winning a race 
35. My spikes are my most prized pair of shoes - I don't wear them enough 
36. I don't like apples because when I had a brace they got stuck 
37. courgettes over cucumbers any day 
38. I could drink orange juice by the gallon - are oranges orange because of orange? haha 
39. Wednesday night is Pizza night! until Dominos did two for Tuesday and I started eating healthy, Wednesday night is baked potato night!
40. Girls at my sixth form and secondary school hid notes in their tights during exams and would go to the toilet to read them 
41. I'm the biggest believer in karma - something minorly (why is majorly a word but minorly isn't?) bad happens to me if I think the slightest nastiest thought 
42. I used to have three hamsters called Boris, Gizmo and Harry 
43. I don't mind injections but I hate giving blood 
44. My parents think I'm going to become a diplomat and have thought that since I was 5 
45. I used to hate making conversations, I spoke to people when they really really needed to know something, other than that I stayed quiet - I know! 
46. I have never had a goldfish, although if I did I'd call it Orange, or Jasper or Squid ink 
47. I once went to the gym and pretended to be on the phone to my "coach" - I was 16 
48. Child's pose is my favourite yoga pose, and reverse plank as it is a "heart opener" 
49. Last year in Uni halls I cleaned my bathroom twice a week, if not more - OCD
50. I believe in fate and I believe that I have the bestest group of friends and family I could wish for, occasionally. Most of the time I just pretend to like them. Only Joking!

Love ya!

RHSx 

Chanel No.5

It has been so long since I wrote a blog post that Blogger had logged me out. Thanks for that! But everyone starts their blog posts saying how long its been, but I have been far too busy to even call my mother (as she said was very sad on Sunday). Its been a mad few weeks of assignments and more assignments. 

But I thought this was definitely worth sharing. 

Anyone who knows me very well will know that I am in love with Coco Mademoiselle, this is also the reason why I am in love with Kiera Knightly as she looks incredible in the adverts with the camera man and her on her moped. I receive the perfume every Christmas from my Grandma. I have recently decided to venture out of Mademoiselle to see what Chance is like, however it doesn't live up. One of Chanel's oldest perfumes is No.5 - personally I am not a big fan, its a very mature scent, however the most recent advert for it is very powerful. 

It shows Marilyn Monroe being asked what she wears to bed... and "pyjama top and bottoms" is not her answer...

Enjoy

RHS x 

In which I am christened "Welfare Rep"

I've been back in Stockton now for four days, which is nothing to shout about, apart from that we are living in a flat right on the high street - right next to B&M and Topshop, (only in Stockton). With a broken oven, TV port, microwave, hoover, extractor and no hot water, however we do have Virgin Broadband which is so fast. But I definitely wouldn't recommend Jomast property group.

Moving on from the boring issue of council tax exemption forms and broken flats in general, I am a Welfare rep this year, along with several other slightly incredible people. This involves me being T-total through the majority of my 2nd year and looking after Freshers - not holding back their hair if they are being sick but ensuring no one dies - which would be a bit tragic.

So far we have received our Fresher Rep tops, bright yellow for Welfare - which, lets be honest goes with absolutely no skin tone, but at least we can be seen and at least I have "Mary Poppins" on the bottom of my top as my "Banter name" - hilarious.

So yesterday involved us doing a boat race - to all those innocent young-ens out there you stand in a line and down an alcopop as quick as you can to beat the other team - really healthy, really good for you and you don't get bloated at all. So anyway VK it was which soon turned into a J20 for me as VK has caffeine in it - can you believe?! - J20 is much easier to down, as there are no bubbles!

call me Mary

There were also egg competitions which involved building a tower with newspaper, to support the egg and be the tallest of all the teams - the losers, or anyone who dropped the egg had to down 2 raw eggs - yummy, there ended up being 3 downers of eggy alcopop - all that protein.

Day 2, today - the "serious" stuff, which involved trying to rein-act the handshake from parent trap, only to be bettered by a twin who knew the whole thing, damn, and learning an "interesting fact" about everyone which we had to tell the group the most interesting one we had heard - from no nipples when born to having a rabbitt called Lady Gaga, haha who does that?!

So, the serious stuff, Nightline, the Durham University version of the Samaritans, apart from they aren't religious and can give no advice at all and are just there to listen - we were given example role plays which got so deep you had to hold it together! If anyone needs a good listener I know 50 reps that have been trained! 

Onto tomorrow - filling the Freshers' rooms with welcome packs and calendars, an against smoking course and all for the arrival of the International students. Aww - can't wait!! 

Its gonna be a crackin' Freshers'

Peace out bread bin

RHS

Get yourself on Bloglovin!

I've found a great new site - Bloglovin. No this isn't a way for me to get more followers (I wish!) its a way for me to read other people's blogs - and they are very interesting, especially those from people who aren't from England (beauty blogs to business!) 

Its a bit like Pinterest where you can search what you like and follow different aspects. 

You don't have to have a blog to join and you can edit your settings so you don't receive any emails. 

But really... some blogs on there are very very very good! - I'm a little jealous. 


Happy searching!

RHS x



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