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I’ve been sick for the past two days which was not only crappy but boring too. For thanksgiving i had take out curry dinner alone and kristie worked. fun day, huh. i added a link to reece’s website, Canada Talks. its a news board thats anti-bush and anti-american. how lovely.

happy birthday reece!!

paul and matt – loved the comments, they were hilarious. had to delete them after we read them tho cause they werent G rated.

yesterday sucked. i went to the bank in the morning to get my PIN # so i could access my account, waited forever and then they said that it hadnt even arrived yet. district line was down and it was taking literally over ten mins/stop so i got off at westminster and decided to walk to work. the walk was pretty nice cause it took me from big ben past westminster past st james park. work SUCKED. weve been moved all around and im in the crappiest spot. then i went home and had a fight with paul.

today was only a little better. work wasnt as bad, and there wasnt the whole bank/tube issue. then i had another (small) fight with paul. actually it wasnt another fight, it was a carry over of the same issue from the day before. its all resolved now. no dinner with the friends this week – it got cancelled.

paul passed his motorcycle exam. hes looking at crotch rockets on ebay. i get a ring, he gets a bike. cept he hasta pay for both so it only kinda comes out even. i reaaalllllyyy want my ring. 15 days until he comes.

Last night Kristie’s work had a party at their sister clubs, Wax and Babble in Oxford Circus. Kristie, me, Emily, and Rod went. the three of them went at 8:30 and i met up with them later around 10. it was fun to get dressed up and go to a club, esp since Kristie and I had new club shirts that we had bought and have been dying to wear out for like a month now. we stayed too late to take the tube back, so rod walked us to trafalgar square to cathc the night bus home. the walk was really enjoyable (altho a little cold) cause we went through so many areas of london to get there. i had no idea how close everything is above ground. in about a 15 min walk we went from Oxford Circus, through Piccadilly Circus, through Leicester Square, to Trafalgar Square, then just one street over from that where our bus was, was The Strand (where we saw Chicago). and i already knew from last weekend that trafalgar square is just a very short walk from where i work (as is westminster). it was around 130 am and there were still lots of people out and lights were on everywhere and those are the really neat places in london and so the walk was as fun as the clubbing part.

all the diary entries have finally been added in!!! (added some stuff back in october too so dont forget to check the archives)

The story from the Wales trip is now ready. sorry it took so long to get it all typed in. if you had read it before there was a piece missing out of the middle but its added now.

Well ive spent all day uploading all the pix (well not all cause there are still some sitting on the camera) to the new site and transferring over the diary entries. i hadnt realized how little ive written! I do so much all the time it just turns into such a daunting task. I promise to try harder from now on 🙂 . Im really excited about this new site cause now everyone can post replies/comments to my diary entries and pix!

Thursday night we had tickets for the musical production of Chicago on The Strand (where all the theatres are). It starred Jennifer Ellison whos a huge soap star here in England. We went with Emily and Emily. The theatre was kinda small and the seats werent bad at all (cost L25) cept that there was a couple two rows in front of us with big heads that we had issues trying to see around. it was really fun to have a ritzy night out with the girls.

afterwards we went to mcdonalds to get milkshakes. we were standing in line and in the line next to us was this guy that looked like he might have been homeless and he was trying to pull a 10 pence coin (a dime) towards him with an umbrella, but he stopped when he realized everyone was looking at him. then a guy ahead of us in the line saw it, picked it up off the floor, and dropped it into the mcdonalds charity coin box!! we all started cracking up laughing.

Every Wednesday, James, Craig, and Dave go get drunk at the Whetherspoons pub in Leicester Square (lester square). There are a few pix up from when kristie and emily and i went with them the first time they went. i hadnt been since then but they come in every thursday with the stories of how obnoxious they were. this wednesday kristie was working a double shift so i decided to join them. it was myself, james, craig, dave, and linden. they didnt get very drunk tho cause they had had such a wild time the week before. theyve even estranged the bartender after they called her Morticia a few weeks ago. after we left wetherspoons we went down to digress city to surprise kristie at work. that bar was pretty dead tho so everyone went home after that.

We have a Tuesday night tradition where we all get together at the guys’ house and Kristie and Emily cook us all dinner and we watch a movie and hang out. Kristie, Mayoor, me, and sometimes Darren go to Wanstead (two stops down from leyton…very close). Their house has Shane, Mart, Nigel, and Ben. This week we watched the Mummy Returns but no one really watched it cause we were all too busy talking. They made chili (for dinner (which has tomatoes in it so i had put some sugar in it plus it was pretty spicy). I left a little bit in my bowl and martin said he wanted the rest rather than me throw it out. he took a bite and was like “aggh this has sugar in it! ” and kept saying how terrible it was. i couldnt stop laughing at him.

Last night I found out that my cat, Frisky, had to be put to sleep on Friday. The tumor in her nose had spread through her body and collapsed one of her lungs. Steph said that the Xray pix were horrific. I couldnt stop crying when i first found out, but my best friend Lauren talked to me for a good hour or so until i was calm enough to go to sleep. today i spent all day in my pjs watching movies, i was so depressed. i did get up and go to the carvery with everybody (kristie, emily, mayoor, martin, and ben) for dinner and that made me feel a bit better.

Saturday kristie and i did the touristy thing and went to St James Park (across the street from where i work) and walked around the park. its really pretty there. you can stand on this bridge over the pond. to one side you can see the palace and to the other you see the london eye. then we walked down to trafalgar square and sat with about a billion pigeons. i couldnt find any old lady to sell me bird seed for tuppens a bag, though.

We went to the National Gallery there on Trafalgar Square. its free to get in but they request a 1-2 pound contribution, so i gave a pound when i walked in. then to get those headsets that do the audio tours its another request for a contribution. so i asked if it was then free since we had already given one at the door and she said no cause this was for the audio department. you couldnt get one *without* a contribution, which in my opinion isnt a contribution anymore if you *have* to give it! might as well just say it costs a pound to get one!

the early stuff was all religious works. we started playing a game to find a room that *didnt* have a piece in it depicting the virgin mother and child. the later pieces were more interesting. there was one i liked that was 4 paintings, and each one was a market scene meant to represent the 4 elements. a fish merchant for water, veggie merchant for earth, fowl for air, and roasting meat for fire.

youre not allowed to take pix in this museum, and theres an employee standing in every room, so kristie went over and started asking the little old man questions while i snapped some quick shots of Van Gogh (Fifteen Sunflowers in a Vase). Then we couldnt stop laughing and had to leave.

After the museum, we went to get lunch at La Madeline (yes the same little French cafe as in Marietta). We got lost trying to find it and ended up at St James Palace where a little soldier stepped out of a box, did a little march, and then went back in his/her box — like a little wind up toy soldier! We also saw girls out on a Bachelorette party with devil horns on their heads and carrying a blow up doll. Then a guy goes zipping around the corner on a motorcycle the size of a tricycle. Every time we get lost we always seem to run into some really funny/ interesting things.

After a hot cup of hot chocolate, steaming cheesy quiche, and a bowl of creme brulee, we were back on the street and heading for Piccadilly Circus (a recommendation by Sal) where I spent a grotesque amount of money on touristy souvineers and Christmas presents. They had banner of lights hung above the streets which made it seem quite Christmasy.

happy birthday lauren!! hope you had a great day.