Ok, so our friend Katie (one of my Fort Worth allies, who LOVED Fort Worth as much as I did!) posted this on her blog and then 'tagged' us. I love these things in email format, but never really considered putting something like this on our blog. Since I basically have done nothing today and continue to sit her, stultified, waiting for Jim to come home and cook fish tacos for me, I will indulge her (and myself).
8 TV shows I watch:
Alas, I'm afraid we don't really watch TV because even though we have one and have to pay TV licence tax for it, we don't have it hooked up even to "free view" (we didn't even know about freeview until a couple of days ago). We are contemplating cable...but having spent a small fortune on baby stuff recently, we are less inclined to jump on the cable bandwagon. That said, we do get a lot of stuff off Itunes and we rent TV series, too. So here is my long-winded answer:
1. The Sopranos (on DVD..we've been watching for more than a year now, but are still only on season four)
2. 30 Rock (via Itunes)
3. Six Feet Under (a long time ago)
4. Little Britain (on DVD...and which, we have decided, isn't really that funny because they just do the same skits over and over again)
5. Saturday Night Live (what we are 'allowed' to watch on the internet and accessing it from another country. SNL needs to come to ENgland!)
6. The occasional Frontline (via Itunes), when we need to be reminded that life is not all fun and games and funerals and the mafia..
...and that's it for us.
8 favorite restaurants
1. Top of the River--I don't know if this place was really as good as I remember it being, but in high school I thought it was so good and then they had to go and get bought out by the Vicksburg casinos and thus end good food in Vicksburg (unless you're into BBQ, which I am not).
2. Lola's--my favorite place ever in the whole world to get paella and major garlic breath (New Orleans)
3. Mother's--my favorite place in the world to eat coronary inducing South Louisiana food (also in New Orleans)
****I interrupt these favorite restaurants to say that I am considering what Jim would like, too...these are not just one half of us answers.
4. Tex-Mex restaurants in Texas...I can't remember the names of any right now, but they all taste about the same and they are all pretty good
5. The place down the road here in London where you can get big-ass American style milkshakes (oreo cookie milkshake..mmmmmmm)
6. The sushi place where Jim and I went all the time when we lived in Houston--on Montrose (sorry, folks...we've moved so many times....)
7. Cafe Brazil (Houston!)
8. Ottolenghi--London SO. GOOD.
8 Favorite singers and bands:
I find this a boring question, but I will answer it to the best of my/our ability:
1. THE CURE
2. James
3. Koop
4. OMD
5. Erasure (I'm afraid I AM kind of portraying my tastes over Jim's in this category, so I'm going to stop while I'm ahead. We saw Erasure recently and they were really fun!)
8 books I have read recently:
Jim is famous for starting new books and then falling asleep after two pages and then losing the book under the bed in a great mass of clutter. And if you want to know what I've been reading, check my goodreads.
8 things that happened yesterday:
1. I slept until 10 (whohoo!)
2. Umm....oh, we went for a walk in Hampstead Heath and it rained (surprise, surprise).
3. I met fellow pregnant women for coffee/late lunch and Jim went to a coffee shop to work (don't we lead exciting lives??). It was still raining.
4. Jim got me a 5 pound rug at an antiques stand (slightly damp, but very nice nonetheless).
5. We danced to techno New Order (for real).
6. We ate spaghetti.
7. Jim put up the lights in the baby's room.
8. We watched my stomach move around.
8 things I'm looking forward to
1. Parenthood
2. The departure of the guys who have been working on our boiler (they are perfectly nice, but having someone in your house all day long gets kind of old. And they are tracking mud all around..it's still raining.)
3. Heat (which will work when the boiler is fixed)
4. Jim getting home and making me fish tacos (he might not be looking forward to this as much as I am)
5. Sleeping
6. Amsterdam
7. Discussing the pointlessness of upside down Christmas trees with Jim over fish tacos
8. Watching my stomach move before going to sleep (never ending entertainment)
8 things I wish for:
1. A long and happy life together with Jim and our baby (and any more babies down the road, too)
2. Long and happy lives for our families
3. That Andy gets the job at Oxford and Kate and Andy live in England, too. That would be so cool!
4. To see our families more
5. More storage space
6. Supper...soon...
7. To know that I have made a difference somehow (sometimes you have to wonder...)
8. A good night's sleep
Ok, now I'm supposed to tag people, but I'm not going to do that. And I promise that there will be no more chains on the blog.
