but my god, don't you know it!

hello everyone!!! :) :) :)

ahhhhh i miss everyone more than you know! so much has happened, and i have truly slacked on this blog, which is so unlike me. .... which should make it easy to understand how incredibly stressed out i've been. i can't believe i've only been here for just over two weeks. it feels like just over two years. ahhhh..... where to start?

basically, (DAY ONE) i arrived at 6AM, spent the day crazy apartment hunting with tina, settled into our hostel "the generator" (slogan - "the generator: hangover included!), went to a pub to have a couple drinks, started to go to bed and saw some fellow hostel-ers with pizza. thought pizza seemed like a grand idea (it was around 1AM at this point) so we inquired where they got it and went across the street to get some of our own. (cue the music change) we walk in, and there are two drunken irish men arguing about something stupid. i see tina staring at the one, and i laugh to myself, thinking 'i see i'm not the only sucker for a hot accent...' and then suddenly tina goes "brian? Brian from 10 years ago here in london, brian??" brian, one of the drunk irish men, looks over and goes.... "OH MY GOD TINA!!!!!"........ the rest, as they say, is history. brian and tina were friends 10 years ago for two months right here in london. they completely lost touch, and just happen to wander into each other on my night one in london. sooooooooo weird! brian is a FABULOUS irishman who's traveled and lived all over the world, and now lives with his boyfriend tomasz (who's polish)... right across the street from the generator! brian has since become my new UK best friend, something i remind him of every single day. brian and tomasz have an ADORABLE 6-month old puppy named Murphy, and since i'm still job-less, i'm his offical babysitter. :) dogs definitely aren't cats but murphy's filling the void.

so, yeah, what can i say? that was day one! insanity. brian's gotten both tina & i cell phones (mobile phones) and has backed us up on paper for our apartment since it's f'in impossible to get a place til you have a job, and of course impossible to get a job until you have an apartment.... insanity. but we finally have an apartment! it's a cute two bedroom in clapham, which is south of the river. about a 15 minute tube ride to the heart of downtown london. we moved in monday, after a solid week of insan-o apartment hunting.... then we both promtly came down with this plague-like flu. sucks! i spent about four days in bed, tina was about 24 hours in the cycle behind me but she's sick as well. ugh!!!! i could have gotten sick in the US, you know?

anyway, we did have a fantastic weekend in Swindin (near stonehenge) with our friends gail and stuart and some new (hottie) friends of theirs, just before we got the plague. there will be more details on this and pictures up soon!

we're having a housewarming party next weekend, assuming the plague is done. please come! ;)

i miss you all. eat drink and be merry, especially if you don't have the plague!

~courtney