So you know it’s bad when your dad e-mails you to ask why you haven’t updated your blog in a while…
Yes, I’m alive. And I come with good excuses. Here are the Top 5 things I’ve been up to in the last month
1. Living in London for a year:
The 22nd of August 2009 was my one-year anniversary of moving to London. I spent it in the Louder Lounge at V Festival with work. It was sunny, I saw The Killers and hung out with a chick who’s famous for having her backside projected on the Houses of Parliament.
2. Holiday
I went home for two whole weeks! I’ve never had two whole weeks off of work in my life since I started working.
Living in London, you tend to get this sort of tunnel vision where things on the outside don’t register as much. Like, if it’s 10pm here and 5pm at home, I have a really hard time putting myself in that place – imagining what it’s like to be in Michigan.
This trip home sort of put that in perspective. I didn’t realise how much I missed my mom, my dad and my friends until I was there. I had an amazing time. It was brilliant.
Plus, the weather was amazing!
3. Not being social:
Post-holiday, I’ve pretty much been invisible. Really what I’ve been doing is saving money and being on a massive diet (I ate WAY TOO MUCH in Michigan). Soup and porridge FTW.
4. Work:
I don’t think I’ve ever taken a holiday where somehow, it complemented out with my workload. Seriously: the two weeks I was gone, were the two calmest weeks of work ever. I even had a pretty calm Monday back. Things then, of course, picked back up and now… well… back to normal!
5. Computering:
My computer sort of died. Or at least the hard drive did. Yesterday I was getting ready to go to the gym and I heard this buzzing/grinding rattle of death. I thought that maybe a terminally ill fly got into my room somehow, but when I tracked it down to my computer and saw it frozen, I knew it couldn’t be good. I tried to restart, but then got this**:
BUT, my new roomie did some voodoo, and has me working off of Snow Leopard on an external hard drive until my new 250gb hard drive and 2gb of ram arrive on Friday.
So things are fantastic. I’m still giddy at the thought of living in London, still love my job, still have amazing friends and family back home, and am just about to get a computer makeover. Who could ask for more?***
**Photo yanked from this blog because I wan’t smart enough to grab my camera when I saw the Folder of Death.
***I may or may not be drinking wine while writing this.
