Making a Home ./...Staying close takes work

I have been loving my new home ....feel like a grown up with great furniture. Things here are great..... and I feel really happy and comfortable here.
Things that have made me laugh.....
1. The fact that I am a bike commuter....and on the wrong side of the road too boot. As I commute through car traffic I think..."Wow this is soo odd that this seems soo normal to me now."
2. I am happy to have found a cheaper huge supermarket place open really early and late and just behind my house not to far away. I have to work at not buying too much as I am riding on a bike. Last night my bike was loaded with a huge bag in my back basket and my handle bar loaded with bags...it was soo funny I was so wobbily (if my family saw me they would think...what have you done with our Reb)....
3. I have a washer/dryer machine which is great...but it is in the same machine and so far I have learned that the dryer aspect to my washer machine only cooks the clothes ....it is seriously like just sticking wet clothes in the microwave. So we are rack drying. This is very European to me.....I have always had dryers.....SAJF and M just look at me and say ...."what this is normal." "You need an outside line!" ....um this is very interesting to me. Huh....maybe this would work if it didn't rain all the time here.

All of this translates to me.....My life is really different.

I have been speaking to sister and parents a lot more and I wish they could come and see my place and I could hang out with them. They ask questions about friends and other things and I realise that I am become more and more far away than I thought. Distance, I guess kills certain things and it is a shame. Never will this happen with my fam as they are great and we both work hard to make this not an option....and also I think only my family could put up with me calling early in morning (their time) excited about something that has happened in my day.

DD, I send you positive vibes filled with strength and peace. You really are great and will always work to stay in touch and connected to me and for that I am very grateful and hope you have a good Birthday month this August!


For now...Jaws is on the TV (my favorite movie) and I am having a BBQ tomorrow, I have just installed a Bamboo covering over our gate/wall so it looks cute and people can't look into our house and BBQ area as easy. (this required me walking to the home depot equivalent place here (Home Base) and walking back with this 7' x 13' rolled up bamboo....as I have my limits to what I can take on my bike ;)

Sexy Snape

Got the final book at Midnight...remarkably easy and have been reading it.....

I am trying to read it slowly as to savor each word...but then I panic that I will hear a spoiler.....so I am nearly finished.

I stubbled upon this on youtube.....

so funny check it out! Snape is Sexy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-bP94CzW8

New house

It has been a week in the new house....and SAJF and I are loving it. It is sooo great. We are waiting for our internet to get set up and then it will be complete.

Last Friday we moved in...pretty hassle free thanks to M renting a car and 5 amazing friends helping out. We invited them back the next night for a Bastille day-new house BBQ (French Revolution day) ....which was funny because Saturday morning....SAJF and I were unpacking and clearing up and we thought.....hmmmmm we need to go out and buy a BBQ. hahaha

So we got the one we had our eye on and I went out and cleaned/swept/weeded the "garden" BBQ area.....and we were on are way.

We both took Monday off and unpacked and met with the landlord and got little things sorted. It was soo nice and we love our place so much we don't ever want to leave it.

Things are good and we have everything we need as the landlord provided us with all new things we would need.... which is great and both of us know we won't end up here in the UK and don't want to collect a massive about of stuff.

Life is good....and I have flower pots and now flowers in them. Pictures will follow....

Dreaded Packing......

Future roommate SAJF's depiction of me packing....

I am struggling with Packing up ...I feel like I am always Packing up!!! But I am moving in 6days....AHHHHH
I am the type of packer that sees my billion scarves and jewelry and within an hour I have full make up on and am wearing them all......hmmm

I took a break and saw Shrek 3 last night....sooo funny I was laughing my head off forever!!!

One of the things I laughed for 5minutes was about the "that's what friends are for" mood music part.....if you have seen it, you will know what I mean. SOOO FUNNY

I think being away from home makes me love this stuff even more.

Also I stayed up late to have my first Skype chat with Choppy....YEAHHHH!! The first of many, I hope! Chop is sooo photogenic and he looked so handsome on the webcam rocking the blue shirt. Well done!!

OH back to packing........

Fourth Dessert....

Picture of Fourth of July dessert I made yesterday...I was pretty proud of myself.......

:(

I am having a really hard time not being home for tomorrow...... This is my first time not being around for it.... and the people I am with won't get it as much as they want to.

I mean the day means different things to me and not just what the day is for. I was going to throw a funny party with lots of festivities....but this morning I sent an email out saying due to various reason my party is cancelled....

....People are bummed and sad and wondering WTF? but ....I am feeling like I am in a little, mini hole and I just wanna be with myself. I can't explain what I am feeling or why...but I just am and I didn't want to have to put on the "Reb show".....cause it is on a summer hiatus and I hate repeats.....

Cool I got to use the word hiatus.

Noooowayyyy

Lots of new things happening....hard to find time and appropriate place to Blog.....

I went to College yesterday to get something and what was parked outside of the study place?
.....it was MY OLD BIKE.....that was stolen earlier this year.....I didn't lock it up and left it outside my apartment for a few hours (my bad).....

This bike was cute and old and horrible for me as it was for a tiny person...but still. SO there it was with my lock still around the basket and handle bars and with a new lock left free standing........

So......I found my old key and unlocked my old lock and re-locked it to a bike post....with a note...on my old lock.....

"Yes you stole MY bike infront of my flat....and you are a member of my college. Next time take a bike from another college. Not Smart!"
Damn....