Entries from January 2009

January 28, 2009

The Next Chapter

Umm, I don’t think we’re in London anymore…

Our first day in California, we woke up to bright blue skies and the SUN… and it was 70 degrees the entire time!
Such a contrast to the dark, dank, and dreary winter we left behind, huh?
The overdose on Vitamin D clearly made me gitty as I kept asking [...]

January 14, 2009

House Hunting

Okay. So, I lied on Facebook.
We didn’t actually go house hunting in San Francisco after all. Being completely unfamiliar with the Bay Area, I had no concept of how much of it was considered “San Francisco”.
(i.e. We used to live in Flower Mound, Texas, but no one knows where that heck that is so, just [...]

January 12, 2009

Clicking Our Heels Together Three Times

After 18 hours of flying (+ layover) across an ocean and then across the country, we’ve made it to San Francisco safe and sound for the next part of our crazy adventure.
Just like on the flights to London,  Avery was a total champ,  completely content to stay in his seat, play with cars, and watch [...]

January 6, 2009

Prego’s Giving Away Booze!

Okay, so you get two posts today because…
A. I really don’t want to pack the rest of my closet and…
B. An extra special present arrived for me today that I just had to share with you.
A few months ago, I attended my very first London Bloggers Meet-up and made a total ass of myself some [...]

January 6, 2009

This Old House

So in its final… er, um good riddance… our adorable rental house has decided to fall apart on us, starting  a few weeks ago with the roof.
It was the first time it had rained (and I mean REALLY rained) in several weeks and water was coming through the roof,  into the attic space on the [...]

January 4, 2009

Everyone Needs a Christmas Break

In the midst of moving, the LAST thing I wanted to deal with was two weeks of holiday house guests… even if said “house guests” were my family.

It’s not that I didn’t want to see them… or didn’t miss them like crazy.
After having gone from seeing them all the time to never ever, nothing could [...]