We have arrived!

HAHA!! YES we are here after our super (yet incredible) flight over here... The flight that took us over the pond was so amazing. FIRST CLASS!! Ok, get this you literally had like 3 feet of room in front and in back of your recliner. This amazing invention could recline in any sort of way and also had a flippn T.V. that came out of the side of your chair... :) The Entertainment was cool. You could choose through many differnt menus of like music, movies and t.v. and stuff... anyways let me get to the first day of adventures..... :D OK so we get over here about 12pm their time,...... by the way its about 10 o'clock over here right now and boy are we wiped.... Sooooo we catch a taxi ... (the cool british ones) and ride on over to the Renaissance Hotel, right next to the airport.... (Heathrow) we get our stuff settled and we meet back in the lobby to get ready to do some stuff the SLU.... won;t be taking us to do. It was about a 40 min, cab ride over to the city and when we get there we are greeted by what else but BIG BEN! :) Incredible.... I still can't believe that I am here... in London. We took a walking tour and also saw the outside of Westminister Abby and Buckingham Palace. The main thing that we wanted to do today was to fly on the London Eye. And we did just that. It was so cool yet so surreal. Everything is so cool and so differnt over here while there is still some comforts of home... aka Starbucks... which we have yet to visit! (GRRRR) Tomorrow we head over to Normandy then Paris... The T.O.T. has deffinantly invaded Europe and we are lovn' it!... I have so so much more to tell you guys but I gotta go get some sleep... ta ta for now. :)

Ps. This is only the begining of what yet is to come..
And what was written for today was'nt even the half of it.

The T.O.T. is about to invade!

Here we go! The time is finally here! Right now I am anxiously waiting to be whisked away to my plane to take me to, where else? but flippn' LONDON! haha! In the next couple of hours I will be flying to Atlanta and then to London! Wow I can't believe I'm actually going! Laura, Alex and I and our dads will be attending a leadership conference known as SLU 301. It basically is a whirlwind tour of London, Paris and so much more! I want to be able to blog about each day while I am over there but i don't know if that will possible or if I even will have time. :) We are already packed up and right now we are just waiting and thinking is there anything that I forgot to pack, where is my passport... and how the frick am I going to charge my iPod?! (converters I kno) but ya. AH! I cannot wait! I hope that my iPhone will work,,,, probably not... if any of you has been to London or Paris, please comment with ideas of what we can do! (We have 2 FREBIE days!) YES! Well ta ta for now and cherio ole' chaps! lol

Ps. Itinerary 

New Puppy?

Well if you read any of my thingys that I post to the web like Twitter updates and Facebook statuses you should know that we have a new puppy in our house. :) My mom and dad rescued him after finding him in our back yard lost and looking for a home. So we have recently taken him in and given him hopefully a permanent home. Today we took him to the vet and he sure had a FIT! He lashed out! I didn't mention this but he is the cutest little Miniature Pinscher! We were there to see if he had one of those chips implanted in him that has his info and stuff. Nope, (happily) nothing is found. We still will be in the process of trying our best to find his owner(s). But until the process is over, Here's to our new dog! :)

P.S. I still will post a blog about the iPhone 3G release just give me some time.... :) I am still trying to make this blogging thing a habit. :) (I have started on the iPhone blog it is just taking me a while) 

Also: 

Please Comment if you have any good housebreaking tips? 

Does any body even read this? 

I wanted too

Hey I really wanted to blog about the events of today on the same day... I just ran outta time ... Will do that tommarow.. :) but what an awesome day... What an experience!! :) wow

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Tomaro is the big day! (Get Ready for the iPhone 3G)

Well my wait is almost over... The new iPhone 3G comes out tomaro and boy oh boy am I excited!! Ahh I can't even contain myself!! It literally is an addiction I think... And addiction to the latest and greatest thing that in one week of one year wont be the best anymore.. Well I guess thats just how it goes .... I'm on this train and I ain't getting off!! Lol ( I probably will have too sooner or later when I wake up in NYC homeless waiting in line at the apple store a week in advance waiting for the next new thing...lol) You may be asking what is so great about the new iPhone compared to the "old" one.... Don't ask me... I dk! Lol Well there are some cool new features .... Not many though(oh well) u should just check the website. You probably are thinking "You're Crazy.. Borderline insane... Love it or hate... That's me:)

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2:00 really?

Today was my day to be very productive and get many things done....That didn't happen. You seemy grandpa Poppy and my brothers both left this morning for what my Nana and Poppy liked to call it "The Great Adventure!" This is the first year that I will not be participating in it..and it also is the first year that my brothers will be doing it without my Nana. :'( She was the one that always would coordinate it. ((sigh)) But she is in a better place now, a place with no more pain, no more suffering, and no more struggle. She is dancing on the streets of gold with her new and improved + healed body. :) I try to dwell on the positive even though we all miss her so much... especially my Poppy. Well back to the story. So they left this morning and my mom and dad both had to work today. So here I am all alone in my house. I was very lonely the only thing that comforted we was QVC and HSN also TBS and my computer with my Wall*E background :) Well I didn't have enough time to be really lonely since i woke up at 2!! Haha... ((there went my day!)) So I got up and decided I was ready for breakfast!! YUMM! 2 apple toaste strudels with a glass of orange juice and then about an hour later I decided I was hungry again ((i really was just bored)) and found sitting in my freezer an unopened box of Breakfast Taquitos!! Bacon, Egg and Cheese flavored!! haha! I ate 5 of those with a nice can of DIET coke....lol 

Then my mom soon arrived a little later and we both got ready and headed to church or for me work (ugh... that's all I'm gunna say ;)) Well now,,, umm I think that's it! 

Only 1 full day left until the new iPhone 3G comes out! And I will be there a the store when it opens to get on :D 

My Big Fat Greek ...Dinner!

Ben, Jon Jon, Mrs. Athena, Mom, Cleo, and Me.

Ben, Mr. George, Mrs. Athena, Jon Jon, Poppy and Me.

Well tonight I was in for a treat. My family and I were invited to have supper over at George and Athena Pappas' house. As we walked in the front door we were greeted with kisses from Mrs. Athena. :) They opened their home to us like it was our own. She had prepared a tradition and old fashioned Greek meal. ((They both are from Greece))((There even was a stitching of the Acropolis on the wall)) haha. Anyways our first stop in the house was Mr. Pappas' office. His headquarters of operation for "Protected Harbor". The office also doubled as a well, sorta like a museum. He had many old pictures of him and his family and even a certificate of when his father passed through Ellis Island. Then i turned around and saw three guns hanging above the entrance of the office. (really big guns)! The kitchen is directly across from the office so Mrs. Athena called us in to prepare ourselves some drinks. (Non-traditional Greek drinks though) hmm. So dinner was ready and wow did she have a bunch prepared! We all first started off with some hordsoiurs (is that how you spell it?) There was string green beans (a little crunchy for my liking) a greek salad with all the trimmings and these little spinach things.... umm ya I don't know what there were called but it had spinach and cheese and the baklava bread like stuff that encased it. Yum! :) Just look at the picture! Its the stuff at the top of the picture. Oh ya and there was bread too. 

So then after we got through we the "first course" she had us grab our plates to

 get some of the good stuff... the "main course" it is called pasticcio. Ch

eck out the link for more info on it! It was so good though!. Basic

ally its lasagna but so so so much better (( i think)). And I

 love my dad's lasagna (Hi Dad!) Back to the story.... I had that with those green beans and some bread! MmMMmmMm!

Here's a picture of my plate before I started eating (Because it is proper to wait for the lady of the house take her first bite first) 

And here is a picture after I was finished eating  (Notice the green beans are still there)

well after we were finished eating and had quite interesting conversations Mrs. Athena popped up and was like is anyone ready for dessert? Yes was

 the unanimous answer around the 

dinning room table. Her and her husband scurried to the kitc

hen (they are really short people) (you can see the picture at the top) lol.. scurried to the kitchen and brought out two pies and baklava 

AND Breyers "Carb Smart" Vanilla ice cream! Now wait a min. and let me explain to you what baklava is.... Yum is what it is! Each piece is comprised of tens maby even hundreds of layers of "phyllo dough" (thin paper like sheets of dough), crushed nuts (pecans to be exact) and the best part honey! Yummy Good as my Poppy (Head side of the family) would say. :D Mrs. Athena has been asked how many calories are in her baklava and this was her an

swer and I quote "If someone asks me how many calories are in this I just tell them before I make it I pray to the Lord and He takes them all out!" HAHA!!! Anyways..... We had a very enjoyable time listening to all the stories that they had to share with us about l

iving in Greece all the way to training their daughter Cleo (who is mentally handicapped) to walk, talk and write... well basically every life elemen

t that you would need to be able to function. It was very interesting and touching at the same time... Well that's all for now... OH wait I almost forgot.... After the dessert time was done she brought out this massive loaf of bread tat she had made from scratch and we all partic

ipated in a New Years Day Greek tradition... The tradition is well first of all she bakes a "gold coin" (she just used a quarter) lol .. into the br

ead and we all cut 

a piece from the mass loaf. First you cut a piece for God... (Mrs. Athena was like I hope God doesn't get it... lol she just wanted one of us (her guests) to get it... when God didn't get it she was like "Oop well God didn't get it .. No luck for him) You see whoever cuts the piece with the coin in it will have good luck or blessings for the whole year. So once you cut a piece for God then you continue to cut a piece starting from the oldest at the table following through until you re

ached to youngest. Ok.., well to make things short my Mom got it! :) 

All in all we had a pleasurable evening at the 

Pappas' house! 

It really was My (first) Big Fat Greek .... Dinner! :)

Below are a few pictures of the meal...

Thank You Mr. and Mrs. Pappas for such a great evening and such great food! 

God Bless!

Thank You Judy!

[sorry my the other part of this blog post I sent accidentally so here is the 2nd part , they both go together..]

Umm so ne ways where was I? Oh ya and I told her I called Judy and she was like well guess what Judy is here!! :) really? And I heard Judy's voice in the background sure I can cover his shift. (insert the biggest grin on my face here) Ok so then I went on a rampage through my house with excitement! :D so I sat down in my living room watching the morning lineup on what else the Disney Channel (by the way the actual show was Hannah Montana) lol Then I here my mom call at me from the office and she was like the apple store opens at 8 am on Friday.... What? I was like you must be talking about the AT&T store (I had read on Mac Rumors.con that they were opening at 8 am) So I rushed into the office and jumped with glee! Everything has just fallen into place!! Thank you Lord!! 2 days left!! :)

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Basacally My Day is Made!

Agh! Ok so you know the situation I was talking about yesterday? My "DILLEMMA"? Ok well the girl I left a message with... We will call her Judy (haha) umm she can cover my shift that I said I would cover for someone else!!! :D Actually she had left me a message last night and I didnt because of my stupid phone(I forgot the voicemail password)(and whenever I do get a voicemail I don't even kno it) so I call Starbucks just a couple min. ago and manager was ther and I was like...""Ahh I'm still in a distress about Friday!" and I told her I called Judy

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Listening, Waiting and Watching...

WAITING:

for what you may ask, what else but the NEW iPhone 3G! 

its about 3 days and 15 hours until it comes out! I really am excited about it.

LISTENING: Ok... so enough about that.... I wann tell you about this ammaaaazzzing playlist i have been listening to the last couple of days.... well i started listening to it like right after the lightforce trip.. The Playlist includes the new Coldplay cd "Viva La Vida" Gavin DeGraw's album "Chariot" and "Chariot Stripped" ALSO ((wait theres more))((i do like to listen to a wide variety of songs and albums at one time)) Umm...OneRepublic's "Dreaming Out Loud"... Vanessa Hudgens' "Identified" ((ok now don't laugh, it really is pretty good, I had to throw that into the mix to liven it up a bit with some pop/techno)) ANYways ((wow i do get side tracked easily)) ((THERE I GO AGAIN!) Ahh Ok Whew! Let's see Landon Pigg with "LP", Paramore with "Riot!" and some single tracks that are in there would be "Burnin' Up" by the Jonas Brothers ((by the way there new cd is sure to be amazing!)) and also "Clocks" by Coldplay. 

A new CD that I have just recently encountered it "Something to Say" by Matthew West. Ok well it might not be the newest but this cd really speaks to me and where I am at in many different aspects of my life. I came across this cd well just because my mom bought it for me.. She actually got to meet Matt West while attending the races at Daytona International Speedway. My dad and her went for the whole weekend to volunteer for MRO (Motor Racing Outreach) and boy did they have an awesome time! My Dad really has a passion for that type of ministry "The Mission Field" I mean those type of people need Jesus just as much as the lost anywhere else in the world. 

WATCHING: OK well until the date of realease for the new iPhone 3G I have religiously checked apple.com for continual updates on the release. You know how they always put the latest thing on the home page. Sadly it has been the same since they announced it. Except for they did make a "Guided Tour" video.. On T.V. I have been enjoying well actually just my usually NickatNite line up: George Lopez, Home Improvement, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air & Family Matters. By the way I love Will Smith but his new movie was "so so" It had way to much language :( I would reccomend you first checcking out what pluggedinonline.com has to say about it. Plugged In is a great resource but they do write about every littel "wrong" thing.... they are very critical. I can see where they are coming from though... It is after all a Christian website. 

DILEMMA: Anyways I am kinda in a dilemma.. I work at a local Starbucks in town ((which by the way is AMAAAZZZZZINGG!!! I look forward coming into work each and every day!)) and i was not scheduled for Friday, July 11 (iPhone 3G release date) and then another store called and asked the "partners" if any of them wanted to cover some shifts at their store and i was like "YES!!" Ah but ges what I just then signed myself up to work the day the iPhone 3G comes out!!! AH some once I realized it (a couple hours later) I immediatly called my manager in distress asking her what I should do... so she told me to call some other partners at our store to see if they could cover it. There were only 3 partners that were not scheduled for that Friday and one of them I asked and she couldn't and the other I left a message.... and as for the other .... truthfully I'm too afraid to ask BUT you know what I will!! For the iPhone and the iPhone only! Haha ... So please pray that I can get the shift covered ... lol... 

Well its time for me to eat.. with my POPPY! Yes I love him so much! 

BLOGGING? Are you serious?

Ok,. Umm  I'm blogging? Is this actually happening? I never thought in a million years that I would be one of the millions of people that log in everyday and blog... ? Who would have thought... then again I never thought that my mom would be a blogger... http://www.caringbridge.com/visit/karenhead ..... haha Anyways well I probably owe a "Thank You:" to the person who inspired me to become a blogger: Gaddis. "Thanks!" 

 

Well in this blog I am really looking forward to expressing my point of view on things and what's going on inside my head and my life.... i mean if anyone cares.... lol. ((deep down inside i hope you do)) ;) Sooo... Umm ->

Well Hello Mr. Blog, & nice to meet you :)