A Little Birdy Told Me a Secret...

So last night was my friend Paul's belated birthday celebration (yes we did go to the wild geese to celebrate but there wasn't any cake so it didn't count!). Lara (Still not sure if I'm spelling that right) Neil and I spent some time earlier in the day making muffins for the party. We made both chocolate and vanilla but filled both with chocolate chips and frosted them with chocolate frosting. I managed to get a nice little burn taking the muffins out, but just hissed and avoided dropping them on the floor thankfully.

The other interesting event during baking was when we realized we had to heat the frosting, lacking a working microwave I made a double boiler pot supports over my electric stove with dual butter knife supports. After making my little mechanism I was informed by Lara how much of an engineer I was lol.

After making the muffins we all had a fairly good time, playing a little bit of kings and just generally talking throughout the night. We had a good crowd, around 12 people came which made my kitchen feel rather small and a bit cramped. We did manage to steal enough chairs from Alex and Brendan's room to seat everybody though.

After the party wrapped up I was doing a quick cleaning when Paul knocked on my door, apparently he had missed the last tram back so was going to hang out until the trams started again at 5. We got some burgers and just generally shot the shit until the trams started again and I walked up to my room ready to catch some sleep before our 3 o'clock orientation coming up that afternoon.

As I dozed fitfully I was rudely awoken around 8 or so in the morning when one of the bottles I was saving for pfand refund fell from my windowsill. Immediately alarmed I awoke wondering what could possibly be in my room that close to my bed. I then noticed a small bird flying around my room occasionally landing on my dresser and shelves tweeting. For a little while I considered trying to have a pet bird but decided it'd A, be unfair to the bird, and B too much work for me. I opened my other window and watched it hang out in my room for a few more minutes before it simply flew away.

Between the bird and the rabbits I feel like Snow White. Maybe I shouldn't eat those apples I bought the other day...

Condensed photo album:

Calm before the Storm

Muffin Party, waiting for Paul

I finally got to hang out with one of my room mates! Guy on the far left! Also, you will notice Matt Hooks trying to look gorgeous in the middle of this picture.

Alex Paul and Lara catching up on some sleep

Publish Post

My only regret is that I was not awake enough to take a picture of my bird visitor this morning, perhaps I'll be able to get a picture of the rabbits outside in the near future...