Time to go home

My week is over. I've been to London, Brighton, Horsham and Canterbury. I've been bike riding in Sussex and drank wine in several old English pubs. We went to see a play in Guildford, I've eaten fish and chips, scampi and chips, paprika flavored Pringles and crayfish sandwiches. We painted my brother's house downstairs and I have bought loads of clothes to wear state-side. I even sent out postcards today after eating a really good Cornish pastie. It wasn't all about the food, but that did play a big part - the chicken tikka masala balti was suberb. The weather was pretty good too - it only rained one day (and we were painting that day anyway).

I worry about my brother, I hope he finds a girlfriend soon.

I'll be back home tomorrow night.

Other side of the pond

I flew over the big pond yesterday - not bad, it only took 8 hours and I managed to sleep a little. I just love those BA direct flights - whoosh straight into Heathrow... Ta-da! I'm here, no problemo... arrived and went directly for a Starbucks latte. I stayed awake until 10:30pm - was very proud of myself since there is a 7 hour time difference. I woke the next morning at 7am, blah jet lag - who are these wusses that complain?

I thought the US was reacting badly to increasing gas prices. All day we kept getting stopped by traffic jams as people lined up for petrol/gas. Because of the price increasing so much there are people demonstrating by refineries and stopping deliveries. That means that people are panicing and petrol stations are running out. We went to a place for gas and met people from the next town because it was out of petrol. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4243950.stm

'Nuff said!

Got this in an e-mail today

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/8/13924/40887

'Nuff said!

I want a ROKR!

This morning was very unproductive (hope my boss doesn’t find this page). I staked out applenewsfeed.com (I must remember to bookmark that page) during the Apple reveal of the ROKR and Nano. I've hated my Samsung phone ever since I replaced my dying and beloved Motorola StarTac. I'd love to move to a stylish Moto-Apple phone. I really can't justify a ROKR; I have a digital camera and one in my PDA, my phone works fine (it's just ugly and boring) and I have a 20 Gig iPod. I just want a ROKR - whaaaa! It's been a while since I was the kid with the latest cool toy - I used to be the geek chick in those days.

I'm all over the makemedance.com website!

30% Fat!

My personal trainer said I am 30% fat! Holy moly, I thought I was low 20s - that's what the POS scales have been saying for the past year! Sooo, my trainer wants to get me down to 22% body fat by losing 8lbs of fat and converting 2lbs to muscle. I also have to keep a log of all the food I eat - not sure if this is going to be fun yet!