Football American style sucks
so just a quick update for all the Americans out there who didn't even know that the US soccer team was over in London yesterday to play a friendly with the England football team & to no body's surprise USA didn't even score one goal - they luckily were only scored on twice. I went & supported them and of course was one of only 2 people in the whole pub who was supporting the good old USofA. I really feel if America would put even half the money & enthusiasm as they do for American football their soccer team could be top notch!! What is it about soccer that Americans just can't get into? The rest of the world plays rugby & soccer, yet America plays football, basketball & baseball which no other country in the world plays . . . what's up with that, is that so that we're never beaten as a nation?!?!?!
In other notes, I've just finished reading
The Call of the Wild by Jack London and now I'm moving on to
Vinegar Hill by A. Mannete Ansay.
That's all I've got for today, thanks for stopping by, feel free to leave a comment or two, I'm feeling as nobody is reading my blog anymore - well aside from Ms. CheeseWiz for some reason she likes stopping by and is always fantastic about leaving a comment for me ;-)
Labels: books, football, soccer, sports
Brazil 1 - 0 Sweden
Got a
free ticket to the Brazil v Sweden football match last night at
Emirates Stadium (where
The Gunners play). It has a seating capacity of 60,355 and last night there were 60,221, darn good for an international friendly match, I think.
So you're wondering how I'm so lucky to get a free ticket are you???? Well my best mate, Jim called me up while I was on the bus heading home. He asked if I was free, I said yes, he said to meet him at the
Tup (
our local) in 20 minutes, I said okay. He showed up & off we went to the match. It wasn't raining hard when we got there, but by half time it was raining what I would say is not heavy, just consistently, so it became very damp & the wind really picked up, so we were a bit chilly. Of course I wasn't prepared to sit outside at the stadium since I was coming home from work, but it was still fun :)
The part which also played a key role in keeping us warm was doing the
Mexican wave. The second best part was when Brazil scored in the second half . . . to be honest the first half was a bit boring, aside from a bit of fancy foot work from
Robinho (who
btw shares my
b'day!)
And for those of you wondering how my March Challenge is going, I'm thankful to have such generous mates to give me free tickets to football matches and wonderful mates in
Germany who let me visit for Easter!!
Labels: arsenal, football, march challenge
Knocked Up
At work quickly for some work (quickly collecting some 48 hours supernatants from a stimulation experiment I set up on Thursday) & then running off to see the Arsenal v ManU match followed by seeing Knocked Up . . . busy busy day - LOL
UPDATE (19.52) saw knocked up - it's hysterical - i highly recommend it - not just a stupid teen movie! AND arsenal tied manchester united 2-2 - yeah!!!!!!!!! arsenal are on a great streak now after thierry henry has left - i reckon he was a bit too much relied on & so the other players didn't play to their full potenial so if he was off the whole team sucked, but now they're playing as a real team & are doing soooo much better - i'm really excited about it - if you get a chance to see the game it was ruddy good one!!Labels: arsenal, football, movies, NaBloPoMo, work
Trent Park for my daily Vit D
So I got my fill of Vit D yesterday sun bathing with a picnic in
Trent Park with Estee, Stephen (E's cousin) and Tanya (S's friend). After we got home I got a text message from Rob (who's back from Thailand) and wanted to meet up for dinner & for me to help him by putting his digital photos onto a CD as he doesn't own a computer & wouldn't be able to download them at work. So we met up on the high street & grabbed some dinner at a Greek place. Estee came to meet up with us for a bit while on her way to her uncle's house.
On Friday, I bunked out of work & went for my national insurance number "interview", which was easy enough, but the man conducting the interview said to me, "you've got enough bombs in your country, why don't you just go back" to which I was totally dumb founded & speechless! 30 minutes later he came back with my passport & abruptly said, "your number will arrive by post in 6-8 weeks" I smiled & said in the nicest voice that I could muster, "thank you very much, have a nice day" which apparently is a very American thing to say, according to some of my mates here in the UK, who usually don't speak with cashiers or the like & who giggle when I make conversation with them.
In
good news, Arsenal beat the Bolton Wanderers 2-1 this past Saturday, I of course missed the match because I was visiting my dad's friend Patrick who lives in Stretham. Louise & I met up at Tottenham Ct Road just under the "We Will Rock You" sign to get on the tube & head south to Patrick's house. We arrived just before half twelve. Upon arrival he opened a bottle of
Buck's Fizz to help tide us over before our fancy lunch at 13.45. Louise & I took a wonder around his garden (aka yard) and brought out 3 lawn chair & a small table. Our lunch was
chicken kiev, brussel sprouts, carrots, peas, boiled potatoes with butter & herbs and white wine. Pudding (aka dessert) was
panna cotta with slices of peaches. After tidying up the kitchen we retired to the garden for a bit of a chat in the lovely sun. After an hour or so we were forced to have tea, I say forced as Lou & I were both full from lunch, but you cannot argue with Patrick, so he went up to get the tea started. When I went up to retrieve the tea, I discovered we were going to be having some chocolate cake & cheese cake with strawberries on top . . . needless to say when MissyLou & I left we just sorta rolled ourselves on to the bus and then onto the tube for our ride home. I did not eat dinner at all - just kept downing the water to keep well hydrated.
Antonio (my 4th flatmate) has moved in, as of last night. He's Croatian, 25yo, now he manages an Italian restaurant near
Liverpool Street Station after spending 3 years living in Italy. So that rounds out the house. Of course the plumber came to fix Estee's and my showers (2 separate ones) this past Saturday and apparently was unable to find the part to repair it so instead of putting it back so we could shower with suboptimal conditions, he just took the parts with him, so there are 5 of us using just 1 lonely shower at the moment :( Luckily for me Estee & Zarina like to shower at night so Antonio & I were the only ones who had to "plan" what time we were going to get up & use the bathroom, since Giulia works 1-8pm so she doesn't have to worry about the AM shower schedule. We're all hoping the guy is able to get the replacement part today!!
Hmm what other exciting things can I tell you about?!?!? Look at
this photo, as if running in a marathon is not enough, he's decided to pull a 300lbs bolder with him - WTF?!?!!
Okay, I will leave you with this quote:
Finish each day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely andwith too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Labels: flatmates, football, friends, quotes
LA Gallexy
The LA Galaxy are getting an over rated pompous arse, but that's just my humble opinion!! In other exciting news, I've got nothing aside from the fact that I watched the UConn basketball game last night (they lost by 6 to Marquette) with my friend Johnny, by candle light no less b/c the lights were reflecting on the tv screen & making both of us annoyed. When Anne came out to check on us she worried that she'd lost me to the world of sports, but I assured her if she'd offered to go shopping I would have jumped up from the chair!Labels: football
