Happy Valentine’s Day, a day early!
I make awesome truffles. And it makes me SO HAPPY to make them. I should open a bakery, I think.
London is like Disneyland – the people suck and the food is overpriced.
This past visit to London wasn’t my favourite trip of all time. I’m not kidding when I say the GBP is at a record high – over $2 USD to £1. Buying a metro pass for the day ran about $12. My Starbucks (yes, I went to Starbucks, and we were the only three people walking around with *gasp* COFFEE CUPS IN OUR HANDS! The SHAME!) cost me $9 when run through my bankcard (which is how I usually get decent exchange rates).
Unfortunately, I had the bright idea of trading in my euro for pounds, thinking I’d use them sooner. Um, not. I’m definitely likely to go to the UK again, but I had more fun in Ireland. None of the sights I used to miss about London were anywhere as awesome as they were ten years ago when I was there.
Ayoaka, Daniel and I are walking around London, coffee in hand, seeing the sights. Having a FANTASTIC time. I must say, I was on top of my game – I had Ayoaka in stitches most of the day. At one point we were under a tree, waiting for the pouring rain to let up. I was (probably loudly) cracking them up, ragging on the signs in the metro (“This is the HOT SEASON! Stay COOL!”) … “People, you wouldn’t know a hot season if it bit you in the arse! You wouldn’t survive a hot minute in the New York subway during OUR hot season!”
Some older British gentleman walked up to me and said, without preamble, “It’s not polite to sweat in public in England.” I was totally taken aback, as I – unfortunately – am one of those people who can’t seem to help but regulate body temperature the proper way, regardless of whether I’m in public or not.
“Oh. Really? Dammit.” I laughed a bit awkwardly, unsure of what to say.
He threw up his hand, making a disgusted noise. “Go back to America,” he called over his shoulder.
I looked at Daniel and Ayoaka. “I’m thinking I misunderstood his accent. I think he said “It’s not polite to swear in public in England.” They agree, but mention that Bridget Jones and nearly every other film shows otherwise. “Also,” Daniel adds, “that enormous umbrella, his socks with his sandals and the bright turquoise roll-aboard suitcase they’re oddly dragging with them through the park around Buckingham Palace tells me they might not know what the fuck people actually DO in public in England.”
True.
Whatever. We enjoyed ourselves, and I cursed as much as I liked. No one else batted an eyelash. I even had one guy trying to stifle his laughter on the tube when the three of us were DYING laughing at our own renditions of the train’s computer voice announcing that “This is the train to…COCKFOSTERS.”
No shit, thats the name of an area in London. And only in London. I love the British, sometimes.
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I’ve been re-inspired. More jewelry – scratch that, it’s more FABULOUS jewelry to be unveiled soon. I’ll post it to the website and blog a couple of weeks before I do a jewelry trunk show. Things are likely to move very fast in person – I made $500 in sales last week. If you love something – let me know pretty quickly. Thomas will update the design site as soon as possible, but I can’t guarantee anything will be in stock!
my jewelry is Teh Awesome!
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