10 Day Friend Challenge: Day 3 The friend you have the most fun with

I think the most fun times of my life were probably my university days. Particularly before I became unwell, as after that I have never been the same or been able to be as care free, but I have still had some very fun times since.

There are two contenders for this one....although I do have loads of fun with a fair few people, I think the top two are Lauren and Alessandro.

Freshers year, Lauren and Me

My Disney 21st. Katie, Han, Me, Helen, Jen, Lauren

In my first year of university at Liverpool I lived at a student halls campus Carnatic and it was brilliant! You got to know so many people so quickly and so well from all living in a little neighborhood. I am so glad I did otherwise I would have really missed out. 

I was friends with a lot of the boys, as I think we were outnumbered and also I find them easier to get on with sometimes, but I think we all felt that way as besides us the other girls in our halls (Morton) didn't seem particularly pleasant. So I became close to four girls in the first year - Lauren, Helen, Katie and Hannah, and then the next year Jen, when all six of us moved in together.

2nd year Carnage: Helen, Jen, Lauren, Me

Kt & Me rocking out in Lozza's room

 We got up to plenty of mischief and Lauren, like Karen is one of the funniest people I know. When she was drunk she was much more likely to do silly things with me, I didn't need much encouragement as I had got over my very shy stage. We also had much fun winding up our friend and block buddy Russell (all in good humour) such as trying to get him a Russian bride. There were many drunken adventures. Katie was usually involved too or would be my other partner or crime, or Laurens.

Lauren, Me, Katie A night out

Me & Katie

 

 I remember Katie and I going to Tesco in our pj's at 4am one night (which may be common for some scousers but wasn't for us) only to find it was closed, and going clubbing in our pj's to raise money for charity.

Lauren is someone its so easy to feel comfortable around and we can have fun just jumping around the kitchen to cheesy dance or trance music eating peanut butter on toast as well as random adventures into other blocks (Morton had 6 blocks) or getting drunk and being silly. Just talking to her is fun as she has a great sense of humour. I really miss her these days!

Me & Lauren - a meet up after our uni years

Alessandro was in our neighboring block. In the first year I spent most time with an ex friend called Connor who was so much fun and a great friend, until the next year when he got into drugs and turned unstable and into a really nasty piece of work.

Dave, Me and Sandro on a night out, last yr of uni

The last two years I then spent alot of time with Sandro and he is the funniest guy that I know. He comes out with the most ridiculous things and as I hung around with the boys a lot, there was always pranks going on, which I did love as I still loved to embrace my inner child!

No nasty or over the top pranks, just pretty harmless things. He was also a great friend.

A meet up 2 years after uni, my 24th birthday. Raj, Me, Sandro

I don't get to see my university friends very often now, as we all live in different areas of the country sadly, and I really wish we were all just down the road from each other like we used to be. They have given me some great memories. I only hope to have the chance to have some more.

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10 Day Friend Challenge: Day 2: A New Friend

This should have been 'The friend that knows the most about you' but that was too tricky for me because I have moved about a lot. I've been to five different primary schools and lived in Stockport, then Plymouth, then Liverpool, then Stockport again and now Leeds. So it meant it was hard for me to stay close to anyone for more than a certain amount of time. Different people have been closest and know more about different stages of my life.

So I changed it to this: A New Friend

I've made quite a lot of new friends in the past 14 months and also changed boyfriends - all due to moving to Leeds and starting a new job. But one person who I've talked to for a while but only just recently met in person is Mel Matthews!

The two years after uni that I was in limbo unable to work due to illness, I started chatting to people on the More Facebook page and made quite a few lovely online friends on there, who during that time were there for me more than some of my 'real life' friends.

Emma Louise & Cameron

Then when I became unexpectedly pregnant there was one girl I confided in one of them as she had been in a similar situation. That was Emma Louise, and it was such a relief when I felt I couldn't tell anyone else about it at the time.

Just before I found out I was pregnant Mel announced on Facebook that she was, and at after I'd got my head round things I told her I was. I feel I bonded with her due to us sharing out pregnancy 'journey's' together. It was great to have someone else to chat to about things and more exciting too.

I'd always thought Mel seemed really nice - really funny judging by the comments she used to write on the More fan page, and I'm glad I've got to know her a lot better.

Everyone was so excited the day she went into labour and we were all texting her to see how she was doing as it was so exciting. She had a gorgeous baby girl called Neve 25 days before I gave birth to Grace.

When I'd given birth I was waiting a while to announce it as I wanted to be able to tell my mum before putting it on Facebook (however I wish I hadn't bothered - she still hasn't met her granddaughter!) so my sister was the only person I'd told until Mel text and I let her know.

Its weird how someone you've never actually met in real life can seem like a close friend.

I'd never yet met any of the 'Moreo's' as we had been branded, but luckily got the chance to meet Mel, Neve and Kev as her family home is up here and she came to visit.

I was really excited but also nervous as I get a bit like that when meeting new people (even though we talk most days on facebook!) but had a lovely time meeting her. Ash came along with me and Grace met her BFF Neve.

Some pictures from the day:

BFF's meeting =)

BFF's

Lovely Mel with my baba Grace

Neve not happy mummy is holding another baby!

Ash holding gorgeous Neve =)

Me & Neve =)

Kev, Neve, Mel

I wish we could have spent a bit longer with them but we had to rush off and buy Grace some special baby milk before the shop closed =(.

The milk turned out to be the worst one we'd tried so that was a waste of time!

I'm hoping Mel gets to move back up here and when I've got some funds I really would like to meet Emma Louise and her little boy Cameron, as well as some of the other girls at some point.

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10 Day Friend Challenge: Day 1 - Your Oldest Friend

Thanks to the success of the social networking site that is Facebook, we are now able to be 'friends' with people we knew forever ago. I say 'friends' because even though via the internet your lives have reconnected, it is often the case that these people will still not speak to you or ever see you again. Which is sad when you used to be best friends with that person, but more confusing when you didn't, leaving you to wonder why did they add me?

So even though I have a couple of previous best friends from Primary School on Facebook (who I did attempt to talk to) my real oldest friend is the lovely Karen Beech.

Here we are below on a Christmas (eve's eve) night out in Plymouth:

 I met Karen in the fifth and final primary school I went to, when I was a few months into year 6. My mum moved my brother and I from the first two schools because he was bullied by some evil crettins and then we moved schools twice again because of moving house.

Due to this it was hard for me to keep hold of my friends which was upsetting, but I was lucky enough that Karen ended up going to the same high school as me.

We were there for 7 years and as we lived down the road from each other, would often catch the bus and walk home together.

After 5 years when we reached sixth form Karen and I ran student council together and all its events, so spent more time together in school, as we did also because now we had Chemistry and Biology classes together - we hadn't been in the same form before and now we were doing AS - Levels everyone was all mixed up.

Here's Karen on our last ever day of School, when we all dressed up in our old uniforms (we didn't have to wear them for sixth form):

Our friendship continued after school and here she is visiting me at University in Liverpool:

Even though we lived far apart, we kept in touch and saw each other when we could, such as when we were both back in Plymouth and would go out with the old gang.

She came to visit me twice up here in Leeds when I was pregnant and here she is meeting my little girl:

Karen is one of the funniest people I know. She has quite a random sense of humour and she used to come up with such random hilarious conspiracies on our walks home from school. She is also so easy to be friends with, a really friendly girl and someone you can have so much fun with. I consider myself lucky to have a friend like her.

I miss her and wish we lived down the road from each other like we used to, but I'm thankful that even wehn we haven't seen each other for a while, when we meet up, it is still the same :)

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10 Day Friend Challenge

I saw this on Emma Louise's blog - From Fallen Angel to Yummy Mummy and loved it. I don't often find challenges I really like, and this one that Emma came up with herself really appealed to me.

Day 1: Your oldest friend

Day 2: The friend that knows the most about you

Day 3: The friend that you have the most fun with

Day 4: A friend that you feel you have the most in common with

Day 5: A friend you have been on holiday with

Day 6: The friend that you act crazy with

Day 7: A friend your parents love

Day 8: A friend you have had a road trip with

Day 9: A lifechanging event a friend shared

Day 10: Your best friend 

I will be commencing the challenge tomorrow!

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