Texans in London

So after all the excitement of Madeira, things have calmed down into the Christmas rush at work! Ack! Actually, it's not so bad, just a lot of nice big numbers at the end of the day.

But things are going well, Tommy finishes work on the 22, and is totally free until Jan 3, and I'm excited about having a few days holiday soon. We're going to have a group of friends over to have a lovely dinner and spend the night since London closes down on Christmas Day. Then on New Year's Eve, our friends Jonathan and Ami will be joining us in London, exhausted from their whirlwind honeymoon in Europe and (hopefully) ready to relax in their comfortable new home! Then 2 days later, Risa and Sylvia are coming over for a week! This is all great news for January, which is a really hard month in London, when Christmas is over, everyone is broke, and it's stinking cold outside. Hopefully this year winter won't last until MAY!! like last year....

I don't have much news other than that, just anticipation of things to come. We are going to buy loads of phone cards so we can call everyone for a long chat over the holidays--so stay by those phones! No, really, don't hold your breath, but we'll definitely call everyone! In the meantime, enjoy the holidays, and stay nice and warm in your toasty little southern state...(grr...) ;)

Merry Christmas!

(Here's a lovely photo from when Byron was here!)

It's strangely bright outside right now, even though the sun set at 4:30 this afternoon. It seems as if dawn is just around the corner. Tommy and I wondered if nocturnal animals like cats can lose their dark sight from living in a city like London, and would those animals be at a loss if they were transplanted to the country where there are no lights for miles? As I was flying in from Madeira last weekend on my 6-hour-delayed flight, I was reminded how strange London is at night. There's no mistaking it, with it's dome of light--probably only New York or Las Vegas comes close.

Madeira was a success, in every form. We had great models, I did great colour for great haircuts, and all in the difficult conditions of a hair show hosted in a luxury, retiree hotel! For the five different groups of hairdressers attending (with 6 or so models to each group), the company gave us one small conference room to do all the colour and all the cuts. But our group pulled through, even if we retreated to the hallways to do the cuts, and we had six models instead of the four we originally planned. The models were fantastic, most of them spoke English (or understood Alex's particular brand of Portu-Ital-Spanglish), they all loved (and suited) their hairstyles, and they picked up my intricate choreography in under one hour!

Here's all our gorgeous models: Carla (Domenico's onstage cut), Catarina, Laura, Maura, Petra, and Sara(Alex's onstage cut).

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