PG Tips Tea Commercial

This commercial cracks me up because it's funny to think about a British-speaking monkey puppet drinking tea. Also, I think it is funny when he gets frustrated at the end.

Woking Blackhawks

Our town has a basketball team called the Woking Blackhawks and Victor is thinking about joining! Their season started last week, but I think you can join at any time. The games are on Fridays and they are only 80p ($1.60) to attend. I told Victor I would come and cheerlead if he joins. :) Victor is excited because he was been wanting to play basketball for a while but hasn't really had a chance to with work and all. The good thing is that practice is on Tuesdays at 8:30, so that gives him time to get home from work and make it to practice on time. The games on Fridays are at 8 as well, so it works out well with his work schedule.

Pictures from Our London Bus Tour

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Piccadilly Circus

On Saturday we went to an area in London called Piccadilly Circus. It really is like a circus down there because there are lots of people and rides and carnival games and such. We had a pretty good time. We also went to the Amora London Museum of Sex and Relationships. It was really interesting and educational! We enjoyed ourselves and learned alot. Anyway, here are some pictures from Piccadilly Circus. Click on "Visit this Album" if you would like to view larger pictures:

My Quest to Make Friends

On Friday I had dinner with my book club/discussion group. We went to a Caribbean restaurant called The Mango Room. We had a nice time and had good conversations. Victor was supposed to come and meet my friends, but he ended up going to a year-end happy hour with his co-workers. Oh well, maybe next time.

Not too much else has been going on...I am trying to think of other ways to meet more people, and I found a website called gumtree.com where people put up personal ads to find friends. At first I thought it was weird, but when you think about it, how else are you going to meet people these days? In college, it was easy to meet people because you were all lumped in one centralized location and you automatically had something in common, but once you're out of school, you are just sort of floating in the atmosphere and its not like people are going to come up to you in the grocery store and say, "Hey, you look like someone I'd like to get to know. Let's be buddies." So, I looked through the ads and found several ads for black girls around my age that were looking for the same things I am looking for: friends to do stuff with and chat with. I'm just glad I'm not the only one looking for friends! There were also couples looking for other couples to hang out with. I responded to some of the ads and have gotten a few responses back already. I know it sounds a little sketchy, but at this point I don't know what else to do. I work from home, so I don't have any co-workers, and the gym and church we go to is filled with middle-aged people with kids. And much to my disappointment, there is not a Delta chapter here, so I have run out of options. We'll see what happens!

Marathon Training????

Well, I officially started my marathon training this week and I hate to say that I am already looking for excuses to quit!!!!!!!! What's wrong with me? On Monday I was supposed to run 6 miles, so I had mapped out a nice course along the Basingstoke Canal because I read that there are nice walking trails along the canal. Conveniently, one of the entrances to the walking trail is only half a mile from our apartment so I thought, "How nice! I will get to run amongst nature!" WRONG! When I got there I got scared because the trail is secluded from civilization and I was positive someone would be waiting in the bushes to attack me, plus the canal was level with the running trial and they were separated only by some mud and grass, and all it would take was a gust of wind for me to go running into the water. Also, the water was dark, so I have no clue how deep it was which creeps me out, and I kept imagining a sea monster coming up from the depths of the water to snatch me up. Anyway, against my better judgement I started running on the trail because I had spent so much time mapping out my running and I didn't want all the planning to go to waste. As I was running though, my imagination kept getting more and more vivid and I was sure that someone was out to get me, so I only ended up running a quarter of a mile on the trail and I got off the trail at the next opening. Part of me wanted to keep going on the trail because--I must admit--it was very pretty and there were ducks floating in the water and stuff, but my intuition told me to find somewhere else to run that wasn't so secluded, plus it gets dark here at 4 PM and it was already 3:45, and I was not about to be stuck in the woods at nighttime!! Anyway, since I had set out to run 6 miles, I knew I needed to keep running, so I ran around town. I figured I would head home after it felt like I had ran 6 miles, and then I would use Google Maps to figure out how far I had actually run. Well, I got home and I was feeling pretty good about myself because I THOUGHT that I ran AT LEAST 4 or 5 miles, but when I mapped it on the internet guess how far I ran?? 2.65 miles!! That's it!! I was so disappointed in myself because I really thought that I ran alot further than that. After I got over my disappointment, I decided to go ahead and map out Tuesday's run so that I would know exactly where I would be running and exactly how far I would be running. On Tuesday I was supposed to run 3 miles and the plan that I mapped out was 3.1, so I thought, "Perfect!" WRONG!! I started out running on Tuesday and I stepped of the curb wrong and my ankle started hurting very early into my run, so I ended up having to walk most of the way. Today I am supposed to run 3 miles and I am determined to do so, even if it kills me!!! I really do want to run the marathon and I do not want to give up, so I am just going to have to make running a non-negotiable part of my daily life.