Good day to you all! So things have been extremely busy for me lately! First of all I must start off by saying that my work permit has finally arrived!!! yippeeee!!! i can now get a job! Unfortunately, the work permit decided it would be best to arrive right in the middle of us moving out and a couple of days before we go away to New York for a weekend, so I have not had a chance to test out the market yet! Hopefully it wont take too long, I cannot wait to get a job again, ever since the snow and the cold arrived in November I have been going slowly insane as it is so hard to do things like cycling or simply going outside in such freezing temperatures, at least Amanda has been here to keep me happy :)
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| Me in my swanky new basketball jersey in front of our third row seats, the Officer looks like he really doesnt want to be in my picture!! |
However it has not all been doom and gloom, I had a lot of fun recently when thanks to coca cola I could be found sitting in the third row of the NBA game between the Cleveland Cavaliers vs the Milwaukee Bucks! These seats normally cost hundreds of dollars and the view was fantastic, there are no barriers between you and the players and we were sitting opposite the Milwaukee dugout so could see all of their angry and ugly facial expressions (of which there were a lot as the Bucks were doing badly!) You could practically smell the sweat off of the backs of the players they were so close! The game itself seemed much more fast paced from so low down (normally I buy the $7 tickets to sit up in the rafters or the 'nosebleeds') and I now have a lot more respect for the game and the players themselves, especially Kyrie Irving, he is the Cristiano Ronaldo of the NBA, his ball control and dribbling is phenomenal!
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| Brazilian Maestro Anderson Varejao downs a 3 pointer to cushion the Cavs lead |
Here is a good bit of trivia for you, who is the highest paid British athlete playing abroad and who also happens to be the favourite basketball player of Barack Obama? Luol Deng would be the answer, even though he was born in Sudan he represented the Team GB basketball team in the Olympics and I'm really happy that he has now been traded to the Cavs so I can go and watch him strut his stuff! Hopefully he is just what the team need to push on into a playoff position even though it would be an understatement to say that the season has started extremely badly! I shall keep you informed!
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| A easy layup for Jack helps the Cavs grab a much needed victory! |
In other news Amanda and Myself have also gotten our digs! We have moved into a old high school which have been done up into flats! It has all the old lockers along the hallways and they have converted the old common room into a gym for the residents, it is also rather cool because Amandas mum used to go to school here!!! the apartment itself is really brilliant, it has huge windows and lots of space and it is located on the lakefront a mere 3 miles from the city in a borough called Edgewater. I have gone to the liberty of taking some pictures for you, we have only just moved in so it isn't looking as cosy as we would like (no pictures on the walls yet etc) but it is getting there, what do you think?? It reminds me of the old Molly Ringwald teen movies like the Breakfast Club :)
And in some more good news I am pleased to announce that I have passed my provisional driving test (it was extremely easy, even if I did not know what a corporate municipality was!) Actually there was a few words that stumped me but clearly did not manage to trump me as I only got two questions wrong, one of them asked whether it was illegal not to wear a seat belt, I ticked yes or so I thought but apparently that answer was wrong, I don't know if I clicked the wrong button or what! Unfortunately it does not look like I shall be taking my test anytime soon as there is hardly anywhere to go to practice, all the car parks (no, I did not say parking lot!) are under about 10 meters of snow and so I think I'm going to wait until the arrival of Spring before I take my test! ahhhh... Spring :)
In more good news, I keep forgetting to add our wedding pictures to this website! so here they are, just click on the link.....
www.christopherdavidphotography.co.uk/wedding-gallery/amanda-greg/
They are fabulous wedding pictures and I hope you enjoy them more than my Dad did, the poor soul has not got broadband yet, and so he complained that in all the pictures peoples heads had been cut off, this was because his computer was too slow to load up the full size images and so he was looking at the thumbnails! And yes Dad you can take this as a very unsubtle hint that it is time you get broadband and Skype :)
A couple of interesting facts for you.... In 2012 there was 100 gun related homicides in Cuyahoga County (just Cleveland), that is higher than the whole of England and Waled where there was a total of 39 gun related homicides. Also, I was a little surprised to discover that in the state of Ohio there are 20 schools that teach creationism as fact instead of Darwins evolution of the species.... hmmmm!
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| Amanda sitting on the steps outside the Flight of the Conchords apartment in New York City! |
Me and Amanda have just returned from our trip to New York to see the Arctic Monkeys and I'll do a blog on that in the next few days, if it does not appear here please feel free to give me a cyber kick up the ass :)
