a few things

First off, check out this picture of my mom. This was taken on the day she met my grandparents. She is totally cute, and I'm not just saying that because she looks like me (or rather I look like her) but because it's true (and because I look like her). My estimation is that she's about 21 in this picture but she looks closer to 15. I like that you can see cigarette smoke wafting by in the photo because it makes me think of my Grandma who was always smoking.

Second, we have been going to the movies lately and have been seeing the downer movies of the year. 4 Month, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Wow. If you look up bleak in the dictionary you will find a frame from this fun time movie of the year. Not to say it wasn't good, it totally was, but man. Not that I expected a movie about procuring an illegal abortion in Romania under Communist rule to be happy fun time, but, man. The we say No Country for Old Men, which was also really good, but, man. we had to cancel plans to go out for cocktails after because both Jeremy and I were like, 'That movie wore me the hell out, I need to go to bed.'

But then we remedied the situation by seeing the mediocre but perfectly enjoyable Dan in Real Life on Sunday when our plans to go to Spa London near Bethnal Green got dicked up.

Third, we went back to Bistrotheque on Sunday evening after having a pretty crap dining experience there a few months ago when the wait staff kept forgetting us and the kitchen kept losing our order. They gave us a free meal to compensate for said crap experience and it was really really nice. You can find the menu at the link above. I had The Reindeer cocktail to start, followed by the Wild Mushroom starter and then the duck breast and the lemon tart. Totally delicious and properly served. So hooray for Bistrotheque. I recommend it. They do cabaret shows too, we haven't seen one yet but they get good reviews and the one going on the first night we were there featured a techno version of the A+Team theme song so it can't be half bad.

Fourth, Jeremy and I re-enacted the Democratic debates last night. except we've only read about them so we don't actually know what was said so we just yelled racist and mysoginistic things at each other in cartoon mean voices until we were laughing so hard we could barely speak. Not that I think Clinton is a racist or that Obama is a mysoginist, but would it make the debates more fun if they just started screaming totally inappropriate things at each other. Our favorites were Go pick some cotton! and Bitch, make me some dinner!

Why yes, we are actually 12 years of age. we're considering making Hillary and Barack masks and posting a video on YouTube. It would either be awesome or horrible.

Fifth, we are buying a new bed. It will be awesome.

Sixth, my dad is getting another heart cath and possibly some more stints put in today. This should make my parents' insurance costs even more shameful. When they told me how much they pay a month over Thanksgiving I was shouting at the dinner table in outrage at the American system. I mean, yeah, the UK isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better in many ways than what I left behind.

Seventh, Oliver the cat remains awesome as ever. Last night he fell asleep in Jeremy's sock drawer. It was dead cute. Just thought you should know.