The Biggest Procrastinators in the World

Ok...so Sam and I are the BIGGEST procrastinators when it comes to doing things that we don't want to do. Our doctor told us back in February to get some blood work done. Sam and I FINALLY went and did our blood work on....ummm....Wednesday, 2 months later. There's a good reason for that too. Sam did his 4 viles with no problems at all. My doctor told me that I was only going to have to do 4 viles.....WRONG!! They actually needed 6 viles! Let's just say it was quite a tramatic experience for both myself and the person taking my blood. I looked like I was a wounded soldier with the bandages all over anywhere that she attempted to take my blood. Next time, I think I'll hire somebody to give me their blood. Hahah!

I felt like I was on a roll this week with accomplishing things that I've been procrastinating all year long. Currently, I do not have my clear California teaching credential because I have an out of state credential. I've been trying to take classes to clear my CA credential and I only needed 1 more class. Except, my school district had no clue what the class was that I needed. After MONTHS AND MONTHS of procrastinating, I finally called one of the colleges around here. The credentialing analyst contacted the State of CA's credentialing department and we found out that I don't have to take that class!! Because I've already taken some of the other required classes, they're going to waive my last class!! WOOHOO!! So now I have to pay some money and my credential will come in 6 months! YEAH! Mission accomplished.

Maybe this is a new start on life, with no more procrastinating. I think I'll start tomorrow!! :)!

Back to Normal Life...

Ok, so I know that we've been back from London for a few weeks, and now it's time to get back to reality! We JUST unpacked our bags on Saturday and I just reset my watch to California time on Sunday. I keep thinking that we'll be going back to England in a few weeks. Haha!

The temperature sure is different here though. It's been in the 70's and 80's with 0% humidity here in CA. Back in England, we were lucky to see temperatures reach the 40's with 80% humidity and the occasional gust of 20mph wind. BRRRR!!! It was ice cold. Despite the frigid weather there, I'd really rather be back in England than to get back to the monotony of normal life.

I now find myself watching the BBC News in the evening just to hear the British accents once more. Although I don't think I can resort to watching any of their lame shows though (you know, the reruns of "Keeping Up Appearances" on PBS). Oh the British humor!

I think perhaps I'll purchase 2 tickets to go back to England this summer...and Sam won't have to know about it until the day before we leave. Oh would he get a kick out of that!! If any of you would like to support the "Help Sam and Marcie Return Back to England in July 2008" fund, feel free to donate. We'll accept cash, credit, money orders, first borns, or used tires (the tires are Sam's touch on this posting). Oh wait a second! Maybe I don't want your first born....I want to see their temperaments first!! Hahaha! Operators will be standing by to take your calls!

Our London Trip, Part Deux

Our London Trip Part Deux

Due to many people's requests for us to show more pictures, I've added another slide show. I'm only allowed 30 pictures per slide show. So that's why there are 2 different slide shows. I hope you all enjoy these pictures as well!

Our London Trip!

WE'RE BACK!!! :)!

Well, we're back!! We had SUCH a fabulous time in England. *sigh* I want to go back already! You know, everyone always asks me what was the best thing that I loved about our trip. Of course the sights were stunning and the culture was fun, but honestly, the best thing about our trip was just spending 8 days straight with Sam. We've never spent that much time together. Our cell phones didn't work over there, we didn't have the internet, and we didn't know anyone in London. It truly was just the 2 of us together. Here are some things that I learned while we were on our trip.

1. If we ever lived in England, Marcie would be RAIL thin. Oh the food was TERRIBLE! It was so plain. The only decent food I had there was at a cute little Italian place...which obviously wasn't British food. Even the hamburgers weren't so good. They steam fry the hamburgers, so it's a weird consistency. In my McDonald's hamburger in the ketchup and mustard they added sugar to it! Weird! That's all I have to say! The scones, pastries, "biscuits" (aka cookies), and the ice cream were all good. That's about it!

2. I don't think Londoners actually know what the color of the sky is. It snowed for the first 3 days that we were there (and it was a CHILLY wet cold), and rained for the other 5, with small periods of partial sun. Talk about an adjustment, coming from Southern California.

3. Marcie CANNOT understand the British accent, especially when ordering food. I always made Sam order me food because the food stand people get annoyed with customers REALLY fast, so you have to order your food fast. So I always made Sam do it. Even the little kids have cute little accents. I always smiled when I'd hear a little 5 year old say "Mum". HOW CUTE!!

4. The British police don't carry guns with them! They carry their batons with them. It's illegal to carry a gun in England and it's an automatic 5 year sentence. The only people who have guns legally are the military and their SWAT teams.

5. I could NOT get use to the word "queue". People would ask if I was queueing, and I'd get all confused. BTW, it means "line". So when people would ask if I was in the queue, it meant in the line. Apparently, it's a French word.

6. The British are some of the nicest people. They were very friendly, especially because it was obvious with our accents that we were tourists.

7. It's very complicated trying to cross the street when you're use to the cars being on the opposite side of the street. We'd always look left, when we should've looked right. Luckily, on the streets they have painted to "look left" or "look right". Thank goodness! Otherwise I'm sure we would've gotten hit!

8. Riding the Tube (the subway) was pretty fun and reliable. Except one day there was an announcement on the Tube that there was going to be severe delays because a person was stuck under one of the trains! WHOA! TMI! And when you would get off the Tube, the announcer would say "Mind the gap"...meaning watch the gap between the train and the platform.

9. We don't do so well with LONG flights. Gosh the flight over there was miserable. It was VERY turbulent the whole way and our TV's in our seats didn't work. We flew a red eye flight so everything was dark outside, so obviously we couldn't see anything outside. By about the 6th hour, I was ready to jump out of the plane. Luckily it was MUCH better flying back. Maybe next time we go to England we'll fly 1st class. Hahahha

10. Jet lag is inevitable when flying from England. It was an 11 hour flight, plus a 7 hour time change. When we got back to Los Angeles on Saturday evening, it was 5PM California time, which was 12AM London time. By the time we got to our house, it was 3:30AM London time (8:30PM CA time). Then I was awake on Sunday at 11AM London time, 4AM CA time. Our body clocks have been off ALL week long. I think I'm going to need another week to recover.

All in all, we had SUCH a great time! We hope that we are able to go on many more trips throughout the years. I hope that everyone else had a great Spring Break!

BTW...we couldn't try on the Royal Crown Jewels....there were FAR too many guards! Perhaps next time! ;)

Tis the Time!!

Sorry for the uncuteness of this posting...but we are on our way to London. We're leaving in about 10 minutes!!! I hope you all have a Happy and safe Easter. We'll talk to you all when we get back next week!!