Long post is long

Oops, haven't posted in a while...I've thought about it at various times, if that counts for anything...heh.

Tomorrow is my last full day in my university accomodation flat. I don't feel overly sad about that just yet seeing as I have already been home; last Thursday my mum came and picked me up, taking practically all my stuff home with me, so I could go home for the long weekend (and that's a pretty epic tale too, but more on that story later). I am currently living out of a suitcase, with just a tin of spaghetti, two slices of bread and a lone pear to tide me over during the day tomorrow. Oh and of course I made sure to keep my laptop here, else I probably would have been driven to despair by boredom.

I thought I would be fine, as long as I had internet connection, but even that is giving me beef. For some reason it keeps trying to disconnect me, and believe me it is not at all fun to have to reconnect every two seconds when all I'm trying to do is check my emails, reply to someone's comment or read manga. Oh yes, I was quite happily reading a chapter of Ouran High School Host Club when all of a sudden I was kicked offline. Even restarting my usually trusty laptop didn't help the matter, onemanga just refuse to load up. But never fear, Saiyu to the rescue! Her first plan of reading it on a different website didn't work, so onto Plan B. 50 screencaps sent over msn later and I finally got to read the chapter. Was it worth the hassle? HELLS YEAH. asdfghj there was epic lulz with the twins, Honey being ridiculously cute, Tamaki being a loveable spaz, and Mori being his usual dotty self. Er. That is, he didn't say anything, just dotted a lot, not that he went dotty randomly. :3

So yes, despite my internet playing up, I have survived my last week here. To be honest the only reason I returned after my weekend at home was on the off chance that I would receive an email informing me that my two assignments were finally ready to collect, but as no such email has been forthcoming and tomorrow is the last day of term anyway, I don't think it will be happening. Which is a bit annoying as it means I came back up here for no reason, but what can ya do. It did at least allow for another epic pizza adventure with Saiyu, although we ventured from our usual Pizza Hut route to try the wonderous and unknown Zizzi's. It was really very exciting.

And now for my epic weekend in a nutshell, because it's getting late and I want to sleep, plus this post is already pretty long so I probably shouldn't write too much more.
Like I said, mutti picked me up Thursday night. 10pm Thursday night, to be precise. Why was she so late? Because she had an appointment in London earlier that day which majorly over-ran, meaning she was late up to collect me too. By the time we'd packed up the car with all my stuff, it was nearly 11pm. The trip back home takes a minimum of 3 1/2 hours, so I figured I would just sleep on the journey. BUT NO. Mum was all "I'm tired too, so you have to keep me awake :3" Greeaat. So not only did I not get home til 2:30am, but I also talked pretty much non-stop for over three hours. A++. And by the time we'd unpacked everything from the car, it was gone 3am, joy!

I'd planned to get up at about 10am Friday morning so I didn't sleep the day away. 10am arrives, alarm clock goes off, Laney thinks "f*** that, I'm still tired @___@" and continues to doze. About half an hour later I was just thinking that I really ought to get up, when I happened to look across my room and see a mysterious small box on my bedside unit. Curious as to what it could be, I got up to investigate, and did the Dance of Joy when I realised it was my Gundam 00 figures that I'd ordered way back when I ordered Saiyu's birthday present back in like, April \o/ Mum had said she wouldn't post them up to me as postage would be too expensive, meaning I completely forgot about them. UNTIL FRIDAY MORNING. I then spent the next 15 minutes assembling them, which was trickier then I thought it would be, BUT SO WORTH IT. They're so cute sdfghjkl

My excitement from this discovery left me wide awake, so I finally decided it was time to get up. I then spent the day unpacking all my stuff and putting it in its correct places, and just generally making my room 'mine' again. Since going to uni it had become more of a hotel room for me so I thought moving back into it would be problematic, but thankfully I found homes for all of my stuff. I do enjoy rearranging my room ^^ I also decided to clean the house (I also enjoy cleaning, although I'm not entirely sure why) so I hoovered, cleaned the kitchen and cleaned the bathroom. Mother dearest didn't even notice >: Granted she had gone out Friday night for a leaving do with her work mates and returned a tad merry.

Saturday was a bit non-eventful, compared to its surrounding days. Me and mum got up, went to the shop to get our packed lunch items for Sunday, then went round to my aunts. I ended up playing a strange That's So Raven trivia game with my 8 year old cousin, and was most impressed when I got answers correct seeing as I've never watched that show :3 ...I forget what else we did that day, other than watch Die Hard 4.0 (love that film) and Doctor Who, much to my disgust.

Sunday was the busiest day; it was our trip to the Somme. You can read what I got up to as well as see the pictures I took here (it's too long to include in this entry). Despite an early start and busy day, I had a brilliant time. I hope the guy that arranged it all does similar trips in the future, but to some of the other battlefields.

Then on Monday I travelled back up North (sorry, back to the Midlands) by coach. As Saiyu mentioned in her latest blog entry, there was a bit of a problem with the coach in that it didn't quite make it to its destination. No, it decided to break down half an hour outside the city. When the bus driver informed us that we would have to wait half an hour for an engineer to come and fix it, I thought to myself, no worries; I can listen to my music. Two minutes later my mp3 player dies. >: N-no worries, I can text people and demand sympathy for my plight! A couple of text messages later and my phone beeps at me - the battery was also dead. AGH. Somehow I survived and eventually got to where I was meant to be, only an hour later then the original arrival time!

So yes, epic weekend was epic. So much for it only being a short explanation of what I did though...heh.