Status Quo...

completely normal, for sure

Fish are friends, not food

I ate octopus this weekend...just because someone dared me....what has become of my picky eating habits, my mom will be so ashamed of me!

Gag! It actually didn't taste that bad, but was chewy. Unlike when they say wine can be "chewy"...this was a kind of chewy I can understand, but not relate to.

Hydrogenated Fat and Preservatives here I come!

Thanks Mom!

The first stage is denial

have no fear, I am not drowning my sorrows in alcohol, i promise...really, i'm not!

I made my first trip down to my local Majestic Wine Warehouse this past weekend. I needed to buy a bottle of wine to take to Mike and Andrea's dinner party on Saturday night, and I thought this would be a great time to check out the local wine store. I loved it, it reminded me a lot of the wine section at World Market. They had these little cards that had descriptions of all the wines, so I walked around and read them all and then picked out a couple as if I really understood what they mean when they say "it has black currant undertones with an oaky flavor and a chewy finish" how can a wine be "chewy"??? Anyways, I was glad to see they had several deals where if you bought two of the same bottle you could save a couple pounds. So I decided to be a shrewd business woman and selected four bottles and headed to checkout. I was quickly made aware that at the local Majestic Wine Warehouse they only deal in cases, as in 12 bottles of wine at a time, but no worries...you can mix and match bottles and they deliver. Well seeing I was already a third of the way there I decided to head back into the ominous aisles of wine with their snobby wine descriptions and pick out 8 more bottles. So an hour and 72 pounds later I left my own "stock the bar" party and headed home empty handed. The next morning there was a knock on my door and my drunken haze began...kidding. But I do have 12 bottles to work my way through if anyone wants to come help!

An Advisory to my Parents

If I go missing and you haven't heard from me for a few days please send some one to Selfridges at 400 Oxford Street, tell them to go to floor 2 and they should find me here....

If they still can't find me, tell them to go down the escalators to the ground floor take a left and follow the signs to here....

When you come visit, if you lose Lindsay, follow the same directions but stay on the ground floor and you should find her here....

If you still can't find us, then you should start worrying! 

New Pics of my flat

I have put the pics of my finished flat on my shutterfly site http://lwaterfield.shutterfly.com 

check them out, I just love the way it has all turned out.  I'll try to add pictures more often now!  

Ain't got nothin' but love babe...

My sister's friend Missy took Hayden's one year pictures this weekend, I still can't believe she is a year old!  The pictures turned out great, Missy is a wonderful photographer, you can check out the rest of Hayden's pics at http://photographybymissy.blogspot.com/

Here are some of my favorites....

Moving on up

This is the view from our new offices...seriously! It's that close! For many of you who don't know this my comany (FCS) was acquired from JPMC by Markit Partners last week. This is a great thing for us and we are very excited about it, so don't be worried about me, they are taking good care of us. We went to visit the new offices yesterday, we will be moving sometime this month, and I love the new location! It is right on the river, a much closer commute, has a ton of stuff around it...so I am very excited to get over there! So obviously this isn't my view, but the whole office is all glass windows so you can see it from pretty much anywhere in the office! We went do dinner last night with a bunch of the people from the team we will be working with, I am so excited to join a bigger office and be a part of it, rather than just have a desk in it!

E.T. Phone Home

Good news people, my Vonage account is officially up and running 100%! What this means for you is that you can now call my old US cell phone number and it will call me here in the UK as if you were making a regular local call, yay! So now I will expect my phone to be ringing off the hook! This is now my landline in the UK, so now for a little lesson in time zones! I am 6 hours ahead of Dallas, so to catch me at home after work you can call anytime around 1pm-6pm (7-midnight my time).

Yesterday, I took some of my clients to lunch so I could get a chance to meet them now that I am here. We went to this awesome Argentinian steakhouse, Gaucho. I know what you're thinking, "a la" Texas de Brazil. Not quite, it was actually pretty swanky! I had a ginormous filet, hopefully I'll be spared from the Mad Cow since they said all of their meat is from Argentina. Although, who am I kidding, I've been eating red meat since the day I landed. I know, I'm so adventurous, I really throw caution to the wind! here is the link... http://www.gauchorestaurants.co.uk/restaurants/restaurant.php?id=city