Monday, October 23, 2006

Me........................2...........................Me

http://www.brandrepublic.com/sectors/advertising/creative/advertisement/30385/dove-evolution-ogilvy-toronto/

Ho my god, check the link above, because it is seriously cool to see.... (Sorry, I am a bit sad sometimes.. hehe, cant help it though!!)

Hello! Right, so I am ill, bored, in my bed for the last 4 days and have I mentioned bored??!

Got a cold that’s it but Baby is at work, and the girls at uni and i cant be bother to cough anymore but cant help it... ho well! Hopefully be better in a couple of days!

So, handed in my Form A today! For those of you that dont really know what the Form A is, it is my dissertation proposal that needs to be approved in order for me to do it...

So, I bet you are all really curious to know what my dissy is going to be about, so here you go: It is going to be about Advertiser Funded Programming and how does this affect consumer-brand relationship, focusing on the mobile network industry. Taramm!!!!! Im sure you will hear a lot about this, you dont have to but I dont think ill be able to stop myself from talking about it! ....

But for now, let’s just talk about the normal stuff! Silvia emailed me the other day; it was really nice to hear from her! I was quite surprised because I don’t really talk to anyone from Portugal (each day less and less unfortunately) and getting an email from her was really really nice. So cheers Sissi!!! :)

The weather here is awful, raining all the time and cold and all that… And we are having a problem in our house with flies! You should see the amount of flies there is in this house! It's because of the insane amount of rubbish we have but because of this recycling malarkey it is really hard to get rid of everything. We do need to go to the tip, but no one has been bothered! I would go, but Tom needs the car every day... HOOOOO, have I told you lot that I drive now? Not just once in a while I proper drive places, by myself and stuff.... it's like normal for me to drive in this country! I love it and it doesn’t confuse me anymore! weeee!!!!

This weekend was a bit boring, was ill so stayed in the whole time! Tom went out on Saturday with his workmates and Jess went out with the girls so I stayed home alone, so.... me being random and weird decided to watch the Exorcism of Emily Rose by myself at 1 am..... it was really scary but not too much I thought. It was quite an interesting story; especially because it is based on true events it makes you wonder doesn’t it? And speaking about movies I watched 16 Blocks yesterday, really good movie!

And its my 2 year Anniversary with Baby next week! Can you imagine 2 years?? It sounds crazy but I have been very happy this two years and I’m sure I will be for a very long time with little Tom Tom. :P

Right... think im gonna go now.... Im going to organise my entire dissertation stuff today and try to fix my printer. After that Im watching a movie and relaxing! (Good thing about being ill... you can do whatever you want!! hehe)

Love you lots Dudes and Dudettes!!! Take care and behave now... XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Sara's little corner

Hello everyone!

I know I haven’t written in a while but I have been busy with just getting ready for uni and all that and settling in my new house with everyone else!

So how am I??? Really really good! Uni is starting to be busy and yesterday went to bed at 4h30 doing an assignment (I know!! It started already grrrrr) but it was alright! Julia came over and we did it together which helped to work through the boredom.

I am starting to be quite stressed with Uni and dissertation, which is not good considering the work load is still quite small but just the thought of it makes me anxious! Anyway… moving on to better things!

I joined the gym at Stokewood and I do Yoga now every Wednesday and total body on Tuesdays and Urban Funk on Fridays! So trying to get fit! Jess goes with me which is nice and we also get the pool and the sauna and the gym all for £170! That is the whole year included! Bargain!

The house is amazing… I abs love it! Love the people, couldn’t have lived with a better bunch of people. Went on a little shopping trip last weekend to Makro and bought loads and loads of stuff, including 30Kg of onions and 10Kg of potatoes for everyone! Lol, we were literally in heaven in that place! So much stuff!!!!

And this weekend is Rob’s birthday, on Friday and Jess’s parents and boyfriend are coming down for it which will be really good fun! Will get very drunk im sure! Hooo… speaking of which, Monday we all went to Locos Tapas for some cheeky drinks…. We got sooooo drunk! We started playing this drinking game called ring of fire, dunno if you know it but basically you play it with a deck of cards all on a table forming a ring, facing down. And then each card has a different meaning like :

1-6 you drink the amount of seconds. If it is a red card you have to drink it, if its black you nominate someone else to drink it for you.

If it’s a 7 you have to say a line from a song, whoever gets it first everyone else has to drink. And the 8 works the same way but with movies.

The 9 is the thumb rule and the person gets to keep the card until another nine comes out. The 10 is the freezing card and works just like the 9.

The Jack is the waterfall, queen everyone drinks to the queen, king makes up a rule and Ace you have to down your glass.

So yeah… as you can imagine we got very very drunk and then we stole a street sign that said “Humps for 250 yards” hehe we thought it was funny! J

So yeah, I have been having a good time! Hooo, a warning for everyone out there that reads my blog! In a couple of weeks you will notice some differences on the content of this blog mainly because I will be using it for my Interactive Media Strategies unit as a course requirement, So … I need to have a blog and write about interactive media subjects. I would really appreciate if you have any opinions to write some comments on it and we can hopefully get some good ideas out.

Right.. that is it. I need to go now and make dinner for me and baby. We are hungry and we are playing Cluedo tonight! J

Love you lots XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx

Yours truly,
Sara C.