If Music Be

So last night was the first ‘Manchester Girls Tweetup’ starring Elle, Paula, Julia, the pinkest of all jelly babies, Helen (who sadly went home poorly pre going out time), Smidgy, Rachael, Lou, Hannah, Vicky and I.

Morning news wasn’t good. Soupy was ill and couldn’t make the train journey so we were already a man down. Undeterred we pressed on with the out of town girls getting themselves organised and meeting up from various trains etc. Lou and i arrived at their, frankly stunning, apartment at a little after 1600, after getting lost in the roadworks and one way system of Manchester for a while and after a few awkward minutes we were all chatting away. The three ‘locals’ arrived just after five thirty and the party was well and truly ready to get started. We all got ourselves into our outfits and after some fortifying water (i was driving after all) we headed out to TV21 a 2 floor indie cafe/bar in the Northern Quarter. The music was old school proper indie with some classic Charlatans and Cure mixed in with some Kings of Leon and Killers. Of course i had dead feet after about half an hour but being a cafe bar there were plenty of seats to rest my aching feet for a while. By half eleven we’d lost the local girls (they evidently had a better offer and left, one of them without even bothering to say goodbye which was a bit rude to say the least) and a couple of the apartment ladies were ready to call it a night. So Lou and i left them to get back to the apartment and made our way home through the hideous foggy horrible night. Somehow i don’t think that was the end of the night for a few of the other girls but that’s their story and they will have to tell you.

It was a strange experience, meeting a load of girls all at once (when i’m not a girly girl at the best of times) but one i really enjoyed. Being the old and sober one was a bit of a pain because i felt responsible for making sure the other ladies were all safe and happy but that’s more to do with me than them i think. Most of the people were exactly as i expected them to be having read their blogs and/or seen their tweets for a while so that was pretty good to know.

Would i do it again, almost definitely – it was a lot of fun to meet new people and i did promise myself i was going to do more of that next year.

Oh and smidge, i owe you for 2 cokes so we’ll have to meet again so i can pay you back (any excuse, right)

for tomorrow is the day of

THE MANCHESTER GIRLS TWEETUP

Terrified and excited and all the things that all the other fabulous ladies are.

If you’re out in the Northern Quarter tomorrow say Hi won’t you

When i did my celebrity crushes i totally forgot

Manc Ladies, find me a boy like this on Saturday night please

…we Brits talk about the weather all the damn time; because we never know what it’s going to be like when we step out the door in the morning.

Snow, rain, hail, wind, sun, cloud just an average day for us

The divine and sassified Nilsa at SoMi Speaks posted a pet peeves list today and it really got me thinking about my pet peeves…so much so in fact that i thought i would do a list of my very own.

~ ithings. I have an iPod, i like the tech that goes into Mac products but for goodness sake i don’t care about every sneeze that Steve Jobs makes at a press conference. It seems like any social media ‘maven’ worth their salt has to cream over all things Apple or risk being thrown out of the ‘club’.

~ similarly those Windows 7 adverts where all the people claim Windows 7 was their idea

~ companies on twitter who don’t follow you back even though they have competitions that ask for DM’s (you can’t DM unless someone follows you) to enter

~ again, similarly, marketing bullshit on twitter. Autofollow is the bane of my life

~ forced contributions to collections for people at work who i don’t know. Especially being stared at when i say i don’t know the person and won’t be contributing and/or going to clap at their presentation (today when the applause started i may have said ‘congratulations you got knocked up, here’s a gift’ in earshot of a lot of people)

~ a million TV shows all starting in January that i love to watch. I am running out of hours in the day and i have study to do dammit

I could go on and on but i will save some for another time.

What are your pet peeves? Tell me, it’ll make you feel better