My name is Anna, and I have just been punked...

...so for those of you who are following along I am writing this story after the fact. On Monday, Carolyn and I went to Ealing Broadway to get my tattoo. We were on the bus coming home (we had to take the bus because Ealing Broadway is in Zone 3 and our pass only works in Zones 1 and 2). We were sitting in the back of the bus and this bum gets on and sits behind us. He starts talking outloud and says "You want me to educate you guys on the cocaine industry?". Right away Carolyn and I look at each other like "WTF?" and start laughing. He continues saying "when it comes out of the factory, it's in rock form...". The bus stops and EVERYONE that was sitting around him moves to the front of the bus, except Carolyn and I. When everyone leaves, the bum lays down across the back row of seats. At the next stop these kids get on. There were 3 boys and 1 girl and they were about 15-16 years old. They head towards the back of the bus to sit down and one of the boys is like, "hey get your fuckin feet off the seat!" to the bum, and starts yelling at him to move. The boy basically grabs the bum up and throws him down onto the floor causing the bum to drop his beer. The bum goes ahead and takes a seat at the front of the bus. Carolyn and I were like "dang those kids straight up punked that guy". Little did I know, I was next. So, Carolyn and I were just sitting there and all of a sudden I feel someone tug on my hair. Carolyn and I turn around and Carolyn looks at the girl and goes "did you just pull her hair?". The girl says "no, i didn't pull her hair, why are you trying to acuse me of pulling her hair?". Not wanting to start anything I looked at Carolyn and was just like "forget about it". One of the boys asks the girl "hey, what'd you pull her hair for?" to which the girl replied "i didn't pull her hair, if I pulled her hair, there wouldn't be anything left". I was so pissed off but what was I supposed to do in this situation? I just sat there as my face turned beat red. People on the bus were also staring in our direction. Next I hear the girl say "what, you're just going to sit there, if someone pulled my hair I wouldn't just be sitting there". This angered me even more, and I could feel all the blood rushing to my face but I remained facing forward. This being such a long bus ride Carolyn pulled out her ipod and handed me the headphones and the girl again was like "oh look, now she's putting on her headphones so she can't hear us". Naturally I wanted to turn around and sock her but for those of you who know me, I am a lover not a fighter so I still remained facing forward in my seat. As soon as Carolyn and I got off the bus I HAD to vent. I was so frustrated at the little C U Next Tuesday. Kids like this make me never want to have children. I felt like such a jackass for just sitting there and not doing anything about it but really, what was I supposed to do? I was not about to get into a fight with a 15 year old girl. Anyway, that was probably the most random thing that happened to me on my trip. Hope you enjoyed the story. Till next time, much love.

So today...

...I was at work and I was instant messaging Carolyn who was also at work. The following is a fraction of our conversation...

CROXYQ (7:52:33 AM): man i want to go home and sleep then wake up and have some bombay mexican food
CROXYQ (7:52:38 AM): and then i want to drink
CROXYQ (7:52:44 AM): and then i want to take a fat poopy!
AnNaRaCeCaR55 (7:52:46 AM): yeah i can't wait
AnNaRaCeCaR55 (7:52:50 AM): HAHAHA LMAO!

...she is OBSESSED with pooping...a self-titled poop machine...but I LOVE my poopy butt....well that's all for this post...till next time, much love!

The Other Night...

May 12, 2009
So we were coming home on the tube tonight and when we got off, this guy was full on running off the train and in a hurry to get somewhere and almost ran into people as he was dodging them. Jessica started mocking him and doing the same thing and it was absolutely hillarious. She ran pretty frickin' far too. We were like "it’s 11 oclock at night, where is he in a hurry to get?" True story. It was so funny, I was like "maybe he’s late to watch the new episode of Friends or Scrubs" and Jessica was like "yeah, from 3 years ago". HAHAHA. Because ALL of the shows they show here are from YEARS ago.

So 3 crazy things that happened in the tube this evening:
1. We saw this crazy guy walking down the street like 4 weeks ago and he was carrying this crystal ball and doing crazy tricks with it and we saw him AGAIN tonight getting on the tube.
2. We saw this guy who looked like a mixture of Harry Potter and Ron. Like if they had a baby. We named him Harry Ron. We tried to get a picture of him with Jessica’s camera but when we turned the flash off it was blurry.
3. I saw mice in the tube again. When we went on our field trip a few weeks ago I got all excited because I saw mice on the rail tracks and wanted to get a picture but they were moving too fast and then tonight I saw mice AGAIN! But I didn’t have my camera so I’ve yet to get a picture of the mice.

So the tattoo artist e-mailed me back and is drawing up sketches. I’m STOKED! I really want to get a tattoo but then I’ll just be part of the other 99% of people who have tattoos. I really wanted to try to be the last person on the planet without a tattoo. Oh well.

Till next time, much love!

Wolverine...

...so tonight Jessica, Carolyn, Isabel, Jen and I went to the movies to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It was the funniest movie I have seen in a while and it's not even a comedy. I love my roomates because they crack me up sooo much. They can make ANY experience thoroughly entertaining. First of all it was such a small theater with a small screen and Jessica was like "this screen is smaller than my home TV". Then, we were watching previews and there was one for vacationing in Scotland and Jessica was like "what if someone called that number and was like, I wanna do everything on that commercial". Anyway, the movie was pretty good but some parts of it were really cheesy. It was pretty much predictable too. We didn't even know Will.I.Am was in it so that was a surprise. We just kept waiting for him to be like "boom, boom, pow". Overall it was a good night. I have work in the morning but I'm not even about to go to bed. Here are some websites to check out:

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/
http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/
http://www.awkwardboners.com/

Random!!!

So I didn't know where else to write this down but Jen just called the apartment and asked us if we wanted to go see Wolverine. Jessica, Isabel, Carolyn and I were sitting around and Jessica asked us if we wanted to go and we got all excited and Carolyn said "I got so excited I have to poopie". HAHAHAHA....I love my Carolina....well, that was a just one of many random stories.

Forget Paris...

…..uh I don’t think so…Paris was soooo much fun. We left at 4:30am Saturday morning May 2nd and headed for King's Cross station. (We couldn't take the tube because it wasn't open yet, so we had to walk.) The train ride there was about 2 hours and I slept most of the time. When we got there, we went to our hotel and dropped off our luggage and left because check in time wasn’t until 4pm. We went looking for the Eiffel Tower and when we were walking Jessica noticed people taking pictures in our direction. Jessica and I turned around and there it was, the Eiffel Tower. We yelled for the other girls, who were walking ahead of us, and when they turned around they had this look of amazement on their faces. So we started walking back in the other direction. We walked towards the tower and started taking pictures. We ended up having a "picnic" in front of the tower and fell asleep for a while. The girls woke up and went to look for a bank but I stayed and napped some more. There was this couple near by who was totally King and Queen of PDA. It was this Asian woman and this Russian looking man who were totally groping each other. We figured that they were having an affair because he was wearing a wedding ring and she was not. The woman was wearing a skirt and fish net thigh highs. How do I know they were thigh highs? Because when she was laying down she lifted her leg up and we could see the top of the stockings.

After our nap we headed back to the hotel to check in and relax for a bit before going out. While getting ready Jenn went to the store and bought 2 bottles of champagne which we drank while getting ready. We also had a mini photoshoot with Sounjew's camera and nicknamed ourselves the Gower Girls. LOL. That night we went out for Jen’s 21st birthday. We ate at this little hole in the wall place that had THE BEST gyros. (I still don't know how to pronounce that word.) Afterwards we went to this discotheque down the street. We started dancing and having a great time but then the bar tender told us that we had to leave if we weren’t going to order drinks. We had only been there for like 5 minutes anyway and I would have ordered a drink eventually. We decided to leave and then Jen told us about this bridge called the Pont des Arts which is made of wood and a lot of people go and hangout there. When we got there, there were tons of people hanging out drinking and mingling. Some people were playing guitars, bongos, anything. We found a spot and sat down. Next to use were these boys, literally. They started talking to us and they were very nice. I think the oldest one was 19 or something. We talked with them for a while and they invited us to some party in the subway at 1am but we didn’t know how to use the bus system to get home so we declined. We totally would have gone too because they seemed chill to hangout with and we commended them on having the courage for talking to a large group of girls. Afterwards we walked around some more, Jen got a birthday crepe and I split a waffle with Jessica and then we headed home.

The next morning we got up early to go to the Louvre. It was free since it was Sunday so we wanted to get there early to beat the crowd. We woke up a little later then expected because we forgot about the time change but we were still good. Our hotel had BOMB complimentary breakfast so we grubbed before we left. The Louvre was so nice, but I had been there before and it was pretty much the same. After the Louvre we met up with Jen and Isabel and Jen was going to be our personal tour guide. We walked through the parks towards the Arc de Triomphe and down the Champs Elysee. We made a couple stops, one of which was the Louis Vuitton store where Isabel purchased her wallet. After we saw the Arc de Triomphe and took some pictures we took the subway back home and took a nap before going out. That night we definitely wanted to go back to the Pont des Arts bridge again. So Carolyn, Jessica, and I got take out sushi and Sounjew got another gyro and we had dinner on the bridge with our 4 bottles of champagne we had bought earlier that day. We wanted to go out and do something special on our last night but we found out that in France people had gotten Friday off from work for the holiday and not Monday so it was pretty dead. I really wanted to get crème brulee since we were in France so I suggested looking for a café. We walked a while and found a nice little café that would let us drink our champagne inside. When I walked in I discovered that it was actually a hotel and we were in the bar. The bartender was really nice about it but they did not have crème brulee on the menu. Instead we ordered an assortment of macaroons and an apple tart. We sat there for about an hour laughing and joking around (we gave the bartender some champagne and toasted with him) and then decided it was time to leave in order to catch the last train back to the hotel. I was pretty buzzed and we were laughing the whole way home. I will never forget our conversation about “blanco”.

We slept in Monday morning but managed to get up before 9am for some more complinentary breakfast at our hotel before all of the food was gone. We even made some sandwiches and wrapped them in napkins to eat later. The day earlier Sounjew had made conversation with some guy at the Louis Vuitton store and he had told her that we had to checkout his favorite spot in Paris, where you can see the view of the entire city. So our goal for the day was to do that and go to the Moulin Rouge. The spot with the view is called Montmartre Basilique du Sacre-Coeur and apparently the end of the movie Amelie was filmed there. The view was absolutely amazing. We found a spot on the grass and had some lunch there. When we were done we walked down and found the Moulin Rouge. It was located in the red light district so there were lots of sex shops around. We walked around this part of town a little more and I found a restaurant that served creme brulee so we stopped there and had some. (I did not however have a crepe while in France.) Carolyn also got her earrings at Chanel that she had wanted.

So Jenn made up this game called “Say What?” which has questions about all of the roommates and stuff and you fill in the blanks. They have been joking this whole trip that I like everyone and there is no one I dislike so one of the questions was “besides everyone, who does Anna love?”. I wasn’t able to sit with the other girls on the train so when we got off they asked me what my answer would be and I guessed Shia LaBeouf but Jen said that was wrong. Isabel guessed Eminem which was the correct answer. LOL. We were all cracking up about this because they have been making fun of me also for my everlasting love for Eminem. (I found out after the fact that he was in Paris this past weekend as well.)

Overall Paris was so much fun and I was glad that I went again because it was such a great experience with the girls. Pics up soon!

P.S.

it sucks when the crackheads outside of your apartment building are getting more action than you are.....i came home today and two of them were totally making out. Eww.