You are viewing [info]gypsyfreezin's journal

Gypsy
18 May 2007 @ 11:14 am
Hide the Toob Map!  
Hello again. So what have I been up to? Job hunting (hate hate hate it!), randomly wandering around the Docklands (some interesting bits around here) and a lot of getting drunk. Wonderful.
Monday of this week I went drinking with my friend Mike. It was supposed to be a serious chat about feelings and stuff (which we all know I'm no good at) but it turned into a pub-crawl. Basically what happened is this: he and I agreed that we are good friends, and that's best left to that. Which I can deal with. I think it's best that way anyhow. For both of us I think.
So then there was the beer. We had a lot. I don't really remember how much, but I have a couple wounds from that night so it must have been a fair few. I have a giant bruise on my knee (I think I ran into a post down in Covent Garden) and a bruise on my hip (probably a wall or something in to toob I had run into).
Heading into Embankment station I decided to pocket a bunch of toob maps. I now have six. I hope I can manage to keep from losing all of them. It was like a game, 'hide the toob maps where it'll be a surprise tomorrow!' Quite fun, I'd recommend it. Getting on the train home was fun...not.
The one I needed was shut down and at this point my brain was NOT in functioning status. I stood there for 5 minutes staring at the giant wall toob map and was so confused. The London Transport guy got sick of watching me trace the colored lines trying to match up with my station and asked where I was going. Thanks to him I actually got home.
Walking from the station to my house at 1am I decided that I wanted to jump in some puddles. This being England I had plenty of opportunity. So I took about an hour to go from Mudchute station to my house. (It's usually a 5 minute walk). By the time I got into the house I was drenched to my knees and exhausted.
Tuesday was not fun. 7am wake up with killer hangover. Some idiot outside kept hitting a car alarm and then some kids started kicking a ball against my flippin house! C'mon give a girl a break man!
So that's all the interesting bits. I did go to an interview and they didn't give me a job. Bastards.  Got another one today. Wish me luck!
 
 
Current Location: Docklands
Current Mood: annoyedneed a job
Tunes At The Moment: Supertramp - Breakfast in America
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
08 May 2007 @ 11:50 pm
Huh?  
Yeah...........
So we're all moved in and I have no job currently. I am looking. Really I am. I'm not even half assing it this time. My room is a complete nightmare but seeing as I have no job I shall spend tomorrow in a stir of cleanliness. Gotta wash the sheets...must remember that.

Last week was traumatic. Last day work and everyone drinking was sad. I'm going to genuinely miss a lot of those people. Ben made me try Snakebite. Apparently its got lager, cider and something else in it. And it gets you tanked. I was pretty drunk. Tuesday...boring. Wednesday we went to Camden Market (which is fun cuz theres all sorts of odd stuff there) and to see Equus. That's the play that Daniel Radcliffe aka Harry Potter is doing in the West End. Very odd plot but he and Richard Griffiths were amazing. Dan walked out onto the stage right below where I was sitting and I was 10 feet away from him for the better part of two hours. Whoa. Thursday Paula and I went to Amora. That's the sex museum they have here in London. Very interesting and they refunded a ticket because they were late. Yay! Friday was sad. I took Paula to the airport and she flew home to South Africa. It was very upsetting. After that I went out for drinks with Mike. For some reason we always seem to end up at a pub...but I think that's mostly cuz beer is nice and relatively cheap and the English are always at pubs. Not that I mind. I do get time in with drinking Stella. I am a fan of Stella.

This week has been boring. I saw Spiderman 3...twice now. (I have an unlimited pass so I might as well.) It was good...mostly. Spidey got a lil Emo for me. The hair flip. Watch out for the hair flip. It wasn't as good as Spidey's 1 & 2. But still worthy. And James Franco was sexy in it! I dunno if it's just me or does he look like James Dean? Totally.

Well, I'm going now. (Btw, sorry about that last time, apparently I was bipolar that night, I apologize.)

Ra xox
 
 
Current Location: The Docklands
Current Mood: stressedfreaking out
Tunes At The Moment: Nine Inch Nails - Closer
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
28 April 2007 @ 09:43 pm
(no subject)  
Yeah, I'm starved for human interaction. This is uncool. I just wanna hang around with some other person and laugh and joke about random shit. You know when you see a friend you haven't seen in a while and you just kinda chill and talk about things? That's what I want right now. I thought I was alright...But instead I got some serious mood swings going on. Bi-polar much. Sleep sounds like a great option but I don't want to. The more tired I am the better really. I really miss people and have no reason to. I think I need a cry. But the likelihood of this happening is minimal. I don't cry. Is that normal? Ah crap. What is normal? Fuck normal.
I think I may just need to calm down and try and concentrate a little. I don't seem to be able to focus on much of anything for too long. That's not good. I feel like something is ending and I hate endings. They are hard. And I can't help but get upset about them. I try not to. But I do. It's a good thing nobody actually reads this damn thing. That would be worrisome. Ah, fuck it. I'm going to sleep.

Ra (userpic is bang on)
 
 
Current Location: this place
Current Mood: lonelyall by myself!
Tunes At The Moment: Kings of Leon - On Call
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
10 April 2007 @ 06:33 am
5am Wake Up, Last Night Was a Bit of a Shake Up!  
Wow....apparently I just got really frickin' lazy and stopped updating. Aren't you all proud how I half-assedly put up 4 pictures from my trip to Spain? The reason for this? Well, I've been busy with other stuff, there are a lot of pictures, and it takes forever to upload them onto the Internets on the speed our connection is.
So whats new with me? Well, this week I decided I really liked beer. And being that it was Easter I decided to spend most of the 4 day weekend in a drunken state. (It's funny how the holidays really mean very little when there isn't any family around to argue with)
So Kendra's boyfriend Gus and I ended up drinking beer and having pizza on Thursday. He got to hear me talking Irish, as I do when I'm sloshed. Saturday was work...I got lost in Elephant and Castle and ended up an hour late. My boss Michael kinda laughed and tortured me all day, as he does.
Now, Sunday was fun! Kendra, Gus, Paula and I went up to Hampstead Heath and had a picnic. I think it's really famous just because it's this huge wild green space inside London and that doesn't happen a whole lot. So the picnic was nice and they had a carnival on so we went and had cotton candy/candy floss (whatever you call it) and went on some rides. I actually think I offended the Carnies...actually I know I did because I called them Carnies really loudly. They were mean and spun us even harder than the rest of the people. Stupid Carnies, small hands, no teeth and they smell like cabbage. It was fun.
Now you may be wondering why I'm awake and playing on the Internets at 6:30am on a Tuesday.............................let me tell you.
Yesterday my friend Mike texted me and ask if I'd like to go out for a drink as we haven't hung out in months and that super sucks. Well, I thought "What could be better than hanging out with Mike and drinking more beer?" So off to Covent Garden I go. It's been beautiful here all week so I was happy to get out and about really. We ended up going to 3 different pubs, The Nag's Head, The Maple Leaf (that's the Canadian pub) and The Coal House. Mike's friend Ed was along for 2 out of 3 but had to go to his Aunt's because his cousin was back from Sierra Leon and not dead. Which is really great! So Mike and I had a lot of beer and hung out and stuff. He actually managed to get me onto the Millenium Bridge (remember the one they called The Wobbly Bridge? Yeah the one I ranted about and refused to get on?) I think that being drunk made it easier to get me onto it though. I don't know about doing it sober... I'll try it and try not to be a sissy. So I had 4 different types of beer and woke up this morning at 5am with a wicked head ache that has yet to leave and really hungry. Apparently I forgot to eat food yesterday. That is rare for me...I like food. But I didn't eat anything and drank beer instead....................
OMG I think the English is rubbing off on me!
Gonna make toast and drink tons of coffee now. Ugh and maybe beat my head off a wall.
 
 
Current Mood: groggydammit hangovers suck!
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
18 March 2007 @ 09:19 pm
Spain  
The Train to Stanstead The Train to Stanstead
The View from the Balcony The View from the Balcony
Pretty Stairs at Resort Pretty Stairs at Resort
The Resort The Resort
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
27 February 2007 @ 09:04 pm
Fight's On in Wombleville!  
Today we learned a life lesson: Even in Wimbledon, one of the whitest, squeaky cleanest areas of London crime happens. And then Sara is there to make a scene!

The Story: Today Paula and I are on lunch and as she's fasting we went up to Claire's to look at pretty hair things and jewelry. So I stopped to look at some ghastly pink and orange purse and Paula went further into the store. I turned to say how ugly the pink/orange thing is and I see some chick bump into Paula and swipe her mobile out of her purse pocket. Paula and I just looked at each other for a few seconds and I asked her if she had her phone still. Low and behold, phone is gone! So, I take off out the store, Paula with me and we spot her in a store down the road. we go in and Paula confronts her. She basically asked for her phone back. Stupid broad played stupid (badly I might add, I could see her shitting herself) She tried to walk out the other way but I had blocked her way. I said, "What d'you think we're that stupid? I saw you take her phone." She tried the not speaking English thing again (which I do when I don't have a train ticket so I didn't fall for that shit) and I started yelling. The store owner was really confused because I had a hold of this chick, yelling at him to call the cops because she's a dirty thief. I wasn't the least bit dignified about it and she started freaking out and points at the counter where Paula's phone just 'magically' appeared. I grabbed the phone and she took off out of the store and we ran after her but she was fast and I'm still fat and don't run. I yelled loudly after her "Steal a better phone next time you stupid b!tch!" I was SLIGHTLY worked up. We were so pissed off that by the time we got back to work my legs were still shaking and Paula was nearly cursing in Afrikaans.  Now I'm tired and need to stop picturing what I would have liked to done eg. jersey her and punch her in the kidneys. Ah, hackey!
 
 
Current Location: London, England
Current Mood: pissed offdouche bag
Tunes At The Moment: Paolo Nutini - These Streets
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
15 February 2007 @ 10:35 am
Valentine's Day Has Come and Gone!  
Hello Hello my friends.

Been awhile. I've missed you all. (Okay I'm just being an idiot, ignore me)

So new stuff that's happened: Last night was Valentine's Day. Which was nice, the amount of love going round the office was nearly disgusting. But in a nice way. They did this fun Valentine card thing at work. You know in grade school how you can send cards to your friends? That type of thing. Now, me being me and not caring so much, didn't even think about sending cards out. But I got two! One was from my crazy Aussie friend Sasha who parties too much and is a complete mental case and the other...I was freaked right out when I got it. It said "Be my Valentine, I'll drink for you! Love Brian" Now, Brian quit working for BPS over a month ago and I haven't seen him in almost that length of time. So I was freaked out, thinking "How did he get into the building?" Then I was reading Paula's and Sasha's cards. Paula had one saying "Every Breathe You Take....Love Your Stalker" (that would be the hot but super dumb Umar who always hits on her) and Sasha had one saying "I'll Quality Assess You Baby...Love Richard" (Richard is out Quality guy and he totally tried to get into her pants at the last BPS drinking spree). Very awkward. So, I was looking at the writing and I started laughing. Paula and Sasha were confused, they didn't think it was funny. So I said "Guys, it was Patrick. He sent those, he's the only one that knows all those stories and that is soooo his writing!" Ten minutes later he comes over and was so proud of himself! You know when a little kid pees for the first time on the potty and they're all proud and chipper? That was Paddy. I kicked him in the shin...just to be contrary. Then Ben made us move desks at the end of the night, and I was sitting behind Patrick. He stood there with his ass hanging out of his pants and I couldn't stop laughing. I had to go on break and not answer any calls because I couldn't stop laughing. Paula was confused again. I couldn't even explain until after work.
Paula and I went to see Music and Lyrics, it's a movie with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. It was so cute and wicked funny! I recommend for a good laugh and a lot of sappy love. It was really sweet.

Other than that I'm just worrying about going to Spain and taking a plane by myself. I think I'm gonna head up to Lewisham and maybe the library....we'll see!

MUAH! to all!
 
 
Current Location: my living room, London
Current Mood: cheerfulwhole lotta love
Tunes At The Moment: Fall Out Boy - Hum Hallelujah
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
06 February 2007 @ 05:31 pm
Can't Run Away from Winter/Aylmer vs London  
Running away from winter didn't work. Here I am, a Canadian in England thinking "Yay, no snow in this country!" but NOPE! Three frickin inches due to arrive here tomorrow. Which means that the stupid ass tram drivers are going to freak out and not know how to function properly (which they rarely do under normal circumstances, which means GRAY in London). Which is going to make getting to work tomorrow oh so fun. You know, growing up you can't wait to get out of where ever you're from. These other places all seem so glamorous and soooo cool. Then you get to these places and you realize one place is just like the other places. Although the differences between my home town of Aylmer, Ontario and London, England are notable. Time for a list!!!!!!

1. In Aylmer if you bump into someone and knock over there shopping bag or you spill their coffee you say sorry, apologize profusely and (since you're probably related by blood or marriage, or have known them for your whole life) you then invite them for a coffee or dinner on Sunday. In London, you could knock into someone and throw them onto the train tracks and you would turn, look at the guy who is gonna get run over and glare at them. The whole saying 'sorry' thing doesn't work in this city.

2. When you say you're going into the city in Aylmer that means you gotta pack up the kids, water, food, bottles, toys, and anything else you can think of that can't be left alone for the next six or seven hours into the car and pray you can keep your sanity until you get to the city (oddly enough the biggest town close to us is called London as well) and hope the kids aren't too rotten. (I love the kids but they all have their bad days and no 5 year old boy likes shopping) Here, going into the city means hopping on a train, or two, or a tube and going down to Oxford Circus to enjoy the rush of all these people running around spending hundreds of pounds at designer shops in seconds flat. You never see a woman with 3 small children in main London. Oh, well theres the odd few at Hyde Park with there cute blonde nanny in tow. Yeah, the closest thing to a nanny in my home town is...well, ME!

3. Aylmer is so small that when a something happens, (new family in town, someone's dating someone's daughter, someone's getting divorced, someone got pregnant) we all know about it. In about 3 seconds. Here, we all know in about 3 seconds if Blair does something stupid, or what celebrity did something stupid, or that Geri Halliwell got caught in a rain storm. (Helloooo we're in London it rains, and who cares if a former Spice Girl got rained on? Apparently everyone in London.) Seriously.

4. My hometown has no public transport. Unless you count which ever relative drives you everywhere. This place would literally shut down if there were no trains, tubes, buses, trams (hate the tram, its the crazy people transportation), and planes too. Hence my worry for tomorrow. The English can deal with the rain but heaven forbid it gets cold and they get snow. It shuts down! (On to #5)

5. If we got a report for 3 inches of snow in Aylmer all we think is "Oh, gotta get the baby's mittens out. Did I remember to put antifreeze in the car?" Here they freak out! They slip and slide all over the roads and freak out about their ears and nose going red and cold. (It really is hilarious to watch these women in stilettos trying to walk on a thin layer of snow. I laughed out loud at one chick, looked like she was hopping around like a chicken, she glared at me. I almost got attacked by stilettos! So worth it though :P)

6. Stilettos.... Would you ever catch a woman in Aylmer wearing those things? Not likely! Here people that don't wear stilettos are 'short and plumpy' (to quote a girl from work) They just seem to think running shoes, trainers they call em, are not cool. I ain't wearing those torture devices. I've seen Victoria Beckham holding on to Becks because she can't even hold herself up sometimes. (Although she may just be holding on to him because he's pretty................I'm not going to go into my whole Vic and Becks worries, that's a whole new list.)

Now I think you should know that I love London, it's big and busy and there are so many things to do and see and people from everywhere. The ability to get anywhere in this city on the transit is amazing. I love the West End and the insanity that is Oxford Circus, the cool little burrows that you can find, Camden Market and the freaks that embrace freakiness in Camden, I love the football crazy people that are here, the football and rugby are so fun to watch, the pubs and clubs are a blast too.

Aylmer is just different. And the difference is wait makes life so great. Spice of Life and all that.
 
 
Current Location: London, England
Current Mood: calmwhoo!
Tunes At The Moment: Chris Rock Stand Up
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
02 February 2007 @ 10:00 pm
European Hair is Big Like Texas  
So today was my day off. It was nice I did a lot of sleeping and a lot of wandering aimlessly. I got my hair cut, and now I have big sexy European hair. It's spiky and junk. And big. But kinda cool. Work should be interesting tomorrow with my new hair. I wonder what they'll all think?
So travel plans:
In March I'm going to the coast of Spain. I'm gonna see the Mediterranean! Whoo! Malaga should be nice, I'm looking forward to seeing Al and Eileen because they're fun and I like them a lot. And that's the truth. (Kendra is drunk, she's had too much vodka.) Maybe we can lots of tequila in Spain.
Okay now I'm drunk and I have promised not to write in here when I'm drunk...AHHH! Alex is online. Love him, gonna go then.
To Be Contuvre!
 
 
Current Location: London, England
Current Mood: drunkbooze mmm
Tunes At The Moment: Thousand Foot Krutch - Supafly
 
Leave a comment
 
Gypsy
26 January 2007 @ 09:42 pm
Lunatics and Jokers  
Ello, ello!

So this week has been long and drawn out. It's sad that I have one day off (my own fault) and I really just want to sleep all day and mope around by myslef but can't. Oh well. Paula hasn't seen the main bit of London yet so I've decided to take her to a museum and around South Bank and Covent Garden too. Should be fun.

We went and saw Babel this week too. It was a good movie but sad and kind of long. Brad Pitt was damn good though. I can understand why he'd get an Oscar nomination for this flick. (Sidenote: Doesn't really matter because Forest Whittaker is going to win it or else that would be a JOKE!) Also Gael Garcia Bernal is amazing. I totally love him. The whole cast was stellar and the plotline (although hard to follow after 120 calls from people who have TalkTalk and hate the company because they just can't seem to get ANYTHING right) was very good and thoughtful too. It was really sad though.

So, I read in the newspaper that Hitler was from a family of lunatics and imbreds. Yeah? No kidding! So Patrick and I were discussing this and he made the comment that we were all imbred. The whole Adam and Eve thing. I laughed and said no, there's never been any Irish in my family. (Which may or may not be true.) You know what he did? Winked at me and said there was still time for that. Holy shit. Asshole!

The new guys at work seem to really like me and Paula. We're always laughing and joking so of course they think we're fun. Paula has also decided that she is sick of not having a social life and being fat so has decided we need to work on that. Now, I'm not too keen on the fat bit because I don't REALLY care but the social life concerns me. (Okay I wouldn't be upset if my ass was a little smaller.) So I think we've got about 4 or 5 people from work going out with us next Friday, very exciting. Can't wait!

That's all I have to report for now. If I think of anything else I'll add it next time. Cheers!
 
 
Current Location: London England
Current Mood: calmmellow like jell-o
Tunes At The Moment: K-os - Sunday Morning
 
Leave a comment