October 30th, 2007

How beautiful is that? Can you believe that is what I see when it is sunny (rare) on my walk to the station (often). I am learning to take a moment and enjoy the sun as its presence here is limited. The clouds seem to own the airways and take full advantage of that fact. So moments like these are to be fully appreciated. Loved like a poem or a beautiful song. Then you save them and put them in your back pocket to be taken out on a rainy day.

Enjoy the sun where ever you are.

Willy Wonka's Dad

I hate the dentist! Not the trained professionals personally per se, more like I hate their tools. Those high-pitched squealing drills they use for everything! “Oh miss your teeth look lovely but we need to clean them. Let me get out my perfectly harmless but horrifically sounding tooth cleaner DRILL.” Ugg! It is the noise that I can’t stand. The horrible noise that sends chills down my spine and into my fingers that are usually gripping the arms of the dental chair so hard that I am sure CSI wouldn’t even need the grey dust to get my prints of them.

Today was my second visit to the dentist in probably 10 years and my second visit in England. Thank goodness todays experience was much better then the last time. The last time I went was so awful I thought I was being punk’d. The dentist chair, more like torture chair, was the grossest color brown ever dyed onto hard vinyl and was held together by brown packaging tape. Instead of cleaning my teeth with the swirly rubber teeth cleaning thingy that I had mentally prepared myself for he proceeded to drill out the plaque nestled between my pearly whites. You heard me right DRILLED! Why? Why did he do this to me? I protested with the some grimaces of pain and all he said was it would be over soon. I even said in a mumbled whisper "it hurts" but still no relief. Obviously this man likes to cause pain to poor little girls who I am sure in his mind deserve it because no matter how politely I protested he would not stop. I left feeling totally traumatised and swore I would never go to the dentist again in England.

I did call Ian and tell him about my appalling experience and though he did not offer me much sympathy he did say I should try his dentist and promised it would be better. And it was. This one did keep telling me I had a lot of fillings though. “Yea thanks I already know that, don’t need you to remind me, my husband who has zero fillings already has that job but thanks anyway.”

I now have an appointment on my birthday to get my teeth cleaned, with out a drill, and get a filling redone, with a drill. I checked. He won’t do it without one. Maybe I could get put under. Help me!!

The View

Martin and Nic were over the other day for some lunch and as the afternoon was winding down Martin looked outside and noticed the most stunning sunset I have ever seen. Conversation stopped mid sentence as we gazed thoughtfully into the eternal expanse of the sky. The photos as beautiful as they are cannot quite capture the intensity of color and depth. If only I could tap into a tenth of that creativity. God?

Pret a Portea

Cheating on my blog.

I have been neglecting this blog in favor a far more advanced and sophisticated website....Facebook. For those of you not on it, get on it. Apart from being the prettiest social online scene it is easy to use and most importantly for my short attention span it is fast. I can upload photos straight from iPhoto, check on what all my friends are up to and not just my superficial friends to have a higher friend count friends my actual friends. I love it! I really do. So join if you haven't and be my friend. I promise I will write on your wall at least once.

On the beach in Singapore

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Originally uploaded by Mizzie

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore photos

We are finally in asia. This week is Singapore at the very kid friendly Shangri-la hotel that sits right on the beach. Today is day 2 of our journey. THe sun is shining the humidity is thick and there was a giant cockroach on out balcony this morning. Yikes! Last night we slept for 12 hours to get over our jet lag, hopefully it worked. We started today with some yoga. Yes Ian did yoga and he liked it. And have had some breakfast. Heather they serve kim-chi for breakfast. Yummy!

I am off to the beach and Ian is off to load in for the show tonight. I will write again soon.

Miz x

Facebook Photos

Check out my new house photos on facebook. It is much easier to upload photos on so I will most likely be updating things there.

New Post

Thought I would write a quick hello. Not much to say but the same ole' I am working on the house, it is hard, I am tired, blah blah. I will post some new photos soon. Heading over to the house now to paint. What fun. Thanks for checking in if you have. Bye.

Fixtures and fittings

Our new toilet. I got the same one for upstairs and downstairs. It even has a european flush.


Master Bedroom sink. So cool.


Shower head in the guest bath walk-in shower/wet room. Ian finally is getting his wet room.


This is the faucet for the kitchen sink. The sprayer pulls out of the faucet.


Not as exciting is the kitchen sink.

Update on house

Not too many photos this time. I need to take more tomorrow. I have been busy busy working on it though. I am very excited to see the finished product. I ordered tile the other day which was a major undertaking. trying to work out dimensions and prices and what matched what. Drama. I still haven't done the guest bath but I pretty much know what I want. Tile is expensive
! Very scary to buy because you can't return it. Ugg! Wish me luck on the rest of the buying.

It all came tumbling down

It all came tumbling down
Originally uploaded by Mizzie.

The sky is falling

The sky is falling
Originally uploaded by Mizzie.

Ian tearing up the floor

Ian tearing up the floor
Originally uploaded by Mizzie.

Belated Blog

This blogging thing is getting harder. I need to be better about getting stuff posted. Here are some photo's from Christmas and since. Kinda random I know, but it is a start.






This blogging thing is getting harder. I need to be better about getting stuff posted. Here are some photo's from Christmas and since. Kinda random I know, but it is a start.

Christmas lights and scary blow up things.

Max on bike

December cont..

Melanie's Graduation

Missy and Ian's December Montage

I haven't posted in a awhile so I am going to do a montage of our activities from December.

Our 4th anniversary was on the 14th of December and Ian was back in England, but in true romantic fashion he managed to send me a lovely email card and had my gift at the house ready for me to open. And here it is.


Well actually my montage is going to turn into more than one entry as I have to go to get ready to leave. Ian and I are back in London in our amazing flat which I for got how much I love. Today we woke up scared to look at the time and we should have been scared because it was 3:00pm. WHAT! I can't believe we slept till then. We didn't go to bed until 3:30am or so but still that is a freakin long time to sleep jet lag or not. We are going to stay at Craig and Emma's new place tonight in Reading and go to church with them tomorrow. We might be popping the Tylenol PM's to make sure we got to sleep at a decent hour. Wish us luck.