A week of crappy things

Hey everyone!

So I think this week has been colored with a lot of kind of bummer-ish things...and I wonder if this is this stuff that blogs are made of, would anybody still read? But, my reality has been less than stellar this week, so I'm gonna write about it anyway. I will, however, sandwich the bad with the good, the way any decent teacher can.

Good news number 1: I found, after much looking, a cheap ticket back to London after Christmas. 289 dollars! That is AMAZING (considering that up until this point, one-way tickets were upwards of 800 dollars!)

Bad news number 1: The only cheap tickets I could find were for BEFORE the new year, so unfortunately, I will not be spending New Years in New York.

Good news number 2: My Irish friends will all be making it over to London for New Years. YAY. So, I will have people I love around me for New Years anyway...though it won't be any of you awesome people. THEN, we are going back to Ireland (FINALLY!) on January 2nd to see 2manydjs and to celebrate my friend Eimear's birthday. I will be leaving from Ireland direct to Berlin to hang out with Marisa for a few days before returning to reality in London. Wow, when put like this, my life doesn't seem so bad, afterall :) Vacation from a vacation? Sweet! And THEN Andrew Mugler will be in London hanging out, right after Berlin!! I know, I know, this chunk of info was way more than "Good News Number 2", but I thought this was all kind of related.

Bad news number 2: I haven't been able to start working yet, and therefore I am quite broke. (Yes, I know what you are thinking, I don't know how I'm going to fund a week in Berlin either. A miracle?) There was a problem with my police check, but it is all cleared up, and now I am just waiting, impatiently. If I don't get work soon...well you know the drill...helloooooo Connecticut. haha.

Good news number 3: I am starting to really, genuinely like London. I've met great people (mostly through my friend Adam, from Ireland) and I have been having a total blast. If you look hard enough, there are, like New York, tons of free/cheap cool things to do in this city. I went to a "totally awesome" photo exhibit called "London Through a Lens" at a famous photo gallery here (Gedde Images) and it was mind-blowing. It was tons of photos from London through the ages. Did you know that the ORIGINAL SoHo (in London) got it's name because SoHo! is a hunting saying that hunters say to their dogs? Apparently, people used to hunt through the streets of SoHo screaming at their dogs, and that is how it got it's name. Pretty cool, huh? (Or totally dorky, depending on how you look at it, I guess.)

Bad news number 3: I kind of got my identity stolen. Yea, I totally wasn't going to blog about this cause I didn't want the parents to freak out...but uhhh, I'm feeling really crappy today, and I just thought, what the hell, lets be honest here. Basically, the day I got here I used my credit card to buy some bed linens, and every since, someone from that store, apparently, has been using my credit card information to buy lots of things online. Don't worry, I've caught it, cancelled it, and I'm getting my money back in my next statement. HOWEVER, it TOTALLY sucks, and it made me not want to trust people here. Not that it can't happen anywhere, just that it happened to me, here, the day I arrived. I'm not dwelling though. No use in that.

Good news number 4: Unlike Dublin, there IS good Mexican food here. And I have found it! And you know what, it was FULL of Americans. Which made me laugh. Oh, Americans and their need for good Mexican food. Oh Americans, and their need to talk about Obama, everyday, all the time. Mexican Food and Obama--Warming my London-town heart, one burrito and one newspaper article at a time.

Bad news number 4: And now for the kicker. Though I have already created for myself quite a social life here (and I'm joining a field hockey team tomorrow!!! so I'll let you all know how THAT goes), as of today, I am not going to see a certain boy whose name may have been read between many blog lines as "some guy I was seeing." For the sake of blog-honesty, myself and said "guy I was seeing" are not seeing each other, anymore. Literally. No seeing of any kind. No hanging out. Nothing. And, I mean, it was my call, because hearts are a fragile thing, and I could tell mine was bound to take a beating in this particular instance. But, as we all know with hearts, the definitely right decision still hurts.

I hate to end on a bad note...so I'll say that I got the Not For Tourists book for FREE on Friday night (and free beer too!!) and it IS as awesome as expected. I then went to a GREAT birthday party (Adam's housemate) and there was lots of dance-partying. Which is ALWAYS a good time. London definitely has some amaaaazing places to go out and have a good time.

This was a picture-less blog, but I promise, there are pictures in the future :)

Cheers!

Sarah