COOLEST DATE EVER
who noticed that today's date is 20082008???
probably not many of you Americans cause you think it's 08202008, but since the rest of the world seems to view the date as day/month/year that makes today 20/08/2008 or 20082008, isn't that funny?
Okay so maybe I have too much time on my hands, but that's cause I set aside today to read someone materials & methods along with her results section & you probably guessed it . . . she's NOT here! With a painful knee I was thinking this would be something good to do today, but if she's not here soon I'm going to go home. I've just got to collect my supernatants from my 48 hours experiment & then I'm outta here with or without her sections to read!
Labels: funny, work
The NHS must just love urine samples!
I'm back from doctor's office and he said he's going to refer me to a physiotherapist who then if needs be will refer me to orthopaedic doc . . . but first before they can do anything they need me to pee in a cup (since I'm changing my registration from N10 to NW5 and until I've done that they can't do anything for me) so tomorrow at 11.30am I'll do that to get this SLOW process going . . .
I'm back on the bandwagon of disliking national health care systems!!! When I got back to the office my coworker told me how when she went to the neurologist they only took her blood pressure & made her pee in a pot . . . how does that diagnosis "everything?" The poor lab techs who work in the NHS system must just be up to their eyeballs in pots of wee!
Also apparently I need a brain transplant cause I realised last night at 7pm that Patty & I were not going to make it to the theatre we'd booked since I thought it was tonight instead of last night, what a Muppet I can be sometimes . . . luckily the tickets only cost me £12.50 each!
Labels: doctors, healthcare, knee, stupidity, theatre
Brody & Rebekah's Wedding
Had a great weekend up in Long Eaton, England, for my good mate Brody's wedding. I'll only post a few photos & if you want to see more, please check my facebook page as I put ALL the photos up there!!
my last photo of SINGLE Jim with our mate Andy
Rebekah & Jim with bridesmaids
Paul (Jim's bro), Becks, Jim & Rob
cutting the cake (I LOVE this photo - how I got both of their rings)
Patty, Jim & me
Becks & me
Labels: mates, photos, weddings
sisterly love
my sis arrived yesterday & my mate jim picked her up at the airport. he of course then realised he'd forgotten the keys to my flat so he took her back to his place, made her lunch & they watched the olympics together before coming back to mine at 6pm.
then kaylie, patty & i went over to nim & andy's for a drink to celebrate kaylie's 23rd birthday and then we went for thai food.
patty should be here at work around 12.30 to go for lunch.
btw it's sunny today, not suppose to stay nice, but at least there is sun today! we're off to long eaton for jim's wedding tomorrow morning at 9am (the train, wedding's at 3pm)
Labels: jim, mates, sister, weddings
foot loose & fancy free
how does that relate to me you ask . . . well my recent set of jabs has actually not been nearly as bad as I had thought, course they did warn that days 4-7 might be worse, but for now I'm happy with minimal pain & itching!
Now back to the title, where ever did that expression come from? I googled it & found this answer:
Footloose is, "Another case of human conduct being likened to the animations of a sail. In most sailing vessels the lower edge of the mainsail, known as the foot, was lashed to a boom to keep it stretched and properly shaped. However, there were some exceptions, notably the London River barges. These did not have a boom and the sail was allowed to hang loose along the foot. Loose-footed sails, as they came to be called, had a mind of their own and were more difficult to control. It is from this that the meaning footloose and fancy free is believed to have come." From "Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions" by Bill Beavis and Richard G. McCloskey (Sheridan House, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 1995. First published in Great Britain, 1983).A second source has the same origin, ".a sail on which the restraining ropes at the base (foot) have been slackened off" and says the phrase "footloose and fancy free" means "Unattached romantically; 'young, free and single'." "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" revised by Adrian Room (HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1999, Sixteenth Edition). So maybe you already knew that but I didn't & I thought it was interesting . . . course I'm not sure anyone aside from my mum & dad (btw did you notice where the first book was from?) are reading my blog these days & they probably both already knew that!!Labels: expressions, funny
jabby, jab, jab (okay only 2 jabs & 24 pills)
But the jabs bloody hurt!!! Funny story about how I ended up getting jabs . . . I went looking for a new dress for Jim & Beck's wedding this coming Saturday since I heard that some stores had good end of summer sales on (like
Coast and
FCUK) and as they are just round the corner from work I figured I'd give it a go,
but sale prices mean they went from £145 down to £95, so in my mind it's not such a good deal, PLUS I do have a dress which I can wear :-)
On my way back to work I remembered I promised my mate Nim that I'd get her a black pashmina so I grabbed that from the street vendor outside of Russell Sqaure Station & then also remembered I needed to get my
Yellow Fever jab,
Hep A booster, & anit-malaria's before I go to Rwanda in October. Now that might seem like a bit of a random thought when shopping for dresses, but on the way to the
Brunswick Centre, there is a travel clinic attached to an
STA Travel store . . . so I popped my head in to make an appt and lucky me they had an opening immediately :-( Filled out the forms, signed my life away, got 2 jabs in my left arm, two twelve pack boxes of
Malarone, my yellow fever certificate and I was set to go. When I went to pay for all of these fun filled things, they announced I get 10% off everything in the store . . . did I need anything? NO, did I want anything? maybe . . . found the Lonely Planet Guide to Prague and picked that up since I'll be going there weekend after this one with Dad & Patty, not that 10% off a £10 book is that much, but every little bit counts!! Too bad that discount doesn't make your arm feel any better. I did read that the potential "worst" days will be from day 4 to 7, which after I'd had the jab I calculated to be Saturday through Tuesday, maybe that was poor planning on my part, but whatever, it's now done & over with & I don't have to worry about it anymore :-)
Labels: future, jabs, shopping, travel
jam packed weekend
Saturday, Jaiden (in pink), Kaylie (in black) & I met at London Bridge station around 11am and toured through Borough Market. After a bit of lunch
& a few purchases, we headed to North Greenwich to check out the
O2 arena 
and saw the movie Mamma Mia,
which I don't recommend!!!! After that we went to watch the Arsenal match at the pub with Ray, Logan, Cyrus, Julie, and Rey. Around 10pm Kaylie & I left to come home and make some pasta with fresh pesto sauce (from the market). During dinner we chatted about what we should do on Sunday . . .
Today we met at Leicester Sq at 11am, walked down to the National Portrait Gallery & toured around the top floor till 12.15. We left to go to the discounted ticket office in Leicester Sq where we got half price tickets to see
Stomp. After we had tickets in hand we went back to the Portrait Gallery to see the other floors before wandering our way through Trafalgar Sq to catch a glimpse of the MEGA large screen showing the Olympics
and our lunch of Chinese food - yum!
Now I'm home about to watch The Last King of Scotland (which I've never seen before!)
Labels: London, market, movies, pub, theatre
unexpected night out!
a bit of a complicated story but think you all can follow it:
My mate Ray (who took over managing the
Tup - where we all hang out) after J &J left to travel through SE Asia for 7 months, called tonight to ask if I had his air mattress - low & behold I did! So we made plans to meet at 10pm at the tube station, when I got there I rang him & he realised he was at CF (if you're not familiar with the Northern line tubes, after Camden town the line splits & half goes to
Edgeware & half goes to High
Barnet . . . he was on the wrong line) So I asked if he had his oyster card, he said no (I'd only grabbed the mattress, my phone & keys) so I offered to meet him at the pub & walk another 20 minutes down to Camden. When I got there he was so appreciative and he bought me a drink. We chatted & had a good laugh. Then the pub was closing & I was all set to walk home, but Ray, Hugo & Logan all insisted I stay a bit longer "upstairs" where we hang out after hours. So I thought, okay I'll stay. After a few games of pool & an entire Arsenal match (replay from last night, which I'd missed) on the telly I finally decided I needed to get home. Again "the boys" insisted I not walk home, but instead get a cab. So they called me a cab & stood outside while I waited. Ray gave me £20 as I had no cash & told me just to bring him the change. 5 minutes and £7 in the taxi I was home safe & sound. I sent him a
txt to say I was home & he replied back "thanks a million check my
facebook status" so I did & it said, "thanks SO for walking all the way to give me what I needed" - I nearly wet myself reading this cause as you can guess it can be taken in so many different ways . . . so I made my
facebook status, "
Sara is always willing to bring RV what he needs :-)" cause I thought it would just make people wonder & it made me giggle!!! but now that it's 1.30am & I had my french lesson for 1.5 hours today I need to sleep!!!
Labels: funny, mates, pub
