The Wonder Years

Hello! Long time no speak m’dears. Feel bad I don’t update this more regularly, but I do my best gals. Life has been keeping me rather busy recently, so since I last blogged, here’s a very eclectic mix of what’s been making me smile, making me cry, and making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Some tears for my lovely wee Robovroski dwarf hamster who passed away last week. Nearly 3 years old, you could say that Milky Joe (yes, inspired by the one and only Mighty Boosh) had a good innings. Her sister Lola died a year or so ago – I got these two girls from the very first short film I ever worked on, so they held a huge piece of nostalgia for me. We bought them for a scene in a school and I was the one who got landed with them afterwards haha. But I totally adored them to pieces! So much has changed in terms of my career in these three years, and I’m glad these little ladies were there to see me off into the big bad world of working. Milky Joe, you will be missed as much as your sis :'(

A very random picture which I stumbled across, from the facebook of the first feature film I worked on while I was still a student. These were from the behind the scenes stills and me and the Art Director Amy got papped reading some fake, well ‘prop’, porno mags. This picture makes me giggle looking back on it because the boom guy on the left is ACTUALLY quite seriously reading it. Check his face out! Tut tut.

Another random picture, this one I stumbled across from David’s camera. This was us on New Years Eve just passed, enjoying a few too many cherry sourz and lemonade. I think he is trying to out-do my posery pout, what do you think girls?

I mentioned in my last post that I had went out for some cocktails with my bestie Jenn. Was quite a casual affair, we both had playsuits and flat shoes on, but we were comfy and had such a fun saturday night. Was a total giggle, I think we were both in mega need of a girls night like this. Laughing until your stomach hurts, talking about boys, cringeworthy moments, old school pals, and such daft banter. We recorded stupid videos on her phone when we got home that night (basically us just laughing our heads off at each other) and spent the next morning watching Romy and Michelles High School reunion with rolls and sausage and a huge cup of coffee. Awesome ♥

Isn’t she lovely? 🙂

On a less giggly note, moving house at the weekend meant that we had to say goodbye to our little friend Millie 🙁 The story of Millie is quite a long one. She was originally my cat, bought for me by my dad. But when my mum fell pregnant with tyler like 7 years ago (and y’know pregnant ladies shouldn’t be near cat litter etc, and sometimes inquisitve cats aren’t good to have around a newborn baby) my dad decided to take her for a short period of time. Well, that short period of time turned into FOREVER, cause my mum fell pregnant again with my wee bro not long after Tyler (I mean, c’mon mum! Sake :p) and Millie had properly wormed her way into my Dad’s affections, so he ended up keeping her, and I went to stay with him pretty much every weekend anyways. But years down the line, when my Dad’s wife Julie fell pregnant with my little bro max, we knew it was going to be the same pregnant lady and cat situation haha. But luckily, at this time last year me and david were moving into/renting my dads flat, while my dad moved into a new house with julie and the baby. So it worked out quite well, and for the past 6 months Millie has been our wee pal again 🙂 But now that me and David are moving further out of Glasgow (and let’s face it, my dad is a pure big mush and wants to keep Millie close as possible) she is going to live with my gran around the corner. My gran’s cat died last year, so I know she will enjoy the company. And Millie will be in her third, and hopefully final home. Friday night just there was our last night with her, she is such a character and loving wee thing, and we will really miss having that little lady around. Well, we already do.

See, I told you it was a long story!

So on saturday we got the keys for our new place, and spent the whole day unpacking and organising. We rewarded ourselves with a massive fish supper that night and had an amazing sleep in our new bed. We will be staying between the new house and our current place for the next couple of weeks, but hope to be officially living there by the end of the month. Thank you for all your congrats and well wishes on here and on twitter, really means so much to me.

So new house of course meant a cheeky wee trip to ikea. We went over to my mums house for lunch with the family on sunday (picture above, it was so yummy, my mums cooking is da bomb diggity I’m telling ya) And we popped into Ikea Glasgow just down the road for a few bits and bobs for the new house. Ended up getting cushions, bath mats and towels from Primark and Asda home as they were MUCH cheaper. But from Ikea we got 2 rugs, a book case, storage boxes, a front door mat and fairy lights. We also got hotdogs before leaving… how could we not?! I was relieved to see that many of you on twitter agreed with me, and a few even admitted to going to ikea JUST for the food! Hahaha 😉 Would you like to see a little picture of our new home once we’ve got all the bits and bobs in place?

On sunday after the Ikea trip and lunch at my mums, we rushed back to the flat for a quick change/turnaround before we went to the Funeral for a Friend gig that night. It was pretty amazing, those boys are brilliant live and their two new band members seemed like nice guys too. Took me right back to my youth and I enjoyed a couple of Kopparbergs and we had a brilliant view from where we were stood in the venue. Rather nice end to the weekend if I don’t say so myself.

Something else that I need to mention is the CD swap I did with the lovely Stevie. We have similar tastes in music, clothes, tattoos etc so I was looking forward to this swap loads. Not only did she make me an awesome playlist, but she wrote me a lovely letter along with it and did this beautiful drawing!

Sorry for the camera phone pic, I’ve left the card in our new house and totally forgot to take a picture of it before I left. But safe to say it’s wonderful and she is wonderful ♥ Isn’t she such a talented lass? She wrote a really nice blog post about it too, made me a wee bit teary if I’m honest. Such a awesome, genuine and caring person 🙂 Why can’t so many of you lovely girls just live around the corner from me instead of hundreds of miles away?! That would make me a very happy girl. Especially slumber parties with SJ, sushi with Belle, and drinking tea with Gem – all of which have been discussed and bantered about! If only they could come trueee!

The ‘power of blogging’ still really gets me at times. The opportunities I have exposed myself to via blogging and the wonderful people who I’ve exchanged emails with, and even met. One recent thing did freak me out a bit though. A friend of a friend was getting her hair cut, and the girl next to her was explaining to the hairdresser what she wanted… only for her to take out a printed photograph of me and say ‘this is what I want my hair like’. HUH?! Ahhhhh is it wrong that this creeps me out a little bit? I just want to know who this girl is, and how she got a picture of me, and if she ‘knows’ me, or if its just through the blog or whatever. So if this girl is you, please email me! Haha I don’t mind in the slightest, I’ll just feel a little less wierded out if I know who it was.

ANYWAYS, I am well aware that I have rambled on far too much in this post about too many different things. Oh wellz, shoot me! But you’ll be glad you read this far because I have a little treat in store for you. Remember my tights rant from the last post? Well the nice people Pretty Polly’s customer service got back in touch with me after I sent my tights to quality control. Yes, maybe a bit dramz of me but I’m glad I did it – cause I got a very polite and apologetic letter in return, and not one but TWO new pairs of the HOH Suspender tights! So I am going to give one of them away, to one of you gals. These tights RRP at like £12.99 so they’re not the kinda thing you would buy willy nilly. I think its the most I’ve ever paid for a pair of tights, so I thought it would be nice to give them away as they’re maybe not the kinda thing people would take a chance on buying (especially since there seems to be quite mixed opinions on them!)

So, feel free to leave a normal comment as you would on this post – I know they’re not for everyone so commenting doesn’t mean you’re entering yourself for them. If however you are interested in them, mention it in the comment and I’ll draw a winner this sunday. This isn’t a ‘giveaway’ as such, so no rules or guidelines etc and no need to tweet about it (but please feel free if you want to!) All I will ask is that you are a reader of my blog via google friend connect over there 🙂

Lots of love as always,

Ayden x