Pizza Party

Last Friday I had some spare time, for once, so I decided to film a whole bunch of YouTube videos for my channel, so I could post them over the next couple of weeks when I am again really busy. I was just about to start editing when I got a text from Kate saying that some of them were at The Merlin, which is about two minuets from my flat, so I went out to meet them. My flat then got volunteered for a pizza party (which I was totally okay with). 

"And what was your name?"
"Kyra Jones?"
"Sorry?"
"K-y-r-a Jones"
"So thats K-i-r-a J-e-r-m-s?"
"... yes."

After getting our pizza, Keira, Ali, Eve, Kate, Becky and I headed back to my flat, where Jack later joined us. Ali again brought his set of Cards Against Humanity, and we played that and ate a lot of pizza.

Just to give you some idea of what sorts of things are written on the white cards - I'm not kidding when I say this is a game for terrible people. It is fun, but also incredibly horrifying.

Eve and Becky were threatening to never leave my flat - they really liked how cozy my blanket is.

 In the end, Kate and I tied for the win with ten cards each.

Half of these I can't remember what I put down, and the other half I'm not telling. "I drink to forget" was "sea of troubles". There. Thats one.

Another fun night in with friends :)

Pancake Party

So Fat Tuesday or Pancake day is apparently a pretty big thing here. I honestly had no idea what was going on when Eve invited me to a pancake party, I just heard pancakes and was THERE. Because I didn't want to share the kitchen with other people (I'm not very good at that) I made my pancakes before going over to Laura's. I really wanted to make Æbleskiver but my pan is currently in Canada and I am too poor to buy one here. However, I was telling Eve about this and she asked me if I thought a cake pop maker would work. I thought it might, and so did Connie, and it turned out that Eve actually owned one, so I borrowed it and... 

AREN'T THEY CUTE?! It worked really well, they were smaller than Æbleskiver usually are, but still tasty! I also made some normal yoghurt pancakes, and then headed over to Laura's.

However, everyone else was apparently much less prepared than me, and as I arrived they were all leaving, heading out to the store to buy flour and other ingredients, but the Sainsbury's by Laura's was actually out of flour (like, pancake tuesday is a really big thing over here for something I was totally unaware of). So there was a bit of challenge in finding ingredients, but we managed, and headed back to Laura's for Æbleskiver, yoghurt pancakes, crepes, and Swedish pancakes (it was a very diverse group of pancakes). The Æbleskiver were, of course, a hit, because they are awesome, and Melissa and I promoted the joys of real maple syrup to everyone else.

After pancakes, Ali brought out his edition of Cards Against Humanity that he had gotten for his birthday. I had to leave before the game ended as I had to get up at seven the next day, but Alix apparently won.

Alix Had A Birthday, Turned An Age

We now return from a weekend of English geekery to our regularly scheduled programming.

Friday and Saturday were fairly uneventful - I spent most of those days sat at my computer in the living room, working on various things but mainly fielding questions and dealing with problems arising around the book projects. Sunday was a nice break from that, as people either had run out of problems or seemed to have done all they could until Monday...

Sunday was also Alix's birthday, and she decided to have a crepe party, because Alix has the best party ideas. 

I recently bought some new (drug store brand - gasp!) turquoise mascara, that, unlike the navy blue mascara that I have, is an obvious blue, and really fun to wear. I decided to pair it with a blue lip gloss from indie makeup company Lime Crime that Shanni gave me last year, but that I haven't really had a lot of opportunities to wear yet.

Why I decided to wear what is probably the most labour intensive lipstick colour in terms of maintenance if you are eating or drinking anything, on a night filled with eating and drinking, is a mystery. Even I don't understand my choices.

Walking to Alix's was once again an adventure - you may remember the last time I was at her place for a party, I ended up walking home at 1am fairly tipsy, on FaceTime with Logan so I didn't get murdered. I once again decided to take the short cut through the NHS complex, figuring that, at 8pm and sober, it couldn't be that bad - and yet.

I kind of got lost again - I found my way through the whole complex, but couldn't figure out where I had entered last time. I found the gate that I tried to get through last time that was locked (it was locked again) but couldn't find the pedestrian entrance through which I ended up getting in last time. Instead, I ended up in a little park behind more NHS buildings, which was kind of sketchy, but I did get to see a bunny!

Instead of FaceTiming Logan, I was snapchatting him, figuring he would be amused by me once again getting lost and freaked out in the same frigging short cut.

But it would seriously take so much extra time to walk around the NHS complex, it is really so much better to cut through it. BUT! I survived, it was all good, and I got to Alix's carrying my whipped cream, strawberries, and wine... (it was a crepe party remember). Alix made some excellent crepes (she was flipping them in the air, it was terribly impressive) and everyone brought toppings, while Harriet also bought a cake, so, y'know, a really healthy evening for food :P

Melissa, Rachel, Me

Leanne, Alix, Harriet

Leanne wrote Alix a Mad Libs in her birthday card, which we all helped fill in, and was really funny (but doesn't bear repeating).

Leanne-as-Alix, Alix

Laura, me

A+ photobomb

We also played Cards Against Humanity, which I had heard a lot about, but had never had the chance to play before then - it was just as hilarious and disturbing as I had been promised.

Unlike most of the party games you've played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.

The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card.

Its basically Apples to Apples, but for terrible people. It is absoloutly hilarious, so long as you are willing to let go of any basic human decency - as a general rule, it is the person who has the most horrific (and thus probably funny) card who wins each round. The person with the most black cards at the end wins. I wasn't even close to winning, but the three black cards above are the rounds I won.

To give you an example, for the "What's the next Happy Meal toy?" I won with a card that said "Edible Underwear". And that is so far from being the worst thing anyone put down that night.

Joneses, we need to play this game sometime. Maybe not the UK version though. There were a few times where I was nudging the person next to me and getting them to explain the card I'd drawn.

Harriet, Becky, Eve

I'm really not sure why I ask my friends to pose for photos. Although I believe this was because Eve told Becky that she didn't want to pose next to her, because Becky is tiny and would make Eve's head look weirdly huge.

#friendship

Rachel gave me a ride home, as she lives quite close to me, so I didn't have to brave the NHS shortcut of doom twice in one day. A really fun night :)