Cotton Eye Joe- by The Rednex

my musical life is now fulfilled!

I saw the REDNEX LIVE!!!
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IN A MALL!!
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IN MOSCOW!...

(on a non-sarcastic note; did you guys know that they were Swedish?)

Hehe,
Aron, LeRoux and I went to Ikea and the Mega mall next to it, and we did so partly to "take Le Roux's Ikea virginity" (as Aron put it; he was truly excited since Ikea is essentially the second Swedish Embassy to him) and also to check out the mini mall concert.
OH MY...Le Roux and I spent the whole 45 minute show mocking them, as a group of maybe 100-150 russians swayed and danced to the tack that they tried to pull off as music.

Ok, I'm feeling really mean saying that. I SHOULD have respect for Swedes trying to prance around with cowboy gettups and fake violins, (YES there were fake violins; fake harmonica playing, and unplugged guitars! hahaha, at least I think the singing was real) and passing themselves off as southern Americans at a cattle ranch party. YEHAW friends!

Wow, this really is the meanest I think I've been in a long time...I seem to be doing that a lot these past while. Just being curt and moody, I'm not sure why, but that's the way it is. Not really the Patey I'm really known to be...I want to take up some yoga classes; I think that'll do me some good. Hopefully, cause I'm starting to get tired of myself really...

I'm trying to get out of a hump...this post xmas hump...where things are good...work is flowing along schedule, although I can't get things (all the little things) done. FOR EXAMPLE; uploading new pictures on facebook. Updating the blog. And the crazy thing is that all I need to do is just strap down and DO IT. It just seems like so much is getting in the way and by the end of everything, all I want to do is veg.

NEWITIES:

1) tutoring my friend Andre (I call him Androushki; say it out loud; maybe you'll like it as much as I do!) in English now, good fun.
2) Rent is officially paid for, for the next 6 months of the year! Sheesh,
3) I decided to SPLURGE and buy myself a new bag/purse thing. MAN, did I feel excited about it. I hadn't bought myself anything since xmas while trying to really save money. (It was on sale. What? How much did you THINK I changed? haha) It's gray. Purdy!
4) Went to Elena's gym on friday; it was SOOO nice to be really active again. Took a yoga class, and did some weird (unfamiliar) stuff, but it was good. Didn't understand very much, BUT you guys would be proud of me because my Russian is now officially good enough to tell a Yoga teacher that 'No, no, I can't bend that way'; awesome
5) GETTING A DRASTIC HAIRCUT TOMORROW!

Yeah...first real sit down haircut since my disaster of a hair-hacking in August of last year! Since everyone works during the day, this one Oh-la-la hairdressers (usually really expensive) charges only 300 roubles (about 12$) for haircuts on weekdays between 11am and 2pm.
SO happy about my Wednesday afternoons off.

On Wednesdays February 13th, 2008; 1pm, hopefully I'll look as stimulated as her:

http://www.beauty-box.jp/style/short/124.html

Or HER! She also looks fairly happy:

http://www.beauty-box.jp/style/short/055.html

let me know what you think!
love
patey:]
ps: I'm glad i'm back