Archive for May, 2008

the states

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I miss the fact that every restaurant gives you doggie bags. Granted it’s because of the enormous portion sizes but hey, I’m happy to have two meals for the price of one.

I also miss the bottomless drinks. Oh ice tea, I do love you so. Yet another tactic to leave me going home fat and happy but I could just use artificial sweetener instead of real sugar, right?

And of course, the junk food. Sno Balls are the best! Yet another trick to make me eat more and more but they are so delicious!

The verdict: I can only spend a maximum of one week there for fear of undoing any kind of progress I’ve made through running like a nutter on ye olde treadmill.

blonde bits

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I am successfully spending my evening uploading photos to Flickr and more importantly, cutting the majority of the blonde bits out of my hair. I’ve been planning on dying it for about two weeks now but decided to embark on a slice and cut instead. Sadly I will not be cutting all of it off as the blonde bits are far too extensive and would leave me with big gaps.

I just noticed that the bits on the left are really blonde (as near as white as my hair would get) and the right side bits are nearer to brown thanks to the previous dye jobs. Sigh. I’m a lopsided blonde bit cutter.

jelly

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I made another shock discovery a few weeks back when I decided to make jelly for the first time in about seven years. Jelly comes in blocks here. Little concentrated jelly blocks. I thought I was missing something here but the States still do the powder form. Weird.

thighs

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

For the first time since I got to England I found chicken thigh fillets in the supermarket! Shock of shocks!

titchmarsh

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Bank holiday weekend. Two in one month… neat.

Me and Eddy ventured up to Titchmarsh (nope, I’d never heard of it either) to visit his sister and fiancĂ©. Sunday roast and pints and pints of ale (them, not me) and it was a good visit.

Rainy rainy outside. Not that I like the outside anyways.

Muscles are SO sore. After not doing press-ups for years it hurts!

facebook

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

It’s funny how these guys get it just right. Just hilarious.

vomit

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

No really… I’m glad I watched this after I had dinner (rather than during).

WordPress 2.5.1

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I finally upgraded. Tagging, here I come! Oh jeez, wil the anal-compulsive freak in me go back and try and tag every post??? I hate to think

It had to start somewhere…

Monday, May 12th, 2008

On Saturday I ventured out to the gym and decided that I was going to try out a treadmill for the first time EVER! I got on the thing not quite sure what to expect. Thank goodness they start it off at 0.8km per hour, probably so that you don’t go flying off the back of the thing. So I tried it, it worked and I’m hooked! A mere episode one in my foray into this world of running (blurgh).