Garnet's Life Adventures

funny!!!!

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posted by Sara @ 4:24 pm 0 comments

my famous God-mother

can be seen here at about 2 minutes into the video.

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posted by Sara @ 9:36 pm 0 comments

videos from Germany

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posted by Sara @ 10:38 pm 0 comments

Yellow Ribbon Holiday

This is to all those serving away from home this holiday season. In particular my adopted brother Michael and my mate Tim stationed in Iraq.

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posted by Sara @ 11:27 am 0 comments

LSHTM alumni Christmas Lunch

A video of Andy dancing with a dog (watch the dog's ears!:


Chris testing the mini water gun full of wine out on Emma:

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posted by Sara @ 12:42 pm 1 comments

how low will it go?

the temperature in my flat that is? It's just part 2pm & the temperature is down to 13C . . . let's play a game: how low will the temp go before the plumber gets here & fixes the hole in the pipe??

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posted by Sara @ 2:07 pm 1 comments

Coupé Decalé

Have you ever heard of Coupé Decalé? An interesting type of dance I learned about today when talking with a mate. It's a pop music which started in Paris, but with Cote d'Ivoire origins. If I understood everything correctly coupé decalé means to cheat a person & then run away. The person being "cheated" refers to someone from Europe, when this first became popular, the songs were congratulating people who had 'make it' outside of Cote d'Ivorie.

When I Wiki'd it I found two quotes which I thought were interesting:

Vladimir Cagnolari suggests that the music is a way Ivorians are coping with their unstable political situation. "For a few hours, the rooms is transformed into an ephemeral temple of festival/party, using carefree-ness and amusement to counter the socio-political problems of a country still waiting for peace. ... In a musical landscape dominated by patriotic and military music, coupé-décalé arrives like a breath of fresh air to forget the difficult context in which Ivorians are living."

Kohlhagen Dominik, "Over the past three years, Coupé-Décalé has become one of the most thriving forms of popular music in francophone Africa. Produced by people who claim to have achieved "success" abroad, Coupé-Décalé represents "elsewhere" as a site from which one can achieve a certain status in consumer society so as to return home to be celebrated. This music expresses generational transformations that affect lifestyles in Africa as well as ways of projecting oneself in the world."

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posted by Sara @ 12:19 pm 2 comments

hysterical signs!

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posted by Sara @ 10:34 am 2 comments

cool video

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posted by Sara @ 4:00 pm 0 comments

In case you wondering about education systems in the US & UK - watch these videos

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posted by Sara @ 12:03 am 2 comments

Fantastic Bands

One of my favourite songs from them at a live concert:


I've been to see them a few times, one memorable time was in NH when Shannon, Janine & I drove all the way over & then got to hang out with the members of Virginia Coalition while OAR (Of a Revolution) was on stage, we got drum sticks & back stage passes. Had we not all had to go to work the next morning we'd been invited to hang out on the tour bus with them, but instead like good lil girls that we are (lol) we drove home that night.

Here's one you might have heard before:


My mates Eric and Billy & I heard this band live in Plattsburgh, New York at the Mayor's Cup in the summer of 2003 (I think) they're fantastic as well & often play with VACo and OAR, check this video out:

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posted by Sara @ 9:59 pm 0 comments

a few videos from our trip

Here are Maya & Owen biking:


Here are Kevin & Owen:


Here are Maria & Jim tubing . . .


This last one is Kevin and Jim tubing . . .

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posted by Sara @ 12:39 pm 1 comments

Dogs can be so smart!!

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posted by Sara @ 9:29 am 1 comments

Leaving for London soon

I think this sums it all up,

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posted by Sara @ 5:50 pm 5 comments

Old Baily & CCTV

Gotta love both the CCTV & Old Bailey in England!! Thanks to them John Laidlaw is going to jail for the shootings he was involved in last May on the Upper Street in Islington & at Holloway tube station. Places that I have been quiet often, well not the Holloway tube station, but the Upper Street for sure. I remember hearing about these incidents while I was there. It makes me happy to see he has been caught & reprimanded!!

Well I can't write much more since I have to pack for my trip to upstate NY & NYC, get my oil changed, go to Bradley Int'l airport, and drive up to my dad's today. Hopefully the next time I'm online I will be telling you all about my wonderful work VISA, which with luck will be granted on Monday.

I'll leave you with this video, the song was just on the telly:

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posted by Sara @ 4:19 pm 0 comments

George Carlin makes me laugh

So after listening to GC's 10 commandments, I saw this one which made me laugh hysterically, so I posted it for you as well.

Making dinner tonight for Vanessa, Jay & Matt - I'm thinking about cottage pie, but I'm still semi up in the air about it, gonna have to check out recipes online & see what else peaks my interest, how about linguine with broccoli, pine nuts & red pepper flakes with garlic chicken . . . I think so!! Okay I'm off to check on the laundry & write up a list of things to buy :)

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posted by Sara @ 5:29 pm 3 comments