Merry Christmas Eve!

It's Christmas Eve here in Londontown. No snow to report as yet but there is a ton of rain available.

*Sidebar* Please feel free to come along and get some if you'd like!

Sisi is here with me and it's been lovely having her here. It's helped me with my homesick-ness that has been really bad this past month. It's my first holiday away from home and I am absolutely missing everybody back home. I'm missing my grandmother and my sister and brother the most. However, this is why Skype was invented!

Since Sisi has been here, we've been out a little bit but not a lot as it's been a lot of crowds with Christmas here and everybody trying to get in their last minute shopping. We have managed to check out Westfield in Stratford (City) as we went there for my birthday dinner this past Friday. We met up with Livs as well and had an amazing time.

Myself, Sisi & Livs after my birthday dinner.

We all plan on meeting up in the week and exploring more of London with Sisi before she has to head back home to Canada. I will aim to remember to take photos so I'll actually have something to show you along with the posts. 

I must dash now to finish seasoning the meat for dinner tomorrow. 

Merry Christmas! xx

T-Minus 7 Days

Sisi will be here in seven days!

Eeeekkk! I am so overly excited, it's ridiculous!

-Lissa x

Home for the Holidays

Bonjour!

Oh, how I wish I was actually going home for the holidays. However, I'm getting the next best thing: a friend from back home for the holidays! One of my best friends is coming over from Canada to spend my birthday, Christmas AND New Years with me!! I cannot be more excited than I am right now (and as exhibited by my very free use of exclamation marks lol).

She will be here in a little over a week and we will have a blast. I'll have company this time around to check out the christmas markets and explore Southbank. I'll also have somebody to ooh and aah over the gorgeous christmas light installations in central London. My camera will definitely be getting a work out so I should actually have photos to post again! Whenever I'm out, I always forget my camera so no photos are ever taken. Shame on me.

We do not have any snow as yet but they are calling for snow sometime this week which will be interesting to experience here. London is not as equipped for snow as Canada and everybody keeps telling me horror stories about how the transit shuts down or doesn't run efficiently when it snows. I'm talking about maybe 15 cm of snow here people. That's child's play back home. LOL. To be fair, Canada isn't called The Great White North for nothing. I digress, the point is that I cannot wait until there's snow. I really would like snow for christmas day. After that, it can bugger off and I'll be okay. I just want a white christmas, is that too much to ask?

In other news, I've been out of commission lately because I've been ill. The latest illness? Blood poisoning. Yeah, tell me about it. I went to get a tooth pulled and was told it all went okay, only to wake up not feeling well and by time I got to my GP, I was told I had blood poisoning from an infection where my tooth was pulled. Huh. Leave it to my body to take a normal infection and go above and beyond with it. I also had the flu for a bit to add to the fun times being had all around. Haha. I am glad to say that right now, after the meds, I am once again whole and well. It better stay this way as my birthday is 8 days away and I plan on going out to party.

I've also got a boyfriend in London as well. It's still in the beginning of the relationship so I won't say much about it right now (don't want to jinx anything). I will share with you that he is a sous chef and really great so far.

Alrighty, I need to head off to finish off writing my xmas cards so that I can post them today on my way home. Will post again soon!

Lissa xx