when i was small and living underwater

I am home.
Oh, it feels good. Our trip was much fun and I am very happy to have gone but there is nothing like collapsing upon your own bed after a long journey. Every single muscle in my body hurts. Its not easy trekking a suitcase around.
Our plans for new years didn’t pan out, [...]

my phone shall work again

Well were are leaving in a bit and I am torn.
I want to go back to Newcastle now (when we get into London that is) but I have paid and made travel arrangements with my friend Janette to leave London on the 2nd…so four more days. Yet I just have a strong feeling that I [...]

antwerpen. abba. waterloo. xbox. don’t use the flash, i won’t show up.

Yesterday was full. Fun, but tiring and I didn’t get to sleep until about 4am, not because we were out drinking late, our poker game ended relatively early. Less fun when you are playing with real money. I was up late talking with Ali and then tossing and turning worrying about someone. I feel really [...]

eating lemons

Not having all my music with me is making it really hard for me to sleep. I need a new pair of headphones, ones that properly protect me ears. I figure they should at least be warm while I deafen them.
Tomorrow we are going to Antwerp, and then Waterloo. Should I walk the steps? The [...]

you know, the metal balls

What does your dvd collection say about you? We are house sitting and trying to look for a dvd to watch, but the choices are few. War films or a Shania Twain concert dvd. We are opting for the news now. My dvd collection – or rather the organization of my dvd collection – would [...]

poker face

A cure for the blues:
4 glasses of red wine.
2 glasses of champange.
1 cran and vodka.
The silence seems less loud through all the haze.
I learned how to play poker tonight. Ali is passed out, again. Here are some random photos from tonight. I hope you all had a very merry merry.

Ali and the forest of [...]

sure, one more chocolate

How funny that we are here in Brussels and its the first time I am watching the BBC since I have arrived in England. I don’t do television at school. Mainly because I don’t own one, ya know.
Anyway, we are watching BBC 1 as the choices are few but I am quite enjoying this song [...]

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This night has been full of surprises. I received a very nice email from one of my oldest friends with a fabulous gesture in the writing that made me speechless. Ali and I decorated our shrub tree and our now watching all the xmas movies on the telly. We stumbled upon Christmas Vacation and [...]

you are here. no thanks to the metro.

Alright, here’s our series of where are the Allison’s. We promise to take more pictures not from the same angle and of other things, but for today a couple pictures from the markets and just outside of where we are staying.

Bon Voyage! On the Eurostar to Brussels.

Outside the flat we are staying in…and the tree [...]

blue moon. i knew i should have brought the tree to brussels. blast.

Well, Brussels so far has been pretty great. Our hosts are fabulous and although that flat we are staying at is pretty swank, and I feel out of my league, outside of the living room the rest of the house is homey and filled with books and picture frames. Love cutter always makes me feel [...]