Do I like the changed xanga? No. Am I getting used to it? Maybe. I miss all the fun features of the old one though...sigh.
Anyway, a few weekends ago I was in San Fransisco, the next weekend in Pennsylvania riding a horse, and the next.... I hit the flight attendant lottery and got called to do the London flight! Whoohoo! My first transatlantic! I was so excited and nervous. Even more nervous when the senior flight attendants made me do the hardest position on the plane. Oh well, gotta learn sometime, right?
In case you were wondering, the hardest position is the person who has to organize all the carts and cook the meals in the back. It doesn't sound bad, actually I prefer being in the back on domestic flights and I like messing around with the food, but... it was stressful and a bit backbreaking. I took a hot shower when we got to the hotel around 10am and slept for about 4-5 hours. I woke up and ran out to see what I could find. What I found was the Museum of Natural History. Not usually my first choice, but it was cool. There were all these gems, dinosaurs and taxidermied birds.
A giant armadillo-sweet!
Dodos are bigger than you expect
shameless selfie
Darwin!
shots of the building
I like shiny things
Colorful Diamonds!
'81, a fine year
A giant sloth!
What is your sound?? Will we ever know?
After wandering around the neighborhood a bit, it was time to meet up with the crew for happy hour and dinner. 
Not a Tardis
British beer
"I'll have the chocolate mouse please"
This is how they put my name into the system... nice try.
As soon as I got back from London, my roommates picked me up and whisked me away to the grocery store so we could get ready for our big dinner party-before-recurrent-training-event. Some of my best friends from training (who are based in Philly) came down to stay with us so we could all do training together. I rallied, dressed up as a queen, and helped through a super party.
My wonderful roommates and Martin.
The next day training was actually a kind of fun. I feel good having my CPR and door operations fresh too.
Who is a super flight attendant!?
After that, I went back to Gainesville to relax with my friends... and that I did. I was pretty exhausted.
And what have a done this weekend?
I am a moron. My roommate and I were sitting around on Saturday and we decided to go to this open-house event. We got a flyer on our door and there was free cheese and wine, so.... we pretended to be shopping for houses in our neighborhood and walked around visiting all 5 places. They were also doing this promotion where you picked a card from a deck of cards at each house and whoever had the highest hand was going to win a $125 gift card. Of course I snuck through the deck whenever they weren't looking and picked out the Aces and the Kings. The realtors at the last house were USAirways employees so we had a great time talking. They let us take home three bottles of wine too and a clipping from one of the home-owners plants too. It was probably because I hadn't really eaten all day, so by the time we went to our emotionally-needy friend's house, I was in pass-out mode. Then I got sick....like a million times. I even seemed to have called a friend and RSVP'ed to a party in Los Angeles next week. When I awoke, my hair had been tied up in a topnot by one of my friends and it was pretty caked (that's why having someone hold your hair is so important). Washing my hair today was one of the most disgusting experiences to date. Chunks came out, CHUNKS, I even found a twist tie in it. wtf. To make it up to my roommate, I am about to make us a steak dinner. 
I probably should have known I'd had too much when we started taking pictures like this at the houses.
And there's my update. More sitting around waiting for a trip tomorrow.
