Long time no see. While quite a lot has been going on with me, I haven’t much felt like blogging but I have been making several tweets so you can always find me there. Last week I celebrated my 20th birthday and went to see my uncle in Raleigh. I had a lot of fun on the two days we spent together. We mostly swam at the pool, ate yummy food and talked. We also saw Transformers 2 in IMAX which was a blast and the movie is total fun, but it is way too long for me which I almost never say. But it’s definitely the ultimate summer popcorn flick, but not my favorite of the year so far and somehow it doesn’t live up to the first.

I’m trying to get my license soon which I’m overly excited about. Everyone is so shocked I still don’t have them which kind of pisses me off. Really I haven’t had a reason too. Since insurance is always so expensive for first time drivers I wanted to wait until I could A) have the money to pay that monthly and B) have a car of my own. I might have went the slow way, but now that those things seem stable I am ready :D Nervous about the test I’ll go try to take tomorrow though!

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“And all that stands between the souls release
This temporary flesh and bone
We know that it’s over now
I feel my faded mind begin to roam”
– The Killers, Goodnight, Travel Well

Well I’m now back stateside, let the post travel depression kick in: now.

But honestly, where to begin? I suppose I can start off by saying I had the absolute most amazing time, ever! Truly, this is the case where you can’t put into words just how amazing everything was and such a wonderful experience!

Scotland was so beautiful, the land was so truly breathtaking and the sea, places like Stone Haven were almost to gorgeous to be real. Plus the city itself is gorgeous. It really makes me angry how much our city truly sucks, haha! The churches, graveyards, roads, buildings everything were so pretty. And I’m really smitten with Aberdeen University.

We did so many fun things in Scotland despite running out of money to venture to other cities there. Right before we left for Paris I got to attend a Director’s presentation event with the very funny David Mackenzie at Riikka’s Uni. We watched one of his films Hallam Foe before attending and I really loved it. It was such a cool experience listening to someone speak about their career, struggles and her was really funny. It was all so fascinating. We had a few days before we ventured to Paris and to prepare we watched a ton of Paris themed flicks and then finally a few short days after arriving in Scotland we jetted off to France!

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“Listen to me, you stupid bint. This gem is everything I came back to Sunnydale for, which has witnessed some truly spectacular kickings of my ass. Now, when I have the gem, they’ll all die, don’t worry. But until then, stay inside. And by the way, I would be insanely happy if I heard bugger all about sodding France.” – Buffy the Vampire Slayer

We went to the Twilight DVD release party at Hot Topic last night. Unfortunately the “party” totally sucked and we didn’t even get our DVD. I know a lot of people there were pissed to because like us we assumed we could drop in anytime between 10-1 and pick up the DVD, but you couldn’t actually buy it until 12:01 AM. I wasn’t really shocked by that but they really had us confused because they had signs saying if you don’t want the party just your DVD to stand in line A, and if you want the “party” then line B. Well we got in A hoping to get in and out as quick as possible (even though only so many people are allowed in because of the smaller store) but they just meant come in and shop and then go wait out in the rest of the closed off mall to let the next group in. And I didn’t really expect a grand party at all I know it’s just a marketing word, I expected people in shirts and things and chatting, but there wasn’t much talk going on so much as serious quiet waiting! Too intense for their own good!

What made us upset was we really wanted to go the movies before hand but figured we wouldn’t and just go to the DVD release and go watch it. If we had known that we could have ate dinner, caught a film and gone and it would have been all perfect. I’m sorry but waiting around for a DVD for two + hours was crazy! There was nothing to do but wait, I know at some stores they played scenes and features and did trivia but ours was basically a line and you got to shop at Hot Topic; what you could do on any day basically. It’s not like it was the theatrical release or something, it was just the DVD and all. (And I’ve already watched rips, heh!) But not even this was the actual problem really, like I said we would have made other plans instead of just waiting (getting the movie 3 minutes before someone else didn’t really interest since it would have been too late tow watch, we just thought it would be fun to come home and watch it that night, especially if you could get it early like right around 10:15 PM when we got there). But what made us mad and resulted in us just leaving early (although we only had 45 mins left to wait) was the cashier was extremely rude and thought we were fussing at here when in reality we saw it was just a misunderstanding and while we were disappointed we weren’t taking it out on her at all, but she got super defensive right away and was very rude so we just said forget it. We were sleepy and wouldn’t have even been able to watch it I mean. Thankfully I didn’t pre-order mine so I suppose I have nothing to complain about haha, I’m merely just ranting for Summer. I want the Target 3-Disc but there is no since in buying it before I go and all since I won’t have time to watch it.

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