NORWAY ROUND2

Hello! and Happy Sunday to you all!

Just a short in-between post about my upcoming trip to Oslo, Norway!
And why would I be going to such a place? Well, there's a few skanky girls who live there...I guess I could go and see them... (You can read about my last trip to see them here)

OR

I COULD GO AND PARTY.




(Monica I stole this photo from your blog)

REALLY BLOODY EXCITED!!! And it's not just two skanky girls I get to see, but a WHOLE ARMY of girls and guys from all over! Ahh, it's actually going to be great for me to get OUT of London for a weekend and relax a bit! It will also be the first Gyaru meetup I've been to in a really long time, so hopefully I can still work it! (fingers crossed)

I shall blog again soon! (Probably on one of my days off) :D!

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Hi guys! How are you this weekend? What are your plans? I hope you are all getting up to something great!

I want to say Happy (Belated) Valentines Day to everyone! Sorry I didn't make a post ON Valentines Day~

Last weekend, Sascha came over to London for a short trip, and I went along with a few other UK Gals to meet him! It was my first time meeting Amelie (always reminds me of the movie!) as well as Jada! I also saw Emmie for the first time since Hib split, and it was nice as there is nothing bad between us (like I originally thought) which made me feel better! I also saw Kei and there were a couple of other UK Gals there too! It's weird being out of the Gal circuit...so many new faces! Amelie wrote a blog on the weekend just here, and Emmie also wrote one here, so please read all about it!

My week has been busy with work as usual, but im really enjoying working  and interacting with so many people each day, as well as getting on with other staff members (most of them anyway). I have some news for you guys...it's kind of half bad and half good I guess? I am no longer with Tom after nearly 2 years of being together. It sucks when things like this happen because the world looks so different and everything feels really strange, new and awkward. I'm still going to keep in touch with Tom because i'm not going to forget him. Obviously he can't kick me out of his life anyway because I won't allow him to :D so there! On a more positive note, I am with a guy that I met at work. It sounds like I went to work to find someone else, but it's not the case. He's a good guy and while there were lots of things being said at work (laaaaame), I am very much happy at this time so I hope that you guys don't think i'm a meanie!

Grr, this blog deleted itself as I disconnected my internet by accident so it only posted half of what i'd written....*facepalm*

Anyway, there wasn't much more to add, just a small picture spam of what's been happening in the past week or so!

My hair on Saturday morning~

Me and Rosie, a really awesome girl I work with! She loves Japan tooo!



camwhoring before work!

On Wednesday, Rob Zombie played in London - first time in like 13 years! - and Adam brought me back a TOTAL SKULL scarf!!!!! I've wanted one since I was like 14, so i'm really happy!!!!! Thank you so much^^



Today I met with Tom for coffee and also with a photographer to discuss a shooting. Tomorrow, Ingvild is coming to London! It's a random visit (as far as I can tell) and it will be great to see her so soon after seeing her in Norway! I really wish Monica would stow away in her suitcase so all of us can have great times again! 8D

In other news, i've started to play Chaos Bleeds (the Buffy game) and I won some tall shoes on eBay for work!

Ciao!

Helsfyr

Hello bloggies! It's time for the Norway blog!
This time last week I would have been home after flying back from Oslo! After 2 weeks of waiting, I was finally going to Norway! I guess as I mentioned briefly on another post, it was just a spur of the moment decision to go at all, but i'm glad I thought this way and did it! The trip was to make up for the fact that I can't go to the Couture Gals meetup in March as i'm going on a mini holiday with some of my non Gal friends. I really wish I was going to the meetup but my holiday has been booked since October last year so I can't cancel!

Click this to go to the official Facebook event page!

I was originally supposed to be working on the day that I flew but in the end after everyone got promoted and changed around at work, all the shifts were changed and I was then free for the whole day to get to the airport. Tom drove me to Liverpool Street Station - so kind!!!!!! thank you so much^^ - and I got the Stansted Express to the airport. I was so damn worried that I wouldn't make my flight after the Holland disaster (mentioned way too much on this blog haha) but fortunately, not many people fly anywhere on a Tuesday afternoon, so checking in was like 5 minutes! Plus, I got there before the check-in gate was even open so I felt reassured that I wasn't going to miss my flight :D Luckily I wasn't picked on this time either! Even with my pink hair!

My room on the day I left >.<

I headed straight to the WIFI spot after I passed security because my phone was dying and I needed to keep it fully charged so that I could contact Monica! (And also to spam everyone's Facebook feeds) I also went to Boots to buy a toothbrush (as I left mine at home, lame) and also to buy some nail stuff as my gold nails were all chipped and I forgot to bring the bottle of varnish with me (I forget things so easily, as you can probably tell lol). I bought some "fast dry" (should be fast peel) black nail varnish and some nail varnish remover pads (neatest idea ever) and attempted to make my nails look pretty! I was the only female in the WIFI area haha. It was full of businessmen making calls and sending emails and I was sitting there charging my deco-ed phone and doing my nails. claaaaass! I flew with Ryanair because it's cheap and I guess convenient? The plane looked so lovely though, all blue and yellow plastic like a kindergarten or something haha. Oh well. I had a bottle of water with me and was desperately hoping I wouldn't have to use the toilet on the plane as they charge you to do so! That's how they make their money though... Enough about this shitty airline already..sorry guys haha.

I met Monica, Mimi and her boyfriend Jan-Henrik at the airport. They were so kind to pick me up! And they let me stay with them in their apartment!! You guys are so sweet, thank you so so much! Monica and Ingvild said they are going to come to London in summer, so I really want to take them clubbing! After arriving at their CHIC apartment, JH drove us to a mall that Monica showed me part of. It interlinks with the bus and train terminals which is cool! It was quite late so not much was open, but we did manage to get some food at Burger King (the first of many visits) and also got some fruits from a small supermarket type place.

Mimi!

The next day, Ingvild came to spend the day with us! She was a naughty girl bwahahaha >:) Monica made us breakfast and some super delicious smoothies too! She is definitely a total pro! Then we spent like 3 hours or something doing hair, make-up and camwhoring 8D. Majority in Monica's "famous" bathroom! All whilst listening to Hime Trance, Eurobeat and House all from her rad speaker system~

Smoooothie!

Complete!

Monica had a job interview so we headed back to the mall we had been to the previous night (now much busier) and me and Ingvild walked around and waited for her. Monica's interview wasn't near/in the same place so she would meet us later. Ingvild is really fun to hang out with! We talked so much random stuff haha. She showed me this bigger mall and I got some really yummy ice cream :D I wasn't really too bothered to do shopping in Oslo as I didn't have much money, and everything was quite expensive anyway, with most things being cheaper here in UK or online.

Before going to get ice cream we were in another smaller mall and bumped into a guy called Liam, who is going to the Couture Gals meeting in March! He is so tall! And younger than me! It's like this guy at work who is 17 or something and towers over me! He wrote a blog entry here about our mini encounter and said that i'm like a Gal celeb! That's the first time someone has said that which is cool...but also a dangerous tag to have lol! Thank you though!!

Liam, Ingvild and Me!

We went to this small Japanese style store which was like Tokyo Toys here in London...just more expensive haha. Obviously nothing caught my eye. Here is a photo of their outside display from the ground floor:

LOVE BIKBOK!

Actually, I say that I wasn't going to shop in Oslo but I did find some cute sneakers in one store! Unfortunately they only had the size before and after mine, which sucked! Too big and too small were not great >.< Oh well! I guess I saved money haha. I did buy a bottle of Vanilla perfume from the Body Shop the following day though...I couldn't resist! And the price was basically the same as if I had bought in the UK so :D yay! I was shocked to find that there are 7-Elevens in Norway!! I thought it was only Japan and USA that had them, but clearly i'm wrong! Here are some cheesy photos of me and Ingvild by 7-Eleven haha:

Another one! haha

Here are some more of my lovely tourist photos:

MY NEW BOYFRIEND

MY NEW PET!

For Dec!

Monica found us and we went to a chinese place for some food. We sat there for a few hours just talking, it was great! Then we moved onto Burger King (trip #2) and got some ice cream and sat there for an hour or so talking and watching/listening to Para Para ;p Ingvild had to get the bus at 9 so we went to her bus terminal with her to wait. After she left, me and Monica went BACK to BK for a burger haha (trip #3!!!) All we do is eat, listen to loud music and talk! haha. On the way home, the sugar and BK additives definitely kicked in and we were chatting some random stuff! (typical of me and Monica) and we came up with new names for the stations, as well as a new Black Metal Band haha. Oh..we're so crazy!

Our new band - Hells Fire! ;D

After we got in, we read some egg and Ranzuki magazines and then went to sleep. The next day, Monica had another job interview (I HOPE YOU GET IT BB!) and we went to the mall, where I waited for her in...yep, BK! :D After the interview we went to MacDonalds (we needed a change of scenery), camwhored, and I also printed some photos off from my camera. I really want to start doing this to document my stuff on a hard copy for people to look at!

We just call it Oasis lol!

With newly printed photos! And a smile...haha

lol..hidden joke

Import candy!

I brought some of these back 8D

It was then time for us to head home and to then head to the airport! I think Monica's bf might think i've made her a bit too crazy! Sorry!! Monica brought Mimi with her to the airport to say goodbye! Such a cute dog, omg. Thank you so much Moinica, JH, Ingvild and Mimi for a fabulous time in Norway, for letting me stay with you guys and picking/driving me to the airport and for letting me hang out with you guys!

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Hi everyone!

It's officially the first of February, and my first post for this month! I'm off to Oslo, Norway today to see the beautiful Monica and Ingvild! I am so godamn excited, I can't believe two weeks have gone by already! (It was two weeks ago that I sporadically decided to visit) I had a mad last minute pack as I went out last night and now i'm satisfied that i'm ready to go! The suitcase is locked and nothing else is going in!

I really wanted to make a new nail set but I just didn't have the time, but I have some cute gold sparkly nails at the moment, so they're pretty and that's all that counts right? I just hope to god that I get on my flight this time after last summer's disaster...haha. I think I will actually die if not....

Here are some songs to play you out (not particularly new, but a good nevertheless) and I will see you upon my return!



We've just started to play this Fake Blood song at work, and the video was produced by the same company that I did the music video for back in the summer. The guy with pink hair is called Sam, and said he always manages to jump in videos at some point! It's a mad song, but really addictive! And when it's played from our speakers/sound system at work it's awesome!

Bye bye!

I can't wait

Hello everyone! How are you all? It's the end of another week! Although I know some people class Sunday as the beginning of the week, as that's what they used to do in the olden days lol. My old, old Restaurant workplace used to do it :s

Today I had such a short and quick shift at work! Only 10am-2pm. Yeah, 4 hours isn't really anything but it feels even shorter when you finish at a time like 2pm! Everyone was like "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?! NO FAIIIR" haha. We had Popi from the Brighton store come and help us today, although I didn't actually see her until I was going! I hope she did okay! Our Camden store is so much bigger, louder and generally much busier than the Brighton branch, but she's fabulous so i'm sure she did fine :D

I'm really hoping that I padd my probation at the end of February! So far I think i've been doing a good enough job, but I guess I just have to wait and see! It would kind of suck to be told that they didn't want to keep me on after i've gotten used to the surroundings and getting on so well with everyone :( I still need to go out for a drink or something with a few people, as I want to get to know them better! Because of the "no-talking" rule at work, everyone is always dying to chat and talk about so much stuff! It will be nice to have a get-together after work sometime! *hint to those of you at work that may read this :p*

Eliana sent me her photos from the Art Exhibiton! And here are some for you to see:

L-R: Claudia, Me, Ryo

Claudia



Ryo

Not loads of photos but at least a few more to save to my computer! Of course, I still really want to see Ryo's photos! :p This week has also seen the arrival of my mail! At bloody last! Some stuff I ordered way before Christmas and just aftert has started to show up, which is great. I ordered some jeans from a Japanese store on Rakuten and they came really quickly! Here's a stock photo as I haven't taken a decent enough photo of my own just yet:


Mine are the ones on the right. My friend is actually coming over tonight to order the ones on the left because she saw this photo on my Facebook wall and loved them!

 They're so comfortable! And look really nice too :D They came with a thin brown belt that you can see in the left picture, but I probably won't use it...so I stored it at the back of my drawer haha. The only other thing to do with mail that I hate besides delayed post due to weather or random stuff, is the the "attempted delivery" notes they leave you! Grr! They are such liars sometimes! I've been home and waiting for things to turn up and they don't even bother to ring the doorbell! Some mailmen don't even both to put the date or time on the note so i have no clue when they "tried" to deliver anything so I don't know if they'll still have it at the depot or not! Grrrrr grumpy Eilish lol. I went to pick up something from the Post Office on Saturday morning and got back home to find ANOTHER note because noone was home...so i'm going to pick it up tomorrow before work. I *hope* it's a d.i.a. top that I ordered online, or some nail stuff that I ordered!

Here is what I picked up on Saturday:


A d.i.a. grab-bag from Lily! Thank you so much!


This makes up for me not being able to get my hands on a 2011 d.i.a. lucky bag! And what do we have?
- Cream t-shirt
-Red long sleeve top with open back
-Gold studded bra
-Black & white print top with black sash and gold hoop detail
-Black sweatpants with pink string, border and print
-Olive onepiece with black bow and gold hoop and chain detail
-d.i.a. eco bag

I'm so happy! I looked and bidded on the 2011 bags online but they're so difficult to get hold of! People have bought 10+ bags and even though one bag retails at Y10,500, they're selling them off for Y20,000 each! I saw a bag online for Y40,000 AND Y70,000!!!! WTF. I won a 2010 lucky bag..bag haha. I didn't realise it was just the bag until i'd bidded but never mind, it's quite a nice bag (even if it does say "NEW YEARS BAG" on it haha)

I also met Caryn, Dec and Kazu (Dec's bf) briefly the other night to pick up the things that Caryn brought back for me from Japan! They were going to Karaoke but I couldn't stay as my funds are low right now (all this shopping I know...) and I was staaaaaarving!




d.i.a. top, egg Feburary and x2 Candy Doll face powder

 It's been quite a d.i.a. week I guess! Oh! And a package came in the mail from Laura! She sent it on December 20th and it's taken nearly a month to get here! I haven't taken any photos but inside came two nail varnishes from HEMA (looove), some fake eyelashes, caramel waffles (yuuuummy!) and a kit to make my own king of sweet stuff! It's a Christmas thing really but I don't care! Still going to make them and post them here! In some other news, i'm going to Oslo, Norway in February to see Monica and Ingvild! I was going to go in the first weekend of March but I had already booked a mini holiday away with my friends in October so I couldn't go :( But i'm going for 2 days or so at the beginning of Feb! It will be cold, but so so lovely to see them both! So, yeah! How has everyone's week been?

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Hello! And happy belated Christmas! I hope you all had a wonderful time, and got some wonderful things!
I spent Christmas with my family but also went to see my boyfriend and his family. Christmas is really big for his family and everyone had bought me a gift! I was in shock because I only bought something for his parents and his sister! They're all so kind!

I'm pleased to say that I am now on the road to recovery after being so bloody ill for the last week and a half, nearly 2 weeks! I still have a bit of a funny cough and my nose is still a bit blocked but i'm not coughing up blood anymore (ew) and my head isn't killing me much anymore which is great! I had to not go to work last week as I was so ill and I felt so bad, but I had gone in the day before and I went in the day after and I felt worse! Coughing on everything and all the customers..lol, but i'm still on a probation so I don't want to make any screw ups during this time! Only 2 months to go now, and then I guess i'll find out if they really want me there! Tom came to see me while I was ill and bought me 4 Hello Kitty plushies because I was sick! It was also an early XMas gift for me, which was so sweet!



New!





My current plushie collection!


Yesterday I met with Ingvild and Kei! Ingvild spends Christmas in the UK with her grandfather and because I met her in Finland, she now knows someone over here she can meet up with! She came on the 22nd and flies home today, and although we didn't make any plans to meet until yesterday, she came into my work the day she flew in to surprise me! I was like "AHH INGVILD!" when she walked in lol! I suppose a flight from Norway to UK is okay though, maybe like 1-2hrs max so no worries about jetlag or anything :D

Surprisingly it wasn't that cold in London yesterday, which was nice, but of course, you still have to wrap up otherwise you'll get sick..like I did lol! Here was my co-ordinate:


HAT: Tokyo Disneyland
TOP: Golds Infinity
NECKLACE: Topshop
JEANS: H&M
TAIL: Osaka
BOOTS: Primark

Here's some of the puri we took:



Obligatory "Agepoyo" picture lol



We went looking for somewhere to eat because me and Kei hadn't eaten and we ummed and aahed about several places and ended up going somewhere more expensive than where we were going to go lol but the food was nice and the staff are nice so that was fine. We met Ingvild on Oxford Street which is probably one of the worst places at this time of year because everyone is mad for all the sales and stuff and of course, it was crowded and horrible! I'm so glad it wasn't boxing day though as that would have been so much worse!!

Mind you, there was a tube strike all day, so like no lines were working, so how did anyone manage to get to shop in London at all? I was supposed to work but couldn't because there was no physical way of me travelling there! I ended up going to Brighton to see my Dad's side of the family. I really wanted to go to the Cyberdog in Brighton to see what it was like because it said we were only 15 minutes away by car and also because I don't travel there all the time, but I don't think it was open because I called them to check and they didn't pick up, and I tried 3 times and there was nothing :( Someone I know was in Brighton the same day and said that it looked like it was closed when he went past so maybe it's a good thing I didn't just rush over there to check it out lol!

I'm trying to save my money right now because i'm not used to being paid monthly so anything I get has to last me for another 3 or 4 weeks or so which is difficult but I really want to be able to not spend things! Obviously I have to spend for travel and if i'm out, then food also, but if i'm at home then it's okay, although the lure of online shopping is sometimes too great! I did buy some d.i.a. stuff for myself because hey, it's Christmas and I thought what the hell, and I still have money leftover so i'm happy! No more stupid spending now though! So i'm hoping that I will receive some nice looking parcels soon!

It's going to be New Year's soon! What is everyone doing?