LOADED

mint Cornettos

Saveloy and chips

Camden Town on a Saturday

going down the pub at lunch

Wasabi sushi

my mates Cazza, Sarah, and Arwen

shopping on Oxford Street during Christmas

Krav Maga

saying "You alright!" as a greeting

being a 45 min tube ride away from anything

Mad John!!

According to him, I look like Ginger Rogers, Diana Dors, Marilyn, Pamela Lee, Grace Kelly....anyone blonde really....

Wimbledon

cheque guarantee cards

Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury's, and Tesco

The ES Evening Standard supplement every Friday

cafes (pronounced caff)

Soho

XFM

listening to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on a Sat. afternoon

cricket on the weekends

SMALL mobiles

News of the World

being able to buy ANYTHING from a corner shop, which is always just down the road

the fact that I didn't need a winter coat for 8 years!

mini cabs able to pick you up in 5 minutes

GOOOD TELLY!!!!!!!!!

Sylvester the Cat playing guitar in the tube

being able to buy all my groceries--including beer--for about 30 quid

the feeling of a pound coin in your hand

how I worked with people from all over the world in one office

being the only American wherever I worked

Soccer AM and Tim's catwalk strut

cheeky adverts

an overdraft

Pret a Manger's Yoga Bunny drink

Benjys

Kelly's pate sandwiches for 80p

HEAT magazine

Discount Designer store in the Trocadero

Portobello Road market

fruit and veg stands

Superdrug!!!

PANDA POPS in cool flavours like "icecream and jelly" (and only 25p!!)

Garlic Chicken Wings from Golden City (but my husband much more so than I, but they are pretty fucking gorgeous!)

Being called "love" by cabbies, off-license workers, and aged men selling the ES

Reading Loaded on the tube

Being able to do SO MUCH in a day, going from Wimbledon to Camden with stops on the way, and make it home for dinner at 6

Running into so MANY famous people

Having La Maison du Chocolate down the road from work, along with The Ritz, Fortnum & Mason, Bond Street, and the Japanese Centre at Piccadilly (good cheap sushi BTW in the lower level for take-away)

Saying Take-away instead of carry-out

Speaking the ENGLISH LANGUAGE (yes fellow Americans, we speak "American", not English!), though I do still say lift, loo, wanker, arse, bollocks, bugger, nick, chat(ted) up, bloody (and bloody buggery bollocks collectively)....oh I could go on...

Am I bovvered? Am I bovvered though? Do I look bovvered??

Whew!! I'm just a *little* more Posh than Chav.... ..

Who I'd like to meet: SIMON PEGG!!!! Ohhh, sexy... BILL MAHER CHRISTIAN BALE JARVIS COCKER SVENGOOLIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Larry David Jerry Seinfeld Jon Stewart Ricky Gervais Nick Frost Christopher Walken Jack Dee Angus Deyton Paul Merton NATALIE PORTMAN!! Dylan Moran Jose' Mourinho Ann Coulter to kick her in the face and kick her ass for being a stupid fucking hypocritical she-male c*nt bitch. Bill O'Reilly to kick his ass Sean Hannity to kick his ass as well Alan Colmes to slap him to wake him up Hugh Grant Pierce Brosnan Darrell Hammond Angelina Jolie Chow Yun Fat Tony Leung Sho Kosugi Penelope Cruz Pedro Almodovar Antonio Banderas Trent Reznor Marilyn Manson Dita Von Teese (properly--only was able to say hello to her at the show at the Alexander Palace in London) Kevin Mitnick Darcy Woods, Kevin's girlfriend Shirley Manson I have already met: Ben Elton (not funny at ALL in real life, kind of sulky!) Dennis Rodman (phone number and drink) Horace Grant HRH Queen Elizabeth (!!!!!)Yes, I HAVE MET THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. What about that? Prince Charles Tony Blair a pregnant Cherie Blair Jack Nicholson (kind of--ok, he winked at me) Brendan Fraser the day after 9/11 at the American Embassy in London (v sweet, gave me a kiss and a hug) Derren Brown (gave me a kiss, hug, and autograph) Peaches (kiss and autograph AND drawing!!) Mikhail Gorbachev (shook hands twice and winked at him) Raisa Gorbechev (shook hands) George Bush Sr. (autograph lurking somewhere) Al Gore (Well, actually I more like bumped into him, and then was frisked by the Secret Service...a second time for me as I was frisked before President Bush meeting...nice!) Kate Moss at Oxford St. tube entrance in a pork pie hat. Minor chitchat. Billy Zane at Caviar House, Piccadilly (ok, it was a double take and a smile more like) Rhys Ifans in Camden Town markets this past Dec. (bumped into him as he was acting surly! Still very cute though...) Lenny Kravitz...he's ickle! haha Kim Wayans the band Blind Melon (including the late Shannon Hoon. Glen the drummer asked me to go back to their hotel for a party...I didn't go.) Sammy Sosa when he first joined the Cubs, at Eddie Rockets on Division/Rush Street!! V sweet, bought me a drink... Chris Evans (English DJ/telly guy) Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen (Changing Rooms) at a 7-ll at Tottenham Ct. Road tube Bill Bailey (Black Books) on the escalator in the Old Street tube...didn't technically meet him as he was on the up escalator, I was going down, but I waved to him. Chris Farley--WAY before he was famous, I used to work with him when he was a runner for Stotler (I think it was Stotler)...v nice, and so lovable! It's so awful that drugs ended it all... :( "Puck" the bike courier from "The Real World San Francisco"-Met him at Fisherman's Wharf, asked me out, but I thought he was a weird homeless guy, so I declined...this was a year before the show aired... Gabriel Byrne in O'Hare airport, was smirking at me after my luggage had to be opened and some naughty lingerie popped out. Said something like "interesting outfit" or sommat, much to the disdain of his blonde companion Roberto Di Matteo when he was with Chelsea. I waited in a line for TWO HOURS so he would sign my boyfriend's (now husband)Chelsea shirt. Got autograph, kiss, and hug. We still have that shirt in our wardrobe. MOST RECENT: TEPR, super sexy French DJ from Paris...chatted to him after the Yelle show, and got a hug and kiss from him! Also, received an email reply from NOAM CHOMSKY (it was about an award he had won), Eddie Argos of ART BRUT, an ongoing argument with Nick Simmons--Gene's son, and one from the hot guy who played "the boss", William August. See, I AM a geek, non? more as I remember them!!! "How do you meet so many famous people?? " I always get asked. Well, I NEVER have a camera on me as it's always by a weird circumstance that I meet them. I just have a knack for being in the right place at the right time. I met Derren Brown on my lunch when he was filming a new special, Kate Moss on my lunch, Tony Blair, the Queen, Prince Charles, and Cherie when I worked at the Royal Commonwealth Day in 2000 and had to present to the Queen the flower children, Lenny Kravitz (v short!) when I worked at a big nightclub, the only one planned was Di Matteo...and my camera was busted...I've met a few Z-list people as well whose names I can't remember.