"winter" in london

so it's cold here....but not really now is it my toronto lovlies!? you have lots of lovely snow that a part of me is secretly still waiting for over here and isn't likely going to get - another part of me is happy i get to wear lovely coats and fun hats and dramatic scarves and wicked boots but doesn't actually have to contest with the actual brutal reality of winter that demands hardcore parkas and sorrels ;)
uhhhhmmm i went to a party the other day - that was fun. it was in this weird converted building that used to be something else and then was made into apartments and then they had obviously taken one of the apartments and gutted it to make some kind of "event" space that was really only the size of a one bedroom apartment...but they managed to make it work and there we were at this dance party for about 50-60 people and it was hilarious to be at a dance party that teeny and that cool that only had one bathroom....ya....that was fun.
today renee and i went to ikea...we took a bus...in retrospect this seems like a silly idea as it took us about 2 hours to get there - but oh the sights we saw made it almost worth it - imagine bussing through north toronto - it's not really toronto, but in a way it might be even more toronto than toronto - know what i mean? well i got the london equivalent today. we even passed a mall and boy did i have the itch to hit that up...an evil evil disney loving part of me craves a giant complex of my favourite stores all in one place...as for ikea...we got what we needed (and more) and in the end we admitted defeat and cabbed it home in about a quarter of the time with our booty in the...boot...

bad blogger!

sooooo....i knew that eventually the time would come where i would come to resent this blog...and here it is! nah! just kidding! but seriously...ive been remiss...for a whole month! and don't think i don't feel guilty! really, don't worry, cause i do...

s'ok! updates! what have you missed out on!?

my mum and phil came to visit - i ate waaaay too much and marched them all over the city and back again - even my bones hurt at the end of the day so when they said they felt "stiff" the next day - i can only imagine how much they were downplaying it....but all in all it was amazing to have them here and show them around and have them take me out for food!! they are so awesome and i am so so lucky that they "get" me and what i am doing...or not doing. the fact that they enjoy the same cheap, easy and odd things that i do makes for fun times...not that we didn't go to nice places - there was plenty o' that - like our lunch at the national portrait gallery restaurant (the one from the movie "closer" - watch it, you'll see, actually don't watch it, i didn't much like the movie). ya, we went for this swish lunch on the third floor of the nat portrait gallery for lunch where you can sit and look out over most of london (it's awesome) and in the middle of our lunch the fire alarm went off - no shit - ya it did! and we had to leave our beautiful lunch half eaten and our wine half drunk and file out to the street! well you can only imagine what we did next! tooright! we left! what!? they wouldnt have made us pay anyway! and what did you think we were going to do - wait around wasting precious london minutes - hells no - we went drinking at my mum's fave london wine bar - i know my mum has a fave london wine bar - how cool is she? and how cool am i for having such a cool mum! yeah! anywaaayzz - other than that...we ate a lot - did i mention that? and we walked a lot, and we went on the london eye but i was too scared to get up from the bench, and we went to greenwich where we saw this amazing painted hall and listened to an organ recital and visited the greenwich ummm...place...where GMT is measure from and stood on the line separating the hemispheres where we had a debate about hemispheres and then just like that they had to go :( but it really was so much fun! in a way it made london a little more real, having them come visit me here....to be honest, i spend so much time working the whole "living in london" thing is still working it's way into my fat skull...london is wasted on me so far...but don't worry - i'll be making up for it as soon as i can!