urban gypsy...

Saturday, December 10, 2005

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The Hubster has gone out for a beer with friends, which was grand at first, but now I'm bored.

I am lazing in the comfy computer chair swigging diet Coke - caffeine free - out of its one and half litre bottle. Classy eh? Gassy more like. 'Scuse me. *snort* So... what to do, what to do. Mmm. Well, I've managed to offend someone in an expat. forum. They're homesick and asked for advice so I told him to stop phoning 'home' where everyone is happily getting on with their life and not really missing them the same as this couple miss everyone back 'home', stop thinking of the UK as back 'home' and put that effort into making new friends, to which he responded that making new friends wasn't an option as his old friends go back 20yrs or more. WTF? Why bother moving if you don't want to make new friends? Y'know, you'd be surprised how many folk aren't interested in people. I always get the village idiot chatting to me - they seem to pick me out in a crowd of others. Maybe I've got a face for it, I don't know... I'll happily chat away to anyone who speaks with me as I find people interesting rather than annoying and what's five minutes of your time when you might get a new friendship out of it? Anyway, the forum thing just didn't seem to be working for me tonight so I thought I'd blog. But didn't know what about. So here I am just waffling on.

Went to shop for a new pair of Birkenstocks... Heidi Klum has designed a range making them comfy and trendy. And you thought never the twain shall meet? Yeah well I guess they won't in my household. The HK ones are £150 in the UK - deffo out my price range here as the regular ones are twice what they cost in the UK. I just cannot justify spending £80 on something I know to be forty quid in Europe. *sigh* I came home empty handed.

We left it until after 4pm to shop as we thought we'd have to donn body armour and compete with the expected hordes of Christmas shoppers. Parked easily and stolled the muggy streets, noting that some shops actually closed their doors at lunchtime. IT'S TWO WEEKS TO CHRISTMAS!!! "This would be unheard of in Europe," I said to The Hubster, who agreed, but said this way was much more pleasurable. I disagreed as I love all the hustle and bustle in the cold weather but even I'm loathe to cook a turkey on Christmas Day this year. Any ideas for the perfect Christmas summer lunch anyone?

- urban gypsy [8:13 pm]
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Urban Gypsy

30-odd year old mum of two

England - Saudi Arabia - New Zealand

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When you run so fast to get somewhere
you miss the fun of getting there. Life is not a race, so take it slower, hear the music before the music is over, take your time and stay happy...

wishes for__

`new house (in Oz)
`less housework
`new shoes
`less bills
`new knickers
`smooth, tanned, glowing skin
`digital camera
`an iPod nano