Busy time of the year

I apologise for being so rubbish with the blogging. Along with the usual crazy that comes along with the Christmas period, there was even more craziness this week, it being my last week at my current job. I assumed this would be an easy-going week, but could not have been more wrong - I have been running around like a maniac all week and yesterday being my last day, I headed down to the pub with some of my colleagues to say a huge thank you and bye to everyone.

And now, I have a 3-day weekend coming up and will be starting my new job bright and early on Monday morning. I haven't got very far with Christmas-present shopping, merely managing to do some onlne-shopping here and there. So I intend to spend this weekend sorting out all the prezzies. I will keep everyone up to date!

I wish I had a list that. It would at least mean
I had some ideas!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Muah,

Roo xx

Good news

So this week I received some great news. I got a new job!!!!!

I have been job searching for quite a while and Londoners will know that although the city offers more jobs, there a lot more people to match, making job searching often disheartening a lot of the time. But after months of searching, I was finally offered an office job at a Chambers - refusing to abandon the legal routes. I won't be moving too far - just down to Fleet Street, remaining in the legal hub. But, with a (slightly) new location (I will still be getting the central line to Chancery Lane every morning), hopefully new finds will come!

So next week will be my last week at my current work place - there may be some sadness in leaving some of the people there: I have met some truly lovely people, but in all honesty, I am so incredibly excited! I am hoping the new job will be slightly more challenging and a lot more interesting. Eeeeek!!!!!

The famous street

Muah,

Roo xx

Hello Worcester, hello world

This weekend I took a last minute trip to Worcester to meet my cousin Andrius' son who has turned one week today!

It was a pretty long, tedious journey which I started straight from work but I managed to see some family members who I haven't seen for quite a while and most importantly I got to meet baby Lukas: the most beautiful baby!

Father and son

Anyway, the weekend flew by with lots of catch-ups and games with wine. A pretty good weekend all in all - just slightly sleep-deprived!


Hope everyone has a great weekend!


Muah,


Roo xx

Busy week in the city

I know my blogging hasn't been great over the last week or so. It has been a crazy week with lots of last minute catch-ups, shoe breakages and plenty of stress. So, I figured I would give a little round up of the past 7 days...

Last weekend I started to get into the Christmas spirit by venturing out into Oxford Street, in the hope of getting some gift-inspiration. I failed to get the necessary inspiration. Majorly. I seemed to be unable to find anything I liked or anything that I thought others would like. However, it would have been difficult not to get into the Christmas spirit with the Christmassy Selfridges window displays, the red Christmas Starbucks cups and a lot of people walking around, clearly doing their Christmas shopping too. I also managed to give St Christopher's Palace a visit - just off Bond Street; a place which I continually walked  by, meaning to give it a visit and finally managed to. Honestly, I wasn't too impressed with it. I was expecting (perhaps unrealistically) little local boutiques and independent restaurants, but with Pret  and Kurt Geiger in the square, my expectations just weren't met. Nevertheless, I did manage to regress back to my childhood when I came across a cute little sweet shop that sold (among other things) Fizz Wiz - growing up, I thought they were the coolest thing ever and couldn't resist buying a pack for old time's sake! Later on in the evening, I ventured out into the cold and watched the beautiful firework display on the Blackheath Common.

It's Santa. In a glittery shoe!

Mid-week I was able to have a lovely catch-up with my wonderful friend Betul and since I have been craving Japanese food (but refused to go to my old-favourite Wagamama) we headed to Kimchee on High Holborn (I later realised the food was in fact Korean but I failed to notice the different and it was still so good). I was really impressed with the place: the decor was lovely, the food was great and the prices were very reasonable. They even had green tea ice cream, which I gave a try and found it to be actually quite delicious!

The week seemed to quickly roll to an end with yet another trip to Oxford Street (my work shoes broke, so I ventured into the craziness and eventually managed to find some black flats in Aldo, having almost reached my breaking point and in addition to the shoes, managing to gain a headache too).

On Saturday, I headed to Stratford to visit my cousin Aurelija, as my godson Erik turned four earlier this week. They had a little party which included lots of toys, food and cake.

Over the last of couple of weeks I have also been attempting to organise a girl's night out but this turned out to be a bit of a fail with most of the girls cancelling/being unable to make it, so on Saturday night me and Chloe headed down to Leicester Sq for some drinks and dancing.

We started off at Yates for some pre-drinking. The music was nice but the prices were extortionate for any drink that did not include coffee of cocktails (we chose cocktails). We then headed down to The Borderline which boasted of an indie night. I love indie music but have so far been limiting myself to typical indie-pop music so that at The Borderline, I did not recognise a single song that was played.  We left after an hour or so but refusing to be defeated headed back Leicester Sq and found Kink (yes, that was the name - but thankfully did not reflect the club itself) which also turned out to be a disappointment, there being no place to really dance and the music being a bit blah. So after a Subway, we decided to call it a night. All in all, ti turned out to be a slightly disappointing night out but at least we tried something knew and will know not to go there again. I hope the readers appreciate the disappointments I go through in order to give an accurate depiction of the city and its little finds!

Following the hectic week, I spent today watching a lot of tv and chilling out. And that is something you can't help but enjoy!


Hope you all enjoy the week.


Muah,


Roo xx

Busy eating cake

Firstly I would like to apologise for not having written in a while (I feel like its been forever). Life has been a bit hectic over the last week or so, although in an exciting way. So, I shall start from the beginning...

I had fully intended to spend last weekend exploring a bit more of London but that completely failed when, on  completing my working day on Friday, I fell ill with a cold. I had a cold, coupled with something else which left most of my body in pain: not a good combination and certainly not the way I pictured my weekend! On top of that, that was the weekend that my mum started renovating my brother's room from top to bottom. This included a trip to Ikea and since she needed some help, I managed to bundle up and head out with her to land of furniture. I am pretty sure that we bought half of everything Ikea owned, but that was bound to happen, really. The weekend was spent trying to assemble the many many items that were delivered -  my dad doesn't have a DIY bone in his body so all the assembling was left to me and my mum (turned out for an interesting couple of days, that's for sure). As a result, for most of the week, having finished work me and mum tried to put some kind of Swedish furniture together. All in all, it made for a very tiring week! The room is almost finished now, but with a few touches left to finish off, I will post some pictures of the room in the next post!

I looked a bit like this last weekend. Except my nose was
redder, my skin was blotchy and my hair  was frizzy!

After this crazy week, today turned out to be quite a treat - exactly what a Friday should be like, if you ask me! My mum came down to my work, having finished hers in Victoria - greeting me with a Starbucks Toffee Nut Latte (the red cups are back and that means only one thing: Christmas is absolutely on its way!) after which we headed out for some food. I have been very impressed with Chilango - the Mexican place that I mentioned in an earlier post - so we headed out there for some lovely food - the perfect food for dealing with the cold weather outside. Following that, we decided to head to a cafe for some cupcakes for dessert. I have known Bea's of Bloomsbury to be quite popular here in High Holborn and I have been dying to go, so I took my mum there and it did not disappoint! We each had a passion fruit cupcake (quite an unheard of combination) which was so good! I will absolutely head out there for some more cake-tasting :)

+= HAPPY

Speaking of cake, earlier in the week I had tried out another cake place which again I have continually walked past and wanted to give a try: Konditor & Cook. I tried a banana walnut cake for a little mid-week treat and it was delicious! They seemed to have some gorgeous-looking savoury food too, so that will be on my try-out list! So after my cake-feasting week, I promise to be healthy this weekend and will soon inform you of all the happenings in my life over the next couple of days!

Enjoy your weekend all!


Muah,


Roo xx