Finding Love in London...

So it's happened... I found him, the one who makes me happy. Keeps me company at nights, makes me laugh and if I ever lost him I would cry like never before. He's stylish, fun, interesting, clever and slightly on the petite side. He has a serious sex factor and I am absolutely addicted to him. Where did I meet him? On the internet... and then I picked him up in Curry's on the A10. Yes, I am totally in love with my Rio Carbon 6gig Pearl Mp3 player. We're very happy together. (Come on, as IF there's a boy that good at any of the London clubs I go to!)

My god, I have become a total Mp3 player junkie. It is never out of my head and I finally feel like a complete human being again, I had forgotten how music dependant I am! I have done very little since thursday (when i wagged work to go and buy it) except fiddle with it, arrange it's playlists and download music for it. It's like suddenly aquiring a child! i did consider going for the ipod nano, but I've not heard a single positive thing about it. Besides my darling Rio has a 20 hour battery life which is far better for me travelling.

Speaking of travelling, those in the know are already aware but i was supposed to go to russia last week (in fact, supposed to be there now) but due to a totally forseen economic crisis i decided that sometimes you just have to make sacrifices for the long term good. Read, go to russia, blow all your money and then have to cut south east asia a month short. which would suck. As it is I am probably going to end up doing a mad woman's tour of New Zealand doing the whole lot in like a week because I'll have no money left. Alternately I suppose I could get a job in NZ, but we're only there for a month before I have to get home for the wedding, so we'll just have to see. Andre of course has scads of money and I hate her for it. But I'm going to make her live like a tight arse like me... and eat the most disguisting things I can physically pry into her mouth!

We leave in two weeks for Bangkok. We're flying out on the 30th of December to land at 4pm on New Years Eve. Andre and I are meeting her sister Chryso and her boyfriend Shivan who are living and working (as high powered lawyers!) in Hong Kong. Andre's going to visit them over there in January and I'm going to hang out and see a bit more of Northern Thailand. There's some villages and caving up there that i'm really interested in seeing, and let's face it. It's not like I've never been abroad on my own before! I guess I'm getting excited now. I'll be sad to leave London again, but then... it's a step forward. It's been a very different but the same sort of experience this time. If I were to come back again I would do it as a for keeps move and I would probably look for a flat closer into the city. Which is a total pipe dream since.. well.. I have no money and am very unlikely to ever have THAT sort of money! So until then I'll just keep dreaming about a house in Victoria (and make sure I've processed all my paper work for here. Just in case!)

So, it's nearly Christmas. The tree is up in Trafalger Square (I saw it last night in my stumble home from Temple!) And the lights are on in Oxford and Regent Street. Lovely. I am still campaining for a stint of outdoor ice skating but everyone seems to have gone all delicate and shy on me. Bastards... oh well, thus is life. Worst comes to worst (and really it's very good) Andre and I will just get rugged up and go on our own. THIs year I'll be having a greek Christmas at Andre's auntie's house. She is this fabulous roudy woman who is oozing life and vivaciousnes. There is absolutely zero doubt that i'm welcome in her home for christmas. In fact if i didn't turn up I think she'd gather a posse to find me! She's really lovely, but then all of Andre's family is... with the exception of one dubious Uncle! Who offered to french kiss Amrina and I over Sunday lunch. Ewww.... !!

Anyway kids, I'd better go and do something productive (shower, dress, walk to the post box and then go to Max's for drinks... never mind that despite have brushed my teeth three times I can still taste the snakebites from last night!), so I'll catch you on the flipside,

Love,
Simone x