Things I'm Lovin' Right Now

Heyyyyyaaaaa.  So I'm back, I'm blogging and I'm boogieing.  I thought I would talk about some of the things that I am loving right now, and let me tell you this:  there are an infinite amount of things that this gal loves but only a few lucky contenders will be making it onto the list.  

Netflix addiction summed up in 1 gif

1. With the weather already turning to a dismal mess and university due dates looming closer and closer I have found myself becoming increasingly distracted with, arguably, the number one thing that I am loving right now:  Netflix and chill lol jk nobody loves me.  There is a drastic difference between being in a committed relationship with your Netflix account and having an actual obsessed, crazy, addiction.  It will probably come as no surprise to hear that my current relationship with my Netflix is the latter and as of late I have found myself viewing TV late into the night and then rolling over first thing in the morning and starting all over again.  I have all of the symptoms of addiction and after doing some extensive research on Lookatyourdrinking.com (lol what dissertation?) I have come to realize that by substituting the word drink with Netflix every now and then the webpage could have been written about me:

1. Tolerance - You're able to drink binge watch episodes more and more, and you need more to get the same effect.
2. You drink watch more episodes for longer than you planned to (loss of control)
3. More and more of your time is taken up by drinking watching Netflix and recovering from drinking watching Netflix.
4. You have fewer or no more social contacts life and you work and enjoy leisure activities less or not at all due to drinking watching Netflix

I promised myself after my last relapse (the great Orange Is The New Black addiction of 2014, closely following the infamous Gossip Girl addiction of the same year) that I would never let myself get this way again.  I carefully distanced myself from Netflix for a while, I went outside and breathed in the fresh air and reminded myself of what it meant to be alive.  I watched Grey's Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother while carefully alternating between shows just as I started to care about one of them and it worked like magic for a while until

When the obsession hits hard

one day I began the next episode of How I Met Your Mother and then BOOM!! just like that it hit me... I cared! It all happened so quickly and took me by such surprise because I am usually so emotionless, dark and twisty (shout out to Meredith Grey) and uncaring.  But I could not deny it and before I knew it I cared so much.  And so I have baracaded myself in my room and binged just about 3 seasons of HIMYM (that's how the cool kids type it) in little more than 2 weeks.  It's not my fault that I care more about those fun friends than my dissertation, maybe if my dissertation was abundant in fun catch phrases, running jokes, Canadian teen pop sensations and adorkably adorable guys then I would have made more progress but as it stands just now How I Met Your Mother sits at the top of my list of things I want to do with my day and my dissertation sits around 3 from the bottom - beating out only punching Taylor Swift in the face (I WOULD NEVER!) and killing myself.  

Anyway, the positives from this situ are that I have been able to compile a list of ways to make my life more like a sitcom and I have found a fun Halloween costume for 2015 - Robin Sparkles, eh!

Stepping into Halloween 2015 like "Lets go to the mall, eh!"

bagels.  I cannot stop eating bagels.

2. So one day I woke up and realized that a part of my soul had died.  I came to this conclusion after I realized that I just wasn't feeling my homemade soup anymore (what the fuck right!?).  I just wasn't all about that soup life anymore and it was because I had found a new love.  As one door closes another opens and in this case it was a big ole bag of bagels behind the new door.  I don't know when I decided bagels were the new hip, fun and cool lunch in town but I fell hard for the bagels and after stealing a couple from the old flatmates I finally made my first ever bagel purchase today.  Perhaps I became such a bagel enthusiast when I decided to change my personality.  I decided I needed guidelines for how I was going to live out my life as a newly independent, unemotional  and (as always) dark and twisty muthafucka.  I drew a spider diagram split into 6 sections: 

1. Personality traits to keep (Including fun, funky, popular, cool, scheming)
2. Personality traits to ditch (Including needy, codependent, caring too much about certain things)
3. Things to do (including buying a fun hat, blog more, accept that I can be alone, take a break from making soup, write a song...)
4. Things to don't (including let people see you cry, seek out the company of others 24/7, ask for help writing your song)
5. Potential new catch phrases (including "Oh calamity!" "Look at the Haim!" "Is that the Haim already?"
6. Potential new interests ( Including Bagels, baking, tennis, grave robbing, poetry and the ducks... like feed them more and talk about them and stuff)

dark and twisty, dark and cloudy, and the namesake of Tays first cat!

I just love cats.

I decided I would channel some of my favourite female protaganists:

• Alice from Alice In Wonderland (what a curious little devil and she owned a cat)
• Hermione Granger (Get all studious and stuff, so far this hasn't worked.  Also she owned a cat)
• Robin Sherbatsky (Spend more time focusing on my career and myself and being more IDGAF, eh! She owned a dog but still)
• Blair Waldorf (Every day I ask myself: what would Blair Waldorf do?  Be the best thats what she would do! Had a cat in the books)
• Meredith Grey (Dark and twists init! Namesake of Tays cat)
• Holly Golightly (she had a cat and shit and if there is one thing I love in this world it is cats!!!  I love cats so much.  I could talk about cats all day.  I.  Love.  Cats!)

So to sum up... the point is I love bagels now

3. Music is like food for the soul (Queen G., 2015. youcancallmequeeng.blogspot.co.uk [Online]).  

rocking it

The only thing better than music is free music!  So recently I have been lovin' Spotify and all my new fun playlists: Shirley Bushy, Snoop Zebra, Fourth Year Get Psyched Mix... the list goes on but I shall not!).  Anyhoo, I have been thoroughly enjoying Saint Motel - My Type is especially #relatable ("You know you're just my type, you got a pulse and you are breathing" I feel ya, I love boys, I am so alone).  I've been enjoying a bit of Frank Sinatra also, what a guy!

It's hella fun browsing the different mood sections and coming across songs that I had forgotten existed, especially ones that make me feel nostalgic and shit.  If I had to give a song recommendation it would have to be Magnets by Lorde though, I have repeated myself until I'm blue in the face but I'll say it again: Lorde is far sillier than you would first imagine!  One day I would like to commit my day, and maybe even my life, to our Lorde and saviour and have her teach me the ways of a New Zealand teen pop sensation.  Perhaps one day I can meet all of the teen pop sensations of the world and start a band.  They can sing the theme tune for my new TV show I would like to produce: Wine Moms who all look similar and solve crimes together (starring Olivia Benson, Fiona Bruce, Eleanor Waldorf and Veronica Hastings and guest starring L's mum Cazzz because although she doesn't look like them she gives of just the right cool, calm, collected and terrifying vibe as the other ladies.)

dem moves

I no longer know where I am going with this blog post or my life so I'm going to say a sorrowful "goodbye" and an enthusiastic "I'll see you soon" because that's it from this very unfocused blog post.

The moral of the story is that at the mall having fun is what it's all aboot.

Until next time

xoxo,

Queen G!

The Random Fact Tag

We here at TheLifeOfFry asked Queen G 20 fun questions about herself. Here's what she had to say...

1. Your favourite Halloween costume?
Last year I dressed up as a mermaid and that was a lot of fun, almost as much fun as it was meeting Ariel at Disneyland during the summer!  #Apartofyourworld
 

I've got gizmos and gadgets aplenty.

2. What's the last film you watched?
The last film I watched was Gone Girl but I'd already seen it before in the cinema, the last new film I watched at the cinema was 50 Shades of Grey and the last film I watched on DVD was The Shining. #Filmaddict 

3. How did you spend this valentines day this year?
Do you mean Galentines day?  My best friend B and I went on a wondrous adventure of the city, B even bought me a rose.  Then then we bought a Chicken named Chuck for the third member of our trio - L. 

Leslie always Knopes whats up

4. Have you ever thought about what you would name your children?
Yes, yes I have!  Ive probably spent a little too much time thinking about it to be honest. Here are some of my fave girls and boys names.
Girls - Piper, Paige, Elena, Hollie, Blair, Aria. 
Boys - Nate, Christian and Sam

5. What song do you secretly love to blast?
Probably 2008 Miley Cyrus (See You Again is a personal favourite) 

6. What is a weird dream you've had?
Well I have probably had some of the weirdest dreams known to man.  One time I dreamt that I had to go to an institution to get a head transplant, another time I had a dream that I was in The Hunger Games and there was a volcano that erupted poisoned apples.  I also had a dream that I was being chased by a shark but the chase quickly stopped when I decided to offer the shark some Nachos, I awoke quickly when I realised it was a dream because the Nachos weren't soggy. 

7. Favourite Harry Potter book and movie?
The Prisoner of Azkaban was for sure my fave Harry Potter book, movie wise I am a little less certain.  The Goblet of Fire was a lot of fun as was The Deathly Hallows Part 1 however Azkaban holds a special place in my heart.

8. Who is your celebrity crush?
Ed Westwick - I love him so much I can't even #Cantbreathe #AllaboutthatBass

3 words, 8 letters.

It's chuck and a duck, has there ever been a more perfect picture?  I don't think so.

9. What is your go to perfume?
Taylor Swift Wonderstruck #Smellsofhopegloryandtriumph #AnythingtobealittlemoreTay

10. What is your favourite cereal?
Honey nut cheerios 

11. What is your favourite cuisine?
Mexican.  Fun Fact: I am not a fan of Queso despite what my friend B will tell you.

12. What is your favourite emoji and your most used emoji?
Fave emoji - moonface, dancing duo and sassypants girl
Most used - face that's laughing so much its crying 

13. If you had to go get a tattoo right now what would it be of?
A portrait of my cat Harvey because yolo.  But for reals I would probably get some kind of cat tattoo because I'm about that life.

14. Your catchphrase?
"It was a lot of fun" and "Yus Hilary"

15. Your favourite holiday you've been on?
I went on an adventure to Australia and that was a lot of fun! I swam with dolphins and rode a horse and ate a whole lot of BBQ.  Fun Fact: I ate some Kangaroo.  I also went to America for a summer and taught at a summer camp and I loved it #bestsummerever #MadeANewBestFriend #ThingOneAndThingTwo

Snorkeling with dolphins

#prosurfer

#Horsecamp

16. What are you reading at the moment?
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn - it's no Gone Girl but it is a compelling read nonetheless.

17. What occupation did you want to have when you were a kid?
Dolphin trainer yo. 

18. What is your shoe size?
UK 4 #petitebutperfectlyadequate 

19. How many piercings have you got?
I have my ears pierced, cartilage pierced and my belly button.  Fun fact:  I almost died when I got my belly button pierced because it hurt so much and I cried for 30 days and 30 nights.

20. Share your top 3 favourite pictures from your life?

G and C in Chicago, love that city!

This is an actual picture of G touching TayBae #DreamsDoComeTrue

G and her cohorts aka best friend and living acquaintances.

I tag Beth-Oh-La to answer this, and anyone else who wants to have a go!

10 Reasons Why Popcorn Is Your Best Friend

I think it's about time I share one of Queen G's many passions with you.  We hear that Queen G has a special place in her heart for a light, fluffy snack - Popcorn.  Popcorn is delicious and never fails to satisfy.  Fun Fact: G's favourite flavour of popcorn is Salted microwavable popcorn.

Here are 10 reasons why popcorn is your best friend:

1. It listens to all your problems without interrupting or judging you.
2. It's a fast, it only takes roughly 3 minutes in the microwave.
3. It likes all the same TV shows and movies as you.
4. Compared to other snacks popcorn is relatively good for you which means you can eat a lot more of it before you get heart disease than you can with other snacks. 
5. Also it takes ages for popcorn to fill you up so even when you're full you always have space for popcorn.
6. The owners of Sea World hate popcorn so if you don't like popcorn then you basically support Sea World and all of the terrible things they do to the poor whales.
7. Taylor Swift probably likes popcorn so technically every time you eat it you become a little more TayBae
8. Almost 200 people die a year from choking on popcorn which makes it one of the top 5 most dangerous snacks so eating popcorn makes you super bad ass.
9. Plus if you are eating lots of popcorn it means there is less popcorn in the world for other people to choke on so it also makes you really selfless!
10. Unlike with chocolate, dogs can eat popcorn - within moderation, I mean I wouldn't pop a whole bag for them but a couple of pieces here and there is fine - so its a fun snack you can share with your dog when you are cuddling with them on a Saturday night, watching the notebook and crying about how you're going to be alone forever.

This list of reasons why popcorn is a lot of fun goes on but I shall not.  Suffice it to say that you should definitely get some more popcorn in your life right now, literally now.  Put on your walking shoes, take the the streets in the general direction of your nearest supermarket with like £3 in your pocket and get some popcorn in your life.  Macklemore said he only had $20 in his pocket so he went to the thrift shop but we reckon he would have been left feeling far more satisfied if he had went to Sainsbos and spent that $20 on popcorn.  He was happy poppin tags but G would rather pop some corn.

He should have popped some corn instead.