Home is where the heart is

It has been so great being home for this weekend. I really feel like things are a bit easier now. I really needed to come home for a bit to get a cuddle from my mom and my dad. I don't want to go back to Scotland tomorrow. I would have loved to have stayed for another few days. However, education calls and so does my life over there. I'm landing in Edinburgh at 9pm. While I've been home I've: Defended my family’s honour at a pub quiz (that we failed badly. Last place FTW!); Crashed my mom’s payday celebration at Zara Pub with her work crew; Helped my aunt get her campervan ready for this season; Followed my dad to the hospital (just a wee infection in his leg), Been at my grandma’s new flat; and after that went by my grandpa's house. It was great seeing my grandparents again. My grandma’s new flat was beautiful and I really want one just like it! Peace out. 

There was something in the air that night

Here i am. On board the airplane that's going to take me home to my family. I would just like to thank Norwegian for their great service and for their free wifi onboard the plane. Pernille <3 you

3 - 2 - 1 - Norway

Yesterday, quite spontaneously I was on the phone with my dad and bang I had flight tickets for tomorrow in my hands. I have not been home since Christmas and I miss my family so badly. I cannot wait to feel my dad’s strong arms around me and my mom’s soft cheeks or hear my sister’s hilarious laugh and my brother’s terrible jokes. I'm coming back to Scotland on Monday to start semester 3. Time goes by so fast. In May Connor is turning 20 and it will also be two years since we started going out together. It's been two years of extreme longing being 931 kilometres apart and extreme happiness when we finally we were together again. Right now I'm trying to organize this mess of a room I have. It's not as easy as it sounds. I did all my laundry today. It's is actually fascinating how quick it builds up to become this clothes monster that eats all your money, keys or anything else important that you might need when you are in a rush in the morning. The only problem about washing all my clothes is I can now also see how dirty the floor is, so I have to get the hover out. Then of course when I start packing I turn the whole place upside down again. So yay me. 

That's just how I roll

Last time I blogged I was panicking over the upcoming exam. Turns out that all that worrying really helped me. I passed the exam so yesterday it was party time. Connor came up from Edinburgh to join and since I am far too lazy to cook for two I just bought a subway for the two of us. Once we got back to halls I put my party dress on and was ready to hit the town. I got ready really quick but I still got a few moans on how long I was taking from Connor. It was easy enough for him. He arrived in the clothes he was going out in. It would be way easier if I was a man. Then I wouldn’t have to go through the “getting ready process” that I currently am every morning. Phef. We spent most of the night in the kitchen with all the girls and Michelle and Natasha’s boyfriends also joined us. After a good few hours and a good few drinks we went out to my all favourite night club in Stirling: Dusk. There were far too many people in Dusk and after one drink and some mingling we went home. Two grownups, who are not exactly small, in one single bed was not brilliant. After some pushing and complaining I managed to get a few hours sleep, but I can't say the same for Connor. He was completely dead when I got up for lectures this morning. After the lecture Connor and I spent some time faffing about before we went to Frankie and Benny's to celebrate me passing my exam. I had a lovely wee date and tomorrow I'm going down to Edinburgh for the weekend. So that’s two semesters down seven to go.

Burning hot chips in mouth face

Here it goes

I have an exam on Tuesday and I should really be studying at this moment. I've been trying and trying and trying, but the words I read just won’t stick to my brain and after finishing a chapter in my anatomy book I realize that I have no idea what I just read. Studying is hard and I wish I could just download all the notes straight to my brain and that was it. However, sitting with my head buried in a book has become my new reality. At least until Tuesday. After the exam I won't have a look at that book for a while, because I truly hate it. I guess I should move on to a more cheerful subject. I'll tell you about what Tobias and I did while he was here. Last time I blogged I told you about our adventures in Stirling. The rest of the time we spent in Edinburgh. We took a trip around Musselburgh to show him the area before Lee took me and Tobias to the cinema to see The Hunger Games ( Just a little note to say that Lee rocks and thanks for being so awesome =D ). Then Tobias, Jack and I climbed Arthur’s seat. Jack and I almost died several times on the way up. Tobias was showing off and karma beat him up for it on the way down when he twisted his ankles. God times. I dragged Tobias shopping at Primark where we found him a lovely suit that he looked quite handsome in. I showed him the castle, even though we didn’t go in. We had to save something for next time. We did go into Mary Kings Close which was brilliant. Our tour guide was funny and I really advice everybody that goes to Edinburgh to make their way there. And last but not least we went to the National Museum of Scotland. I was quite sad to see him leave, but it was kind of good as well. He is my little brother and it's kind of his job to get on my nerves. After he left me and Connor have been very busy not doing anything and after a few days of trying to study I went back to Stirling hoping to find some inspiration here. But I failed miserably at that as well. So fingers crossed for Tuesday and hopefully I won’t have to resit =D

It's not lupus

He's finally here. My lovely little bro. I picked him up with Connor on Thursday. It was a lot of fun seeing him again. Not so fun when I found out how tall he's gotten. Tobias was walked through by security at the airport. Luckily it was only because he's so young and not because he was smuggling drugs. It was still quite exciting. The security guard was only there to make sure that he was safe and that there actually was someone there to pick him up. Thumbs up for great service at Edinburgh airport. I had my last day of placement on Thursday as well. I was pretty sure it was going to be heartbreaking, but after spending two hours of cleaning up diarrhoea I was more than happy to get out of there. After dropping by Tesco and buying ice cream the next day we went to Stirling. We were lucky enough to have my all time favourite bus driver on the City Link. She's an awesome woman who always talks have a chat with the passengers. 

In Stirling I showed him around on campus at the university. We walked around the Loch and then walked to The Wallace monument. Walking up all those stairs almost killed me, but the view blew me away. On the top I forgot all about my sore legs and got caught up in telling Tobias about William Wallace. I pointed at Bannocburn and told him what I knew of Scottish history. It was surprisingly little, but I did manage to point out Stirling bridge and some other quite famous places. All in all it was very exciting

University of Stirling from above. After spending some time at the Wallace Monument we went into the city and had a look around before heading back to halls where I packed and we got back to Edinburgh. At night we sat down and played some computer games. 

I'll tell you about the rest of our adventures later, now it's gaming time!

Sun, friends and happiness

I just have to start this post by telling you all how extremely excited I am for tomorrow. I'm sure people are getting tired of hearing about my brother coming over, but you just have to hear about it a few more times. He's going to arrive in Edinburgh 20:20 tomorrow. I can't wait to see him! 

Apart from that I had my last 12.5 hour shift yesterday. Well, at least for this placement. The shift was quick enough and I got a lift from one of our lovely auxiliaries Marie. I'm not in the mood to talk about work to be honest. What I am going to talk about is the summertime that has punched us all in the face! The weather the last few days has been STUNNING! Unfortunately I've been working nightshifts or dayshifts and I've missed out on most of it. But on Tuesday I spent the whole day in the sun and it was beautiful! I'm not going to waste more time in front of the keyboard when there is a beautiful day outside that needs to be explored.

Baby we can do it, we can do it all night

This is me mentally preparing for 3 night shifts this weekend. By blogging and not being able to sleep during the day. It's only 6 days until my brother comes over to see me and I am really excited. It's going to be so good seeing my wee man again! I have just had a week off where I've been in Edinburgh with Connor. I went straight there after work last Thursday and arrived at the same time as my Chinese food did. It was pretty damn good. Then on that Friday I went with Connor to the doctor and to the dentist then we had a subway each before settling down in front of one computer each and disappearing into the world of internet until we decided to watch a film. We saw Puss in Boots and I really liked it. All the cat jokes were hilarious and I really recommend it.
On Sunday it was mother’s day in Scotland so we got Lee six bottles of vine, a box of after eights and a lot of flowers. I know she's not my mum, but she feels like one at times. I guess I can call her my Scotland mum. The whole family got packed together in a car and then we went to Fife to spend the Sunday with Connors grandparents. When we got there Connors grandparents spend the day telling me stories from Connor and Jack's childhood with quite the emphasis on the embarrassing moments. I did enjoy every second of it. Connors grandmother also told me a lot about her family history and there if few things that’s more interesting than someone’s background. It was such a great day that only got better when we ended up in a Chinese buffet.
Yesterday I went back to Stirling. Remember that beautiful flat I was moving into? Well, my flatmates changed their minds about it. I'm not happy about the decision, but there’s not much I can do about it. So the hunt for a place to stay has started again. Fee, Lana and Eilidh dragged me down to the TV room to watch this awful film about this haunted house. I'm not sure if it was a comedy or if they actually had tried to make a horror and just failed miserably. So that's all the news from me and I'll try my best to squeeze in a blog post or two before my brother comes over. 

and a picture of my brother beause he's awesome < 3

Darth Vader in a kilt on a unicycle playing bagpipes

I keep on forgetting that this blog even exist. It's not until someone starts bugging me about the face that I don't update that I have to force myself over to the keyboard to press my thought onto the blank little screen. Right now I'm having a day off from placement. I'm working tomorrow though so I do my very best to relax to the extreme. My plan is to clean the room, eat and then do so much nothing that I hopefully will be ready for a day on placement tomorrow before almost a full week off. Last weekend, after a painful trip to the dentist with a promise of more torture to come for Connor, we went home and had James over for the whole weekend. Connor and James made this deadly drink that I decided to not go near since didn’t want to become blind. I can't remember much of the ingredients but it was a lot of vodka, energy drinks and sugar. I stuck to my wine and survived the night. On the Saturday we helped Connors dad move some furniture into his secretary’s office and managed to spend a few hours doing so. I'm quite happy, despite my never ending complaints about how tired I am after working long days in the hospital. I'm really loving my placement there. I do however find it quite scary that the more I learn the more I realize that I don't know. It's only 2 weeks and 1 day before my beloved brother Tobias comes over and is going to stay with me for one week. Time flies but I hope it will slow down while he's here so I can enjoy every second of him. 

I finished listening to the Hunger Games trilogy today (Jack sent me the audio books). My only problems with books are that I get so caught up in them that I start my own imaginary world. I feel like I should rebel against the government and fight the system. Then I give myself a slap in the forehead and have a cup of tea until I realize that my mind has slipped into my idiotic little world again. You should have seen me after I finished the Harry Potter books.. or on second though I’m glad nobody but my family did. Lee and Jack (Connors mom and brother) have both also listened to the books and we’re getting quite excited for the premier of the first film next Friday (well, I guess I’m a bit more excited than the rest of them)

My dad also linked me this video on Facebook and even after watching it about 20 times I still cannot stop laughing. There was just no way I could not share it with you guys.

Sorry seems to be the hardest word

So it's been well over two weeks since the last time I updated my blog. I actually have no excuse, but I keep on telling myself that I've been really busy. So instead of telling all my readers how sorry I am I'll just get right to it and update yous on what had happened. Well, I have been on Skype with my lovely little (well, not so little any more) brother and booked flight tickets for him to come over here for Easter and see me *excited*.

He's going to be here from the 29th of March until the 6th of April! Then after being held apart from each other for two weeks I got to go down to Edinburgh and be with my man Connor for a while. I was also lucky enough to meet up with my lovely German friend Alexandra! She was in Edinburgh for the weekend with some friends of the family and we had time to do some crucial shopping together. I got two new cardigans (Connor told me they looked like granny cardigans *hurt feelings*), a new pair of ugly sunglasses and a new pair of shorts.

Then I had to drag my ass back to Stirling for some hard work. I worked 12.5 hour shifts Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before I could go down To Edinburgh and do nothing but sleep for 20 hours. It's been a lovely weekend so far and yesterday I had a lovely walk along Musselburgh beach. It was one of the best walks I've had for a while and bumping into Lucille just made things one hundred times better. I got home just as dinner was being served and spent the rest of the night watching TV with Connors mom Lee =D Today the plan is to do nothing at all and just bug Connor and maybe, just maybe, go for a walk again =)

Twitterpated

It's been a long time since I felt like this. I'm truly happy. I'm usually not a very depressed girl but the last year there has always been something hanging over me, just a little stress to make me not being able to fully relax and enjoy myself. I always have something to look forwards to. That's usually me lovely weekends in Edinburgh, but I always have the thought in the back of my head that I need to go back to Stirling and to all the hard work with school. Not that I don't love Stirling and the course I'm doing, but it is very stressful. Yesterday was one of those days that I just woke up and though nothing will ruin this day. I had had a good night sleep and felt wonderful. Things only got better once I opened the window and felt a warm wind hitting my face. The sun was shining and I just could not feel a single worry in my whole body. My placement is going great, I have a beautiful flat to move into in May, and spring is finally here. I had a meeting with Bank of Scotland so that I could finally set up an account there. Because the day was so lovely I decided to walk into town. It's only about an hour walk and I was lucky enough to have Chris joining me. After setting up my account we went shopping. I found so many lovely things and I probably spent a bit too much money, but who cares. You only live once and happy days like these don't come around often enough. It's the good feeling that can only come after several months of winter and cold winds.

"Yes. Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example: You're walking along, minding your own business. You're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of a sudden you run smack into a pretty face. Woo-woo! You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!" Friend Owl from Bambi

Happy valentines day

Since my placement is awesome, they let me work on valentines so I didn't have to spend the day with my boyfriend having a romantic night out and then being forced to fall asleep in his arms (I'm not sure if people can read my sarcasm so I'm making sure that you get how much it sucked in here). I worked a standard 12.5 hour shift wiping arses and cleaning up sick. Good times. Luckily Connor did take me out to Caprice on Saturday to celebrate valentines then. I had the most awesome pizza ever and guess what! He even trimmed his beard!

When we got home it was Oreo cake time. I did take a photo of the cake, but it kinda sucked. The cake however gave me a mouthgazm like no other. On Monday Ciaran, Ciara and I paid the deposit for our new beautiful flat! Words can not describe my excitement for moving in there. I do think I'll miss halls a bit. When I looked out the window today for example and saw spring weather, sun and opened the window and didn't freeze to death. Now I'm on my way uptown. I have decided to walk since the weather is so lovely and I'll try (no promises) to blog more often

Orthopaedics

Again it feels like ages since I've written anything on here. Well, this time I kind of have an excuse. 3 12.5 hour shifts in a row. Don't have an excuse for not writing anything before that apart from severe laziness. I was chilling at Connor's flat in Edinburgh until the Wednesday before reality slapped me hard in the face and made me get out of bed and do some work. I dragged myself all the way back to Stirling and cleaned my room. We're not just talking about the simple picking up a jumper or two from the floor. This was the real deal. I was hoovering, doing the laundry, dusting, organizing and even ironing! When I finally was done it was bedtime. I've been going to bed at about 9o'clock everyday that I've been working. I was forced to throw my 10o'clock policy out the window to get enough sleep. Getting up at 4:45 is really draining. I'm not complaining though (ok, maybe a little), my placement is a lot of fun and I really feel that I've learned a lot in the few days I've been there. It's all on again tomorrow with another 12.5 hour shift then I'm off until Friday again. Because of the way I worked I could not go down to Edinburgh this weekend and man it's been rough. I'm so used to going that when I had to stay here in halls I felt like everything was wrong and I had no track of what day it was at all. I'll tell you more about placement another time. Today I took the bus uptown and did some serious shopping. I dropped by my favourite stores in the Thistle centre before walking along the riverside and ending up in Tesco where I bought far to much food for this week. I had to drag all those bags onto the bus and home where Charissa met me with a big hug. She had had a long day so let her have a nap on my bed while I was cooking for the both of us. Now it's shower time before a long day at work tomorrow!

 Ready for my first day of placement at ward B23 (orthopaedics) early in the morning

Working class hero

Yesterday the nurses of AKD went out clubbing to celebrate handing in a terrible essay that made most of us want to jump out the window. I'm not going to spend any more time thinking about that essay, so I'd much rather speak about my night out. After staying up until 5am finishing my essay then being stuck in uni until 5pm it was definitely time for a party to loosen up. We had such a good night out. My alcohol intake was not over the top something that made the night awesome and today's day in lectures bearable.
I've also gotten my first shifts at the orthopaedics ward in Forth Valley. I'm working Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7:30 to 20:00. This more or less means a weeks holiday from tomorrow. 12 hour shifts will be hard work, but hopefully interesting and educational.