#BEDM My Travel Dreams

As a Geographer I feel it's in my blood to want to travel, to see the world and all things that make it so beautiful.

Yes I would love to travel to New York and see a broadway show, visit the empire state building or go shopping in bloomingdales. Yes I would love to go and visit the lovely Erica over in Massachusetts again. Yes I would love to find Mr Romantic who would sweep me off my feet and take me to Paris where we would dine in the finest restaurants and dance all night long.

But what I dream of most is the oh so beautiful sunny and tranquil island of Kefalonia. Most famous for being the setting of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a film where the donkeys got paid more than the extras.

Probably the most famous image of the island is of Myrtos Beach. It is often given the title of most photographed beach in Europe

What seems like forever ago now my Godparents moved out to Kefalonia and everytime we go out to see them I fall in love with the place a little more. When we first starting going out there it was quite cheap, now with the state of the greek economy and the exchange rate mixed with the fact more people seem to have discovered this little gem it has gone very expensive.

My dream would be to go back out there before I finish uni, it isn't a big party place packed with clubs but that's why I love it, it's so relaxing and the people are just so lovely.

Anyway enough of me dreaming, back to reality, it's GeogSoc summer ball tonight and I need to get ready.

Keep it scrimpy
Laura.

#BEDM- Favourite Social Media Channel

As a Blogger I find it very difficult to pick my favourite social media channel. I have appreciation for all of them really but for me (and I'm guessing most people) it comes down to facebook or twitter.

Facebook
Best for organising stuff. We have groups for everything on facebook from Geog Soc to my old politics class, it makes it easy or organise events both small and large.

Worst for being a nosey bitch. I like the fact I can follow Stephen Fry on Twitter, you don't get that with facebook.


Twitter
Best for networking. I have met most of my blogger friends through twitter #twittersisters and blogger discussions are my fave way of finding new blogs to follow and read

Worst for having Deep meaningful conversations (DMCs). Not only are you restricted character wise but also the whole bloody world can see your DMC.

I think for me Twitter just about wins the battle for best social network as I just really like being nosey.



What's your favourite social network? Feel free to leave some links so I can follow you guys (I'm a nosey bitch)

You can follow me on the following networks
Twitter
Facebook
Bloglovin
Google+
Pintrest

Keep it scrimpy
Laura.

#BEDM- My First Job

I have had a job in some form or another for nearly 4 years now, currently I work at my local pub and I love it much unlike my first job

My First job was awful. I met some seriously amazing people that made the job tolerable. I worked at my local chinese restaurant, actually to be fair the job wasn't too bad. My manager was a bitch.

I was just 15 when Alex and I called in asking for jobs before our holiday to Turkey, turns out we both got 'interviews' (it was more of when can you start) and the job. Although we very rarely worked together, when we did we kicked ass!

Long story short, the place was very dodgy and very overpriced, about a year after I started working there I gained my food hygiene and safety certificate through my volunteer work and there were a few too many things wrong with that place for my liking.

The manager/owner was a total cow, while I accept that she does own the place and she did employ me so she was the boss but, the way she spoke to and treated some customers and even her own staff was totally unacceptable.

Anyway, I got the sack after a year and a half after I told her that she shouldn't push her daughter in to choosing the GCSE options that she wanted her to pick. Also, I think she found out that I had another job. From there I went the work at the Old Mill which was a much nicer atmosphere to work in.

Well that wasn't too much of a rant, could have gone worse. I feel really bad for these being text based posts but I don't have any photos of me from back then.

Keep it scrimpy
Laura

#BEDM- Pets

Finally a post where I'm not complaining about revision!

Okay. so pets, well there is only one little beauty I'm talking about today, LUCKY!

She is literally the most beautiful thing in the world to me. We got her as a rescue when she was 1 or 2 , even today we aren't entirely sure how old she is. Anyway, long story short she was in a bad way when we got her but with all the love and attention (and food) she was soon a totally different dog.

I seriously don't know what I would do without her, she was my rock when my parents broke up the second time round and all through their divorce her bright eyes and wagging tail kept me going on even the darkest of days.

Here are some very cute photos of her for you all to enjoy, everyone say awww!

Yes, that is my dog wearing my jumper.

'What you lookin' at'

She LOVES the water (unless it's a bath)

The snow is quite tasty as well apparently

Sleepy dog

Keep it scrimpy
Laura.

#BEDM- Bank holiday 'fun'

While some of you may have been enjoying the amazing weather we seem to be having this bank holiday (it's even been sunny in Bangor) I have, yet again been stuck with my head in a text book revising. I sound like a whiny bitch don't it?

Anyway after a day of serious hardcore revision and a few too many F.R.I.E.N.D.S clips from YouTube (yes I watched the whole thing), I spent the evening with the crazy gang who I'm living with next year and Giselle (who sadly I'm not living with next year). Finally tonight was spent with the lovely Richard who had never seen despicable me, until tonight that is!

I hope you all had a much better bank holiday than I did.

I was all curled up in bed, until about 2 mins ago when I realised that I hadn't pressed the post button on this post. Oops!

Keep it scrimpy
Laura 

#BEDM- Fit and Healthy

I am in no way fit. Bitch hill is a daily struggle, I’m counting down the days left, next year I don't plan to walk up it much at all. 

Over summer my big plan is to work on getting fit and being more ‘outdoorsy’, we shall see how well that goes.

 My one plus point is that I do eat reasonably healthy  I can be found raiding the isles of aldi for amazing 39p fruit and veg on a weekly basis. For a student I don’t really eat a lot of processed foods, although bacon oatcakes are my downfall in life (Thank You very much to Richard who picked them up for me from TESCO today, I'm a classy girl you see). I would much rather make my own pizza from scratch than order one in, it's more fun and healthy-ish.

Lets hope this summer brings more gym trips and outdoors adventures than bacon oatcakes.

Keep it scrimpy.
Laura

#BEDM- Five Fave Blogs

It's been hard enough picking these five but here they are in all their glory.

http://www.loraloves.com/ Firstly Lora has a great name, she was my partner in the valentines day gift swap that I posted about a whole month after valentines day and her blog is super cute 

http://www.ladie-sadie.com/ Sadie leads a very interesting life down in London and her ‘made it Monday’ posts are brilliant.

http://fashion-train.blogspot.co.uk/ I have known Becca for what feels like forever, we went to high school together and it has been too long since we had a catch up. I remember her blog when it was first starting out, she totally kicks ass at blogging!

http://glitternglue.com/ I Love this blog, it’s where I get most of my crafty inspirations from, the tutorials are so easy to follow and for most of the projects you can reuse stuff you already had, very scrimpy indeed.

http://helloterrilowe.blogspot.co.uk/ - She's a fellow Stoke-on-trent lass and has a photogenic cat. Her blog is varied, one day talking about running shoes, the next day hot chocolate. She also tweets strange things occasionally.

Please do pop over and pay them a visit, maybe even say hello, they are all very friendly and don't bite, I promise.

Now I'm off to watch Bridget Jones with on over sized bar of chocolate, a massive bag of doritos and copious amounts of vodka . May the Fourth be with you.

Keep it scrimpy
Laura.

#BEDM- A day in the life of...a student

I'm not even going to lie, I have been a total lazy bitch today. The maintenance people woke me up because they came to clean my shower head at about 11am and since I didn't have a lecture until 4 most of the day with my head stuck firmly in a textbook so there isn't all that much exciting stuff to show you.

The joys of revising 

I rediscovered a few old doodles from my lecture notes...

and made some beautiful revision cards

When I did finally stroll down to my 4pm lecture I found Al, who was a little worse for wear after last night.

I'm glad to say we did all make it through the lecture which was then followed by another 2 hour meeting for poor Al, but for me it was followed by a trip to the pub for drinks to celebrate finishing all of my first year lectures!

The burgers from the Belle Vue are delish!

This evening has so far consisted of a little more revision, a much needed skype session to the lovely Hubbert and Lambrini.

All in all a very good day. Have a good weekend everyone!

Keep it scrimpy
Laura.

#BEDM- Spring

Firstly, Happy Birthday Clive!

Now, onto the topic of spring. It’s a confusing time for me, the weather is lovely and shit all at the same time. I need to stay in and revise but the nice weather makes me want BBQ’s on the beach and the rubbish weather makes me all sad. Plus my wardrobe is confused as well, we had some nice weather before easter so I was convinced spring was here to stay and packed all my winter woollens up and took them home bringing back the summery stuff. In typical wales fashion it pissed it down constantly leaving me totally unprepared.

On a more serious note spring for me usually means exams. GCSE’s Alevels and now uni exams, it’s the most stressful time of the year for me but it also signals that I'm nearly there, summer is almost here and it’s nearly time to relax.

Nearly, not quite though and on that note, I'm going back to my revision.

Oooh look a scary crow...

Keep it scrimpy
Laura

#BEDM - 5 Lines...About me

I’m Laura, the crazy money saving student studying geography in Bangor.

Wales beautiful but it rains a lot.

I miss my dog more than anything else from home.

I have watched Mamma Mia at least 3 times in the past 3 weeks.

My friends are just as crazy as me.