I Feel Like A Winner

For the first time I can remember I've actually won a contest I entered. I never win anything. Yes, it may have only been a prize draw, so no talent involved really, but still, I won!
& I have five lovely brand new books just waiting to be shipped off to me. (Yes, I am also sad enough to get excited about getting free books. But I don't care!)
A couple are by an author called Patricia Briggs. I recently finished reading her first book Moon Called & loved it, & I now will get the first two in her spin off series.
This has made my day, thank you Book Smugglers! 

Never Try To Shop In London On A Saturday This Near To Christmas!

Not if you want to be able to move properly & see everything. I had a good day though, found my Mum a weird but funky present. Also got myself a beautiful journal from a stall in Covent Gardens & showed Lee Camden, helping him get his sister a present. It was good to spend the day with someone I can talk so easily to, & finally have someone I can talk to about history! (& by history I mean talk about how Britain didn't need the USA to win WWII, coming up better tactics for Nazi German that would helped them not lose the war & agree how scary Russia really is.)
After shopping, I was finally able put down my heavy bags & hang out with Jonny & Lauren who were watching the X Factor finals (woo, not), chatting & watching Jonny do stupid dances (as usual).
Good times ^-^

Two Very Lazy Days

Not a lot has really happened today or yesterday. Spent most of it sleeping to be honest. But anyway:

• sleep is always good
• some guy wolf whisled me when I was walking back from Tesco (O.O)
• I have a stalker on here (hi Mum)

At least this weekend I'll be busy; shopping in Central & back to Winter Wonderland fair in Hyde Park. Hooray!

A Very Big Smile

I've just gotten back from a huge winter/Christmas fair in Hyde Park, which was Oh My God amazing! I loved it so much. It was a German fair so all the signs were German, the stalls were made out of wood & looked like those little wooden homes you see pictures of in snow covered forests somewhere like Canada. They had sweets, rides, beer, bars, wooden ties, giant prezels & much more I didn't get the chance to see as it was so big (I was with Richard & others who headed straight for the bar, surprise surprise). I went on one of those rides which is basically a huge tower with seats around it that lifts you up & drops you. I was apparently the tallest in the world & I got the best view of London I've had so far whilst riding it. My throat felt a bit raw after from screaming (in delight, not fear), & me & Richard couldn't stop laughing about it. Sadly, I didn't have time to buy a big bag of pick & mix sweets, which is all the more reason to go again! Which I will be, this Sunday. Woop woop!
Anyway, other good things that happened to me today:
I handed in some draft work of a website we have to make to one of my teachers who said other that a little tidying up around the edges, it was great & could actually hand it in as it is & get a good grade (but I'll tidy it anyway, for an even better one), & that I'm ahead of most others in my class.
Also, whilst waiting for the crappy shuttle bus to get from Uni to Oakwood tube station, my friend James from Halls came up to me & offered to give me a lift down there since he was going in that direction (which I took). What a little sweetheart!
& finally, I got a very funny Christmas card from my Mum in the post with a picture of a cat hung up as a decoration with faerie wings. She put inside that she was thinking of trying that with our three cats. Now that I'd like a picture of!

Lazy Day

  I was feeling a bit funny today, but I got to stay in bed & read a good book all day (Moon Called by Patrica Briggs) so that made me happy. My seminar was cancelled anyway, so it's all good.
  I'm also going into Central with Lee on Saturday to do some Christmas shopping.
  I'm concidering going to Download (a metal & rock music festival) next summer, & my friend Tilly who's gone quite a few times before kindly offered to help me sort out prices, packing & other stuff, & said I could camp with him. He is a sweetheart.