Category: Diary

its been snowing since saturday. not like sticking to the ground or anything but every once in awhile there will be a light snow. some of it stuck to the picnic table last night and kristie, darren, and i had a snow ball fight. pix to come. today is my last day at work. i went to lunch at the pub with craig and martin (daves dad) and martin bought my lunch which rocked since im so skint.

monday night was Vday and Kristies Bday. Kristie and Canadian Laura went to Bennihannas (sp?) for dinner. They got a several course meal since the restaurant had a valentines special menu for that night. i spent the night at home watching videos 😛

we’re both kinda glad its our last week of work, its starting to suck for both of us. at Digress (the club kristie works at), all the old employees that shes friends with have left, and they have a psycho witch new manager. at goodmusic, ed (the big boss) seems to be on some kinda warpath. he moved everyone around in the office again, altho this time it was to my benefit cause now inge and i sit in the same room together and thats a blast. john ended up with no desk at all (he already didnt have a computer), so we built him a desk out of cardboard boxes (see pix in misc section). the worst bit has been with the phones. for one day ed had all the customer calls redirected to my desk only, and all other calls redirected to johns desk only. which means someone has to sit at these two desks at *all* times. for me thats not so hard since inge and i sit together, but for john it means when he wants a break, either james or i hafta go sit in there. but since he has no computer, we literally have nothing to do but sit there. so while john was at lunch the company was paying james to sit there and read the paper. later when he went to the store, i had to go sit in there and had nothing to do but cut out paper hearts and decorate them with markers. ed got really mad that john left this second time, and when john came back in, he *screamed* at him. i mean he actually yelled so loud just out in the hallway when john first walked in that everyone in the company could hear him. sooooo not appropriate. since then weve heard that this is johns last week. there was actually a ton more comany gossip flying on friday, but im not gonna get into it all here since most of you dont know the people im talking about anyhow.

saturday kristie and i ran a couple errands and then went to dinner with emily, laura, laura, rod, and a few other people for american lauras birthday. we went to this vegetarian restaurant in Soho. to get there from piccadilly, you walk down this street that has all these strip clubs with girls (and guys that look like girls ;p ) standing in the door beckoning people in. when we were leaving there was a guy standing behind something on the sidewalk peeing. it was a fairly busy street with people walking u and down the sidewalks and cars occasionally, and there he is just standing there taking a piss. as we got closer we discovered that the thing he was peeing was in fact a urinal! there was a large, plastic multi-sided urinal in the middle of the sidewalk to pee on in front of the world! (pix in the misc section). anyhow, we were all really worried about going to this vegetarian place for dinner, esp me cause im such a picky eater. it turned out pretty good, tho. i had a veggie burger (supposedly made of chickpeas and red peppers, but it wasnt at all spicy) fries, french bread, and a smoothie. the burger was pretty good cause it was soft similar to a medium cooked hamburger. in england you cant order a hamburger cooked less than medium well cause its against health regulations. kristie got an asian stir fry. we both liked our food, but its not really a place wed go back to.

And Happy Valentine’s Day!

last night was kristies bday party. after spending half a day getting glammed up, we met up with everyone (kristie, me, emily, mayoor, chris, darren, mark, martin, shane, nigel) and went to dinner at a place called Slug and Lettuce in Leicester Square (no idea why youd name your restaurant that). its like a sorta upscale bar/pub that serves dinner and cocktails. they took forever to bring my order cause i requested the chicken without the tomato sauce on top but it was pretty good when they finally brought it. afterwards we went to Tiger Tiger down the street in Piccadilly Circus. definitely a much better experience than last time (nasty greek guy). the place is huge but we spent most the time up top where the R&B and pop type music is played. Shane and Nigel disappeared in the first hour (apparently they were tired and had to go get their beauty sleep), but Laura, Laura, and Rod met up with us at the club. Also, this girl Mayoor has been seeing, Vimmi, came. around midnight chris got thrown out (still havent heard the story on this one), and mayoor and his chickie disappeared to go meet up with chris somewhere. darren and mark spent most the night wandering around chatting up birds (theres a pic of darren and some chick in the gallery). before i forget, i spent the night drinking a cocktail called a sunshine. i dunno if itd be in my bartending book to try out when i get back home, so heres the recipe: vodka, white rum, orange juice, sprite, and passion fruit juice. kristie and i had some great milk drinks at slug and lettuce as well. i think mine was baileys, kahlua, creme de menthe, and cream. hers was something like creme de banane, creme de cocoa, and cream? probably missing an ingredient in that one. they had a whole list of cream drinks which are my fave.
kristie, laura, laura, and rod did a lot of dancing, and the music was all the stuff Kristie enjoys, so i think she had a really good time. at 3 kristie and i got a mini cab home (by this point everyone but lauras and rod had disappeared…where did darren and mark go??). while we were waiting for it to pick us up, we got these hot dogs (kristie says they were really bratwurst cuz they werent hot dogs) from a street vendor outside (please dont tell me what was in it…ignorance is bliss).

PS – I think Kristie is really a demon cause i just had to edit the red eye out of every pic she was in…I think Emily is a demon-in-training cause she had a lot, too.

pix are up in the gallery

catching up on publishing some old entries i hadnt put up (after theyve been here a couple weeks ill archive them in their proper dates):

craig is an MC and promoter. he hires a venue (in this case a small bar out in east london that is getting like no business), and gets a DJ, and passes out flyers to get people to come out. then he charges admission at the door and the bar gets the money from the drinks. hes hosting this place every sat in feb. sat nite was his first nite doing it and so kristie and i went down there to hang out. the place was pretty tiny, very limited seating, and everyone there looked like they were 16!! (i know they had to be 18 to get in and the ave age was prob like 20, but they all looked so young!). kristie and i nabbed a cushy leather couch and the two of us just hung out and talked. craig stopped by every once in awhile and even brought us each a drink. poor sarah had to spend the whole night at the door charging the admission so we didnt see much of her. in the last hour of it james showed up, in all his usual grumpy glory, and he sat with us a tiny bit. kristie went home cause she didnt like the music (it was all garage and house mixes) and i stayed behind with craig and sarah. craig drove us all home, and on the way we went thru mcdonalds drive thru which was on the right side so that was new. then he went to drive me home but i wasnt really sure where i lived cause we were coming from a different direction and the way u drive is diff than the way you walk it (plus i suck at directions). sarah (whos only been to our house once) had a better idea of how to get me home than i did. craig was like “james, say something mean to alison for me”. craig ended up having like a good 75 peeps show up and the money he made covered his expenses for all 4 weeks in feb so every sat there after will be pure profit for him. not a bad way of makin a living 🙂 the pix from that night are in the misc section.

trying to catch up on old entries here…

my actual bday was on weds (the 26th). that night after work i went out with kristie, emily, laura, laura, and rod. we met at leicester tube station, and while they were getting money out of the cash point, i went upstairs to use my cell (no signal in the tubes), and i noticed it was slightly raining so i went to put my hat on. i looked up into the street light and realised…thats not rain, thats snow!!!! it was lightly snowing on my bday!!! it only lasted like ten mins while we were walking around leicester square, but i just couldnt believe it finally snowed and on my bday!!! so we were going to go to the walkabout, but it was australia day (i think thats like their 4th of july) and thats an australian bar, so there was a *huge* line to get in. instead, we went to this pub in leicester square called Waxys or something like that. it was a really great pub cause it actually played music (and music i like too!) and it had tons of seating in all kindsa tucked away areas. we were all able to sit around a table and just hang out which was really great.

then on friday after work was my party. id reserved a table at the Hard Rock Cafe (the very first, original, Hard Rock Cafe) and after work we (me, emily, ben, mark, darren, mayoor, martin, shane, james, craig, sarah, and yvey) went to dinner. i absolutely loved it!! they had big screen tvs playing music videos like linkin park and i got to eat a real american cooked burger (yum!!). emily had brought a bottle of vodka with her in her purse so the two of us snuck in the bathroom and did vodka shots (so cheesey i know, but its free!). after dinner, my work friends stayed behind to have dessert and the rest of us went on to the walkabout where inge and her friends were (it was inges bday that day too). most people didnt go on to walkabout, so it was just me, emily, martin, shane, mayoor, james, and canadian laura met us there. i think i had like 5 double jack and cokes and like 3 shots and by the time we went to catch the last train home, the guys were practically dragging me. definitely a top 5 night.

craig’s gf sarah was having a work party at this club in leicester square, Cafe de Paris, thats sposed to be really ritzy and posh and only people on the guest list can get in. so ed (the managing director of our company) said he was a member of this club and he could get us in on the guest list. so craig and james and i were sposed to go, but craig bailed on us so just james and i went. when we first got there and were getting drinks it was kinda empty and i noticed that there were a lot of guys there. then in walks these two transvestites dressed up like stewardesses and pushing little suitcases, along with a *ton* of gay guys. they stopped and started posing for a camera. i also at this time noticed a guy walking around wearing just a towel wrapped around his waste which i thought was really weird since this was sposed to be a nice, dress-up type place. then we notice that downstairs on the dance floor there are actually several people wandering around in swim suits and a souple of them are putting up a volleyball net. i was like “uhh james, i think this is a gay bar”. apparently it was some gay-night event that some company plans and hosts at various clubs. they had hired these people to run around in speedos (despite the fact that these were muscular guys in speedos, they were too gay for me to even be turned on) and set up this whole beach scene. there were guys doing pushups and rubbing oil on themselves and some were playing volleyball. james and i found sarah and her workmates and sat down with them for a front row show. later on, the stewardesses came down and got up on this little stage and did a strip show down to bikinis and when they were done they started playing limbo. that was wrong on so many levels, but the whole thing was sooo weird and sooo hilarious.

So theres a holiday in England called Pancake Day. Its actually called Shro Tuesday (or something like that), and its the Tues before Lent starts or something. only in england “pancake” actually means a crepe. american pancakes are griddle cakes or something. so kristie mayoor and i went to guys’ house in wanstead and they made a ton of crepes for everybody and had all kindsa toppings on them. they put ham and shredded cheese inside sorta like an omelette. i had mine with choc sauce and toffee sauce. afterwards we played articulate. the girls kicked their butts 😀

its like 130am and i have work tom so i cant stay up and watch the web for the score.

GO PATRIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reece fixed my pic gallery so ive started uploading some of the pix.

all of my bday pix are up, and there are some new additions to the misc file (from when inge and i went to the new warehouse and from when Kand I went to the pub for craigs thing this sat)

im working on uploading the pix from ireland. its a slow process cause it takes me a good 5-7 mins to do 5 pix at a time and i have about 250 pix from ireland. so far ive done like 36 pix