It's a Christmas World!

Hey everyone, update time! woohoo! haha

I hope that everyone is doing well and enjoying the summer time months. the weather has finally cheered up here after being gloomy for a solid few weeks. the past week or so has been beautiful, even a little on the hot side. today has been great -- a nice cool breeze, sunshine, with some clouds blowing over every once in a while keeping it nice and cool. absolutely lovely!

i have been working like crazy for the past two weeks which has been great. starting last monday when i went to the first day of harrod's four day induction program from 9 to 5 and then they grabbed me out of induction to start helping right away in th christmas department starting tuesday, so i worked all week from 9-6 with the rest of the christmas people unwrapping ornaments (what they like to call baubles) and hanging them on the walls. i had sunday off which was a good break. then this week i went to the rest of the induction program tuesday-thursday. i got off yesterday at 5 and had today off (we get two days off a week, and the week starts on sunday so even though it feels like a lot of work i technically had two days off since i got sunday too) and i don't have to go in tomorrow till 12:30. i think this is the longest consecutive amount of time i've had off since i started working here!

and i've definitely had a great day!! i got an extra hour or so of sleep and then spent some time cleaning up our room and kitchen, just tidying up and everything. then i went to the bank and picked up my debit cards and stuff. this has pretty much been my first opportunity to do so because the banks here cloe during the week normally by 4:30 and aren't always open on saturdays... how are working people suposed to get to the bank? i don't know... anyway, then i went to madison house (the JMU house where i lived when i studied here) and met up with the director of the study in london program who is here for the summer. he is making a new promo video for the program and asked if he could interview me for it. so we did that then he took me to lunch around the corner and great little italian cafe. i'm still full... that's the most i've had to eat at one meal in a long time!! haha. then i hopped on the tube back toward my neck of the woods and walked down to the camden town market and walked around for the afternoon. i was looking for a black shirt and shoes for work, which i found! now i'm back at the house enjoying a nice cold coke.

in other exciting (or not so exciting) news... our water heater started making some crazy demonic noises last night while amanda and i were hanging out in our room. so i went to investigate and found that the pressure gauge was reading zero and the flame failure light blinking... soooo we don't have any hot water as of right now. i mean it's been warm... but not warm enough to be excited about taking cold showers. so hopefully we can get a repair man here fairly quickly. one thing i can bet is that our water bill will be lower if we don' thave hot water for a while! haha.

alright amanda just got home from work so i'm off to hang out and get ready for our friday night pub! love you all