Mixing work up with play... it's the Canadian way

Well first of all - changed the layout of the blog again. It's more refreshed and a bit more summery (despite the lack of sun right now).

Over the weekend, a little thing called the World Cup (you may have heard of it!) started and it's been crazy World Cup Fever ever since. The TVs are all on at work on a daily basis whenever a match is on. Anyway, I had my first football/soccer experience over the weekend and it definitely was something else!

Katie (Lou's roommate) was also celebrating her birthday, so we all headed down to our local to help her celebrate as well as catch the England-USA match. It was insanely busy at the pub! We got there at 4pm (4 hours early) and managed to snag the last table. But the atmosphere was something I've never seen before and it was definitely a cool experience.

It wasn't fun getting mistaken for an American - but this was something that I was fully expecting before hand! Most people were completely fine once I corrected them.

All in all it was a good experience and I look forward to catching some more football before the tournament's end. Work has even booked out a bar close by for the England - Slovenia match next week so we can all have some drinks, food and watch the footie (check me out with my new lingo).

Hope you're all enjoying the newfound sun I heard about - hopefully it's still around!

Love you and miss you all x

enjoying the beautiful weather!

Some travel plans are in the pipeline! My friend Jen is coming here in July for a month and she's doing a tour of the UK. She's going to be staying with me for a week and then heading off to adventure all that Great Britain has to offer. I've planned to meet her Edinburgh for a weekend and everything is now booked! So soon I can add Scotland to my list. Plus, I'm really excited as Scottish accents are way cooler than English ones (in my opinion anyway)!

Also - Lou and I are steadily planning a holiday in September. Hopefully Greece. But something that's definitely happening is a trip to Prague in October! We've booked some NHL tickets with friends. Yeah, you read that right. NHL. In Prague! Apparently two years ago the NHL decided to start opening their seasons in Europe. So this year, myself, Lou, our friend Rachel and her boyfriend Mark (who is an avid hockey fan despite being English) are going to a Boston - Phoenix game!!! Words can not describe how excited I am for this. It'll be cool because not only will I get to see a hockey game BUT I will also get to see the Czech Republic.

Oh and did I mention Lou and I are also going to Wales in August and Paris (again) in November! Exciting - I'm hoping that we also get away to either Italy or Amsterdam before the summer's over ... only time will tell!

Anyway, I'm gonna head back to work and then thoroughly enjoy the lovely +24 weather at the pub afterwards!!

Love and miss you all x

Oh yeah! I also forgot to mention that last week Lou and I went to see Macbeth at the Globe Theatre. It was amazing! The performance was good and the atmosphere was even better.

Meeting John Hannah at the Spartacus launch.

heidi and audrina eat your hearts out.

I've had a good couple of weeks since I last posted - been really busy with loads of different things. The movie premiere I attended was quite cool and the film itself wasn't too bad - it was basically Bring it On meets Save the Last Dance (pretty much right up Lindsey's alley). It was definitely cool to walk down the red carpet. Hoping I get a chance to do that again!

This week I've gone to a couple different events - on Wednesday, I went to a launch party for the new TV series Spartacus with work. It was amazing! There were people dressed as spartans everywhere, a pig roast and other cool "Sparta" stuff. I even met one of the actors from the show, John Hannah, who you'd probably recognize as Johnathan from The Mummy franchise. All in all it was a very good night!

On Thursday, me and some friends went out to a little event in promotion of Sex and the City 2. It was a very girly evening with cocktail making lessons, makeovers and highly amusing dance lessons.

This weekend has had beautiful weather but Lou and I are spending it indoors catching up on the entire last season of Lost. They're airing the series finale simultaneously with the US premiere so we're getting up before work (at 5am!) on Monday to watch it. It's all very exciting!

The only last bit of news is work related. Last week, I went through the grad day recruitment process for a promotion at work. I've been working as an administrative assistant but I've come to a point where I need to be a bit more challenged. I found out that they were recruiting for broadcast assistants and threw my name in the hat. The grad day went really well and I've just heard yesterday that I officially made it through! Now they just have to figure out which team to put me on and find my replacement and I'll be movin' on up! I'm really excited - I'll actually start buying campaigns and overall have a lot more responsibility at work - not to mention, a pay rise!

That's my news for now. Hope you all are enjoying the long weekend - hopefully your weather is as good as ours right now! Love you all and miss you more!

x

north of america, hard to ignore

I've been back for almost a month now and I haven't posted! The jetlag was horrendous coming back, made that much worse by the simple fact that I worked the following day! About 2 days after I got back I caught a really bad cold (which I think is due to a combination of jetlag and weather change) which was not fun.

Work has been incredibly busy - but that's always a good thing! I'm going to be interviewing for a job within my company - basically a step above what I do at the moment. I really hope it goes well because I'm craving something a bit more challenging than admin at the moment. So wish me luck with that!

One of the saleshouses is coming in today and giving us a few of us broadcast lot free massages and manicures. So in 1/2 an hour, I'll be getting my nails done all pretty! Right after work I'm heading over to Leicester Square where I will be attending my first premiere! It's for a British film called Street Dance - so I'm sure you probably won't ever see it, but I'm really excited!

To polish off this week, one of the girls from work is leaving so her leaving drinks are on Thursday. And then on Sunday, Lou and I are heading over to the Globe to see MacBeth! So busy busy busy!

Hope you all are well. Miss and love you. x

lou got herself a ticket to the remember me (new robert pattinson film) premiere tonight. she was only able to get one (despite her best efforts to get two!) so i went to keep her company before she had to walk the red carpet in.

it was insane! there were crazy twilight fans just about everywhere. i stuck around long enough to catch a glimpse of robert pattinson (couldn't manage to get a photo though...boo) and thought that was enough to go home. he was beautiful.

first time i've seen a premiere in the flesh though - despite living here for 9 months! it was very cool. i'm thinking that sometime soon (i'm thinking the sex and the city premiere in may) i'll take a half day and go be one of the crazies waiting for the stars to arrive.

just another cool thing about living in london. premieres just round the corner from work. amazing.

(i'm home in a week!!! can not wait!)