Neptr in the UK

Posted: 5-NOV-2026

i only started packing for this trip like 3 days in advance, plus i misunderstood the dates so really i had 2 days. i was GONNA bring my diary but i wussed out, theres a lot of incriminating stuff in there (like how i have a personality and a life) and i was gonna be in close proximity to my parents the whole time.

this whole thing was in my notes app, so it doubles as a friendrewind blog AND my diary entry! still a drag tho </3

I got the window seat and wasnt next to any of my family! freedommmm 

I didnt want to hassle the guy in the aisle seat (middle seat was empty tho #win) so i just put on a pad so if my period did start in the middle of the flight i wldnt have to be a bother. i have a bad track record with my period starting while im on vacation u_u tho i should be glad its not a bother, and i dont have 15 mood swings and 10/10 pain like everyone else seems to get. 

I watched Sinners!! Its an awesome movie, im so glad i got the time to watch it. everyone was right, this is PEAK

the music was amazing and i really liked the themes of race, gentrification, and colonization. i heard someone bring up how it was about how white people are so starved of their culture that they feel the need to steal black peoples', and that rlly stuck with me.

I considered getting high before this (i mean. I did get high earlier the day but it had worn off by the time we were all leaving for the flight) but thank god i didnt bc we have some bad turbulence rn, and if i were stoned i'd b tweaking.

Turbulence over! also my new earphones suck. Tbf they were apple earphone knockoffs from amazon, i just didnt want to buy another fucking dongle >:(

They say the window seat is bs bc there isnt a view for 90% of the flight (i say its bs bc its so hard to get out of) but theyre wrong. On a night flight, you see STARS. And yes i live in a very light-polluted area, this is totally new to me. 

If u press ur phone right up to the window and pull down the shutter, u can take a pic or vid without those nasty reflections. but apparently its only useful during the day, or if u know anything about adjusting phone camera settings. I tried doing it, but the cam quality dropped so much bc of the dark that the stars were lost in the grainy black.

The clouds look like mountains in the dark. Its just an expanse of them, and you cant tell if the darker parts are shadows or ocean. So huge you can see them on the horizon, interrupting the sunset.

Im seeing the sun set while in an airplane! Kind of. Just barely, thru the window of the row in front of me. Still cool!

Thought: the new earphones arent bad, its just the altitude affecting sound

Counter-thought: my skullcandy earphones sound perfectly fine

At time of writing, we're flying over ireland. The windows been closed for hours to let others sleep, but ive cracked it open a few times to try and spot land. Every time i have only flashbanged myself

After the airplane we got our stuff. It was 12:05 in Gatwick. My dad got mad at me for turning on data. Apparently "turn your phone on flight mode" right before a flight actually means "no data or wifi for a week". ive been feeling miserable lately, and now im realizing its because of my parents...

we got to the hotel after a lot of driving i slept thru. but then something mustve triggered my allergies cause i was sneezing and had to take a nap. i was too tired to even dick around on the hotel wifi or care about dinner. i woke up ar about 10pm and luckily my parents had bought me a burger

Next morning we woke up early (i wasnt sick anymore), had breakfast at some local cafe in a mall. Then we went walking to see the london bridge and got to see it lift up right up close. really good timing! we also got to see buckingham palace which was lowkey ugly and boring. maybe because its so big, you can see how they just repeated all the designs over n over. after a bunch more walking we got to ride the London Eye! I thought the pics were a total ripoff (they took a pic of u on a greenscreen beforehand then photoshop in a background) but my mom wanted them anyway. We went on a short lil boat cruise which was fun, learned some history. 

The London Eye is apparently a popular proposal site. havent fact-checked, but the cruise host said some dude paid £1000 to deck out a carriage on the London Eye with flowers so he cld propose, just to get REJECTED. Theres been lots of proposals and, so far, 20 rejections. Dont be #21! steer clear of public proposals regardless.

We went to the national art gallery! Or i did. everyone else walked thru one room then decided to phone it in. I got to convince them to at least let ME enjoy it, so i wandered around while they sat in one room on their phone. Chronic doomscroller speaking: fuck them. I saw a lot of cool stuff, and i rlly liked Monet's paintings. My fave is Water Lilies at Sunset. I bought a print of that and a pin (just said 'National Art Gallery') b4 i left. 

We had some japanese food 4 dinner. I had a beer (shock!). Then when we got home i was tired and fell asleep on the bed. Then my mom woke me up and blamed the whole 1 beer i had for my tiredness... after walking 20000 steps all day. Idk if shes mad i bought a beer or just an idiot.

Next day we went to visit our cousins, one of whom was getting married (and is why we're here at all) and stopped at a butterfly farm. Once again my parents lasted 5 whole min before demanding they hit the road already. I took a lot of pics and dared to do the unthinkable-- hang around for a bit and enjoy the sights. I bought a butterfly-shaped suncatcher at the end! i have yet to install it tho u_u

Our cousins' was pretty boring. Same with the wedding. And at the reception i got to have 2 whole drinks in b4 my mom was like "w-what are you DOING... Do you ALWAYS drink like this??? This will make your brain go BAD!!!"

Im 20 by the way. Yikes.

Ive been worried abt my period the whole vacations but im starting to think it wont come. Ive had like 5 false alarms lol. Maybe NOW i'll start tracking my periods

First dish is 'flaked ham shank and parsley terrine'. It smells like millie's wet food. And it tasted like millie's wet food but for people and also bad. Not that it was straightup yucky or anything, since others at the table had no issue with it, i personally found the flavour gross.

Main dish was a lot better! "Pave of slow roasted aged west country english beef". It was a thick cut of beef with some gravy and mashed potatoes. Still looked+tasted undercooked, but not as bad as the starter. The gravy was especially good.

Theyre playing a violin cover of Blank Space by Taylor Swift... thats a choice. Listening closer, its violin covers of a lot of 2010s pop songs, including Paradise by Coldplay which i havent heard since i was in elementary school.

Desert is "sticky toffee pudding loaf cake". Sounds good, but after seeing what blood puddling is like, im scared abt THIS pudding...

Fears averted! That was actually really good, and i finished the whole thing. (Didnt finish the starter bc it tasted bad, didnt finish the main bc it was a big portion)

Ok the rest of the party sucked. After the pretty good speeches, they made us wait in the reception area. Then after like an hour, they brought us into a separate room.... for a 5-hour dance. Blaring music and flashing lights and nothing else to do but dance (which some ppl did tbf) or eat cold food (omg why did they not heat it up). We eventually EVENTUALLY went to visit an aunt. we'd been staying in an airbnb for the past 2 days (the hotel was for the first 2 days) and we'd spend the rest of our time here.

At the aunts house, i was starting to feel sick, which sucked. We ate and i watched the first few eps of The Mentalist. It was fun, tho it had the usual pitfalls of a 'the MC is a savant' show where the savant just comes to a random conclusion with no evidence and its right for the sake of plot. 

After lunch, we went to the Royal Air Force museum. It was cool, and i liked the outfits. One plane also had an associated black cat mascot named Twinkletoes. The museum was closing tho so we had to leave. Then we had CHURCH. We came back then went to bed. I slept fitfully, i was getting more sick and since i was sharing a bed with my mom, i was on edge. i woke up like three times randomly.

In the morning we left for the airport. I was STILL SICK. There was snot all over my only sweater so i left it in the luggage. I also got to check it in for free so i didnt have to lug it around on the plane. 

I was in the middle seat. Some lady had the seat next to me, and my dad switched with my mom so she'd be next to me. Idk why, the only innocent answer is that he didnt want to catch my sick. It was probs just my allergies tho. I coughed a few times and had to wipe my nose a lot. The woman next to me was fidgety and went to the bathroom a lot. Then i noticed she was pale and sweaty, and she got up bc she 'just had to stand up for a bit'. Later, i saw her being helped to the back of the plane. Apparently, she'd fainted. She stayed back there for the rest of the flight, and when we landed she was taken out by paramedics. Ironically, my allergies stopped after she left. Maybe she had some perfume on?

It felt great to be in canada again. The first thing we did was get Tims lol. Millie meowed a lot when she saw we came home, and kept rubbing on me if i stopped petting her even for a second. i kept worrying that something had happened at home and that millie (being a mere kittycat) would suffer the brunt of it. but nothing happened #yay!