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Busy Girl

I was sort of wondering when the questions would start to come in as to where I've been, and sure enough, they have. I assure you, I'm here, and I'm fine - I'm just a little swamped right now.

We've had houseguests and social commitments and travelling and all sorts of other stuff like that. At the end of the day, I usually consider blogging before bed, but honestly it's all I can do to brush my teeth before bed. I've been just that tired.

I know I haven't properly blogged since before Thanksgiving. I haven't done a lot of things, actually. Like send out Christmas cards, or even buy any Christmas presents. The dry cleaning needs to be picked up, too. And I need to deposit some checks. Oh, and go grocery shopping.

Thanksgiving was fabulous. (God, a week to Christmas and I'm blogging about Thanksgiving.) I had a great time at Jess & Tim's and then a great time at my own celebration. We had seven people over, two of whom were vegetarian and one who was allergic to a bunch of stuff, but we managed it just fine and it was all quite delicious. Special props to Gareth, who made the best damn gravy I've ever had.

The time between then and now has been very social. The London social group from flickr is always great, and we've been doing pub quizzes and whatever, at least once a week. We actually won a quiz at one point, in the Southwark Tavern, and then another at my local. Good stuff.

I've also had a friend from high school visit for a few days. She was interviewing for a transfer to London, and it fell upon me to show her around this fine city. We had a really good time, what with two pub quizzes (one the quiz at my local that we won - they had a round consisting entirely of identifying 'The X State', e.g. 'The Show Me State' is... Missouri, and so on), middle of the night galavanting around the Thames & taking pictures from the Millennium Bridge and multiple kebabs.

Today was a particularly festive day. We'd discussed ice skating at the last pub quiz and today we all met up for a 4:00PM skating time at Hampstead Heath. We skated for an hour (effectively James's first time), drank much mulled wine, had some mince pies and chocolate and froze. Then James went home to get changed, while the rest of us (two of whom were Finnish) headed over to the Swedish church (apparently the Finnish church is being worked on) in Marylebone for a Finnish Christmas carol programme. Very fun, even if it did involve singing by ear in a language you don't understand. At least it was phonetic, more or less.

After that, Diggle and I split off and met James for Lebanese then the three of us ran off to Islington for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We really enjoyed it. Tilda Swinton, as always, is fabulous, though I wasn't thrilled with her costumes. Dawn French does a voice (very cool), as do Rupert Everett and Michael Madsen. The Beaver was very East London (EAST SIDE!) so we appreciated that. Best moment in the film: when they're in the Beaver dam and Susan goes: We're not heroes; we're from Finchley! The entire audience cracked up at that one. It was amusing.

So, yeah. I haven't been very talkative lately. Sorry about that. But it could be worse, right? I mean, you got to look at my divine cheesecake for a couple weeks. If only you'd tasted it.

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