The Linkables

Rune rings from Etsy. 

I like to stay out of ~internet dramaz~ but I agree with the nasty side of blogging.

Naughty American Apparel.

I love Charlene's recent wishlist (look at that cat skirt!).

Admittedly, I had been going off Gala Darling recently as it seemed she was neglecting her blog, but she's regained her momentum in the last few weeks with some awesome daily posts!

A great post on building self-esteem.

If you're going to San Francisco soon The Guardian have a round-up of blogs you might one to check out. One of the blogs is a burrito blog, I mean come on!

On that note, impress the locals with your knowledge on how San Fransisco streets got their names. (On a side note: I've not been actively Googling SF but I went there when I was six and it remains one of my favourite cities to date).

Top 10 questions millennials ask on the internet.

One of my most dedicated IRL followers got a blog: everyone go say hi to Steph!

I also discovered some Aberdonian blogs this week: The Honest Type, Liparazzi, A Scottish Lass, Twenty Something Beauty, Keeping Up With Katie and The Baking Fashionista (if you're knew to the party I was born in Aberdeen, high five to my quines!).

Another blog discovered this week: Making It Lovely.

And an online magazine aimed towards professional women: Your Coffee Break.

Finally, seven people who prove English majors aren't worthless.

Things I Love Thursdays: Being Vegetarian/Vegan

I'm admittedly not a huge fan of National Vegetarian Week. It seems a little too-shove-my-views-down-your-throat for my liking, even though not eating animals is one of my most upheld morals.

However I am still a vegetarian and a blogger so it makes sense this TiLT post is dedicated towards something veggie related. So I'm going to talk about the benefits of being a veggie girl.

Even though vegetarianism brings with it pitfalls - having to decline party invites to the meat house, elderly relatives still not quite getting it and even guys of my past thinking it's a big issue - there are its benefits which may seem somewhat invisible to those who eat meat (even if they are wishing they didn't).

It forces me to try new foods
Whilst there's nothing stopping a meat-eater trying out smoked tofu and picking up a packet of cashew cheese most meat-eaters I know look at my almond milk with apprehension when they're round at my flat. I certainly never thought about trying it until I went veggie.

It's a 'me too' moment
Just like football clubs, the same home city or the same middle name, finding out someone is also a veggie creates an instant bond as you begin discussing which age we gave up meat at and whether we like Quorn or not.

Veggie dishes are cheaper
Whilst being veggie means I always have to check menus before I arrange to eat out, when I am at the restaurant the veggie dish is usually cheaper. I am still on a graduate salary after all.

Being true to myself
Along with deciding to be tee-total, voting for a niche political party, or being one half of couple that cohabits rather than marries, shunning anything that it outside the 'norm' can be daunting. But no one is ever happy pretending to be someone they're not, and being veggie makes me happy so the questions and odd looks don't bother me. 


Lots of sexy veggie love! 

Dressing as Denmark at Eurovision (or Switzerland, or Netherlands)

 


Absolutely 100% congratulations to Denmark at this year's Eurovision. It is thanks to you I had an excuse to be a little more tipsy than usual. And might have a cheeky trip to Copenhagen next year. 

As usual I decided my country a little bit in advanced. For me picking a country for Eurovision (or any other fancy dress costume) is just sometimes about what feels right and in about February I set my eyes on Denmark - long before they were tipped to win.

This costume was bought from Jokers Masquerade which is where I get a lot of my costumes from. I was a bit apprehensive about picking this for Denmark as it is a actually a Heidi costume so would have been more suited if I had picked Switzerland but I thought it looked similar enough to some traditional Danish costumes I had Googled. The bouncer at ABC thought I was Dutch though so I suppose it is quite a versatile costume. ;)

The shoes are my default going out shoe from New Look and the Carlsberg comes courtesy of everyone's favourite British supermarket Tesco.

Did you dress up for Eurovision this year?

 

Eurovision Party Food 2013

In case you hadn't heard Saturday was Eurovision. And I had a party which was essentially me and some friends watching the show wearing fancy dress. And some of my friends brought food which we pigged on (and also brought alcohol, which we drank up).  

Bringing food to the yearly Eurovision party me and my friend have is optional, however the year it was my turn to host I was especially lucky to have loads of my guest bring food. Gillian brought loads of French themed goodnees across from Edinburgh including strawberry macaroons, French onion dip, breadsticks, Camembert cheese, mini-quiches (both veggie and meat), crisps as well as 'champagne' and Chambord. Completely showed up my Danish pastries and Carlsberg but it all my other guests agreed she did a delish job. 

My other friend also came as Belgium and brought along waffles and chocolates, whereas my friend who was Malta brought along Malteasers. Within the mix we also had some Gin for UK, nettle cheese from the Dutch stall at last week's food stall in St Enoch square, baguettes and Swedish vodka. 

And a lot of it was also left at mine to have a cheeky hungover munch the next day. 

In This Week

Howdy bloggers. How are we today? I'm currently working off my post-Eurovision hangover on my sofa with my duvet, some leftover pizza, a Lindsay Lohan film and some Deaf Havana. There is probably ten million other production things I could be doing right now but this is what I'm settling on.

As for last night my country representation of choice resulted in me drinking Carlsberg (me no likely beer) and taking a 'dirty pint'. I didn't know Denmark was tipped to win it when I picked my costume but I'm not complaining. Well, not much as I truthfully voted for Armenia.

I also broke my ABC Glasgow virginity last night, but it did nothing to remove The Garage as my number one club of Glasgow so far.

Eurovision and hangover love.

A playlist of all the UK Eurovison entries on Spotify

Happy Eurovision!

I'm just about ready to go and I'm currently keeping some of my early guests entertained but I thought I would just drop by to to tell you I made a Spotify playlist of all the UK Eurovision entrants I could find.

I've been wanting to add music to my blog for a while and was going to start the series with a playlist of my favourite all time songs. But I haven't finalised that playlist yet so this is going first (since I did make it last summer).

Because Spotify still needs to add every single song ever and the UK stopped putting forward famous acts sometime ago I was only able to find twenty songs:

Believe In Me - Bonnie Tyler

Love Will Set You Free - Englebert Humperdink

I Can - Blue

Teenage Life - Daz Sampson

Even if - Andy Abraham 

Flying the Flat - Scooch

Touch My Fire - Javine

Say It Again - Precious

Just a Little Bit - Gina G

It's My Time - Jade Ewan

Hold Onto Our Love - James Fox

Love Shine A Light - Katrina and The Waves

Lonely Symphony - Frances Ruffelle

Better The Devil You Know- Sonia

One Step Out of Time - Michael Ball

Power to All Our Friends - Cliff Richard

Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz

Pupper on a String - Sandie Shaw

Boom Bang a Bang - Lulu

Congratulations - Cliff Richard

You can listen to my Spotify playlist here.

All my Eurovision love!