May 2010

The Inevitable

May 31, 2010

I spent a little time this weekend reading archive postings of my fellow blogmates who have been here longer than we have. It seems a few months after the original craziness of the move, most expats experience two distinct moments: the “Holy crap, I live in London” moment and the “I really miss home” moment. [...]

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How to Move an Animal Across an Ocean: Getting Ready

May 25, 2010

No, this isn’t the beginning of a terrible joke. I’ve been stressing over this subject from the moment we began to discuss a possible move to the UK. Let’s begin with a picture collage of our big gal. Her name is Sammy. My hubby has a long standing love for all things Alyssa Milano, and [...]

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On the Bright Side

May 23, 2010

Some of my friends heard me tell them about how the English like to talk about the weather; it’s basically the country’s approved ice-breaker. According to an anthropologist, Kate Fox, who wrote a book on the ways of the British, it’s the unconscious tool the English use to initiate conversation and to determine if the [...]

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Two months In

May 16, 2010

We’ve just passed the two month mark here in London (one month in our flat), and there is still no shortage of things that leave me scratching my head. Here’s today’s puzzler: When I set up all of our bills, I elected to have them drafted monthly, although the standard is to pay them quarterly. [...]

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Daily Chronicles: Groceries

May 11, 2010

During a recent Skype with my mom and dad, they asked some questions about grocery shopping, which got me thinking about how different my food purchasing habits are here in the UK. As you would expect, grocery stores in Central London are much smaller than the stores I was used to back at home. Granted, [...]

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Contemporary Art

May 8, 2010

The Saatchi Gallery is a beautiful museum about .5 mile from our flat that “aims to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unseen young artists or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK.” The current exhibit is of Indian artists. So…. Yeah.

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Election Confusion

May 6, 2010

Living in my little Chelsea bubble, I would hardly know it was election day today. Unlike the recent US elections, there are no bumper stickers/yard signs/buttons/stickers plastered all over the area. In fact, as I was out for my morning jog, it hardly looked any different than any other day. No one was shoving a [...]

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