Month: March 2006

As I shuffled in my Itunes, I came across one of my all time THEME SONGS! Here tis’

Half the world is sleeping,
half the world’s awake
half can hear their hearts beat
half just hear them break

I am but a traveler,
in most every way
Ask me what you want…to know

What a journey it has been COMPLETELY! Words can’t express!
And the end is not in sight It can only get better!
But the stars are out tonight
and they’re bound to guide my way

When they’re shining on my life
I can see a better day
I won’t let the darkness in,
what a journey it has been.

I have been to sorrow
I have been to bliss
Where I’ll be tomorrow,
I can only guess

Through the darkest desert
Through the deepest snow,
Forward always forward, I go..

What a journey it has been
and the end is not in sight
But the stars are out tonight
and they’re bound to guide my way

When they’re shining on my life
I can see a better day
I won’t let the darkness in,
what a journey it has been…

Forward, always forward…
Onward, always up…
Catching every drop of hope
In my empty cup

What a journey it has been
And the end is not in sight
But the stars are out tonight
and they’re bound to guide my way

When they’re shining on my life
I can see a better day
I won’t let the darkness in,
what a journey it has been…

What a journey it has been…

I love this song!

Cute ey! Well, as I was saying yesteday, it’s official…E is bound for home! I mean it was official before but until that ticket had been purchased, there was no finality. Now there is, which is good, because I think I needed that to shove me into gear. She says as her room remains in a state of havoc only a day away from moving out of it. Call me a procrastinator! I have no qualms about admitting to that.

With the ticket bought, my head is convulsing with so many things. Terms of sorting out my finances, sorting out any further travel I want to do. Nothing major, just a whole lot of little things that are starting to get me into panic mode. Once this month is over I should be fine. I realised yesterday was like my saddest pay day ever as I watched it go in a moment of hours. As I bought my ticket home, paid for Colour, Transer funds to my bank account back home, brought my travelcard for the month, tithe…sure didn’t take very long. Not to mention there are pending direct debits waiting to come out. Grrr!! But I am totally trusting that God will provide! I get my deposit back from Andy so it’s all good. Anyways, enough finance talk. It does my head in.

Hopefully moving in to Sher’s won’t take very long. Might want to start packing when I get home from Chris’ birthday dinner tonight. Hmmm, there’s a thought! Mind boggles.

So there you go! Looks like I’m all booked. Nice chuck out of my funds! *gulp* The thought gives me minor convulsions…but it was the cheapest I could find…oh well!

I’m now in the middle of TRYING to pack up my room for my move to Sherrod’s this weekend. I can’t wait. Totally end to an era.

…back to London from Paris! Jackers and I had an adventure that began with a 6am meeting at Waterloo Eurostar which was followed by venturing to the wrong part of Paris for our hotel. Ooops, lack of organising on our part, but it was merely a hiccup. It didn’t take us long to reach our ‘HOTEL’…within moments of entering the room a familar smell of my childhood filled my nose…that of a smoking room in a hotel. Nah uh!!! Wasn’t gonna have it, so I sort of sweetly asked the somewhat rigid receptionist for another room that wasn’t quite as smelly and couldn’t potentially give Jackers and I lung cancer just by merely being in the room…it was THAT bad!

We had lunch at the local Chinese/Thai restaurant before doing a little grocery shopping (for our lunch and snacks), then SHOPPING!!! Not that one could really shop, but we surely tried. After shopping we hopped on a Cruise of the Seine, which was nice despite the rain rain rain. Jackers and I parted ways for a few hours while I went to church. It was awesome to see Hillsong Paris 6 months to the day that we were there for the launch. It was amazing, and Brendan’s preaching, was so spot on. It has been awhile since I’ve heard him preach and it was nice to hear it again…not to mention how mind boggling it was that everything was so appropriate. God’s sooo cool!

I was back in the hotel by midnight, which was a good thing seeing as Saturday was going to be an early and long day…DISNEYLAND was awesome. Aside from the rain and long lines of course. Being soaked all the way through didn’t matter so much after the first hour…however when we stopped moving and were sitting on the metro on the way home we felt just how wet we were as we shivered all the way home.

The indoor pool in the hotel came in handy as we literally jumped in as soon as we got to the hotel. So cool. We had a nice dinner at a local Italian restaurant before retiring for another long day the next day.

Sunday started off kinda funny seeing as there was the whole clock going forward thing, and us sleeping through the original wake up time. Needless to say we hopped on that tour bus and just sat as the sights passed by. It was cool though. We spent the afternoon at Champs Elysses…very nice! From there we wearily made our way back to Gare du Nord for our Eurostar home.

The weekend flew by extremely fast, and it was an adventure. C was surely missed, especially by the lil’ sis! What’s Peppermint Patty without Charlie Brown.

Anyways, now it’s back to work…blah blah blah! This week was meant to be devoted to packing up my room for my move to Sherrod’s…but my social life is getting in the way of that at the moment. So I guess I’ll be up all night Friday after getting home from Chris’ birthday dinner…

So that’s about it…will blog more later. Hope all is well with everyone.

Now there’s a familiar face? It’s been awhile since Cookie Monster has made an appearance, but seeing as it has been over two years since I’ve heard the nickname, I thought revisiting it would give me an opportunity to prepare myself for the rebirth of my childhood nickname…with going back and all…we all know I was never referred to by my actual name! Not that I minded. Aside from not being blue (in the literal sense), Cookie Monster and I have loads in common. There’s that whole cookie obsession that somewhat overtakes me at certain moments of my life! But I digress…

It’s been a good couple of weeks since my last post. Deep apologies, I have been somewhat distracted. All those coming up with random answers to why, don’t even go there.

Paris is only a couple of days away and I am looking forward to the time away from London. I love London, and the closer my time here draws to an end, the more I realise just how much, but a weekend away to one of my ultimate favourite places in whole world, is definitely something I am completely anticipating with enthusiasm. I am however regretful that I am missing out on the Painting Party at Sherrod’s…but then again if she ever saw the paint job in my purple room back home she may just be sighing with relief.

We celebrated Aimee’s birthday a couple of weeks ago at Cafe Rouge. Pictures below. It turned out to be a really good evening, hanging out with our Connect group and getting to know each other a little better. Dinner was followed by ICE CREAM at Crystal’s…which was so nice.

That Saturday Ashe, Izindi, Peter and I met up at Leicester Square for lunch and Casanova. The movie was funny, for more than a few reasons. It was entertaining. The week the followed was completely busy. Between Crystal’s birthday celebration at the Paragon, plans with Ashe, Izindi & Peter, Connect, Plans with Ashe and Sherrod, Leatherhead, Normal Sunday Chaos, I enjoyed my one night in on Wednesday! CRAZY! But totally loved it.

Last night I stayed the night at Sherrod’s after having dinner there with Dan and Jaco which was awesome. We had such laughs. I can’t wait to move into that house next week. I love the opportunity to just hang out with Sherrod and Jaco and just talk.

Anyways…that’s it for now. Need to BLOG elsewhere. Hope all is well with everyone. 13 weeks to go and counting!

It’s awesome to be surrounded with amazing people, and even more so to realise that God has positioned people in your life, not only as random people, but as your friends, and certainly pseudo family. I always talk about a specific handful of people, and they certainly know who they are, and how lost I would be without them, but there are so many others whom without, my life would not be the same.

Gracious and kind people, who impact my life just by being in it. No words can really express the gratitude I feel for the blessing they are turning out to be.

Greetings! Another week almost over! Yay!!

Much to my own surprise, I have started jogging. Taking advantage of the Thames across from work. It’s been really cool. I have even invested in running shoes would you believe it? Oh my word!

Late Friday afternoon C dropped the bomb that he wasn’t able to come to Paris anymore…due to work moves and blah blah. Disappointing but there really isn’t much we can do. So Jacks and I are heading to Paris on our own! Which will be fun regardless…C will be missed though, if only for comic relief purposes. Just kidding. As previously stated, you know I adore you more than a few people. At the very least. Hehe!

I spent yet another weekend with Ashe, which we shamelessly spent watching back to back episodes of Dawsons Creek Season Six. Soooo good! Ashe and Jane also had their Housewarming Party Saturday evening, which ended up to be yet another late night.

Sunday was another Fun Day in the house! Had an extremely nice late lunch/ extremely early dinner with Ashe, Peter and Izindi at My Old Dutch (pancake house)…so naughty!

This week at work seems to be progressing quite quickly! Ever grateful for that! Only three weeks till Paris! Yay!I do have other thoughts, but….