ragu and a hard loss

wahh i guess it's time for a new post...as you can see i adjust to life here in london, my posts keep getting pushed farther and farther apart. haven't been up to a whole lot lately,

the other day i was in sainsbury's buying some groceries and i took a sharp left in the pasta sauce aisle. it's been 1.5 months since i've been here in london, and i am really, really jonesin for some sandy allison sunday night spaghetti.  growing up an italian, eating cafeteria spaghetti was frowned upon, from both immediate and extended family. despite the fact i would be given mental health advice from buying sauce from a jar, i searched among ragu bottles, but then i took a long hard look and myself and though " the second i buy grocery store tomato sauce i am headed down a lifelong, addictive road of succumbing to artificially made pasta sauces"...future vision...i dont want to be that mom that puts ragu on pasta, while betty crocker my next door neighbor is making homeade, fresh tomator and garlic clad savory sauce. i am gonna be that betty crocker. so sand, if your reading this, be proud.

ian and i before the superbowl

i haven't blogged in awhile and kinda forget what's happened since my last post. but i know one sad thing that has happened is our super bowl loss. if victor, pat, and dan weren't there to commiserate with, the night would have been much ahrder than it already was. note to self. never, ever, watch american football with a roomful of ignorant, misinformed, green bay fans. i made a pact to myself, if the lers ever make it again, i'm going home, to the burgh, to watch them play. after the loss, i didn't know where to go, thank god kate was there...we skyped til 4:30 am here. i just needed someone to chat about it with, i was dying...i called my sister, silence on the phone for 5 minutes, and we eventually talked over some plays, what went wrong. i thnk as a steelers fan, we are a bit spoiled, and expect that 4th and 5 conversion with a minute left to actually happen. so if there is one good thing that comes from this loss, it's that i am less spoiled, and don't expect us to win all the time.


i am going to the land of the weinerschnitzel and heidi tomorrow! deutschland!! hayyy