I'm Ready to Get Married........?

Tom, you were delicious!

Wed night i got home from a fun but chilly day in London and realized i hadnt thawed Tom, the Turkey, nor had i allowed the pastry dough to chill either. so then i started to kinda freak out whether i would have time to cook all the stuff on thursday in time to eat around 6pm.

a quick chat with moo and all was right with the world :)

so, i couldnt really sleep that well, cause i was a bit anxious about the next day and prepping whent to prepare stuff and when it should go into the oven and mentally trying to convert Celcius to Farenheit and blah blah.

i woke up around 8:30 and got to work. first the pies. 1 apple and 2 sweet potato (would have been pumpkin, but apparently Britain doesnt sell the cans in the store, pshhhhhh). so once those were done, i prepped Tom which was kinda like trying to rinse a 14 pound, slippery kid in the sink. Mila got some good photos of this ordeal, but im afraid ill have to steal those and post them at a later date. tom went into the oven, and i tried going for a quick run.....though it was quicker than i had hoped, 10min. gol'dang shin splints!!

so, after a couple hours i started on the mashed white/sweet potatos and Tom was browning/cooking/smelling/looking delicious! i took him out around 4pm and he looked delightful!

my friends began coming around 6 and we ate at 6:30, so only 1/2 behind schedule, but i think it was ok. we gathered around the table and we each said one thing we were happy for, then i asked the blessing (yes, mom! i prayed for everyone!!!). Everyone said the food was really reallly great and everyone had at least 2 helpings. perfect! there was a good amount of turkey left over for my flatmates and i as well as givng some away too. everyone somehow loved the sweepers and 'mallows, but got scared off by the sweeper pie....explain that one to me? i guess marshmallows are more alluring????? oh well, more pie and whipped topping left for me!! haha!

so, i finally got to bed and slept and now im up and have to go to the chiropractor...i also wanted to swim this morning, but no way.......too tired from yesterday.

*oh! in reference to the title, my Greek flatmate Angeliki joked that now that i can cook a full meal and clean, i am ready to get married......(Michael Phelps likes to eat, and im sure he appreciates a clean house.........;)

So, its been a while.........

HIYAAAAAAA,

seriously, nothing to report on. the past couple days have been sunny and nice=a couple runs outside and motivation to study!!

only 3-ish more weeks till Christmas break, so im excited but also a bit nervous, trying to get as much done as i can before the break so a) i dont have to worry about it while im visiting Tine, and b) dont wanna deal with a butt load of work when i get back! but i return the 1st of jan, so maybe that will give me a couple more days before the term starts again to catch up on stuff. box of stuff ;)

still swimming and still smelling of chlorine. i love it. my rib has started acting up again, not so bad like before i came here, but thankfully i got an appointment with a chiro here for today!! so i hope that getting cracked will only help my rib heal faster than have it regress........pain is no so good!!

oh, and x-biking tonight! they are special bikes that you do workouts on where you can shift into different gears to feel easy or like you're climbing a mountain! i told zach it reminded me of soccer practice in h.s. cause the instructor is yelling 'come on! give it all you got!' when you dont 'got' anything to give....but you just cant give up cause youll look like a pansy,,,,,,,and of course, i wanna beat all the other people, so i deal with the burn! :D

OH! and next thurs, i am making T-day dinner for a bunch of my friends here! im so excited! its gonna be a lot of work but they have already said they would love to help me cook, so that is good.
*plus i got a really sweet pkg from my parents filled with lovely Thanksgiving day stuff :)

alright, off to study/get cracked/buy food/whatever.........

~till next time (aka prolly after next thurs...)

Premier. Royal World Premier.

The Odeon Theatre!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7697882.stm (click here for a clip of the celebs!)

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh that's right.

Me and my friend Anna skipped off to London (my "hometown") for the day to catch a glimpse of the snazzy Royal World Premier of the new 007 move Quantum of Solace. We got to Leicester Square (pronounced "Lester", for those of you who do NOT want to be humiliated at trying to pronounce it to the Creperie waiter) at around 3:30, saw a line forming and then proceeding into the blocked off area where the cameras were, red carpet, the works!! To be honest, just for fun i faked a Brit accent to ask a couple in line what they were waiting for. The women said it was a line to get into the premier area to see the 'stars'; then i asked if you needed some kind of ticket and she said no, they were just letting anyone in!! Wow. Wow to the fact that she didnt recognize my impersonation of her own accent, and wow that we were able to get in!!

In the clip from youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crPmV5XQVRY it will give you a hint at what it was like while we were waiting and the music playing and what the whole scene looked like. From this person's camera angle, Anna and I were just across the carpet but over to the left, just before the stairs where the celebs walked down to get into the cinema!! so, we actually got REALLY great views of the people walking across the 'bridge' into the cinema! Too bad MY CAMERA REALLY BLOWS and my shots look terrible, and i only have one small shot of Daniel Craig's head; but if you zoom in you can see he's smiling, but he looks old.....

We actually didnt get to "see" the Russian Bond girl Olga, or Judi Dench cause they just took too long to pass us, and we had already been standing there for 5 hours in the cold!! But, essentially, we got what we came for, and that was exciting enough.

OH! Princes Will and Harry were supposed to arrive for it too, thus the "royal" premier, but as i said, we were frozen stiff just waiting for Daniel, so the Princes will have to wait for another time? And we saw MARK FOSTER apparently a professional (olympic?) British swimmer. Too bad we didnt know who he was before he stood on the bridge to pose for pictures!!!!! ahahh, Anna and i were like, "who is that guy? a british swimmer? never heard of him. oh well". cause we wanted to save our batteries for the 'real' stars. Anyhow, on our way back to the train, in the station Anna saw a poster with a guy in goggles and the name below said "mark foster" WHAAAAAAAT?! shoot. we saw a really good looking famous swimmer guy and didnt get the picture! needless to say, we had quite a few laughs about all the people we didnt get on camera after waiting for so long!!

Next time, I wont have to wait in the cold, except to be interviewed. And i hope the movie i make will be a good success too ;)

Mission: Mila's 22nd Surprise Party Complete!!

Yesterday I had some trouble focusing on my studies because i was so excited about the surprise party me and a couple of my other friends had planned for my flatmate Mila. There were some suspsicions she kinda knew what was up, but after the party, she just laughed because she had had no idea that anything like that was going to happen! (whew!)

So, earlier in the day i met up with my co-schemer Amelie, and we went into town to purchase some decorations and pick up the cake!! Everything went smoothly.

Then later, when we started getting ready to head out, the rest of my flatmates snuck out of the house before Mila could see them; however, one of them got caught and made up an excuse that she had to run out and print out a copy of a paper at the last minute (on a sat night at 8:30? ;)

so, Mila and i met our friend Anna and walked down into town, which seemed like hours cause i was just so freakin excited. We stopped by another pub real quickly so Mila could check it out in case she wanted to go there the next night for her 'real' bday celebration (since she thought last night was just gonna be us girls). So, we finally got to the restuarant and i told her to go in first, since she was the bday girl. She walked in and walked to the back and there were our friends and all the decorations waiting for her arrival! It was great!! We had about 15 friends show up, which i was really happy for since my guesstimation was correct for reservations!! yay!

so, we drank some Pimms (kinda like a mojito, but not really) and ate the cake, which she was also definitely not expecting, and then we moved onto another bar that had karaoke! it was only open until 1am, so we didnt get to stay for that long, but we did manage to sing a couple songs, in between the drunk, 80's dressed British girls who were there (woof).

so, it seemed like everyone had a good time, and i am so very grateful for all of those who came out to celebrate and for the girls who helped me pull it all off!! Fantastich!

I smell gas!!

so, last night around.....later in the evening, i was summoned to the kitchen where a couple girls thought they smelled gas. at first i couldnt really smell anything, but then when we shut the door to the outside, and then reopened it, i could smell something. and, thanks to the lifelong exposure to the intelligence of someone who has been in the fire service for 34 years, i asked what kind of gas we were using.....if it was propane, we need to keep things open cause its a heavy gas and fills up from the floor=KABOOM!!

my flatmate got on hands and knees and said it was even stronger of a scent near the floor. WAHLA! so we made a call and technicians came out and people started digging a whole to the pipes outside of our kitchen at night till about 12am. exciting stuff. we got a picture with the guys digging, but ill have to get the pic from my flatmate.

so, thats about all the excitment we've had around here. i am on a trail to find a dissertation topic, but its slow goin. otherwise, this coming week, im off to LONDON for the premier of the next Bond movie. no i dont have tickets to see it :'( but, i just wanna go and test my luck of maybe getting a pic or a glimpse of some real life celebs!?

more to come :)