Highlight: Laughing until it hurt AND knowing it was the start of a long weekend 
 AND the glory of our Lord our Jesus dying for our sins...in that order, possibly with some more things inbetween.
 
Embarrassing moment: see below

Why so rowdy? It was a combination of knowing it'the start of a long weekend, a birthday celebration and copious amounts of wine. One of these things may have contributed the most to the rowdiness.  For my friend's birthday, we went to one of these pop-up restaurant things where you get lots of delicious food with personalised service in the chef's living room!! I wasn't entitrely sure what to expect to be honest.  I know that I enjoyed the evening a lot, but I think that may have been more down to the company and the wine (which we brought) than the actual living-room-dining experience. There was a cat on the table before we sat down to eat at it...call me a snob (maybe I am being one), but I'd still paid money and I didn't find that very appetising.  I also found it was eccedingly un-british to use a stranger's loo when sober. Still, four glasses of wine and I caved for a number one...dread to think how many glasses it would've taken if I'd needed a number 2! (Sorry, very crude)

We got very drunk, laughed very hard and were quite rowdy. We were wearing (fairly Christmassy) birthday hats and I think it just brought out the playful children in us.  I'm the first person to roll my eyes at drunk people on the tube when I'm sober, yet I became one of those
annoying people posing for photos in awkward places, walking the wrong way up the escalators and talking gibberish to sober strangers. We made drunk friends. A man made the very silly mistake (of to be fair, probably very drunkenly) falling asleep on our carriage on the tube and we ran around him posing for photos.  He woke up looking very bewildered and about 30 seconds later, another man fell asleep! We did it again.  I was behind him puckering for a kiss and doing a pea To be honest, I felt very young again! (I am only 26, but let's say that I felt 18).  The hangover reminded me, however, that I am not 18.  When I was 18 I would've got up, had some breakfast, watched T4 for an hour and then got on with a normal day.  As a 26-year-old, I spent the best part of the morning with my head over a toilet, hence this post taking so long to appear.  Sorry to mention so many of my bodily fluids today! We're getting to know each other a bit better!

Highlight of the day: I watched a man apologise to an empty pram on the tube because he trod on it...I'm all for gentlemanly, but that seems a bit extreme!

Embarrassing thing I've done today: we got a letter through to our flat last week telling us not to use any water (taps, shower, toilet!) between 9 and 12 today as they were doing something to the pipes and we would flood our flat and die a horrific death, or something or nothing.  My flatmate and I made a great plan for using the shower in turns to make sure we were out in time and had been talking about it all evening yesterday and also this morning.  Then, I unwittingly (thinking that I'd finished the pre-9 shower/coffee/brush teeth/toilet challenge) used my super sticky Lynx hair gel cum cream and needed to wash my hands before stickifying the tube.   My housemate told me not to worry as she had that weird hyperclean hyperclear sanitising gel thing that you can use instead of soap and water.  I used it, chatting away to her as I rubbed it in, proud of my non-water-using abilities.  Then, whilst telling her how proud I was, instinctively turned on the tap to wash it off as if it was soap! Entire point of the exercise lost in a split second.  Turns out that nothing flooded and we didn't die a horrific death though, so, you win some, you lose some.
 
Why was today so reunited? Because I went for a leaving drinks for a girl who's leaving my old job at my previous company.  I had a lot of fun.  I only left a month ago, but it already felt weird to see people.  One guy (who I love) told me how sad he was when I left and that he was going to go to the head of the company and ask him to give me a payrise to convince me to stay, until he heard that actually I was going to a better company with better pay anyway.  He was really nice about  me and my work, so that was truly lovely anyway and it was also great to see some people I haven't seen in a month, who I used to see every day - very reunited.

My day was also reunion-esque as I had a good giggle and PJ + Duncan being number 1 on iTunes after their rendition of Let's Get Ready to Rhumble on their show last week.  I'm not a huge fan of them, but seeing them dance like that as if they were 12 (?) again gave me a right laugh!  On top of that, it's so funny how that skit was a medley of the other acts from ITV's Big Reunion show (like Atomic Kitten and 5ive) but that they have all been on that show for weeks and laid their souls bare, only to have Ant + Dec perform for 1 minute on the end of their medley and get straight to number 1!!

I am keeping every finger and toe crossed that they do another series of reunion and have ETERNAL on it.  I haven't been watching it, because I couldn't care less about Atomic bloody Kitten.  If Eternal were on it, I'd be Just a Step from Heaven and would Stay with that show every night.  I loved Eternal so much.

I also studied a bit of Japanese today.  I should be doing that every day, but, as it stands, it was a reunion after a good couple of weeks of laziness - natsukashi!!

Highlight of the day: see right.  Bugolgi (Korean beef dish) for dinner...something tells me my highlight of the day may often revolve around food.
I've done something stupid today: accidentally pressed the cold water button instead of the hot and made a cold cup of coffee in front of my boss at work (I'm brand new too...way to make a good first impression).  I was so embarrassed about telling him and making him wait even longer for the machine, that I just took it away and drank a few sips until I could run to the toilet and pour it down the sink! Not sure what my other colleague thought when she saw me coming out of the toilet with an empty cup...and it's only just dawned on me now that I could've thrown the cup away in the toilet instead of carrying it back into the office! That really was a 3-minute part of my day where all my brain celles deserted me.  Either she thought I'd taken my coffee in to drink on the loo or that I'd pissed in a cup at my desk and gone to pour it out!

Work wasn't much busier today.  I spent two hours stuck in a room with the only colleague I don't like and listened to her tell me (for 2 hours) about her current woes, which mainly centre on her boyfriend adoring her SO much and she's worried he loves her MORE than she loves him (must be awful.)  Somehow, I survived those two hours and came out the other side in need of a coffee (which turned out to be cold) and some alcohol (which I am sorting now).

The reason my day was Hurwundeki is because I went to a rather random salon cum fashion shop cum homeware shop cum cafe cum restaurant near my flat in Bethnal Green called Huruwndeki Cafe today after work (that sentence is the closest I've come to sex in months).  Hurwundeki means "hair" in a dialect of Korean.  Not that my day was that hairy, in fact, if anything this evening I am far less hairy than I was this morning as I had a haircut there - it only costs £9 for guys.  I then got some bugolgi to takeaway.  I love Korean food (I've been to Korea twice) and looking at the menu made me very tempted to go again and sample the other things they have.   It's BYO booze too, so should work out really cheap.  Meals were mostly under a tenner. I definitely recommend it. 

Highlight of the day: See picture.  Hummingbird red velvet cake (with added chocolate chips...naughty me) and wine.
Lowlight of the day: Getting coughed on on the tube...always nice.

Why unexhaustingly exhausting? Because I had NO WORK to do.  This is pretty rare at my job and, without sounding incredibly selfish, I really didn't want to let on before somebody shat a great load of work on me from a great height.  I had a long week last week, so I thought I deserved a down-day.  The thing is, it's actually incredibly exhausting trying to make yourself look busy all day when all you are in fact doing is checking your facebook and opening the same email again and again and staring at it intently (with the occasional chin clutch for good measure).

Another thing I did today was read the news from the BBC that in a crazy health and safety push, a school has banned triangular flapjacks after a child threw one and it hurt another kid.  Am I the only person thinking that a better solution to the problem would be to do something about the kids lobbing things rather than changing the shape of things to make them slightly less dangerous when lobbed.  I don't imagine they've banned cutlery or trays or any of the other things that are surely more dangerous than triangle flapjacks!! If they banned everything, they'd only be allowed plain soft white bread (cut into oblongs, not triangles of course).  Maybe it's time we went back to turkey twizzlers in the name of safety! They are nice and soft after all, even if they are probably more E-number than meat.

In other safety news, I also had the tube announcer man today telling me "for my own safety" I should not leave newspapers on the station...is that really for my own safety or is it just because it's lazy, rude and dirty? It seems like they'll (not really sure who "they" are...the man or something) put anything down to safety...it's really a bit of an empty phrase now.

What's your craziest safety announcement experience?