Before I begin, I would like to give Conor an honorary mention, as I forgot to put that I seen him in Madrid, and I think he reads my blog!! So helooooo to you!
Right peeps, where to start. The discovery of Churros I think. Oh my god they are like little pieces of heaven. They taste like Christmas, all sweet and nice and warm. And you can get them covered in sugar, chocolate, or you can buy melted chocolate separate and dunk them in. It’s hard to describe what they are. They are closely related to the pancake family, me thinks, however the dictionary says it’s a flour fritter. They are long stick things and crunchy on the outside and soft and heart warmingly warm on the inside. And I’ve lost a shit load of weight since I have been here, not that anyone at all has noticed, but I think it going to creep back up on me, as I’m so addicted to these. Every main plaza here you will get a stand, so that’s good for me, I don’t have far to walk! But then that is also bad, as I will eat them ALL the time.
And I finally bought a Christmas tree yesterday. It was only 5 euros in the Chinese shop- bargain! Although it is a bit shitty, I will only be using it for two weeks, before I go to England and I can’t take it to Italy and then England with me so I thought what the hey, it will do. Its quite a decent size as well considering that it was only five euros which in English money is £3.50 and I would say it is about 5ft, although it could do with being a bit leafy, but I’m gonna tinsel it up to fuck and hopefully that would hide it. I bought the decorations from the Chinese shop cheap as chips too. They are all read and gold, but with the odd bit of blue and silver, and I had to put a gold star on the top as I couldn’t find an angel, as I normally put both on. But lo and behold my 70p Christmas tree lights-did not work, and I know they are only 70p but it is the principal of it, I’m going to take them back tonight and ask if I can swap them then try my potential new lights in the shop, as you can’t really decorate the tree without putting the lights on first, but I was like a child and couldn’t wait so I have now decorated my tree sin luz, so now I will have to undecorate it all, put the lights on and decorate it again. I need more baubles, as the ones I bought were small, and the tree is bigger than I thought so I need to fill it out a bit and I think I should get some thicker tinsel, as once again I thought I was buying a tiny wee thing. Although my tree looks really tacky I am so proud of it as it is all my creation and also, I do love tacky things at Christmas, its what makes it Christmas.
Also wish Sonia would have been there when I was doing the tree but she doesn’t really like Christmas and she had to go to Luís’s house (poor girl) as he has a bad stomach (you should have been there to smell the smell in my bathroom that morning, I was nearly sick)but I’m not surprised as he doesn’t eat, except when he steals food off other people’s plates and the only thing he regularly has is alcohol and drugs. So she had to go round change his sheets for him as I think he might have shat in them and just lied there all day, I dunno, but Sonia had to take him food she had to go to the chemists for him she had to go and cook and clean his house for him, so I was a bit like, “hang on a minute Sonia, you do this stuff for him everyday, when was the last time he did stuff for you? When was the last time he spent his money on you?” And she was like yeah I know, I have been thinking and I’m sick and tired he drinks a 1½ litre bottle of Jack Daniels in a week and it is always me that buys stuff and that pays for stuff, and she is sick of her house being dirty and smelly and she has now realised that there is no future with him, but she feels sorry for him as he doesn’t have family, but I told her that she can’t stay with him out of pity. He comes here and eats all my food, and fair enough if he wants to eat all of your food that his problem, but 1) I don’t have the money to keep him in food and 2) it isn’t my responsibility to feed him. She tells me she is in love with him, but like, how on earth? He absolutely reeks of what can only be described as shit and he is an alki take like 10 pills a day, constantly smokes weed and he doesn’t work…hmm great catch there Sonia. And she knows that she can’t introduce him to her friends and family, so what is she gonna do? Have a secret boyfriend for the rest of her life?
Anyway, she was just saying that she is tired of having to mop up his piss and vomit all the time, and she even told me that she has to ask him to wash his hands before they have sex! Alarm bells should have started ringing there and then Sonia, I’m afraid. I said to her that I don’t think she is actually in love with him and that she just loves being needed, she agreed with me, as you know, I am always right. But as I pointed out, she can find a normal man and still be needed as she will be needed in a different way, like he will need her beauty and her smile and he will need her to make him laugh and he will need her company and her love. But she told me she doesn’t fall in love with these people, so something is seriously wrong with her, me thinks, as she is pretty and funny and everyone loves her so why she always goes for losers I will never know. Anyway so off she went. So was stuck in on my own, but it wasn’t too bad as I put the crappy Christmas songs on that me mam sent me and decorated the tree until like 1 in the morning.
Oh and my sister! Do not seriously get me started! My fees haven’t been paid so they threatened to throw me out of uni. But my fees didn’t get paid because mother was too stingy to pay 50p for a stamp to send them me, so in turn I wasn’t registered and therefore the LEA won’t pay out until you are registered. Big chain of events. So I got this letter saying they are going to revoke me, so I e-mailed big useless fat-arse-my career-is-sending-students-abroad-and-I’m-jealous Bridget and let her know about my problem. She then passed me on to someone else, who then passed me on to someone else, who then passed me on to someone else, etc. Anyway, eventually I was told that I would need to send in my letter from the LEA that confirmed that I was going to get my fees paid. I looked high and low for this letter, couldn’t find it, so it must defo be in my mother’s house. So I e-mailed mother to phone me, including this she has only phoned me twice since I have been here, all of the other times I have had to phone her. So she wouldn’t honestly know if I was alive to be honest. Anyway I explained exactly what letter she would need to look for, and then I said to her to check with my sister, as you don’t have a clue what you are looking for. “Of course I know what I’m looking for, don’t treat me like I am stupid” And then I told her, when she finds the letter to send it DIRECTLY to uni.
So I get an e-mail off her a few days later saying, “I think I have found the letter you needed, I’m not sure but I have sent it to your house in Spain”. You see, I don’t know whether she was born stupid, or that she is just really good at it, but I honestly think she is trying to sabotage my life here, just because she is so miserable with her own life and she takes it out on me, and she never did stuff like this with my sister. So that left me with no time at all to get things sorted. Anyway, the letter arrived and it was the most random letter ever, it was completely useless to me, anyway I’m sure I have told you this. Then I e-mailed me mam having a go at her and then she e-mails back and says she never had a clue what she was looking for and that I told her to end it to my house! Do you see?! Do you see why?!
So just to have a little rant and rave with someone who understands, I e-mailed my sister and asked her to help me, but then she started kicking off with me, so then I asked her to not help me as she was bound to sabotage me too. We are still arguing now, so she has told me not to bother coming home for xmas, so glad I’m only back for five days as I will have plenty of people to stay with for just one night, and I could maybe squeeze two nights out of my uncle Karl, I dunno we will have to see, as my mum never actually told me to not come home, but no doubt she will agree with her. But I can’t be bothered writing it all out, so I will put the e-mails we have sent each other, exactly how they were written with nothing changed.
Random word of the day: Algarabía = hullabaloo
Total word count of the day: 1756
Right peeps, where to start. The discovery of Churros I think. Oh my god they are like little pieces of heaven. They taste like Christmas, all sweet and nice and warm. And you can get them covered in sugar, chocolate, or you can buy melted chocolate separate and dunk them in. It’s hard to describe what they are. They are closely related to the pancake family, me thinks, however the dictionary says it’s a flour fritter. They are long stick things and crunchy on the outside and soft and heart warmingly warm on the inside. And I’ve lost a shit load of weight since I have been here, not that anyone at all has noticed, but I think it going to creep back up on me, as I’m so addicted to these. Every main plaza here you will get a stand, so that’s good for me, I don’t have far to walk! But then that is also bad, as I will eat them ALL the time.
And I finally bought a Christmas tree yesterday. It was only 5 euros in the Chinese shop- bargain! Although it is a bit shitty, I will only be using it for two weeks, before I go to England and I can’t take it to Italy and then England with me so I thought what the hey, it will do. Its quite a decent size as well considering that it was only five euros which in English money is £3.50 and I would say it is about 5ft, although it could do with being a bit leafy, but I’m gonna tinsel it up to fuck and hopefully that would hide it. I bought the decorations from the Chinese shop cheap as chips too. They are all read and gold, but with the odd bit of blue and silver, and I had to put a gold star on the top as I couldn’t find an angel, as I normally put both on. But lo and behold my 70p Christmas tree lights-did not work, and I know they are only 70p but it is the principal of it, I’m going to take them back tonight and ask if I can swap them then try my potential new lights in the shop, as you can’t really decorate the tree without putting the lights on first, but I was like a child and couldn’t wait so I have now decorated my tree sin luz, so now I will have to undecorate it all, put the lights on and decorate it again. I need more baubles, as the ones I bought were small, and the tree is bigger than I thought so I need to fill it out a bit and I think I should get some thicker tinsel, as once again I thought I was buying a tiny wee thing. Although my tree looks really tacky I am so proud of it as it is all my creation and also, I do love tacky things at Christmas, its what makes it Christmas.
Also wish Sonia would have been there when I was doing the tree but she doesn’t really like Christmas and she had to go to Luís’s house (poor girl) as he has a bad stomach (you should have been there to smell the smell in my bathroom that morning, I was nearly sick)but I’m not surprised as he doesn’t eat, except when he steals food off other people’s plates and the only thing he regularly has is alcohol and drugs. So she had to go round change his sheets for him as I think he might have shat in them and just lied there all day, I dunno, but Sonia had to take him food she had to go to the chemists for him she had to go and cook and clean his house for him, so I was a bit like, “hang on a minute Sonia, you do this stuff for him everyday, when was the last time he did stuff for you? When was the last time he spent his money on you?” And she was like yeah I know, I have been thinking and I’m sick and tired he drinks a 1½ litre bottle of Jack Daniels in a week and it is always me that buys stuff and that pays for stuff, and she is sick of her house being dirty and smelly and she has now realised that there is no future with him, but she feels sorry for him as he doesn’t have family, but I told her that she can’t stay with him out of pity. He comes here and eats all my food, and fair enough if he wants to eat all of your food that his problem, but 1) I don’t have the money to keep him in food and 2) it isn’t my responsibility to feed him. She tells me she is in love with him, but like, how on earth? He absolutely reeks of what can only be described as shit and he is an alki take like 10 pills a day, constantly smokes weed and he doesn’t work…hmm great catch there Sonia. And she knows that she can’t introduce him to her friends and family, so what is she gonna do? Have a secret boyfriend for the rest of her life?
Anyway, she was just saying that she is tired of having to mop up his piss and vomit all the time, and she even told me that she has to ask him to wash his hands before they have sex! Alarm bells should have started ringing there and then Sonia, I’m afraid. I said to her that I don’t think she is actually in love with him and that she just loves being needed, she agreed with me, as you know, I am always right. But as I pointed out, she can find a normal man and still be needed as she will be needed in a different way, like he will need her beauty and her smile and he will need her to make him laugh and he will need her company and her love. But she told me she doesn’t fall in love with these people, so something is seriously wrong with her, me thinks, as she is pretty and funny and everyone loves her so why she always goes for losers I will never know. Anyway so off she went. So was stuck in on my own, but it wasn’t too bad as I put the crappy Christmas songs on that me mam sent me and decorated the tree until like 1 in the morning.
Oh and my sister! Do not seriously get me started! My fees haven’t been paid so they threatened to throw me out of uni. But my fees didn’t get paid because mother was too stingy to pay 50p for a stamp to send them me, so in turn I wasn’t registered and therefore the LEA won’t pay out until you are registered. Big chain of events. So I got this letter saying they are going to revoke me, so I e-mailed big useless fat-arse-my career-is-sending-students-abroad-and-I’m-jealous Bridget and let her know about my problem. She then passed me on to someone else, who then passed me on to someone else, who then passed me on to someone else, etc. Anyway, eventually I was told that I would need to send in my letter from the LEA that confirmed that I was going to get my fees paid. I looked high and low for this letter, couldn’t find it, so it must defo be in my mother’s house. So I e-mailed mother to phone me, including this she has only phoned me twice since I have been here, all of the other times I have had to phone her. So she wouldn’t honestly know if I was alive to be honest. Anyway I explained exactly what letter she would need to look for, and then I said to her to check with my sister, as you don’t have a clue what you are looking for. “Of course I know what I’m looking for, don’t treat me like I am stupid” And then I told her, when she finds the letter to send it DIRECTLY to uni.
So I get an e-mail off her a few days later saying, “I think I have found the letter you needed, I’m not sure but I have sent it to your house in Spain”. You see, I don’t know whether she was born stupid, or that she is just really good at it, but I honestly think she is trying to sabotage my life here, just because she is so miserable with her own life and she takes it out on me, and she never did stuff like this with my sister. So that left me with no time at all to get things sorted. Anyway, the letter arrived and it was the most random letter ever, it was completely useless to me, anyway I’m sure I have told you this. Then I e-mailed me mam having a go at her and then she e-mails back and says she never had a clue what she was looking for and that I told her to end it to my house! Do you see?! Do you see why?!
So just to have a little rant and rave with someone who understands, I e-mailed my sister and asked her to help me, but then she started kicking off with me, so then I asked her to not help me as she was bound to sabotage me too. We are still arguing now, so she has told me not to bother coming home for xmas, so glad I’m only back for five days as I will have plenty of people to stay with for just one night, and I could maybe squeeze two nights out of my uncle Karl, I dunno we will have to see, as my mum never actually told me to not come home, but no doubt she will agree with her. But I can’t be bothered writing it all out, so I will put the e-mails we have sent each other, exactly how they were written with nothing changed.
Random word of the day: Algarabía = hullabaloo
Total word count of the day: 1756
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