Month: February 2006

Ever since 106.5 and I have reunited, I have hear one of my all time favourite songs, at the very least once a day!What song is that one asks??? All my Life of course by KCi & Jojo…whom last I heard had gone back to being JoDeCi, they had a Valentines Day (near enough to the National Day of Romantic People) concert at the Hammersmith Apollo down the road. Sadly, I didn’t know till later on and by then it was too late to get a ticket. Note to self, be more aware about these things!!!

Segway: THE COCO POPS HAVE KICKED IN!!!! It seems that due to my Non Artifical Sugar intake during the forty days of fasting have had a serious effect. After a bowl of Coco Pops I am completely SUGARED OUT!!! I am bouncing off the walls like you wouldn’t believe. Further note to self…limit intake of Artificial Sugar!!!

Just go back from Lunch, sad really. I start my blog so early in the morning and work on it throughout the day that by the time I get anywhere I have to go and lose my train of thought once I get back.

Last night I watched Elizabethtown after A LOT of prompting from my chickas! It’s a really cute movie. I have to say I appreciated it. Sentiments and all. I kind of picked up on a few things that my friends were pointing out. Blah Blah! =P Soooo different! I don’t know what you guys were talking about!

For those who don’t know what Elizabethtown is about, it’s about this guy Drew who was just fired for producing a really badly designed shoe, just as he was about to kill himself, in a rather comincal way mind you, he receives a phone call from his sister to inform him of their father’s death. The story progresses to his leaving to pick up his father’s body from his relative’s town called ELIZABETHTOWN! On the plane he meets Clare, who immediately feels drawn to him, and throughout the whole movie she goes through enormous lengths for him. BOY! The girl wears VULNERABLE well. She was extremely brave! She just went for it, risking it all! *sigh* It was well cool!The movie has made my top ten.

Well, I have all these thoughts running through my head, but the lack of eloquence to verbalise them so I shall bow out for now.

*e bows* CIAO !!!

Yeah, that pretty much sums up what C and I are like at work and in general. With such maturity and grace! Another week begins! Hoping this week is much better than last week.

I’d like to point out how completely and utterly unhelpul anyone is at BT! After three weeks of chasing people with regards to activation and installation, I have yet to speak to someone who doesn’t have an attitude problem. Customer Service my …. ! ! ! I have spoken to five people today and rung five numbers, and each person I have spoken to were as helpful as the other, who were all as U S E LE S S & U N H E L P F U L as the other. Incompetence much!!! Grrrr!!! All I want is my broadband Welcome Pack since I am paying for the service I haven’t exactly received! *breathe* Stepping off soapbox!

Greetings all! Hope all is well with everyone. Another weekend has passed and as the heading goes, I only have 18 weekends to go. WHOA!!! Weird ey! I can’t believe that it sounds like a long time, but I know that it isn’t! I had a really nice weekend. Ashe and I meet up with Sherrod for dinner at Leicester Square. As always it was nice to hang out with them. After dinner and a little walk we headed to Ashe’s, minus Sher. Ashe and I got to hers pretty early and we basically just hung out, chatted, watched DVD’s…as planned. However we did crash remarkably earlier than predicted. By midnight Ashe was breathing ever so heavily on the couch next to mine.

Saturday we basically went shopping after her singing lesson. I ended up with a really nice pair of formal pants for £5 from Top Shop – what a bargain. I was searching for the perfect Uggie and couldn’t find one that I liked. Ashe ended up buying the whole mall, but we won’t go there.

C finished his exam!!! Yay! Dude man, I’m sure you did good!

The rest of the evening was pretty much a countdown to midnight which is when our fasting was scheduled to finished. It was really cool to have been together the night before we started fasting and end our fasting together. We had a blast!

After very little sleep Saturday night, we went to church early-ish for the first service, and Ashe’s team meeting. I struggled the whole day to keep somewhat awake. Giant task that turned out to be as I inevitably nodded off at the most inopportune times. When I had Gracie on my lap as we watched the Worship Team Practice and do Sound Check, I was nodding off before the two year old did.

Church was awesome as always. Got to sit my bud Dani, who’s such an amazing person! B you totally lucked out with that girl! She’s awesome! Ashe, and I met up with Sherrod and along with Dani, we went out to dinner.

Work is schmork…but what can you do!

Had a really interesting conversation with my buddy Ann today and as we talked, so much that a lot of things began to unravel. Things I wasn’t even attempting to address. Weird huh! Anyways, will blog again tomorrow.

At the risk sounding somewhat narky, it amazes me how in this time and age, people still find the concept of male and female being friends hard to grasp. Someone please explain to me what the big deal is, and why is it such a big issue. Why does it always have to be one liking the other as a motive. Why does it always have to be the girl after the guy! Why do people have nothing better to do than stir the proverbial pot. Is it such a hard concept to swallow that two people of the opposite sex can get along extremely well without all the other crap! It irks me that people who obviously don’t know the difference, find it necessary to raise the same issue over and over again. It irks me that pushes the same buttons till it gets the response that it wants. People IRK me!

For tomorrow…

Well, that’s my stab at humour for the over commercialised, I’m hesitant to say ‘holiday’. And no I am not being a cynic, can’t be what you already are…hehe! Just kidding. Honestly, I’m not. Just thought it was funy.

This year I am enjoying Valentines Day, for no particular reason aside from just an observation of the couples in my world. People who are together, those who would LOVE to get together. There is something extremely sweet about possible love. The evident flutters that you see in the corner of their eyes, the way their grin is that little bit wider. It’s well cool.

Last week of fasting! Yay! Something tells me this is going to be a somewhat challenging one. On very many levels! Bring it on hey! *sigh*

Signing off for now, need to blog on the personal blog to vent unrestrictedly! Catch ya all on the flip side!

Ranting about one thing or another, I think I lost the plot in the previous Blog. I always start with direction, and somehow get sidetracked. Welcome to my World!!!

Started looking into flights home, and as sad as it may seem, I’m actually getting excited about it. Mainly because I know that this particular season in my life, in London is drawing to a close, for a reason, and definitely with purpose.

If only I could get my butt into gear about getting my gear together. Things to do…
1.) Book flight home
2.) Organise stuff to ship home
3.) Organise getting new person to take over my room
4.) Do a little more travel
5.) Possibly find a Temp Job paying more
6.) See all the places I still want to see in London
7.) Spend quality time with my nearest and dearests
8.) Stop procrastinating!

Feels kind of weird to know I’m going home. It takes me back to two years ago when I realised I was finally going to London. I remember that it hit quite hard , but there was a sense of peace and definite excitement about it. Going home, definitely has that feel to it, which is why I am more than confident that I am progressing to a new season. I am soo going to miss a fair few people. They know who they are. Without these significant people in my life here in London, my stay would not have been as fruitful…for some as CHALLENGING! =)

I feel so incredibly blessed to have had this opportunity. To have had the support I’ve had to follow this dream of mine of coming to London for as long as I can remember. It wasn’t just me that got me here, but my Family and Friends who have done nothing but encourage a dream, I never thought I was brave enough to reach. Almost two years later, so much has changed, and I hope that I have changed for the better, that I have become perhaps a little wiser. A little more responsible, with a better vision for what I want in the years ahead. I feel that in the last year or so new dreams have formed and new goals have been set. I thank God daily for the clarity he provides not only when I need it most, but most of the time I am able to decipher, and with the prominent people he has placed in my life, I receive confirmations.

I know that when I go home, it’s not going to be as I have left it. It would be naive and somewhat silly to think that the lives I left behind would be the same, that friendship would be the same, relationships…in many ways, I almost hope not. I plan to come back with the intention of new beginnings. In saying that, it’s nice to know that there is at least one friendship that hasn’t changed, you know who you are. It?s awesome to see that despite the time and distance, I am still a part of your world. That means more than you could ever possibly imagine. I appreciate that you didn’t put our friendship on hold for my return to just pick up when I came back! For sharing the changes from your world and mine as they happen. Ta Matey!

This weekend Ashe and I are going to hang out and just chill. We’re going to Leatherhead to ‘Mary’ and then head back to mine for some Vegies (haha) and a lot of Dawsons Creek! Yay! Next weekend Ashe and I are doing the whole Roomie thing again at her house, and Saturday evening Nibs and I are going to hang out with Grumpy to celebrate his SURVIVING his 7 hour exam! Should be fun!

The weekends ahead are certainly filling up quickly, and I cannot comprehend how fast time is passing by! I am doing my outmost to make the most of it. Seeing people, and spending time with friends. Seeing places. I am truly enjoying hanging out with J & C. They are my saving graces at work, for without them, I would be rocking myself back and forth in a corner! =) Thanks for the laughter guys?Paris is going to sooo ROCK! Mental note to J & E, throw C into the pool!

Well, with only 20 minutes to go, I think I’ll sign off. Head on upstairs at 4:15 on the dot and hang with my homies! Hehe!

Have a great weekend!

That comes from one of my favourite movies of all time… Meet Joe Black! Which is really weird because some people find that movie so dark. For me, I can’t explain it. I just love it. This is the whole quote…

I sit here at work, as usual in a state of disaray and utter frustration *insert e banging her head against the wall here* – I suppose in hindsight it’s good. It makes the thought of going home even more promising. I can’t exactly pinpoint which part of this place actually brings me great displeasure, but whether it’s this, that, or all of the above, who knows?
F R U S T R A T E D ! ! !

I was hoping to be somewhat deep and perhaps even a little meaningful, and infortunately, this is just going to be one of those rants that I have become known for.

So it’s OFFICIAL…I’m coming home. Finer details such as what’s happening in between the now and the departure date have yet to be confirmed. I have Paris planned for March. I’ll be going with J & C, which will be fun for sure. Unconfirmed plans is Prague with Sherrod. Might spend a weekend in Milan allowing enough days to be able to do a day trip to Venice. My all time favourite place in the world, figured may as well take advantage of the perks of being in London, so close to everything!I would love to do Greece, but I may have to save that for the next time I’m in Europe, as funds are somewhat limited.

Weekend was pretty good. Got to spend some time with Sher, we watched a really sucky movie called Derailed. For those considering it…don’t even! Put it this way, I ended up taking loo breaks when I didn’t need to it was that bad! The best part of the evening was of course getting the opportunity to just hang out with Sherrod and talk. It’s been awhile since we’ve talked talked so it was nice to be able to do that. It was nice to just be able to bounce off to her and vice versa. Especially the God stuff.

I got to lounge around Saturday morning, which I am seriously going to have to stop if I want to see and experience the places I want to check out before I go. Might finally go the Dali Universe this weekend. Then meet up with Ashe and head on over to Leatherhead come home for a mini DC marathon. Hmmm! Saturday afternoon I went to Noah’s 1st Birthday party! That kid is sooooo cute! And no, I am not at all biased as Auntie Elisa. On the right is Amaris…who is equally ADORABLE! Sweetest little girl! And right now you’re all pretty much freaking out that I have gotten over clucky, more than the usual…Oh well, what can I say hey! Just comes with the package.

Sunday was as always an early and a long day, but in saying that it is hands down, the best day of the week. It’s the day I get to see my kids, see my buds and be in God’s house. Had dinner with the girls after the last service, which is always fun. We missed Mei tho!

And now it’s Wednesday and the week is almost OVER! Yay! The saving graces of being in this place is C & J… thank God for the humour and solace they provide.

Well…I’m over the whole blogging now. Gotta go!