After a long flight, which seemed like an hour because I slept the whole way, we finally made it to London. Being my usual self I lost the directions to my sister’s flat and we had to rely on the iphone and its 10% battery life to make it there. London today was really quite stunning, I was expecting dreary and overcast weather with a 90% chance of rain. However it was only mildly cold and fairly sunny.

I still can’t get over how clean the city is, everywhere you go is just clean, and everyone seems to be wearing designer clothes. I feel really under dressed for this city with my gap long sleeve waffle shirt, and blue jeans. Since the weather was so nice we decided to ride on the London Eye which was really quite amazing. I particularly liked the random James Bond wax figure they had in the line for the Eye. Once we got in and started gaining altitude the view was amazing and the sky had these hues of pink and orange strewn across it. We also had a very nice and spectacular view of Big Ben and the Parliament building. I’m starting to feel pretty tired and will probably take a nap in preparation for our travel over to Switzerland tomorrow.

Shortly after starting my current job I soon found out why so many Americans are overweight or fat, or whatever they are calling it these days. They work way too much sitting down and then just go home and sit on the couch and gobble up a big mac or some other type of fast food because its more convenient than cooking a healthy meal (like my one roommate). I think I gained about 5-10lbs (which is a lot for me) in the course of about a month and decided I have had enough of the stereotypical office life. So I went out and purchased a shiny new bike, the ‘08 Gary Fisher Cobia to be exact, and started riding anywhere between 6 and 8 miles in the morning on a nice single track around here. I get up around 5:30 a.m. and get there around 6:30 and ride for about an hour, come back to my house, take a shower, then go to work. I have found it to be productive in that I’m not so groggy and tired in the morning, and I feel a lot healthier. My goal is to soon be able to ride it to work every morning and not only get in great shape, but save a ton of money on gas. With my new found stamina, climbing those Swiss Alps this week should be a breeze.

The other day my roommate and I are making remarks about the Christmas display that the mall decided to put up in early November, and we notice something familiar amongst the elves and Christmas critters. It was my sister, or a plastic caroler who looked a lot like my sister. We figured there most of been some guy stalking my sister who just happen to make plastic Christmas characters, and decided to make one in honor of his one true love.

So this site was originally just going to be a portfolio site showcasing my work, but then I figured why not display what I’m thinking from day to day and what’s going on. I’ve read a lot of blogs and have always just surfed around and have been a wallflower when it came to blogs and leaving posts, so now I am peeling myself off that wall and putting my thoughts out there. I think it will also be neat when a couple years have strolled on by and I can come back and read earlier posts. This blog will also serve the purpose of documenting my goal of trying to move and work in Ireland, which I hope to do sometime in the future so we’ll see!