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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Still here, no moving date yet...

Hello Dear Readers,

I'm still here, I just haven't felt much like blogging lately.  Nothing bad or anything, but sometimes you just need to take a break from things to get a fresh perspective on things to get energized about it again.  I also have been recovering from my surgery, and am just now feeling comfortable enough sitting down to work at the computer at home.

We don't have a moving date for the new apartment yet, still waiting!!! It's very frustrating because I'm not really motivated to do stuff (like clean, or blog, or anything) since I keep thinking ahh, we'll be moving soon anyway.  The holdup is with the solicitors (lawyers) who are moving the paperwork around for the place, apparently delivering it by carrier pidgeon.  One of the offices claims to not have email, what? That is not possible.  We still expect it to be soon, real soon, so stay tuned. Though I will miss the super cute baby foxes in our backyard, awwww!

In other news this weekend Chris and I got to meet a celebrity, YouTuber Chris Pirillo.  Chris watches his vlog everyday (and I watch it with him occasionally) so when we found out he was coming to London we were very excited to meet him.  About a week before I said to Chris, too bad we couldn't think of something to do for him when we meet him, like knit him something.  He really loves bacon, and Chris suggested something bacon related.  I came home Tuesday night to find him on Ravelry looking at a double knit 5 foot long bacon scarf from the now sadly defunct The Anticraft WebZine.  He said, can you make this for Saturday?  Uh, yeah, only because I'm Super Yogi Knitter!!  4 days of frantic knitting later, I had it, Phew!
He seemed to genuinely appreciate the scarf, though he didn't wear it in the humid basement we were in since it was so stuffy.  I said if he just wore it in one of his videos it would make me very happy, hopefully he will!  Hey, he'll probably need it in London anyway, summers here are very cold and wet. 

He was very kind to pose with Chris and I for photos.  In fact he was kind enough to pose with EVERYONE for photos, fame has not spoiled him.  His demographic seemed to be largely young boys (15-18) and older men (30-40).  I felt a bit like Penny at the Comic Book Shop, especially when it transpired that of the other 6 or 7 women there most of them were one of the kids mom's, it was so sweet when they were asking Chris to pose for just one more photo with their kid.

As a thank you Chris (my Chris, not the celebrity Chris) took me to a vegan restaurant for dinner called Saf in Whole Foods in South Kensington.  Well, I told him he was taking me, but still, it was nice.  Good times.  I had the raw tostata but envied his Buddha Bowl, everything on their menu looks amazing!

Anyway, off to finish cleaning the house, though I know it's pointless since the people who just bought the place off our landlord will probably gut it.  Sigh.  On to bigger and better things, I am comparing garbage can designs and trying to source a bowed-out curtain rod....

Cheerio!

1 comment:

  1. dude, I totally understand the hassles with moving. Melch and I have been buying a condo for like the last 3 months. It looks like we still have a few weeks left before we can move in, even though we now own it free and clear!

    Good luck with the paperwork and the move!

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