happy anniversary daniel

This was the first weekend in 3 weeks that I didnt have to babysit and it was a really nice change to have the ENTIRE weekend to myself! Althought I didnt end up going out friday night is it still nice to have that freedom to choice. My weekend actually started Thursday (kinda); it was the first thrusday since Cassie has been here than I went out for nanny night! Matilda, Kylie and Ula and myself meet up in Stratford and went to an open mic night... it was SO nice to get out with those girls again, we had a great time. Didn't end up leaving till about 12:30 - lucky enough we JUST caught the last tube! I didnt get in till 1:30 though and having to get up at 7:00 was not pretty sight to say the least!

My thrusday night escapades is probably another reason I stayed in Friday night, but it was nice got to have a date night with Daniel and a nice chat with Ashley! Rita and I were up Saturday morning early to catch a train to Windsor to check out the castle. Windsor Castle is the unoffical home of the Queen, so I really enjoyed seeing this castle inparticularly because it was really someone home, where as all the others were lived in hundreds of years ago - this one was current. Rita and I have been the Windsor before with Silv but not to the castle, but it is a very nice town - so we also walked around again. We ended up going for lunch/dinner to 'Thai Square', it was my first Thai expereinces and I actually LOVED IT - I got pai thai and it was amazing. I love how i have widened my palate since being here, it has encouraged me upon my return to try new places in KDUB! Then Saturday we headed home to get ready for Sonjas birthday party, we went out to Zoo Bar OF COURSE! The DJ is always playing the best top 40 and classic cheese music that is always amazing... there was actually one 2 songs where I didnt really get into the music and we were there for over 3 hrs of straight dancing! It was also sweet because we didnt have to pay cover. Funny story though (dont I always have them!); Rita and I had gone to the toliet and there was a lesbian (i could tell because she had a shaved head) in there and I had noticed earlier that I loved her dress, so I told her in the bathroom, and thought nothing of it - only to find out later that she approved Rita and said "Tell your friend that I think shes very hot", Rita was having nothing of it, because everyone knows IM HERS and she said with attitude "I KNOW!" haha - Daniel you can be please that the only attention I recieved was from the same sex!



Sunday was Kylies Pink Ladies Cocktail Party!
Rita and I headed over to Kylies house at 1:00; it was the first time I have seen her place and its soo nice, and cute. Rita, Ula and her roomie Magda and Kylie had a fabulous day wearing pink, drinking an assortment of pink cocktails and being girls! Martin, Kylies live-in boyfriend was the best, he had gone out earlier that morning and bought Kylie pink flowers, and he served us cocktail and snacks all afternoon! He honestly never let a girls drink go down - BOY TAKE HINTS, and girls dont settle THOSE BOYS REALLY DO EXIST! So we stayed and got drunk from 1 - 6pm, drinking on a Sunday afternoon is my NEW FAVOURITE time to drink - its a great way of spending a relaxing sunday afternoon. Except, can I just take a moment to express how on occation I can not stand Europeans - I didnt realise this until I moved here but they are so blunt and pesimistic its actually offensive. In a discussion about weight and Poland (Ula and Madga are Polish) and how too skinny is sexy there and we were dicussing average and I was referred to as average sized by non-europeans Ula straight up called me a FAT PIG - and was so serious! This is why girls have complexes about weight, WOMAN ARE SUPPOST TO HAVE CURVES, dont forget it!

(not the nices picture; but it has all of us in it!)


I can not believe that next tuesday Im heading to Switzerland!
Rita and I booked our Greece trip, and Im buying my Nice tickets today!

With the new plans Im coming home a day early; so I get a day between the wedding and arriving home!
YIPPY

Have a great VICTORIA DAY!

PS. Quick Boyfriend Shoot OUT
today is daniel and my ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
i love you more than even, and i cant wait for whats to come!

Kyle Smith the 'Acrostic'

All that I LOVE and MISS about my BIRTHDAY BOY... enjoy!

he still loves me after almost Killing him on at least two different occasions

You go above and beyond devicing eleborate plans of attack just to get revenge and to get any chance you can to violate my body

informs me of all the dirty Lingo that the boys use, and you are not afraid of using discribive words

Eiffel Tower.

will never let a Simpson joke pass without being called out

even when i Mistake his birthday for last tuesday, i know he wont judge!

I can count on a solid ALLY OUP comment in all situations

created my Title as the 'group girlfriend'

Happy Birthday your an amazing guy and friend, I LOVE YOU KYLE!

i love my mom... and daniel too!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
xx. you're the best mother any girl could ask for, love you the MOST, next year its me and you all day long .xx

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE
xx. you're the best boyfriend a girl could ask for, sorry I couldnt spend this day with you - thank you for all your support, only eighty something more days .xx

NOW FOR THE REST OF YOU!
How was your weekend... mine was nice, lord how I love my weekends! Friday I got out of the house at 8:00 and met up with Rita in the Docklands to see "I Love You, Man". If you havent seen it, I would def. recommend it... HILARIOUS! For those of you who have seen it bahahaha isnt it the best... TOTS M' GOATS - probably the best line EVER! Anyways then we went for drinks and had a nice sleep over, i send all my free nights on weekends sleeping over at Ritas and Im forever greatful that she is her to resuce me for my house for my weekly escape! Saturday we packed up and headed to Islington a new side of town Matilda suggested us to see, we spend the day walking up and down the streets and side markets then went a bought a few things for a cute picnic in the park. It was very nice, hahaha and then... (sorry Rita I had too) Rita got SHIT ON... like HUGE SHIT hahaha it was the funniest ever, I almost peed! She was even wearing a white coat hahaha she freaked out and we spend a good 10mins cleaning piegon shit off her coat and then another bird swooped down and she ran out of the park! I babysat Saturday night of course, I spend my time alone making a new necklace... which Im so proud of because I got the idea from a market in Brick Lane but it was like 18 Pounds and I found a charm for 1 pound and a chain for 1.5 and decided to make my own! I LOVE CRAFTS... its cool once its completely finished I shall take a picture and post it! Sunday because the freaking tubes and DRL are always closed we just met up in Stratford for dinner and drinks.

All and all I love my weekends!

This week I also booked my Switzerland trip! Im a tiny bit nervous because its the first trip im going alone on, but Im equally excited. Im only nervous of little things like getting there ok but Ive done enough trips it should be fine. Im going to a smaller sized town called Interlaken, so Im heading there tuesday the 26th till the saturday - so in like two weeks.. crazy how time is flying! We also booked our Scotland trip for June 12th weekend (dont know if im posted that yet)! I also think that if all goes as planned... I may be adding a new place to my list: Nice, France. But we will have to see how that pans out.

Life is getting back on track, Im no longer sick (really) and Im constantly reminding myself that other people can not effect my happiness unless I let them!

Have a fab. week everyone!
Hopefully I can write again before the weekend!

LOVE LOVE LOVE
xx

hell to heaven and back again.

First off, some of you may or maynot have seen a certain post regarding a certain persons birthday - note I got my facts wrong and thus it was deleted... I am a good friend and I know my birthdays haha it was a common error in judgement. For those of you who have no idea what Im talking about - GOOD, ignore the above message.

HELL PART ONE:
Last week was definately one of the hardest weeks I have been hear, now I said that to Daniel and he said "do you remember you first two weeks there at all" hahaha, and I guess I dont because I it was tough. Its gonna be hard to explain why to everyone without drowning on about all the specifics which I can't really do but without doing that I can explain how everything mad me feel and that was very little. I was once again made to feel like I am no welcome as a member of this household, but only as a mere member of staff and when you life with someone it is hard to only be a member of staff, because you never really recieve the compasion that you do living with family, friends or significant others. It is actually very draining, to continiously be the one giving my self the love and support that I would normally recieve from my family and friends. With that said, I do recieve all that and more from my friends here and that is why I am able to still live in the situation that I do because I do have people to help me threw it. Usually I have trouble with Olivia, but she is easy to forgive because she is only 7 and has some difficulties of her own, but when I have the everyday problems with the girls added to the lack of support I get from the parents, is when I find it the most challenging -- and that was last week. Then like most of you know my computer CRASHED, I got a virus I think from a TV watching website, which sucks because it provide me with so much entertainment, and now I cant go back.

SEEING THE LIGHT:
I decided with the help of friends that I cant expect my life to change here ie., my living situation, its been like this for the better of 6 months of my stay and the other months it was just the honeymoon phase. So I grabbed the bull by its horns and I changed my mind set to positive. Im only here 3 more months and Im gonna make the most of it, even if I do have to live somewhere I dont want to be. I love my girls, and my friends. Matilda was the best and in her spare time with her little girls Anna them made me a pamper kit full of things to help me cheer up: magazine, chocolate and cookie from sweden, tea and a braclet from china. It was the best, its what I needed to smile and be happy!

HEAVEN:
Can anyone guess what the start of it was... ding ding ding my WEEKEND!
Friday night was Silvio's birthday so after work I headed to the docklands to celebrate with Rita, Silv, Marius and a few other people I have met here and there. It was so nice, my mood changed 100% as soon as I saw them, they gave me so much love. Marius came up to me and picked me up with a big hug and its exactly what I needed, and hug and time away to appriate the good things. Then Rita was away this weekend in Italy, lucky duck but I took full advantage of my weekend. Saturday I went and put my computer in to get fixed, which should have costed me 95 quid but instead costed me 45 because the nice (black) guy haha took out my hardrive and instead of him backing it up just let me buy a memory stick and let me do it myself on there computer! Then I headed over the a Dali Unverise exhibit which was very cool, the way his mind worked amazed me, he was totally screwed up but very interesting. It was cool to learn more about him, and see his work. Then I met up with Matilda and Nadja and we went for drinks and Matilda was sleeping over and I was babysitting but we had a mad dash home for 7:00 and got home at 6:57 hahaha it was great. We had a nice date night, I made dinner and we had a bottle of wine and just bonded, which was very enjoyable! Sunday we headed to Brick Lane which is the hot spot for Londoners on a Sunday. It has tones of markets, and street ventors, and people just lay out stuff they want to sell on the streets like a garage sale and people can buy it! Its crazy cool, then Nadja joined up with us and we went to a vegitarian/vegan restuarant called Root Master, which is an old double decker bus that looks on Brick Lane Market and the upstairs is the lounge and the downstairs is the kitchen, and to end it we found a cool pub, amongst many cool pubs to have a drink. Unlike you all Monday was a holiday because it was the Queens Birthday, so I spent my day getting my computer back, and going shopping for Daniels Birthday present (and I must say Im pleased with my findings!) then I headed to Ritas to await her arrival with Silv and Marius and we all had a nice BBQ. It was a great ending to a perfect weekend (perfect minus the babysitting, but we made the most out of it!)

BACK AGAIN:
Over the weekend Isabella got sick, and lucky me since Im the one whose always with her got it today as well. I went to bed last night with a sore throat and now its full on starting this morning. I only worked till 10:00, and called in for my school duty and slept till about 2:30. I was lucky enough Sara came home at 3, I still dont know why, perhaps because I looked like death this morning, and David said so... and she sent me to bed again so that is where I have been, and where I will stay. Ive been sleeping on and off all day trying to get rid of this thing!
Lets hope its gone by FRIDAY... and lets hope I dont have SWINE!

TRIP OVERVIEW

here is my top 3 and bottom 3 of all three trips...
so much happened while Cass was here and i only had the genious idea to keep a journal of it starting in Paris... so that is to come but as for everything else you get pictures and the best and the worst :)

ENGLAND
top three:
- on the sunday we went to all major tourist attractions and for lunch we stopped at a cute pub along the thames... we had lunch and just relaxed
- camden on the saturday... it was a beautiful weather the entire time she was here... and it was so chill
- taking her to the george on the saturday night, we had cocktail pitchers and relaxed on the patio

bottom three:
- having to work, and take livy out with us: it as fun and all but it limited us for the 2 days we had her
- the tuesday Cassie went on a day trip and I was alone with the girls... i was lonely
- the shopping day... it was fun but it was our last day and i was soo tired and had no money so i just carried cassie bags and got jealous!

hilarious highlight:
- when cassie got shit on by a piegon in the park
- when cassie and all my friend got together for dinner and drinks wednesday night... the convo got hilarious



VENICE
top three:
- finding the most peaceful spot on our last day and just relaxing in the sun by the water
- our gondola ride
- visiting the island of murano and burano

bottom three:
- having to pay 5 euros for a coke because the price wasnt on the menu
- the rediculous line for the basillica (we didnt even wait in it)
- not getting a hot guy to drive our gondola

hillarious highlights:
- cassie getting shit on AGAIN by a piegon haha
- cassie buying a illegal D&G bag
- seeing a gondola driver pick his ass while passing by us



PARIS
top three:
- sainte chapel: walking in and getting blown away by the stained glass... i almost said shit in the church
- finding our cute bar/pub in montmarte the first time, it was so cool
- sitting on the steps in montmarte in front of the bacillica listening to the music
(bonus) - watching the effil tower light up at night

bottom three:
- being to tired at points to hold up a conversation
- hurting my back
- finding our cute bar/pub the second time and drinking far to much

hillarious highlights:
- cassie studdering on the word consider for like 5 goes before she actually got it right
(cassie found more things funny in paris, my luck wasn't on my side lol)



I HOPE THAT IS GOOD, ENJOY MY PARIS BLOG - ITS MORE DETAILED!

PARIS JOURNALS

IN PARIS I KEPT A JOURNAL OF EVENTS SO I COULD KEEP IT AND POST IT IN MY SCRAPBOOK AND BLOG THEM... SO HERE IS WHAT WE DID!
(IVE ADDED AUTHERS NOTES IN CAPS. AFTER SOME ENTRYS... A REVIEW)

April 11th, 2009

Its monday morning and our first DAY in Paris starts now... but getting here was a journey in itself! Our flight from Venice got us in at 11:00pm! Of course we weren't in the airport till 11:45, we ran across the airport only to hop on the last train that night. Then after being total tourist we got off at a random stop with our fingers crossed and asked these 2 employees, who were no older than 20. They were the frist nice frenchies we met. They tired their very best English and helped us out. Only to send us on a rat race because all the trains were on there last run. AND Paris has 14 metros, 4 trains and 5 rail lines! Also all gates are protected by a glass door and a metal bar you need to open with a ticket... which we didnt have and thats where nice frenchie #2 comes in. This nice woman saw us without our tickets and scanned her card in the exit door... opening the glass so we could hop the metal gate. Now why didnt we get a ticket? Its not our fault the office was closed, it was 1:00am by this point. Now we knew we were 5 mins away from our room byt were sooo lost we asked a couple on there way home for help... they proceeded to walk with us to our hostel, along the way giving us tips and advice on Paris. NICEST WOMAN EVER! Only to get to our hostel who usually close its dest at 12:00... to be shutting its gate, we knock knock knocked... bag bag bagged and were HOME SWEET HOME at 2:00am! We got so much luck, now Cassie is finsihed up getting ready and we'll head into the city!

April 11th, 2009 (evening)

What a first day... WOW! With a great end too! Cassie and I just called Dan and Mom/Dad for 3.90 Euros. The first sight of Paris we saw was the Arc Du Triphume (sp), amazing! It blows all London momuments out of the water. From there we walked through posh town to get to the Effil Tower, which was also crazy but not as nice. After seeing the monuments we decdied to spend the afternoon in Montmarte (home of Moulin Rouge). Along with shops we found this amazing basilica that had at least 200 steps up to it! Once we entred it there was an African man and groupies jamming while at least 200 onlookers listened. They had guitars and bongo etc., we watched for a solid 1.5 hrs BEST EVER! After a little more roming we found this cafe/bar that had happy hour... what a "HAPPY" type... cocktails = 6 EUROS with at least 3 shots. It was so chill, we're gonna go back for a later night Wed, when we left they were evening doing salsa. So that day with that ngiht = BEST FIRST NIGHT EVER!

LITTLE DID WE KNOW AT THIS POINT THAT THOSE SAME FABULOUS COCKTAILS WOULD MAKE US SICK 2 NIGHTS LATER... HAVENT BEEN THAT DRUNK SINCE I WAS LIKE 19!

April 12, 2009

OMG im so exausted, Cassie and I even decided to reschudule a few things (1 thing) because we just weren't up for it. I dont know how anyone can backpack for month(s). I have really started to appricate how i'm doing it; having a central home base in Europe. Its been 5 days and were beat... but we're just gonna get a good/great sleep tonight and start 110% tomorrow. Today was a bit of an annoying dayy because we heard about this 'cool' shopping area The Passages so we were pumped and it was like a glorifed mall. But oh well everyday cant be THE BEST but we did make it to the catacombs, after an hour wait in line, but it was worth it! Its 130 steps in a spiral down to caves wehre the remains of 3 million people lay. Its freaking creepy; but so cool (got some good pics!) I dont know how people are constantly travelling (unless its like an all inclusive vacay), but I'm in Paris... only live once!

I REALLY ENJOYED WRITING ABOUT THE STEPS... MAY SHOW HOW UNFIT I AM!

April 14th, 2009

So I skipped writing on the 13th because we were to bsuy with our heads in the toliet to function. Yesturday we had another great day, with a memorable ending. We went to Notre Dame top, which meant climbing 422 stairs in an upward spiral! OMG Paris is one freaking stair after another. But it was well worth it, in line we ended up meeting Amanda and Katy a mother and daughter from Sydney! They made the line go so much quicker, and we exchanged emails! From that we went to Sainte Chapel, WOW it was breath taking... so overwhelming (a new personal fav) it cant even be described. Beside it was the jail where Mary Antoinette (sp) was kept in for 76 or 86 days before she was sentence to death! We ended our site seeing at The Lourve. Then came to our demise... happy hour round two, so mcuh fun but got a LITTLE out of control and consquently made us have a very low key day today. We only went out from 12 - 5 shopping, which was enjoyable, but it took all our energy. We had to coem home for a nap till 8 then we just went out for dinner and now are in bed again. Tomorrow is our last full day here, were gonna take full advanage of all our hours!

April 16th, 2009

And so its come to an end... our baga re packed and we are catching a plane back to England tomorrow, and were ready to go. Travelling vactaions are draining, but so amazing. To end our trip we went and watched the Effil Tower light up. Those are the best moments; free just enjoying your surrounding feeling completely free and relaxed. it even so happened that for the frist apx. 10 mins it twinkled. We were busy in our last day we went back to Montmartre and found a spot wehre artist sell and creat there work...and before that we went shopping by St. Denis basilica and I got sweet sweet heels!

IT WAS A QUICK END BECAUSE I WAS SO TIRED AND DIDNT WANT TO WRITE LOL!

(cassies add on...)
*sign* Where has the time gone?!?! I waited for what seemed like ever for this trip to arrive and tonight is the end of an unforgetable trip! I got to expereince SO many amazing things. This expereince has brougth me closer to Jenn unbelieable - unfortgetable!!! Great times - great buys - great sights - great all around! We ende with the Effil Tower light show and a crepe! My only hope is to have another sister/friend trip in the future... maybe Sydney Australia to visit Katy and Amanda!

IT WAS A GREAT TIME... AND IM MISSING IT ALREADY!
XX

MISSED YOU ALL, HOPE THIS SHOWS YOU HOW MY PARIS WEEK WAS A LITTLE!

my first visitor

CASSIE IS HERE TOMORROW!

First and for most, Im sorry that this is delayed, i've been starting to get hate mail (cough dina cough) so Im giving my fans what they want... one more blog before Cassie comes. Now I may be able to squeeze one more in before Venice and Paris but dont hold me to it... you'll just have to wait in anticiapation until our return on the 18th!

Since my last post Sara and David have gone back to work and life with the girls has gone back to normal... well as normal as a day in my life is here. Its such a drastic change between having the parents here and not having them, its rediculous. We are still having problems with Olivia stealing... which came up again yesturday so thats in the middle of being sorted out and Bell is doing fine. I ended up taking her to nursary today when I got home from lunch duty because she was crying and David didn't want to deal with it, so he "asked" me to take her. Im no longer good at hiding my thoughts on the matter I think, but I think he takes my hostility as not wanted to take her but its more towards my pure shock at his lazifare parenting. Im trying my hardest with Livy, shes hard to get along with A LOT of the time but she need love and friendship so I am working on constantly telling myself shes an unhappy child and I need to do what I can to fix it!

Rita and I had a splended weekend together... since the family was gone we had the house to ourselves all weekend which was romantic. Saturday we found a Borough Market, which is found under London Bridge station and its an all FOOD market and its huge. OMG we were in heaven... we bought our lunch and dessert of course and sat at Southwark Cathedral and ate it. We are still both not eating chocolate for lent so that was killing us again, but its doing very well, and I havent had it in sooo long! Then we found this cute pub the Ale and Pie and it was really nice, Im hoping to take Cassie sunday on our adventures. We also ended up trying out a new bar called Oxygen. We didn't want to go out in Central London but we tried Old Street another 'hip' spot but it was all like trans and electric so we left ... fast. Oxygen played sweet chart hits like we like em but the venue wasn't the best, we won't be going back, and there was a lot of creepers who didn't give up easily!

Welp... thats my life, you all know the most exciting part, and I cant freaking wait for her till tomorrow. Im going out for nanny night tonight just so im not up waiting and waiting... only 3 hrs of work tomorrow until I head out to get her.

It will be the longest 3hrs EVER!

LOVE LOVE LOVE
have a fabulous easter.
<3