The Friends Are Coming!

I hope everyone is well and enjoying the unseasonably warm weather (feels like April over here). I have had a good few weeks being back here in London, already planning what I am going to do the next month or so. First news is that I will get to see some people I do not normally get to see. Ashlie is comign to visit me in March which is brilliant (come on friends you have no excuses not to visit me!). We are going to plan her trip on a budget which helps both me and her ... everyone wins! Also my friend Jean Phillip will be returning to London for a few weeks so very happy to see him again.

The store is still the same, still working my butt off for what seems like no money (it always seems liek so much at the beginning of the week..haha). The power went out on me last night 30 minutes before close. I was by myself and I swear I was so freaked out because this store can be creepy at night when the lights were off. So many mirrors and masks I felt liek I was in a scary movie.

I did something I should not have done a few days ago. I went into Topshop. I was early meeting my friend and I was at Oxford Circus so I decided to kill some time. BIG MISTAKE! I wanted everything in there and of course could not have anything. Also I had just come from work so I looked like crap and every girl in there was sooo trendy and proper, so depressing. Anyways I have decided to start playing the lottery, yeah right.

Ok so I will update in a few days when I get the chance.
Peace!

Wednesday's blog on Saturday

My first whole week back and things have been a little tight. Apparently the London Council decides to give us all the bills at the same time, right after Christmas when no one has any money. So nice of them – I bet they think they are being really funny. SO after not having any bills for 3 months they are all due and I am at a breaking point – financially anyways. My goal is to make it to Saturday – when I get paid again and all will be well. Also since being away the buses and underground decided to increase the fare so I will be walking for awhile. Maybe this way I will see more celebrities since I am baffled why I haven’t seen any on the buses! I guess they do not travel my usual routes. I always hear how all these celebs live in Chelsea but I never see anyone. It is probably because I am always in my own little dream world. I think the next trip I am going to plan will be to Barcelona – not sure how warm it is but I am sure it is warmer than here and going to Spain will be brilliant . Maybe I should start playing the lottery!

I have caught up on all my Coronation Street and Hollyoaks (the English Soap Operas). That is the one thing about English T.V is that they play their soaps at night so no one misses anything, so nice of them. I will be watching Ugly Betty tonight, so exciting. I have decided that I will venture over to Harrods (walking of course) on Sunday because they have their month long sale going on and I still hadn’t been over there so I guess this will be a good time.

I know I said I wasn’t sleeping right and it has continued because I slept till about 2 this afternoon and now I am all messed up again. I hope I can sleep tonight -

WIndy City

Sorry everyone but I did write a blog a few days ago but I have not been able to get any kind of internet connection so I will try posting it later. I am at my work computer so that is how I am able to give you this gem. My hands are frozen stiff since my work does not have proper heat and I have been made to paint all day. We are painting the store pink, my favorite colour (yelch!)I kinda feel like the Karate Kid painting strokes up and down. Maybe I can defeat the muggers with my new karate moves.

So this week I get paid properly and it is a relief .. although I have to say I am pretty thrifty when I have to be! It has been crazy windy here in LOndon, I almost get throw over the sidewalk walking home sometimes. It has been so bad a few people have died and the underground has shut. Global Warming people!!!

Ok well I have to go shut the store I will post the other blog entry when I can , Love ya.

What To Do??

So since being back in London have yet to have a full night’s rest. I have only mastered about 4 hours at a time…so maybe tonight (fingers crossed!). Work is work, the place went crazy since I was gone so I have taken the last three days organizing it back to normal. The basement alone was a death trap that I had to sort through. I am making my roommate watch “16 Candles” and told her if she did not like it I could no longer be her friend haha. My goal is to have her watch every 80s brat pack movie because it was so essential in my upbringing I have to share (if for no other reason that I need someone in this country to get my obscure references).

I have yet to tell my boss I want to quit but the problem is if I do quit what exactly will I do??? No really, any suggestions would be great! So I have concluded that I am still going through what professional people call a “quarter life crisis”. Maybe it is just because I am out of school and have no real direction, I bet no one in the 50s felt this way. Men would get jobs right out of high-school and women would just get married to their high-school sweethearts. Sometimes I feel like I should have been born in the 50s, because nowadays you have to have a dream and accomplish it or else you are a failure. So depressing. I have given myself 6 months to figure my life out or else I run away to Thailand and become a … well whatever people do in Thailand.

Anyways despite this blog being a little depressing I am fine and doing well!!!

Back in the U.K

Hey everyone!

So I made it alive back to London…but not without a few bumps. The wind has been so bad here recently (damn global warming) that my plane had a bunch of turbulence. This little girl from Belfast, Ireland who sat beside me and kept giggling at the way the plane went up and down and I just felt like vomiting. Yeah so this little girl decided she wanted to be my friend and all through the flight kept turning the over head light on and off, even buzzed the flight attendant a few times in her insistent button pushing. Every time I tried to take a little nap I would close my eyes and she would tap me wanting to play eye spy, play on my computer or read me a story. I guess plane rides for 6 year olds is not all that exciting. I just wanted to make it alive…and I succeeded (or the pilot had something to do with it, whatever). I got to wonder, I was on a cheap flight with a discount airline, does that mean the pilots are not THE BEST pilots out there? Is there a pay difference? This all of a sudden made me nervous. Also what made me nervous was the security was pretty relaxed coming here. Leaving London the were all these check points stating what was allowed and all things had to be in clear plastic bags but Toronto you can just walk right in apparently.

So first day back I slept at really weird times and that is basically all I did. Second day, today, was my first day back at work and I felt so overwhelmed. Everything was piled up and nothing was in order so I spend most of the day cleaning everything up and tomorrow we have sooo many orders. I have to be up at 7 AM! Welcome home. I am going to bed early because I feel well tired and I want to go out tomorrow night and not feel dead.

I am happy I got to see all of you (and those who I missed I will get you next time).