And the Daffodils Look Lovely Today

HORROR, I found my first grey hair the other day. Yikes. I dread the day when my hair turns coarse and old-lady-ish. This hair felt like it was from a horse's bum bum. Sigh Bristol is in bloom!! England has been loverly this past week! Ovrnight it's gone from winter coat to removing my light jacket due to warmth. And the Daffodils remind me of Maryland home :)

American Idol this week/ Mormon joke

Who else thought Pia looked like she was going to do baptisms? (I give Yuki credit for pointing this out)

P.S. Naima should have gone home.

Zaz jazz

I can't get enough of this song.


I want to do all of this when I have some sort of permanent residence.

This will be funny for hours.

This is Englishy.

I didn't spend all day on the internat today. It was a beautiful day..... so I decided to do some Spring cleaning... what is wrong with me?? I think the sun inspired me to get up and go, so I hoovered every last inch of the flat and Nathan helped clean the bathroom since one of his classes was cancelled today. Then we did a small shopping trip and took a lovely walk. I wish I had my camera! Daffodils and Crocuses are in full bloom and you can just start to smell spring coming. Maybe I'll take pictures tomorrow and post them.

Doctor Who Day Trip

Yesterday Nathan and I had a fun day trip to Wales! It was really needed for me because I've been feeling really trapped in our flat. I have no reason to go out and the weather's not good enought o just walk around. Anyway, we took an hour train ride to Cardiff, Wales (or Caerdydd, Cymru in Welsh:) ) where they shoot a lot of Doctor Who and Torchwood (a Doctor Who off-shoot). They had a "Doctor WHo Experience" with some props and costumes from the show. These are some of the things I was most excited to see. All the pictures from the trip are here.



Martha's signature red jacket, displayed two below on the right.
He's fighting in his pajamas, diplayed in the middle below.













For dinner we had burgers and curly fries (so good!) at this cute 50's style diner because we were told they filmed an episode of Torchwood there for this upcoming season. Yay!

My Little Monsters

I found a doodling program randomly online. These be my favorite monstrosities.


This one is called "My Ball!"
Paws up monsters!

I Love

Sunday Roasts.... mmm, so simple and so traditional. and so good (when done right). I hope to bring this home with me.

I get my 2 quid lunch here every Saturday. It's not our regular supermarket, but we do come here a lot for some things.

This is our main grocery store. They have this neato system called "Nectar points". I have a card I swipe every time I check out and after I buy a billion things I get a pound off. It takes a while to add up points to make it matter, but it's nice to knock a couple pounds off a purchase here and there.

Forbidden Planet, our geek store.

This is our monthly double date spot with the Scotts. Hmmm... it's a new month... I think it's time to go again! It's a Pan-Asian buffet restaurant with a cheap lunch price. And it's yummy.

I've never really had a sweet tooth, but I've had more chocolate cravings here than ever. I'm really going to miss good chocolate.

Although I do miss having a car, public transportation has left a surprisingly good impression on me.

Hot water never runs out. Never. Unlike our 7 minute rush at the barn.

We're definitely bringing some of this back with us in case we can't find it anywahere.

I Miss...

Although it may SEEM to be one of those blogs where I moan about stuff, it's not. Well, it is... but not really. (P.S. they say "moan" a lot here instead of "complain". I tried to use it now like I use it all the time, but I really don't.) Consider this more: What I look forward to when we come back to the states.

MY SEWING MACHINE! I've made a lot of paper crafts due to the lack of sewing machine, which has been a fun experience. But. Want. Machine.

Hulu doesn't work here. Boo. And along the same lines:

No Netflix either.

Dryers are a rare animal here. Seriously, no one I know has one! I thought that was so weird! I miss the days when I could do all my laundry in a day, but now I can only do one load at a time because I run out of drying-rack space. And if the clothes don't dry fast enough, they get that funny smell to them. Bleh. So 80% of the time I have drying stuff strewn around draped over doors and chairs.

I miss having a temple so close. Even though we didn't go as much as we should have, it was nice to have it right next door. Now we can never go on ward temple trips since I always work on Saturdays and we don't have a car... so yeah it's nearly impossible to go.

This represents Thundercloud, our beloved car. He will unfortunately not be waiting for us when we get back, but hopefully we'll find another worthy four wheeled friend to take us where we need to go WHENEVER WE WANT.

I had a major craving the other day and asked a co-worker if they had Taco Bell here, and he laughed at me.

Today was a lovely day with some nice sunshine, but living in a city makes it hard to get direct sunlight and living in England makes it hard to get ANY sunlight.

Another craving that won't get atisfied for a while, although I looked online and they DO exist here. Just not close-by.

We are lacking in kitchen gadgets, and I missed our blender in particular today while making salsa. I used to love the salsa I made before, but today I guess I couldn't chop it enough to my liking. It got a B-.

Thank you Mommy for sending some in a care package. Of course, they're long gone. Time for more!! :)

Best burger and fries... nothing here comes close.

I really miss our big shopping trips where we didn't have to pick up stuff for a month.

Corn bread doesn't exist. Sigh.

To be fair to my current home, I will make a list of things I'll miss when we leave next time. I'm going to bed now to dream sweet dreams of soft shell tacos... yo qiero...