Piss Up in Glasgow

So I spent the weekend in Glasgow with Graham to meet all his college friends. I was really nervous, but luckily I arrived a few hours before they did and only had to meet 2 at a time. I made homemade brownies that Catherine-Rose taught me to make. I also made Chocolate Oatmeal Candy...a family recipe which was a great success.

I arrived to Glasgow on the train around 6 PM. We took all my stuff to Graham’s and then went back into the city center. Glasgow is HUGE...about 7 times Edinburgh, so very different for me. Because we had not planned where to eat on Friday we pulled a “where do you want to eat...no where do you want to eat”. I hate that, so finally after an hour of walking I decided on McDonald’s. Graham doesn’t eat McDonald’s, so I figured that would teach him. haha. He didn’t order anything, but ate my fries. :( Unfortunately I won a free cheeseburger on the Monopoly game thing...so he ate that!

At 11:30 Matt and Dom made their debut. Matt is uber-gay. Dom is in the closet...pretty sure! ha. So within 5 minutes of meeting them I had insulted them and given them each a “booty snake”. I stuffed them with brownies and forced them to like me with my hospitality and general good nature (haha I’m not 100% about this, but I feel these aspects of me are commonly loved bahahhhaha). Working my charm as usual! We played singstar that night....OH.MY.GOD. I am horrible at this game. I really wish there had been a video for when Matt and I sang Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”. The dance moves and off key singing were classic!

Hollyoaks is a soap opera here. A while back there was a character named Tiffany whose daughter’s name was Courtney. Dom and Matt decided to start calling me Courtney for the weekend! I now enjoy Courtney as my alter ego. I think I will claim “Courtney did it” anytime I do something mean, out of line, or inappropriate!!!

Saturday consisted of Matt cooking us a proper breakfast and meeting the 4 additional friends. I know Bully and Fiona because they are how I know Graham. Lisa and Bex were girls that did their MSc with Bully and Graham. So now you know everyone’s name! Saturday was full of Graham and I going back and forth to his flat to take all their shit back, let them change, etc. Sadly Graham lives like 15-20 mins from the city centre...by bus or train! Ugh, so annoying.

Finally made it to dinner at an Italian restaurant. This was after we lost Bex and Lisa at the subway station. Graham had to go find them. RIDICULOUS!!! After drinking the most wine and taking loads of photos, it was time for dessert. I ordered Tiramisu and got basically a cake soaked in coffee. Gross. So I was just drunk enough to tell the waiter about it. Mind you this is a country where people are asked if everything is alright and they always say YES! I asked him if that was really Tiramisu and told him that it wasn’t. haha Courtney was in full force for the rest of the night.

We went to a bar that specialized in Bloody Mary’s. They were awful, but I don’t think I was expecting them to be perfect. We then moved on to a bar that had comfy leather sofas and was super nice! I added to my drunken state with Long Island Iced Teas that I was drinking as if they were plain coke. NOT GOOD!! I was completely inappropriate, all over my boyfriend, and bringing Fiona’s out of his shell.

We later moved on to Oran Mor for some dancing. Again, Courtney was in full forced and dominating the dance floor. We danced on the stage...no need to dance with the commoners. hahaha. We went back to Graham’s where he let Fiona and Bully have his bed. Problem is his flatmate has a cat and I’m very allergic to cats. No dice! I broke out in hives and was having trouble breathing due to being relegated to the living room. At about 5 AM I took a nice hot bath to wash off the “cat” haha!

Sunday we had another lovely breakfast cooked by Matt! Then we all just hung out around the city! Matt and Dom left late that evening. Fiona and Bully left around 2-3. The 2 girls left that morning. So Graham went to his weekly football (soccer) game while I napped. We cooked pizzas and just watched movies. Unfortunately I slept through the movie due to my now inflamed respiratory system!! haha

I ended up staying on Monday to go shopping. I didn’t even think to get his keys since he lives so far out, but probably should have done so. I spent 8 hours shopping (alot of window shopping) and reading in Starbucks. I basically loitered there for 3 hours!

The title of this blog comes from Matt’s weekend itinerary. He’s into politics and does alot of organizing of events for the political party for which he works. So for the weekend he had a really cool itinerary with maps, numbers, and details! The title was “Piss Up in Glasgow 2008”. haha. To get pissed is to get drunk. So a ‘piss up’ is basically a drinking event! haha

Now it’s back to work!!! :( I have a dissertation presentation next Tuesday! woooo

Graham and my new gay lover, Matt!!!