Bank holiday weekend

The past week seems to have gone by in a blur.

I had 2 resits last week, one on Tuesday and the other on Friday. The first one was an utter disaster. Never have I sat through an examination feeling so useless and dumb. It was like my mind was a complete blank. Luckily, it wasn't the same for the Friday exam.

After my exam ended at 5.30pm on Friday, I rushed to town to meet Stuart for dinner. We went to La Tasca for lovely lovely tapas (50% off with a voucher at studentbeans.com!). After that we went to see The Expendables, starring every big action star you can think of. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke... Even Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis had cameo appearances.

It wasn't quite what I expected. Then again, I think I went in having really high expectations. It was really quite cheesy, although the action scenes were pretty fantastic. However, it was very much like The A-Team, with some ridiculous fighting scenes and some incredibly cringe-worthy dialogue. Overall though, I quite enjoyed it. I think my dad would love it, simply because of the fight scenes.

Last weekend was bank holiday weekend, so Stu didn't have to go to work on Monday. We spent most of Saturday and Sunday playing games (me on the computer with Sims3 and Stu on his PS3 with Batman: Arkham Asylum and Infamous).

We did go out on Saturday night with Stu's friends to Rock City. I'd never been there before, but always wanted to, so we decided to go. We got to town early, so we went to a bar called Spanky Van Dykes. How cool is that name? Love it. :) Haha. We had a drink there whilst waiting them. As it turned out, 10 minutes later, they arrived and went into the bar right next door to the one we were in, even though Stu had told them where we were. In the end, we just went to Rock City to wait for them. There was a gigantic queue outside, which Stu said could mean that there was a gig on in the club. However, we found out later that it was just the queue for some guestlist, and that the regular queue was basically empty. So we were whizzed in, paid a fiver each for entry and proceeded to wait for people. After about 15 minutes, Stu's friends Mandy, Helen, Rhiannon (hehe I checked Facebook to get the spelling right!) and Jake arrived, and we went in search of drinks.

Rock City is... nice. (Lol!) The music is quite different from what I listen to (obviously, judging from the name of the place, they play rock music). The club has different rooms playing different kinds of music, similar to Oceana. We walked around through all the rooms, but my favourite was the largest one, because at least that played music that I actually recognised. The other rooms had, I don't know, would I even call that music? They played stuff which, to me, was basically a beat, no melody, and someone screaming.

The crowd is pretty interesting too. I was fascinated with the kind of outfits (if you can call them that) that some of the girls wore. Some wore stuff that just looked like a bandage around their boobs. Some didn't even wear any kind of top, just some sort of tape covering her nipples (Stu pointed this one out to me, big surprise there)  and practically no skirt or shorts either, just fishnet stockings. I don't even think she was wearing underwear of any sort, and if she was, it had to be really tiny, because I honestly didn't see any. The number of girls wearing really short, basically almost non-existent skirts and shorts... Well, let's just say, if I was in any other club, I probably wouldn't see anyone dressed like that.

All in all, I had a pretty great night. It was a little boring at first, because I didn't know any of the music that was playing, but as the night went on, I knew more stuff. It's so nice to go to a club and dance and let my hair down, I haven't been in so long. Makes me miss Ocean and Oceana so much. :(

On Monday, Stu was very much intent on playing Infamous on his PS3, but I wanted to go into town to get new flats, since the ones I have had holes in the bottom (I wore them to Rock City and it was disgusting). We got to town and bought some food from Greggs. Stu had a chicken and bacon baguette and I had a very yummy steak and mushroom lattice. I wanted to go to Primark, so we stood outside the back entrance of the store to finish our food. Stupid yucky pigeons were hanging around near us, waiting hopefully for crumbs or something. Don't get me wrong, I love all animals, but pigeons are my least favourite bird (along with crows). They're all germ-infested and I especially hate it when you're walking along and a big flock of them fly up in a flurry. Gross! Imagine all the germs getting all stirred up from them! Eww.

We finally got into Primark, where I bought a bag (it's so pretty, dark green with gold studs), a pair of grey flats with silver studs and a pair of nude coloured peeptoe heels. Altogether, they only cost me £23, which is pretty cheap for 3 items! :) We then ventured into Victoria Centre, where I got a new mascara at Boots. We also went to Game and HMV because Stu wanted to look at PS3 games. I saw the Sims3 Ambitions expansion pack, but I thought it was too expensive at £24.99, but my lovely boyfriend saw I really wanted it and bought it for me! :) :) :) We then went to Tesco to buy stuff to make for dinner and then we took a taxi home. Almost straight away, I started the game and Stu returned to playing Infamous.

Holly came over for drinks and a chat around 10pm. Somehow the conversation moved from the new guy she's seeing to dreams, and then to ghost stories. She only left at almost 1am. Stu was absorbed with his game that he didn't even remember he had work the next day until I said I was surprised he was staying up so late in spite of the fact that he had work in the morning. Haha!

Yesterday, Stu left work early so we could watch Avatar in the cinema again. I cried so much more watching it this time than when I went to see it with Okkar and Kan. The story is just so sad! I love that movie. :) After that, because the weather was nice, we walked back home from town. Stu also made me watch some '80s science fiction film called Tron, because we saw a trailer in the cinema which is either a remake or a sequel. Sigh, boys and their sci-fi stuff.

Hmm, this month we've seen 10 movies at the cinema. The Unlimited cards we got sure are being put to good use! :)