Daily Chronicles

Moving-related lessons

August 9, 2012

Now that we’ve been home for 3 months, there aren’t too many more surprises or re-adjustments to report, so apologies on the less-than-regular posting. I’ve got a new project up my sleeve that I hope to have up and running in September, but in the meantime, I’ve got a few more posts I want to [...]

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Daily Chronicles: What I really miss

December 4, 2011

For the first 6 months we lived in London, the list of  things we missed were mostly “creature comforts.”  Now that we are closing in on two years abroad, our list is much shorter.  We have either learned to live without, found a substitute, or in some cases, even an upgrade. For example: when we [...]

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The UK Charity Shop: Tag your bag!

July 27, 2011

I tend to go through organizing purges about every two months. I’ll clean my closet, resort the bookshelves, file documents and the like. I thought I had gotten rid of everything that I wasn’t 100% committed to bringing to London, but with every purge, comes another shopping bag to the ubiquitous UK charity shop. Similar to their [...]

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Daily Chronicles: The Gym

April 26, 2011

Making good on my New Year’s Resolution to get in shape – mind and body – I finally joined a gym in February. Other city dwellers can commiserate with me on how hard it is to find a good gym in a city. The items I considered when scouting out my gym, listed in my [...]

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Taxes… sigh

April 14, 2011

All across America tonight procrastinators are pouring over W2 & 1099 forms, digging up property tax statements, and trying to calculate business expenses. Yep, it’s tax day in the US. And working overseas doesn’t exclude you from playing part in this American custom. Awesome. It’s not as if we don’t pay a heck of a [...]

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Flat Upgrade

March 19, 2011

David and I struck gold – we have found a super landlord. He purchased our flat in 2004 (I found this out by searching online real estate public records), and his daughter lived here up until she relocated to New York. With the real estate market taking a dive in 2009/2010, he decided to rent [...]

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Daily Chronicles: Health Care Part Deux

November 6, 2010

I did indeed go through with my ankle surgery two nights ago. Over the coming days – and weeks – I’ll be religated to afternoons on the sofa, leg elevated, eating bon-bons. I’m only one day in, and it isn’t as luxurious as it sounds, especailly when you have to ask your husband to help [...]

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Daily Chronicles: Health Care

July 15, 2010

I have a lot to say about this topic, but I will keep this post a-political and simply share my experiences with both the national health care system and our private health care plan. NHS The first step to accessing national health care is to register with a general practitioner in your area. The doctor [...]

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Daily Chronicles: Groceries Part II

June 28, 2010

Who knew my prior post on groceries would need a Part II? After a weekend out of town (in Paris – oh la la – more on that later), I missed the window to do food shopping on Sunday afternoon, since our local grocery stores close at 5pm on Sunday. Super inconvenient. It’s also verging on [...]

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Daily Chronicles: The Laundry

June 14, 2010

I can’t remember the first time I read an expat begrudge his/her laundry situation, but seems like most of us do. Laundry has always been one of the household chores that I’ve never minded doing, even when it meant lugging my dirties across the first-year dorm quad, or down three flights of stairs in another [...]

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